Why using social media channels
Published in december, 20 of 2013
No matter what your business size is! You should think to use social networks as soon as possible as these channels are getting more and more popular among people around the world. One of the biggest advantages of using the Social media is its cost, which equals “zero”. Regardless of your company size you can benefit from using Facebook, Twitter, Google +, and acquire more visitors/customers.
Online networking has been constantly growing in power for the past few years. The advantages of using its channels are endless and you can use them to promote your own company. Let's take a look below whether it's worth or not devoting some attention to use these online resources.
Opportunities: Social channels give you many opportunities and benefits. It's getting more important than ever to keep in touch with your colleagues, friends, follow interesting people, interact and exchange ideas with others. If you are not on Social Media you are losing potential customers and free publicity.
Stay connected: Social media allow you to stay connected to your friends and family across the world. As a marketer you can use Facebook to post business news. You can also create a company fan page, invite your friends to join and share valuable information with them. As long as you publish an interesting and relevant content on your fan page you will see a constant fans growth.
Quick and easy: Easy to use and quick too update. That's how we can describe Social networking nowadays, which you can use to communicate with lots of people at the same time and gather their attention. You can also send and post notices about news to friends of your organization; make changes and updates. You can also send event invitations, send different alerts and simply spread the word about your organization. All of that free of charge!
Interaction: Do not only watch the conversations on your fan page! Get engaged in it too! Talk about the organization, its products, plans for the upcoming year and make your visitors interact even more in order to get more shares, conversions and leads!
Wide audience: If used wisely, Social networks can be useful and effective recruitment tool. No other advertising channel gives you so much for so little back, therefore, it's certainly worth the effort.
Reputation: You can use Social networking to help build a company image, build long-lasting relationships, and also save money on publicity. By doing so, you will be able to create a positive reputation of the organization and strengthen your brand.
Unlimited access: Social media are open to anyone regardless of company size and budget. Whereas other advertising channels very often requires a lot of money and time.
Global usage: By using Social media you can reach a wide range of audience, regardless of geographical location. But it's not everything. Social platforms allow you to tailor your campaigns for each market segment, so that it's only up to you who sees and read your communication.
Contact and relationship building: Social channels give you lots of opportunities in terms of contact building. Traditional media only allow you for one-way communication with your audience, whereas Facebook or Twitter let you exchange ideas, talk, ask questions, and get answers that can be used to improve your future promotional marketing.
Measurability: Social Media offer you statistics of who visit and view your posts. With Facebook for example, you can test the effectiveness of your marketing messages, check the number of people that viewed your message, and prepare upcoming campaigns.
The most important is that you can get all of this valuable data and not pay anything.
If you are still in doubts, just think about the opportunities that Social Networks can give you. There is nothing you can lose so why not give it a go? Stay connected and start discovering the Social Media and you will soon discover plenty of benefits for your company.
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