Social media strategy: not the Marketing Department alone

Forrester have published a pretty good taxonomy, based on the business objectives you have, for branded online communities. Communities can be set up for you to;

  1. Listen to your customers
  2. Talk to your customers
  3. Energise your advocates
  4. Support your customers (or let them support each other)

Groundswell Thinking

 

Well, it was only a matter time - a book that synthesizes the online "Groundswell" phenomenon and how companies should approach it.

Online Communities and Economies of Scale?

After computerising every customer touchpoint that we can lay our hands on over recent decades - a return to treating customers individually in online communities doesn't always sit well.

"Surely this can't be an efficient use of resources; where's the economy of scale in answering an individual blog comment ...?!"

Well, fear not - there is light at the end of the tunnel and some great case studies emerging now that demonstrate the efficiencies and scale that can be delivered through online communities.

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