Archive for category: Social Media Marketing Plan

The reality of how advertising and promotions work these days in the virtual setting is widely impacted by social media marketing. With social network tools and blogsites having a huge chunk of community based subscribers with equivalent hobbies and interests, a lot of promotions are geared towards receiving the caring and interest of these communities for success and profit.

 

Advertisers promote their stuff either through multimedia or text, with entertainment or information. Whatever method of endorsing things are used, social media marketing goes beyond mere postings and expectations of fast return of investments. To be successful in this endeavor, here are some key considerations to think about.

 

Social media marketing is about sustained promotions. Popular websites which are subscribed to by millions did not become what they are now weren’t it for the sustained promotions and consistent updates to potential subscribers. It took these web sites some time, perhaps even months to even have a steady subscriber population to be stable enough to go “viral” and spread even faster. It was not an ideal switch on and leave method but a continued effort in promoting even if there were already thousands of subscribers.

 

Social media marketing is earned promotions, not paid. The internet is a huge generic community that allows advertising and free promotions. Unlike advertising in television and radio where airtime is paid, most are availed at a free cost and paid by the web servers instead.

 

Those who wish to promote within a community server get to advertise without fees but at the expense of being like other endorsers in terms of edge.

In this scenario, the rate of information sharing among other subscribers is uncontrolled and depends not on the amount of exposure but by the driving force of the subscribers.

 

Social media marketing is a steady commitment. Just like two people keeping a romantic relationship strong, social media marketing is the interplay of both the advertiser and the targeted community. The relationship has to be two way instead of one. Unlike in television advertising wherein information is channeled only towards the audience, social media marketing requires a feedback process wherein interaction and steady improvements are immediately required.

 

Without the presence of an evolving and improving advertising campaign, endorsements done through social networks fade away and get overshadowed by similarly newer and more updated postings by others. Subscribers want something new or improved from time to time therefore each campaign also needs to be made fresh with new content regularly to remain in circulation.