Thinking of SMM as a Channel

Marketers who treat SMM as a channel have the least success. The reason is that you aren’t pushing the message through a channel, as you would in traditional advertising. If you use traditional advertising strategies on the social platforms, you won’t get the results that you’re looking for. Think of social influence marketing as truly a new form of marketing with new strategies, best practices, and rules of engagement.

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