Monday, 23 March 2015

Image-Centric Social Media Marketing



Social media marketing is now a common concept and staying active and alert on all the social platforms is critical. Organisations are a lot into making great social media strategies for more leads and customers but an important thing that should be included is an image centric approach rather than a text-based one. Let’s see why...
Catch the Customer’s Attention
If you want your social media marketing strategy to be successful, the most crucial part of it is to build the right content. Marketers have to present exactly what the customers want to see. Mostly everyone has concentration spans that would last just a few seconds. The trick is to get them hooked to your brand within that period. This can be achieved if you have little more photographs and a little less written matter. No one’s going to be generous enough to read lengthy informative paragraphs and no pictures at all.
Be Clear and To-the-Point
You may be coming up with some great textual content but don’t miss out on adding some good images too. Images create breaks between paragraphs and make the reader’s journey through it pleasant and more interesting. Also, photos are digested better into the minds of your audience and will be remembered more than written matter.
Make it Colourful
A written piece can look very dull with just black and white images. Why not add some colour and spice to your post? While you add a dash of colour to your images, be careful not to jazz it up to the extent it hurts the eye! Make it attractive, but simple and its’ sure to grab more eyeballs.
Improve SEO
Practicing SEO tactics is a necessity for the well-being of your online marketing strategies. You can boost your SEO by adding a few images to written content with relevant meta-tags. You should make it a point of tagging each image and using hashtags wherever possible.

Next up, we’ll be talking about some leading social media sites that are image-focused. Keep a track!




The Latest Social Media Trends


Now-a-days, brands have taken on to social media marketing and changed the methods of interaction with their audience online. In this blog-post let us see what the top 3 trends are, in social media marketing.
 Trend 1: Focused Marketing
Many organisations have a huge presence on various social media platforms. This has created a genuine, close and friendly brand-customer relationship, rather than a narrow
and impersonal conversation between the two. Businesses are said to continue their social media drives with more specific plans, goals and targets. Companies will listen to their customers across the globe with the use of social networks and respond too.

Trend 2: Marketing which is Information Based
Brands have started gathering a lot of information from different locations, thus making the best of it for marketing in a smart way. All this collected information can help the organisation understand the consumers’ goodwill towards the brand and the sellers can use it to get their customers to take further steps. Experts have even predicated that brands will combine all the data through social networking sites and the data through offline channels, to be able to bring the existing customer data in their system in order to interact better and sell their products/services to them through social media.
Appropriate and Regular Content
Brands need to keep pace with the rapid conversations on various networks. Experts say that it will be vital for businesses to create a special team of social media experts to handle social media marketing, campaigns and big events on various digital platforms.  
Social media marketing has brought about a wave of transformation and companies need to get onto different online platforms aggressively for their brands be in power. 




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