Social Media Goes Main Stream
After years of being promoted in the Internet Marketing Community as a means of getting traffic and customers, Social Media is no longer this quirky thing for kids, it is working it’s way into the main stream. Businesses now realize that Social Media is the future of Marketing.
Marketing Budgets Are Moving To Social Media
Social Media for business is really all about creating relationships with customers. More than just throwing out a bunch of content, it’s about engaging with your customers, being involved with a the online community, find out what they want and give it to them.
Most businesses now realize that they need to be involved with social media, but don’t know exactly what to do.Most business owners go into social media without a plan or an idea of what they are doing and wonder why they are not getting results.
They need to design and implement a clear Marketing Strategy for Social Media, Blogging as well as Online advertising, and Internet Marketing in general.
Then it’s a matter of tracking the results, from traffic, optins, to sales conversions, and find out what is working, and what is not.
In a study by Marketingsherpa (2008 Study of Social Media Marketing & PR ), social media ranked #1 as a marketing budget line item for businesses, for increased funding next to email marketing.
And there’s good reason to get involved in Social Media, as Companies that properly plan and implement a Social Media Marketing Strategy can benefits through:
- Being Recognized as Experts in their field
- Improving customer relationships
- Improve customer acquisition
- Reduce costs for customer service
- Improved search engine rankings
- Increase brand awareness
- Increase bottom line sales conversions
Social Media is the Future of Marketing and at V-Media Marketing we help businesses to navigate the Maze and Confusion of Online Marketing and get real Solutiuons and Results.
Source: S.Renner