It’s amazing how fast the world of social media moves. The days of questioning if engaging in social media is a viable or responsible advertising strategy are long gone. The questions and concerns now are about how to optimize engagement and create a beneficial strategy. This has created a whole new set of challenges. Some keys to look into are:

• Privacy - This is perhaps the most important issue facing social media. Whether you are on Facebook or YouTube, if you don’t get the privacy aspects right, your organization is going to suffer.
• Transparency - On the flip side, you also need to be completely open in your operations. If you aren’t transparent, you’ll have difficulty building trust with your customers. A lack of trust can lead to a lack of customers.
• Diversity - Social media is borderless. As a business, you can interact with people form different geographies, cultures, religions and ethnicities. Very often, businesses find it difficult to cope up with such diversities and culture clashes.
• Integration - Often businesses find it difficult to integrate social media with their main line of operations. Being a ‘social business’ impacts nearly every function of a business.
• Convergence - The convergence of social media and mobile is inevitable. In fact, almost all social media networks have a large proportion of mobile users.
• Relationships - From a social media perspective, it’s important for businesses to be able to maintain a healthy relationship with their users. Relationships are more valuable than any one-time sale and social media is no exception to that rule.
• ROI - Measuring social media ROI is not an easy task. Several businesses give up their social media aspirations simply because they can’t evaluate if they’ve managed to fetch the expected ROI.

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