LEVERAGING SOCIAL MEDIA: A MARKETING TOOL FOR SME GROWTH
The future of businesses is online. Sales and marketing, commerce has gone “e”. I.e. Electronic. Technology is now the new tech block. To strive as a brand, SMEs must have their digital footprint visible online, they need to consider online advertising and social media marketing will be key to business growth and continual sustainability. Over the past decade, businesses and brands are using advertising as a way to boost sales, increase growth and generate quality leads. Marketing methods is evolving and the need to engage with the new form of marketing is essential to business growth. The era of budgeting huge amount of money on traditional marketing like newspaper adverts, radio jingle and billboards is fast becoming secondary to marketing. Most brands new engage online marketing by leveraging on social media as a way to market their products and services to a wider audience. In an ever increasingly competitive environment MSMEs have to find new and innovative ways to di...