Unlike Wal-Mart, both Nikon and eBay get social media and understand how to use the power of social networks to help improve their brand awareness.
From business blog consulting:
eBay did when it created an admittedly cheesy 75 second introductory movie promoting an upcoming course they’re offering to the eBay seller community. They filmed the movie then simply uploaded it to YouTube and mentioned it on the eBay Chatter weblog to help drive more customers to the training course: check it out. Cool!
Nikon did something even more cool, though: it picked out a group of existing Nikon digital SLR photographers from popular photo sharing site Flickr and sent them brand new Nikon D80 camera setups. Their assignments? Take pictures, send us your best. The result? Stunning Nikon. A very savvy marketing effort!
Two examples of how to properly execute a social network marketing plan. Congratulations to eBay and Nikon.

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