2. Interruption marketing You can use interruption marketing when doing your social media marketing. Because people are looking for something interesting when they are browsing social media sites, you can use interruption marketing to your advantage. You basically write one very controversial article that has eye catching headlines or picture and then share it on a site. When people see it, their browsing pattern will be broken and they'll check out what you have to offer.
3. Referral from friends Another great way to leverage social media is to ask your prospect to refer your business to their friend. Word of mouth marketing is still the most powerful form of advertising even in today's digital world. When you market to an influential person and her to refer your product to her circle of friends, your marketing will be guaranteed to snowball. All you have to ask is for her to refer your product if she loves it. This can go well hand in hand with giving free samples.
4. Going viral Sometimes, when you get lucky, you can go viral in all sites. Everyone at one point in time will be talking about your product or service when this happens. You will get tremendous amount of visitors when this happen. There is no exact formula for going viral but try to repeat steps 1 to 3 as possible to make this happen.
Hopefully those 4 steps will help you to promote your business and to make more money online. Those are just the tip of the iceberg though.