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How will Social Media fare with the purse strings tightening?

February 8th, 2008 by Jenni Beattie · No Comments

I was reading a blog post by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research who raised the issue of how social media marketing will fare in the face of a recession.

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The upshot was that it will continue to thrive because it is still one of the more effective and particularly cost-effective types of marketing.

As we all know marketing budgets rarely increase overall but the marketing mix changes – someone wins and someone loses.

Recently one of our clients said of “We might just have to pull a traditional TV ad” 

This comment is testament to the value that social media delivers.

To read more about how social media can help you thrive in a recession read the following post by David Armano.

http://experiencematters.criticalmass.com/2008/01/23/10-ways-digital-can-help-you-thrive-in-a-recession/

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