What are Hashtags and it importance? | GreatestFart

For a typical Internet user #Hashtags can be really annoying and useless, maybe for them for us internet marketers this is like a dream come true, seems silly? Don’t worry we’ll get there in a bit but first a little overview of what Hashtags are.

What Are Hashtags

Hashtags we’re the innovation of the second largest social network Twitter and later on every social network adopted it including Facebook and Google+ they are used to categorized any specific thing, event, someone, etc. on  a social network at one place so it’s easy for everyone to get latest news about what is happening about that particular thing/person.

Let suppose we’re talking about a football match here happening between Manchester united vs arsenal, so when an average social network savvy will post anything about it they’ll use the hashtag of “Manchesterunitedvsaresnal” or “Arsenalvsmanchester” you get the point, now you see these hashtags are clickable so when they’ll post about it and someone will click this hashtags everything under this hashtag will come to one page for you to explorer easily, useful eh?.

Why Hashtags Are Important For Your Business.

I say WHY NOT, there are tons of way you can use “#” Hashtags for the good of your business, I explained few of them below.

Insights

See what people are saying about you whether it’s good, bad or ugly the more you know, the more your chances are of you correcting them and avoid them to happen in future.

Target High-Quality Traffic Without Big Fanbase

If it’s something popular you’re posting about then it can do wonders for you let say I am posting an article about Pepsi, and I use the tag of #Pepsi in my post, imagine how many people are looking through this tags and how high are the chances of them finding you and hopefully going to read your post.

Ultra-Useful For Customer Service

Keep an eye on your company’s hashtag and see what people are complaining about it, hit the scene solve the problem (if solvable) result = better image of your company with top-notch customer care service.

Your Social Media Master Key

You can say hashtags has become an international language of social networks Instead of promoting your presence on every social network in different ways why not just use hashtags it’ll be your all in one tool to let people know that yes we are on social networks

Find What’s Hot

Not talking literally here, find what’s the hottest subject of social media are currently and use it side by side with your marketing strategy

Conclusion

You see how important Hashtags can be your business it can be used for reputation management, insights, for getting leads and what not, just keep experimenting with it and who knows you’ll finally get the hang of it, if you have any more questions, suggestions or feedback just give us a knock to get almost instant response.