11 Aug Social Media Marketing Tactics Used By Businesses – 2010 study

What social marketing tactics are most often used by organizations for marketing purposes? The accompanying chart is a result of the survey conducted by MarketingSherpa.com to list the sort of social media marketing tactics that are being used by the business owners in 2010.

Social Media Marketing Tactics used by business owners

1. Participation on company branded & managed social networks such as Facebook, Linkedin (78%).

2. Microblogging such as Twitter etc (63%).

3. Content Sharing – Youtube, Flickr, Slideshare etc (63%)

4. Company Owned / Managed Blogs (59%)

5. Social Meadis News Releases (48%)

6. Using Social Media to improve [intlink id=”22″ type=”page”]SEO[/intlink] rankings (47%)

7. Advertising – Blogs, Social Media sites (31%)

8. Email content sharing with Social Media sites (30%)

This chart shows the average percentage of companies using each of the social media platforms listed above for marketing purposes but ‘not how they should be using it’.

Are you using any or all of the above [intlink id=”22″ type=”category”]Social Media Marketing [/intlink]tactics ? Please leave a comment below to share your success stories.