A key component of setting effective goals for your social media strategy is to determine what metrics you’ll use to measure their success. Go beyond vanity metrics such as retweets and likes. Focus on things such as leads generated, web referrals, and conversion rate. For more on this, check out our posts on the social media metrics, social ads metrics, and social video metrics that matter.
Gaming is another money-maker. With KakaoTalk, which is thought to be on 90% of all smartphones in South Korea, registered users can choose from more than 100 games they can play with one another, and games alone helped the company generate $311m in sales in the first half of 2013. A couple of non-Asian messaging apps such as Kik (Canada) and Tango (US) are turning themselves into full-fledged platforms too, inviting software engineers to create games that run on their apps. They will typically let developers take home half the revenue while taking a 20% cut. App stores such as Google Play and Apple’s App Store take the remaining 30%. Tango took all this a step further this month when it partnered with music-streaming Spotify to allow its 60 million monthly users to share music clips with one another. Two years ago Spotify launched a similar partnership with Facebook. “What we’re seeing in the messaging space is an explosion in growth,” said Spotify’s vice-president of strategic partnerships, Tom Hsieh, who hinted there would be partnerships with other messaging apps in the future too. “I don’t think there’s been a clear winner [among them] yet.”
Stranger danger is an issue. Kik allows communication with strangers who share their Kik usernames to find people to chat with. The app allegedly has been used in high-profile crimes, including the murder of a 13-year-old girl and a child-pornography case. There’s also a Kik community blog where users can submit photos of themselves and screenshots of messages (sometimes displaying users’ full names) to contests.
Am 28. Juni 2011 startete das Netzwerk Google+ der Google Inc. als direkter Konkurrent zu Facebook. Zuletzt veröffentlichte Microsoft im Frühjahr 2012 ein Soziales Netzwerk namens So.cl, das allerdings nur als Technologiestudie konzipiert war und eine Anmeldung bei Facebook voraussetzte.[12] Seit Mitte 2012 kann auch Windows Live für den Login genutzt werden.
When you have a presence on social media, you make it easier for your customers to find and connect with you. And by connecting with your customers on social, you’re more likely to increase customer retention and brand loyalty. A study by The Social Habit shows that 53 percent of Americans who follow brands on social are more loyal to those brands.
Create a loyal fanbase: Does your brand promote user-generated content? Do your followers react positively without any initiation? Getting to this point takes time and effort with creating a positive brand persona on social.
In this second MOOC in the Social Marketing Specialization – “The Importance of Listening” – you will go deep into the Big Data of social and gain a more complete picture of what can be learned from interactions on social sites. You will be a… more
This is an entertainment-based, short-form video sharing social media site where members can easily share videos that are six seconds long. It belongs to the Twitter family and allows easy integration with other social networking platforms to share and watch videos.
The use of social bots and chatbots has created an analytical crisis in the marketing industry.[40] Companies use social and chat bots to automate their social marketing that appears to consumers and other companies to be real interaction. The ability for bots to mimic human interaction makes it difficult for marketers and data analysts to differentiate between human interactions and automated bot interactions;[40] having implications for quality of data.[40] Companies continue to use bots to automate their social media interactions although the same bots are negatively affecting their marketing data causing a “digital cannibalism” in social marketing. Additionally, bots violate the terms of use on many social mediums such as Instagram. This can result in profiles being taken down and banned.[41]
Bots (short for robots) are automated programs that run over the internet.[35] There are many forms of bots with varying behaviors.[36] The bots most relevant to social media marketing are chatbots and social bots.[37] Chatbots and social bots are programmed to mimic natural human interactions such as liking, commenting, following, and unfollowing on social media platforms.[38] The ability of these bots to automate social media marketing needs has created a large demand and the establishment of a new industry of bot providers.[39]
To create an effective DMP a business first needs to review the marketplace and set ‘SMART’ (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant and Time-Bound) objectives.[57] They can set SMART objectives by reviewing the current benchmarks and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the company and competitors. It is pertinent that the analytics used for the KPIs be customised to the type, objectives, mission and vision of the company.,[58][59]
The reality is, people spend twice as much time online as they used to 12 years ago. And while we say it a lot, the way people shop and buy really has changed, meaning offline marketing isn’t as effective as it used to be.
Mit 90 Prozent setzt ein Großteil der deutschen Unternehmen auf Social Media, so berichtet das Deutsche Institut für Marketing. Laut der Studie des Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) geben sechs von zehn der befragten Unternehmen an, dass sich ihre bisherigen Social-Media-Aktivitäten gelohnt haben. Die Steigerung der Bekanntheit, die Imageverbesserung und ein besserer Zugang zu Zielgruppen und potenziellen Kunden gelten für die Unternehmen als oberste Ziele ihrer Aktivitäten in Social Media.
Beim Lungenfacharzt, in Fachkreisen auch Pneumologe genannt, wurde ich neulich regelrecht dazu genötigt, so eine Untersuchung (NO- Messung) durchführen zu lassen, die nach Aussagen des Arztes für eine optimale Diagnose unverzichtbar wäre. Meine Krankenkasse sieht das allerdings völlig anders. So habe ich durchaus widerwillig 10 Euro bar bezahlt, schließlich will man ja nicht wegen des eigenen Geizes vorzeitig den Tulpenzwiebeln in deren natürlichem Lebensraum zum Untermieter werden.
