Social Media Marketing for beginners
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This document discusses social media marketing through various social media platforms. It defines social media marketing as gaining website traffic or attention through social media by creating engaging content that encourages sharing. It recommends platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and provides tips for social media marketing fundamentals like focusing on relationships, value, availability, acknowledgment and reciprocity rather than buying fake followers. The conclusion reiterates that social media marketing is about gaining attention and encouraging sharing of valuable information through social media.
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Social Media Marketing for beginners
- 1. Web Advertising Through Social Media Marketing CHARMAINE XY-ZA YAPE
- 2. Your Speaker: • Blogger at www.XyzaSpeaks.com • Social Media Rock star of some local and international brands • Content Writer and Virtual Staff of local and international brands • Web developer and web manager • Start-up Business Innovator • Real Estate Social Media Marketing Trainer • PRC Registered Real Estate Agent and Property Investment Adviser • Licensed Financial Adviser and Financial Planner
- 3. Learning Points: • What is SMM? • What Platforms to use? • Why use SMM? • What are the fundamentals of SMM?
- 4. WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING?
- 5. What is Social Media Marketing? • Social media marketing refers to the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites. (Mashable.com) • Social media marketing programs usually center on efforts to create content that attracts attention and encourages readers to share it across their social networks. (Wikipedia.com)
- 8. Recommended:
- 9. Why use Social Media? • Because today WORD OF MOUTH is WORLD OF MOUTH.
- 17. Don’t ever buy Likes, Followers for sale online! Fake followers do not engage Fake followers do not share Fake followers will not buy
- 18. Compounding Rule
- 20. Influence
- 22. VALUE
- 24. Acknowledgment
- 25. Acknowledgment
- 26. Acknowledgment
- 27. Accessibility
- 30. Reciprocity
- 31. CONCLUSION: • Social media marketing is process of gaining attention and encourages readers/audience/people to share valuable information through social media sites. • You need to listen to know, focus and build relationships, put value to share, and be available to acknowledge ,communicate and reciprocate with your target audience.
- 32. References • http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/218160 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxpa4dNVd3c • http://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/social-media- marketing • http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/251034 • http://mashable.com/category/social-media-marketing/
- 33. Thank you!!!! Follow me at @xyzaspeaks xyzaspeaks@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
- It's VERY IMPORTANAT that you understand social media marketing fundamentals. From maximizing quality to increasing your online entry points, abiding by these 10 RULES will help build a foundation that will serve your customers, your brand and -- perhaps most importantly -- your bottom line.
- Success with social media and content marketing requires more listening and less talking. Read your target audience’s online content and join discussions to learn what’s important to them. Only then can you create content and spark conversations that add value rather than clutter to their lives.
- It’s better to specialize than to be a jack-of-all-trades. A highly-focused social media and content marketing strategy intended to build a strong brand has a better chance for success than a broad strategy that attempts to be all things to all people.
- Quality trumps quantity. It’s better to have 1,000 online connections who read, share and talk about your content with their own audiences than 10,000 connections who disappear after connecting with you the first time.
- Social media and content marketing success doesn’t happen overnight. While it’s possible to catch lightning in a bottle, it’s far more likely that you’ll need to commit to the long haul to achieve results.
- If you publish amazing, quality content and work to build your online audience of quality followers, they’ll share it with their own audiences on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, their own blogs and more. This sharing and discussing of your content opens new entry points for search engines like Google to find it in keyword searches. Those entry points could grow to hundreds or thousands of more potential ways for people to find you online.
- Spend time finding the online influencers in your market who have quality audiences and are likely to be interested in your products, services and business. Connect with those people and work to build relationships with them. If you get on their radar as an authoritative, interesting source of useful information, they might share your content with their own followers, which could put you and your business in front of a huge new audience.
- If you spend all your time on the social Web directly promoting your products and services, people will stop listening. You must add value to the conversation. Focus less on conversions and more on creating amazing content and developing relationships with online influencers. In time, those people will become a powerful catalyst for word-of-mouthmarketing for your business.
- You wouldn’t ignore someone who reaches out to you in person so don’t ignore them online. Building relationships is one of the most important parts of social media marketing success, so always acknowledge every person who reaches out to you.
- Don’t publish your content and then disappear. Be available to your audience. That means you need to consistently publish content and participate in conversations. Followers online can be fickle and they won’t hesitate to replace you if you disappear for weeks or months.
- You can’t expect others to share your content and talk about you if you don’t do the same for them. So, a portion of the time you spend on social media should be focused on sharing and talking about content published by others.