Saturday, October 6, 2012

Social media: what difference? - Part2

The features = your skill set

The big thing with social media is that they are free and accessible to learn, enabling private individuals with knowledge like:

- Branding: also called "brand name marketing", which consists in creating content (name, communication, visual, sound bite, concept, service delivery etc) around an identity. 
- Promotionpublishing content has given a voice to bloggers and producers 
- Advertising: several ways like posting or commenting are free and you can include a savvy message
- Public Relation: by generating an interest around news, making the "Buzz" or simply feed an audience
- Community management: gathering people together and manage the interactive participation
- Analytics/SEO (Search Engine Optimisation): you can optimise the ranking of positive results and broaden your web presence 
- Sales: the product you want to sale is you. Learn how then brave cold-calling
Marketing: you can communicate how valuable you can be and what you can offer to an organisation, applying a structured strategy implying relationship, internal/external, integrated and socially responsive marketing
- Web/Digital: acquiring knowledge on multiple platforms allows you to commute them into an integrated usage
- Project management: Establish, organise and execute a planning and tasks

Your contribution

By taking you online, you offer an exposure to your:

- Identity: Social media are above all diluting the boundary between your "social" and "professional" life
- Interactivity/Conversations: Once you pop (out), you can't stop. Initiating a dialogue with a community will make people expecting a response. Ignoring your followers is worse than doing nothing at all.  Social media requires daily attention
- Sharing: you have to offer (for free) first, to get eventually a feedback. Generating this interest is the hardest step: "to get traction, you have got to get attractive"
- Presence: Establishing your presence on the Web will make you visible to the rest of the world
Reputation: Since what you promote is you (even through a service) people will identify your standing amongst others. It's based on trust
- Relationships: by pro-actively networking your final point is to meet in person: virtual doesn't mean there are not real people behind!
Groups: The more ‘social’ a network becomes, the bigger the group of friends, followers, and contacts. What you want is to grow a community.

The purpose of it?

As you might have noticed, this is all what a Marketing Department does at a company!


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Author - Kevin Simonnet


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