by Suzannah Tho-mas

In the ever growing world of technology and internet marketing demands today, most corporate giants and small business turn to the social media avenues to boost brand identity. Social media marketing avenues not only boost your Brand identity but if these environments are researched well enough most lay people not involved in corporate or actual business marketing industries can market their business very effectively through social media venues.

These tends to be the actual circumstance, between companies globally marketing and search engine optimizing their wares and services across the social media giants and the average age specific, gender specific web surfers monopolizing these social media environments you often come across a message displayed as ‘OVER CAPACITY” or Technical Problem please try again later.

Are these Social Media Giants running out of space or not providing adequate hosting with the appropriate connection ability? Most of these Social media giants perhaps may view those issues as slight, but when the average corporate or general market is attempting to access their account regardless if it is for marketing purpose or for entertainment or simply to communicate with family and friends and cannot due to an “over capacity” message, they will start looking else ware for environments that can accommodate.

Twitter.com in my opinion is affected more so by these issues from actual investigation on part than the other big three social media environments of facebook.com, myspace.com and LinkedIn.com and YouTube.com.

Facebook. Boast a 350 million user-plus site is the Mecca in social media today and is growing at significant speed.

YouTube. YouTube has hundreds of millions of views and users daily, YouTube is quickly becoming a mainstream marketing tool utilized by small and large business more than ever.

Mass marketing, entertainment or simply for the pleasure of swapping a tweet or a shout out to possible leads, friend, family or work associates if definitely having a Huge affect on one’s ability to simply connect.

What does that mean or tell us? That there is definitely more room for New Social Media avenues out there in today’s market and if managed, marketed and opened on a global basis, it certainly leaves room for newer, simpler and more advanced social media avenues to pick up a significant amount of members in the corporate arena, business arena and general public environments that would be more than ready to jump ship for an environment that accommodate the basic need of simply signing on, marketing a brand or sending a message to family and friends.

These top social media sites are definitely important to social media marketing strategies and on some of them it may seem overwhelming to get a system in place that produces real results and allows you the simple ability to just get connected to promote your brand. But once you do, it will be well worth your efforts. Facebook. Boast a 350 million user-plus site is the Mecca in social media today and is growing at significant speed.

Facebook is the No. 2 website in America, according to Alexa.com, and its fastest-growing demographic is people over age 35 and older.

YouTube has hundreds of millions of views and users daily, YouTube is quickly becoming a mainstream marketing tool utilized by small and large business more than ever.Video is one of the hottest items on the market, and YouTube delivers exactly what more than 60 percent of internet users are looking for.

LinkedIn. This is the place where 51 million and growing daily business owners network to find leads and joint venture ability. It’s a fast growing monster environment that caters to the corporate world and is gaining in size and strength in the social media world today.

Twitter allows 140-character posts along with tagged trending topics It has had a phenomenal growth rate in the past year.

Google Buzz is Google’s latest entry into social networking has the potential to attract rapid adoption, due to its connection with the widely used Gmail and Google Maps applications. The Buzz allows users to post status updates and upload pictures and videos to a Google profile, not unlike Facebook and Twitter. A user’s network is formed by contacts they interact with frequently on Gmail. Gmail now offers Business mail to promote their efforts even further.

If a user makes an update public, the information also gets added to the “Buzz” layer now available on Google mobile maps. Now, Google Maps users on i-Phones and Android devices can view the things other Buzz users have said about businesses in the area.

Are you getting the same message when trying to connect “Over Capacity”? I would like to hear from you!

Article Source Suzannah Tho-mas www.Ecommercedesign.ca copyright2010