3. SMM: concept
• Social media marketing (SMM) is a form of digital marketing that
utilizes social media, as a marketing tool.
• The goal of SMM is:
• to understand consumers on their consumption experiences,
• to produce content that users share within their social networks,
• to help a company increase brand exposure and broaden customer reach,
• to measure and monitor customers interaction in social contexts.
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4. Social Media Marketing: Early days
Relationship: one to many
Brand Consumers
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8. SMM: concept
• Social media marketing (SMM) is a form of digital marketing that
utilizes social media, as a marketing tool.
• The goal of SMM is:
• to understand consumers on their consumption experiences,
• to produce content that users share within their social networks,
• to help a company increase brand exposure and broaden customer reach,
• to measure and monitor customers interaction in social contexts.
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12. Social Media Marketing: Nowadays
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Relationship: Many to many
Consumers Consumers
13. Social Media Marketing
• “This is a world in which customers are fully in control of their online
experiences and where their motivations lead them to connect online
with other consumers while they create and consume online content,
much of it user- rather than marketer-generated”
• “The social media environment is largely consumer- — not marketer-
— controlled. And marketers who don’t understand that do so at their
peril.”
(Hoffman & Foddor, 2010)
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15. 21st Century Myths
• “Traditional product/service belief—>21st century myth: Brand managers own and orchestrate
their brands;
• Traditional product/service belief—>21st century myth: Phones are for making phone calls;
• Traditional product/service belief—>21st century myth: The Web is for finding information;
• Traditional promotion belief—>21st century myth: Companies use marketing communications to
control their message;
• Traditional promotion belief—>21st century myth: Consumers purchase products promoted by
marketers;
• Traditional promotion belief—>21st century myth: Providing a forum for customers to talk is
dangerous and risky.”
(Hanna et al., 2011)
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16. Social Media Marketing: Early days
Relationship: one to many
Brand Consumers
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17. Social Media Marketing: Early days
Relationship: one to many
Brand Consumers
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19. Social media marketing allows to:
• Listen to consumers
• Learn from them
• Engage them
• Build a community
• & Keep monitoring
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21. Why customers’ use social media?
Consumers’ four key drivers motivations to use social media:
1. Connections,
2. Creation,
3. Consumption
4. Control
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