For the entrepreneurs, marketing through
social media platform is an important ingredient of the marketing mix. There are
different advantages of this form of marketing as it generates high traffic to
the website. Social media marketing is an effective tool for any business as it
helps in increasing the sales. This form of internet marketing helps businesses
in achieving the business and branding goal of a business. Different activities
like sharing of content, images and videos on the social media platforms are
involved in this process of marketing.
Small businesses and large corporations
alike invest in social media marketing activities. For enterprises, it is
important to determine the business goal first and then plan the social
media marketing campaign. The planning phase helps in determining the target
audience and the message that they want to put across to their target audience.
Few important factors that determine the success of marketing using social
media are:
1.
Awareness
of brand
2.
Conversion
rate
3.
Website
traffic
4.
Brand
association and identity
5.
Interaction
and communication with the audience
The process of the social media
marketing initiates with a thorough keyword research and the main emphasis of
the campaign is on the content. It is important for enterprises to impart
valuable content to target audience. Blogging is an effective tool in this form
of marketing campaign as it caters wide assortment of related data to the
readers. For measuring the success of the campaign, it is important to track it
with the use of testing tools.

