Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Using Social Media as A Marketing Tool with A Houston Website Designer

By Brian Waraksa

The Internet is one of the greatest advancements of mankind. In recent years the Internet has changed the way that we live, work and play. To say that the Internet has changed our lives is not a statement that is limited simply to being able to buy your underwear in your underwear, from the comfort of your home; or being able to order a super jumbo triple cheese, extra pepperoni with onions and mushrooms and a diet coke and not have to hear the snickers of the high schooler on the other end when he reads his computer screen and sees you've order the same meal nine out of the past fourteen nights. Now the Internet has actually changed the way that human beings all over the world interact with one another on a daily basis. As a Houston website designer Brian Waraksa can attest to the previous statements.

One way that the Internet has changed the way that we interact with one another is through social media. Social media is best described as content created by the public using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. Social media is a shift in how an audience discovers, reads, and shares news, information and content; transforming people from content readers into publishers. Social media has changed the way people connect and form relationships for personal and business. If you are wanting to take advantage of what social media has to offer your business then you need to have a chat with Houston website designer Brian Waraksa.

Social media is primarily centered around the sharing of information with those who are part of your social group. These Social groups can span across different sites with many sites co-oping with one another to form social networks. One good example of this is if you listen to a song on PANDORA, share your views of the song via a TWITTER message, where you include a link to your FLICKR account so that others can see you at a concert for the band, this leads one of your friends to buy you an autographed T-Shirt from the band via EBAY for your upcoming birthday. All this has taken place while you are chatting on MSN Instant Messenger, the name of the song automatically goes out to all your IM contacts, one of whom also loves the song and decides to download it from iTunes, he then posts a FACEBOOK message about his purchase, which leads one of his friends to download a ring tone of the song to his mobile phone. As you can see social media is a very powerful thing, one person can have a strong influence on other people very quickly.

Social media, according to Houston website designer, Waraksa, is a tool that all small businesses should utilize in their marketing campaigns. Due to the fluid and expansive nature of social networks, social media marketing gets a message out to the masses very quickly, easily, and effectively. IF you are able to generate a significant interest in the right market for your message then you can count that your message will soon be spreading across the net in waves. Some Internet marketing companies have started to cash in on the seemingly unstoppable nature of social media as a potential marketing tool. One such Houston website designer leads his company, RAXA Design, in specializing in helping businesses take advantage of social media. The company, founded and operated by Houston website designer Brian Waraksa, takes pride in its personal approach to each client and their individual needs. "Social Media is the next generation of Internet marketing, it will be the driving force of the web for the next 20 years", Waraksa stated in a recent conversation at his Houston website designer offices.

Using the web and the power of social media is a logical step for any business owner who is interested in maximizing the potential for earnings online, professionals such as Houston website designer Waraksa can help you take the best advantage possible of social media.

One of the most effective tools you can use for promoting your business, according to Houston website designer, Waraksa, is YouTube. The social media powerhouse specializes in user created videos and shorts. By creating your own series of videos or even your own content channel on YouTube you can increase brand awareness by offering tutorials, advice, commentaries and much more to your viewers, they will over a very short period of time start to associate the content that you provide on YouTube with the product or services that you offer. Then when they need those products or services they will turn to you, a expert on this type of marketing such as Houston website designer Waraksa can be very helpful with these tasks.

Another highly effective method of using social media is one that takes less than a minute to implement each time you are ready to use it. Twitter. Twitter is a type of social media system known as a micro-blog site, the whole idea behind twitter is that you routinely answer the question: What are you doing right now? You answer that question with either a simple statement of less than 140 characters or you can answer it with links, pictures or emoticons. You can send your message out to either just your friends, everyone in your contact list (also known as followers) to a single person or to the entire world. "You do have to be careful," warns Houston website designer Waraksa, "you do not want to overuse twitter for obvious marketing, if you do someone will quickly label your account as a spammer, and that is a tag you do not want. It will immediately kill your marketing efforts using social media."

Social networks are so powerful that they are changing the way that we work as well. Some people have begun to utilize the power of the web and social sites to implement a new way to do their jobs, allowing them to work anywhere and work with others who are anywhere, just as Houston website designer Brian Waraksa does on a daily basis, "As a Houston based website designer, being able to use the Internet to work anywhere is a big advantage to me, millions more do it everyday, and that makes all of us 'net based workers a captive audience for online marketing

A good example of how the Internet is changing how we live and work and how you can easily market to the always-on society that we live in today is this, as I sit here writing this article, I am talking to a few friends on FACEBOOK, listening to a new song by Chevelle on PANDORA & doing a little shopping for some new underwear, in my underwear. But now I have to go, the door bell just rang and I'm sure it's a high schooler carrying a super jumbo triple cheese with extra pepperoni and it has my name all over it.

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