Happy New Year! I am sure, as a business owner, you are excited to get the New Year started right.  With the right attitude, the right people and the right marketing.  So how do you know if social media is the right way to market your business? Social media is difficult to measure, and it is something you don’t want to try for a few weeks and give up.  A social media marketing campaign takes time to mature. Here are a few reasons why:

1. If you are starting from scratch, the first few months, you are acquiring followers/friends/fans.  So nobody is really listing to your message quite yet.  You can post daily, even 3 to 4 times a day, but if you have no fans, nobody is listening! So give it a little time.  After a few months of growing your fan base, you should start to see more activity and more comments from you efforts
2. Social media a lot of times is trial and error.  Maybe you don’t have the right name or keywords for your profiles.  Or maybe your messages are not targeted to your audience.  Or maybe, you are going after the wrong followers.  Do your research, and figure out what is and what isn’t working before deciding if social media isn’t for you.

                                                                                                                                                                                            

If you are not sure what you are doing, or just need a little bit of reassurance, talk to a professional.  You can save yourself a lot of headaches, and probably save a little (or a lot) of opportunity cost. For a free consultation on your existing social media campaign, or if you are thinking about getting started with social media, email us at info@getglobalassist.com with subject line “consultation.”  We can answer your questions and set you in the right direction. Or call us at 888-828-9826.

Don’t forget to enter our contest and have a chance to win a 6 month social media marketing package! Simply visit our Facebook Page: Facebook.com/socialmediava and “like” us, then enter your name and email.  Winner will be announced February 14th, via Facebook.

Happy New Year, we are looking forward to 2012!

Here is a list of quotes and messages to Tweet, Update and Blog about for New Year’s Celebrations.

Messages:

Season’s greetings and best wishes for a new year that fills your heart with joy. Happy New Year!

Wishing that you are blessed with all that you desire in the year ahead. Happy New Year!

May the New Year bring you happiness, peace, and prosperity. Wishing you a joyous new year!

May the good things in life be yours in the coming year and always. Best wishes for a happy new year!

May you celebrate and enjoy the simple pleasures of life in the coming year. Happy New Year!

May the gift of love, happiness, peace, and warmth be yours as you make a new start. Happy New Year!

Wishing you hope, comfort, peace, and happiness on this New Year and always!

Quotes:

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~Bill Vaughan

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.  ~Author Unknown

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.  ~Author Unknown

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  ~Hal Borland

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~Oprah Winfrey

New Year’s Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  ~Mark Twain

We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.  ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.  ~Oscar Wilde

It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.  ~William Thomas

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.  ~Joey Adams

Happy New Year from Global Assist, social media marketing assistants.  Take a look at our social media marketing packages and get 2012 started with a bang!

So, you are on Facebook, you have an Fan Page, and you update relevant information daily…but you only have 23 Fans. How do you get more fans for your Fan Page? Here are a few tips:

1) Ask your friends on your personal profile to like your page. Send and email, post on their profiles, send a Facebook Message

2) Get some new business cards made, and make sure you add your Facebook URL, and ask people to like your page.

3) Create a flyer and post at your place of business, ask people to Like your page and also check in.

4) Buy them. There are services that sell Facebook likes.  This may not be the most effective or most ethical way of getting likes, but it is an option.

5) Hire a virtual assistant or social media company to look for targeted people to invite to your page. These would be people you don't know, that don't already know your business.  That means new possible clients.  To find out more about Global Assist's social media marketing packages, click here or email us for a quote info@getglobalassist.com