Five reasons corporations are failing at social media
“It’s not rocket surgery.”
That malapropism became a bit of a mantra at last week’s Inbound Marketing Summit.
Social media isn’t complicated. When you boil it down it’s about listening to your customers, being helpful by offering your knowledge and giving them interesting content to share and thereby advocate for you. The IMS speakers shared several case studies (yes, too many of them mentioned Comcast and Zappos) on how organizations have embraced social media to connect with and built trust and affection among customers. None of the examples required hyper-specialized knowledge or technology for a company to connect with people. Read more
Did you know that 87 percent of SMBs say that social media has helped their business, and that 74 percent of marketers saw an increase in website traffic after investing just 6 hours per week in social networking?
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