You may notice there are a lot of social media channels available now and interest to know how many of them are useful for your business. There is a list of some top social media sites. From blogging and a Friendster to the following:
- Google+ is a place to connect with friends and family, and explore all of your interests. Share photos, send messages, and stay in touch with the people
- Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
- Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".
- Qzone General. In Simplified Chinese; caters for mainland China users
- Sina Weibo Social microblogging site in mainland China.
- Habbo General for teens. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat room and user profiles.
- VK (originally VKontakte, Russian: ВКонтакте, literally "in touch") is the largest Russian social network in Europe. General, including music upload, listening and search. Popular in Russia and former Soviet republics.
- Tumblr Microblogging platform and social networking website.
- LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service.
- Renren Significant site in China. Was known as 校内 (Xiaonei) until August 2009.
- Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family.
- Bebo General and a popular text messaging app
- Tagged provide a easy way to meet and socialize with new people through games, shared interests, friend suggestions, browsing profiles, and much more.
- Netlog is a youth community where users can keep in touch with and extend their social network. Popular in Europe, Turkey, the Arab world and Canada's Québec province. Formerly known as Facebox and Redbox.
- hi5 General. Popular in Nepal, Mongolia, Thailand, Romania, Jamaica, Central Africa, Portugal and Latin America. Not very popular in the USA.
There is more we mention in other post, such as wechat, whatsapp, line, pinterest and youtube, etc.
In our point of view, there has been a major growth of social media available to organisations. While many of these social networks have existed for years prior to the advent of marketing and would normally be deemed as simply internet marketing tools, many of them are rechristening themselves as internet marketing tools for sales. And there are more social network new comer are coming soon or after, such as Pulse, a new social/geo-location platform that aims to make African education more social and enjoyable is looking to become the superman of all social networks.
Do you have a strategy to manage all those social media networks to suit your business marketing budget? You can contact us for a further business discussion.
