A social media brand is the sum total of customer experiences with a company, its products, services, and employees, and the way those experiences shape our perception of the company.
Social Media to Uncover the User's Perceptions End user understanding allows a company to move quickly, decisively, and successfully in product development, product maintenance and product advertising claims.
What does the user experience in the context of their everyday lives?
Does the product satisfy the consumer's desires, needs and wants?
What drives users liking of your product?
Overall, how is your product perceive and is the consumer satisfied?
Using social media, companies can early interact much early with users to identify attitudes, behaviors, uses, needs, and wants. Whether the need is to study liking, determine preference, understand performance or efficacy, or users response to the sensory properties, the research is planned to capture the user experience. Exploring how the consumer interacts with products along all touch points allows the researcher to go deeper, identifying new opportunities and relationships.
Social media marketing is just a slice of the social media industry, but it’s a very important piece of the story. Businesses see social media as a platform for engaging with consumers and informing them of the latest company news and products. Marketers are blazing trails in the social media marketing sector, creating campaigns that are interactive, shareable and inclusive of the online community. For the most innovative of marketers, the focus isn’t on campaigns, but on letting consumers take the reigns in guiding a brand’s social presence. Get the Most Out of your Social Media Moves:
Target a specific audience. Create a page that reaches an audience that is important to your organization. It is usually better to reach a small niche market than try to go large.
Be a thought leader
Provide valuable and interesting information that people want to check out. It is better to show your expertise in a market or at solving a buyer’s problems than to blather on about your product.
Encourage people to contact you
Make it easy for people to reach you online, and be sure to follow up personally on your fan mail.
Participate
Create groups and participate in online discussions. Become an online leader and organizer.
Experiment
These sites are great because you can try new things. If it isn’t working, tweak it. Or abandon the effort and try something new. There is no such thing as an expert in social networking—we’re all learning as we go!
The Intranet 2.0 Global Study 2010 (526 respondents) reveals that most organizations have blogs on their intranets:
53% of organizations have blogs on their intranet
18% of organizations have enterprise wide intranet blogs
19% of organizations have plans to deploy intranet blogs
20% of organizations are considering blogs for their intranet
8% of organizations have no plans and no interest in intranet blogs
A further breakdown of intranets by size shows that blogs are common on intranets and organizations of all sizes, but are more common in the big organizations:
79% of organizations of over 100,000 employees have intranet blogs; this jumps to 87% in organization of between 50,000 and 100,000 employees
57% of organizations of less than 100 employees have intranet blogs; this drops to 37% in organizations of between 100 and 1000 employees
Despite their proliferation, however, most intranet blogs are penned by executives. Employees like to read them, but the vast majority aren’t ready to write them.