Social networking industry is entering a period of maturation, and this will have significant impacts on the way we approach entering this market. Maturation of the social media industry comes in two forms. The first is that user growth is beginning to slow for many social networks, and there are fewer niches for new entrants to occupy and build a user base. Google + famously failed to attract a user base when it targeted Facebook, because consumers have shown unwilling to belong to too many social networks. MySpace has similarly had difficulty revitalizing its business because Facebook drew so many of its users away. The other area of maturation that is critical to our market entry strategy is with respect to advertising, the key revenue driver in the industry.
For us to build our social media brand, we must understand where consumers stand with respect to saturation and differentiation of their social media. Arguably, there is little room for competition against the largest social media sites, since many of them have cornered their niches. Social media is one business where having a critical mass of users is critical to defending against new entrants. As a result, we should work a niche that does not already have a site with a critical mass of users.
Chekeris (2010) notes that consumers are also maturing in their relationships with social media. How users approach Facebook has been subject of recent analysis. Where once games like Farmville were popular on the site, such applications have begun to wane, and consumers are using social media for more serious tasks, like career management, purchasing and more as a forum for idea exchange. It is not only the industry that is maturing, he notes, but the consumers who make use of social media. This has significant implications for social media users, and potential market entrants will need to understand both the changing ways in which consumers are using social media and the changing ways that advertisers are using it as well.
Strategic management in the social media industry remains focused on developing new revenue models while defending against potential new entrants. The existing players and new entrants alike believe that differentiation from other social media networks is imperative to success. The different industry leaders have adopted significantly different strategies, however. Facebook makes constant changes to its site in order to make it more attractive for advertisers. Twitter's functionality, on the other hand, has changed little since it was first introduced.
Perhaps the biggest change, therefore, in social media strategic management is the increased emphasis on professionalization of site operations and the development of revenue streams. A few years ago, it was reasonable that most social media outlets were trying to build their critical mass of users, because such an approach was thought to be critical to long-run success. In addition, such sites often had easy access to capital because the industry has long been thought to have tremendous revenue potential. With the maturation of the industry has come a bigger push for both cost control and revenue generation, with less emphasis on user attraction. Indeed, user attraction tends to be self-reinforcing, with the large user bases of existing social media networks serving to attract new users. Our new site, however, will need to be managed in such a way that emphasizes both the building of a user base, the control of costs, and the development of strong revenue streams.
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