Social Media for Business

   The topic this particular week was how effective social media can be for a business. We learned that it can be very effective, although i already knew as it's used by most brands and firms today as a method of advertising and increasing their customer numbers. It's really useful for any business if it's done right, you have to be active online whether it be a facebook page or twitter profile et cetera. The big brands like Coca Cola, Adidas and Starbucks are seen a lot on the various social networking sites, and it does help increase revenue as people use hashtags to talk about them, they post cool photos and posts which people like and so on. They use social media as a platform to connect with their customers as you can access the majority of people this way. The concept is still quite modern but had only grown and improved more and more in the past few years. A lot of companies nowadays have their own social media teams who come up with strategies and plans to promote the company.