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Whether you're a business or an individual, you must wrestle with many complex issues for social media. These can often be overwhelming. Where to even begin?

Rather than be paralyzed, it's often best to understand that there are four simple, yet critical, steps to social media

It's easiest to think of it as a stairway, and the diagram is laid out as such. If you learn anything from this column, it's that you need to take that first step. It's also the most important one. As showcased in the diagram, the four steps are:

1. Listen to your customer and conversations around your brand.

2. Interact -- join the conversation.

3. React -- Adjust your product or service based on feedback.

4. Sell.

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In its simplest form, SEO is a three-step process: break down crawling barriers to help the engines efficiently index a Web site; craft keyword-targeted content that appeals to search engines and visitors alike; and, most critical, practice link-building for targeted terms and phrases.

Social media optimization, on the other hand, is primarily about knocking down the walls of user-generated content to be a dynamic part of an online community. It's not a simple process and it takes time. Just because a "Digg This" button has been added to a blog or Web site doesn't mean every post or product is compelling enough to be considered socially buzzworthy.

Social media is just another liberating facet of content optimization tactics that can lure in thousands of new visitors and hundreds of inbound links. When it works, it's scalable. But it doesn't always work in a predictable manner.

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What is the ROI for social media? It's zero. That's because there's no such thing as "social media."

People's conversations are not media; they can't be purchased as such by advertisers. In other words, people don't talk whenever advertisers want them to and they won't say whatever advertisers tell them to -- so it isn't "media" like TV, print, and radio.

That said, most advertisers and their agencies still attempt to use old media metrics -- like reach and frequency -- to measure social actions and calculate their ROI, but to no avail. Instead, let's explore the right way to leverage the social realm in support of marketing and advertising efforts.

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It's easy enough to use Twitter, but businesses have to use social media marketing in the same way they use any form of marketing -- with a business plan and knowledge -- to be successful.

Avoid Common Business Twitter Mistakes

It is important to remember that Twitter is just a tool that can be helpful to a business, if you follow the social media rule of thumb. One in every 12 tweets can be about you. The rest of the time you should be answering questions and offer helpful information and share links.

For the most part, a business cannot realistically run a social media campaign in-house. "Most businesses simply haven't spent enough time listening, lurking and understanding the lay of the land in social media. Smart companies hire experienced consultants to help them plan their strategy and to coach their internal team on how to participate effectively."

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Seven is a magic number. Why? Because there are seven simple strategies every small business can employ to jump on the social marketing bandwagon. The best part: most require only a moderate investment of time and/or money.

1.Start Blogging - Blogging is old news to many. Not quite the distant past, but still not the future...sort of a Web 1.5. Is blogging what's 'hot' at the moment? Well, no. It certainly doesn't compare with chasing a link from the front page of Digg. But blogging is alive and well! It continues to be a great way to get interactively connected with your customers. 'Dialoguing' is the reason social marketing exists. How much time you invest in your blog is up to you, but you'll get out what you put in. You don't have to drive yourself crazy putting in daily entries, but you should establish a regular schedule for your blog updates. Otherwise, when people check your blog they'll see the same-old/same-old so often that they'll stop visiting your site...which is the whole reason you started the blog! So don't shoot yourself in the foot by creating a blog that's a visitor-repellent rather than a visitor-magnet.

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Shopping, in many ways, has always been a social activity. Before the rise of the Internet and online shopping, women would often shop for clothes or go to the mall with friends -- and, in the more distant past, were often on a first- or last-name basis with their service providers (their dry cleaner, the grocer, their doctor, etc.). Similarly, men have long been known to consult or compare opinions with other men when it came to, say, cars and/or farm or yard equipment and/or electronics, and likewise had "their guy" at the stores they frequented.

That social aspect of the shopping or commerce experience is in large part what instilled and maintained customer and brand loyalty. Then along came the Internet, which, to a large degree, changed shopping from a personal to an impersonal experience. Out went the social aspect of shopping, the leisurely browsing and discussions around what to get, and in came how quickly can we get shoppers to the product(s) they are looking for and to checkout.

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