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Some of the beauty and real value of social media, no matter if you are a big corporation, a small business or an individual, is the possibility to connect with people and create new and perhaps unexpected relations. These new relations can become very valuable: it can mean new business opportunities, new knowledge or new like-minded people you can have a joined passion with.
Lately I have made a lot unexpected and new relations. Mostly it’s with like-minded people who I can share knowledge with and use to build my business.
I would like to share one of these new online relations with you. It’s a guy who wants to build a community across boarders of marketers and people interested in social marketing. So, actually I not only share this one guy with you, but also a whole bunch of new interesting people around the globe.
When asked to help build this community as co-founder, we at Mindjumpers could not say no. It’s just too valuable and interesting to meet new people with similar interests. So when you join please look me up, if I am not the one greeting you welcome.
The forum called Social Marketing Forum is hosted on Ning. But instead of me telling you about it, I will let the founder’s words be the introduction.
Nearly all marketing trend surveys show that marketers plan to invest more in social media marketing.
Bigmouthmedia and Econsultancy showed in their ‘Social Media and Online PR Report’ that 86% of the more than 1,100 surveyed UK companies and agencies are planning to invest more money in social media this year. Surveys in other countries, including the US, report similar findings.
It’s obvious that the social media revolution will continue to influence all areas of marketing and even sales. So the question is not if you should start looking at social media marketing but where to start.
Many businesses hire experts, visit events, buy books or start following so-called social media marketing experts. However, by doing so, you risk being overwhelmed by information that in the end doesn’t help you any further.
The importance of peer advice.
As a marketer you probably have very precise questions and concerns, just like any other marketer. Some have more experience than others but everybody learns by trial and error. So why not use the social media themselves and join a good community. Precise answer to your specific questions is what you seek, peer advice is the way to get it.
There are various communities that bring together marketers from all over the world to ask questions to their peers and share their ideas and insights. Marketers looking for information about social media marketing can, for instance, subscribe for free to the Social Marketing Forum.
This online community, which focuses on an international audience is not for social media marketing experts.
It aims to reach both marketers who have experience with social media marketing and want to share their insights with others, and marketers who have questions regarding social media marketing and can count on the community for free advice.
Members can ask questions in the forum, start discussions, post their social media marketing cases to enable other members to see how social media marketing works, in reality, get to know other marketers from other countries, add events, blog posts, etc.
To take a look and subscribe, here is the URL: www.socialmarketingforum.eu
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