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Social Media Quotient:Tapping the Social Media Marketing potential:

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Marketers today are beginning to understand the influence of this power packed market research and analytic’s tool to reach to a larger target audience across social networking platforms by optimally utilizing precise social media monitoring tools as per industry and organizational needs.

The power of analysis is not restricted to using a particular website or a single online tool to serve the growing ‘industry reach’ needs. Social media monitoring to acquire the right social media quotient allows you to research deeper into consumer insight, needs and preferences as over 500 million users go online across platforms globally expressing themselves more freely than before.

It gives immediate feedback, taps powerful response rates, gives ample time to get in touch, reach and respond back to save the customers going irate and many a times transforming a negative feedback to a powerful brand ambassador.

With larger number of users now clearly expressing their needs to share their experiences about a product / brand or service today, it’s becoming more and more important for the BRANDS to monitor them not as an individual campaign but as part of the social media process. Measuring the ROI for a social media marketing campaign is today combined with the goal of customization while touching base with complete consumer preferences and needs for a service or a product.

Simple words of ‘share’, ‘like’ ‘bookmark’ have today become a way of life for Brands & for branding a service.

With the number of social book-marking users, bloggers and social networking sites users growing tremendously everyday, its only wise for brands to get into the process of exclusively reaching the target users with a powerful, well planned and implemented social media marketing campaign.

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The three most common queries that were posted across from readers about SMM campaigns:

• Is this social media marketing really going to work?
• What can be the duration or least time-line that I can plan for my smm campaign?
• Some agencies promise to measure metrics and some only brand, how does this work out and how do we find out if they can really do this for us or no? we are a mid-sized company.

In the fast paced world of today, technology has so far beaten everything but time. The need for measuring your Brand’s Social Media Quotient has become an obvious part of any campaign. What is required is for it to be quick paced as money is being invested into this power packed marketing tool in billions, whose transformation power across industries and brands can be measured in more than one way.
What you need to keep in mind while planning a Social Media Marketing campaign?

- One needs to first understand that social media monitoring tools and social media marketing campaigns for measuring a brand’s social media quotient, is without a doubt one of the most influential marketing tools of all time. At the same time, one needs to understand that any skill, technology or talent needs to be nourished so as to be able to find the most appropriate channel and or medium in which it can be applied for optimum results. So give it time. Do not rush into it.

- Secondly, hurrying the process of measuring a social media marketing campaign or the strategy suggested itself shows both your clients and the team involved in the process that you value nil or very little for the power of this tool. This is never good for both, your clients and the team which is part of this campaign process. If they don’t have the faith or trust for this, neither will your clients.

- Furthermore, planning purely numbers for any social media marketing campaign is one of the gravest mistakes of all time. Understand the term ‘social’. The first thing that needs to be done is connect with your audience and then place yourself amidst the crowd. Don’t try to sell, rather humanize your brand.

Make sure the team or the external agency to whom you have handed the magical task for a much assured most powerful brand building and target reaching experience, have been doing this for a long time and that too across industries. Make sure you get your goals and preferences are traceable and monitored from their end with constantly presenting results of their performances for your brand. Ask them to give references of known brands or companies for whom they have or are performing such activities, speak to their clients if possible, ask the agency to submit their sample tracking formats and make sure you tell them what you would like to track for your business.

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Remember, if its only metrics that they are tracking, then they do not understand this business and if its only brand they are monitoring, they have no clue whatsoever. In either case, get out while you can. It is not necessary to invest in millions, start small but for a longer time duration and keep monitoring and tracking with your social media tools, market research and in-depth analysis across platforms.

Plan, monitor, implement and measure your success across channels and platforms regularly for a successful social media marketing campaign.

Finally, remember, it’s a marketing campaign not a sales conversion platform. Use it wisely for the efforts to fall into place and happen and not forced upon.  Connect and humanize your brand.

The success of any social media marketing campaign using social media monitoring tools across any online platform, needs a balance of both, brand and raw metrics. So go ahead and grab the power of this tool.

You can connect, sell and your brand can grow in this powerful space of social connect, so go ahead and reach out the right way!

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What is Twitter?
It is a Micro Blogging tool or to be more precise a super power packed micro blogging marketing tool used by millions of people growing at an unbelievable rate for social, professional and interest based activities.
It has a character limit of 140 characters to send messages termed as ‘tweet’ to those who are following that group / user profile.

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What exactly does Twitter do for:

1. Professionals:
Professionals can search across twitter in the Twitter website’s ‘find people’ section where one can search for groups, hobbies, topics, names, profiles, organizations etc and join in the conversation prism. It helps tweeters to find jobs, learn more about a particular subject, debate, understand, research, stay in tune with latest updates in their field of interest, find jobs, post openings, enhance skills, share industry updates etc

2. Individuals:
Individuals can be a part of this amazing learning opportunity. They can join in the conversations about their interesting subject topics, converse and learn faster than before. Following varied profiles of similar interest groups gives one the flexibility to learn from multiple domains, platforms across the internet in a matter of seconds without having to search through the internet for the same.

3. Free Birds:
Free birds are those who are not associated professionally or otherwise with a particular topic but just want to stay updated across industries, friends, colleagues etc.

What is the process of Tweeting?
Tweeting refers to sending (currently) 140 characters or less including spaces in text format using twitter website. These are referred to as tweets and can be just plain text, contain urls, redirects to sites, etc and as of date no images or videos.

Can one find a way to share videos or pictures through twitter too?
Yes, soon enough twitter itself seems to be planning to share videos and pictures through its tweet. Other than that one can access varied sites and tools to do the same online.

How is it that sometimes one finds scores of users following a particular profile where you find unwanted chatter and nothing practical or logical?
That is the best part of any social networking platform. The concept of ‘content filtering’ rests with the audience and not the owner of those profiles. If the reader finds the topic / company / person interesting, one would want to follow and keep track to stay updated for the same.

What are Hashtags & Geotags?
Hashtags denote # with the name of a particular topic. For eg. ‘#Yoursmq’ denotes conversations under that particular topic. This is a good method to generate group discussions and following on that particular topic especially if the user creating the hashtag topic name has many different products / services to be offered or discussed. It creates an easy method to generate group discussions.
Geotags are location based tagging for others to know where the users are from. It is a more professional way to enable geo-tags and tweet. It also adds authenticity to the profile of the user.

What is re-tweet:
The re-tweeters are your online brand ambassadors. This is an amazingly powerful marketing benefit reaped by professionals and organizations. Once you tweet a message across to your followers, if a user reading it likes the message or it appeals well to them, he / she might re-tweet as in send the same message across to his / her followers and so on. Thus, your conversation reaches millions of users in just fraction of seconds.

Other benefits of using twitter tools:

On your mobile phone: Use & tweet while on the go. Go to twitter mobile settings and check for your carrier of mobile’s listing. Follow the simple steps mentioned and tweet while on the go. Also, if you want to follow someone’s tweets wherever you are, you can also ‘turn on’ the mobile updates option from that user so that you get sms every time the user tweets.

Some useful twitter related websites:

Hootsuite:

The owl keeps track of your conversations on Twitter and few other profiles like Facebook, Facebook Fan page, Linkedin etc  It is a powerful, free and easy to use tool to monitor conversations online and schedule your tweets over a period of time
http://www.hootsuite.com

Twitter Search:
http://www.search.twitter.com
This website lets you monitor your and competitors brand mentions across the globe. Type in the name in the search box and find out the conversation mentions across sites.

Tweetdeck:
For those managing multiple twitter accounts: A powerful desktop application tool to get a hold of and give you complete control over your multiple twitter profiles.
http://www.tweetdeck.com

Creating Background Profiles for Twitter:
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For any queries, feel free to write to us: socialmedia@techdivine.com and do share your experiences with us.

Happy Tweeting!

Stay Connected.

Ananth V

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New age Media Advertising

The nature of consumer engagement today is radically changing. Focus on specific program initiatives, pre-defined goal oriented plans and working across media to customize and get integrated reusable and utility based digital and traditional content for the end user (Customers, Audience, Stakeholders etc) is the core today.

Advertising and marketing have grown and matured over the years. The idea has become more than clear that sticking on to traditional media or at the same time, pushing the new age media to ‘purely sell’ is not going to get the marketer even an ounce of value addition or brand equity.

Value addition for the clients can be in terms of higher market penetration, better product positioning, increase in volume sales and volume market growth. The need here is to shift from a pure marketing oriented approach or a selling approach to connecting with the consumer by humanizing your brand with higher quality services and being an active part of today’s powerful communication prism across the globe.

When we talk about the needs today, the consumer has ideas that he is looking forward from his product. Similarly the audiences have expectations from their services to go beyond providing what’s been promised. In such cases, consumers are the main open source to get insights about what the market needs, to touch that common nerve appeal.

So let’s grow beyond simply advertising and marketing to a new world order of conversation prism by focusing across channels based on market, insights and need.

The idea to begin with, in this new age digital content era is to be where your consumer today is.

So keep conversing and stay connected.

Let us know of your views on the same.

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Ananth V

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Things to know about this new Media, before you plan and calculate your social media quotient for your social media marketing campaign?

Social Media:What You need to know?

Social Media Marketing is connecting with the consumer at every level possible through online channels across multiple platforms. The idea is to use the power of this tool to capture “More than just Metrics” and to Humanize Your Brand. Every aspect of Social Media Marketing is clearly measurable and can be customized to suit organizational goals and requirements. It gives us the power of customer insights coupled with latest in technology and media tools for in-depth analysis and market research.

What you need to know about social media quotient and social media marketing before you implement it for your brand, product or services?

Firstly you need to ask whether this medium is for your Brand and if yes, how much of demographics and market penetration it can help you achieve.

Then, you need to focus on the following:

• How important is it for my brand?  - Measuring the ROI for Brand metrics
• Who am I planning to target? – Is there a science behind social media marketing?
• Who is targeting me already? – As in, do I only need to join in the conversation.
• My current Social Media Quotient
• Is there a value addition to my CRM and my other brand evangelist’s
• My planned social media quotient on a time-line
• If I need to focus on my goals, what are my priorities and how are they ranked?

Measuring Brand

Next, what you need to verify are:

• The organization or agency to whom I am planning to handover my brand conversations:
• How savvy are they really and are they practicing what they preach for their own brand?
• Are they present on multiple channels like on a Social Media Facebook page, Social Media Facebook Product Group, Social Media Twitter conversation prism, Social Media blogging service, social bookmarking tools like reditt, etc. and if yes, what is their level of conversation and quality of interaction. Ask them to present their own brief statistics in front of you for the above.
• What are the statistical tools they are using? You don’t need to know what they track as every SMM campaign is customized to suit your requirements and goals, but you need to know the power of the tool they have invested in.

Your Social Media Agency

Once you have an idea for the above, plan to connect at a higher level with your agency:

Join in their conversations across their Blog, Micro-blog, Social networking site, Forum, etc.

Ask them to give you a step by step process on “How to plan, design, implement, monitor and improvise” on the social media campaigns?

What is the core as for integrating the current creatives, PR, traditional methods used already, IP’s of the organization with the new media campaigns?

What channels, medium and process will suit your style the best?

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There is so much more conversation happening, if you would like to join in, tweet with us @techdivine or join our TD Studios Facebook group social media marketing services here & share your views with us at: socialmedia@techdivine.com

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Ananth V

Techdivine Creative Services

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