Why you should avoid Social Media Marketing

Social media is a great way to step into two way conversation with recent and future customers.

In these times it seems that everybody wants to step into social media.

In my opinion social Media is not for everybody! Why you will ask? And I will tell you from my point of view:

Social media marketing for small businesses can increase their brand awareness and reach massively. Everywhere in the net small businesses are trying to get a piece of the social media marketing pie and acting nervously to not get left behind.

My experiences are that most of them should better look to have a clear and good in time working email response first. Yep. I know that’s not nice of me.

But this is the simple painful truth. Most of them who are looking to step into social media conversation simply do not have their email conversation under control.

So how can they think to be successful in social media where they are required to answer in real time to profit from it, when they are not able to answer email requests within business hours?

Most online shops I have contacted need more than three hours to respond, some much longer and some do not answer anyway. But most of them are in social media. What a waste of time!

Imagine this, there is a future customer who has a question about a product he wants to buy, but he does not get any response in the worst case!

Social media success lives of real time communication, like in the real world. When you are on cocktail party and somebody asks you a question, than you can’t wait until tomorrow to answer. The same with social media!

Businesses which do not have their email communication under control and are not able to respond very quick, or better in real time, do not need to think about social media marketing yet. They better improve their email communication and when this is working well, in real time, than they can step into social media.

If you feel you have what it takes to step into social media marketing than here are several question for you to clear before you start:

– Ensure that your email communication is working and you do not produce angry prospects
– Is your email response time under one hour or better, than you can step into social media
– Who is responsible for email communication and social media conversation? You should have a minimum one person in charge of each one
– Do you have social media policy in place?
– What kind of content does your business publishes on regular basis on the web?
– Do you have goals set for lead generation through social media?
– What will be your activities to generate leads, do you have landing pages in place and how about a lead nurturing process to make paying customers out of your leads?
– Do you have set revenue goals for your social media marketing? If it does not bring in dollars than it makes no sense!

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August 19, 2011October 7, 2011

Social Media puts your business at risk! Are you prepared?

The marketing technology company Alterian found out that 80% of companies struggle to analyze their social media data.

As social media marketing is estimated to increase in the next twelve months by up to 25% companies should have clear how the online – social media conversation can impact their brand. Not taking the effort to monitor social media conversation can result in the risk of failing to engage with potential new and existing customers on the web!

How about your business?

Are you monitoring social media to know what conversation is going on about your company?

How do you monitor the web to know in real time what’s talked about your company, your products and your competition online?

No matter if you want to be a part of the conversation or not, conversation about your brand is happening on the web with or without your participation. But when you decide to become a part of the conversation this can offer tremendous opportunities to gain trust and credibility with your audience.

In social media people are talking and an average Facebook user has about 130 friends and they have an average of 130 friends and so on. Good news can spread fast in social media and reach new potential customers. Bad news spread faster.

You need to have a plan how to interact with you audience in good and bad times. You also need to listen and to know what is talked about your brand on the web.

To know what people are talking about gives you the opportunity to jump in to the discussion and explain your point of view. Another underestimated opportunity of listening online is, you get deep insides of your target audiences needs.

In other words they tell you what and which kind of product they deserve and what they are willing to pay for. So you can offer special tailored solutions to your audience and increase business and revenue, only by listening – monitoring.

The customer honors companies which show that they care about their needs and which are willing to communicate.

The ability to know what’s going on and to communicate in real time with the target audience is a powerful credibility builder and supports your branding online.

By knowing what your target audience is thinking and deserving from you sets you in a powerful competitive position. You save time and money for research and you can bring custom tailored products and services to your audience much faster than your competition!

What do you think? Are these above good reasons to start listening – monitoring social media and the web?

To start monitor what’s been talked about your business you can use some free tools:

SocialMention

Like Google Alerts but for social media.

Receive free daily email alerts of your brand, company, CEO, marketing campaign, or on a developing news story, a competitor, or the latest on a celebrity.

Google Alerts

Monitor the Web for interesting new content

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Build your dashboard with Google Reader

Effective social media monitoring starts with a dashboard.

A good way to build a dashboard is Google Reader. The only thing you need is to subscribe to the RSS feeds of blogs and news sites related to your business and industry, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and you got all at one place. If something comes up which mention your brand or any other interesting news than it appears on your dashboard.

How do you monitor the web and social media? How are your experiences in social media conversation with your customers?

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June 27, 2011October 7, 2011

How companies are using social media for marketing research

How to do social media for marketing research? In fact this is the first part of a social media marketing strategy.

First, it is important to learn more about your customer and the social media places they are hanging around and why they are there, what they are interested and what they are talking about.

When you have done your previous social media for marketing research right, than you have discovered your different buyer personas and how to get their attention to attract them to your offers.

Now you can digg deeper and discover your competition and what they are doing in social media. You could take a closer look at your competitors and see if they are successful with their marketing. What their customers are saying about them and much more.

You could also focus on trends in your industry. This gives you the opportunity to offer custom tailored products and services to your target audience to server there demand better.

Here are some tips how you can use social media for your research:

Learn more about your target audience on Facebook!

To learn more about your potential marketing on Facebook you can use some FB tools like FB Groups, Pages and FB Ads.

Facebook Groups: In Groups you can get the real time communication of your target audience. You can see which things they are interested in and what the like and do not like. You should become a member of the most groups which are important to reach your audience.

Facebook Pages: The same opportunity here with company pages. Look out for company pages of your competition and “Like” them. So you can observe the discussions on your competitors pages and gain important information on what they are doing and customer satisfaction.

Facebook Ads: With Facebook Ads you can do segmentation for your audience. The segmentation shows you how many people of your target audience are on Facebook. This numbers gives you a more inside look into the marketing potential and possible success of your Facebook marketing.

Learn more about your target audience on LinkedIn!

LinkedIn is great especially for B2B marketing. With its 100+ million users they are not as big as Facebook, but for B2B they are the number one player in the marketing.

You can learn more about your potential marketing success on LinkedIn when you utilize some LinkedIn tools like Groups, Answers and LinkedIn Ads.

LinkedIn Groups: Research for In Groups LinkedIn where your buyer personas could be around. Become a member of these groups and observe the discussions and communication there. Introduce yourself and your business and offer help and assistance. Comment if you have something important to contribute. Groups are great way to get seen from your target audience.

LinkedIn Answers: On LinkedIn you can showcase your knowledge. Research for your industry related keywords and phrases and give advice to the people who have asked. Listen carefully to the questions asked, because this is what your audience is interested in. You can get a lot of information for product and marketing improvement from LinkedIn Answers.

LinkedIn Ads: As Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads give you a more clear picture and numbers about your audience and market potential on LinkedIn. The segmentation LinkedIn shows you how many people of your target audience are registered from how many countries. Equipped with this numbers you can increase your chances on LinkedIn.

Learn more about your target audience on Twitter!

With its 100+ million users Twitter is the biggest micro blogging platform online. Most major businesses utilize Twitter for their customer support and interaction.

With its feature like @Mentions, Retweets, Searches and Lists you are able not only to see what your audience is talking about you, moreover you can set more of your industry related keywords and phrases to see trends and important discussion and also you can observe your competitors through Twitter.

These tips show you how to using social media for marketing research in an easy and smart way.

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February 16, 2011October 8, 2011

Learn – Spy link building from your competitor

Backlinks are important for your business to get better found online.

Search engines rank your site importance depending on the Backlinks which come from other related websites and blogs.

The more Backlinks from related websites you have, the higher the search engines will preferred rate your website or blog.

Means your chances increase to appear on the first page of the search results.

But what if your competitor I rank higher for every search term you also need to rank high as well to get better found, to get more traffic leads and revenue?

There is an easy solution to overcome this issue.

Asses where your “next higher ranked competition” is positioned in the search engines. When I say “next higher ranked competition” than I means the one directly before you.

Do not try to attack the biggest elephant in the jungle with a stone in your hand. Begin with the small one in the jungle, the “next higher ranked competition”.

When you have assessed the Backlinks of your “next higher ranked competition” than you can build a list of activities, websites, blogs, comments and article topics which have lead to his amount of Backlinks.

Now follow the clear footsteps of your “next higher ranked competition” activities and copy his doing. Look out for the next bigger target in the internet jungle when you are done with your first strategic job.

Just repeat this strategy until you achieve your ranking and traffic goals.

But be aware, this strategy is no secret. Others will follow you to outperform you with these tactics. You should include some creativity to build other valuable marketing tactics to set you apart from your following competition.

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January 18, 2011October 8, 2011

Social Media increases the pressure for better customer service

If you are active in social media and you only talk about your self and do not listen to your target audience than you are definitely going into the wrong direction!

More and more companies discover social media as a marketing channel.

Social media marketing opportunities are limitless. But when you think the only thing you can do with social media is to blow out your marketing message, than you are missing a great part of the possibilities social media is offering to your business.

Ben Nesvig, marketing manager of Fuzed Marketing said: “Businesses that don’t actively answer support questions via Twitter and Facebook will feel the sting in 2011. Smart companies have already taken advantage of these tools, but look for small businesses to become more involved.”

Customers online in social media communities expect from a business to interact with them and to listen and to respond to them.

With social media companies can offer better service and support. Service and support are the underestimated secret weapons to be a step ahead of your competition.

When businesses interact with their target audience they can learn more about how they think and about their wishes and expectations from a company and their products.

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In deed companies who carefully listen, can build products bespoke to their customers needs and set them self apart from any competition in their whole niche!

A careful interaction builds trust, increases the reputation of a company and increases the revenue and leaves your competition far behind you.

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August 2, 2010August 2, 2010

How to Spread Your Message to the Right Audience #IMU

Business Online has severe competition due to globalized economy. Companies have to be perfect in implementing their inbound marketing strategies.

They should be able to identify the right audience so that their marketing strategies may attract massive amount of leads for their lead generation campaigns.

This article helps business in identifying the right audience and spreading your message related to business to the right audience.

Success of business online depends on identifying the right audience for promoting and marketing their products. This results in poor sales and may result in lesser leads for lead generation campaigns.

So in order to do your inbound marketing strategies, it is important to identify the right audience for your products.

Most of the businesses online take time to know the correct marketing strategies for their products. This often happens due to failure of identifying potential customers, the Buyer Persona for their business. If they are successful, they would have been successful in creating massive amount of leads for their lead generation campaigns.

Here are some tips which will help in identifying the potential customers and targeted audience for your business.

1. Identifying Potential Customers

Identify your business or product major services and potential users of your product. Be specific as possible in identifying who exactly will be using your products and services. Then focus your inbound marketing to grab these potential customers for your business.

2. Identifying the needs of Potential customers

Once you have identified your the major base of your potential customers, next thing to identify is their needs and requirements. Encourage them to add comment on your products, ask for reviews about your products and ask them to actively participate in your social media platform groups.

You can improve your business only if you are able to respond to your customers needs.

3. Develop a Work Plan

Identify how you can satisfy your customer. Develop your lead capture pages, improve and customize your website by website redesign, target your inbound marketing strategies to target the potential customers by planning a strategic work plan.

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July 29, 2010July 29, 2010

How About Your Online Reputation #IMU

Online business has been one of the successful ways to improve and spread your business to different parts of the world.

To create and build an effective web presence, there is need for businesses to engage actively in social media and spread information about their products in all major social media platforms.

This article gives brief information of challenges that are faced for building an effective web presence and bring massive leads for your business online.

Social Media platforms have played a major role in bringing websites in top pages of search engines thus by ensuring that websites and useful information is reached to public.

The reason why search engines have become popular is due to overwhelming shift to online searches.

Website owners receive massive amount of traffic for their website if they are having good content for their products and there website pages are visible in top pages of search engines.

Some of the best ways to bring potential customers for your website and products enabling you to generate massive amount of leads are given below:

Best way to build your online web presence is to be active in social media platforms. Ensure that you are driving traffic to your website through social media platforms rather that driving them away from your website.

Presentation: Research – Online reputation management

Be active in social media platforms in such a way that you bring your business products to your customers and also show your expertise in the field.

Some examples shall be shared and then it is important that online reputation is also maintained. You should remember that there should be good content in website also to gain trust on your products and also provide good services.

While getting to top pages of search engines is one of the core marketing strategies, facing challenges to create an effective web presence is another marketing strategy.

By building a strong web presence, customers are attracted for your latest updates in your website and also getting attracted towards your products.

Don’t forget that social media platforms are one of the best ways to communicate about your products and business to others. Social Media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn helps in bringing business to public and making your products more reachable for your users.

Make sure that you are using these social media platforms to create massive amount of leads for your lead generation campaigns.

Some other ways to build your online web presence is to be active in forums, comment in other websites which provide relevant information similar to your products, sharing your expertise by providing presentations in websites like slideshare, boxnet and other.

Sharing your expertise not only helps in building a effective web presence, but also helps in bringing massive leads for your website products. Integrate your presentations in your business blog and share those presentations in social media platforms.

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July 26, 2010July 26, 2010

Inbound Marketing: Grow Leads and Revenue with Only 30 Minutes a Day with Facebook #IMU

Inbound Marketing is one of the powerful marketing solutions for business online today. Inbound Marketing and social media together has change the way of marketing online for business organizations.

Major social media communities like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn has influenced business and customers through their powerful information. This article provides a quick overview of how to increase leads for your business and improving your Inbound Marketing solutions with facebook.

Facebook is one of the powerful social media communities which has influenced Inbound marketing tremendously. Many business organizations are now using facebook with his more than 500 million user count as a main source for their marketing and lead generation campaigns.

You can get massive leads for your lead generation campaigns if you manage to know the benefits of facebook advertising. Some of the best ways to use facebook for business are given below:

Using Facebook Fan Page:

Building facebook fan page brings quality leads for your business. Not only this, facebook fan pages are the best ways to share your product information with facebook users and also to get recognized online for your business.

Promoting business on facebook is one way to market your products online.

Facebook Advertising:

Facebook Advertising is a great ways to advertise and attract targeted customers. With Facebook advertising, advertisers get wide range of options to advertise their products.

Some of the examples are targeted advertising, targeting by gender, keywords, age and marital status and some more. This type of advertising helps advertisers promote their products reaching targeted customers and brining massive leads for lead generation campaigns.

Business Promotion with Facebook:

With facebook there is every possibility to improve your business presence online. With facebook apps, you can add facebook like page to your website, promote your facebook fan page with other social communities and increase your popularity in facebook.

As fans increases, businesses easily get the visibility of their business in Internet and also gets chance to create a viral marketing for their newly launched products.

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July 16, 2010July 16, 2010

How To Get Your CEO To Do Inbound Marketing #IMU

In this modern World of Business, Internet marketing has becoming more popular than the traditional outbound marketing. This may be due to the advent of the new technology that is changing the life style of the people.

You can make your business successful online if you follow some modern marketing strategies like Inbound marketing.

Inbound marketing is also helpful to keep your presence in the modern World of business. Hence Your CEO can be convinced easily when you communicate the advantages of Inbound marketing which is changing the world of marketing business.

If you think that Inbound marketing is helpful for your business then express your opinion by exploring your marketing plan like this:

First plan

First of all think of plan on how you can convince your CEO like how you can grow the business by inbound marketing, why you are choosing the inbound marketing , what are the benefits ,how it will increase the brand value of your business and so on.

Then analyze the SWOT of your business and compare

Analyze the Strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of your business then tell how you can balance through Inbound marketing and increase profits through inbound marketing.

Then tell how you can earn more profits with less cost of resources and time and can share the information regarding your business very fast through Inbound marketing

You can convince your CEO that Inbound marketing costs very less of resources all that necessary are well challenged creative Web presence with search engine optimization techniques and with good content of posts and also you you can convince him by telling the information is shared very fast through inbound marketing .

Compare inbound marketing with outbound marketing

As the cost of resources is very less and advantages are more in inbound marketing you can convince him to work out with Inbound marketing along with the outbound marketing.

Tell Why Inbound marketing for your Business

You should be able to convince your CEO with the advantages of inbound marketing like getting found by customers when they search for your products, services and creating new customers for business and how it can expand your business. How social media networks help creating leads to your business.

Tell how Inbound marketing can increase the brand value and profits for your business

You can tell that you can provide service to your customers at any time and take feedback and also anybody from the world can contact you through your website by which you can increase your customers for your business etc by which this certainly increases the brand value and profits for your business.

By this you can convince your CEO by explaining him that the advantages of Inbound marketing strategy are global and easy.

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July 12, 2010July 12, 2010

Inbound Marketing Means Exposure #IMU

Inbound marketing or outbound marketing are the strategies which are involved in reaching new customers.

So of which Inbound marketing is a strategy of which your potential customers can easily find you through the search engines when they are searching for the products, services or information regarding your business here it is nothing but exposure of your business through search engines.

For an effective inbound marketing a well build website with good content and optimized keywords in each post is necessary for submitting in search engines and social media networking sites. Building trust and maintaining relationship is very important in social media networking activities.

Social media networking sites are the best exposure sites for your business

Building a good network with friendly relationship is necessary for better exposure of your business in these networks which helps in going close to your customers and reaches your targeted customers.

These sites refer your products to their friends, relatives and potential business partners.

Your products can be referred to other friends, relatives etc so it acts as word of mouth and viral marketing.

Increases the brand value by submitting in social media networking sites

Your company and products gets more exposure and helps in increasing the brand value of your business.

Sharing of information is fast

Sharing of information regarding your products can easily be done if they feel that the information you provided is useful.

Social media activities showing impact on page rank of websites

The traffic driven in to the sites by which the page rank of the website can be increased by the activities on social media.

How to build trust and relationship with these networking sites

Form a network

For building a good network first you have to make friends on these sites by simply following them and expressing your opinions and interests.

Build the trust and then go for selling

After making friendship and forming a network ask them a friendly request to visit your site and don't direct go for direct selling because usually people get irritated if they think that you are trying to make profit from them.

Listen to your customers

You can get a good feedback from your customers by raising a question regarding your products and asking them how they feel about your products and similarly, customers raising any queries regarding your products or services by this you can solve their problem immediately.

Observe your competitors

You should also observe your competitors of your business how they are attracting the customers so that you can remain updated.

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June 17, 2010June 17, 2010

How Has Social Media Helped Your Business, Seriously #IMU

Social Media is helping out each and every sector of businesses, organizations, firms, institutions, etc. in fulfilling their needs of effective marketing. Social media marketing has exploded up and is today the demand of every online business and people whether young or adult.

See what Pat Caporuscio has to say about Inbound Marketing. Watch this video.

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If you want to have a vast knowledge about the growing business and strategies used by them it is available there.

Using these strategies effectively can easily transform your business. You can also see serious growth in your business if you understand the various tactics used for the inbound marketing.

Social media can help your businesses by getting you all the knowledge about your business. It also helps you by giving all the knowledge which you don’t even know about.

It gives you the knowledge about your potential customers, and what they demand.

You should get a clear image about your customers, who are they, what they want and where they are? You should also have a clear idea of what your customers are searching for and what they need the most? Then only you can serve them better and communicate them t offer your products and services.

You should also use various tools related to social media marketing that can help your business grow. There are however many tools to make your inbound marketing successful. All you have to require is to utilize these tools appropriately and not just do whatever you want with it.

Social media is all about going to be social. It is not only meant as a self-promotional media but you should also consider linking to the related content and links that are not owned by you. You must be thinking that you are promoting your competitors this way but not at all.

You should forget the word competitor and make a friendly appearance to all. This will also let you know about all the activities of your competitors that you should know and will be very helpful for your business. In this way you have an opportunity to build an optimized web presence and you will be interlinking and networking with a vast group of people of similar interest.

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May 21, 2010May 21, 2010

The Winner Takes It All – Be an Early Adopter Brand

Twitter, Facebook, orkut, and other social networking sites like this has come up widely, as a very strong social media marketing tool for the businesses of today, to connect and converse with their customers.

But this has become a yesterday's news and the fresh one is that the one which uses them effectively and properly wins it all. The early adopter brands that have helped lot for the rest, to follow them are already the winners.

So to be a winner your brand should be necessarily an early adopter Brand that adopt various social media marketing strategies and social media marketing tools to become popular and a winner. Using Social Media Marketing efficiently helps you to reach public and market quickly thus achieving good market share

Social Media Marketing Facts

Try something innovative and new

Try something innovative and new for your business. You have to risk because the winners are only those who can risk. This is becoming the future trend that who can try and be innovative will be a winner. To become a winner and stand out of the crowd you should be thinking other than the whole world and of course the whole world should be benefited from the thoughts.

Big brands like Ford, Starbucks, Zappos and others did not did the magic but they identified the future trend and tried something innovative which had shown their way to success.

Although just becoming an early adopter brands are neither always an excellent indicator of the growth potential of a brand nor do they guarantee the success, but they slowly turn out to be winner if they are hard working, committed, smarter and patient.

Be smart and be winner

Smart marketers who identified and adopted the latest trend are now called as winner. They started leveraging the social media marketing tools to promote their brands and daily lifestyles products. These smart businesses identified social media marketing sites and build a strong relationship between their customers and gained the profits.

In this way their smart innovative ideas and thoughts of using these social media marketing tools as their best marketing sources made them winner. They are really the early adopter brands who win the race first.

Maintain Strong relationship and confidence

One key advantage of using social media marketing as a marketing tool and be an Early Adopter Brand is that they build up a strong relationship and a genuine interest with the customers.

Those brands which adopt the genuine interest in customer engagement and commitment along with a great customer support go a long way and continually cash up the advantages which rest can't.

These early adopter brands maintain a high profile media presence and a strong relation with their customers and consumers.

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May 20, 2010May 20, 2010

How Can You Maintain Online Reputation

Most of the people working online or in social media marketing are not happy and satisfied with the response they get from others about their name or their company progress.

In the past recent years a huge number of social media marketing sites have come into picture which helps to manage and maintain online reputation and makes it get easy to found online.

Nowadays it’s important to make a good name online to make your business do better with the help of blog advertising. Today it is very common and easy to create a web page or one’s own blog describing their personality and business online. One should also manage their time perfectly while maintaining their online reputation.

Some of the best ways to maintain your online reputation are given below:

With the help of Google Alerts

The best and the easiest way by which a person can track what Google knows about a topic is Google Alerts. You can subscribe to a Google Alerts and at the same time receive email as the search phrase enters Google’s index.

You can subscribe to social media sites like Twitter, Technorati etc. and search for his name or product in the top feed readers available. Blog search engine Technorati tracks buzz in the blogosphere which easily index the body of blog posts as soon as they are published.

Maintaining your own blog

The most effective way by which one can display his ideas and messages to others is your own blog, and once it is up online, the pages that display name and message should be maintained because

Google loves and promotes fresh content. More you update the blog, better it is and as long as you keep the search phrases you wish Google to find in the forefront and likely find you closer to the top of the search results, thus maintaining your online reputation.

Reputation is earned

Online reputation management is a critical step in landing a new job. Self Googling is not an act of narcissism but it’s a smarter way to determine whether your online personality gives with how you want others to see you.

The measure of once reputation is what we do and what others say about you. Reputation is earned and can be managed and influenced by the things you do online and through social media marketing, blogs and can never be designed or decided by its holder. Thus it should be the ultimate goal of each and every web savvy professional to have their online reputation precedes them.

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April 28, 2010May 19, 2010

Why to Measure Your Brand

As most of the consumers and customers looking for a particular thing or product will often search using the brand name of that product in their keywords, Key words Phrases and Brands can be related to each other for a common man searching over web for a product.

If you are really using your brand terms to represent your product, you will be on a successful path and have approached a first step to it. But it is often difficult to tell that if you are really winning out on your brand term or not. It is thus necessary to measure your brand success in the competitive world of internet marketing and for social marketing firm. If your brand is on the first rank in the search positions well the happiness is obvious.

But wait, is rank all that which can best measure your brand success, there are of course many other metrics which can determine your success. Here follows some of the measures to measure whether you are on the right track or losing out of your brand terms.

Metrics to measure your brand

This is to measure how well branded are you and how well and effective is your personal brand going on. First of all try to search on a Google for your brand term or it name or a leader in your field that best describe your brand. You can have a very effective measure by this method.

Compare ad serving frequency with your competitor’s ad serving frequency. If your ads are served less than your competitor on Google ad words you should surely need to make some budget changes. Also check out the number of positions your brand terms occupy. If your brand term or keyword is very competitive you could not be as successful as you could be.

Ways to get your Brand on top

Keep giving offers and keep an eye on the ways of promotion and ads you are providing for your brand. If you are providing a better deal with a better offers and best prices for your consumers than your competitor, you are surely on the winning tracks. Check out your ad copy and then heck out your competitors; make the effective changes if you feel that can provide you more consumers and customers.

Check out the organic tactics and if you are on top in the listings for your brand you are doing good job for your brand. Also measure the clicks you are getting on both that is organic and paid. Inspire more people to click on your organic listings by making a better offer there.

Select the best and effective key words for your brand. Do a research as much as possible to get the maximum keywords and try to concentrate on all. Be sure that you have covered all variations of your important keywords.

Identify your competitors. If you can get this list you are able to make the effective changes for your brands that your competitor is using and not you.

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February 1, 2010October 28, 2011

Negative Comments Are Good News

Internet has bceome ne of othe most powerful ways of communication across the globe. Millions of people around the world are using Internet for their general and business purposes.

Social networking sites on the internet have become shout boxes for customers if they are not satisfied with a product, service or brand.

Now due to the global competitors all around the globe, companies are taking care to satisfy there customers by giving quality products and services at a fair price.

Companies are investing millions on their customers to provide their opinions, views and feedback about their company products. This helps them in getting sincere feedback for their products which helps themselves in improving their products. These strategies increase customer’s confidence on their products as companies value their feedback. Thus negative comments tend to become PRODUCTIVE stepping stones for improving brand image of companies.

Here are some of the benefits of having comments and providing appropriate solutions:

Benefits of comments: Negative comments are beneficial for competitors as well as the companies. It depends on the potential of the organization to make use of the comments because when people are above to purchase a product they are making use of social media networking sites for taking opinions before purchasing any product. Comments play a vital role in improving sales for any products. So customer satisfaction and service has been dominating the industry in recent years.

Quick response to the customers complaints: It has become necessary for any organization to act quick according to the queries and complaints received from their customers. Otherwise it may lead to customer dissatisfaction and has a chance of losing them. Hence now organizations are providing 24 by 7 services online helping their customers in every industry.

If you don’t react your competitors will make use of it: It depends upon the potential of the organizations to quickly respond to the needs of the customers otherwise the competitors of your industry eill do it maybe by bringing negative aspects of your organization, offer a smarter service, which results in losing your customers confidence and relationship with your organization. Hence it is crucial to remember that each and every step taken by you is observed by your customers as well as your competitors.

The efficient use of NEGATIVE [I Call them PRODUCTIVE] comments by the customer is necessary to keep your business one step ahead of your competition, who exactly miss this great opportunity! Thus companies can make their services more powerful from negative comments and become trusted in their customer’s hearts.

Do you have any tips for how to deal with Negative Comments? What are they and how do you deal with Negative Comments about your Business?