Showing posts with label Future Social Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future Social Media. Show all posts

Friday, July 4, 2025

Social Media Resolutions For YOUR Success?


Yes, this is another column about New Year's resolutions. But this is the one you should read all the way through, because unlike those others, these suggestions are easy to do and the resulting habits are easy to keep..

And who doesn't like to cross something off their list right away? So without further ado, here are five simple social media resolutions for 2018.



Stop Broadcasting And Start Engaging

Broadcasters post nothing but links to their content, yet somehow expect the entire internet to share them with a smile. In social media, there are no successful broadcasters. When you start to engage with your audience and really take the time to know them and what they like to share, your stock really starts to rise. (See what I did there?)

Try Something New

Maybe your something new is something small, like engaging more. Or maybe it's something that requires time and effort, such as trying out a new platform. Do you need to be on Instagram? Of course. Is being on Instagram fun? You bet it is. Do you have time for a little bit of fun? Yeah, I think you do. And if you don't, that can be a resolution within a resolution.



Terrible Passwords Are So 2017

And 2016. And 2015. Hacking and phishing scams are already a problem, so please don't exasperate the problem with easy-to-guess passwords. One of the most popular bad passwords of 2017 was 12345, a password equally unsuitable for Twitter and your luggage. Lucky for you, most up-to-date browsers will suggest a secure password and even save them for you. Take advantage of these features and don't leave yourself vulnerable. The 10 seconds you spend doing that could save you a lifetime of heartache if someone gets into your accounts.

Update Your Settings Four Times This Year

That's every three months, 10 minutes each time for a total of 40 minutes. Make it easy by setting an Outlook reminder on their first day of each season. During this time, change your passwords if they resemble anything mentioned in the previous paragraph. Make sure you aren't granting access to a service you no longer use. Make sure you are sharing with the right audiences on LinkedIn, which will likely differ from the right audiences on Facebook or Twitter.



Follow Back Like A Pro

This goes back to engaging and broadcasting. Never follow someone back just because they follow you. What seems like a nice gesture makes your social media weak because you know nothing about this person. And when you do it a few thousand times, you end up with a feed that has nothing to do with you and your interests.

Easy, right? And it only takes a few minutes of your time. Turn these social media resolutions into good social media habits now and you'll be all set for 2019 and beyond.

The treadmill? Well, that's a different story.

Guest Authored By Scott Kleinberg. Scott's director of social media and digital engagement @NYCMayorsOffice. Former @ChicagoTribune social media manager. Journalist. Apple Pro. Photographer and 80's fanatic. Follow Scott on X.

 Related Article: Social Media Secrets To Going Viral?


Easy, right?

And it only takes a few minutes of your time.

Turn these social media resolutions into good social media habits now and you'll be all set for 2019 and beyond.

  • Authored by:
    Fred Hansen Pied Piper of Social Media Marketing at YourWorldBr@nd.com & CEO of Millennium 7 Publishing Co. in Scottsdale, AZ,  where I work deep in the trenches of social media strategy, community management and trends.  My interests include; online business educator, social media marketing, new marketing technology, skiing, hunting, fishing and The Rolling Stones..-Not necessarily in that order ;)
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

2025 And Beyond Social Media Marketing?


10 Ways to ace social media marketing in 2025 and beyond..

The world of marketing will witness significant changes and social media marketing will be at the core of most marketing strategies.

In this article, we look at a 10-step guide to emerging trends in social media marketing and how you can win at social in 2025 and beyond.


Social media marketing is essential to any marketing strategy in an era where everyone is online. In fact, the sheer number of social media users in the world in 2018 – 3.196 billion – is staggering. Social media won’t remain the same as it is now. What counts as a trend today will be obvious tomorrow.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to making sure your social media marketing strategy always stays current:

1. Social videos broaden horizon: The audience loves videos, and so do marketers. Videos are well retained by the human brain, are usually self-explanatory, and engaging. It is predicted that 80% of global internet traffic will be attributed to videos by 2021.

2. Moreover, live streaming of events, ‘How-To' videos, product launches, behind the scenes, etc. is catching up with consumers and marketers alike. By 2020, videos will not only be used to create brand awareness and conversions but also become highly personal. Marketers will use videos for:

--One to one communication – for e.g. Personalized videos to walk you through the features of a device.
--Networking – As users consume more videos for entertainment and education, marketers will leverage this opportunity to build a community of loyal followers.
--Visual content for online shopping – With short-form videos gaining traction, and shoppers preferring video ads and how to videos over other ad forms, marketers will sync social videos with their e-commerce strategy.



3. The rise of AR and VR: Experiential marketing has tremendous opportunity to engage customers and create memorable experiences for them. Virtual Reality (VR) can be used to bring to life a faraway event or a simulated environment, while Augmented Reality (AR) can add unimaginable layers of depth to real-life experiences. With social platforms pushing features like FB’s Oculus Rift Glasses, Snapchat’s Geofilters and Lens or Amazon helping users try on clothes virtually, marketers will embrace these features to entertain and engage their audience and boost their advertising revenue.

4. Product search goes social: Today’s customers are tech-savvy and informed. 84% of people surveyed said they trust online reviews as a recommendation. Hence social proof like reviews, shares, likes, mentions, etc. are important. While you are busy advertising, your prospect is most likely looking for social recommendations or the popularity of your product. He is most likely to turn to social media to discover this information. According to a Globalwebindex report, 28 percent of users turned to social networks during their online product research. As users continue to flock to social media platforms, it is possible that social would go on to trump search for product research.



5. Social commerce – hit the buy button: The next logical step, when a user discovers you on social media is to provide him with a call-to-action. Social has commerce channels and can provide an easy, breezy shopping experience for users.

Marketers can supplement their ads with a buy button to optimize conversions. The addition of a buy button can eliminate the step needed for a website visit or app download. Though this trend hasn’t caught up yet, it can certainly add value and improve conversion rates.

6. Step up your sell game: People are hooked to online as well as offline games. Can you deny the popularity of Pokemon Go, Clash of Clans, Candy Crush and so many more? With 66% of men and 70% of women playing mobile games, and 54% of gamers being in the age group 25-44, games are popular across most demographics.

Brands can take this as a cue to investing in gaming apps for ads, creating exciting games for brand awareness, educating their customers, and making some sales in the process.



7. Insights get more profound: There is no shortage of data from social media marketing efforts. As more people converge on social channels, pulling data from different platforms and monitoring usage and preferences, can help you gather rich insights into consumer behavior and understand the customer journey better.

8. Unique content: There is too much noise out there, with everyone churning out content at a fast pace. Now, the need is to create customized content for every individual. It may sound ambitious, but an extraordinary amount of data you now have access to, along with emerging technologies, it seems possible. Most social media platforms are already customizing a user’s newsfeed based on his likes, clicks, and preferences. This trend will continue to grow, and marketers will serve content and ads handpicked for an individual.

9. Niche platforms for targeting: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. cater to mass audiences, but platforms like LinkedIn make it easier to connect with a specific niche. Niche social platforms will gain popularity and make it easier for marketers to focus on a particular user base.

Related Article: YOUR Video Content Is King?


10. Power of AI: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in vogue. Combined with machine learning (ML), AI can help you automate mundane, repetitive tasks, perform predictive analytics, offer personalized recommendations, and engage your customers. Marketers will leverage AI along with social media data to:

--Offer product recommendations
--Make chatbots to provide customer support
--Use ML algorithms to craft personalized and relevant messages
--Identify business issues

Now that you know what’s to come in social media marketing, how are you preparing for the future? Let us know in the comments below.

Guest Authored By Vandita Grover. Vandita is a Computer Lecturer by profession at the University of Delhi. She has previously worked as a Software Engineer with Aricent Technologies. Vandita writes for MarTech Advisor as a freelance contributor. Follow Vandita on Twitter.





Social media marketing is essential to any marketing strategy in an era where everyone is online.

In fact, the sheer number of social media users in the world in 2025 – 3.196 billion – is staggering.

Social media won’t remain the same as it is now. What counts as a trend today will be obvious tomorrow..


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      Fred Hansen Pied Piper of Social Media Marketing at GetMoreHere.com & CEO of Millennium 7 Publishing Co. in Loveland, CO. where I work deep in the trenches of social media strategy, community management and trends.  My interests include; online business educator, social media marketing, new marketing technology, skiing, hunting, fishing and The Rolling Stones..-Not necessarily in that order ;)
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    Wednesday, May 2, 2018

    YOUR Social Media And Brand Future?


    Brands and social media will work differently in the future..

    It used to be true that to sell a consumer product like a dress or a man’s jacket you had to answer three questions:

    --Does it fit?
    --Does it look great?
    --Is it priced right?



    Those questions are still very important but now they’re only part of what you need to address.

    What younger consumers want now is values. Things like authenticity, environmental friendliness, fair wages for all workers, artisanal products, local production, ethical behavior and transparency are all important now. These values are not as easily transmitted to consumers as the first three in the bullets above.

    The way companies communicate their values is by creating content and that content is conveyed via social media. Almost all consumers who use social media follow at least one brand. Content has become a critical component of a brand’s presentation and value. Brands that create great, relevant, convincing, authentic content get their followers to buy their products and it’s a great way to stay in front of consumers and build repeat customers.



    If you create an image, you usually own the rights to that image. If the image generates income, it’s usually the creator who benefits from that income.

    That is mostly not true on social media. While there are some people who make money from their social media, influencers for example, most of the money is made by the social media company itself. If you post an image on Facebook, you probably won’t make money from it but Facebook can. The more people you get to look at that image, the more money Facebook can make and the same is true for other big social media like Instagram, Twitter, Linked In, You Tube, Pinterest and virtually all others. We’ve all gotten used to that arrangement so it doesn’t seem strange.

    But imagine this: What if you had a telephone interview and got a job offer from it? Or what if you made a big sale by email? Would the phone company or your email provider be entitled to share in the income from that job or sale? You would think that’s crazy. Yet, when you provide images or text that generates traffic on social media, you don’t make anything from it but the big social media providers often do.



    Social media is like a big pot that you put your content in and you can permission other people to look at the stuff you put in the pot.

    Because the social media company controls the pot, they get to make money from advertisers who put their ads next to your content on their site. Their fee for managing your content is the advertising revenue they collect. Last year over $40 billion was paid to Facebook, primarily through advertising revenue. The value of Facebook in the market today is over $450 billion.

    It doesn’t have to work this way. Changes in technology happening now will allow content creators to benefit financially from the content they create and post on social media. It is based on a technology you’ve probably heard about (and probably makes your eyes glaze over when you hear it) called blockchain. Conceptually, blockchain technology eliminates the need for intermediaries. That’s the role the big social media companies are playing and blockchain is a threat to them. Blockchain eliminates the need for the pot that holds your images, videos and texts and that takes away their control. In fact, it displaces their presence entirely. Most of the $40 billion that Facebook collects annually will wind up going to the creators of the content. That will wipe out the value of the company to its shareholders. In fact, it could just wipe out the company.



    When that happens and the revenue that social media companies now get goes to the creators of content, a lot of talent will be drawn to creating social media posts.

    Brands that now have to spend a lot to create their social media feeds will find a new stream of revenue. They will be incentivized to make their social media more compelling and entertaining. It will be a new stream of revenue for many brands and in a world where margins are under pressure, it will make a big difference. You can already sample what great content looks like on a consumer site. If you check out Glossier and their affiliated site Into The Gloss, or NetAPorter and their editorial, or Food52 and their related shop, you can start to see how great content and products work together and help each other. This is just the beginning. When there’s an economic incentive, there’ll be video and entertainment that will support brands and move even more entertainment time away from TV and on to your phone and computer.



    How Will It Work?

    The user experience of blockchain-based social media will not be vastly different from what you experience today. If you’re familiar with extensions on your browser software, there’ll likely be an extension for each of the social media platforms you engage with.

    It would be as if Facebook, Instagram and others were buttons on your browser that open up the software you use to engage on social media. What’s different is how it is handled in the ways you don’t see. When you use blockchain, everything remains on your computer and not on Facebook’s. More important, it stays under your control. You’ll permission the friends and contacts you choose to see your information or you can choose to let anyone see it in much the same way you do now. The more people you can get to look at your information, the greater the allocation of cryptocurrency you’ll receive and that’s convertible into money.



    Who’s Going To Do This?

    There’s a broad range of companies developing the structure that will replace the big social media companies. What makes me confident that it will happen is that the technology exists, no new fundamental technologies have to be developed for this system to work. What’s not developed is who will be the winners in the new structure. Think about the early days of any industry involving technological change. A lot of entrepreneurs jump in with good ideas and eventually the winners emerge. Here are some candidates that already exist today:

    Steemit – Steemit is a site that works like Reddit. It’s a giant bulletin board capable of handling millions of ongoing text-based conversations simultaneously. It exists today, you can join it right now and if you generate real content and real views on Steemit, you will get a cryptocurrency called STEEM that has value you can turn into money and spend.



    DataWallet – I wrote above that using blockchain, you could permission people to see your content. Along with that, you can also permission advertisers to post ads on your content and to monitor the ads that are presented to you. DataWallet allows you to be the one who collects most of the advertising revenue that comes from the content you create. You set the switches that give the permissions that drive the revenue. When you use their tool your content is measurable and it turns into revenue for you.

    Blockstack – They are building infrastructure that are systems that other companies (like the two above) can use if they want to create their software. If you think about Microsoft Windows, it’s not a program you use, it’s a system that other people build programs for. In this new structure, Blockstack works as the foundation of the network that facilitates the creation of other programs.



    What The Future Holds

    Economics encourages rewards going to the people who create value. Over time, the market will incentivize the people who drive internet traffic with the appropriate reward. When that happens, brands will see quickly that the better their content, the more revenue it will create and ultimately the more products it will sell. Content creation will likely explode. You could see how the interests of brands and production studios could align. The possibilities created by these changes are very broad.

    One caveat – you can’t predict with certainty what will happen with technology. There are some naysayers about blockchain but every day we are hearing about more and more uses for it. The way that brands and retailers interact with social media is important now and that is only going to grow as time goes on.

    Guest Authored By Richard Kestenbaum. Richards firm, Triangle Capital LLC, does mergers, acquisitions and capital-raising for companies in fashion, retail, and consumer products. Follow Richard on Twitter.





    "If you’d like to hear more on the subject, here’s a podcast in which I am interviewed about this topic at the retail trade show Shoptalk.

    It’s just under 12 minutes.." -Richard Kestenbaum


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