2014 is just around the corners and there are several things in the digital realm, which is going through a lot of changes. Social Media Marketing is not spared as well. The New Year would start with its own share of popular and unpopular elements in the social networking sites. This article would be taking into account some of those changes through the following lines.
a) Search Engine Optimization + Social Media Optimization: A Buzzing trend
Every passing year makes the bridge between Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Optimization wider. Some of the recent Google revelations have cited that social media marketing affects the search engine marketing in a broader level. But the problem with the relationship between social marketing and SEO has not been strong yet due to the lack of understanding. Time and time again social networking plays the quintessential role of sending signals to search engines, which gives a certain boost to the topic in concern.
But until or unless there is much clarity between the SEO and SMO experts, it would be very difficult to bridge the gap.
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One of the most important things to point out the impact of social networks in the business field is e-commerce. In older times companies project their advertisements either on the television or in newspapers or billboards. It was just an one way communication, which did not yield attractive returns from the consumers. But now companies use social media platforms as a two-way communication medium. For instance, we can see in documentary movie “Generation Like”. Companies are now turning the Facebook ‘Likes’ into the good money. ‘Likes’ button on the Facebook has a great importance. More the likes you have more the value you gain. When one like something online, a product, a brand or a celebrity it becomes part of the identity that they broadcast to the world in free. Companies are getting free advertisers in the form of their consumers (Generation Like). Social media profile information is really valuable to the advertisers for the promotion of their product. This help the companies in market research. Some companies tend to outsource their social media asset management to their advertising partners. By acting social networks as stepping stones, social media marketing can gain a lot of benefits including relationship building, brand building, publicity, promotions and so on. So, it can be concluded that social media marketing proposes several opportunities for entrepreneurs, small businesses, midsize companies and huge
With the invention and development of the Internet, communication has changed in to a revolutionized platform. The Internet has evolved from a means to facilitate data, to a stage of public communication through the use of social media. Social media has affected every aspect of interaction from personal lives to the business world. The business world however, has been especially impacted by the application of social media. Social media has opened up a plethora of opportunities for businesses to advertise, promote and market themselves to consumers. Social media “is one of the fastest growing and most promising strategies a business can employ to boost sales and conversions” (Adobe). As social media continues to grow as a marketing tool, more and more companies have incorporated social media into their daily business activity for brand awareness, target market reach, business expansion and customer interaction.
There might be few people in the globe who are not aware of social media especially most famous networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Wikipedia. It is declared in Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ in the year 2006 that social media has been introduced to rule the world. As of course, there are many variations on the basis of culture and geographical in the social networking sites, but their main aim is the same. We can take the example ...
The rapid growth of the social media networking makes life different. According to the real time internet live statistics, the internet users in the world are now more than 3,338,000,000 and keep rising every day (Internet Live Stats, 2016). Social media like Facebook, Sina microblog (Weibo), Twitter, Instagram and YouTube are defined as the online communities which allow users to create and share their own content (Bolton et al., 2013). The faster and easier information exchange brings a new trend of marketing communication established and makes traditional peer to peer word of mouth spreading go online. Social media provides a platform for consumer to engage in electronic word-of-mouth. It can be either positive or negative statement on the product brand or service which made by potential, actual or experience users on the internet (Themba & Mulala, 2013). Facebook is one of the fast developing social media. It brings up a new trend of social media marketing. Facebook influenced customer behavior and suggested to be one of the most critical metrics of social media usage (Schultz, Schwepker & Good, 2012).
The article discusses advertising on Instagram alone. In the author's view, advertising on Instagram could have a negative effect on the company if done incorrectly. The article mentions that every social media site is different and therefore the marketing technique is different for each site. The author also discusses some negatives to social media marketing. This source will be used in the final paper to show that a company cannot use the same strategy on every social media platform.
Want to change the way you leverage social media for digital success this year? It’s time to evaluate your social media strategies, and differentiate great tactics from ones that have under-delivered. This evaluation is really important to come out with a unique social media strategy to rock the markets in 2016. There are a bunch of opportunities which can let you shine on the social media front. So let’s have a look at highly effective social media trends that will help you dominate the market in 2016.
The main objective of any marketing program is to increase awareness for the company offerings, which eventually drives sales. Social Media Marketing serves this purpose of spreading awareness about the company, brands, product offerings and also its brand personality. It humanizes a brand and helps to build relationship. A consumer or a possible customer can connect to a brand at a personal level, share his thoughts and opinions about the company and give real ...
With rapid development of network communications, social media is gradually effect in many industries. In addition, many scholars pay more attention on promotion in marketing area. However, few studies show a concern on how to use social media, which play a key role in promotion and to promoting tourism.
Social media marketing is a new trend of marketing where different Businesses have taken to social media sites to market and promote old and existing products and brands or create more awareness of their new products. Facebook and Twitter are the two most well known sites where firms market and promote themselves. Over one billion users worldwide use both sites everyday; from averages Joe’s to famous celebrities. Such is the power of each social media site that one post can make or break you.
Second, with the development of the network, social networking sites are very convenient to access, which is an important reason for their popularity. The number of Internet users has increased with improved Internet technology, which is beneficial for promotin...
Social media avenues are a new, upcoming, and popular way to advertise for businesses and for people to connect to each other. Alexis Ohanian once said that "Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They 're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar." (Ohanian) Powerful usage of social media can have a big impact.
The processes of globalisation and technological change is determined by the accelerated pace of life and growing importance of the information. Also, it relies on traditional marketing tools, and the investments of the new e-marketing solutions. In order to stay competitive in the market need to develop new ways of interacting with the customers and ensuring their loyalty. Social network marketing is becoming a more important part of creating marketing campaigns. Moreover, there is an increasing number of organizations implementing social networking, as a marketing solution. The aim of this report is to analyse the businesses using social media as a tool. Also, in this report various theories and statistical information from a variety of sources will be analysed and evaluated how to ascertain efficiently they are used, what benefit businesses receive using social media as a marketing tool, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of the social media marketing.
Almost every sector like Education, Health & Fitness, Employment, etc. is updating themselves through web marketing and reaching the consumers around the global.
In accordance to social media marketing report of 2014, a considerable (64%) of marketers use social media for at least 6 hours or more and 41% for 11 hours or more weekly, more importantly nearly (19%) of marketers use up to 20 hours each week on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and many more. The report also showed 7 social media platforms that lead in 2014 which are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Youtube, Pinterest and Instagram. The most used platform by social media marketers was Facebook, which was leading the chart. Despite the decline in usage percentage for Facebook from 94% in 2013 to 93% in 2014 it still remains on top, Twitter also fell from 83% to 79%, Google+ gained 2% increase and also Instagram grew significantly from (28%) in 2014 to (36%) in
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