The Nine Laws of Marketing on Social Media

Posted: August 11, 2015

[caption id="attachment_12408" align="alignright" width="321"] Image from socialmediatoday.com[/caption] Social media is arguably one of the best ways to market, thanks to its ability to reach billions of people in minutes. Knowing the basic rules of social media marketing is a must in order to get the best results. Follow these nine laws and get the most out of social media marketing. Sarah Snow, writer for Social Media Today, shares the nine laws of social media marketing that everyone needs to know.

9 Laws of Social Media Marketing

Remember how in elementary school science you learned about the physical laws that ordered the universe? And how, once you knew about the underlying rules of energy and matter, the details of a lot of things just made more sense? Susan Gunelius has applied the idea to social media marketing. She’s asked the question: What are the fundamental laws that underlie everything we do on social media? And how can you understand those laws to better serve your brand? Here are the laws that Gunelius feels are the building blocks of social media: 1. The Law of Relationships The most basic element of social media should be obvious from its name. What’s the atom, the most essential thing of which social media is made? Social relationships. In any decision you make, your first consideration should be: How will this affect my relationships? Will it strengthen the ones I already have? Build more of them? All the other laws of social media marketing are related to this first law. Read the entire article 9 Laws of Social Media Marketing on Social Media Today.