February 11, 2012

Quality Content Is Key to Your Social Media Strategy

You may know all about the technicalities of using social media, but if you don’t have quality content, you won’t have much success. People will ignore boring and poorly written content, unless you’re an ecommerce store offering a too-good-to-pass-up sale or discount. Hire freelance writers to do it for you, so that you can concentrate on other business tasks.


The Need for Quality Writers


Freelance writers span the globe, and you can find writers on job boards, writing communities, locally or by conducting a search on the web. Finding quality writers is challenging, because there are many low quality writers willing to work for cheap. That’s music to your ears as a business owner, but it’s not worth the damage you could do to your business. You’ve got one chance to impress people through social media marketing, and if you fail, they may never come back, resulting in lost leads.


Where to Find Quality Writers


The quality writers and low quality writers frequent the same job boards and writing communities, such as Freelancewritingigs.com. You can find out which category they fall into by the application process. Ask writers to do the following when applying for a freelance writing job with your business:

  • Send a cover letter explaining overall writing experience and writing experience with social media
  • Send links to writing samples on two different social media channels

Some entrepreneurs request a writing sample, but many quality writers don’t have the time to submit one, or are reluctant for fear that you’ll use the sample and not hire them. Links to published works are sufficient for you to make a decision.

The money you invest in quality content for social media marketing will pay dividends.

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  • http://top-earning-tips.blogspot.com Daniel Sharkov

    Agreed with all the points covered. If you want to utilize social media sites to their maximum, you really have to offer quality content. Hiring a freelance writer actually seems like a good opportunity and although you will have to invest some money, the results might cover the expenses. Will probably go for it in the near future.

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  • http://www.cirtexhosting.com/ Website Hosting

    Strongly agree with this article good content is backbone of social media.Social media does have a lot of potential and has been very effective for some companies.for that quality writers play an important role. Great post! I’ll have to bookmark this for sharing and reading later again.

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  • http://www.seogp.com/ professional seo services

    NO doubt about that.It is rightly said “Content is king” and those who are offering professional seo services they know this fact.SEO is what making WWW to the people what they want…

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  • http://www.documentexpress.co.uk/ Business print services

    Ya i agree with your concern.Have you notice eBay is also a social place where people mark a seller with comments and feedback. Social media is all about introduction, information and feedback.

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    I must say you have an interesting blog and articles on various topics. I completely agree that having a quality content is the key to the social media strategy. You can expect more and more people to visit your blog or website only if you have quality content. With poor content you can not expect people to visit your website or even to recommend it to others.

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  • http://www.hotel99.com/ cheap hotel in upper west side

    As a reader i found your blog very interesting and with this only we should know how the content should be. As per me i think it should be short and sweet as above content

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    Nice post….Quality content play an important role for SEO as well social media sites…..To promote your business in social media sites with high quality content, you can obviously get high traffic and back links from these social sites like facebook, Twitter, my space, Orket etc.

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  • http://www.rosettastoneoutlet.com rosetta stone

    well, I agree with you about the opinion of “quality contenct is key to social media strategy”, it is obvious in blogs and commercial websites. And it’s a good idea to hire quality wirters to deal with texts in your site or blog, but, I more concern about if the writer would offer you the unique articles that do not submit it to anywhere else?

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  • http://www.seogp.com/ SEO services company

    obviously, Content is the King. Good content is very necessary not just in social media strategy,in all SEO techniques.

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    Content is the most important thing.

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    Content was always the King. And is will always be. Google is looking for answers while someone is searching. So the best answer is the one that leads the search results.

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    Exactly…. Contents are really the key factor

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  • http://edu.robocity.in/ Education in Robocity

    We are about to open a job board inside our town to get our people to write quality content for our network of sites. Of course, people with higher quality writing skills will be preferred. Sometimes it’s better if businesses spend a little more on their writers and deliver better content. Besides, a really good writer puts a lot of efforts into his/her job, and deserves being paid at least a few hundred dollars for it. The result will be definitely worth the money spent, no waste.

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    Good, I agree with you about the opinion of “quality content is key to social media strategy”. Relevant content is the core of any social media strategy. Quality content always reflect your brand and give a person a reason to stay engaged.

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  • http://www.logicspot.com/ Online Marketing London

    Good social media is very important for online marketing and to be very precise most of the point mentioned above in this blogs are very vital for good social media marketing.Thanks for such a wonderful post.

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