Networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook can work wonders for your business. Matt Wood explains how these sites help reach a wider.
Table of contents
- 23 Benefits of Social Media for Business
- 23 Benefits of Social Media for Business
- Is social media relevant to social enterprise?
This exposure is especially beneficial because all those shares, likes, and comments show an existing connection with your brand. Going viral is no easy task, of course, but without social media it would be next to impossible. Just how much content can you get through a UGC campaign?
23 Benefits of Social Media for Business
Check out the wanderlustcontest hashtag from National Geographic, which has generated more than 60, posts. If you and your team are on the ball, you can pick up on important social posts about your brand to highlight the positive and address the negative before it turns into a major issue. Be sure to share your side of the story in a polite, professional way.
Someone singing your praises? Send them plenty of thanks and draw attention to their kind words. When a Philadelphia Starbucks store had two black men arrested, the hashtag BoycottStarbucks went viral, and fast. The hashtag was used more than , times in just three days.
That is officially a crisis. We apologize to the two individuals and our customers for what took place at our Philadelphia store on Thursday. After this first apology, the company followed up with several more statements on social media, and announced that it would close all of its stores for a day of racial-bias training. It remains to be seen what the long-term effects of this incident will be for the Starbucks brand, but the consequences would almost certainly been worse if the company had not responded quickly and appropriately on social media.
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Does your company have a plan in place for dealing with a crisis? While smaller brands may not have a crisis blow up to such a large scale, a smaller number of shares can have a devastating impact within a tight-knit community or niche. Silence is not an option when it comes to responding to crises on social media. Social networks give you the opportunity to interact directly with customers and fans, and likewise give them the chance to interact directly with your brand. Unlike traditional media, which offers only one-way communication, social media is a two-way street. If you want customers and followers to be engaged, you have to be engaged yourself.
You can also use social media monitoring to keep an eye on what people are saying across the social web. People expect brands to be available on social media and seek out their social accounts for customer service. The HBR research, which specifically looks at Tweets, shows that customers who receive a response to their Tweet would be willing to spend more with the brand on a later purchase, especially if they get a response within five minutes. That holds true even when the initial Tweet was a flat-out complaint. We mentioned social media monitoring above as an important element of audience engagement.
Social media generates a huge amount of data about your customers in real time. You can use that information to make smarter business decisions. All of the major social networks offer analytics that provide demographic information about the people interacting with your account. This can help you tailor your strategy to better speak to your real audience.
Lots of mentions is a good thing, right? Sure, in many cases. Using social media for your business allows you to stay on top of sentiment analysis so you can protect your brand reputation.
23 Benefits of Social Media for Business
For example, tracking mentions of your competitors might reveal pain points with their products that you could reach out to address, winning new customers in the process. When Uber Canada launched a promotion to deliver free ice cream for a day in Vancouver, things went spectacularly wrong. They took to social media to complain. The social team at Skip The Dishes saw an opportunity and reached out to people complaining about Uber with a free ice cream delivery of their own, in the form of a Skip The Dishes credit. All those Uber haters quickly turned into Skip The Dishes fans, and new customers since you had to create a Skip The Dishes Account to get your free ice cream.
Thanks for delivering free ice cream to the office SkipTheDishes. Social ads are an inexpensive way to promote your business and distribute content. They also offer powerful targeting options so you can reach the right audience and make the most of your budget. Savvy marketers have embraced this key benefit of social media for business: They will spend twice as much on Facebook ads in as they will on newspaper advertising. With ad targeting options including demographic information , geography, language, and even online behaviors, you can craft specific messages that best speak to different groups of potential customers, and only pay for the exact viewers you want to reach.
Nearly 70 percent of online shopping carts are abandoned. People who have abandoned products in a shopping cart are prime potential customers. They have already found your website, browsed your products, and made a decision about what they might want. People abandon shopping carts for many reasons , but someone who has expressed this degree of interest in your company should not be ignored.
Using tracking tools like the Facebook Pixel , you can show these potential customers social media ads for the exact products they have browsed on your website or placed in the shopping cart.
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For example, the craft site Craftsy used retargeting Facebook ads to promote products to people who had already interacted with a product page on the Craftsy site. The campaign saw a 4. It is always a challenge for marketers to prove return on investment. But with social media tracking and analytics tools, you can see the full impact of your social media activities, from follows to engagements right through to purchases.
Is social media relevant to social enterprise?
Tools like Google Analytics and Hootsuite Impact track website traffic generated from social media, conversions, email sign-ups, and ROI for both organic and paid social media campaigns. UTM parameters are another great tracking tool that will help you see which social networks are providing the most benefits for your business.
Use Hootsuite to easily manage all your social media channels from one dashboard. But the combination of desire and natural ability is an almost unstoppable force — just take Mark Zuckerberg for example. Challenged with breaching Harvard University security, violating copyrights and individual privacy for stealing the student photos used to populate the site, he faced expulsion from Harvard for his actions. Did this put him off?
As providers of business support, CEIS have witnessed unprompted client demand for marketing through the digital channel. Detractors enjoy taking a swipe at social media: It will burn itself out! Well, try explaining these conclusions to companies who transferred resource from traditional to digital marketers and restructured departments to attack the market using new social media platforms.
Digital marketing works, they just failed to show they knew how to do it right! CEIS will develop articles on the benefits of marketing as part of a series of useful Blogs. See how else CEIS supports individuals, businesses and communities here.
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