Thursday, September 9, 2010

How to Develop a Social Strategy Based on Your Biz Goal


Written by Ann Liu

Accord­ing to a study pub­lished at the end of Jan­u­ary 2010, Nielsen observed the online social activ­ity of con­sumers around the world and dis­cov­ered an 82% increase in time spent on social net­work­ing sites in Decem­ber 2009. On aver­age, users spent more than five and a half hours on pop­u­lar net­works such as Face­book and Twit­ter in Decem­ber 2009. In Decem­ber 2008, users clocked just over three hours on social net­work­ing sites.

It is true that social media has democ­ra­tized influ­ence, it for­ever change the way that busi­nesses com­mu­ni­cate with cus­tomers and the way cus­tomers affect the deci­sions of their peers through dif­fer­ent platforms.

How­ever, use the tools does not guar­an­tee that peo­ple will lis­ten. Engage­ment is play­ing the game, which shaped by the inter­pre­ta­tion of its inten­tions. In order for social media to mutu­ally ben­e­fit you, your influ­encers and ulti­mately cus­tomers, you must engage them in mean­ing­ful and advan­ta­geous con­ver­sa­tions, empow­er­ing them as true par­tic­i­pants in your mar­ket­ing, brand­ing, and ser­vice efforts no mat­ter which sec­tor and indus­try you are in.

Recently, the Altime­ter Group’s Char­lene Li and Jere­miah Owyang pre­sented a webi­nar toward how to devel­op­ing a social strat­egy. This webi­nar was the sec­ond in a three-part series on social media for the enter­prise. You can find the first one here.

The actual pre­sen­ta­tion is embed­ded below and you can also access the record­ing at web-strategist.com.

In the pre­sen­ta­tion, Char­lene noted that one of the key goals for any social strat­egy should be learn­ing, and that social out­reach can be a tremen­dous mon­i­tor­ing tool for lis­ten­ing to and learn­ing from your cus­tomers. Hope you can learn lots of things from below this video and use the tips for your social strat­egy development.

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About Ann Liu
Ann Liu is a certified professional Internet marketer, author, infopreneur, e-marketing consultant. She is also a passionate blogger. Signup her newsletter or RSS feed to receive her latest news, tips and articles at MarketingbyAnn.com. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook too. If you enjoy this above article and want to use it on your own website, you are welcome to use it, ONLY if the Author's Resource Boxes is included. Thank You!


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