Tate F Learning Journal

Social Media of choice: Facebook      I will start off first by saying that I started this class with no social media whatsoever. However, I have recently installed Facebook and Instagram for business and marketing purposes and this has been perfect timing for this assignment. I chose Facebook which is the social media I use the most for my business because it has a new feature called the "Meta Business Suite" which allows me to post simultaneously on Facebook and Instagram, all in one place. This also allows me to see demographics like what platform reaches what people and how many followers I have on both and which has seen the most audience improvement. This works perfectly with my marketing plan especially because it is completely free.       The first couple of days it took me a bit to still get used to the software and that is when I spent the most time getting comfortable with the business suite I even scheduled out postings to allow for seamles...

 This chapter spoke to me mainly in the business aspect of how social media can be helpful. Social Media can be an excellent way to advertise and market in today's society as it is the easiest way to reach more people. This is good for advertising and now with the marketing and data analytics many social media sites have; it makes it much easier to provide valuable statistics on bettering your marketing campaigns. you can get an average age, sex, location, and more on your results and this can show what demographic your products or services reach the most. This has convinced me to utilize social media more in creating advertising campaigns for my business "Suncoast Yacht Management" in which I use Facebook and Instagram for marketing and information. Social media can also be seen as free marketing because you can post and it can have a lingering effect on those who may find it later on without your interaction. This proves to be very valuable, however, I still would not u...