Using Social Media the right way to develop your brand and build your business is not as easy as you might think. Unless you know exactly what you are doing, your Social Media (SM) efforts could simply be a waste of time. However thanks to Dee Kumar I now know the magic formula for using SM correctly!
First it is important to understand the purpose of Branding and why you must develop a Brand. A brand will always outlast any product, it is the brand that people actually buy into, so if you put in the work now and focus on your brand, you will reap the rewards for years to come.
According to Dee Kumar, there are three key objectives of branding. I will not reveal this here, however what I will say is that they are strongly aligned to the three key objectives of a business. Sorry I can’t say much more than this, you’ll have to invest in the Online Marketing MBA course to get the full picture. However, I hope I have illustrated that branding is key to any business (it must be if it is aligned to your business objectives, right?).
Social Media is one tool that can help with branding. However not all businesses will need to use SM, it’s important to look at your business and decide whether this applies or not, by using SM will you actually damage your brand? How do you figure this out? Buy the Online Marketing MBA course and Dee Kumar will reveal all!
However if you decide SM is right for your business, then why should you be using it? The simple answer is to reach your customers, but more importantly, to increase sales! There are around 350 million users on Twitter and over 500 million users on Facebook, does that ring alarm bells? It should!
Dee showed us around 15 research examples of why you should use Social Media to increase your businesses profitability, but more importantly, how you should use it correctly. This research was all recent too, so you know it is relevant to you and your business today.
Most companies using SM just try to gain hundreds and thousands of followers (via Twitter) and fans (via Facebook), then they spam them to death with their sale offers. This is the traditional method that many marketers used, and still use today. So this is must be how you use Social Media the right way? Wrong, no way!!
All of Dee’s research which is based on proven cold hard facts, point to one overriding factor that you simply must be using Social Media for. It is this one thing that will increase sales, build customer loyalty, and essentially your brand. What is this highly sought after ingredient that most marketers are missing? I’m sorry but you should know by now I can’t just giveaway Dee’s secrets for free, just buy the Online Marketing MBA course, I promise you will not regret it.
What I will say though, is that thanks to this lesson, Dee has helped me to formulate my very own Social Media marketing strategy. I will also be safe in the knowledge that I will be using Social Media the right way, and will see sales increase as a consequence, magic!


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Catherine Ford
177 days ago
Brilliant lesson wasn’t it?
Dave
177 days ago
Yes it was a real eye opener Catherine.