Effective Social Media Marketing: Pros, Cons, and Best Practices

This blog discusses the importance of social media marketing for businesses, the pros and cons of using social media, and best practices for promoting a blog on Instagram. It also includes tips for adding value to readers and tools for measuring blog traffic.

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Blog Writing on “Effective social media marketing”
Today most of the companies use social media marketing where they promote their
products and brand through social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and
many others. These platforms are becoming more popular nowadays as today most of the current
generation youth use social media platform to search any information regarding any product,
their reviews and many others (Dwivedi and et. al., 2021). The blog on the topic “effective use
social media marketing” is opted because today most of the companies are promoting their
brands on social media and lots of customers get attracted toward the brand without checking
their reliability and relevancy which is one of the most important for customers. There are some
pros and cons also to adopt social media marketing.
There are various kind of activities performed by companies on social media platforms.
Companies aware their customers about any new product introduced by them by uploading the
pictures and videos of the product. They also allow their customers to rate their products on
social media. Companies send their feedback forms to their customers through social media like
Instagram and ask them to respond and resend the filled form on same account.
Social media platforms allow any information to share it globally but it also impacts
negative because some people create wrong information and facts about the company and share
it on social media for global reach and the other customers get influence with wrong information
(Tafesse and Wien, 2018). This type of social media activities are mostly done by competitors
which is consider as poor use of social media. On the other hand, when companies compare their
product with their competitors’ product to pretend that the quality of their product is better than
their competitors is also consider as poor activity conducted on social media.
In context of social media marketing, it is essential for companies to “focus on their
contents and pictures which they share on different platforms”. “The content should be short
and include all required information” which helps to attract more customers. It is essential for

them to “have a different team within their organisation to handle their social media
marketing activities”. For example, Morrison, a retailing company is having different
department for their social media marketing whose employees are responsible to promote their
products, responding customer’s complaints on social media and many others (Chatterjee and
Kar, 2020). Companies should also focus on the culture of people and make sure that they will
not share any information which will harm the feelings of any communities from personal
perspective.
Social media marketing is important because it plays an important role for not only
promoting products and services of companies but it also promotes blogs and news related to real
facts and figures to aware people on large scale. Social media marketing plays an important role
in promoting blogs to aware people on large scale. It has global reach which means the content
which is shared on social media can be read and collects by any individual sitting at any corner
of world. Effective social media marketing is a theme of blog which can be shared on social
media because the users or the people who are interested in this blog can found on social media
platforms only. This theme will provide the idea that how they can use social media functions to
promote their business and for many other works. Hence, when the blog is shared on social
media more users of Instagram, Facebook and many others will learn the way in which they can
perform their business marketing on social media platform.
To add value for the reader it is effective that the blog must have proper written content
and pictures. It is essential to focus more upon that information which is currently gaining the
attention of most people. There are few ways which can be opted by a blogger to add value for
their readers and these ways are explained below-

Answering reader’s questions- Readers always raise a question about the content of a
blog on social media (Opresnik, 2018). Hence, it is essential for a blogger to answer their
reader’s questions effectively to gain their value.
Don’t be afraid to get lengthy- It might be possible that the blog will go lengthy in case
of content. Blogger are not supposed to become afraid for their lengthy blogs but they make sure
that the quality of their lengthy blogs should be attractive that their readers will even read
lengthy blog with full interest.
Promotion is the activity which is opted by companies to attract their customers to make
them aware about the products and services they offer in market. In context of blog, it also
requires to promote to aware its interested readers about the blog post date and time and short
description about the blog to gain readers attention.
Social media best practices for promoting blog on Instagram-
Use Hashtags- Instagram allow 30 hashtags to use and if these hashtags were used in a
proper way then a company of individual can reach wider range of audience (Casaló and
Romero, 2019). In context of promoting blog, it is essential that blogger must use right hashtag.
Work with influencers- Instagram has many individuals who have strong fan base
which means they can influence their fans to use a particular product or services sell by a
company easily (Yu, 2018).
Here is various type of tools used to measure blog traffic which are mentioned below-
Google Analytics- This tool is one of the most famous measurement tools for blog where
a blogger can analyse how much audience they get recently for the post. It further helps to

analyse total number of page views and the location where these views is coming from. It also
helps to analyse the keywords used by viewers to view the blog.
SEMRush.com- This site will not only tell the blogger about the performance of their
blog but it will help to analyse the nearest blog competitor. It will further help to analyse total
number of traffic for blog, the worth of that traffic in $, total number of keywords used to search
the specific blog and how many websites were linked to specific blog.
WordPress Stats- This tool will help to analyse statistics of the blog. It further helps to
analyse special and unique visitors rather than page viewers for the blog (Stubb, 2018). It also
helps to analyse which social media platform brings more visitors for the blog.
Alexa ranking- This tool will help a blogger to analyse overall ranking of blog at global
level. It will measure the popularity and total views of the blog and then analyse the rank of blog
at global scale.
SEMRush.com tool is selected as a measurement tool for analysing the performance especially
for analysing the traffic of the blog related to social media marketing. There are various kind of
pros and cons of using SEMRush.com which are mentioned below-
Pros of SEMRush.com-
 It helps to analyse competitor’s performance also which help blogger to enhance their
skill by learning how their competitors gain more traffic for their blogs.
 It is very simple to use and help to analyse the keywords which is used most to search the
blog by readers.
Corns of SEMRush.com-
 It is expensive to track multiple keywords across the globe.
 Keyword search volumes are considered as inaccurate sometimes.

It is concluded from the above information that social media marketing is one of the basic
practices done by most of the companies to attract their customers toward their brand and
product. Here, different social media platforms are used such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
and many others. Companies upload the pictures and videos with short and essential content
about the product to aware their customers about the product. Social media has global reach
which help companies to target customers across the globe.

BLOG: SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
The technology industry today has evolved immensely today providing several social media
eye opening blogs including social media examiner as it is one of the largest marketing
communities within the world.
Figure 1:Social Media Marketing, 2020
It will help the businesses to discover the effective tips and tricks regarding the use of social
media and digital world to connect with the customers, create awareness, drive web traffic,
and also generate sales and ROI. In regard of this, number of people find effective inspiration
and help from the number of social media influencers with the help of articles, expert
interviews, original research, podcasts, videos and so on.
Figure 2: 10 Ways Social Media Marketing, 2020
For this, social media examiner provides interesting industry events and training which is
useful to help and improve the social media skills and knowledge. Further, instead of talking
about the widgets people can sell the content and deliver it with the effective marketing
strategy that helps the audience to target the live for better life and also get better job. In
regard of this, the belief is that if people can develop the loyal audience over the time by
doing specific thing then they will reward for the more product or service sales and also stick
longer as the customers. Hence, social media marketing is the fact of hundreds of years old
and also came out of the loyalty space as most of the initial content marketing efforts were
custom magazines.

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