{"id":486,"date":"2014-01-18T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ladsolutions.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:56:36","slug":"am-i-losing-business-by-not-using-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/am-i-losing-business-by-not-using-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I Losing Business By Not Using Social Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-487\" style=\"padding-bottom: 30px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jan14-2.jpg\" alt=\"jan14-2\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jan14-2.jpg 690w, https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jan14-2-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/> Social Media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have seen a huge increase in widespread use over the past few years. What started out as only for personal use has turned into a robust platform where businesses can grow and gain a large number of customers.<br \/>\n<strong>How to Gain Customers Through Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Setup your business profiles<\/strong> \u2013 Before you can begin to interact on the various Social Media networks, you need to create profiles. To start, it is important to at least have profiles on the major Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Post content consistently<\/strong> \u2013 Posting quality content to your Social Media profiles is extremely important. You should at least be posting to your Social Media profiles multiple times per week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use images when possible<\/strong> \u2013 Social Media networks are beginning to value content with images more so than plain text content. Therefore, it is important to insert images into your posts as often as possible. This also helps engage your followers as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reach out to your customer base<\/strong> \u2013 Your existing customers are some of your best advertising. When you launch your social media profiles, it is important to reach out to your existing customer base to encourage them to follow your various Social Media profiles. Use creative marketing methods such as contests to grow your Social Media following.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>LAD Solutions \u2013 Your Social Media Management Professionals<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you are looking for a way to quickly grow your Social Media presence in a way that can help grow your business, you should hire a company that offers <a href=\"http:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/services\/social-media-management.php\"><strong>Social Media Management services<\/strong><\/a>. LAD Solutions has been providing Social Media Management in Los Angeles as well as throughout the country for a number of years. For more information about our services or how we can begin developing a Social Media campaign that will help you catapult your business in 2014 please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladsolutions.com\/\">www.ladsolutions.com<\/a> or contact us <strong>888.523.2926<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,322,321],"tags":[104,105,106,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"category-digital-marketing-strategy","9":"category-social-media-marketing","10":"tag-how-to-improve-social-media-presence","11":"tag-social-media-marketing-consultant","12":"tag-social-media-marketing-ideas","13":"tag-social-media-marketing-specialist"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/1507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}