social marketing

Social media, social networking, or social web - whatever you want to call it, it's the two-way communication and user-generated content tools (thanks to the introduction of web 2.0 technologies) that make our online experiences more social.

Social marketing is a way for marketers to use social web sites and tools to find people who share their interests and to present them with products or services that they may be looking to find.

By listening and engaging in conversations, businesses and individuals are able to offer advice and position themselves as credible and reliable sources of information. They can also post unique content (with targeted keywords, anchor text and backlinks) to reinforce their authority on a subject, and at the same time assist in their SEO efforts.

Marketers can use networking sites (Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn), media sites (Flickr and YouTube), social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us, Digg and StumbleUpon), forums, blogs, microblogs (Twitter), games, wikis and more to reach their target audiences and engage them.

More information on social marketing by bloggers can be found at sites like SocialMediaSEO and SocialMediaExaminer.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “social marketing”

• in Social Media
  Salesforce Unveils Social.com
  Salesforce continue their march into the social business space with the launch of Social.com
  by cmimanagers / on Apr 24, 2013
• in Small Business
  For Small Business, Social Reaps Bigger Rewards, When Done Right
  Larger companies may have greater resources to put together a successful social campaign, but the impact of a properly run social media campaign pays larger dividends for the smaller business set.
  by dopodomani / on Dec 6, 2012
• in Social Media
  Nike's Twitter Ad Campaign Banned
  The UK advertising watchdog has banned a Nike campaign on Twitter for not distinguishing tweets as adverts
  by cmimanagers / on Jun 20, 2012

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