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Toronto Social Media: Hiring The Right Company

Writer: Azwar Khalid on February 8, 2011 Social Media No Comments

One of the most popular methods of great online marketing is that of social media. This is because it really builds up your reputation, it attracts your targeted prospects and it really helps to create a relationship with your market of choice. Of course, the biggest challenge is to make sure that you are hiring the best possible Toronto social media company for your needs.

Be Careful of Hiring a Traditional Advertising Company for Your Social Media Campaign

It seems as though all of the advertising companies out t here are offering services in order to help you with social media. The thing is though, while they might have an excellent reputation, they might not be what you are looking for. Normally, such advertising companies do not have the experience you need in order to have your social media presence built in the best way possible.

The Consequences You Can Face When Hiring The Wrong Company

If you find that you end up going with an advertising company that is not proficient in social media, you will find that you have simply wasted a lot of your money. Sure, they might set up a blog for you and open a Facebook account for you, but is that worth thousands of dollars?

Too many companies focus on getting the technical aspects of the social media down. While setting everything up is important, it is more important to make sure that the news about your company and your services or products is being properly spread. You will see a great return on your investment if you are able to find the right company to help you with this.

Social Media Goals

First, it is important to know that just about anyone can set up the blogs and the Facebook accounts. The real problem comes into play when you have to take these tools and really connect with your audience. You have to have the right connection in order for that connection to turn into profits. This is not normally an easy thing for most people to do and this is when the experienced professionals in the Toronto social media industry come into play.

You want to make sure that you are going with a Toronto social media company that has been making the most out of social media since its birth. With the right company, you will find that you will be able to communicate properly with your prospects and you will help them into your little marketing funnel.

They can properly use sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to help you get more prospects into your list. They will also help you use these channels to market your products and services. There are strict rules and guidelines you need to follow when using these channels. You also need to understand the users in these sites if you want to get the most out of your marketing efforts.

In the end, you simply want to make sure that you are just not going out there and hiring and old advertising company. You will want to put in the time to make sure that you are finding the best possible Toronto social media company that has experience and happy customers to back up their claims of knowing what they are doing. This way, you won’t be wasting your money on a company that can’t give you what you need.

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Frequent Marketing Blunders Deadly To Business Success

Writer: Dennis Checkowish on February 7, 2011 Affiliate Marketing, Social Media No Comments

It is possible that the percentages for IM business failures is very similar if not higher than that for offline businesses. Only about 20% of all new businesses in the US survive more than a several years. There are a lot of reasons why businesses fail, and of course many of them will never be known. One huge general category that consists of perhaps most of the reasons are mistakes in the execution of business – marketing and advertising. There is so much bad information on the net about how to create an income on the net. But when it is all said and done, it really isn’t going to matter what caused it; but rather the end result is enough for most people.

It is easy to follow the mistaken belief that providing enough choices for people will surely capture the greatest number of them in your marketing and advertising net. The tricky thing is that is a normal line of logic – to give people choices and options so there will be a little something for everybody. Giving people a range of options usually tends to be a flawed strategy if you want to make sales. It is counter-intuitive, but presenting people in your sales funnel a lot of options can backfire. The thing is, it has to do with human nature – in certain situations people have a hard time with decision making. That can be particularly true with purchasing decisions. They can become so indecisive that the very common result is nothing is bought!

If you can be accurately described as being, cheap, then that is okay but just make sure you never assign that mindset to everybody else. What we are getting at is the mistaken assumption that all people want the most rock bottom price. It is common knowledge that prices for the same item can range from very cheap to costing quite a lot. As you know, many higher priced products have existed for a very long time. The simple fact that they have existed for so long instantly dispells any myth that all people are cheap. People want to spend a great deal on certain things for their own motives. If you have a good to excellent product or service, then learn how to properly market your products/services. The critical thing is for you to understand the marketing psychology behind expensive items.

We all know about the thought of mindset that something is so fantastic that everybody will want to buy it. It is feasible that a lot of people have had that kind of thought. Yes, there have been more than a few products that have been extremely popular. Yet there is no individual product or service that everybody has bought. The danger of this line of thinking in your own business is it can simply make you complacent and fail to market or advertise as much as you should. There are courses of action you will be likely to take by supposing everyone will want your product. It is delusional to consider any service/product will be well-received by all people.

Keep these points in mind and you might do well

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Facebook Places Deals to target local business ads in UK and Europe | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Writer: Alun Hill MCIJ, Editor on January 31, 2011 Facebook No Comments
Facebook Places Deals Facebook Deals … checking in for bargains? Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/ReutersFacebook made a significant move into the potentially lucrative local business advertising space on Monday with the launch in the UK and other European countries of Places Deals, which gives users discounts and benefits with nearby shops, restaurants and venues through their mobile phones.

Launched in the US last November, Facebook Deals lets users ‘check in’ to venues via the Places feature on its mobile app for iPhone, Android and through facebook.com on some smartphones.

Facebook says millions of users are already choosing to check in to venues, and its app is already the most popular in Apple’s iTunes Store. More than 250 million people use Facebook every day from a membership of more than 500 million worldwide, and more than one third of those access the site through mobile.

Through deals with partners announced today, the first 30,000 Facebook users to check in at Starbucks stores in the UK can claim a free coffee, the first 1,000 to check in at Debenhams will receive a free mascara and makeover, and the first four to upgrade their contracts and check in at O2 stores will win a free Xbox or Playstation.

Mazda, Yo! Sushi, Usher and Alton Towers also announced offers, while Argos and Benetton are donating to charity with a set number of checkins. Companies can list themselves for free in Deals, and Facebook says it does not take any share of revenues from the promotions.

Facebook Places Deals, which is also launching in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Canada, is seen as a major part of the company’s commercial strategy, potentially linking users to any business from national retail chains to local stores, and allowing those businesses to effectively advertise through the social networks of their most regular customers by publishing. Depending on a user’s privacy settings, Deals they take part in will be published in the newsfeed that their friends follow.

“The wisdom of friends has taken over from the wisdom of crowds, through a highly personal experience in the real world, and Facebook local enables users to take that Facebook identity out and about with them as they experience the real world – likewise using that to inform that Facebook identity,” said Emily White, Facebook’s director of local. “Places is the ‘where’ to ‘what am I doing’ and ‘who am I with’. And it allows businesses to start joining the conversation.”

White would not speculate on whether Facebook’s on-site payment system Credits, which is currently used only for gaming, would be extended to be used with on-site commerce, or whether businesses may pay for elements of Deals in the future. She would only say that Facebook’s focus is on developing “a phenomenal user experience”.

Venues announce Deals with a ‘golden ticket’ that appears next to their name in nearby venues when a user opens Places in the Facebook app. Users can see the deal, claim it and show the voucher on their screen at the check out, but Facebook does not share the name or contact information for each customer with businesses.

White noted that brand pages on Facebook attract far higher traffic than official brand websites. Coca-Cola, she said, saw around 270,000 monthly unique users on its own sites but 22.5 million on Facebook.com. She said retailers would not just offer discounts, but can encourage customers to donate to charity or use the scheme more like a loyalty card.

White dismissed comparisons with daily deals site Groupon and the social location game Foursquare. “[Places] is about where you are at the moment. It is very different from Groupon’s offering today and takes advantage of the unique platform Facebook has.”

Despite those denials, Facebook will be keen to build on the attention given to Groupon, which rejected a high-profile $5.3bn acquisition offer from Google in December.

Deals also puts Facebook on a collision path with Google, which makes the overwhelming majority of its $29.3bn revenues from web advertising. Facebook’s advertising revenue is already beginning to challenge that of Yahoo, which last week reported a drop in revenues and profits through squeezes on its ad income.


Why your social media strategy shouldn’t be owned by a PR or ad agency

Writer: Alun Hill MCIJ, Editor on January 31, 2011 Hotel, Social Media No Comments
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For most companies the challenge is a cultural one, and an organisational one. Handing the social media reins to the best agency in the world, no matter what their discipline might be, is not going to help a firm to help itself in the long-run.Agencies can play a massively important role in helping to define a roadmap for social media success, but helping is very different to ‘owning’.

The responsibility for developing and managing social media needs to be borne in-house if a business seriously intends to realign its culture. And make no mistake: social media is a cultural and organisational challenge for most businesses of any scale. Only by embracing engagement and by becoming more open – both internally and externally – can a business transform how it is perceived in public (and in private: staff retention and satisfaction are hugely important).

The pace of change is going to be incredibly important for some businesses that are obviously struggling to adapt. Many long-established (and seemingly slow-moving) brands are trading on their former glories, and have been found out. Companies with rubbish service levels might not be around in a decade or so. Yes, it can be hard to adapt to the demands of the modern business environment, but paying an agency to manage social media isn’t going to help these companies to directly deal with the challenges that face them.

Besides, outsourcing the management of social media sends out the wrong message. Where’s the commitment to interaction, to customer-centricity, to empowering staff, to giving a shit? Unless a brand really commits to engagement then it will seem fake and hollow to people who tune into you via social media channels. It’s the difference between a journalist interviewing a CEO directly to unearth some answers, and talking to a PR rep.

It’s not just about driving and embracing participation, it is about the quality of interaction. The right people need to be involved. I believe that the right people are in-house employees.
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