ST. LOUIS — Outrider, a leading global, integrated search marketing agency, introduced today a new Social Media Marketing (SMM) practice, expanding its search marketing product offering to include a practice group dedicated to guiding B-to-C and B-to-B companies into becoming an active part of online conversation through social search. Outrider is a division of GroupM Search, the world’s largest search marketing specialist and the global search marketing resource for Maxus, MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia, and MindShare. Outrider serves as the incubation brand for the development of emerging trends and new practices within GroupM Search in order to develop best practices in a dedicated search marketing environment that can be executed across all GroupM agencies.
The Social Media Marketing practice, comprised of a team of social media and search experts with established reputations in the social space, will focus on bringing Social Media Marketing and Social Media Optimization (SMO) together for clients to create an effective social media strategy that influences their search marketing results and presence in social communities. Social Media Marketing is participatory internet marketing which seeks to achieve various internal and external marketing goals such as building site traffic, conversions and sales, increased brand awareness and brand association, talent development, business development through networking and more. It requires marketers to participate in the communities they want to influence. Social Media Optimization has a direct relationship with search engine optimization (SEO). It is the process of optimizing content for social media and search. This can include the optimization of images, video, blogs, news, public relations and podcasts.