Social Networking
Summary / Quick Tips
The benefits you can gain from social networking include: increasing sales and traffic to your website, opening a dialogue with potential customers, getting valuable feedback and promoting your brand.
Core Benefits of Social Networking
- Ability to communicate your marketing message to a wide audience
- Helps drive traffic to your website and increase sales
- Allows you to engage with and have conversations with your target market
- Build and maintain long term relationships with customers
- Gain valuable feedback on your business / products
Increase Brand Awareness
Once you have become a trusted member of the community you can encourage members to talk about your brand. Regularly socialise with community members to gain brand advocates who may unintentionally promote your brand by chatting about it on social networks, inform their friends about you or even link to your website from theirs.
Free Customer Feedback
Social networks provide an opportunity to gain feedback from people about their customer experience with you together with their opinions on your offerings. When added to your conventional market research, this can provide a valuable insight into your customer's needs.
People in social networks ask each other for advice and opinions which often leads to endorsing products or warning each other about bad experiences with suppliers. Businesses may see this as a risk to their brand image, but you can benefit from both good and bad feedback. If customers have negative feedback you need to take this on board, look at ways of overcoming any sales barriers and reassure people by replying to the feedback.
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