2. The Increasing Importance of Social Media and Social Marketing on the Web
Weber observes that marketing’s role has changed, and the social web is promoting that change. Marketing’s traditional tools for getting the word out are growing rusty. The explosion of media choice has undermined the mass marketing model. There are new rules for measuring marketing success in a social web context. Weber maintains the new marketing creates the platform of true interactivity.The best web sites will combine professional and user-generated content. Viral marketing is word-of-mouth over which you have no control. The new marketing will be collateral-free. Weber reasons that recruiting to the social web consists of two toolkits: digital media marketing and digital media relations. Facebook is defi ning an age of non-intrusive marketing. The social web is not just a channel or another medium for marketing messages.
Sterne claims that search is a regular part of regular online marketing and not a
social media activity. Doing old things in new ways is essential when it comes to online marketing and measuring online marketing. Driving results through social media has become an important component of the marketing strategy.
Kotler and Lee believe that social marketing can help people move up and out of poverty: social marketing has been applied to influence behaviors that reduced poverty and improved the quality of lives. Social marketing develops constructive approaches to support desired behavior changes. Commercial marketing uses a set of principles and practices that can be applied effectively in the social realm. Social marketing relies heavily on voluntary compliance. Social marketing initiatives are likely to require new and different ways of doing business for the nonprofit, providing an important solution for corporations that want to contribute to poverty reduction. Les-kovec et al. claim that viral marketing exploits existing social networks by encouraging customers to share product information with their friends. Some services used by individuals to communicate are natural candidates for viral marketing. Viral marketing is a diffusion of information about the product and its adoption over the network. Leskovec et al. examine the properties of the recommendation network in relation to viral marketing.