"Ye who doubts the power of social media marketing is committing self-destruction for their business."
To be successful using social media for business, the business must have a social media strategic plan, budget, and goals. Without this in place and clear marketing messages, the effort will be a colossal waste of time and effort. Everyone may use newl media marketing but many do not use it effectively and even fewer will have the creativity and energy to keep it going long enough to see results.
Social marketing offers businesses a heightened level of customer engagement and real-time communication along with the opportunity to build stronger, richer client relationships via personal attention and increased influence in an open environment.
Here are three items to consider this year if you are contemplating adding or building up your
social network marketing efforts:
LinkedIn will have 90,000,000 members before the end of 2010. LinkedIn is currently at 53,000,000. Now is the time to use it!
In 2010 social marketing will gain in popularity as a
legitimate marketing channel as more businesses realize its power as the most powerful word of mouth marketing platform ever developed.
Social networking identity theft will increase dramatically and criminal hackers will lend significant focus on user accounts. They will access these accounts and scam the users "
friends and followers".
New media marketing will continue to flourish as more brands begin to utilize the tools available to them for both free and paid services.
Larger companies will focus on social marketing being a huge and necessary part of their marketing plans for 2010 and beyond!
If you are out
attract prospective customers and develop your online presence and exposure, you owe it to yourself and the financial future of your business to learn everything you can about
social media.