What is the intention of social media?

Yes, This is very true. Social media has potential to provide your astonishing brand exposure and web popularity (offcourse if done properly)

Social Media is not just for communicating purposes, it became a tool for the marketers to promote their brand more. Because of the very fact that millions of people are using social networking sites, marketers managed to build a good name because of it. Also, it has proven to be an effective tool not only for increasing traffic to a website, but also increase in sales.

Social networking sites are not only for you to communicate or interact with other people globally but, this is also one effective way for business promotion. A lot of business minded people these days are now doing business online and use these social networking sites to respond to customer queries.

With so many people using social networking sites, it is without a doubt a helpful means of building online marketing.
In social networking sites like Facebook, you will find any kind of people, young and old, celebrity or not, rich or poor, black or white...
You just have to know the proper way of using them to market your product or any business and drive traffic.

Yes social media help you to get real user, These day Facebook , Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn are best social media.

Yes, it helps to build online marketing. But for that you need to have a stretegy, random posts and fake likes won't take you anywhere in social media. Make a stretegy for your long term acheivements and engage your audience on social media.

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Hi alan01

Definitely yes! This is where social media sites get their forms of income generation. Social media is all about communication and you need to have good interaction in order to market your business online.

Through social media sites, you can interact directly with your customer and able to see their background and other sorts of information you can use in identifying a target market.

Without social media, the world of online marketing would be too boring and non-sense.

Now-a-days, Social Media is the best when it comes to Online Marketing. You can let people know about your products/services through social media in no time. In No time, your products/services can reach to enormous crowd and make them aware that you are in the business.

Social Media is there for one reason only.
To make money for the people that own those sites.
Everything and anything else is just background noise.
You can use social media for fun personal or business reasons. Or both.

Social Media is another marketing channel, its also a great way to get feedback, partner and make relationships.

Social media helps online marketing and also communicating each other easily.

Social Media is a good way of communication.

yes true social media helps to build "trust factors" link building and brand visibility

Strong social media signals are perfect for websites in further fortifying their online reputation.If you have a very good following, people will think that you are credible and reliable enough to deal business with.

Social Media is the best way to the growing online business.

Yes, This id true. You promote your business through Social media. Social media is the best way of online marketing not only for communicating with others.

This Video should help you understand

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Hello there Alan!

Yes, Indeed! Social Media is one of the best way to earn in Internet Marketing. Also, Social Media is actually, the best and the technique I prefer to get more traffic to my website. Social media is fun to deal with for me. I enjoy doing it and doesn't bore. Also, I get more responses from my social media than others.

I do however use other techniques to earn though, I 'm just more into social media because my niche can be more reachable through social media.

Hope this helps!
If you need any advice, you can contact me and I can give you some advice or refer to experts that can educate you with this one.

Good luck!

Social media is the best practice to build network and introduce business services and brands online. Also an effective way to increase traffic of a website and target the proper customers.

It's one way of exposing your business across the globe.
What you need to do is build a good relationship to people around you and share good stuff that are helpful to to businesses related to yours.

Since we know that the social networking sites are ruling.So every brand and company has recognized that users are addicted to these sites to they shifted their business to these sites in the form of online marketing.So the whole intention of social media is to get maximum business.

101% true now social media sites are the only source to promote any products.

Promotions, jokes and a whole lot of other techniques can be employed in social media to great effect. The main thing I've noticed with it is that you have to make content people not only enjoy, but also want to SHARE. Anything that would be a good conversation starter that is related to your niche can be great for a social media post.

The intention of Social Media is to make a good traffic and make a good opportunity of internet marketing.

that's right! Social media is one of the best way for building online marketing. In the recent time, there are more type of social media updated for SEO. I am from GOLIBU Company and we are happy to provide these works.

Social media is one thing that helps your business exposure.
Through it, you can easily reach your target customers and you can easily communicate with them even if they're miles away.

Social networking sites are not only for you to communicate or interact with other people globally but, this is also one effective way for business promotion. A lot of business minded people these days are now doing business online and use these social networking sites to respond to customer queries. It isn't just a social media site used to socialize with your friends but also, represents a huge pool of information from day to day living.

Social media sites are not only for you to communicate or interact with other people globally but, this is also one effective way for business promotion. A lot of business minded people these days are now doing business online and use these social media sites to respond to customer queries. It isn't just a social media site used to socialize with your friends but also, represents a huge pool of information from day to day living.

Social Media is very important from both an online marketing perspective and even an SEO perspective. It is not only there to boost your sales but to also handle your online reputation which is very important these days. It is time consuming so if you run a business consider hiring someone to help out with your social media efforts. Use Facebook and twitter for B2C business and LinkedIN for B2B. Use Google+ for SEO.

I've begun to question the use of social media. I am finding Twitter to still be a valuable tool for connecting with other educators, but over the past couple of years, I have noticed that the #edchat channel has become more and more cluttered with advertisements and links, and there appears to be less discussion occurring.
When Clifford Stoll suggested that computers had no place in education, he said:
"Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen."
To be clear, I don't agree with Clifford Stoll's assessment of the use of computers in schools. Computers can be powerful tools for education. Are they always used for the most productive purposes? Definitely not, but they have that potential, provided we (as educational technology enthusiasts) provide appropriate support and guidance, and that the teachers using the technology are thoughtful in its use. However, Stoll's observation that there is an awful lot of noise in the Internet is totally true.
Neil Postman had the following to say of our information age:
But what started out as a liberating stream has turned into a deluge of chaos. If I may take my own country as an example, here is what we are faced with: In America, there are 260,000 billboards; 11,520 newspapers; 11,556 periodicals; 27,000 video outlets for renting tapes; 362 million TV sets; and over 400 million radios. There are 40,000 new book titles published every year (300,000 world-wide) and every day in America 41 million photographs are taken, and just for the record, over 60 billion pieces of advertising junk mail come into our mail boxes every year. Everything from telegraphy and photography in the 19th century to the silicon chip in the twentieth has amplified the din of information, until matters have reached such proportions today that for the average person, information no longer has any relation to the solution of problems.
When we post endless links after each other in Twitter (in what seems to be an effort to increase our own online profile?) and forget the social aspect of social media, we contribute to the noise. I can remember going through a phase myself where I was using scheduled tweets so that I could be posting all day and night, and fortunately, it did not take me too long to see the error of my ways; I too was contributing to the noise of the Internet.
While the regular #edchat discussion was happening today, I noticed that the stream was littered with off-topic links, mostly by well meaning people looking for some exposure for their product, service, or exciting news from their part of the world. These posts are inevitable as we want to share what we are doing, but we also need to remind ourselves of purpose of social media; it's not about attention, it's about communication and collaboration.
There is some room for sharing resources and links, but we need to be mindful of what the ratio of noise to conversation is at, and limit ourselves to sharing only that which is most valuable, and ideally share it outside of times people are using a particular hashtag to have a discussion. Obviously a link can extend the conversation, and where possible, we should post links which extend or challenge our thinking. We need to post a few less links, and have more discussion.
Howard Rheingold says, "If we decided that community came first, how would we use our tools differently?" The purpose of social media is to connect to other people. Let's remember that when we post, please.

Social media play a vital role in giving your brand an online exposure. It is the great way communicate people and let them know about your product and services.

I think once that was true, but there is now evidence that social media is impacting organic search ranking, which has given it a different meaning. What was once seen as nice, is now seen as a must.

Potentially yes! But in order to gain from it, there needs to be a well thought out strategy in place.