Twitter, Facebook and Instagram For Different Types of Businesses: The Pros and Cons

Every 1-2 years a brand-new social media platform emerges in the headlines as quickly amassing tens of millions of new daily users. For small and medium sized businesses, what quickly follows that is the question ‘should we be on that too?’.

That’s totally reasonable. Businesses that adopt new technologies and ad platforms quickly tend to grow faster than competitors. But on the other hand, for every ‘Facebook’ that grows and stays large and influential, there are many like Myspace, Friendster or Bebo that disappear into nothing.

So that’s why, with the help of online marketing experts, Oxygen Marketing, we’ll go through some of the largest and most influential social media platforms here and highlight the pros and cons of each depending on your business.

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Basics Of Using Social Media Marketing

Business owners across the globe are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of social media marketing to their sales and profits. If you are not one of them and until now you had believed social media was only for teens and geeks then this article will enlighten you on how you can use it to promote your business.

Looking at the vast number of social media sites on the internet you’d be forgiven for feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all. In truth, there is no need to use all of them, but there are a few that your business should certainly have a presence on. The main ones are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube, and if all you ever did was focus on these four, your business would have very positive results.

These four sites all work very differently in terms of what content is used, how it is posted, how users interact and how they increase the profile of your business. Regardless of their differences, one important thing you want to have in place is for your business’s profile on each of these sites to link out to the others.

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