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Key Emerging Trends in Social Media That Affect Your Marketing

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Key Emerging Trends in Social Media That Affect Your Marketing

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Social media optimization has changed fast than anybody could imagine. These are the five emerging trends that you cannot ignore.

Increasing dominance of mobile

Shrinking space for organic promotion

Increasing demand for offshore specialists

The advent of social shopping

Vlogging has changed the game

Social Media Optimization

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Increasing Dominance Of Mobile

The number of daily active mobile users on Facebook up by 15% in 2014 alone

The number of mobile-only users on Facebook has grown by more than 30%

This corroborates the increasing consumption of social media on mobiles

So, mobiles should be an integral part of any social media optimization strategy

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Shrinking Space For Organic Promotion

The organic space for promotion on the Facebook has reduced to less than 1 percent

This marks the end of a free promotion era on Facebook and Twitter

Be ready to pay to promote your product and services

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Increasing Demand For The Offshore Smo Specialist

The Increasing importance of SMO has increased the digital marketing budget of companies

The challenge is more acute for smaller companies

Remote dedicated staffing model has come as a boon for them

They can hire a dedicated SMO specialist at a fraction of the cost in developed countries

These specialists work exclusively for one client at a time and can be supervised in real time

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The Advent Of Social Shopping

According to a Social Media Today report, 40 percent of Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook users purchased something after watching and sharing a product

3 out of 10 consumers think that Facebook influence their purchasing decisions

Almost half of the people follow brands on Pinterest to learn more about products

The trend of social shopping is increasing very fast

This has put even more pressure on brands to pursue a sound social media optimization strategy

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Vlogging Has Changed The Game

Vlogging is about posting video reviews of products

More than 100 hours of video are uploaded on Youtube per minute

There is growing emphasis on consumer-generated video content

People trust Vlogs more than an advertisement because customers want to hear the truth from other customers

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