A short, but insightful quote: "It's not about having a transactional relationship with your customers, it's about having an emotional one with your fans."
Reward established fans, but don’t exclude new ones.
There’s nothing wrong with running a special promotion to attract new clients. Just make sure that your current customers are getting something out of the deal
With most customers being able to access the internet from anywhere with their mobile smart phones, small business owners can engage customers through Social Media while they are at Peak Attention in-store.
a combined approach is now possible at a time when customers are most likely to make a purchase… By engaging customers through Social Media while they are in your store you have the ability to make a big-time impact on their purchase decision.
The biggest things to keep in mind when trying to come up with creative ideas for in-store social media promotions are to keep the tactics relevant to your audience, be creative, and offer something of value in exchange for a desired action from you customers.
Twitter Picture Contest: With mobile applications like TweetDeck, combined with mobile smart phones, customers now have the ability to instantly snap pictures with their phone & tweet them to their followers. Small businesses should leverage tools like mobile smart phones, Twitter, & TweetDeck to create a Twitter Picture Contest where customers can snap a picture of their favorite product in-store, tweet it, and receive a discount on their purchase.
Foursquare is a great tool for capturing customers attention while in-store. You can run a contest where every customer who checks-in at your venue on foursquare and leaves a tip will be entered into a weekly or monthly drawing for a gift certificate or another great prize. Although this promotion isn’t directly geared towards influencing a sale, it will engage customers and help you build brand loyalty. If the winner receives a $25 gift certificate, it’s likely that he or she will spend more than that the next time they come in, so it actually may indirectly impact sales.
Just like most of us have the ability to take pictures with our mobile smart phones, many have the ability to record video as well. Small business owners should leverage this by developing an in-store video marketing promotion. Small Business owners can ask customers to record their entire shopping experience and publish the video to their small business Facebook page. Each customer who participates will receive a coupon towards their purchase
In-store social media promotions can build brand loyalty if customers see that you’re trying to provide them with value in a way that’s convenient for them.
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60% of Facebook fans and 79% of Twitter followers are more likely to recommend those brands since becoming a fan or follower. And an impressive 51% of Facebook fans and 67% of Twitter followers are more likely to buy the brands they follow or are a fan of.
“Companies not actively engaging are missing a huge opportunity and are saying something to consumers – intentionally or unintentionally- about how willing they are to engage on consumers’ terms.”
The study also uncovered perceptions among consumers that those brands not engaging in social media are out of touch.
Recent statistics from Facebook show they have 400 million active users and more than 20 million people become fans each day. Twitter users post over 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second.
social media is important to your small business," Barone says. "It gives you the opportunity to grow bigger wings by making your brand more accessible, more visible and more authoritative simply by showing up and engaging.
Are you using video to connect with customers and prospects? Videos will enhance client communication and collaboration, and help support and drive new business.
In this post we’ll cover 26 ways you can engage and interact with your customers by using video in several different forms.
53% of people on Twitter recommend companies and/or products in their Tweets, with 48% of them delivering on their intention to buy the product.
The average consumer mentions specific brands over 90 times per week in conversations with friends, family, and co-workers.
Consumer reviews are significantly more trusted -- nearly 12 times more -- than descriptions that come from manufacturers, according to a survey of US mom Internet users by online video review site EXPO.
picks up signals from social media mentions and puts them into a different perspective unlike others. It finds you details about reputation, media origin and sentiments associated to your brand - Brands Eye
listening as part of a business communication strategy.
Grow Bigger Ears in 10 Minutes
Most important to the process – DO something with what you’re learning. Figure out the business value of the listening you’re doing, and route it to the right places.
Listening means to really key in to what the person is saying and not saying. To look for the meaning and the feelings behind what is being said. To go beyond the words. Giving your deepest level of attention. vs. simply receiving the words which can become only “sounds”, hearing.
In a world gone social everyone is hearing a lot of noise but few are really listening. In a world gone transparent the noise is what the market hears while the customer is simply looking for someone to listen.
Now millions will listen to this post for many years to come and the supplier will hear a different noise. The silent noise of customers leaving. That is unless they learn to listen rather than building massive cost to simply hear.
Chris mentions in this video that Using Listening tools is the number one thing he suggests to most companies to better understand what people are saying about them.
there is one key task that must be done consistently in order to ensure social media success – listening.
Monitoring social media is different from measuring. Measuring, in effect, is determining quantity, but monitoring social media is establishing quality.
And the only way to do that is to listen and observe what is being said about your company and your industry.
Decide where to monitor. Where do your key stakeholders “hang out” online?
Listen first. Ogneva puts it perfectly: “Before you ever open your digital mouth, listen and observe the culture of the community, interactions between members, how influence is expressed, and even if there’s a particular vernacular.”