Although you may think that social media monitoring is someone sat at a computer liking posts and searching the web for cool cat pictures, the practice is actually becoming a leading portion of marketing and is taking over traditional methods of traffic generation.
As your social media management team, here at First Digital Media, we take social media very seriously and only ever search the internet for cat pictures on a Friday afternoon… Joke! Using analytics and intelligence, we are able to give our clients insights into their social media efforts and prove where audiences have been reached, providing valuable data that all businesses need to succeed.
Social Investment
By investing time and resources into social media management you are propelling your business forwards into a legitimate important sector of marketing, which many top companies are following. Some of these top companies are household names like Old Spice, Newcastle Brown Ale, Starbucks and even NASA. Who would have thought about tweeting from the moon? NASA of course!
All of the leading companies using social media marketing in their campaigns included emotive elements, interaction with consumers and created an idea of easy and effective marketing without the large costs of earning global recognition. Whichever route you choose to take with your social campaign, it is imperative that you are aware of the terms used throughout the industry and use our team to your advantage in conquering the social media world.
What You Need to Know
Cut out all of the jargon, long words and intensity and social media monitoring is essentially ‘monitoring your social media accounts’. Including social media listening, intelligence, management and analytics the process consists of many other elements in order to succeed in its purpose – spreading the world about your business and gaining traffic.
- Listening
Using your ears throughout daily life is important to know what is going on, to hear what people are saying and finding out how people feel about you – the same goes for businesses online! You need to seek understanding through your customer’s attitude, emotions and discussions to keep an eye on how your campaign is being received. Know your customers and drive product innovation in their direction to stay ahead of your competitors.
- Monitoring
Visually watching your results happen in real time and seeing exactly where your main target audience are is essential with social media monitoring. Following analytics and keeping track of success is capable with all social platforms. Gain instant access into real time customer conversations from every corner of the globe, or from just down the road.
- Analytics
Using numbers, data and insights can show you how many mentions, retweets, likes, impressions and comments you have received across all platforms. With this data you are able to see exactly where your success lies and how many of these interactions have led to the final outcome your business started with.
Be The Digital Fly On the Wall
“Social media plays an important role in customer experience management”. At the same time as monitoring your customer’s experience you have the ability to improve it for the benefit of both your customers and your business. With the huge amount of organic conversations taking place day in, day out, social media allows businesses to turn data into research opportunities and to be aware of faults in your business from the customer’s perspective – if there are any!
A company’s relationship with its consumers is often more important that the sole principle of the business. Without your consumers, your business would not exist or at least be anywhere near successful, so paying attention to your customers really matters in today’s world.
Get in Touch
Social media monitoring is much more than just posting and collecting likes. With FDM’s help, you can put yourself in your customer’s shoes and create the brand you would want to see through their eyes. Build confidence within your consumers and create brand recognition amongst the online world. Social media is not the enemy and never will be, so connect now with our help and make the most out of it while you can.
Call us on 01524 544346 to speak to our team about social media monitoring for your business.