luni, 12 august 2013

Social Media Marketing Strategy

By Daniel Boone Jr.


In 2013, no company can expect to be taken seriously if it's not on Twitter or facebook. An endless stream (no pun intended) of recommendations from marketing experts warns businesses that they have to "get" social or threat becoming like business a century ago that didn't think they required telephones.

In spite of the buzz that unavoidably clings to the newfangled, nevertheless, it's fairly antique tech that appears to be much more essential for offering things online. A new report from marketing data outfit discovered that over the past four years, online stores have actually quadrupled the rate of consumers gotten through e-mail to almost 7 percent.

Facebook over that same period hardly signs up as a way to make a sale, and the small percentage of individuals who do link and purchase over Facebook has actually stayed flat. Twitter, meanwhile, doesn't sign up at all. Without a doubt the most popular method to get clients was "natural search," according to the report, followed by "cost per click" advertisements in both cases, read: Google.

Email, on the other hand, has a certain unreasonable advantage in that shoppers getting the e-mails have already given up their addresses to a website, suggesting they currently have some prior relationship with that store. Still, despite the avalanche of spam all of us get, it's simple to see how the staying power and greater potential for personalization of a medium without a 140-character limit gives e-mail unique advantages.

Custora's searchings for do not bode particularly well for social networks business models, specifically Twitter. Obviously, advertisements on Twitter and facebook don't have to cause instant clicks to have an impact. They still have the capacity to raise ambient awareness. Yet Custora discovered that Google's ads, by contrast, do lead not only to clicks however to acquisitions-- the holy grail of "conversion.".

To be reasonable, Google had a roughly 10-year running start to turn search into sales. It's tough to imagine that in a years that social media will not be a more crucial channel for selling things. Already its "item cards" offer a really direct means for Twitter to serve as a store. Works probably shouldn't desert social just yet. But if they had to select, that old-timey newsletter could exceed tweets for a very long time to come.




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