Thursday, October 29, 2015

Adding Social Networks

No matter what company you associate yourself with, in some sort of form they are using multiple social network accounts. Social media has become the new norm and a lot of companies are beginning to see this. The purpose of Social media is to help get the brand name or brand item across to the world. Different companies use different networks.

Some of the more commonly used networks include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Why do they use these social media accounts?
The answer is simple, there are many people that have these accounts, this gives businesses an enormous amount of people to pick and choose from in order to get their brand or company expansion. 



The main group to focus on is the children that are on these social media websites. They are the future of the world so it would make sense for companies to try to go after that group of young and intelligent people. This not only helps spread brand awareness but it also helps the viewers get a better perspective on what the brand is about. The benefit of these social media sites is also to help direct the viewer to the companies web page.














Tuesday, October 27, 2015

You get to choose where you work

Growing up we go through different life experiences that help us choose which path we end up going down in terms of careers in the real world. This is a tough decision to make and not many college students know what exactly they want to do with their futures. This is also the beauty of choosing a career, the opportunity is great, because there are so many different careers to go into.

Its tougher for others to find what they are interested in, this bring about some logical steps to find out. Two things are needed for this, curiosity and people. First hand experiences need to be experienced before one knows whether he or she is ready for that career.

Five Steps to Job Hunting.

1. First you need to find out what careers or jobs your flower points to.

2. Second, you need to try on careers before you decide which ones to pursue.

3. Third, you need to find out what kinds of organizations have such jobs.

4. Fourth, you need to find names of particular places that interest you.

5. Fifth, you need to learn as much as you can about a place before formally approaching them.

These are the five steps in career planning.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

How to make money through social media

Everything in the world revolves around making money. That has started to include all social media accounts. Social media accounts are beginning to think of new ways to create more and more money today with the help of users. These users of social media can now create profiles for their companies and or businesses in order to help branch out to the world. Its much easier to spread the branch awareness to millions on social media than to millions in person.

Facebook can literally make a full account that has everything a person wants to know about the company or business just by creating a page. That page can then direct the user to the real website and boom its a business. All of a sudden millions of people are interested in the product and want to buy it.

An example of this is my own personally company of Coerver Coaching. We post appealing things about our business and send it out every day if possible. This helps appeal to more users and eventually those users are going to visit our site. It really is as easy as that!

Hootsuite

Ever wanted to post one post to different social media accounts without having to be logged in under all of them? now you have that opportunity with Hootsuite. Hootsuite helps a social media user manage his or her posts by simply creating a profile and then adding all the social media accounts to his or her profile.

This type of system makes creating posts so much easier and it helps spread the message of what the user is trying to get across. Today I created Hootsuite account and did a test message to see how the whole process worked. The pictures below show examples of my post on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin.

 By adding whatever social media accounts you want to your profile, the user can post one status and by clicking send it automatically sends that status to all the accounts linked to the profile.





There are consequences with this as well, in the sense that the user has to be very careful on what he or she is posting. If something that is not appropriate is posted, it goes straight to ever account that is linked and therefore everyone who you are connected with on those social media profiles get to see it.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Facebook Ad results

As you already may know, last week I launched a Facebook Ad campaign for my dads company Coerver Coaching. Coerver Coaching is a soccer based training program for kids to improve their skills on and off the ball. We help develop young aspiring athletes into well rounded superstars of tomorrow.

The purpose of launching my ad campaign for Coerver Coaching was to get more people to visit our website at Coerveriowa.com. My intentions were to get more and more people to view our website and see what we are all about.

The results from the ad campaign look like this.

From my launch, the Facebook ad reached out to 3,185 people. Now of those people, only a small amount reached out and actually went to the website. Only 21 in total went to the website.

Another cool thing that Facebook ad campaigns let you see is the gender of people who look at your ads. In my case there were more men than women who clicked on the website. This is an important aspect because it goes to show who our campaign was targeting and what we can do better as a company to help reach out more and more.

I think that the campaign was a success, not in the sense of getting people to go visit the website, but instead seeing how the whole process of Facebook ads work. They are very simple and easy to do, and don't cost a great deal too much.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Creating a good web page

The process of creating a good web page can be a difficult one, but its one that may need to be done, especially for a company that is trying to get consumers to buy their products, or services. A lot of work goes into the web creation. Some of the things that the creator has to consider about their web page is will it appeal to the consumer. Appeal can be looks or just the simplicity of how the website is created to work. The Simpler the better. The size of the webpage also has to be considered, because no one likes to scroll up and down a page. Make it short and simple. Get the ideas across of what you are all about.

"The Beauty of Simplicity"

This picture of a webpage Quotes "the Beauty of Simplicity" showing exactly how good simple really is. I personally know that as a consumer of goods i don't want to be scrolling or being redirected to different pages. I want to find what i'm looking for right away and get on with my purchase.


The simpler the better it will be!



I think the picture to the right really shows an accurate image of what a persons mind goes through when being redirected to different pages in a persons site. Its complicated. Since when did anyone like complicated? Ill tell you, they never did!

Make it EASY

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Facebook ad boosting

The topic that we as a class have been focusing for the past few days has had a lot to do with social media marketing and Facebook.


 Facebook as recently added the factor of paying money for the creation of ad campaigns. These ad campaigns can be created for anything and everything that a person is trying to shine some light upon. Depending on how much a person is willing to spend, prices vary, but say a person decides they want it for 5 days then they would pay 5$. Dollar per day.These ads can help a business be seen by people all around the world, and it helps promote new viewers to its website. This can not only strengthen the business but also strengthen Facebook.


With Facebook being a brand that has been around for some time now, they need to plot new ways to make the company better. Why not promote and create ads for companies? That is exactly what they did do, and so far its come with big success. What does Facebook get out of all of this. The answer to this has to be money and publicity. Not only is Facebook strengthening their own brand, but they are also helping the social media development of other peoples companies.


Not only is it easy to create, but its also cheap. With money being the end goal, ads are very effective ways of spreading the word. Especially with social media, there are different websites that can offer similar if not the same services as Facebook.


Mailchimp

Earlier today in class we discussed the topic of social media marketing, and how that is being used in different ways to help promote or market a company/product. Being personally involved in the social media network, iv'e used many sites to help do this. One of those sites is called Mailchimp.com. This site is directly used to create an campaign about anything you want to get across to the audience. I've been creating emails for my dads company for the last year, and its a very effective way of spreading the word on a particular company or product.

Mailchimp.com is a simple way to create campaigns and articles for companies. The steps to creating a campaign on mailchimp.com are as goes,
Step 1- Create a profile
Step 2- Once a profile is created you can begin the campaign.
Step 3- Click campaign and decide what the subject is going to be called and who you're going to sent it to.
Step 4- Choose your template
Step 5- Now you are ready to begin your campaign, you can write whatever you wish to address in the topic and you can upload pictures to make it look more professional like a brochure.
Step 6- Once you have created your campaign, click on the send button and you are good to go.




Mailchimp.com has been a very effective website so far for our company and its very easy to learn and navigate. Go check it out at Mailchimp.com

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Creating Survey's

As surveys become more and more popular, so does the app making industry. There are websites and apps on smartphones today that can help companies create their own survey's for their websites. These are very helpful and effective and not to mention extremely easy to create. One of those websites it Surveymonkey.com 


Surveymonkey.com is a very simple way to create surveys for customers to fill out about their companies.

Step 1: When you first visit this website, you'll have to create an account.

Step 2: There are different accounts. If your are looking for the basic survey then a free account would be fine, but if you are looking for more advanced stuff then you'll have to pay some money for extra perks.

Step 3: once an account is created, you should be ready to start creating surveys for your company. Have Fun!


Surveys

Survey: In the dictionary survey means to look carefully and thoroughly at someone or something, especially as to appraise them.

As social media continues to grow, so do businesses. Big businesses today have began to have their customers do monthly and yearly surveys in order to help their business growth. Surveys are very simple ways to ask customers how a certain business is doing, and what can, and should be changed, to help make it better. It's a very effective way of communication with their customers.

Why are Survey's important? The importance of a survey is to see what people like or dislike about your company. Its important to be a company who doesn't have very much bad criticism from customers, this not only helps a business grow but it also helps the popularity with the people. Without surveys there would be no way of knowing what a company should change to better improve its quality.