Social Media Marketing For Small Business: Ways To Establish Trust And Credibility
Social media marketing for small business is more important today than ever before. There isn't anything customers look for more in a business than trust, credibility, and the ultimate in transparency. Small businesses, however, may think this approach matters more for major corporations where consumers have automatic suspicion about what goes on behind the scenes. If you're a small business owner, you can't assume consumers will place immediate trust in you just because you're an independent business and they can often see and touch the owner. (more…)
Financial advisors on LinkedIn must make certain their messages comply with Federal regulations. Most of us can go through our day without giving a second thought to the messages we receive and send on LinkedIn. We send birthday wishes, congratulate others on their recent promotion and share content we’ve created and content we’ve curated. Added to this mixture of messages we occasionally send something a bit more sales oriented. Maybe we’ve found a prospect in a LinkedIn Group and we want to tell them about our product, or the services we offer. No worries, that’s what LinkedIn is for, right? 
Given that marketing has traditionally been outbound, one might wonder at the term inbound marketing and its current popularity. John Hall writes in this 
An inbound marketing strategy sometimes gets overlooked by smaller businesses that think they need to do more outbound marketing to capture their demographics. Yet, outbound marketing still uses too much of the cheerleader sales approach for promotion purposes. Nowadays, the overly adamant sales approach reminds most people of something resembling spam. Consumers prefer a more natural approach to marketing, including more personalization. 
Social media marketing is the fastest and most far-reaching brand-building and marketing tool you can use today. However, if a seemingly simple social media strategy is mishandled, it can backfire and potentially cause harm to your business' reputation. 
