Staring and Running Your Own Social Network

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Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Being a digital marketer, the thought of starting up your own social media networking site might have crossed your mind at least once. Seeing the evident success of new corporations, we can conclude that innovative entrepreneurs setting foot in the digital marketing industry, who come up with unique ideas and unparalleled services are solely the force that is bound to influence the growth of homogenous firms in this industry. If you aim to be the next Evan Spiegel or Mike Krieger, you’ve braked at the appropriate blog. Read ahead to get an idea about how to run your own online social network.

Features:

First things first, what is your website about? What functions are you providing the users with? Map out a list of components that will sway how your website functions. Fancy features like graphic animations and auto-play GIFs will make your webpage seem attractive, but it will result in your site loading on a slower rate. However if you really are the trendy type, hire professional and creative web designer to help you improving your UX and UI (by doing so, you can have your desired website which does NOT take ages to load)

Which Platform to Choose:

Research is an imperial factor prior to any project. If you make extensive use of technology on a day to day basis, you must be familiar with the some of the most widely used programming languages and frameworks used in building websites like: Ruby, Drupal and PHP. But do not worry if all those terms seem foreign to you. All you have to do is research a bit about which programs your favorite social networks have used and then find an agency that has expertise in working on that platforms (your desired one). Do note that this is a hefty investment as web designers not come cheap.

Go to the Next Level:

This step is obviously only implementable when your web site is in swift running. Now that you’ve accomplished the aim of creating your desired social media site, your current mission should be to go big. Your priority should be to increase your web traffic and up your search engine optimization (SEO) ranking. There are numerous ways to attract increasing traffic to your site and one of the most commonly used and effective methods of doing so is repeatedly(thrice is optimum) sharing your content on social media. This may sound like a practice that is not that rewarding but statistics prove otherwise for various brands. In fact you, yourself should also make use of programs like Google analytics which help you track the activities of your consumers and allow you to work efficiently knowing the potential interests of your clientage.

With the competition in the social networking industry peaking, it is an ample investment of time, money and great risk that you are undertaking with this project but in the end certainly it all comes down to conversions and maximizing profits and are you? Because that is what counts the most.


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