Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Tumblr as a Tool for Social Media Marketing



Tumblr had marked its 100 million blogs with 44.6 billion posts. This milestone had been observed since last year of April 2012 when it had reached the 50 million mark for the first time. The pace is fast accelerating in the month of March this year. No doubt, Tumblr had become one of the most visited sites in the world.
It had come a long way from its foundation in 2007 by David Karp. It is now home of 167 employees and is available in 12 languages. The company’s viewer share is continued to increase despite the competition of Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. The aim audience of the site are coming from the US, comprises of 45% of the whole Tumblr community. Brazil had been a forerunner with 49 million visits; while UK has 34 million visits.
With these significant numbers, Tumblr would be a powerful tool for businesses to advertise and make known to the public. The platform would also be interactive to the business followers because of its “ask” tool. This is a great customer engagement tool.
How to engage your viewers using your posts?

First and foremost, you need to keep the content interesting. This means that you should post according to what your followers wanted to see. Make sure you understand what kinds of materials are likely to gain more following by the community.
Keep your messages short and interesting. Add pictures and even animated GIF’s while you can. If you wanted to post longer content, make sure to post them in paragraphs for the viewer’s easier reading.
Second, master the art of reblogging. This can be done by adding insightful comment to the text or post. Any new text will be seen by your followers and their followers as well. Choose the post that should be clearly relevant to your business. This can help promote your products and as well as value the users’ original post creativity and opinion. 

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