Issa Asad Explains 3 Social Media Mistakes You Should Never Make

Issa Asad Florida

Social media is very important and it is necessary for companies to have a strong social media platform. If anything, social media is just a digital form of the age old word-of-mouth marketing.

“A lot of entrepreneurs makes mistakes when it comes to social media promotion, which can be quite costly for their companies,” said Issa Asad Florida entrepreneur and social media expert. Mr. Asad is the CEO of Q Link Wireless and Quadrant Holdings, located in South Florida. He is also the author of 4 e-commerce and marketing e-books that can be purchased on Amazon.

Here, Issa Asad Explains 3 Social Media Mistakes You Should Never Make:

1. Wasting Money on Monitoring

As important as social media is for entrepreneurs, it can prove to be quite expensive for you in terms of time. Since people are commenting on the posts every time therefore this can tempt people to go online and view these comments or respond to them every now and then. Before long, one would have wasted a significant amount of time, say a few hours everyday on social media sites. One should understand that social media marketing is not a miraculous solution, but just another form of marketing, which is why one shouldn’t spend more than twenty minutes on it daily. One should use one’s time for other important marketing activities such as emailing, testing online ads, training sales personnel, upgrading one’s website, etc.

2. High Monetary Expectations

Umpteen companies have went under because they worked too hard on getting sales generated from their social media marketing campaigns. While social media is a very useful marketing weapon and you may be able to get a lot of enthusiastic fans gushing about your products or services on these platforms, they are not going to directly generate sales for you. Even though a lot of entrepreneurs may have experienced success from social media, but this is a very small proportion. A majority of the businessmen have experienced success because of marketing techniques such as emails, online advertisements, website or direct mailing. Thus, you should pay attention to social media, but don’t expect it to be the ultimate tool for generating revenue for your company.

3. Not Creating an Email or Contact List

This is one of the biggest blunders committed by entrepreneurs. Having a huge figure of individuals following you on social media platforms is impressive but keep in mind that this figure belongs to the Social Media platform in question, like LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. Thus, in case of cyber crimes or other errors, this list can be deleted. Also, a change in the policy of the social media platform may cause certain restrictions. For instance, a business post on Facebook may be visible only to a mere 16% of the followers only. Thus, why rely on social media alone? You should have these followers moved to your email list to be on the safe side. In order to do this, you need to have a strong promotional message which would lure people to click on a link and leave their email IDs with your company.