Avoid these Common Social Media Mistakes

There are many ways to get the most out of social media, and there are many ways to ruin social media. Find these common social media mistakes and avoid them, so you can get the most out of social media.

1. Stop spamming your followers!
   
   For starters, don't spam your followers. Not on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, etc. What I mean is, don't post more than 3 updates at one time. Let your followers read and interact with each post. In fact, maybe wait for an hour before posting any subsequent updates.
   
   Do anything but spam your followers. It's a surefire sign to scare away your followers, if you spam them!

Are you actually LISTENING to your customers?

Businesspeople everyday want to know if they are properly interacting, listening, or engaging their customers. But, the problem most face, is with the actual analytics, market activities, and results that do not fare well that are the most problems.

Many businesspeople provide surveys and feedback forms to customers/consumers, thinking this may be the main way to actually get proper feedback. Although helpful, it is not the best way. The best way to engage & listen to your customers is through the use of correctly applied social media.

Rapid-fire tweeting/updating

Many businesspeople, in order listen to their customers will actually tweet (on Twitter) like rapid-fire to get the attention of their consumers. But, this can fail! Why? Consumers have (probably) lots of others they follow, which means that if you're cluttering up their feed with all of your "updates"/tweets, they just might unfollow you!