{"id":1750,"date":"2010-06-21T19:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2011-05-11T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T04:56:54","slug":"social-media-marketing-factors-influencing-online-marketing-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2010\/06\/social-media-marketing-factors-influencing-online-marketing-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Marketing: Factors influencing online marketing for You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/techdivine.com\/ourservices.html#smm\" target=\"_blank\">Social Media Marketing<\/a>: Factors influencing online marketing for You!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With the advent of newer media and technology tools, social media marketing is growing in every field and industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techdivine.com\/ourservices.html#smm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2913\" title=\"fbml\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/fbml.png\" alt=\"social media online marketing fbml marketing services solutions advertising marketing agency\" width=\"102\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/techdivine.com\/ourservices.html#smq\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2914\" title=\"audit_reports\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/audit_reports.png\" alt=\"your smq social media quotient social media influence smi services\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/techdivine.com\/ourservices.html#viral\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2915\" title=\"viralmarketing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/viralmarketing.png\" alt=\"viral marketing emailer landing page database management services\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Why so?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The user is everywhere and the customers are all around. So that is where you need to be there too.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Why has social media marketing today become so prominent and focused on?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s simple. When you are a brand (existing) new or old at micro or macro level there are conversations happening online about your product and services in real-time. <em><strong>So the question here simply is, would you rather have your competitor cash in on the conversation or would you yourself like to be a part of the interaction prism and channelize the leads your way?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Moreover, one needs to be clear of few things about <a href=\"http:\/\/techdivine.com\/ourservices.html#smm\" target=\"_blank\">social media marketing:<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> It is not about social networking websites alone<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> It is not about just having a blog or a forum page<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> It does not matter if you have a zillion fans only<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>So what makes the real deal about social media marketing work?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Firstly, one needs to be clear that \u201c<strong>People buy from people<\/strong>\u201d and secondly, one needs to clearly understand that <strong>you cannot sell to people<em>who are online to stay connected with friends and peers<\/em><\/strong> .<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So, <strong>DO NOT SELL, but instead CONNECT<\/strong> with your customer.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let them develop the trust in you and be the brand ambassador for you instead. It goes a long way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>So what does a social media quotient measure from a social media marketing campaign?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When you are able to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2011\/03\/social-media-marketing-monitoring-measuring-turbo-powering-brand-you-in-real-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>humanize your brand<\/strong><\/a> by becoming one in conversation with your target group (<strong><em>which means you need to reach the right target group, even online<\/em><\/strong>) you can deliver (<em><strong>giving is the beginning of building a humanized brand to show you care<\/strong><\/em>) concrete (<em><strong>be realistic and precise in what is being offered<\/strong><\/em>) and credible (<em><strong>earn the trust<\/strong><\/em>) easy to consume information, resources and help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reaching through forums, blogs and other facebook communities, linkedin groups, twitter platforms and such other relevant to \u201cYOUR PRODUCT\/SERVICE\u201d locations will get you to your customer. So make sure you use not too many but at least two or three platforms to spread across and connect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What can you expect from your social media marketing team?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Firstly, make sure you assign them the right goals which are on top of your organizational priorities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then make sure your \u2018team\u2019 whether in-house or an external agency has the relevant credentials (Professional background and academic excellence) to back up the product and or service online.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Why?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s your brand out there. So make sure the one handling it, understands it well enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So a <strong>good branding experience<\/strong> is essential to nurture the brands and at the same time a <strong>wonderful academic credential<\/strong> into the field of marketing research and management<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> ensures your product is not going into the hands of just another \u201coversized\u201d advertising agency or a \u201cfreelancer\u201d trying to prove they are part of the online new age marketing media.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With this also make sure that before the social media marketing campaign is planned, designed and implemented, the team or agency are showing enough \u2018types\u2019 of data tracking, brand monitoring and product analysis demographics from their end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can ask for a brand analysis or better, their process to plan the campaign for your product in a detailed step by step flow with details of what will be tracked. If the answer is web hits or just \u2018members\u2019 to your social networking groups, you know you are not with the right set of team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What you need here is someone who can assess not only your brand but also your top priority goals which can be anything from building up a powerful presence across online to launching a product across specific platforms and offer it in a realistic and reasonable timeline. It\u2019s your brand, your product in their hands so make sure it is in safe hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Should you be  investing on any sort of  adwords of different CPC (Cost per click) models?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It depends on your budget. To start with, essentially do not invest in tools where control over clicks is not in your hands. For eg. If you have invested even a <strong>small sum of Rs.10\/- (INR) per click<\/strong> on a keyword and if you have a set of online competitors who might even for the fun of it make possible 1000 garbage clicks (<strong>garbage clicks are those which your competitors or other random users click and land on your site a day which is of utterly no use for which you anyway end up paying<\/strong>) in a span of lets say 30 days in the month, <strong>you are ending up paying Rs.10,000\/- (INR) per month<\/strong> for literally nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So invest rather in resourceful knowledge providing forums, blogs which may be maintained by professionals in the field with credentials and testimonials to vouch for the same. This will not only be economical but also give you an up-start in the field of online brand building in a powerful way for a long term purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Thus, proper exposure to brand and marketing both, professionally and academically, measurable statistics relevant to your industry and product information, with a powerful SEO knowledge presence would make up for a team of social media marketing consultants whether in-house or external.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At least you know, you have invested in the right place for something that\u2019s going to keep you connected and growing both brand wise and presence wise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How else would you be able to justify your ROI (return on investment).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So make sure you understand completely the factors that go into influencing the social media marketing techniques for measuring your true social media quotient across platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Right opportunity, technological resource, brand monitoring, reaching the right target, positioning your brand the correct way, optimizing the utility factor of these power packed online marketing tools as a business function with set of pre defined goals and timelines ensures social media marketing for you as not a fashionable fad <strong>but a resource that you cannot afford to ignore.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stay Connected. Give us your views at <strong>socialmedia@techdivine.com <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can tweet with us here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/techdivine\" target=\"_blank\">@techdivine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regards<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ananth V<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Techdivine Creative Services<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Connect with me:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ananthv9\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>@Ananthv9 on Twitter<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/foursquare.com\/ananthv9\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>@Ananthv9 on foursquare<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Related Posts:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2010\/06\/google-caffeine-search-a-lot-faster-real-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Caffeine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2010\/06\/blogs-replace-magazines-with-social-media-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blogs replace Magazine:Or is it?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2010\/04\/is-it-b2b-b2c-or-s2p-social-media-marketing-what%e2%80%99s-the-equation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is it B2B or S2P<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdivine.com\/tdblog\/2010\/03\/social-media-the-science-to-online-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Media &amp; the science to online marketing<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.techdivine.com%2Ftdblog%2F2010%2F06%2Fsocial-media-marketing-factors-influencing-online-marketing-for-you%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media Marketing: Factors influencing online marketing for You! 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