An active Social Media campaign could help you reach your marketing goals in several ways:
- A dynamic blog will keep your site active and changing, which is beneficial in search engine placement.
- Interesting blog posts attract traffic themselves, and they also encourage links (another search engine plus).
- Creating an interconnected group of followers/fans via a social site such as Facebook encourages loyalty and a deeper connection with your brand.
- The super-targeted, micro-marketing power of Twitter can help you develop a loyal, active online following (provided either you or someone in your organization is willing to commit to being the Twitter-er).
- Social-networking and blogging services can help your business and build your list of contacts.
Social networking can be a great vehicle for a brand extension if a company is willing to produce feeds of useful things. Useful means useful to others, not to the company. Companies should care about these services because networking is a fundamental key to business success.