I see social media as a long term marketing tool that just builds up over the years. It can help your business if the followers / fans are genuine. Otherwise user engagement will be nil as the users are not interested in your business or products in the first place.
I absolutely agree with you. I guess social media can bring a lot of benefits if you use it in the right way. In such a way you can find even new customers. As for me, I prefer twitter to the facebook. But facebook also influence greatly.
Obviously you get good results if you have 100 professional followers of your products.
Even if you effort in Social Media. Search engine can update your website and results in search engine through relevant query.
Social Media marketing is effective if we follow proper rules.
Yes…its very important now after new algorithm, panda. Just creating or presence in social media websites do not give better results…you’ve to make good friends(not fake friends) and mutually sharing information with them really help you a lot.
Maybe right away social media will not seem worth it. But you have to start somewhere. I suggest that you do it. It will only help you out in the long run. My husband is doing it for what he is working on and it has started to help him some.
Donny, i am very new to the Social Media scenario, i know a lot of experts have already answered your question, but i would like to share what i feel.
I think Social Media is good for creating an awareness, but if your efforts are honest and sincere you will get result, I mean if you are twisting and bending words, i am sure you will not get results. while using SM, just keep one thing in your mind, if you are suggesting somebody something, will it be of any use to them? are you giving them what they already have? and approach the like-minded people. I think this should work
Every marketer using social media as advertising their products and some of them have succeed in that.The problem is how you use social; media to advertise your products.
Off-course social media is just like a “life blood of a website”.If you want to bring your product more and more local and Global then i think social media is the best way to do that…
Thanks
I think and belie social media is really worth the effort.
yes social media is all about gathering people awareness and it all depends on how you build them up in order to be effective
I get a lot of satisfaction personally from guest blogging - you really connect with blog owners this way and there’s a beneficial exchange of knowledge and link -love at the end of the day. My favorite kind of social media really as of now.
social media , today is a very important tool for a business. But , it is not that simple as you just make a page and other will follow. On a network not all the people are interested for the product so, one should concentrate on a specific group of people .
yes it is only If we have the clarity about purpose of using social media and follow it with right strategy, then it is a great platform for quick results. We need to be very proactive and intelligent to connect with the required stakeholders in our strategy. we are also going to be dependent on social media tools to create personal branding, business network and participate in a social cause. it is the most inexpensive and user friendly tool for whatever legitimate cause we like to exploit it.
Yeah you can start a little with social media it might worth for it and if you go luck your message might go VIRAL and be very successful…
Try or you will never know 
By joining social media, this your way to market your product. Because in social networking sites you can meet lots of targeted customers and this will be the right place to do it. But always remember that you will have a great success if you know how to market your product, deal with other people, build a good reputation and join to a community with the same niche.
I think Social Media is really worth the effort. An example of Social Media that is Social networking Sites are the places on the Internet where many people can place their views in a free and democratic manner. This is the media through which a person can spread his or her message to many people in a fast manner. Even in times of any crisis, Social Media arranges for emergency services like Blood Donation and so on in a short span of time.
Since just about every post is essential pitching an affirmative reason without any challenges or questions to explore, this thread is closed.
However the topic is a critical one as many companies small and big are debating this actively. It’s not free to get into social even if using a network may not have a direct cost… thus discussing the merits, strategy and how much time to spend is a fair conversation.
Of course with that said, and to quote an unknown original source, when the phone rings, you answer it, when an email comes, you reply, when a tweet is sent, why wouldn’t it be the same? The opportunity to talk with your customers is the ROI of talking with your customers… Thus I would expect the discussion we’ll see is more about how to convince parts of a company to believe this than whether or not it’s true.