What is social media marketing?

[nilesh747]

I am a B.Sc Chemistry graduate and an MBA post-graduate in Marketing. I heared of social media marketing am thinking of doing a course in it. Does social media marketing require creativity?I am not good in SEO. So does it involve SEO work also?kindly clarify

[Guru]

HI
Social media marketing means promoting a site or a product on social bookmarking site .This is now a days most preferred method for web promotion.You get instant traffic from this site and vast reach . For more detail you can search on search engine

[Issa]

Social media marketing can simply mean connecting to people online through shared resources, tools, and platforms. In short, it's all about spreading the word about your brand on the World Wide Web.

[ranjit]

Social media marketing is the process of promoting your site or business through social media channels and it is a powerful strategy that will get you links, attention and massive amounts of traffic.

It is the process of generating interest and excitement in a product or service through various online social outlets such as blogs, RSS feeds and social networks such has facebook, myspace and online communities, wikis or any other online collaborative .the best media for marketing, sales, public relations and customer service.

Creativity in Art/design in not required. You do need some creative thinking for the social media marketing idea & and good logic for social media strategy. and SEO is required, it plays an important role in promoting and making your social media content visible on various search engine.

[Bhups]

Is you are a avid user of any social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube etc, you can be a good social media marketer. Social Media is more about engagement and not advertising. This has to be understood.

If you cant use social media extensively, then you cant engage with people. In that case if you enter this space, people will simply find you uninteresting and will unfollow or unfriend you. This has to be avoided.

You may not be good at planning and building strategies. But still you can be a good executor. And Social Media Jobs does require some basic knowledge of SEO.