Social media 7 Big trends: Game status will be promoted

Social media still dominate the headlines as new marketing approaches, but unfortunately many companies are still resisting the trend, according to foreign media reports October 13.　　A recent survey by Optus company found that only 28% of small businesses use social media to promote business, and 56% of small businesses do not have a short-term plan. All of this is understandable, people are beginning to understand the concept of social media marketing, new things are happening, everything is changing. Companies that have not grasped blogs and Facebook must face new technologies and services such as Twitter and Foursquare. Here are 7 big trends in social media: 1. Impact on micro-Web sites Facebook, with more than 500 million users, has had a huge impact on the internet, as big brands have noticed, and the big companies ' fan pages have sprung up on the social networking site.　　This has resulted in many of the deaths of so-called micro-sites created by Brand marketing purposes. Analysts expect the trend to become more visible as more companies register for Facebook, with Facebook's home page as a means of continuing opportunities for participation.　　ASB Bank, Best Buy and 1800 flowers have moved their entire site to Facebook,facebook as the most important site of recent days. 2. Shopping is more social when your Facebook page has thousands of fans, why not sell it to them? Many companies are already selling things on Facebook through a complete e-commerce solution. Shopping has more social factors.　　Social media Research agency Ross Dawson expects a strong growth in social shopping services. Shopping with friends is fun, and a group of strangers? Groupon solves the problem.　　April 2010 Groupon received a 135 million dollar investment from Russian investment company DST. 3. Developing social media information resources there is already a large number of potential customer information in social tools, why not use it? Energy company origin has been using Google Earth for more than a year to help potential customers find out if they are fit to install solar panels.　　The consequence of this is that the company has developed a lot of new users. 4. Combining business with business software developers have now started creating social tools that are directed at enterprise applications. The first to do this was Salesforce.com, which launched a software similar to Twitter and Facebook this June. Salesforce.com, Vice president of Asia-Pacific marketing, said the activation volume had exceeded 22,000 in the first 6 weeks after the product was released. It is now over 30,000.　　' Our goal is to create social icons that directly meet business needs, ' he said. 5. A more geographically strong Foursquare has led people to see the light of location-based services, and many have become obsessed with "check-in". Facebook has also launched a new geographic feature. People like to show off where they are, and these locations all have huge business opportunities.　　It also helps the brand to encourage users to come to their real location and accept services. 6. Weibo's rise in Twitter reflects a strong desire for instant messaging and consumption. Many new services are emerging, such as Tumblr and posterous, adding new features. Micro-blogging is more like a sharing tool.　　The future trend will continue. 7. Improved gaming status who did not expect Facebook's farm game to become a big event on the Internet. Zynga has announced more than 62 million active users of its games farmville this June. Farmville is the representative of so-called social games, which will be a big deal. Analysts expect the social gaming market to reach $5 billion trillion in 2012. (Digging the shell net)