The goal of social marketing is always to change or maintain how people behave – not what they think or how aware they are about an issue. If your goal is
only to increase awareness or knowledge, or change attitudes
, you are not doing social marketing.
What are the 4 P’s of Social Marketing?
The 4 Ps of marketing are
place, price, product, and promotion
.
Social marketing
is NOT social media marketing, nor does it have anything to do with using social media channels to promote products, services, brands, businesses or organizations or engage customers. However, one can use social media channels in a social marketing campaign.
- Implementation: child car seats. Social marketing enables you to develop products, services and communications that fit people’s needs and motivations. …
- Policy: water rationing. …
- Strategy: lung disease strategy. …
- Child car seats in Texas. …
- Water rationing in Jordan. …
- Tackling lung disease.
Social marketing is the use of
commercial marketing principles and techniques
to improve the welfare of people and the physical, social and economic environment in which they live. … Social marketing uses the same collection of tools to “sell” healthy behaviors that are used to sell jeans.
Nedra starts by introducing the concept of social marketing and then walks the reader through each of the six steps of the process:
analysis, strategy development, program and communication design, pretesting, implementation, and evaluation and feedback
.
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.
What are the 4 types of marketing?
- Cause Marketing. Cause marketing, also known as cause-related marketing, links a company and its products and services to a social cause or issue.
- Relationship Marketing. …
- Scarcity Marketing. …
- Undercover Marketing.
- Customer Orientation: ADVERTISEMENTS: …
- Behavioural Focus: In Social Marketing the focus is not just on changing behaviour, but being able to influence and sustain positive behaviours over time. …
- The Notion of Exchange: …
- Competition: …
- Long-term Planning: …
- Marketing Mix:
Social marketing was “born” as a discipline in the 1970s, when
Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman
realized that the same marketing principles that were being used to sell products to consumers could be used to “sell” ideas, attitudes and behaviors.
Social marketers find that they
have less good secondary data about their consumers
, more problems obtaining valid and reliable measures of relevant variables, more difficulty sorting out the relative influence of determinants of consumer behavior, and more problems getting consumer research funded than marketers in …
Social Marketing: Definition. Social marketing is
marketing designed to create social change, not to directly benefit a brand
. … So, instead of selling a product, social marketing “sells” a behavior or lifestyle that benefits society, in order to create the desired change.
This involves publishing great content on your social media profiles, listening to and engaging your followers, analyzing your results, and running social media advertisements. The major social media platforms (at the moment) are
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, and Snapchat
.
Major
issues
that
social marketing can benefit
include: Health: tobacco use, binge drinking, obesity, physical activity, immunizations, nutrition, sexually transmitted diseases, blood pressure, oral health, high cholesterol, and skin, breast, prostate and colon cancer.
- Set S.M.A.R.T. goals.
- Track meaningful metrics.
- Create audience personas.
- Gather data.
- Conduct a competitive analysis.
- Use social media listening.
- Look for impostor accounts.
- Decide which networks to use.
Increases Brand Awareness
If you want to syndicate content and improve your brand’s visibility, making use of Social Media is the most cost-effective method to do so. Each post or piece of content that you share will contribute towards introducing you to new networks of individuals.