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Social media marketing

Tags : Marketing, marketing communications, marketing strategies, direct marketing, web 2.0 marketing, blog marketing, social marketing.
Industry : Internet
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Social media is a hot topic nowadays. Most marketers know it is important, but many are unsure how social media should fit into their marketing strategy. Social media marketing is the process of promoting your self or business through social media channels and it is a powerful strategy that will get you attention. Let us brainstorm on the effective ways of using social media marketing......

Featured Video: James Surowiecki (author of The Wisdom of Crowds ) pinpoints the moment when social media became an equal player in the world of news-gathering: the 2005 tsunami, when YouTube video, blogs, IMs and txts carried the news -- and preserved moving personal stories from the tragedy.

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SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: is the best strategy of promoting your Business or website through social media channels and it is a very important strategy that will get you popular in online and generate massive amounts of traffic to the website. Most important thing in Social Media marketing is “Social Media Marketing is a Communication Channel it is not a marketing process” Social Media Marketing is important for Business in following fields Online Brand Management Public Relations Social Networking Business Networking Human Resources sales Increase Marketing/Communication Product Developers Research teams Senior Managers
By : SUSHANT AWASTHI
Makrand Bhave  |  Commented  |  4 years ago
The channel Social Media has arisen because of Internet offering us the opportunity! Otherwise I am sure that in a meeting, dinner party, sales meeting party or even dealer meets etc you have a social interaction amongst people and you do discuss...
Jayant Vishnu  |  Commented  |  4 years ago
I think Internet is the best channel for social media Mr. Ahmed, as today most of the people across the world are tech savvy, and then people are more into blogs and social networking sites these days...so Internet would be the best channel for...
 
 
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1 Dopamine and marketing
2 Its all about Social Media Ecology !!!
By : Sunil S Chiplunkar
Dayanand Deshpande  |  Supported idea  "Dopamine and marketing"  |  3 years ago
Very true sunil....and yes this gives all of them the sense of feeling where thier views are acknowledged and one also gets so much knowledge to share in these social media sites...
DEVRANJAN DASH  |  Added idea  "Its Word of mouth marketing through a new medium"  |  3 years ago
Use of Social Media is all about understanding and using the WOMM. If earlier there were loyal groupsand communities who identified themselves with a particular brand i.e. the Harley Davidson etc, now the same concept has been taken online to...
 
 
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For those in advertising discussing Future of Advertising, here is an interesting case study. The presentation is by Heather Oldani, U.S. Communications Director at McDonald’s and is a great social media strategy pres to pickup a few interesting points from. Enjoy! (via ViralBlog ) McDonald’s hasn’t over played their hand in the social space so far, and that’s probably a good thing for most brands to consider when getting into social media. What I like about the McDonald’s approach so far, is that they are there listening, have become willing conversationalists and are activating engagement, BUT are not trying to be over night heroes in launching the next Whopper Sacrifice Campaign or  Ikea...
By : Shiuli Mukherji
Jayant Vishnu  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
Good one shiuli, I knew about this whopper sacrifice earlier, this was a very good strategy by them, people were curious to know who they sacrificed to get themselves a Whopper & this made the content go really viral, where people started...
Makrand Bhave  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
Extensive, cohesively researched and very elaborately strategised!! What an insight Shiuli... Amazing... Indedd a good learning experience!! Thanks a lot for the referral... :)
 
 
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1 Cause Marketing
2 Be honest about it
By : Mahalakshmi Subramanium
Jaygopal Raghavan  |  Added idea  "Be honest about it"  |  3 years ago
In todays corporate world replete with scans and scandals one needs to be honest in their efforts at social media activism to gain the respect of the larger public. Dont undertake a social activity with just the PR in mind but undertaking one...
Jayita  |  Supported idea  "Cause Marketing"  |  3 years ago
We, the common people always like it when we are a part of any social awareness programme or any cause, and social networking has given a good platform to us to be socially active. So, when we see any brand or company supporting a cause online,...
 
 
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By : Arunkumar Birajdar
Arunkumar Birajdar  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  3 years ago
Reality is grossly varied than what meets the eye.  I personaly believe that cross checked information is highly sought after and may even be paid by reader. Please let me know your views.
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Can anyone provide me with some case studies relating to social marketing efforts taken by them this is to understand the approaches taken in this area
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By : mula santhoshreddy
SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE  |  Argues in support of  "yes"  |  2 years ago
I support Ramesh Sir's view. Main object is Profit Making Social Responsibility comes next.
Naushad H.L.  |  Argues in support of  "no"  |  2 years ago
NO... HOW CAN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY BE THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF ANY COMPANY ? A Company is first dedicated to do good business generate Profits... Take good care of its' Employees AND THEN... If permissible, TAKE UP SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. The...
RAMESH KANDADAI  |  Argues in support of  "yes"  |  2 years ago
Profitability is the singular prority of any commercial organization. However this profitability must be addressed in the purview of corporate social responsibility. Profitability without the relevance of CSR may well end up unethical and anti...
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Today the number of social networking sites are increasing with time. The best we know and love is about facebook. But there are so many other networks and toostep is another good example as we use i...
By : V B Sree Krishna Dutta
V B Sree Krishna Dutta  |  Answered  |  2 years ago
@Shailesh, very well. That could be true. It can be a very useful tool for online personal selling. But, If I or you were to launch a social networking site what other benefits can there be apart from advertising of various products? In this case...
shailesh  |  Answered  |  2 years ago
These social networks really are building relationships online. These are very helpful in extending our freindships and other relationships to other areas too even there where we have never been. If someone is in our freind list in any social...
 
 
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By : Nishchal Khetarpal
Anna George  |  Argues in support of  "Investment"  |  1 year ago
Social Media is never an expense because it is the cheapest and cost effective way of marketing today. It doesnt even cost 1/10 of the the expense involved in other marketing methods. Best advantage of social media marketing is that there is no...
Hari  |  Argues in support of  "Expense"  |  2 years ago
It really confusion, its expense Or investment??? Social media is almost 'FREE' so its 'FREE OF COST INVESTMENT' : ) for anyone B2B business, everyone should adopt it, because everyone can do it. Now everyone is connecting with online communities,...
PS Dhingra  |  Argues in support of  "Expense"  |  2 years ago
Social media is fit just for social interaction to waste idle time or to exchange knowledge and views. In fact social media is an expensive hype for not only for mid-sized b2b company, but also b2b giants.
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