Social Media

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SOCIAL MEDIA

Revolution or Fad?

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The Benefits Of Using Social Media

The world has changed. Today’s corporations, large and small, are expected to communicate

with clients all over the world. By discovering the advantages of social media, companies are able to

reach and interact to an extensive range of clients and potential customers.

• Why use social media?1. Communicate instantly 2. Receive clientele’s input3. Provide assistance to clients4. Learn about clients

Read the following article to better understand each puzzle piece

New social media tool example: Word cloud

Why Change When The Old Way Has Been Successful?

While a company has built its prestigious status without the assistance of social media, these sites have become the new craze.

By putting a company’s name, products, and services on these social networking sites it gives them the ability to:

• INSTANTLY market their products and cut down on costs• Learn about the different generations and grab their attention.• Maximize customer service by:

Sending them frequent messages containing new information about their company Answering their questions or concerns via posts.

What does a company have to lose??

What are social networking sites?

A web-based service that allows individuals to create a profile (public or private) and

connect with others instantly.

Cisco Blog conducted a study of 100 corporations in 20 different countries, concluding that 75% used client-based social media.

Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter Are Huge!

• Over Facebook 200 million members • 105 million on Twitter

• 2 million video views on YouTube per day

Social networking sites are the primary technique to converse with clients

around the world

Businesses can be one step ahead by taking this step to partake in the revolution of known

as social media

Tips to Consider For A Successful Business on Social Sites

Opinions MatterMaintain To GainAdapt Or Get Lost In The ShuffleTake Action

Lingo To Be Familiar With…

• Tweet• #Hashtag • Follower• Tweeps• Retweet• Blocking • New feed• Tag

Blogs

• “Real”• Trust• Pictures, comments, videos, text• TEKCO vs. Tupperware

Privacy and Security Issues• Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter all include a Privacy Setting

that allows our business to choose a public or private profile settings and block unwanted users from viewing our profile.

• We still want to take into consideration what other competing firms can view on our social networking profile. With the easy to use privacy settings, our company can choose who we want and who we do not want to have access to our site.

Present And Future Generations

The world has changed… Social media is the future.

Aloha.

ASSIGNMENT:• Create a concluding slide for this PowerPoint using

http://www.wordle.net/create/

• Use at least 15 important words discussed in this assignment. • As a class we will learn the Snipping Tool and submit

• Submit through Drop Box please

Good luck