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Twelve best practices for online customer communities

Twelve best practices for online customer communities
One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it can sometimes seem, customer communities often sprout up on the initiative of passionate customers. Successful examples of this include XMFan around XM Radio, HDTalking for Harley-Davidson, and IKEAFANS on IKEA products. It's imporant to note that the communities above are vibrant, active, and absolutely not affiliated with the businesses that the communities are focused on. Despite the growing body of research and studies, exact numbers for customer communities are still pretty hard to come by yet it's clear from a number of sources that business are beginning to get community religion en masse. Deloitte's Tribalization of Business customer community study is getting a lot of attention. 1. 2. 3.

Your Social Media Success Toolkit: 10 Must-Have Resources “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” ~Robert Hughes Hughes is right on the money. Sometimes I feel like we rely too heavily on tools and technologies to do the work for us, when the real truth about social media is that it’s not a media. It’s a human relationship. Like love, it takes time, passion, consistency and effort. In our quest to provide the very best service to our clients, our agency has spent countless hours trying and testing every conceivable social media tool and technology. 1. Hootsuite is at the top of the social engagement dashboards. 2. The current gold standard for measuring online influence. 3. Remember: followers don’t matter as much as “reach,” which takes into account how engaged and influential your followers are. 4. 5. I cannot say enough good things about this tool. 6. It’s hard to believe that these analytics are free. 7. 8. 9. 10. Same applies to social media.

Digital Embassies: A Blueprint For Community Engagement Upon first arriving at Edelman, I noticed that our language was a bit different when talking about community aspects of social media. Instead of saying "Facebook this and Twitter that" we often refer to the properties organizations manage online as "embassies". While we work with clients closely in both consultative, strategic and tactical ways, it seemed like the right time to take a step back and focus on what's really important. Social Engagement Let's begin here. The original digital revolution resulted in a massive deluge of owned digital properties released on the Web. Digital Embassies, Ambassadors & Envoys Philosophically, organizations need to shift their attitudes about how they communicate and engage with stakeholders and view digital properties as not only owned, but managed. Community Engagement 5 Steps Toward Community Engagement There are five core or essential steps needed to effectively engage communities. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The philosophical answer is everywhere. Conclusions

8 Tips To Maximize Your Brand’s YouTube Presence Michael “MJ” Jaindl is chief client officer at Buddy Media, maker of the social-enterprise software of choice for eight of the top ten advertisers in the world. Visit Buddy Media’s blog for more on social marketing. Creating an account on YouTube is simple, and building a channel for your brand is quick and easy. But at a time when most brand managers know the potential of this video-hosting medium, it’s not enough to simply have a presence. A brand must stand out to viewers by turning its channel into a destination. Otherwise, it runs the risk of getting lost among the more than 3 billion videos already viewed on YouTube each day. SEE ALSO: 6 Best Practices For Small Business YouTube Marketing This is why brands need a YouTube game plan that covers all aspects of the brand channel, including aesthetic, video content, and comment moderation. 1. Using an activity calendar like the one shown above, you can remind your social networks about the type of content you're publishing. 2. 3. 4. 5.

A lire : Community management : stratégie et bonnes pratiques pour interagir avec vos communautés Un nouveau livre à lire sur le community management. Co-écrit par Catherine Ertzscheid, Benoît Faverial et Sylvain Guéguen, ce livre vous propose un guide pratique accompagné d’interviews, de concepts expliqués et de cas pratiques… Présentation : Community management : stratégie et bonnes pratiques pour interagir avec vos communautés Quel que soit votre secteur d’activité, développer une communauté en ligne ne suffit pas, il faut déterminer des objectifs, élaborer la stratégie adéquate et respecter un certain nombre d’usages. La communication et le marketing sont en pleine mutation, et vos communautés peuvent devenir les meilleures ambassadrices de votre organisation si vous apprenez à converser avec elles, à développer votre capital confiance et à communiquer au mieux vos informations. Vous pouvez commander le livre sur Amazon en cliquant ici. Gagnez votre exemplaire… Je vous propose de gagner un exemplaire du livre Community management.

Google Glasses: más allá de la era post-pc Fue una de las noticias que inundaba los blogs “high tech” mundiales hace unos días, cuando decidí desconectar. Ya de vuelta quería presentaros lo principal de Project Glass, el último proyecto de Google para hacer de internet y realidad conceptos ya indistinguibles. Aunque parezca ciencia ficción y la pesadilla definitiva de los luditas, una mirada amplia os dejará entrever las posibilidades este tipo de visión aumentada junto a los asistentes virtuales por voz que también recrean. Sea en forma de lentes de contacto o gafas visibles como elemento definitivo de auto-definición geek, este podría ser el escenario, dicen en Google, que este mismo año: Los escenarios imaginables incluyen un mundo mucho más vigilado, no solamente vía satélite desde gobiernos y poderes múltiples sino desde los propios pares que pueden estar grabándonos en cada momento. Sí, lo sé… aparecen, ante la evidente sobrecarga informativa que se imagina, multitud de reflexiones. También están apareciendo parodias…

Loic Le Meur blog [FR]: Les 15 commandements d'une marque pour l 1. ecouter (twitter search, google realtime et blog search) 2. repondre a chaque question en priorite 3. repondre aux critiques et aux compliments 4. assurer un service 24h/24 (l’investissement est similaire a un budget mensuel de RP ou une petite campagne de pub pour beaucoup plus de resultat 5. le faire de maniere transparente, reconnaitre les problemes sans tenter de les cacher, ne pas mentir ou faire de fausses promesses 6. regrouper le feedback sur un site comme uservoice (voir 7. rendre les demandes les plus demandees prioritaires sans oublier d’innover 8. creer une presence sur tous les reseaux sociaux les plus populaires (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn) 9. creer votre propre reseau social pour votre communaute (voir teamseesmic.com sur ning) et une newsletter 10. mettre a jour avec des messages courts et photos en permanence ces reseaux (ping.fm et seesmic ont ete crees pour simplifier ceci) inShare0

Design for Emotion: A book about emotional design – by Trevor van Gorp and Edie Adams | Book Design for Emotion is a guide to understanding and applying emotion and personality to create products, applications and websites that are more desirable, usable and useful. Creative professionals who design consumer products, entertainment, software, websites, marketing and communications are beginning to appreciate the importance of evoking emotions and personality to capture viewers’ attention and provide more satisfying experiences. Based on the authors’ combined experience of over 30 years in graphic, interactive and industrial design, user interface design, human factors, ergonomics, product management and product innovation, Design for Emotion is your guide to creating emotional products, apps and websites. Who Should Read it? Designers, UX professionals, marketers, product managers and communication professionals What You’ll Learn You’ll learn the why, what, when, where and how of designing emotion and personality. Design for Emotion: Interviews and Case Studies Interviews Case Studies

Les réseaux sociaux sont-ils rentables pour une entreprise ? - L De plus en plus de marques utilisent des réseaux sociaux pour promouvoir leur image et pas seulement. Les réseaux sociaux grand public tels que Facebook et Twitter sont aussi un bon moyen de développer des relations B2C et de capter une nouvelle clientèle. Utiliser Facebook ou Twitter pour faire du marketing, est-ce rentable ? Boris Saragaglia, le PDG de Spartoo.com nous dévoile tout dans une interview qu'il a accordée à Comment ça Marche. Quel impact en termes de marketing ? Selon une étude publiée en 2007 par le cabinet IDC, il était jusque là difficile de monétiser l'offre des réseaux sociaux et d'attirer les annonceurs. Cependant, le potentiel commercial des réseaux sociaux grand public s'est vite révélé avec 350 millions d'inscrits dans le monde rien que sur Facebook (15 millions en France) et 50 millions sur Twitter ! Retour sur investissement ? Facebook et Twitter - pour parler des réseaux sociaux qui remportent le plus de succès - ne sont pas qu'un effet de mode. A voir également

Grab Data and Build Your Infographic in Minutes, Using Piktochart Piktochart is a Malaysia-based startup that focuses on helping customers build infographics fast. Like really fast. I first saw the beta product in Beijing when I met the founders, Goh Ai Ching and Andrea Zaggia. Logging into Piktochart can be done via Facebook or Twitter, which makes it easy to get started. The free version allows you to play around with three themes and download the infographic as image file. It is a little annoying that you can’t find the pro pricing details though. Disclosure: We sometimes enlist Andrea Zaggia’s expert services to help us with technical issues from time to time on our site. Report an error

Les 14 Points essentiels du Management Mardi 19 janvier 2010 2 19 /01 /Jan /2010 07:00 14 Points essentiels que tout manageur devrait connaître par coeur : Garder le cap de la mission de l’entreprise en améliorant constamment les produits et les services.Le but d'une entreprise est de devenir compétitive, d'attirer des clients et de donner du travail. Adopter la « nouvelle philosophie ». Les cadres dirigeants doivent prendre conscience des défis d'une nouvelle ère économique, apprendre quelles sont leurs responsabilités et conduire le changement d’une main sûre. Faire en sorte que la qualité des produits ne demande qu’un minimum de contrôles et de vérification. Billets en relation : - Projets informatiques - Principes et lois qui se vérifient - Les leviers de l'incompétence dans nos entreprises - Se protéger dans un environnement négatif Partager l'article ! inShare Par Julien Bonnel - Publié dans : Economie 2

50 Ways You Can Market Your Restaurant On The Internet | New Customer Workshop The Internet is a powerful way to reach customers and bring them into your restaurant. If you are just starting to market your restaurant on the Internet or are looking for some new ideas I’ve put together this list to help you. There are fifty ideas across a number of marketing channels that you can start using right away. Twitter Send out a Tweet each day with your specials.Pre-schedule those Tweets with Buffer.Send out a periodic specials to your Twitter followers.Add a QR code to a table tent sign that will easily allow your customers to Tweet that they are in your restaurant.Tweet content that you post to your website.Ask your Followers for feedback on new menu items.Use Twitterfollow to find and follow the top Tweeters in your area.Use Twitter to let your customers known when their table is ready.Thank every new Twitter follower.Do you have a loyalty program? Reward extra points for tweets.Do you have a quizzo night? Your Restaurant’s Website Yelp Facebook Email Marketing Finally

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