5 Ways to Battle Social Media Stump

With so much hype surrounding the enormous benefits for businesses to reap with social media, many have eagerly (and expectantly) jumped into the social landscape with a Twitter account and maybe even a Facebook profile or fan page built around their brand or business. The problem happens when these expectant businesses look around and say, “Now what?” How do I get followers? How do I use these sites to generate leads? How do I justify social media? How do I find the time? What else is there? Why are we even here? …and so on.

If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions, or are less than enamored with the success of your social media campaign, try these social stump-blocker solutions below:

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5 Symptoms of Social Media Couch Potato Syndrome

A recently exposed syndrome, social media couch potato (SMCP), has become more prevalent and widespread among businesses that have recently adopted social media platforms. They are soon struck with the fact that social media marketing takes strategy, planning, resources, content, time and…more time. They become overwhelmed, haven’t planned properly, don’t have the strategies or resources in place to execute and the results are…social media couch potato syndrome.

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Listen:

Before you can engage with your customers, and a world of potential ones, you need to listen. Harp Social will uncover real-time, relevant, impactful conversations through our proprietary mix of monitoring tools.

Evaluate:

Harp provides daily conversation analysis, tagging and tracking of the relevant conversations.

Engage:

Create active dialog with customers or potential customers on Twitter, Facebook and blog comments.