Social Media Marketing Madness

social media marketing madness
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Social Media is emerging rapidly as a popular interactive community that is far more complex than just blogs and their comments. Users of social media websites try to establish a presence within their online community and since the platform is quickly accessible to the public it makes it easier for marketers to contribute and make inventive ways of marketing online. This movement all started with the addition of advertising through major search engines such as Google and Yahoo. These corporations saw an opportunity to advertise to target specific audiences and organizations mimicked this activity as a new way to appeal to new audiences. Since much of social media involves networking with others marketing was a huge success allowing users "by word of mouth" or review discuss products and services online. The average creative Joe with a specific talent can become a successful entrepreneur by just blogging about it on his website. His supporters and their online audience can be a huge force in promoting products at twice the rate that marketing used to be .

-Melody Tse