Friday, May 24, 2013

Social Media Marketing and Strategies



Introduction:
Social Media Marketing is a common method of gaining user’s interest and attention with the help of social media sites. For example, people use Twitter to share their views and thoughts with each other whereas; Facebook on the other hand allows sharing not only news but also photos, videos, events etc. Various companies use social networking sites for marketing and launching their products.
Strategies
In order to successfully conduct Social Media Marketing campaign, following strategies will help you:
1.      First thing you should be careful is developing proper overview of your business/company. This might include your brief history, your mission goal, and some details of your product/services etc. The facts and figures introduced make it more attractive to the buyers, since they seek trust in any buying opportunity.
2.      After the compilation of 'review', the next important part is to develop certain methods like:
a.       Developing a survey for your new product
b.      Asking for feedback from the users
c.       You may even put some sort of lucky draw in order to shift the traffic towards your product.
3.      One of the most important steps is the proper selection of social tool. For example there are several social networking sites available. Each have got different prospective. You have to select in it what best meets your needs in terms of your viewers' interest. For example it was found through research that about 60% of Facebook users are female. Thus if your product is related to females then you should go for Facebook. Likewise, Tweeters are usually used by the professionals, so here is your go for the goods of interest for the professionals.
4.      You should be aware of your possible user's basic needs and information. For example, you should be very well aware of age categories, locations, affordability, and some unique qualities which other products lack. This information will help you to expand your media campaign more effectively.
5.      Now let us move to the most tricky and equally important part. The question is “How to find and create the real social media content that can engage and attract the people”. There is no doubt, but not difficult to achieve at all. All you need to do is, to focus on certain things. For instance,
·         You need to impel campaigns and events that can be more social.
·         You need to work out the ways to draw the attention of the spectators.
·         Maintain the regularity of high quality content and monitor the peoples' response.
·         Most important of all, have a keen eye on the increase or decrease of fans, your followers and traffic to your website. It will help you insure you are progressing or stagnant. It is also of great importance to keep gaining the admirers and fans with the passage of time. For example if you have 200 fans and after a month or so you still have the same followership, you are very likely to fall to the ground.
 Social Media Marketing is perfect way to get maximum from the minimum.

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