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Social Media Marketing

A Brief Resume

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 What is social media marketing?

Time for a quick, succinct definition from Mashable:

“Social media marketing refers to the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites.”

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Social Media Strategy

There’s no single social media strategy that one can call the king of the game. After all, there are many social media sites and all of them command a different strategy in order to make the very best of a marketing strategy.

Marketing strategies come and go but there’s one thing that rings true about social media marketing right now, and most likely in the future also:

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If you run a blog, hard sell may or may not work for you.

If you market to an email list, hard sell may work there also, though it’s pretty darn doubtful.

But if you try hard-sell tactics on any social media entity such as Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, you’ll certainly come unstuck. So don’t do it!

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That said, there are many marketers who do use one particular social media outlet to really push the sales of their products and/ or their services. This channel tends to go against the grain in terms of social media outlets. What is it?

It’s YouTube, the largest video hosting site on the planet, though the Chinese version of YouTube – Youku (another rip-off by the Chinese taken from the West) is aiming to vie with YouTube in terms of video views and audience reach.

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Social Media Marketing Plan

Looking to utilize social media to implement a marketing strategy?

Well, first things first. You have to develop a plan.

Without a plan, chances are that you’ll fail rather miserably. And that means a dent in overall profits. No business wants that to happen.

The basis of a plan goes along these lines:

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Consider:

� Your time availability

� Your resources at hand

� Your audience

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Time availability – how much time can you spare on a daily basis to invest in your social media marketing plan? Can you devote an hour each day at least to each individual social media channel you intend on using?

Resource – what resources do you have available? Social networks such as Pinterest and Instagram are all about visual content. Networks such as Twitter and Linkedin are much more about text-based content. And then Facebook is rather more of a mix of the two, but simultaneously, is relatively heavily dependent on graphic content also.

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Audience – who are your potential customers? Which social networks do they use? Audience research and demographical factors can be researched from surveys, such as those undertaken by Pew Research.

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Social Media Optimization

Social Media Optimization or SMO as it’s also referred to, is when a number of social media channels and communities are utilized in order to generate a level of publicity so as to increase an awareness of a product, a service, an event, or an entire brand.

SMO has its similarities to search engine optimization whereby the main goal is to generate traffic to a particular website. Nevertheless, SMO refers more to optimizing a website through the sharing of media, text, graphics over targeted networking and social media sites.

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