1. SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES &
BUSINESS
PRESENTED BY,
SOP 18
SREELATHA S NAIR
KIRAN BABU
SINTO K A
SYAM PRASASD
VISHNU MENON
2. WHAT IS A SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE?
Web based services that allow individuals to
construct a public profile within a bounded
system.
Identify other users with whom they share a
connection.
View and traverse their list of connections and
those made by others within the system.
Internal(private)
External(public)
3. HISTORY OF SNS
THE EARLY YEARS…
SIX DEGREES
1st recognizable social network site launched in
1997 – sixdegrees.com
Allowed creation of profiles and listing friends
Helped to send messages and attracted millions
of users
2000-service closed
4. HISTORY (CONT.)
FRIENDSTER
Launched in 2002
Designed to compete with Match.com
Gained wide popularity
Later on encountered technical and social
difficulties
2000 onwards many new SNSs were launched.
While socially organized SNSs solicit broad
audiences, professional sites such as LinkedIn,
Visible path and Xing focus on business people.
5. HISTORY (CONT.)
MYSPACE
Begun in 2003
Regularly added new features
Teenagers joined in mass in 2004
User policy allows minors
Safety issues plagued MySpace after 2005
6. HISTORY (CONT.)
FACEBOOK
Started in early 2004 as a Harvard only SNS
Gradually spread to
schools, colleges, institutions, professionals
inside corporate networks and eventually
everyone
Users are unable to make full profile public
Features differentiating FB
7. ADVANTAGES OF SNS
Virtual platform for communication &
information sharing
More acceptability
A single connection to multiple connections
Builds brand awareness
Low cost publicity
Increases marketing effectiveness
Access market in real time
8. ADVANTAGES (CONTD.)
Makes people with common interest under one
roof
Taking word of mouth to another level
communication
Open environment – Easy gathering of right
customers
Research platform
9. DISADVANTAGES OF SNS
Lack of Anonymity
Scams
Harassments
Lack of privacy
Chance of loss of personal data
Time consuming
10. BUSINESS OUTLOOK WITH SNS
Effective on SNS personal users
Direct connection with World- Wide Customers
Business Networking & Expansion
Important Marketing Tool
Entertainment Marketing
Low Cost publicity
11. EFFECT ON SNS PERSONAL USERS
63% of total internet users uses SNS for
personnel purposes
Unaware about manual marketing
More effective in this particular group
12. DIRECT CONNECTION WITH WORLD WIDE
CUSTOMERS
Rise of internet marketing
Considers SNS marketing as best direct
communication
No barriers regarding places or countries
World communication under one umbrella
Comfortable feedback device
E.g.: Virgin Train & Twitter
13. MARKETING TOOL
Chance to make trail experiments
Researching tool
Single networking system
Low cost
Attracts customers by discount coupons
E.g.: Dell & Twitter generates 6.5 million $
15. FACEBOOK
Launched in February 2004, operated and
privately owned by Facebook, Inc.
700 million monthly users
Facebook was founded by Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates and
fellow computer science students
In January 2009 Compete.com study ranked
Facebook as the most used social networking
service by worldwide monthly active users.
Most of Facebook's revenue comes from
advertising. Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive
partner for serving banner advertising
16. Created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey
Online social networking and micro
blogging service, enables its users to send and
read text-based posts of up to 140 characters.
200 million users in 2011, generating over 200
million tweets and handling over 1.6
billion search queries per day.
SMS of the Internet.
17. Launched in August 2003 and is headquartered
in Beverly Hills, California.
Owned by Specific Media LLC and pop
star Justin Timberlake.
80 million monthly users
From 2005 until early 2008, Myspace was the
most visited social networking site in the world.
In June 2006 Google surpassed myspace
But on April 19, 2008, Facebook overtook
Myspace in the Alexa rankings
18. Online platform for people and organizations to
create custom social networks
Launched in October 2005
Offers customers the ability to create a community
website with a customized appearance and feel.
There are over 90,000 (as of June 2011) social
websites, known as Ning Networks, running on the
Ning Platform.
As of June 2011, Ning has 65 million monthly
unique visitors globally on its platform
Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina
Bianchins.
On September 21, 2011, the company announced its
merger with Glam Media.
19. GOOGLE PLUS
A social network operated by Google.
Launched on June 28th, 2011 with integrations
across a number of Google products, including
Buzz and Profiles.
Key element is ‘CIRCLES’
I t has a section specifically for viewing,
managing and editing multimedia
‘Hangout Feature’
21. XING
11 million member
Professionals meet up, find jobs, generate ideas
Available in 16 languages
5000 specialist groups
www.xing.com
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23. RYZE
5,00,000+ users,200 countries
Helps people make connections and grow their
networks
Build career, find job, make sales
Networking among business firms
www.ryze.com
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25. LINKEDIN
Launched in may 2003
120 million registered users,200+ countries
Available in 9 languages
10 million+ members from India
More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn
pages
For building professional business
relationships
Formal communication
www.linkedin.com/
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27. ECADEMY
Began in 1998
1,00,000+ members
Meant for business owners and entrepreneurs
Simple learning steps-know me, like me, follow
me
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29. SOME FACTS ABOUT SNS
70% SNS users access SNS everyday
According to telecom regulatory authority of
India, there are 83 million internet users in India
Mobile devices comes with a built in SNS
SNS through mobiles expected to reach 72
million by 2014
SNS is a fast emerging medium for seeking
information
30. COMPANIES THAT SUCCESSFULLY MADE
USE OF SNS
1) JET AIRWAYS
Launched their facebook page in January,2010
(www.facebook.com/jetairways)
Extended its presence to LinkedIn &
foursquare(a location based mobile SNS)
Saw an immense response,1.5 lakh fans
31. 2)MARUTI SUZUKI
largest selling automobile manufacturer in
INDIA
Common man’s first preference
Maruti’s Brands in SNS – SX4, SWIFT
DESIRE, RITZ, ALTO, A STAR
Targeted youth who spends time in SNS
3)MAX NEWYORK LIFE INSURANCE
Started an SNS page to attract customers and
answer to their queries
32. 4)HBO – Largest fan base in entertainment
channels category
ADIDAS took over from NIKE & REEBOK during
2011
Leads with 7 lakh+ fans
5) Warner Bros.
Launched ‘batman’ in facebook
Viewed with the help of facebook credits
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35. SNS AS A BUSINESS TOOL
Seeking and exchanging of information
interaction with customers
building relationship and trust
improving internal communication
business performance
More valuable connection with customers
branding
Comparatively cheaper means of brand
promotion
36. POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED
Understand the fundamentals of communication
and technology
Never create pages just on the buzz
Have knowledge on SNS marketing
Have to be more about conversations than
declarations
Should involve free expression and &
relationship building
Has to be frequently updated
Should use SNS with traditional means of
Marketing intelligence and communication
37. SNS AS A BUSINESS TOOL(CONT.)
Competitive insights
Recruitment and retention of customers &
business partners
Reputation building
Helps to gain customer support
Helps to handle complaints, questions and
delivers real time solutions
Influences revenue & market shares
38. CONCLUSION
In this present age of increased
consumerism, business are trying to bring in
new strategies to attract customers. As a
result, the relevance and use of social media by
the business has been on a rise in the recent
years.
It’s a cheaper marketing strategy
Consumers promote the brand
Forms an important part of a ‘netizens’ life
SNS has been the most desirable platform to
share and connect with friends, family or online
community at large.