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Essay On Brand Awareness

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Since Portfolio 1, I have researched further into this topic and discovered additional information in terms of how brand awareness is created through the use of social media tools. Due to the enormous amount of people who use social media platforms on a daily basis the online tools such as Facebook analytics and Google analytics, enable businesses to access smaller, specifically defined chunks of these people, who are likely to have interest in your business or its products, by using both paid and unpaid adverts these tools can help a business to target specific ages, locations, groups and even gender, thus helping inform these people about the brand and therefore creating brand awareness (0'Flynn, 2012) as cited in (Tsimonis & …show more content…

By further targeting that customer who liked or visited your website and offering them a discount or showing them a specific promotion.

This has further contributed to my knowledge around this topic, as I now understand that brand awareness is a much wider concept than I first thought, there are a lot of different aspects that all contribute to creating brand awareness and for a business to incorporate them all is rather difficult, however being aware of some of these aspects that contribute to brand awareness and attempting to make use of them in your social media marketing efforts is likely to create more good than harm. Therefore, businesses need to read widely on this topic and choose a few specific techniques they want to incorporate and that relate to their brand values, rather than attempting them all.

Another interesting piece of research I have gathered since portfolio 1 is by Legorburu & McColl (2014), who believe that brands using social media need to worry less about the logo, design and sponsorship and instead focus their efforts towards the consumer’s overall experience and interaction with their brand. They suggest that both the customer and the businesses need to

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