Social Media and List Building

Social Media and List Building

I found an article that I found to be rather interesting. The topic is using social media with listing building. His emphasis was with being "authentic" and how your authenticity can bring people to your site or blog.

Basically Social Media can work. It can build your brand and image, only if you are authentic. With anything online, being authentic should never be far from your thoughts. People cannot see you. It is your words alone that can build an online relationship with the people who are visiting your site/blog. If your relationship with your audience is fake-your audience will quickly see through it-and click away.

This article is a good read, it's can possibly allow you to think differently about building relationships online with social media, and thus, your brand and image. Here's a prelude to what the article is about:

List Building with Social Media- The Most Overlooked Secret to List Building With Social Media
By Warren Wojnowski

The real value of list building with social media is in your ability to create a brand and an image with incredible reach. The opportunity for you to build a highly responsive list using different social media platforms on the Internet is enormous. However, for all its potential, there is one simple, but far too often overlooked secret to list building with social media the right way.