Social media strategy | Social media marketing

SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGYBySivaranjan Vemareddy (SEM Analyst)

What is SOCIAL MEDIA?

SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media is nothing but more public interaction or communication on a particular topic, brand or issue over social networking sites and social bookmarking sites.

Social Networking Sites - Facebook, Twitter Social Bookmarking Sites - Digg, Delicious etc

SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL NETWORKSFACEBOOK TWITTER

SOCIAL BOOKMARKSDIGG DELICIOUS

WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING(SMM)?

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETINGSocial media marketing is nothing but creating content that attracts attention and encourages readers to share it with their social networks. This allows message to spread from user to user which in turn help to increase sales and brand popularity through social media sites.

As Social Media has become a platform that is easily accessible to anyone with internet access. Increased communication for organizations fosters brand awareness and often, improved customer service. With emergence of channels like Facebook, the barrier to entry in social media is greatly reduced.

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING

With increased usage of social media sites, the targeting of customers has become more easier for small, medium & large scale businesses.

With this lot of social media sites are introducing paid advertisements on their site with less cost. For example Facebook Ads. This helps in direct targeting of customers for very low cost and high ROI(Return on Investment).

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING(SMM)

BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING(SMM)

Customer Acquisition – The main advantage of social media marketing is that you will reach customers and networks of people directly, which will not be possible in other marketing strategies.Brand Awareness – Branding your business in the social media arena is much easier and faster to accomplish than in any other advertising medium, because of less competition.

Targeted Marketing – Marketing efforts in the social media space are easily targeted, tracked, and quantifiable.  Unlike any other marketing method, social media marketing is exact and can be tracked in real-time.Customer Retention – Social media outlets are the perfect places to communicate with your customers about new products, special promotions, or merely to educate them on your business.Immediate Results – An effective social media optimization strategy will create almost immediate results for your business, which can be quantified through increased site traffic, increased lead acquisition, and ultimately increased sales.

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING - BENEFITSCUSTOMER AQUISITION

BRAND AWARENESS

TARGETED MARKETING

CUSTOMER RETENSION

IMMEDIATE RESULTS

FACEBOOK MARKETINGFan Page Creation & Custom Tabs:Business Page Description:

1. Fans – Anyone can be a fan to your fanpage if they like your services & products 2.Public – Anyone can see your fanpage It’s about business 3.Company Overview – Company Description Company News and Status – Daily Basis News and Announcements 4.Website and Contact Info – Extended Contact Information

Press ReleasesPhotos & VideosStatus UpdatingSuggestionsDiscussionsPollsCustomer Engagement

Custom Tabs: We create fanpage custom tabs in order

to promote special initiatives about the business or site. Some app ideas for custom tabs: Iframe tab etc

FACEBOOK FAN PAGE:

FACEBOOK FAN PAGE CUSTOM TABSFACE BOOK WELCOME TAB:

FACE BOOK APPLICATIONSFace Book Apps:

Face apps are applications on facebook used to create different type of customs application to promote your business. Facebook Apps Example:Quiz:

One of our choices to exploit the result of the fan pages is by using quizzes. The user will be asked to answer a number of questions. The results of these questions will be evaluated and come to a conclusion for the user. The user will be marked by a characterization. Depending on the users interests will be written in the right section of the page.

ADVANTAGES OF FACE BOOK APPS

How facebook applications help?BrandingCustomer EngagementDrive Web TrafficRepresents The MassesNew Customer AcquisitionLead Generation Client RetentionFeedback MechanismBuild Business Use CasesAccess to Social World and its Internet Value

FACEBOOK APPS: QUIZ APP

Dead Lines :( 3 months – 250+ fans)

Fanpage and Tab creation: 15 working daysGathering Material – 1 dayCategorizing Material – 2 daysCategorizing Approval – 1 day 15 days Page Design – 5 daysDesign approval – 1 dayCustom Tab Creation & Approval – 5 days

Fanpage Promotion: 75 working daysModeration of all fanpage content and development of the actions required to maintain brand reputation.Update of content in all areas of facebook fanpage.

Easy and Instant Business Page Update:Company LogoCompany InformationImagesVideosEventsPublish PageKeep Customers Excited About Your Blog

REACTION IN CASE OF BAD COMMENTS:

Apology and thank them for sharing information in a timely manner, we will check your facebook page in a timely manner and notifications like above.

We attempt to fix the situation, or prevent the same situation from happening in the future.

We will monitor the customers and keep in touch with the customers.

FACEBOOK PAID ADVERTISEMENTWe will advertise the fan page with the paid advertising system in Facebook in order to promote your fan page to reach the targeted customers and increase the fan base.

The Facebook paid advertisement can be done at very low cost and high ROI(Return On Investment). The detailed reporting of the campaign can be given by using facebook reporting tool.

After 3 Months: Fanpage Maintenance: Based on Client

Request

FACE BOOK PAID ADVERTISEMENT

DIGG: (3 months 200+ DIGG Followers)

Profile Creation and Promotion:

Profile Creation:You can separately create digg profile or login with your face book account.Select the category Related to your business, products or services.Linking your website to digg profile.

Profile Promotion:Post articles from your blog or from other sites which are really exciting for the customers.Increasing the no of posting in order to make sure that you are an active user to increase your followers.Post comments on other posts already posted in DIGG that are related to our services to get followers.Follow the users who are related to your services, so that they will re-follow us, read our submitted posts and digg our articles or posts in this way we can increase your popularity and web traffic through digg.

DIGG PROFILE