Get Your Social Media 5 A Day

By Michael Shilling
Friday, April 22nd, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I shared my 45 minutes a day social media marketing campaign but of course there’s more than one way to skin a cat as they say.

Today’s marketing campaign for photographers is an à la carte approach sharing and a great way to keep tabs on all of your social media presences.

How it works

There are 25 suggestions here so aim to do 5 of these (one from each section) each day. Do this everyday and by the end of the working week you’ll have done all 25.

Customise

My suggestion are using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, other people’s blogs and your own blog or website but you can of course adapt these to fit into your social media presence.

The Social Media Menu

Twitter

  1. Follow someone that’s not already following you.
  2. Add someone to one of your lists and publicly share using an @mention
  3. Tweet and article from our archive
  4. Publicly welcome a new follower using the @mention
  5. RT an interesting message or link and add your own comment

Facebook

  1. Like a relevant business page as your business page
  2. Comment on another page as your business page
  3. Share an image on your page and ask for feedback
  4. Share an article from your archives and ask for feedback
  5. Participate in a Group discussion

LinkedIn

  1. Follow a new company
  2. Add someone to your network
  3. Update your status
  4. Comment in a group discussion
  5. Recommend or forward someone’s profile

Other Blogs

  1. Comment on a blog you follow
  2. Subscribe to an new RSS
  3. Sign up to a new mailing list or become a member of a new site
  4. Write or suggest a guest article
  5. Ask a question in a forum or email a question to the site owner.

Your blog

  1. Write an article
  2. Reply to a comment
  3. Update and re-publish and old article (keep the URL the same though)
  4. Add a new image to one of your galleries
  5. Add a link to your blogroll

Imagine if you did all 25 of these things each and every week! I’d say that’ll make you a pretty social photographer! At a glace it does seem a lot but when you break it down you’ll be spending very little time on each task. There are tasks which take a little longer whereas a tweet just takes a second.

There are suggestions such as the Twitter ones that you could even do everyday and certainly more than once a day.

Feel free to add your own suggestions into the comments and share how you get your social media 5 a day.

This is the fortieth in our series looking at different marketing campaigns for photographers.

Also in this series:

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