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Reality Check: Daily Required Social Media Marketing Activity

Reality Check: Daily Required Social Media Marketing Activity | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

I am frequently seeing articles explaining how to do social media marketing in 30 minutes or an hour each day and decided it was time to deliver a reality check....

 

Our goal is to change the message of the industry that is dominated by the folks outlined in the above paragraph into that of real effective use of social media by people who have and actually do it. It’s one thing to consult Starbucks or most other major brands on social media because you sold a ton of books about the subject. It’s another thing to actually create and execute a strategy for the majority that make up social media marketers like small and medium brands or individual marketers and get results.

 

Heck, my 14-year-old daughter could consult Starbucks or most other major brands on their social media marketing. They do it wrong and don’t have to do it right. They have billions in media and marketing dollars that drive their brand on and offline. While articles that tell you that you can get results with minimal time and effort in social media are incredibly appealing to the masses, I am here to tell you that it takes work....

 

In an effort to both deliver a reality check as well as a real guide of activity, following is a list of SOME daily activities that are required to get results with any social media marketing program....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Results, results, results. And how you need to put in the effort and time to get results in social media..

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Enterprise Social Media Marketing: How To Create A SOCIAL Business

Enterprise Social Media Marketing: How To Create A SOCIAL Business | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
... In the past year, we've sensed that we're close to a tipping point, where the use of social networking in all aspects of business is quickly moving from novelty to mainstream. In fact, we think business professionals of the future must have a social networking skillset to succeed. One recent study shows this momentum towards social business. In a joint MIT/Deloitte study of global managers, 52 percent of global managers thought that social business is important to their organizations today. These same managers viewed the importance of social business as growing: 86 percent stated that social business would be important in their organizations three years from now.

Despite managers recognizing the importance of social business, few organizations are prepared to make the most of social software. According to the 2012 IBM Technology Trends report, only 1 in 10 organizations have the skills they need to benefit from advanced technology such as social software. Additionally, nearly half of the educators and students surveyed in IBM's survey indicated major gaps in their institutions' ability to meet IT skill ne youeds in the social area....
Via Martin (Marty) Smith
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Business and educators are getting the concept of "social business." They're just not all doing it yet.

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