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The Future of Social Media Marketing

Brand managers are slowly realizing and appreciating the fact that they need to evolve their simple social-media formula of garnering the maximum Likes and Shares – the essence of new social media marketing has become the ‘marketing’ aspect of it, i.e. targeting audiences to act in a pre-determined manner. It could be simply awareness of a cause, or sign-ups for an event, or even converting fans to buyers. It is all about the right kind of connect with the right kind of audience.

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No matter what the intended goal, the future of social media marketing is a focused approach on achieving pre-determined targets over every other variable – a brand doesn’t need a million Facebook Likes if it only converts a few thousand fans to buyers. In social media marketing, it’s the ends which justify the means.

Keeping this in mind, here are some aspects of how social media marketing will evolve in times to come.

Closely Integrated into Live Events

Social media is built on conversation, and events are perhaps the hottest drivers of conversation, both online and otherwise. This perhaps forms the basis of the recent Red Bull sponsored jump from the stratosphere, and MarsTweetShop, a machine that dispensed chocolate bars in exchange for tweeting a Mars specific-tweet. From TV shows displaying their official hashtags during prime time shows to major events and conferences displaying a Twitter Wall and official hashtags in large characters; marketing an event on social media has become DE-rigueur. It enables the marketers to get that much-cherished reach.

Physical Retail goes Social

While e-commerce has definitely impacted physical shopping, social media is slowly penetrating an aspect of physical retail – friend recommendations. As buying decisions are heavily influenced by word-of-mouth, brands will increasingly emphasize on taking their real-time shoppers social. These include simple offerings like Wi-Fi to post check-ins, to the more engaging activities that targets entire groups of people.

Visuals over Content

The power of an image to speak a thousand words and deliver those thousand words instantly, is perhaps why major brands have taken to image-driven social media like Pinterest and Instagram. Of late, brand content on Twitter and Facebook has also become more image-centric, reflecting this change.

If a product is shareable on social media, it reflects on its real-life attractiveness, thus influencing purchase. Even the websites’ homepages have become much more visual, engaging users to click and find out more – all major global brands have adopted this new visual-driven interface.

Analysts have predicted that in times to come brands will be capturing attention spans, and mindshare, by using engaging videos, to HD photos, and this change will be fueled by high-res devices.

The era of social media has already arrived and it is here to stay and take the web by storm. In the present times, no brand can afford to not place its brand on a platform as powerful as social media.

Written By

Alisia Goodwin is a freelance blogger and currently writes for Think Big Online Marketing Company, which is a world-class internet marketing consultation firm in Sydney, offering a broad range of social media marketing services.

4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. myles

    June 21, 2013 at 2:52 pm

    social media has took over our lives to a really great extent. And in some place it is beneficial but sometimes it worsens the situation.

  2. FrankCern

    June 22, 2013 at 12:49 am

    Nice post…social media marketing is definitely here to stay. I think that a lot of the times the visual aspect is what draws peoples attention.

  3. Krishna

    June 22, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    good article for me to read as I start the second part of my work day. It is interesting that blog posts twice per week give 70% of the value of multiple postings per day. Did I read that right? Two strategies I’ve never shown much interest in is Photo Sharing and Pod Casting. This post gave me a to-do list for the day

  4. Raj

    June 23, 2013 at 6:27 am

    The best thing with these social media sites is that they have lot of things/applications to engage its user for long time, which is the best thing for any marketing company to promote its product on that social network. Word-of-mouth and visual advertisement are the best way to attract customers & social media provide both to marketers. Take an example of Facebook which is 1 billion user’s community and most of its user spend atleast 2 hour a day in this site. It can be best option for any marketing company to sell its product as almost all of its user are active users & a good word-of-mouth from billions of its user can make the difference as well.

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