Business & Tech

5 Quick, Painless Ways to Make Social Media Marketing Easy

By Yaniv Masjedi

Five years ago, businesses weren't convinced that spending time on Twitter or Facebook would help them find new customers. Now, 77% of B2C companies and 43% of B2B companies find customers on Facebook. That's a statistic that can't be ignored. And the numbers prove high across other platforms too, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, and Instagram.

But while marketers can't deny the power of social media marketing, social media users fall into two groups: those who tweet and post updates constantly and those who think it's too complicated, and never latch on.

If you fall into the second camp, I invite you to keep right on reading -- this one's for you. While you might've told yourself using social media is just too hard, that you don't have time to do it, or some other seemingly reasonable excuse, I'm here to tell you that you can use it, easily and effectively. You just need a few tips and tricks to make it manageable. Continue reading..

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