Sunday, September 18, 2016

Blog 3

“The New Technology: The Consumer as Participant Rather Than Target Audience”
by R. Craig Lefebvre
Link: http://socialmarketing.blogs.com/Publications/SMQ-The_consumer_as_participant_2007.pdf


Social media is changing how we view our target audience. We are able to do things on the web that we were not able to do through mass media. Social media is now interactive it is not linear. Our target audience is now one that can participate. We not only rely on them to receive the message but to share, express their opinion, interact. These interactions are between both the deliverer of the message and the recipients and between recipients. This overall creates not an audience but a network.

The target audience for “Madalyn’s Music” is not comprised of listeners. It is focused on a network of individuals both musicians and listeners that are interacting in person and on social media. 


Web 2.0 has led to a number of improvement that will create greater exposure for businesses like “Madalyn’s Music”. Current followers are up to 5,000 on mediated sites. Views reached are about 2,000 however interaction is low, under 300. My goal is to create interactions by linking my music with online communities. I will do this in two ways one by interaction with other and two by commonality to other like groups. 

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