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The Industrial Age was characterized by big organizations bringing together people and materials and then leveraging their size to outperform their competitors.
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From a leadership perspective, social media can be a touchy decision. The return on investment (ROI) is hard to measure, let alone justify, and it’s not exactly clear, from a data-driven perspective, how socialization online works.
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A key requirement in developing and executing a social media strategy that will deliver results is to know your audience. What are the demographics?
Excerpted from article by Heidi Cohen published on Social Media Examiner: "Here are seven steps for crafting calls to action to get your social community to do what you’d like them to and transform your social media marketing to get the results you want.
#1: Determine What You Want Prospects to Do: Your call to action should encourage readers to engage with you further. Make readers an offer they want. You can consider offering white paper downloads, ebooks, ongoing emails, discount coupons and/or free consultations.
#2: Create a Great Hook: You’ll need to answer the question, “What’s in it for me?” This is what your prospects want to know. And your request must make sense to them. This means not asking prospects to purchase if they’re still in an information-gathering mode.
#3: Motivate Prospects to Act: Remember, you want to give your readers a reason to act. Provide sense of urgency. Make people an offer they can’t refuse. Give them a one-time offer to encourage a response. Realize, however, they may only buy when you provide coupons going forward.
#4: Optimize Your Call to Action: Like other aspects of your content, formatting matters! Here are some points to consider. - Use a contextually relevant presentation; - Make your call to action stand out visually; - Qualify your offer; - Limit selection choices; - Place calls to action in multiple locations on your pages; - Keep calls to action above the fold; - Put call-to-action options in order of importance; - Include social sharing.
#5: Maintain a Consistent Presentation on Landing Pages: This is one of the biggest reasons calls to action don’t work. Send prospects to the appropriate step in the purchase process. Make sure you use the same wording and graphics. The goal is to show continuity. Don’t let the reader think that you’ve sent them to the wrong place or they’ll leave.
#6: Test to Maximize Results: Every element of your call to action can be tested. When testing, only modify one factor at a time or you won’t know what caused the change.
#7: Measure Results: How can you measure your results? You want to track the impact of your social media calls to action back to your original objectives. Here are some metrics to track: - Impressions; - Click-throughs; - Click-through rate; - Completions; - Completion rate..."
Each step is analyzed with detailed information. Read full article here: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-improve-your-social-media-calls-to-action/
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How to Wham the Spam on LinkedIn Business 2 Community I hate spam and spammers, and so does LinkedIn. It puts loads of functionality at your disposal in the battle against spam.
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Here are 9 tips you need to create a thriving Facebook community and improve your Facebook marketing.
Excerpted from article:
" #1: Know Your Voice. Branding is important on social media. Your company should have a “voice” that matches your brand and your company philosophy. If you are a one-person operation, these decisions may be easy. But if you have multiple employees and possibly multiple people posting to the Facebook Page, you want to have the “voice of the company” communicated clearly to the people who will be managing your Facebook Page.
#2: Have Access to Visuals. Even if your business isn’t visual, make a plan for how you will add images to your posts. You can use things like: - A screenshot of something you’re demonstrating - An interesting photo with a quote about your niche - An infographic with statistics about your niche - Behind-the-scenes photos from your company events.
#3: Know the Rules. As a community manager, make sure you know Facebook’s policies. Pages can be shut down without warning for violating these policies. Usually it’s very difficult to get your Page restored.
#4: Know the Industry. If you are managing a Page for someone else, you need to know the industry so you can speak the lingo.
#5: Recognize Members. A community manager needs to recognize contributors and members and get to know them. If you have a physical location, you can take pictures of your community members and recognize them on your Facebook Page.
#6: Answer Questions Quickly. Promptly respond to posts or questions on your Page to create strong bonds with your community. Even if you don’t know the answer, let them know that you will get back to them. Or point them to a useful resource is another good option.
#7: Stay on Top of Changes. Facebook changes a lot! There are changes to their official policies and in how things are working at any given moment. Make sure you keep track of Facebook’s official changes by following the Newsroom and the Facebook Marketing Page.
#8: Respond Calmly to Negative Posts. If you get some angry posts for whatever reason on your Page, think before you fire off an angry response. Respond quickly (even if it’s to say we’ll get back to you), but don’t respond in the heat of the moment when you might feel like “telling them off.”
#9: Have Fun. Find some ways to have fun with your community. Have a Facebook “live Q&A chat” time, do a Livestream or even (gasp) go over to a Google+ Hangout..."
Read full original article here: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/9-ways-to-become-a-better-facebook-community-manager/
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