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Social Media Marketing Is not a joke in today’s trend

Author: Natpu Naveen
by Natpu Naveen
Posted: Sep 17, 2019
As marketers and advertisers, we pride ourselves on accuracy. In the olden times of marketing and advertising, we obsessed over rating numbers of tv shows, readership for print promotions, and delivery success rates for direct mail.

In all cases, the platforms of the day were heavily audited. You knew, with fair certainty, was the audiences were for any particular medium or channel because there was usually a point of review somewhere for the numbers.

Traditional media such as radio, TV and print had been around long enough that there were thousands of case studies one could study the success or failures of individual campaigns. Because these mediums were part of the public record, it was easy to work backward to see what mix of media and budget worked and what didn't.

2.Facebook, Twitter, and Instagrams:

In days of yore, company valuation was based on revenues, assets, and human capital, and performance.

That all changed when someone came up with the concept of "daily active users."

The race to gain users became the driving force for social media platforms in a way that we've never seen before. Now, the obsession with user growth opened the door to advertising and marketing fraud on a scale that just wasn't possible previously.

Let's get something clear: any platform that allows people to create thousands of fake profiles so others can buy likes, followers, retweets, or shares is toxic to advertisers and brands alike.

Now, I understand that the word "allows" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, so let me expand a bit what I mean.

3.Social platforms deploy their honey trap.

Initially, social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter lured brands and companies onto their platforms with promises of free marketing and advertising. The ability to quickly grow a fanbase and follower base, without the need of hiring marketing shmucks like me. Why waste time on hiring a professional when you can do it all yourself for nothing?

At first, I was a supporter of this. I believed that marketing and advertising was often something that only larger companies could afford, and that small business marketing was being left behind. social media marketing company in coimbatore allowed for even a mom and pop shop to compete online.

So many businesses spent countless hours and thousands of dollars in human resources to grow their followers online.

Having lured them into their honey trap, social media companies then held followers and fans hostages. You had to pay to have access to the user base that you built up and refined.

Suddenly the numbers didn't make any sense. You had to pay to promote or boost posts when previously it was free. The result was disastrous for many businesses. The ROI's didn't add up, but with so many of their customers on these platforms, they had little choice but to continue to try and get whatever value they could for them.

Marketing and advertising agencies became accomplices after the fact.

Like I said earlier, marketing and advertising agencies and consultants are supposed to obsess with accuracy. We want our clients to have the very best ROI available.

One of my favorite examples of how people who would know better will say anything for a buck is real estate agents.

Have you EVER heard a real estate agent tell you it's the wrong time to buy a house? In all of my days, I have never read an article by a real estate agent saying that people should hold off on a purchase. House prices going up? A great time to buy; you'll make your money back immediately! House prices going down? It's a buyers market! Lock in your savings now!

4. similar to social media marketing.

We saw the platforms' rise in popularity and didn't want to get caught in a lurch. The buzz was building behind them, and clients were often demanding us to help them. So -even though Facebook and Twitter were mostly unproven with little to no actual case studies to speak of- many firms told their clients to throw money into the black hole of social.

5. Social sharing has been automated to death:

According to Buzzsumo, average social shares per article had declined by 50 percent in 2017 in comparison to 2015. Their data also shows how fast most hot topics become saturated with articles, leading to only a relatively few winners getting the majority of the societal shares and hyperlinks.

Another found that, that bots automate nearly two-thirds -66%- of all HTML links posted on Twitter.

Again, if social media platforms truly valued their user-experience and cared about social being social, they would have banned such practices years ago. No more social automation. If you want to engage with your fans and followers, you have to be there for them. You have to be live, online, ready to connect.

However, bots are good for business. They boost their daily active user accounts; they make their platforms look more popular than they are. Bots post content, bots like content, bots share content, bots follow people, bots message people -it's endless.

6. Your Influencer isn't that influential

I'm a firm believer in influencer marketing because I believe it is a natural extension of relationship marketing. People will buy from people they trust and will accept the suggestions of people they like.

However, with the growth of online influencers, things have taken a turn for the surreal.

First off, many fans and followers of social media influencers are as fake as anything. Social media bots follow celebrities as a means to spam their pages and/or a means to scrape a list of people to spam later with content. The future of social media: live, direct, and transparent.

No more automation you don't have the time or the energy or the interest actually to ENGAGE with human beings, then social media is not for you. What's more, you're not for social media.

Automation should stop. Period. Let's return to a more natural engagement between brands, companies, customers, and leads. Human interaction is the most powerful driver of revenue and sales, as is the best metric for the real value of a platform.

7.Media and Society

Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today.

This updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international scholars to speak to current issues relating to media and gender, media and democracy, sociology of news, the global internet, the political impact of the media, popular culture, the effects of digitization on media industries, media and emotion, and other vital topics.

The media are in a state of ferment and are undergoing far-reaching change. The sixth edition tries to make sense of the media's transformation, and its wider implications

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