The presentation I gave at University of Delhi SSCBS- Convergence 2014 about how social media is changing the rules of economics by a new form of marketing.
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Socialnomics –
The Inevitable
Business Solution
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WHAT IS Socialnomics ?
SOCIAL + ECONOMICS
University of Delhi SSCBS- Convergence 2014 Socialnomics - Prasad NP aka desi Traveler
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WHAT IS the DRIVING
Force???
SOCIAL + MEDIA
Platforms
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Why Social Media Matters???
BIG NUMBERS Mind Boggling Numbers
REAL
$$$$$$driving Numbers
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So What is Happening on Social Media
First a few things that we have all indulged in
•Pictures – a lot of CAT and dog pictures
• Gossip
• Chain mails and messages
• Love and HATE
•Announcements
•Selfies – Word of the year 2013!
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What is Happening on Social Media
Common Belief Groups
•Photography
• Conservation
• Lobbying
•Traveling
• Fan groups
•Selfies and Groupies ( yes once again! )
•Asking and Recommending $$$$$
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What is Happening on Social Media
What are folks Recommending ???
•Books
• Movies
• Hotels
•Startups and investment ideas
• Mobiles & Electronics
• Social Causes ( rangde.org )
•$$$$$$$$$$
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•How did the traditional business reacted?
•It is a joke –
•This is for people with no work
•This will go away we have been around for 10os of years
•These kids don’t know how to do business
• It will never work in real world !!!!
•Who will buy from Internet.??. We want to see touch and
feel BUT
BUT
BUT
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Nothing is stronger
than an idea whose
time has come-
Victor Hugo
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•There was Stone AGE
•Bronze AGE
•IRON AGE
•Steam Engine / Automobile
/ Air TRAVEL / Nuclear AGE
• AGE OF SOCIAL
MEDIA
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Some Biggest Companies today are Social
Media Companies
Social MEDIA IS Driving the big bucks for biggest companies
Impacting
3 Rs of Age of Social MEDIA
1. Reputation
2. Recall ??
3. REVENUE $$$
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What Works on Social Media ????
We do have some idea What
Does Not works !!!
FORCE ?
Monopoly ??
HIGH Price ???
Ostrich Approach ????
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So WHAT Works
???
Guesstimates
based on limited
experience
On the 3 Rs of Age
of Social MEDIA
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Viral potential
Is dependent on
USABILITY or
Entertainment
•Tatkal Train Tickets
•What to shop in Kerala ?
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Do check
•Social Media Platform
best for your business
by Neil Patel
• MOZ
• How to find social
media influencers
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