organic reach
Although 95% of business-to-business (B2B) companies have set up social media accounts, only half are actually using them regularly. In addition, 60% of respondents weren’t using any Social Media Intelligence (SMI) tools on their active accounts, according to a recent study by SiriusDecisions.
Even though we know that using Facebook and Twitter to gain organic reach is next to impossible now, it’s still important to monitor social media accounts for customer service purposes. That includes customer and prospect questions and inquiries, issues, problems, and compliments. If you ignore these social media channels, customers may not seek out your business in other channels, hence you’d lose an opportunity to engage with them.
Here’s the infographic based on this research: Continue reading
I’ll 
bet your small business or nonprofit organization spends considerable time on its Facebook page and Twitter account trying to engage new people. After all, aren’t these two social media sites the most effective in reaching prospects, customers, and donors?
Not anymore says a recent Forrester study. “It’s clear that Facebook and Twitter don’t offer the relationships that marketing leaders crave. Yet most brands still use these sites as the centerpiece of their social efforts — thereby wasting significant financial, technological, and human resources on social networks that don’t deliver value,” says Nate Elliott of Forrester.
Now get this… “In the next 18 months… Facebook will become nothing but a repository for display ads,” Elliott predicts. Holy!!
So now what? Continue reading
Targeting younger audiences with your Facebook ads? Ma
ybe it’s time to rethink your social media marketing strategy. They’re spending way less than older audiences.
First, here’s some background why paid Facebook ads have increased…
Based on a recent study by Nanigans, we’re learning that organic reach on Facebook is shrinking, so marketers are investing in paid advertising to maintain performance. This corroborates Social@Ogilvy research released in February of this year which demonstrated the average reach of organic posts had declined from 12.05% in October 2013 to 6.15% in February 2014.
In fact, Facebook stated that increased competition for limited space in news feeds was the reason for brands getting less exposure.
So, if your business or nonprofit is now paying for Facebook ads in order to stand out and generate revenue, you’d think your efforts would be fairly effective, right? Well, not if it’s targeting younger audiences. Continue reading
