Thread: What is social media marketing

What is social media marketing?
What is benefit of social media marketing for a seo?

Social media marketing is an addition to personal, small business, corporate, and non-profit organizations’ integrated marketing communications plans. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.

The ubiquity of social media networks and tools has greatly impacted the relationship between brands and consumers. The marketing team is no longer the sole owner of the brand message, a role now shared with end consumers.
With the emergence and adoption of review sites, blogs, status updates, video creation, microblogging and more, consumers have a myriad of ways to share their immediate thoughts about a brand or brand experience. An individual experience with a brand can have a wide-reaching impact on potential consumers.
The brands that will ultimately be the most successful with their social media marketing endeavors will be those who understand that social media is not a standalone strategy. Nor is it an afterthought. It must be an essential element in brand communication. Core elements of social media marketing, such as awareness and advocacy, must be integrated into the foundation of the marketing strategy. Infusing existing marketing efforts with social media consideration will increase the overall digital visibility of your brand.

Social media marketing is the practice of using social media networks and user-generated content platforms to promote a business, product or service. Social media marketing typically involves participating in conversations with a key audience instead of blatantly throwing out a sales pitch to a large number of people.

As far as i think social media marketing is a technique to increase website's traffic through social network. It is a part of internet marketing. Through this we can also increase our website's ranking on search engine.

running the business awareness campaign on social networks is called SMM.

Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a form of internet marketing which seeks to achieve branding and marketing communication goals through the participation in various social media networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, YouTube, Dailymotion, Hi5, Gather.com, social web applications (webapps) such as reddit, Digg, Stumbleupon, Flickr, iLike, Wikipedia, Squidoo, Last.fm, Twitter, Eventful, ePinions and others as well as within 3D virtual worlds such as Second Life, ActiveWorlds, Moove and There.com. The goals of each SMM program or campaign will differ for every business or organization, however most will involve some form of building an idea or brand awareness, increasing visibility, encouraging brand feedback and dialogue as well as to possibly sell a product or service. SMM may also include online reputation management.

Social media marketing is a set of efforts to create such content that attracts readers to share it with their social networks.

Social media is the kind of marketing in which we use the digital marketing techniques to promote our website like TV ads or Radio ads.

Social media marketing is the practice of using social media networks and user-generated content platforms to promote a business, product or service.

what you think ! It is true that social media marketing help build SEO campaigns. And surely the advantages you have listed here are definitely facts. ?

Social Media Marketing is just like the Velocity, more you spread more you get the results.

Social media marketing is an addition to personal, small business, corporate, and non-profit organizations’ integrated marketing communications plans.

As SEO efforts are mainly focused on the LINK BUILDING involving submissions in the high pr and relevant websites that too mostly do follow links.
SMM mainly concentrates on the TRAFFIC BUILDING to get the site a huge amount of popularity of users liking that particular website..!!

Social Media Marketing is definitely a good thing nowadays. With the recent increase in use of Facebook and Twitter (and Google's so far failed attempt to conquer with Google+), social media is a great way to spread the word about your business as well as bringing in more traffic for your site. Facebook likes circulate throughout a countless number of peoples circles when they share with friends, same with twitter and it's followers.

As well as being a great way to communicate with customers/traffic/clients etc and letting them feel like they have more connection with the company/site which is a good thing. They're more likely to visit and return with that interaction