It’s somewhat hard to predict the future for Real-time Marketing as it’s changing rapidly and growing faster than any form of media in the past 100 years. Everyone, including grandparents, have Facebook & Twitter accounts, where they are being updated with the social networks that they’ve created for themselves. However we have some predictions for the future… Let us help http://RealtimeOutsource.com

1. Top Five Trends
in Real-time Marketing!

2. #5 - Collecting Qualitative Data from your Social
Followings
Via Monthly App Signup Contests, Sweepstakes, Engagement
Post Contests with Fans, Customer Service Requests

3. #4 - Reward your Super Fans
Follow your top fans & followers and reward them monthly with
perks from your business. Give them exclusive offers, promotional
products, new product releases first, cool brand swag.

4. #3 - Take time to respond
Social media is becoming a bigger piece to a successful business
strategy. The future of brand awareness and management
involves a world that allows customers/fans to feel free to
communicate via social to handle customer issues, and product
questions. It’s vital to monitor and comment on every post that you
are able to, even if you have 1,000 comments take the time to at
least try to respond to 25% of the posts, choosing the posts that
you think make a difference to respond to. Take care of your fans

5. #2 - Social Advertising takes more revenue from
Broadcast
Almost every social network now has the ability to target and track
their audiences, and advertise to them. We’re seeing that more
and more of marketing & ad budgets are going towards hypertargeting real-time ad spaces. The Broadcast approach to media
doesn’t allow tracking or split ad testing for marketing campaigns.
Social Advertising is the future of advertising.

6. #1 - Hiring Teams to handle Promotions & Moderate communities
As the social space has grown many of the social communities
have grown beyond the time capacity for one person (social
manager), or Marketing team to answer. In this case we’ve seen a
major shift to hiring social management companies to manage the
community promotions (on and off-line) as well as responding to
fans/followers in real-time. .

7. #1 - Hiring Teams to handle Promotions & Moderate communities
As the social space has grown many of the social communities
have grown beyond the time capacity for one person (social
manager), or Marketing team to answer. In this case we’ve seen a
major shift to hiring social management companies to manage the
community promotions (on and off-line) as well as responding to
fans/followers in real-time. .