Social media marketing strategies and the training of your employees

Last week I posted some thoughts about the employee perspective of setting up a social media marketing strategy.

The employee factor is not the only one that requires looking at in your organization when engaging in social media marketing. There are more aspects that I will tackle in further posts but for now, let me share some more thoughts about the employee viewpoint.

So many are using social networking programs you may be surprised many of your employees or those in your department have no grasp of social media marketing. 

Educate them on not only your goals, but how you think they can be achieved. Training is important for companies looking to humanize a brand and starting with social media. 

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Would having 100,000 friends on Facebook make sense?

Jonas Klit Nielsen from Mindjumpers.com In an interview with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, that TechCrunch posted earlier today, two interesting facts came up.

More than 50% of Facebook users use the social network daily,  that’s just about 175 million people, an enormous large number.

From that I can’t help thinking that Zuckerbergs’ original vision for Facebook is going to be the future for Facebook, it’s becoming a platform for its users daily life.

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