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1. How To Build Relationships With Your
Social Media Communities

2. Social media is all about interaction,
engagement and building relationships
with different communities online.
When you learn how to properly
nurture these communities, it
improves your marketing strategies,
and makes for a loyal readership of
long term buyers. Today we’re going to
explore how to strengthen these ties
within your various social
communities.

3. Behave Like a Friend

4. Your goal when interacting with your
community, is to behave like a friend.
What I mean by this is that you need
to treat your fans less like objectives,
and more like real people, who are in
your life for a reason. Friends are
always available to help, they’re easy
to talk to and quite frankly – you want
to hang out with them.

5. If you can become a friend to your
community, then it will go a long way.
Friends are more likely to buy from
friends, because they want to show
their support. Eighty percent of the
time, your interaction with your
communities needs to be from the
standpoint of an educated friend.

6. The Personal Factor

7. When you publish content, and assist
your community with problems, you
need to illustrate your point with
stories, drawn from personal
experience. Your fans will eventually
get to know more about you, because
you are actively infusing your content
with that ‘personal’ factor.

8. Some of the best blogs in the world
became successful, because the
person behind the content
approached it from a personal angle.
You want to interest your fans in your
advice, and advice is better received
from a real person, with real
experiences.

9. Be Present and Interactive

10. Constant presence is important to
social communities. It’s vital that you
spend as much time as you can with
each community, so that it can grow
and gain momentum. That said,
interaction is equally as important.
Follow your fan’s businesses or pages,
and be active on them as well.

11. Continually come up with new ways to
engage your audience. A community
will only interact with you, if they have
a reason to do so. This means
interesting content, multimedia and
social apps are all part of your long
term strategy. They want to DO things
on your pages, so give them things to
do, and be generous with your time.

12. Every social community is different, so
don’t approach them all in the same
manner. Your content will need to
change according to the platform
you’re using. Focus on your core social
media pages, or alternate between
them.

13. Get to know your Facebook
community better for a few weeks,
then switch to your Youtube
community, for example. Fans love to
know that you are available because
you want to be, not strictly because
it’s your job and you exist to make
money.

14. If you’ve been struggling to build your
social communities, then you need to
adopt the ‘giving’ attitude. The more
time, effort or free stuff you give away
to your communities, the more they
will give back to your business.
Whether it results in interaction, sales,
word of mouth marketing or
widespread content sharing, is up to
them.

15. Social Media Marketing University
(SMMU) is the creation of John Paul
Souza, a serial entrepreneur who's
held senior managerial positions at
Banc America Capital Management
Group and JP Morgan Chase. Serving
marketing professionals,

16. entrepreneurs and corporations,
SMMU differentiates itself by offering
hands-on training from hands-on
experts who are actively applying their
skills on real-world projects.

17. SMMU was recently honored as one of
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site, Mashable, as one of the top
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