Social networking vs Social marketing

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December 12, 2013, 10:06 pm

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Social networking vs Social marketing

What's the difference between social networking and social marketing?

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Violet

Violet

Social networking is a way to connect with your friends on Facebook and other sites. But social marketing is more about using these sites such as Facebook to market your products.

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spotondot

spotondot

If you want friends, you can use Facebook to find them. If you want money, you can use Facebook to earn it, via pages and Facebook ads. That is the difference between networking and marketing on Facebook.

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Beverly

Beverly

Social networking can also be used to find a real world (offline) job as you can network or interact with others in the job market and find an employer who will be interested in your qualifications to hire you.

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zabedm

zabedm

social networking : A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.

social marketing :Social marketing seeks to develop and integrate marketing concepts with other approaches to influence behaviors that benefit individuals and communities for the greater social good.

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lancer

lancer

With social networking, you join and interact with a group of person that you call your network! When you use the same network to market a product, an article or anything else, you are doing social marketing because you are marketing on social groups or networks!

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arunedunom1

arunedunom1

sorry friend i have no idea

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creativehead

creativehead

I guess people use social networking to interact with people and they use social marketing to advertise their business. But as you gave the title " Social networking vs social marketing" then i think you are talking about business through these two ways. In that case i would say if your social networking is strong then your social marketing will be benefited. So you can say that in this point of view social networking is the first stage of social marketing.

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anirban09P

anirban09P

Social networking : Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals. While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Internet to promote such connections is only now being fully recognized and exploited, through Web-based groups established for that purpose.

Social marketing : Social marketing is an approach used to develop activities aimed at changing or maintaining people’s behaviour for the benefit of individuals and society as a whole.

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vinaya

vinaya

When you do social networking you will be building friends, followers, and customers. When you do social marketing, you will be promoting your website or business. When you want to promote your products and services through social marketing, the first thing you need is followers. You gain followers only through social networking. Thus, social networking and social marketing are connected. You can build your customers through social networking and you will drive sales through social marketing.

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Corzhens

Corzhens

Those 2 terms are directly related but maybe it’s just the color that makes it different. Social networking is what I do with Facebook. It is my network in the digital society where I connect to people particularly relatives and personal friends. I can also add new friends, people that I really don’t know. What I understand with social marketing is using the social media account for business purposes. One friend who posts everyday about the products she is selling in her drop shipping business is a clear example of social marketing for me. And as long as your friends are not annoyed by your marketing posts, that means your social marketing is tolerable to them.

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