Visual Social Marketing
Dr. Chandrani Singh,
Dr. Abiresh Abraham
Ajit Pandey
FIRST EDITION 2019
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ISBN: 978-93-88176-49-1
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Preface
The book on Visual Social Media is written for students, social media lovers and professionals who aspire to use social media platforms for various business tasks. The book is drafted with a comprehensive vision of exploring the usage of social media platforms for various marketing and branding campaigns. Business is transforming from conventional to modern approach on all verticals, to be able to survive and out-perform in this era is not as easy as it used to be. Social media is platform which can facilitate the business with larger population than any other marketing medium.
The first chapter of this book is about difference between conventional and social media marketing. The chapter precisely explains various strategies which makes social media marketing more effective and result oriented. The chapter gives brief introduction about various popular social media platforms and their application in social media marketing. The second chapter helps in understanding the risk factor and remedies of social media platforms. This chapter also gives insights about different tools used for social media marketing. Recent trends and practices in social media marketing is also included in this chapter.
The third chapter elaborates on social media marketing platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Google Plus etc. This chapter is more about actual marketing techniques and rules used in social media marketing. This chapter includes various content forms which are used for social media campaigning. Along with content forms, this chapter also includes recommended and balanced strategies for posting and publishing the contents.
The fourth chapter mainly talks about Podcasts, short videos and YouTube marketing strategies. Performance analysis, video marketing analysis and podcast integration is also included in this chapter.
The fifth chapter elaborates on Facebook, twitter and Instagram marketing. Right from profile creation to paid marketing setup to performance analysis of campaigns, everything is discussed in this chapter. This chapter also emphasizes on the use of social media marketing for product and services. This chapter is written to help professionals and newbies to begin using Facebook, twitter and Instagram platforms for free and paid marketing.
The sixth chapter is about Google, Google Plus, Wordpress and Pinterest. This chapter explores the other category of social media i.e. blogs. Wordpress and blogger.com are two blogging platforms discussed in this chapter at business and technical level. This chapter will help reader to understanding the use of blogging in professional marketing and branding.
The seventh chapter is all about various tools used for content development. This chapter elaborates on use of many online and offline tools used for creating high quality Image, graphics, infographics, videos, animations etc. This chapter also talks about various blogging tools along with tools like Prezi and storify which are nowadays very popular among digital marketers.
This book is sequenced and written to touch all the major and minor aspects of digital as well as visual social media campaigning. The content, example, diagrams used in this book are very well tested and validated against real time scenarios and case studies. Almost all popular social media platforms are discussed in detail to help reader in becoming versatile social media marketer.
Acknowledgement
We sincerely thank Almighty for having blessed us with the requisite communication skills and giving us a chance to serve the society especially the millenials of this era in the form of dissemination of knowledge and wisdom. We are extremely indebted also to our mentors; peers and family members without whose strong support and encouragement such a noble initiative would not have been possible. Presenting a book on this upcoming marketing technique has been a weighty task for all of us right from the point of content preparation, to assimilation, to assessments and we invite criticisms and insights from all stakeholders and experts of this domain to improve on the subject matter, case scenarios for effective upgradation from a scholastic view point.
Last but not the least an endorsement to our very own profession which has been an underlying forte in our scholarly pursuit of delivering this manuscript.
Dr Chandrani Singh
-Dr. Abiresh Abraham
-Ajit Pandey
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Basics of Visual Social Media Marketing
Chapter 2: Impact of Visual Social Media
Chapter 3: Social Media Marketing Strategies
Chapter 4: Using Video for Social Media Marketing
Chapter 5: Inbound Marketing: An Introduction
Chapter 6: Visual Social Media Marketing Tools II
Chapter 7: Advanced Tools for Visual Social Media Marketing
CHAPTER
Basics of Visual Social Media Marketing
Objectives
This chapter will enable the reader to:
Gain knowledge on recent trends and understand the concept of visual social marketing
Tuned to various social media platforms and get a know on their working methodology.
Get a fair idea on the usage of social media and benefits received.
Adept to the introduction of visual social marketing strategies.
Caselet - Implementing of visuals for marketing by a company to enhance click through rate
This is the case about a nursery that sells trees, plants, creepers ,flower bulbs and garden accessories under the horticulture division of a particular state. The teams content repository was so enriched that it helped masses to take care of their garden. They also had a web application, which was at its initial stage and wasnt able to reach their target audience or in other words was not able to initiate a reaction from the target audience. The audience would only flip through the web pages but were not subscribing to the email list or were buying any item or commenting on the web repository. Since the nursery was under a specific horticulture department, they got guidelines to quickly design banner ads and set up a quick A/B split test, by using Visual Website Optimizer. The banner ads information page generated more than hundred percent plus visits to the top deals page and fifty five percent increase in subscription and thirty three percent increase in sales and below is the sample of the banner ad which helped them to achieve the same. (Fig 1)