Customer engagement is important. With many people using social media extensively, companies started to leverage social media tools and platforms to better reach and engage with their customers. Companies are able to use these platforms to provide real-time information about their companies and it can easily reach consumers’ news feeds. However, 94% of these consumers use social media channels to interact with friends, family and people they know. They are not interested to engage with your brand on social media sites. Moreover, only a small fraction of consumers trust posts by companies on … [Read more...]
9 Best Practices in Social Outbound Marketing Campaigns: Becoming a Master Puppeteer
Can a social media marketer learn from a master puppeteer? I think so. A master puppeteer steers his puppets to captivate the audience while communicating a story. A marketer can use social media in a similar fashion to engage and possibly enthrall the audience. It would help the social media marketer to adopt some best practices in “outbound social media campaigns” to get better engagement. For a start, here’s a list of 9 best practices that I think are worthwhile. 1. Always begin with the end in mind. Remember Stephen Covey and “The 7 habits of highly effective people”? This is … [Read more...]