Chapter 1: Weighing the Business Benefits of Minor Social Sites
In This Chapter
Reviewing goals for social media marketing
Conducting social media market research
Assessing audience involvement
Choosing minor social communities strategically
Without a doubt, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ are the elephants in the social marketing zoo, at least in terms of the largest number of visits per month. But this is one big zoo, as shown in Figure 1-1, which displays only 40 of more than 350 social sites. Among these, you’ll find lions and tigers and bears, and more than a few turtles, trout, squirrels, and seagulls.
Figure 1-1: The zoo of social media sites is vast. Your time, however, is limited.
It’s up to you to assess your business needs, research the options, and select which (if any) of these minor social marketing sites belongs in your personal petting zoo. In this chapter, we look at methods for doing just that.
