Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Social Networking is leading tool for Marketing



Today our life is surrounded with the many social media site. It was a time when there was friends group, Ladies club, youth organization, youth club, newspaper and different kind of platform for people gathering, these were the lading social media, but after year 2000 the social platform for people gathering “Social Media” had change, and most of the people divert their social life from live organization to virtual world internet. The internet is become a leading platform for social contact specially in all age group.
I have remembered year 2000 is the biggest changing year in respect to the social media & social life of Indian. Year 2000 born generation is totally under influence of so called “social site”, and their social life is limited with it.
In 2004, I was register on Orkut, Orkut was the leading social networking site in those days. It was the first site which I known as a social networking site. Year 2009 I was on Facebook, & in 2010  I was with Linked In, Twitter. Although, my social life is not based & limited on these social networking site but I was become a part of that networking. Nearly one in four people worldwide are using social network in 2013. The worldwide user of social networking site 1.47 billion in 2012 & it increase to 1.73 billion this year 18% increase. By 2017 the social networking audience will be 2.55billion. 


A survey speaks about last ten year social networking site & their changes with the no. of users. The survey was conducted in second quarter of 2013. At end of June 2013, “Facebook” is leading social networking site around the world & India.  The approximate users of Facebook are around the world is 75million. Huge number of users is differentiated to gender, age, relationship status, religious view, political view & geographic area. The Leading social networking sites Twitter (25mil), Linked In (11mil), Google+ (6.5mil), Orkut (1.75mil) with users. The reason behind putting all these fats & figures are to show the scope & strength of social networking sites.
I do believe the social networking site is highly effective platform to reach highest number of people in different category. The basic need of the marketing is to connectivity with the end user/customer in less time, & fortunately social networking sites are able to do so. The social networking sites are having different kind of tools which will help to reach more no of people with proper way. The social networking site helps to create a user group to promote product & service. Even this kind of user group help to conduct discussion about product & service also the user group will provide opportunity to conduct Market research and specially for Customer Measurement Survey (CMS) under customer satisfaction Index. Now the Facebook has offering paid advertisement services. These social networking sites allow you to extract the user data from you page or user group.
Above and all fetchers will help for promotion & sale product or service. The social networking site has perfect material to Marketing of product or service. Social networking is develop a new field in the public relation i.e. SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER (SMM)/EXPERT(SME), this SMM/SME will work to maintain the public relation of Company, Organization & most important an Individual.    
   
Vende Mataram                                                                                                     Viraj

(Note:- Source of Information for this article is e-market.com, ebizmba.com, slideshare.net)
 

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