Social Marketing

2011 was the year social media became significantly threaded through public relations and marketing efforts of all private, non-profit and public sectors. Social media buzz has become as important as media placements to many brands and organizations. But how do you get organic social media buzz? And especially, how do you get social media buzz within the Latino community when your brand/organization does not serve the community through targeted social media channels? You turn to an allied… the Latino Social Media Influencer (LSMI). By Andy E. Checo

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This report analyzes the current state of social networking activity around the globe, providing key insights into how social networking has influenced the digital landscape and implications for marketers operating in this social world.DOWNLOAD Report Here.

Given the importance of new and social media on every aspect of business, the leadership team at Awareness Inc. connected with the influencers who are shaping the new marketing agenda. We contacted business and marketing experts, marketing leaders and agency visionaries to create a list of top 2012
predictions and trends. This white paper contains their collective intelligence and insights for what is to come next year. We hope you find these expert
predictions informative, educational and actionable so you, the business and marketing leaders of today, can successfully engage in the evolving ecosystem that supports the socialization of information, and are in a position to help businesses adapt to the new era of lasting relationships. DOWNLOAD Report Here.

Marketers in various industries have different goals for their social media efforts, from direct response to branding to everything in between. And a vertical’s regulatory environment can lead to vastly different approaches and levels of engagement. But on the consumer side, one concern remains paramount: customer service.

As social media marketers become more and more accountable for the return on investment of their programs, some are also starting to see the long-term results of campaigns that work.

The explosion of social and digital marketing, although enabled by technological advances, is fueled by consumption. Who is creating its future? I would argue that largely multicultural consumers in the U.S. and global consumers in emerging economies are driving the future of social and digital marketing. These segments are both lead (who influence other consumers) and heavy (who consume most) users. By Loida Rosario, Marketing Strategist and Innovation Guru

Integrating social media into overall business processes is a challenge for many companies. Marketers, often having led the way in social media usage, must work with other teams and senior executives to bring about change within the company in order to integrate social throughout the organization.

Most marketers feel they are improving in their ability to measure the return on investment of marketing efforts, including certain elements of social media marketing.

Marketers are becoming more mature when it comes to their social media marketing, and many in the US say they hope to move beyond the experimentation phase in the coming years.

StrongMail announced the results of its “2012 Marketing Trends” survey, which provides unique insight into how businesses plan to budget and prioritize marketing dollars in the New Year. Conducted in November 2011, 939 business leaders participated in the global survey.

Marketers know that counting fans, “likes” and followers is not the best way to measure success in social media marketing. Yet these metrics are often the top benchmarks for performance. It’s not surprising, then, that marketers consider calculating return on investment to be the biggest challenge of using social media, and that a majority of them believe they cannot measure social media campaigns effectively.

The program provided free social media and communications trainings to more than 150 organizations across Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Antonio, San Diego and Washington, D.C.

Social media and mobile are quickly establishing themselves as more than marketing channels simply worthy of a test budget. And, as marketers continue to understand how to leverage both social and mobile to meet their overall marketing objectives, they are looking to better integrate them into their overarching marketing strategy, tying them to other more established digital formats, such as email.

More than 70 percent of online media journalists and other content contributors now interact with public relations professionals through popular social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, according to a 2011 survey of North
American online media conducted by Cision and Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. DOWNLOAD Report Here.

This report, by students in the 2011/12 Master in Marketing program at Switzerland’s University of Lugano, is to analyze the social engagement of three Swiss brands in social media: Rolex, OMEGA and Patek Philippe. DOWNLOAD Report Here.

Social media is becoming an important part of business around the world, and companies in many regions are planning to increase their use of it in the coming months.

Consumers are positively engaged and highly loyal to the brands they choose to follow and “like” on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others. But according to the findings of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council’s new “Variance in the Social Brand Experience” study, consumers also have high expectations that social brands will offer unique experiences, savings, promotions, and even games as part of their social engagement. DOWNLOAD Report Here.