Finding new methods of promoting your business can be difficult. Fortunately, one effective way is through social media. Here are some great ways to use Digital Properties to market your site or business, so that you thrive on and off the Internet.

Be careful if you are considering using a marketing company for social media. Many of these businesses are preying on inexperienced owners of Internet marketing businesses with scams. By creating fake social media accounts with programs that automate the process, these companies vastly inflate their statistics. In spite of the high view counts, your advertisement is not seen by real people.

If you host a blog, consider placing a Twitter button either at the top or at the bottom of your blog post. A prominently placed button makes it very easy for readers to syndicate the content on Twitter. You will get more exposure this way.

Make sure to update all of your social networking sites regularly. Customers can easily lose interest in your product and service if you let too much time lapse between updates on social media sites. Dedicate a few days out of the week for updates.

To make sure your social marketing campaign is reaching your customers, find out where they congregate. Are many of them on Facebook or do they prefer Twitter? Depending on your niche, you might be better off looking at LinkedIn or even YouTube. Poll your customers and find out where they spend their internet hours. Pitch your tent there.

Read the terms of service of every social media site you make a profile on. Make sure that understand the rules of the site you are making a profile on, otherwise your profile could be deleted and all your hard work will be gone. Some sites do not allow affiliate links; so know the site's rules before you begin.

Employing Digital Properties marketing strategies can be a great way to keep in contact with your customer base, and develop relationships. Customers that friend you on Facebook, or follow you on Twitter do so willingly. They want to hear from you. You can therefore notify them of new upcoming products, sales and discounts, or even just information concerning your business and industry without the fear of being too intrusive.

Use the questions and answer feature of LinkedIn. LinkedIn's Q&A works like a large discussion forum: look up questions related to your products or industry and write useful answers to them. You could also post a link to one of your articles if you do not have time to write something.

Learn the posting patterns on social sites. The peak traffic times for many of these sites are at 7 A.M., 5 P.M. and 10 P.M. and those are the times that you should be sure to post something new. If you post more than those three