Why Use Social Media Marketing As A Marketing Tool–2014

Aparna Sharma · May 3, 2014 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/36bc

Latest Social Media Trends 2014

How Social Media sites are replacing other online marketing tools?

Social media is not all about content shares, likes & connection building but it has grown more like a marketing sphere that replaces all other ways of promotion. 

Obviously, the extensive online markets make it impossible to have strong hold over online campaigning, to filter prospects cost efficiently. So It becomes difficult for businesses especially for startups to establish & succeed.

Marketing practices like content writing, blog writing, press releases, and forum participation do not guarantee effective targeting of customers and raise marketing cost. That’s why Marketing Experts are turning them down in the wake of avoiding compromises on value proposition.

Why Social Media is the Need of hour?

Answering to the loopholes of online advertising, experts’ state need to optimize and align online campaigning across a channel which has high audience ratio, rather randomly posting over internet to bait a visitor. Social Media emerged as a hub of savvy customers, and offered newabilities and potentials for marketing accomplishments.

How Facebook, twiter, Pinterest & Instagram have become more important?

-  Social platforms like Face book, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram with features like integrated social groups, localized content targeting, image and video sharing have made them highly appreciated at the marketing forefront.

-  Creating promotion and marketing messages to resonate among users and marketers, these sites have become source to earned media, impacting more positively than paid media. Also, by charging for what pays to marketers, these networks are helping to lower down the marketing costs.

Face book: It's more an information Centre today than just a social networking site. Businesses maintain business groups, business pages, fan following, where discussing & promoting products is easy and more fruitful. Images and videos make marketing more innovative and interesting than that of textual sharing.

Read following case studies to learn more:

  • Kaya Skin clinic, business page and sponsored stories.

 
  • Eristoff invasion fest, driving ticket sales

 

Twitter: Twitter is a powerful social platform, with high accessibility through mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. It maintains different personal profiles, business profiles, business groups where fan followers communicate to discuss any highlighted matter. Businesses follow competitors’ practices through business groups & thus reap more benefits.

Business groups on Twitter:


  • Automotive business

 

  • University of Chichester

Pinterest: It comes with limited functionality/ interaction and is mostly accessible through Smart Phones and I Phones. It offers features like image and video sharing where a user pins images and videos with his network to exchange ideas via visual content.

  • Sony promoting gadgets on Pinterest:

 

  • Inspiring customers online

 

Instagram: Instagram is a photo / video sharing social media app for mobile devices. Users promote their video and images on Instagram. Instagram also offers functionality to post to Facebook, Hootsuite and more.

Analytics to understand audience and target content better:

Besides marketing through these sites, companies perform analytics to measure users’ interaction so as to device better strategies to gain maximum results.

Check out analytics on Pinterest

 

Social media is a boon to online marketing and marketers want to advantage every bit of it. Be it sharing promotional messages over Facebook, fan following on Twitter or mere image and video sharing on Instagram, marketers are constantly developing strategies to increase marketing goals.So leverage on these applications to derive most profitable results.

Get more information on Social Media marketing through FATbit. You can get in touch with our Industry Experts, to get suggestions on how to launch an effective social media marketing campaign.

 

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