Lyu Meizhen
Dr. Mina
English 108
6 November 2014
Social Media Marketing
According to Wikipedia, Social media marketing is a term which describes “the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites (Wikipedia).” This kind of promoting tactics are getting more and more popular and effective in this technology driven world, it is easier for a business company to determine where the potential customers are and easily to attract their eyes through social media and it saves more money compare to the traditional advertising methods. As the technology developed, social media are getting much more impressive to make people interact and chat with each other, and share information as well.
For a business company, it is really important to have a business fan page to post all the updates online to those people who already subscribed or liked the page and those likers then could share it with their followers or friends by retweeting or reposting the posts, and these could be a link to its new products, sales, etc. And those posts will be really widespread so more and more people may start to subscribe the page and business can sell the products to target audiences who haven’t become fans of a brand yet. In this way, more and more people may like or follow the page, as the likes and followings grow, the influence grows as well. It’s like a snowball effect for a business to attract new customers, media interviews, joint partnerships and all kinds of other
Social media marketing is relatively new to the ?integrated marketing communications systems of several public and private businesses.? (Mercadal, 2013, para. 2) Social media is used by almost sixty-six percent of American adults. (Lanham, 2016) Integrated marketing communications try to connect companies and other organizations with their target audience. (Mercadal, 2013) Therefore, social media marketing strategically looks at demographics of the audiences in each social media platform and use the platforms that match the audience who would be interested in products or services sold. (Smith,
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Marketing is the action or business of promoting a product or service. Marketing through social media is posting an ad or statement about the product in hopes of receiving more buyers. The seller is not is not the only person that can market a product, there is also a such as Free marketing, this is when a person of higher social status wears promotes your product for free. An example of that would be if a well known basketball or football player is seen drinking Gatorade before a pick-up game in his or her home town, by that person being seen with that product it draws attention to that brand from that person’s fans. Social media marketing is a bigger and broader way of receiving free marketing. Some local stores can get global recognition because social media connects all around the world. Social media marketing has become such a big thing that Exhibitor magazine did a survey in 2014 on Social Media Marketing. This survey was taken to determine how exhibit and event marketers used social media to improve the sales of their product. According to the survey released by the company , social media as a marketing tool has exploded over the past four years(Exhibitormediapost). The percentage of companies using social media as an exhibit-marketing implement has more than doubled, from 31 percent in 2010 to 80 percent in 2014(E
Social media is an effective media of communication between the consumers and companies. The companies are using social media for improving consumer engagement and brand lift. This essay gives a brief overview of social media platforms and how effective they have been. It shows that the whole marketing concept has undergone radical transformation due to the social media interaction. The essay ends in conclusion depicting what marketers need to take care in order to have successful social media campaign.
Social media is different from more traditional marketing tactics as it offers a free platform that is easily accessible to anyone with internet access. This allows for the increase communication for organizations to foster brand awareness and often, and
Facebook has become an incredibly powerful platform for businesses and organizations to build their community, engage with clients, prospects and suspects and encourage them to spread messages to a larger network. By creating a Facebook Page, a business can provide an information hub that users can choose to “Like.” Liking a Facebook Page is not too different from subscribing to a newsletter.
Social media marketing refers to the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites.
Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. (Wikipedia) Business use social media to advertise,
The technology has made moving effects on the traditional marketing activities. Marketing of social media presents an online service, apps that engage in a building of relations among people by providing platforms where people of similar interests share activities, posting content, real-life, or links.
Social media marketing became popular with increase popularity of social networking websites such as twitter, Facebook, Myspace , Linkledin, Google+ and pinterset
In an earlier blog, I briefly discussed with you the importance of selecting the right social media platform for your business goals. Getting started on the right foot with your social media marketing is essential to the growth and scalability of your business. Selecting the right social media platform is only the beginning of your social media strategy. The next step is to develop the right content to share. The goal of your social media content is to grow an audience of potential customers and give them a chance to engage with your business.
Recently, internet users growing rapidly and a big 89% of internet users that are aged between 18 to 29 years old are actively participating in social media activities. So this is main advantages for social media marketing compare traditional media marketing. A traditional media marketing only caters to a fixed audience, for instance regular magazine readers or TV viewers while social media marketing has potential to approach a very a big audience that unlimited in scope and reach. In a marketing, the big audience is very important because they have potential to be our customers. In addition, using social media marketing also convenient for introduce brands or our business to
We cannot deny how big of an impact social media has on our lives now, not only on people but businesses too. It has opened a whole new door to the business world and given them a big opportunity to interact and attract a larger amount of customers. It’s given us a new and faster way of communication by exchanging pictures, stories, news, blogs, online discussions, etc. In exchange businesses have benefited by a long shot just by the click of a button. With the help of the Internet a company no longer is dependent on a particular customer base to survive because now it can reach out to a worldwide audience within seconds. It’s imaginable the countless business attributes of all social media to this day and still is growing. Social media
Businesses use platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as a modern tool to share information with their customers. Facebook offers the option for businesses to create a fan page for their company or product. Twitter allows the use of 140-character posts that users can follow, tweet, or retweet. Blogs are less commonly used, but allow businesses to write in journal type format. YouTube offers a video-library to its users with millions of viewers around the world. There are many other types of social media but most of them follow similar general communication capabilities. Utilizing these