“That doesn’t make sense” you may think to youself. The whole purpose of needing help with promoting a site or product is to get more traffic and a bigger audience base so how can asking your audience help? Well it works!
The whole point to social media marketing is that your audience and readers will market for you and to get their help, sometimes you need to ask for it.
Jeremiah Owyang did a really cool experiment on his blog post “How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets” which was a riculously simple and still impressive way of getting your content or blog posts re-tweeted on twitter so that readers share it with their followers. The solution? -Simply ask them to. Jeremiah added a line to his blog post which said simply copy and paste the following lines in your Twitter:-
” If You Read This, Tweet This to your Followers:
How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets http://snipurl.com/9ii28“
After all there is no harm in trying it and considering that I came across this blog post after someone else I was following did paste the snippet, I can tell you there is something to this.
The same holds true for generating conversations and comments on your blog as Marko points out in his post on “10 ways to increase the number of blog comments” The first point in which he says:-
1. Encourage interaction by asking your readers questions. If you want people to leave comments, invite them to do so by simply asking for their opinion or suggestion. When you ask people for their opinion, they are more likely to give it to you. A way to do this is to conclude your blog post with a good open-ended question like “What is your experience with this?”
once again points out that you need to invoke action from readers to participate or help you promote your content and drive more interest and traffic. Once this is built into your content, it will effective help promote itself by turning passive readers into active promoters.
Now its my turn to ask you to copy the line below and tweet it to your followers if you thought this could be useful to them.
If you liked this post, paste the following in Twitter:-
Check out the ‘Simplest Tip For Promoting Anything On Social Media Marketing’ http://is.gd/eMYr
Have you been able to leverage your readers to promote your posts?
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