Businesses and designers can now use Facebook and Twitter to promote themselves via DesignCrowd!
We've integrated Facebook and Twitter features throughout DesignCrowd allowing project owners (businesses) and designers to share stuff on Facebook and Twitter with a click of a button!
Project owners (businesses) will be able promote both their design projects and as a way to promote their actual business!
Designers, great users of social media, can now promote their portfolio, their designs and projects their working on!
Here are 5 ways people can use social media on DC:
#1 - 'Like' Designs
We have put a Facebook "Like"
button on every design page. If you have
some good designs on DesignCrowd, why not click "Like" (encourage your friends to click "Like") and use them to promote yourself to your friends and the world?
Why this is good:
- For
Designers: each time you or someone else likes your design, this pushes your design to Facebook making it visible and available to your friends and a worldwide audience. Liking each of your own designs is probably the best way for you to promote yourself. If they're good designs, show them off! (For good karma: consider clicking 'like' on other people's designs and they'll click on yours!
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- For Businesses: inspire your friends by sharing creative, amazing designs!
#2 - 'Like' Projects
Every project brief page now has a 'like' button on it. If you click this, it will share it on Facebook (like above).
Why this is good:
- For Businesses: This is a great way to promote both your
business and your contest. If you're a new business, getting your logo
on DesignCrowd might be the first thing you do!
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- For
Designers: This is a good way to let people know what you're working on and to get your designer friends involved
with DesignCrowd (especially if the project you're working on is a fun one!)
#3 - 'Like' Designers
In addition to individual designs, you can also "Like" designers (and their portfolios).
Why this is good:
- For
Designers: you would be crazy not to click "Like" on your own profile. The more people that visit this page, the more projects you will be offered through your portfolio.
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- For Businesses: support your favorite designers by clicking "Like" and sharing their portfolio with your own Facebook friends.
#4 - 'Comment' on Designs
The second social media promotion that you can use is to "like"
individual designs. Again, this uses Facebook to push your designs and
make them viewable and available to a worldwide audience. If you have
some good designs on DesignCrowd why not promote them to the world?
Why this is good:
- For
Designers: This is a good way to provide and receive feedback on designs!
#5 - Social Media Upgrade (US$20)
The final promotion is directed at project owners (customers). A
project owner can choose to promote their contest or design project via
social networking. Buying this feature means we will post your project on Twitter and Facebook which
will give it (and you) coverage for anyone following
DesignCrowd's Twitter
and/or
Facebook page. Furthermore, this might be seen by those peoples'
friends, which opens up the network of people seeing the contest!
Why this is good:
- For Businesses: This is a great way to promote both your business and your contest. Using this will not only will the contest get more submissions due to
greater visibility and can also build buzz around your new product or service.
- For Designers: Designers will also benefit as those who participate (and win) will get coverage from people
visiting the contest!
In Conclusion ...
Facebook accounts for 1 in 4 page views in America. As a result, Facebook is to most what the newspaper, TV and talkback radio was to our parents. Designers and customers of DesignCrowd can now use the incredible promotional power of Facebook with just a click of a button! If nothing else, clicking the many "like" buttons on DesignCrowd is free to do and it will help support DesignCrowd and our talented but enthusiastic designers!
Another way is to embed your Facebook feed to your website, whether through code or by a software. This way, you can promote your business and Facebook page more effectively to your visitors.
(p.s. If you don't have a Facebook or Twitter account, get one!)
Written by DesignCrowd on Friday, November 26, 2010
DesignCrowd is an online marketplace providing logo, website, print and graphic design services by providing access to freelance graphic designers and design studios around the world.
