Ultimate Tips & Social Media Cheat Sheet For Businesses [Infographic]

Do you feel comfortable with all the different social media outlets available today? Are you sure you know how to use them to their full potential? I guess since you are checking out this article, you might have some doubts about your ability to get the very best out of them all. Don’t worry, you are not alone. I have personally been on Twitter since 2008, and I still find myself carrying doubts about some of the new features that Twitter releases, modifies or refines every now and again. There are of course a whole slew of really popular social networks available to us all now. So, what are the ultimate tips and how can we be sure they will work? The simple answer to the latter question is that you can’t.

In order to get the most out of any social network, there is only one absolute tip I can give you that will sooner or later yield some great results, and that is to continuously be creative. Without creativity, there is little you will accomplish when it comes to penetrating the noise that social media is currently broadcasting. You have to come up with ideas that will entice and appeal to people in a way that haven’t been tried before. Easy? Not by a long shot.

But of course I will not leave you stranded. There are actually quite a few ultimate tips for each social network that you should really look into. They are tips that have everything to do with how each social network works. This infographic from SM2 is a compilation of ultimate tips for the 9 most popular social networks, and I can assure you they will yield a lot of results once you start incorporating them into your daily social media usage.

These ultimate tips don’t lie when it comes to the acquisition of the followers, but this is more about the way you use each one of these 9 top social networks. This could easily become a race to get the most followers, but this time around, let’s focus on something entirely different. This infographic called Social Media Cheat Sheet will go through the ultimate tips for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr and Foursquare. It’s a beast of an infographic and one that will totally help you refine your approach to each social network.

Maybe it will make you want to use a couple that you haven’t touched before, which will further increase your reach and interactivity. But as always, we should remember that social networking is all about interaction. Interaction can be a lot of things. It can be everything from sharing links to actually interacting and connecting with new people. What way you decide to interact is of course up to you. In the end, the result is in direct comparison to your engagement. It’s just as simple as that.