Social media is hot and getting larger and providing marketers with a grouping of reach, relationships, and relevance.
Reach: Social media has overtaken email as the most popular end user movement. highly, consumer growth is coming from an older demographic than social media's historical base .i.e Facebook , MySpace, Twitter strongest growth is coming from 35-49 year-olds, adding twice as many 50-64-year-olds as opposed to those under 18.
Relationships: Social media's power is in the personal connections it enables, the peer-to-peer contact, providing reasons for consumers to visit regularly and for extended periods of time.
Relevance: Consumers are tremendously occupied with the content and connections that their friends are creating because of its personal relevance.
Marketers move violently to come up with answers because Social Media is still a very latest and exciting channel that we're all discovering. Some might even discuss if you can have best practices in Social Media at this point in time? The discuss rages on whether the actual practice is one for the marketing professionals or for the public relations industry.
Just take a look at Google Trends to see the comparison between topics like “search marketing” being eclipsed by “social media” in terms of search volume and news references – at least according to Google. Along with all that “hotness”, there’s good and bad when it comes to the way companies are beginning to engage social media channels.