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advertising, branding, facebook, instagram, marketing, social media, technology, twitter, vine
Today as I was watching tv, the commercials came up and I started thinking about how tech driven the advertising industry has become and how social media driven our generation is. Now days our generation can make a name for themselves without spending a dime. We have so many outlets that allow us to brand and market ourselves, our products and our businesses without help from an advertising firm or money. Gone are the days of spending tons of money on tv commercial and radio slots. Now we have twitter, facebook, instagram and youtube.
My generation has mastered the art of promoting themselves through social media. On facebook many businesses make group pages for their business. Letting their clients know they have the page and in return they go follow the page. Instagram and twitter go hand in hand because you can connect your accounts. On instagram all it takes is for you to network, yes you can network via social media. Here’s how it works in a nutshell:
Post a picture, tag someone popular you may like in the post or the brand of clothing you may be wearing or promoting, they may see it, post it on their page that may have 5000+ more followers than you and that easily you can gain a plethora of followers whom will know about you and your service or product. It’s THAT easy to advertise yourself.
I see people collaborate, promote other people and reach out to those who may already be established. I’ve even seen those who are more popular create a business out of promoting others, charging a fee to promote others businesses a certain amount of times a week over a certain length of time.
I find it amusing how creative my generation has gotten with advertising and makes me wonder if there will ever come a time when television advertising dies?