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Social Media Marketing: Identifying the Right ‘connectors’ In A Social Scenario

Category : Communication, Content Marketing, social media marketing

Since it first started, social media marketing has gone on to revolutionize the world of marketing. Using social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis and other such online collaborative media for marketing, sales, customer services etc., has redefined the idea of effective large scale marketing. The reach of this kind of marketing far surpasses that of any run of the mill marketing strategies as the medium itself is made up of thousands of targeted consumers/users. However, even in the case of social media marketing there exist many tricks and trade secrets that can help make your campaign hotter and more successful than others. One such trick is to identify the right connectors!

Generally connectors are said to be persons who know a large number of people and are in the habit of making introductions. In this context, they are persons who have built up a large number of connections in a select social media space. These people are the hubs of human social networking and are acquainted with persons from across an array of social, cultural, professional, and economic circles. Selecting the right connectors for your media campaign involves finding the persons who are best suited for and most likely to ensure that what reaches them then spreads on to the people they know (your real target audience).  If you identify and target the right connectors in your social media marketing campaign you can expand the extent and reach of your campaign with hardly any effort of your own.  Having done the ground work to identify your connectors and subsequently reeling them into your campaign they will then go on to spread your campaign onto the numerous contacts and connections held by them.  In this way the word spreads far wider than otherwise possible.

Additionally, because the people becoming involved in the campaign this way, are doing so at the instance of somebody they already know the likelihood of their participation becomes greater than if it were just a random media marketing campaign. Hence, by choosing the right connectors you don’t only widen the scope of your marketing campaign to include more social media participants but you also increase the effectiveness and impact of the campaign itself. Choosing the right connectors could very well be the make or break move in the success of your social media marketing campaign!

Dealing with the “society” in social media

Category : social media, social media marketing

At the core of any social media consultancy is the awareness of the central challenge of using the unwilling media for marketing. In other words social media consultants take head-on, the challenge that is posed by the very nature of the media as succinctly expressed by social media users on www.cluetrain.com.

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How do social media consultants deal with it? How do they set up a social media consulting business?

They simply follow the percept “while in Rome do as Romans do!” They socialize or at least show their clients how to socialize and use the platform for selling their product or service in a manner that does not force the socialites to protest the intrusion. They build relationships. They strategize around providing value to their peers on the network. They filter out unnecessary actions, unwanted pitches and off topic tangents and will lead with quality content that attracts, seeds conversations and informs.

As the consultant gains credibility and trust observers will turn into followers;  followers into fans; fans into leads and leads into clients.  In other words, the sales part of the relationship is a fall out of the relationship building process.  The transition from mere socializing to sales is made on the premise that people buy from you if they like you and trust you.

Here is a video by Chris Brogan which you may find interesting in context!

Chris Brogan Shares Social Media Tips

License to drive

Category : Content Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine marketing, Types of content, social media marketing, website content

trafficJust putting up a showroom or creating a website will not bring your customers to you. It is just like acquiring a license to drive without actually driving in traffic! Online marketing like offline marketing requires a lot of effort and persistence. Here are a few trips to make your online marketing a success.

Search engine optimization or SEO is the prime mover.  This is because people normally reach your web page via search engines. Search engines need to index your pages on the basis of keywords and their density/frequency on your page.  Your content needs to be search engine optimized so that search engines will rank your page higher than that of your competitors. The best part of this process is that it is FREE. All you need to do is make sure your content displays the keywords in sufficient and meaningful regularity.seo-top-of-google-results

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is all about tidying up the website and filling out appropriate forms that search engine crawlers can use to identify context and reward it with a high page rank. Of course, this requires you to invest time and money and you need to ensure that your advertisements are placed in the right pages on the right sites.  You also pay to ensure that your advertisements are displayed on relevant search queries and you again pay if someone clicks through the advertisement to your site.

Blogs and online content can be a marketing tool if you know how to exploit its potential. The bottom line is that you will have to blog everyday to attract visitors to your site via the blog. You can use your blog to publish content on the web that is replete with the pertinent keywords and score on SEO. Blogs also develop an online community that is entirely based on the content you display and the product you are marketing.

Social Media marketing is the new mantra of the decade.  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Digg help in developing a strong social network that can be exploited for business gains. It also helps to develop an intimate relationship with your customers and readers.

Email marketing is another effective method of reaching out to customers. These marketing campaigns are easy to create and almost free. However, one must be cautious in the use of this tool. It can backfire. It can be treated as spam and your site can be black listed for generating spam!

So if you have acquired the license to drive, it is time to learn how to drive!

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