These days reading habit has witnessed a diminishing fall among the younger generation. Well, blame it on lifestyle or availability of too many options nowadays kids do not like to read much and prefer television watching, Internet surfing and going to pub with friends over reading in leisure time. Libraries these days are vacant and mostly occupied by old retired people, as not much youngsters are keen to take membership. How to deal with such problem, when youngsters prefer Internet over a library? Here are some tips.
When youngsters are so frequent to Internet these days, make the most of it and use it as a medium to reach them and draw them to the library.
It’s very important to have your presence on the Internet, and tell your target group that you are not behind any globally renowned library. This will make your library appear updated, concerned about changing trend and demand. But building a website won’t be enough. You need to be different from others and the more interactive your website is the higher the chances you have to captivate the younger audience. You may make it interactive by keeping interesting down-loadable widgets, virtual bookmarks for eBook reading, puzzles, riddles etc.
Since these days every person is on Facebook and it is such a rage among the young people, make the most of it. Make a page for your library and draw fans. Run contests for free gifts or discount on membership fee, discount for referring to a friend, free stationeries like bookmarks, stick on pads, pens etc. You may run interesting polls and frequently update status to keep your target group interested. You may also buy Facebook advertisement space and advertise your library there.
You may dedicate a section in your website called ‘News’ or ‘what’s new?’ where you can talk about the new additions in your library. You may send similar message through newsletters, blog updates and Facebook or Twitter. People should know that your library is not age old and outdated. Talk about new books in brief and the author’s details.
Youngsters are more interested in seeing interesting films, shows, soaps, documentaries than reading books always. Lure them with your audio-video collection and issue an extra DVD for next 15 days when issuing a book for home. This way they will remain more motivated to take home book and read within 15 days time.
What are you waiting for? Try these ideas right away.
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Interior decoration is a passionate profession, reflection of aesthetic sense, and color combination. But not many people indulge into service of an interior decoration consultant, assuming it is unnecessarily expensive affair and is meant only for a section of rich people. When you wish to reach a new tier of market and generate sales, here are few tips for you.
In the beginning do not ask for premium price. Keep it low and competitive. Since you are catching up with the market and wish to change the way people look up to interior decoration service, keep your consultancy charge as low as possible.
Initially to attract people with the exuberance of your skill, you can give some free advices as a free sample. You may run offers all across magazines, newspapers, television saying your interior decoration experts will be visiting individual houses to provide free advice and guidance regarding their houses. You may offer free service only for a specific room within the house. This way you will soon gain popularity and become a household name for all. For further help people will remember of you and recommend your name to others.
A recent social networking rage – Facebook is a phenomenal way to get popular overnight. Build a fan page of your company. Your only mission is to have as many fans as possible and maximum numbers of ‘like’s and ‘comment’s against your posts. Now start getting active here. Frequently update status. You can post some questions, advices, achievements, contests, tips, pictures of beautiful decors done by your company and videos, pictures of fans, testimonials etc. Start running weekly contests, asking people to share or comment or reply to questions where you may give free goodies to winners. It will keep the attention of your fans really high and your company will reap fast growth of followers.
Whenever you wish to convince your audience with the caliber of your company, always display your work. People will realize worth of your work only when you compare the result with what it was before. So display the ‘before’ and ‘after’ picture side by side. It will convince the audience about your skills.
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Celebrity is addressed as a ‘celebrity’, since he or she has already witnessed soaring popularity meter, draws maximum eyeballs and makes heads turn wherever he goes, asks for huge bucks even for a five-minutes show and even his slightest right or wrong move creates wave all over. But still, celebrities are confronted with constant threat of being replaced by a rival or new entrant or being forgotten by the people. Since people are too technology savvy these days, Internet is one good medium to come close to the people and keep up the popularity among fans and followers.
Here are some popular ways of celebrity promotion on Internet.
There’s no other social networking site as powerful, as popular as Facebook. To reach out to the fans and keep them updated with the latest work a celebrity can own a page. It’s a great way to increase the fan and follower base. Just by putting a ‘like’ button the celebrity can achieve millions of followers. A celebrity can post his or her latest pictures, events to attend, achievements, recent offerings and work and all on his page, for the followers to cherish a piece of the celebrity’s life. A celebrity can also treat his fans and followers with regular status updates, reply to comments and frequent updates. It’s a great way to keep up the popularity high. One can do every bit of Facebooking from a mobile phone.
Twitter is one more platform to build up a huge base of followers. Twitter also offers high credibility by authenticating a celebrity with verified member status. Twitter is a great tool to let the world know what the celebrity is doing every moment, where he or she is heading to, what he is eating, whom he is meeting, what’s his plan for the day, whom is he dating and partying with. Such updates keep fans hooked onto Twitter, staying in touch with every bit of the celebrity. Twitter also allows celebrities to post personal pictures and upload posts immediately, even from mobile phone.
Personal blog is one more personalized way of a celebrity to reach out to its fans and followers. Regular blog posts are a must to keep up the interest of its visitors. It’s like reflection of a celebrity where he or she can freely express his thoughts, ideas, goals, dreams – anything under the sun. Blogs are highly interactive as readers not only read actively, but also drop comments and come back regularly.
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