Why Social Media Marketing is so hot right now?

Georgi,

1: People trust transparent folks; social gives you the opp to be transparent.

2: You profit in relation to how smart and persistently you work social, like other channels.

3: Pros; more trusted, converting traffic....Cons; disciplining yourself to show your life outside of business is tough for many marketers, especially desperately struggling folks.

I like being personal; plenty of vacation pics to share and dreams I can write about through social. Some folks though are too robotic, and desperate, and attache to outcomes, and post biz stuff all day.

Engage, engage, share, talk, and hang in niche specific areas to see optimal return.

Take care!

Social Media is an independent way to connect to the masses and is easier too. Profits earned will no doubt depend on how much you invested (I mean time and resources). I am still trying to figure out the effects of excessive SMM. I believe there will be few and if anybody could tell I shall be reallty thankful.

Social media is the key to drive majority of the traffic to your site. You are only required to engage your audience in some of the top social media networks like google+, twitter, stumble, pinterest

Good discussion.
It's really informative.
thanks for share

We are gathering here intel data, not just for me I think but for everyone interested in stepping into SMM.

Please guys share more details.

G.

Social media allows businesses and organizations a direct channel to their customers and it's a very personal relationship.

For many businesses without social media, they lacked this type of relationship prior to launching their facebook fanpage / twitter account.

Social media really is a good way of promoting your business, there are a lot of ways how to do this , you can read some blogs or articles on this topic, I would provide you with them but unfortunately I can't post links in my messages still.

Social media is hot right now that's for sure because people love to be entertained they also love stories and fast food content like pictures. Nowadays people have a short attention span and that's another reason why social media is hot. You can check all the new facebook stories in two minutes while reading a blog post needs at least five minutes.

But if you ask me I would always use everything I can. I have a blog but use all the social channel to promote my content and to syndicate it. This brings better rankings in google and more eyeballs on my content!

Its hot because its a backlink with people behind it, not just a plain backlink. Google loves them. Social signals are the future as nothing tells Google your popular more than you being shared on other peoples social media profiles.

Its good for SEO, views, traffic and branding all at the same time........name anything else that combines all of those in 1.

Social media should be the #1 focus of anyone seriouslywanting to succeed online unless your product or service stands alone.

The way social media gained popularity is the reason everyone wanted to make full use of it, more than 70% of people online spend their time on social sites so it's a great opportunity for marketers to grow their business here.

Firstly, some social sites have tons of users, such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Their user base is in the hundreds of millions active users. This is a very large source of traffic. Secondly, your postings on these social sites have the potential to go viral, bringing tons of traffic.

Hey Georgi

1. Why it is hot and you should use it.
The world technology is changing. Using internet only on PC and doing only official work has gone away. Today everyone wants to be connected with the world by social media mediums like Facebook or twitter or linked-in, and so on . It is easy and interesting. No matter what you are looking for , whether you are looking for friend, any services, or business. Simply search what you want, one click and you get connected. This is the reason Social media is hot today and you should use it in your marketing.


2. Yes it is more profitable.
As Social Media is easy, interesting and popular now days, it gives you an ease to get connected directly with real people around the world. You can connect more quickly and could approach them directly. It is easy, take little time, No need of any hard core technical knowledge, huge audience and no limitations.

3. Major Pros and Cons
Pros :
It takes less time than orthodox marketing strategies.
It gives you many interesting options to advertise and you could advertise globally
You can stay connected 24 / 7 and access and communicate with your friends, customers, easily.
and so on.... there are many pros.
Cons :
You just need to avoid Spam, and take care of getting Spam.......

I believe it's sooo hot right now because
people are nosey - they want to know
(and engage) with other people.

That's the "pro" in itself. It enables businesses
to be interactive with the public much
more so than a standard website.

The con with social media is that content
isn't as sticky as a blog post, video, or
other concrete content. Take this forum
for example; specific content may be
hosted here for years. Where as the very
same content could be hard to find if in
the news feed of a Google Plus page.

Social media marketing still rocks, though.

You should look into facebook advertising initially, it really is fantastic.

1. Social media has overtaken porn on the internet as the #1 activity
2. When someone connects to you you are able to market to them daily via their newsfeed
3. You can find every demographic on the right social media platform
4. You can put a personality with your business that helps people like you

There are several more reasons but there are a few off the top of my head