Spreading your message through social media
What could you do with thousands of customers eagerly waiting to hear about your latest product or service? That is what you have when you build a loyal following in social media. The next goal of social media is spreading. At first glance this may look similar to energizing and it is. With energizing you [...]
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Is it really social?
By now you have probably seen the Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa, You Tube commercials. In a series of videos all shot in one day old spice responded to various posts and comments from a variety of social media sources. This video of the Old Spice Guy for Alyssa Milano is one of my favorites. It [...]
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Only boring companies need advertising!
The title of this post is borrowed from somewhere but I can’t find the source right now. But that does not really matter right now; what matters is that for the most part the statement is true. The next goal of social media marketing, energizing your customers, shows why this true. If you have an [...]
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Does your company have a place at the table?
The next item on the objectives wheel is talking. The first step in engaging your customers is talking to them. You may talk to customers everyday on the phone, in the office or on the sales floor and at its heart this is what social media is all about interacting with customers. The difference is [...]
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You need to listen to what your customers are saying.
There are many reasons to engage in social media. In a recent webinar on B2B sales using social media Forrester Research listed the following six objectives for Social Media Campaigns: listening, talking, energizing, spreading, supporting and embracing. We of course would add on co-creation which is a combination of all six. Each of these six [...]
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