There
are many people who think "social
media marketing" is just the latest buzz phrase in marketing, but the fact is this is a new place, you can
use that place to market and promote
your products and services. Social media
centers around interaction with colleagues, potential customers as well as
current customers. I've personaly
experienced that when companies begin
to dig into social media, they do not know where to start. The information in
this articel will help you understand why social media marketing is important
and how to begin to put it to work for you and your business.
1st
of all we need to understand the role of Social Media in Marketing. Social
media is playing a vital role in marketing,but you have to see how this role
depends on your business,and how it best fits your business needs. Along with
it depends on your personal effort which you are willing to put forward in to
Social media. Social media has given a voice to marketers and it is a smooth
way to communicate with peers, customers and potential consumers. It helps you
to personalize your “brand” and spread your message in a most convenient way. May
be you think that it is only for small busineaa owners then i have to correct
you. Just a few companies that have become involved in it. I will like to tell
you abot some famous and sucessfull ones. Here are few famous ones.
Absolut Vodka http://www.youtube.com/absolutworld
they are also using face book for their bartender.
BMW
They are
utilising face book as well for promoting their i-Series Road trip.
Dunkin
Donuts It
is true they ‘ve found a good respnonse in socail media but thet have started
microblogging Twitter account.
Barack
Obama I
can’t leave USA’s President example. He has used Twitter during the
presidential election. Number of followers were 170,000 and was following over
165,000.
Now you have
to see what role shoud it play in your marketing. You can use it to provide an
identity to who you are and what the products and services you are offering. People
might do’nt know about your
product,services or what you company
represents,so you can creat a healthy relationshop with people by using
socail media. You can share your personality with them. You can associate your
peers that might be serving same market.
Be consistent
in your planing without it every thing will be wastage of time only.