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Social Media to build reputation and strengthen brand

Social Media to build reputation and strengthen brand

The term social media can be defined as a group of Internet-based applications that are build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, which allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Social media is relatively inexpensive and can reach both small and large audiences effectively. Social media has many different forms like forums, blogs, social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, wikis, howtos and micro blogging.
In the present age of technological advancements and emerging technologies the World Wide Web is destined to play a vital role in the lives of people. It affects every person, every business and every company and so the importance of social media in business can never be neglected. With millions of people using social networking sites, social bookmarking sites, blogs and micro blogging services it presents a market whose impact on business can be pivotal. A website is the identity of your business, company or organization on internet. It allows you to reach customers and consumers sitting thousands of miles away and plays a vital part in promoting and expanding your business. But websites like social networking, social bookmarking and blogs have a much wider area of impact and they affect millions of people’s decisions. A successful image building campaign on any of these websites can drastically improve your company’s reputation and  earnings.
In the past it had been observed that companies who maintained their online presence performed much better than those who neglected this aspect. Here one can ask how could social media strengthen your brand and improve reputation and how these goals can be accomplished by the use of social media. We will try to answer these questions one by one.
Let us first discover how social media can improve your reputation. Everyday millions of people access and use these social media websites in one form or other, Facebook, a popular social media site alone has more than 500 million users. These people again in turn are direct or indirect customers of companies. When they see the online presence of a brand which they like, it gives them a feeling that this company really valued their money and is caring and considerate to be trusted in future. By effectively using social media tools you can not only advertise your brand to a market of billions, you can also receive feedback from users and answer their questions and concerns. According to research it  had been proved that social media advertising campaigns are far more economical and give better and permanent results in the long run. Some of the methods of advertising are totally free and yet far more expensive than the advertising techniques used by the industrial media.
Now we would move on to the real question, how this goal must be accomplished? To use social media effectively you have to build your social authority. Building social authority means that you have to prove yourself to be the best and most authentic source of information on internet. The competition here is much stronger than the industrial media and you really have to be the expert in your field to prove yourself. After achieving this goal you become the influencer in your field and people would believe you and respect your opinion.



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