Did you know that one in every five people own a smartphone? That’s over one billion people who could be viewing social media content right now! How can your brand reach these potential customers when they’re only one touch of a screen away?
Marketing is all about integration. Without integration, messages can’t get the most bang for their buck. Integration centers around ideas traveling across multiple channels and platforms to promote a brand’s products and services. Blogs and newsletters are content cousins that can be easily integrated and then shared on any social media platform.
A couple weeks ago, Twitter unveiled the latest edition to its long list of marketing-friendly resources, geared towards attracting and retaining the growing number of brands that want to advertise and gain awareness on social media. The new Engage app offers real-time data and insights into audience and follower behavior that will allow influential accounts to better understand their most influential and loyal followers while also sharing key account statistics. Whether a business has 10,000 followers or 100, it certainly pays to understand which are the most loyal and what type of content they will most want to see. Here’s a quick run-down of the application to get started:
With more than 80% of consumers doing their research online and on their mobile devices, digital presence is more important than ever before. If a business can’t easily be found using a quick mobile search, the customer will go elsewhere. An ideal marketing strategy allows customers to not only do business with a brand with ease, but to find them quickly as well.
Why is social engagement important to businesses? “Engagement is the level of involvement, interaction, intimacy and influence an individual has with a brand over time” (Forrester). It is the “social” in social media.
