Author: David Skul
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Contrary to prior assumptions, social media has traversed the fad stage and transformed itself from a teenager based model to a full-scale marketing medium.
Social media marketing is here to stay and it brings with it tremendous changes to users' internet experiences as well as significant changes in the marketing techniques used by online businesses. Social media marketing effectively straddles the territory between virtual worlds and the real world, offering marketers as well as customers, unprecedented opportunities for delving into previously unknown territories.
If you are engaged in trying to sell your products or services online, it is absolutely critical to exploit this web 2.0 trend by implementing essential features that will make your web site social-media friendly.
The components of social media dramatically increase your potential of attracting repeat visitors who will also feel compelled to stay longer and buy more.
Social media marketing in a virtual world is immersive and real and is rapidly becoming a realistic means for reaching users as well as influencing their behaviors and attitudes in ways that never before possible. When designing your web site, it is important to keep in mind the kind of experience you are offering your customers.
Web users, who increasingly experience innovative forms of interactions in other web 2.0 compliant sites, are likely to expect the same level of interactivity when they visit your site. Failing to give your customers what they want could is a sure way to frustrate them at best and lose them entirely at worst.
Social media marketing employs tools such as blogging, RSS, tagging and podcasting to enhance the interactivity between marketers and consumers. It also includes social networking through sites such as FaceBook and MySpace and social picture and video sharing through sites like Flickr and YouTube as well as community-based content ranking through inventive sites such as MiniClip and Digg. The defining element of all these sites is that content is user generated and is used for end-user dissemination.
Thousands and thousands of people visit virtual worlds, each of them with an agenda of their own. Some come to play and seek out entertainment; others come to learn and seek out information. Several marketers try to sell their products and services online; many, many more are online looking for products and services to buy.
More than anything else, people enter Virtual Worlds looking for like-minded people to interact with. When you gear up your site for Web 2.0 marketing, you are giving your consumers everything they are looking for; a product they are interested in, a means of interacting with other people who are in accord with them as well as access to the collective wisdom of the crowds.
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