Marketers – whether your interest is affiliate marketing or network marketing – sometimes have issues when it comes to traditional social media platforms. Let’s face it, there is an unfortunate stigma around our business arena in the internet marketing world.
That “poor reputation” has been built up by unscrupulous companies such as NXIVM, which is a worst case, and other pyramid or Ponzi schemes. But, as we know, not all marketing companies are bad.
Social media platforms that are designed for marketing professionals can help you market more effectively to an audience that has an interest in the type of programs you are working with.
How Do They Differ?
If you’ve ever done any advertising on Facebook, you may know some of the pitfalls. Sometimes you have to mask or hide what you want to promote or find ways to “reword” your ad so that it will be accepted. This is especially true in the health and weight loss arena.
Not to mention, have you ever had an ad that was accepted, only to suddenly have it deemed “unacceptable”? Even if it has run for weeks?
Worse, have you had your ad account shut down? Yikes! What a hassle!
Social Media sites that are made for marketers and other business professionals don’t have that problem. You can interact by posting to your timeline, just like on mainstream social media platforms. People can like and comment.
You can also promote yourself and your business opportunities without censure (there are a few rules regarding anything that would be illegal or unsavory like drugs or porn).
Who Do They Attract?
Social Media Sites for Marketers are different in that they attract not just marketers, but all types of professional individuals who are business opportunity seekers. Sometimes people are just interested in marketing their business better and are not interested in the way LinkedIn operates, or they have not found the audience that they are looking for.
These sites are also great for those interested in bitcoin or other investment-related businesses. Unlike other social media sites, these special sites don’t discriminate. They understand – as do I – that there are legitimate opportunities out there – it’s just important to give them a chance to share individual thoughts and ideas.
Some Guidelines
In the next section, I’ll share information about a few sites that are worth considering. I’ve tried them out, and this would be my recommendation if you are just diving in:
- Pick one – just one – and get familiar with it
- In deference to my first point, if you don’t feel comfortable with it right off the bat, try another, but stick with one platform and try to “dig in”
- If possible, be social. You have to be social in order to be successful and get the most out of it.
- Make a few friends
- Be honest about who you are and what you are interested in.
A Couple Sites To Try
To get started, Webtalk is free, so you can try it out first.
- Webtalk is the site that is most like a news feed.
- Like Facebook, you can “like” a post with one of six emoji faces
- You can leave a comment. If you go pro or pro platinum, you can remove the ads.
- You can connect with others, or simply follow someone if you like. I recommend starting to connect with others and posting regularly to get the most value from the system.
If you are able, upgrade. The cost is nominal when compared to the cost of other online programs with value. Doing so is a good idea because you will be able to message other members, even if you are not connected, and conduct advance searches on members by age, gender, location and “available for hire”.
Also as a paid member, you can see who has viewed your profile and use their “incognito browsing” feature. With incognito, you can visit someone’s profile without them knowing. This can be handy.
A funny name, I know, but very good platform. Cash Juice is also free to get started, so you can try it out.
Cash Juice is a social media (posting) platform, but also so much more.
- Start by connecting Cash Juice to other traffic, which is called “The Plan”. This helps you promote two things at once – Cash Juice and Traffic Ad Bar, if you are using a Traffic Exchange Site (I primarily use EasyHits4U)
- Set up your profile. Be sure to use a photo so that people will want to connect with you. No one likes to connect with the grey avatar.
- Click on the dashboard and scroll down to begin posting – be sure to include an image with your posts.
- There are a LOT of groups, which are similar to Facebook Groups. So if you have a particular area that you like to focus on, you can join a group. Within a group, the audience is more focused, which can work to your advantage. (Webtalk does not have something like this)
- There is a “post rotator” – for me, one of the great features of Cash Juice. It means you’ll get more eyes on your posts.
- Connect with others by “following” them.
- You can place ads on the site. As a paid member, you get ad points to use, depending on your chosen level.
Like Webtalk, if you want to be serious about using Cash Juice, you will want to become a paid member to get the most benefit from the program.
I have a preference for Cash Juice because I think it has a lot more to offer, like the leagues (groups). I will say, however, it takes a bit longer to uncover all of its features and get using them to your advantage. It’s time well spent, though.
The Bottom Line
Facebook is fun for friendships, but social media sites designed for marketers help you get serious about your affiliate or network marketing business.
LinkedIn is great for lawyers and CEO’s. Although it can still be a useful platform, as can Facebook, it is not designed for our industry. (You’ll find a good number of affiliate marketers on LinkedIn though)
A good friend of mine, who is has almost 20 years experience and is extremely active in network marketing, once pointed out that marketers are always on the lookout for new programs and opportunities, so you might be in front of them at just the right moment by being socially active in the right arena.
I consider myself to be more of an affiliate marketer, and I like to diversify my connections and offerings. For that reason, anything can be an opportunity and something I can simply add on to what I already offer. These sites offer the knowledge of diversity that I look for.
Hi,
From my research studies social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service. Although the terms e-marketing and digital marketing are still dominant in academia, social media marketing is becoming more popular for both practitioners and researchers. Also a medium to get traffic to your website.
Thank you.
Aluko.
Facebook is becoming more and more expensive and restrictive for online entrepreneur to grow their business. That is why a platform like webtalk is gaining the market fast. I have just joined webtalk and I have to say that it is quite interesting. And I am planning to upgrade to take full advantage of the platform.
Thanks
Thanks for this info. I have heard of Webtalk but didn’t understand what it was for. I will need to look for it. I have tried FB ads and all the problems you highlighted were spot on. I’m in the personal development niche and to get ads approved I have to dumb them down so much that they’re pretty useless. What I have learned is that you need to choose your platform according go to your niche. Different niches work on different platforms.
You can use the link right in my article, if you don’t mind using my affiliate link. Once you are in, be sure to connect with me, and call or email me if I can help at all.
Hi,
Thanks very much for this article.
It is very important and necessary to give oneself exposure. But as you say, the traditional social media platforms are problematic. I am in the Healthcare niche and definitely would never attempt encrypting links and the likes on my accounts.
I am happy to hear you recommend sticking to one platform for Marketers. Now I won’t have to look any further because I am already on Webtalk. I just have to use it regularly, for my benefit.
Warmest regards.
Get busy using it, Teboho. Try to post a minimum of once per week. I try to set aside time first thing in each morning to browse through and like or comment on the posts of others and post something a few times a week.
Thank you for the post. I’m pretty new in the affiliate marketing platform, but i’ve used IG and Facebook to market ad campaigns in the past. Indeed, social media marketing can be a pretty powerful tool to market and promote your products and services. I really appreciated the guidelines you laid out for people who are looking into social media marketing sites. Although i’ve never used WebTalk before, it sure sounds interesting and worth a second look. Thank you for the post.
Anytime i can help, Walt. Reach out to me if I can help.
It is really true that not all marketing companies are bad. But proving this on social media platforms has really become a challenge that gets tougher by the day. As in this article, health products are suffering the most. Well, as always there is always a way out and this article has shown the way out. Reading this article, I have been able to know that there are special social media sites for marketers, and also learnt one or two from the guidelines given.
The social media is a fast growing media platform with lots of people hooked on it and in my opinion one of the best places for marketers as it introduces a whole new array of customers and also in my opinion thee best ace for affiliate marketing too but it all boils down to being able to attract more people.
I have gone through some issues when trying to market platforms on Face book. Thank you for opening my eyes about CashJuice and WebTalk. I had heard about CashJuice before. I think it was on a forum. So I’ll give it a try first.
I am glad these social media platforms for marketers exist. I’ll take advantage of them. Thanks!
Marketing on social media is a fruitful and a great endeavor. Whether you’re trying to grow your brand awareness, loyalty, or brand engagement. Your vision is usually the same – drive more leads to your website and your conversion rates will increase. And of course, when done correctly and with lots of patience, you can get the required results you want. All, typically, for a fraction of the cost of normal marketing. Thank you for putting this through.
Anytime I can help Joshua, just reach out to me. I’m happy to assist.
Wonderful tips you have in your Social Media for Marketers article Marsha, like always 😊. The one tip that stuck with me the most is focus on one platform at a time and dig in. I generally use Facebook for what it is, friendship, I market very little on Facebook. But with other social media platforms I find myself to be all over the place. I am going to take your advice, evaluate my strategies and stick with the platform that’s giving me the best results.
Hello there! Thank you very much for sharing this article on social media for marketers. It’s nice coming across your article again as you always fish out valuable and educative informations. Social media marketing is indeed a powerful tool to market your products and services. I’ve been active on Facebook and Instagram and it’s left for me to join linked in. Through this article, I’ve been able to know that there are special social media sites for marketers and I’m going to key in on that. Thank you
Wow, I had no idea Facebook was so sensitive about the ads one is able to put there. It definitely makes no sense to have an ad be deemed as unacceptable after it has been circulating the web for some time. Yeah, the policies I guess. I have a friend who got himself banned from Facebook this way. The poor guy had no idea why (and he read all the policies), and neither did they bother to explain that to him.
I loved the guidelines you gave. The idea about digging in – that really rings true to me. See you on webtalk.
Thank you. Cheers.
Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge about Social Marketing Marsh. I am a big fan of Social Marketing, having been a member of Twitter since their very beginning and have amassed hundreds of thousands of faithful followers over the years (several accounts combined). Unfortunately, the response rate on Social Media has declined during the past couple of years as they are encouraging paid advertisement on their platforms and tend to suspend account holders that promote affiliate programs too often and are not socializing enough. I had several of my accounts banned for this reason.
So, it is wise to spread the load over several other social platforms and/or other forms of promotion such as email marketing, blogging, small ads, etc.
Great website by the way.
John
Great post Marsha,
I’m super interested in WebTalk in particular, just last week I was on Facebook and everyone’s been talking about it so it got me curious enough to jump in and it’s very interesting! The environment is friendly and everyone’s so welcoming and warm unlike on Facebook.
None of my close friends knew about it yet though, but I do hope WebTalk will achieve their target of overtaking Facebook in rank. I can imagine how revolutionary the platform will be for marketers like us 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this here. In all honesty, what has been shared here is great and the fact that the way you have helped open up on ways to actually get social media working for us would be great. Social media is the way to really get us all together and get to share ideas and all. What you have actually shared here is way better than all those. Hence,this is better to see. Thank you for sharing here with us all
Hello there, thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful piece of information here with us. I must say i really did enjoyed going through your review as it contains useful informations one needs to be aware of. Social media marketing is a powerful tool to market your products and services. I have been active on Facebook and Instagram and it’s left for me to join linkedin
Social Media have played a very vital role is helping business grow and as a point to generate traffic and it’s really good. Most people who are on social media and have a running business have been really serious with getting to post their various businesses other for people to see and its been really working and creating the right awareness.
Yes! Social media is very much a love-hate relationship. My Instagram had been doing really great and all of a sudden my posts are barely being seen by my followers. The last 3 posts of mine have been a joke- I never buy likes or followers so it’s really disturbing! I think I’ll give Cash Juice a try, thanks for the recommendation:)
My pleasure, Hollie, and please reach out if I can ever be of any help.
I agree, Linkedin is totally different for a regular social media, I am on it. It is mostly a networking for people who are in the financial industries or trading, not very ideal for a new entrepreneur because the will try to sell you something on it. I have never heard of WebTalk or CashJuice before but I will check them out. I think I am going to start with WebTalk and take it from there.