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Social Media Marketing Strategy Helps To Improve Customer Loyalty
By Christine Wales
Everyone has heard the phrase on some company help line: "Your
call is important to us." And they know this is just a business
marketing strategy to keep them from blowing their stack as they
wait forty five minutes to talk to someone who clearly has no
interest in how a product isn’t working as advertised, and who
offers little actual help.
It may not seem like it now, but that corporate attitude is on
the way out, as the new social media marketing gradually moves
in. The new social media will soon be one of the primary marketing
tools of corporations, which involves a genuine two-way conversation
between equals and is absolutely required or these companies will
suddenly find themselves losing business.
Corporations Hesitating To Change To Social Media Guidelines
This thought actually terrifies some companies, while it makes
others angry. Why resort to social media guidelines, they reason,
when they’ve got tried and true advertising methods that have
worked for decades?
They are used to putting ads and specs out there to tell the
customer what they think he or she should know, and this customer
has previously been a fairly passive recipient of the word from
on high.
Making Customers More Loyal
Now the customer expects to talk back and even make judgments
on the company’s products and way of doing business. Yet rather
than embracing this social media strategy, some companies view
this new way of doing business as suicidal.
But it may surprise the corporate doubters to learn that adopting
the strategy of two-way social media marketing may draw customers
in and make them more loyal to brands than they’ve been before.
Think about it.
Taking Advantage Of Social Networks
If a product user feels they’ve had some input into how the company
produced the product, or if groups of users know that their input
has helped change the product and the company’s policies for the
better, then they’re going to talk about it in their own social
networks. Social media optimization of this sort can serve both
the company and the customers very well.
The one thing that always comes through, though, is whether or
not a company’s social media marketing is merely a cynical ploy
to use customers’ personal networks to their own advantage.
Talking In Genuine Conversation
If people are not genuinely respected and taken seriously by
the business, then social media principles work the opposite way
too. Disillusionment or disgust over a company’s products or practices
can spread through this media platform even more quickly than
approval.
The best way for businesses to adapt to the new social media
world is to become full-fledged members and engaging in genuine
conversations.
About the Author:
Christine Wales has written a number of articles on computers,
online shopping and online software including Online
Shopping, Internet
Shopping, Shopping
Site, Social
Networks, Dynamic
Web Content, Search
Engine Marketing, Web
Content, Web
Content Management System, Web
Content Management, Website
Design.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Give Me Just The Social Media Facts.....
How does social media and social networking differ or are they
the same?
Though you often see the terms ‘social media’
and ‘social networking’ used in different ways in reality they
are very similar. They are not exactly the same but they are closely
enough linked that they work interchangeably for many purposes.
The media aspect is the actual method or
medium of communication used whereas the networking is the actual
social interaction. So it is easy to see where the two are very
similar and often used together or in place of the other.
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