Social Media Services
June 9, 2010 by Jessica Harris
Filed under Social Media
There is no one size fits all approach to social media marketing for businesses. Each business can benefit from a customized approach based on their goals and the needs of their customers. For a business, social media can be a great benefit for: business promotion, customer engagement, and customer service. In the new world of social media marketing, the users market the company instead of the company marketing to the users. It’s critical to let the users speak their mind on your social media pages, but, unlike print marketing, the company has the unique opportunity to respond to the customer, address his or her needs, and have that conversation public for everyone to see that your company conducts itself with customer service as its focus.
Social media can also be a place in which managing your brand’s reputation is very important. It takes a dedicated resource and a lot of knowledge to know how to monitor how your company is being spoken about across a myriad of social media platforms and search engines. It also takes expertise to prepare a plan in case your company receives negative publicity from even one or more dissatisfied customers.
WBC offers the following social media services:
- Social media strategy
The strategy is the blueprint for the social media plan. It will include an overview of goals, identification of key performance indicators (KPI), discussion of metrics used to analyze the key performance indicators, analysis of audience and what platforms will yield the greatest reach, and assessment of overall impact social media can have on business objectives.
- Social media engagement guidelines
Every company should develop a list of guidelines for how employees should and should not conduct business on social media sites while representing the brand. Social media can be a slippery slope in which personal profiles intermingle with professional interactions. There are best practices that can be easily documented and posted on a company intranet to help employees use social media in the most safe and constructive manner possible. We can help your company develop these guidelines.
- Competitor overview
Even though one social media plan does not fit with every company, it is a good idea to know what your competition is doing. Knowing the trends and popular practices your competition is using will help you outpace your competitors and outsmart them in the long run.
- Training on online reputation management
Once your social media profiles are launched, they become an open forum for positive and negative customer interaction. We will train you on the best monitoring programs you can use to make sure that you are aware what the public is saying about your brand so that you can react quickly to any customer concerns that, without intervention, could easily escalate into a brand damaging campaign. Excellent customer service is key to turning a potentially negative comment into a positive customer experience that anyone who visits your social media site will see.
Contact WBC today to see how we can help your business use social media. Email us or fill out our online contact form.











