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Social Media Facts
-    Truly Targeted Audiences

With social media, ASM can specifically target key audiences for various businesses and identify early adopter/brand advocate/heavy user audience members to target for brand development and promotions to build brand awareness quickly and effectively.

-    Permission Based Marketing

Consumers get bombarded with various forms of advertising and are annoyed by it these days. With social media, people choose the connections they make and the information they receive, so if you have something valuable to say to them, they might actually listen, comment, share and hopefully take action.

-    Pull Marketing Strategy

Social Media can create a pull marketing strategy vs. the well known “push” advertising strategy that is so well known. Pull marketing gets consumers asking for your product or service by creating online demand for it through openly discussing product/service benefits to your target audience.

-    Valuable Feedback Loop

With Social Media, it’s extremely easy for consumers to communicate with businesses and give them valuable feedback (whether positive or negative, feedback is always needed for better success). Considering how easy it is for consumers to have an online voice, developing open social media communication channels with your target audiences are crucial. Word of Mouth marketing is even faster online, so be prepared for any and all responses.

-    Real-Time Marketing

News, updates, special offers or any other kind of information can be communicated at a moment’s notice with social media – it’s even faster than updating your website! Traditional forms of marketing have long lead times to get information broadcasted, printed, or shared (getting an Advitorial in a magazine needs 2 to 4 months advance lead time before publication)!

-    Generate Targeted Website Leads


Create easy to track and monitor leads to your website without being ranked first on all the different search engine key terms. Social media marketing can create a wealth of new website traffic from actual audience members who are already interested in what you have to offer. Simple website analytics, like Google Analytics, can help track progress and increased traffic associated directly with your social media marketing efforts.

-    Organic Search Engine Optimization

Social Media also builds “your web” with what we call Web Entity Growth Tactics™. If you look for a brand using a search engine you will find some kind of social media site listed very near the top of the search results if they operate any profiles. That’s how much search engines love social media. That’s not the only bonus for your search engine ranking and optimization though. The more traffic you get to your website and the more active your users are on your website the more interesting your website becomes to search engines – so even if you are a small businesses, using social media to rally awareness can create big movement up the SEO ladder.

-    Cost Effective Marketing Tactic


Social Media is very cost effective marketing tactic when compared to any other known form of marketing. Most social media platforms offer free registration and usage of their site for communications. When’s the last time a newspaper or magazine had a media kit offering you those rates? Social media does take resources and needs to be viewed as a key communications aspect of your marketing strategy if you plan to keep doing business in 2010 and beyond.