Social Media or otherwise known as “social networks” have been growing in popularity since the early 2000. First the kids jumped on MySpace, creating personalized pages about their interests and hobbies, while sharing their photos with one another. Then Facebook, Friendster, Yahoo, Plaxo, LinkedIn, MSN and other sites have followed suit and joined the craze. Over time, as more and more data has been collected by these “social network” websites (and their owners) they became an obvious online marketer’s heaven for data mining and precision customer targeting. Just imagine how accurately you can design your ad campaigns if you know everything about your customer, including their favorite tv shows, their favorite music, colors, foods, etc .. the list is long and the information is available. With this in mind, many companies have jumped on the wagon as well and created pages which were first designed similar to the personal profiles of the MySpace kids but which were later (by Facebook and LinkedIn) converted into specialized “corporate” pages that reflected more useful and professional information such as business address, website and operating hours. With this said, it is not unusual to see large companies such as West Marine, AT&T, VeriSign, Cisco, Microsoft, etc to have Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. Not only does this allow for corporate publicity, but it allows them to gather followers and directly connect with their customers. Good social media management is absolutely essential in this case: you have to interact and provide interesting and valuable content to your followers – in return you win their business and their loyalty. Sell With SEM has developed proven tactics for building, maintaining and engaging your social media audience and providing them content in a timely manner. We also help your business set up the initial social media pages, upload the necessary information and graphics and begin acquiring followers and friends. Below is just a short list of Social Networks that we support.


Facebook has been one of the most popular social media websites for companies to host their secondary “official” pages. We absolutely recommend you start by developing one of these for your company. Here is an example of one we made for ourselves. Another one that we have supported was for West Marine.

Twitter has been growing in popularity at an exponential rate. Almost all of the large corporations have a Twitter account and are generally tweeting anywhere between 5 to 10 relevant tweets per day, offering their followers discounts, special deals and other useful PR info. Setting up a Twitter account should be high on your priority list.

There are many other networks listed below that you should consider. Keep in mind that engaging your audience (followers & friends) and developing a strong linking structure between these networks are the keys to success. Let Sell With SEM help you get started: contact us here or by email info@sellwithsem.com

Sergey Gorbatov
Principal Consultant, Sell With SEM
info@sellwithsem.com