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What are Social Media Marketing Tools?

Social Media Marketing Tools provide underappreciated features not common to all social media management suites. They can be hyper-specific and dedicated to one thing like brand activation or contesting. They might be focused on gaining followers on a single platform (e.g. Instagram).

Applications in this category fall under several names. Social media advocacy tools encourage employees and brand customers to promote companies across their own social media profile and feeds. Beyond that, social media promotion might include contesting, sweepstakes, or polls. Social media curation tools help marketers find and reuse user-generated content. UGC can then be cast into a feed, social media wall, television, or even a Jumbotron.

Many social media marketing tools are specialists. Thus they may provide just one or several of these things:

Social media aggregation, RSS Feed or social dashboard

Social media widget, browser extensions

Location-based services and analytics

Chat and social media messaging

Social media brand search tool

Media (e.g. gif) uploading, distribution

Social contesting and sweepstakes

Social media games

Social media incentives and prize fulfillment

Social media brand activation

Hashtag campaign

Contesting and campaign analytics

Social wall for events or website

Link shortening for campaigns

Social media marketing management vendors often provide free tools and free limited versions of their flagship management suites. Beyond these, pricing of social activation tools is tiered. Tiers may support variable amounts of user accounts, volume of outreach, or include additional advanced features. Enterprise level tiers frequently provide dedicated account management and 24x7 customer support.

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During the coverage of the #INSM09 conference, I mentioned a difference between the social and societal marketing concept. Twitter doesnt give a lot of space for details, so I figured Id follow up @Nedras question with a little more depth.

Societal marketing concept is evident when an organisation determines consumer needs and wants and then integrates all activities in the firm to serve these needs while simultaneously enhancing societal well being (McColl-Kennedy, Kiel, Lusch & Lusch, 1994)

Social marketing is the adaptation of commercial marketing technologies to programs designed to influence the voluntary behaviour of target audiences to improve their personal welfare and that of the society of which they are a part. Andreasen, (1995)

Societal marketing is the business driven, profit orientated way of changing the world as a means of developing revenue based product. Societal is about the direct benefits for the organisation (profit) and secondary benefit for the community. Social marketing is about changing behaviours for the benefit of the broader society. Social marketing is about the social gain, target markets gain, and the flow of benefits where profit may not actual exist, or if it does, then its just an incidental secondary benefit for the campaign.

Its a technical separation thats becoming less evident in the literature heading into 2010, and possibly a dichotomy that may have come to the end of the useful shelf-life as more emphasis is placed on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, environmental consideration and ongoing behavioural adjustments that permeat the commercial, government, non profit and social change applications for marketing.

That said, it may be worth re-examining the dividing line between for-societal gain and for-organisational gain as we move forward to ensure that societys needs arent being re-routed towards individual corporate profit-making solutions when theres a socially beneficial outcome that doesnt need the pay-per-use model to support it.

References

McColl-Kennedy, J., Kiel, G., Lusch, R., Lusch, V. (1994), Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, Nelson Australia, Melbourne

Andreasen, A. 1995, Marketing Social Change: Changing Behavior to Promote Health, Social Development and the Environment, San Francisco: Jossey Bass

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Why Social Media Marketing?

This program demystifies social media and enables you to develop the expertise necessary for creating and implementing effective social media marketing campaigns.

The certificate is designed for professionals in marketing, public affairs, strategic communications, visual communications/media design, and others who seek to implement social media more effectively for their respective organization. Applicable careers include:

Upon completion of the certificate program, youwill:

The immense popularity of interactive media and online communities is transforming how consumersand businesses view the world. Every organization must now interact with customers through digital channels to successfully compete in this constantly evolving marketplace. Experts in social media marketing are invaluable assets to any organization.

Students may take individual courses without commitment to the entire program. Students who successfully complete the required and elective courses are awarded a certificate from the School of Liberal Studies & Continuing Education, reflecting 8 continuing education units (CEUs).

Upon successful completion of this program, you will have mastered social media marketing principles, applied strategies and tactics to real projects, and developed a portfolio to showcase your achievements.

Certificate programs must be completed within three years unless approved by the director of continuing education.

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Every business, regardless of size, needs a social media strategy. But if youre just starting out, using social media can be daunting. Which platforms are right for your brand? What do you post? How do you get followers?

This course demystifies social media marketing and guides you through the endless capabilities of platforms like Facebook and Instagram. You will learn to apply tactics and think strategically so you can begin to shape your brands perception, drive traffic to your site, sell products and eventually be seen as a leader within your corner of the industry. This course gives you a foundation from which to build a smart social media approach that over time, can direct your brand to social success

How to apply the 5 elements of successful social media marketing - Strategy, Frequency, Timing, Effective Content and Engagement

Identify your audience and discern which platforms they spend their time

Develop messaging for each platform to reach your intended audience

Experiment with the best times of day and frequency to post

Highlight positive comments, and use negative feedback as a tool to strengthen your brand

Capitalize on social trends, proper use of images, initiate and piggy back on hashtags

Understand performance/measurement basics from standard platform-native and third party measurement tools

Use your data to inform when, where, what and how you post moving forward

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"This book demonstrates a beginning to the endless possibilities of the Social Web." -- Brian Solis, publisher of leading marketing blog PR 2.0

"Overall, The Social Media Marketing Book is an extremely valuable resource on understanding and applying social media for both the individuals, and business. The book is a great introduction that can help you to get started. Once done, you can move onto the next level. Hopefully, Zarrella is working on that book now."--Ben Rothke, Slashdot.org

"If you are new to social marketing and want an easy to understand book to break it all down, then I highly recommend The Social Media Marketing Book."--T. Michael Testi, Blogcritics.org

"After poring over The Social Media Marketing Book you may not come away with a master marketing strategy, but you'll get a good briefing on tactics."--Thomas E. Weber, Smart Money

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