...successful companies use social media? By Nora Ganim Barnes 8 Spring 2010 Tweeting and blogging to the top The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, under the direction of researchers Barnes and Mattson, recently conducted a new in-depth and statistically significant study on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations. This new study revisits the Center’s study of Inc. 500 social media usage for the third consecutive year, making it a valuable and rare longitudinal study of corporate use of these new technologies. (For a complete list and executive summaries see www.umassd.edu/cmr.) The new study compares adoption of social media over the last three years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Inc. 500, a list of the fastestgrowing private U.S. companies compiled annually by Inc. magazine. The 2009 Inc. 500 list was released in the September issue of Inc. magazine. In this third iteration, 30 percent (148) of the Inc. 500 participated. The companies include five of the top 10, 12 of the top 25 and 38 of the top 100 companies from the Inc. 500 list. All interviews were conducted with the chief marketing officer or other marketing professional at each company. Questions probed respondents about their familiarity with six prominent social media tools (blogging, podcasting, online video, social networking, message boards and wikis). This included the popular micro blogging service Twitter and other popular social networking sites like...
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...Sandra Submission date: 29th October 2012 STUDENT PARTICULARS Name: Xu Tieyang Student ID no: SCM-016679 Course: Bachelor of Business Management (Hons) Password: G54049654 Table of Content 1.0 Introduction on social media -------------------------------------------------------------3 2.1 Explain the meaning of social media---------------------------------------------3 2.2 Provide example of social media------------------------------------------------3 2.3 Explain the usage of social media in global businesses---------------------5 2.0 The advantages and opportunities created by social media------------------------5 3.0 disadvantages of social media----------------------------------------------------------7 4.0 Conclusion--------------------------------------------------------------------------------9 5.0 Reference-------------------------------------------------------------------------------10-11 1.0 Introduction on social media 1.1 Explain the meaning of social media These are so many examples for social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. Here, that’s sure you heard all these words, you should add it in the lowest on other three website list, and then start from scratch to find. But you know what social media is?? Social media is a kind of online media type, can speed up the steps of the traditional media's dialogue. The latter providing content, but does not allow the readers, the audience...
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...Stodder , D . ( 2012 ) . Customer analytics in the age of social media : TDWI best practices report Cary : SAS Institute . (039032) T DW I R E S E A R C H T DW I BE S T P R AC T ICE S RE P O R T THIRD QUARTER 2012 CUSTOMER ANALYTICS IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA By David Stodder CO-SPONSORED BY tdwi.org Third QUArTEr 2012 TDWI besT pracTIces reporT CuSToMEr A n A ly T IC S In T HE AGE of SoCI A l MEdI A By David Stodder Table of Contents Executive Summary Research Methodology and Demographics 3 4 5 Customer Analytics and the Social Media Frontier Stepping into the Age of Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 The Importance of Customer Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Benefits and Barriers to Implementation 10 Business Benefits Sought from Customer Analytics . . . . . . . . . . 10 Barriers to Adoption of Customer Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 role of Analytics in Increasing Marketing roI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Analytics Tools, Data Sources, and Techniques 17 BI, olAP, and data discovery for Customer Analytics . . . . . . . . . 18 In-Memory Computing for More rapid discovery Analysis . . . . . . . 20 Predictive Analytics, data Mining, and Advanced Statistics Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 filling the role of the data Scientist...
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...|MKTG 3596 - Integrated Marketing Communications |Instructor: Charles F. Byers | |Lec. #94665 |Office: Lucas Hall 216W | |Santa Clara University |Phone: 408-310-9244 | |MBA Winter 2014 |E-mail: cbyers@scu.edu & byers.charles@ yahoo.com | |Meeting Times: Sat. – 8:30 – 11:15 p.m. |Office Hours: Sat. 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. or by appointment | |Meeting Place: Lucas Hall 307 | | Integrated Marketing Communications Textbooks & Materials Byers & Barr, “Integrated Marketing Communications Custom Edition for Santa Clara University 3E”: Pearson Learning Solutions, 2014. CoursePack Reader – “Marketing 596 – Winter 2014” Course Description This course is designed as an introduction to the concept and practice of integrated marketing communications (IMC). It takes the participant through communication, marketing, branding, and integrated marketing theory, planning and IMC program coordination. The course also addresses the marketing communications tactics of advertising, public relations, direct...
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...SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Bizuayehu D. Weretaw Submitted to: Professor Yohannes Abate, PhD. Contemporary Business (BUS508) Strayer University, Takoma Park Campus November, 2013 Introduction In these days of technology, our daily activities and social interactions are becoming dependent on social media. This is not limited to people who are living in most advanced countries but in less technologically advanced countries as well. This, in other word, indicates that social media has become a global phenomena. Published and unpublished sources show that over a billion of people around the globe visit social media at some time regardless of the amount and nature of use. Understanding the ever growing number of subscribers, software programmers are developing various social media platforms considering the cultural and linguistic background of the user society. The most popular social media sites, as most of witness or could guess, are the Facebook and Twitter but the Chinese Qzone, the Orkut of the Brazilian (which is owned by Google), Friendster of the Malaysian and other less popular social media platforms are already in the market being visited by their respective users. Some of these social media take in the form of social networks, some others take in the form of internet forums, social blogs, pictures and videos, etc. For individual user, social media may be entertaining or the user have fun simply by interacting with his friends or groupies or listen to a...
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...Effects of Social Media on Hospitality/Tourism Name: Institution: Date: Introduction Since the turn of the century, there has been an upsurge in the use of social media. As a result, many tourism organizations that include hotels, travel agencies, and airline companies have started using the internet as one of the important tools in marketing and communication strategies. Many businesses within the hospitality industry rely on good reviews from their customers, and social media is offering this as a natural marketing tool (Bennet, 2012). The use of social media have become very widespread, and the travelers use these sites consistently to brag about their great experiences as well as express displeasure with poor experiences. This is a natural way through which the social media is impacting the hospitality and tourism industry. After realizing the power of social media, businesses are also leveraging on the wide presence of customers in social media to communicate, engage, and market their services and products to the customers (Guzel & Sengun, 2015). The growth of social media has had immense impacts on social media that range from marketing, communication, and even corporate social responsibility. This paper conducts a literature review on the effects of social media on hospitality and tourism. Literature Review According to Mahmood A Khan (2012), the benefits of social media can be very helpful in marketing and management in hospitality and tourism. He states...
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...Effects of Social Media on Hospitality/Tourism Name: Institution: Date: Introduction Since the turn of the century, there has been an upsurge in the use of social media. As a result, many tourism organizations that include hotels, travel agencies, and airline companies have started using the internet as one of the important tools in marketing and communication strategies. Many businesses within the hospitality industry rely on good reviews from their customers, and social media is offering this as a natural marketing tool (Bennet, 2012). The use of social media have become very widespread, and the travelers use these sites consistently to brag about their great experiences as well as express displeasure with poor experiences. This is a natural way through which the social media is impacting the hospitality and tourism industry. After realizing the power of social media, businesses are also leveraging on the wide presence of customers in social media to communicate, engage, and market their services and products to the customers (Guzel & Sengun, 2015). The growth of social media has had immense impacts on social media that range from marketing, communication, and even corporate social responsibility. This paper conducts a literature review on the effects of social media on hospitality and tourism. Literature Review According to Mahmood A Khan (2012), the benefits of social media can be very helpful in marketing and management in hospitality and tourism. He states...
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... | |MEDIA MANAGEMENT | | | | Abstract: Media has played a major part in building and managing the country after 1990’s. It has played both a constructive and destructive role in communicating information to its viewers. Organizations have been aware of this might of media for quite some time now. The partnerships between organizations and media channels and the way in which orgs manage media play a huge role in the way it affects their business. Ex. FMCG companies, entertainment companies, e-commerce companies understand that marketing can’t happen and product can’t sell unless media upholds it. Hence the partnership between orgs and media needs to be seen as an art of media management now. Media can both build and destroy the reputation of any entity in this country. Hence it is extremely careful how media is managed and used in the best possible manner in order to derive benefits instead of creating issues. Media targeted by organizations/entities for marketing are basically of three formats. • Print media Marketing – through Newspapers, magazines, books etc. • Audio / Visual Media Marketing – through Television, movies, radio, youtube...
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...to Business Social Media And Marketing There has been a tremendous amount of change in the global markets in the past few years. This has predominantly due to the fact that there is a shift in the consumer mindset, consumption patterns, changes in demography and organizational attitude brought through by advancement in technology. This has led to a change in marketing strategies and practices across the world. Marketing thinkers and companies are prompted to frequently re-think their strategies and adopt new theoretical and practical approaches to address specific marketing changes and also to think beyond the scope of traditional marketing theories (Constantinides, E, 2006). A majority of the changes were influenced by the advent of internet and easy accessibility of users to this medium of communication. The internet has grown to become a highly accepted source of information and consumers can now benefit from the expanded range of timely and relevant product-related information accessible through the internet as quite rightly pointed out by Quelch and Klein (1996, cited Soumava 2001 ). In these changed circumstances prevalence of Social Media tools like YouTube, Podcasts, Wikipedia, Blogs etc has prompted businesses to adopt these as an effective and potent marketing and promotional tool and is changing the face of conventional media. Fernando suggests that social media offers phenomenal opportunities to marketers with fewer pitfalls. Today Social Media refers to an intersection...
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...e Promoting Small Businesses through Using Social Media Abstract This research is an examination of how small businesses promoting their businesses through using social media. Now a day’s people are more dependent on social networking sites. People specially the young spent most of their times in the social media. At present the social media is not only the place of time pass, but also the place where, care and share out life style. Small businesses generate businesses through social networking sites where members share stories and recommend products and services. Social media gives small businesses a platform to increase their voice and visibility among prospective customers. For many small businesses, this is a big opportunity, to enhance their businesses. This research try to find to examine some key areas of social media and small businesses: Promotion structure, Development, Platform, Effects of using social media, why social media works better for small businesses, Social media usage, Social media adaption. Introduction Media is an instrument on communication, like a newspaper or a radio, so social media would be a social instrument of communication. Social media consists of the effort to use social media to influence consumers that one's company, products or services are valuable. Businesses use social media, because they want to sell their products or services to others. Social media is a type of marketing that many small businesses could benefit from...
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...Social Media Marketing Abstract Keywords: social media marketing, advantages, electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM), disadvantages. Introduction Marketing is a well-built methodological science and is continuously changing its rules to adapt to the new developments. Internet development and especially social media is one of the recent changes that happened to the market and it has a major impact on the communication between the firms and customers. Internet helps people to share, to create, to adjust content, and to get informed. It has certain characteristics (Peterson et al., 1997) such as: * Stores vast amounts of information at different virtual locations inexpensively * Distributes, searches, and organizes the information powerfully and inexpensively * Serves as a transaction medium * Low cost and easy entrance * Serves as a physical distribution medium for certain goods such as software. Social media is different from traditional media as it provides quality, regularity, usability, proximity, and eternity, which makes it efficient for the firms. According to a report from the Center of Marketing Research (CMR), more large companies are using social media to promote their brand online (Belicove, 2012). The introduction of social media to the market has changed the way businesses operate and advertise. The largest mediums have been pages such as Facebook, Pinterest, FourSquare, Youtube, and Twitter. In 2012, the yearly report showed that large companies...
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...Maureen Okoeguale Dfanni’s House of Fashion Final Course Project Report MKTG522 – Marketing Management Professor Lynne Pryor August 24th, 2015 DeVry University Table of Contents Executive Summary: …………………………………………………..3 Introduction: …………………………………………………………3 IMC Objectives: ……………………………………………………….4 Market Analysis: ………………………………………………………5 Communications Strategy Plans: …………………………………….6 Traditional Media: …………………………………………………….6 Internet: ……………………………………………………………….6 Direct Marketing: …………………………………………………….7 Sales Promotion: ……………………………………………………..7 Public Relations: ……………………………………………………..7 Communications Schedule: ……………………………………………8 Budget Evaluation: …………………………………………………….9 Conclusion: ………………………………………………………….....10 Reference Page: ………………………………………………………..11 Executive Summary The mission of Dfanni’s House of Fashion is to offer the best quality designer brands and styles from around the world at fair and competitive prices. Provide world class customer service and deliver excellent customer shopping experience that’s entertaining for the kids and relaxing/pleasing for adult shoppers. We will thrive at becoming the world’s greatest premier retail store, offering innovative and creative merchandise, and most importantly, using more technology and directing the company’s resources towards those fundamentals that are core to our customers. Prior to now, our company has only operated virtually generating $10 million and $15 million U.S. dollars of revenues in years 2013 and 2014 respectively...
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...Studies ISSN 2224-607X (Paper) ISSN 2225-0565 (Online) Vol.4, No.21, 2014 www.iiste.org Impact of Social Media on Organizational Culture: Evidence from Pakistan Muhammad Arslan (Corresponding Author) M.Phil,Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan, PO box 44000, E-8, Islamabad, Pakistan Email: MuhammadArslan73@gmail.com Rashid Zaman M.Phil Scholar,Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan, PO box 44000, E-8, Islamabad, Pakistan Email: Rashidzamantanoli@gmail.com Abstract This paper investigates the impact of social Media on Organizational culture. The approach used in this paper was to give the application and significance of development of Social media for organizations. With an introduction to social media, organizational culture is focused by studying communication, business focus, workplace harmony, workplace behaviors, and business discipline. A self-administered survey is used to collect responses from employees working at different organizations through e-mail and various social media tools. The main result of the research is the validation of the research framework of employees operating in the SME’s of Pakistan. It has been found that organizational culture is considerably affected by development and application of social media for business related activities in organizations. Keywords: Socail Media, Pakistan, organizational culture 1. Introduction The concept of Social Media is top of the agenda for many business executives today. Decision makers, as well as consultants, try...
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...history of social networking 2 THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ON BUSINESSES 2 THE FORMS OF BUSINESSES WHICH DEPLOY SOCIAL NETORKING SITES TO ACHIEVE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 4 THE EXTENSIONS CAN BE BOLT ON TO MAKE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES MORE ATRACTIVE 6 CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCE 9 INTRODUCTION The history of social networking Over the last few years, the Internet has extended with dominant applications such as video, online maps, multiplayer gaming, online news, blogs, instant messaging, e-commerce, VoIP (which includes peer to peer voice communication), podcasting, photo sharing, GPS services and a lot of other conditions have entered into the vocabulary as these services became accepted with people who use them. As the Internet came out with more and more complicated services, encouraged entrepreneurs brought many of these services together into sites that intended to join people. With such widespread use, it was only natural then that people began using the Internet as more than just a means of seeking information. People found that the Internet could be used to connect with other people, whether for business or commercial purpose, and also to make new friends and to renew old friends and long lost connections. The social networking revolution was born. Today, social networking sites form the mass of most lists of highly valued Internet companies. This is because just about everyone who uses the Internet is a member of at least one and often many online social networks...
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...MKT1104 – Individual eCRM Project. By Joseph Faizal Pinheiro Contents The Ford Motor Company. 4 Ford Marketing Stratgies and Tatics. 4 Ford @ Social Media. 5 CRM at Ford Motor Company. 6 Assesment on Ford’s CRM and eCRM Strategies 9 Recommendations 11 Bibliography 12 www.ford.com The Ford Motor Company. Ford Motor Company is well established multinational automaker with a legacy of over more than 100 years. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and luxury cars under the brand Lincoln. Ford is also distinguished as one of the “Big 3” North American automotive manufacturers and is an industry leader on a global scale. They are North America’s 2nd largest automotive manufacturer in the 5th largest automotive market in the world. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. Henry Ford's first attempt at a car company under his own name was the Henry Ford Company on November 3, 1901, which became the Cadillac Motor Company on August 22, 1902, after Ford left with the rights to his name. The Ford Motor Company was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge. Ford’s first international plant was built in Walkersville (now Windsor), Ontario, right across the Detroit River from Ford’s existing facilities. The company was a separate...
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