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Social Media and Brands

For today's businesses, the center of marketing strategies has changed. From offline to online, modern marketing activities revolve around world wide web. Moreover, the emergence of social media has given them that necessary push to derive success and productivity out of their marketing activities. Social media sites are no longer limited to peer-peer networking. They have grown up to take center-stage modern marketing landscape. Be it B2B or B2C, no business organization can really eliminate the significance of social media platforms in from their round-table marketing discussions. Here's the glimpse of social media influence in today's brand building process.

Popular platforms

Social platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have emerged as the popular and successful platforms for business users. From Facebook fan page to LinkedIn company profile, businesses are not leaving any single opportunity to promote their brands on these platforms. Adding more to it, they have gone ahead in promoting their brands through paid advertisements on these platforms.

Why are they using it?

Social media marketing is all about communications marketing. And 'reaching relevance in real time' makes this communication interesting and successful. There are several factors that have pushed these brands towards social media marketing. Here're some key factors:

1) Reach
2) Speed
3) Convenience
4) Ability to Experiment
5) Simplicity
6) Real-time conversation, and
7) Ability to measure

Compared to offline marketing methods, businesses are finding it more convenient to concentrate on social media efforts to get quality results. These factors have really turned the heat on in favor of social media marketing.

How are they using it?

Social media platforms have provided these business users with plenty opportunities to market their brand. However, the usage differs as per the strategies adopted by these brands. These 'business intentions' have forced them to adopt streamline strategy and consistency in their social media marketing efforts. Let's highlight some of the crucial business intentions...

1) Brand building
2) Customer relationship management
3) Advertising
4) Build customer loyalty, and
5) Adding innovation to their mundane marketing activities

If you consider all these factors and intentions, social media marketing has really given modern marketers added push, which they were looking for to make their marketing ideas innovative and productive.

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