How to Build an Online Community for Your Business

  Every day, things are changing in SEO. If you’re not already working on adapting, today’s the day. It’s time. It’s not that SEO is dead or that links are obsolete, or whatever all that crazy talk is that’s been going around. It’s that there’s a way to integrate all the pieces into the big [...]

15 Important Tips To Help You Keep Your Customers

Excerpted from article: “According to the Harvard Business School, increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits by 25 percent to 95 percent. In order to help you increase your own retention rates, we’ve compiled a list of our 15 favorite tips (backed by academic research and case studies) on increasing customer loyalty, divided [...]

Big Data Understanding The Big Picture

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Big Data is a mystery to most of us. Understanding how to make sense of it all is challenging. Businesses today need to be more informed and respond faster to the needs of their customers. This is where the science of understanding big data becomes important. Without Big Data, it’s impossible to get a comprehensive [...]

5 Things Mobile Customers want in the Relationship

  You don’t give out your phone number to just anyone. Oh, I fondly remember these days in college pretending to be Jessica and giving out a fake number… Back to the point. I’m letting you in my personal space. I know it means much more than giving out my Twitter handle. With 130.8 million [...]

The 3 main expectations customers have for social companies

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The era of non-responsive brands is over! Customers now want answers quickly, and they won’t hesitate to voice their complaints on social networks if need be. From the article: “The biggest cause of social media crises in the last decade has been the exposure of poor customer experiences that were shared online. Ignoring complaints or [...]

From Information Paralysis to Analysis: The Human Algorithm And Curation Are The Solution

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Content Curation Here is an interesting excerped from article: “The onslaught of real-time social, local, mobile (SoLoMo) technology is nothing short of overwhelming. Besides the gadgets, apps, social networks and appliances that continue to emerge, the pace of innovation is only outdone by the volumes of data that each [...]

Do Social Marketers Really Know What Social Consumers Want?

This article is from Brian Solis , and in collboration with Barnickel Design, they have created this infograph that clearly shows that there is a perception gap   what customers want and what executives think they want.based on research from Pivot referring “The Perception Gap“ Jan Gordon: My commentary Hopefully this article and findings will [...]

Foursquare Local Updates Competes with Google, Twitter

A new automatic updating service from Foursquare lets businesses target repeat customers with news, specials and deals.Foursquare Local Updates let merchants send text, photos and Specials to customers who have either checked into a business several times or liked it on Foursquare. The updates will be shown to customers when they’re in the city where [...]

23 Steps To Build Your Personal Brand

We live in one of the most exciting times in the world’s history where you can build a personal brand faster and broader than anyone has even imagined. Most people are underestimating the reach and power of the internet that has really only been available for barely 15 years.   The potential of the web [...]

Social Media Isn’t Free and Neither Am I | MackCollier.com – Social Media Training and Consulting

See on Scoop.it – Tips and Resources for Independent Artists Amazingly, this story I’m about to tell happens about once a week, and it’s usually coming from a large brand. A week or so ago I got an email from the director of corp comm for a decent-sized company. She had read a post I [...]

5 Tips on Business Blogging With Minimal Resources

“Why should we have a blog?” It’s a reasonable question.   Nevermind the fact that millions of businesses are blogging and multiples of those millions of customers are reading said blogs. In fact, 23% of the primary Fortune 500 corporations have an external corporate blog.   Blogs as a content management system make it very [...]

How Asking “Why” Helps Us Get To Our Larger Story

Asking ‘why?’ is an important strategy for content marketing. Our content should focus on delivering value to our customers beyond the product or service we provide. It should ultimately answer the question of ‘why’ our customers care about us.   Using the 5 “whys” As content marketers, getting to the “why” of our content is [...]

It’s called social media for a reason… Be social and collaborate with your customers – Forbes

Via Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media This is a short article by a startup entrepreneur. The key paragraph, which fits very nicely with our Be a Person mantra (http://bit.ly/OrderBeAPerson):   “This engagement has got to be in the form of creating a dialogue with your fans, followers, customers or whoever happens to be liking your [...]

Social Media And Customer Service, Are They One In The Same?

Via Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media What’s your answer to this question? Please comment below.   A key concept from this article: “According to Forrester Research, 16 percent of customers have already vented about negative customer service interactions through social channels, such as online customer reviews, blog posts, and Facebook status updates.” Via www.franchise-focus.com