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Stephen Tamlin, Branching Out Europe What 4 Social Media Strategies Should Your Business be Executing? Listening – Monitoring social media to respond to prospects and customers online is an incredible means of creating a trusted relationship with them. It shouldn’t be limited to them speaking directly to you, either. You should be listening for any mention of your employees’ names, your brands, and your product names. This will allow you to respond to sales-related questions, protect your online reputation, and instill confidence with your prospects and customers that you’re the type of company that both cares and listens. 36% of marketers have acquired customers on #Twitter Learning – 52% of business owners have found their customers on #Facebook and 43% of business owners have found their customers on #LinkedIn.
By joining those communities, you can listen to industry leaders, prospective clients, and your own Mobile Phone Number List customers speak about what the key issues are within your industry. This will assist your company in developing long-term strategies to compete in those industries. Engaging – or when there’s a sales opportunity – you’re missing out on providing social media with a glimpse into what kind of company you are. Curating content and sharing article of interest to your prospects and customers will help to build trust and authority with them. Helping your customers be successful will ensure your success, not only theirs! Promoting – Growing your reach, your network, and promoting your products and services is a must as part of a balanced social media strategy. You don’t always want to be promoting yourself, but you also shouldn’t be eliminating those opportunities online. Over 40% of salespeople have closed two to five deals due to Social Media The CRM fragmentation creates a pain that ripples to the customer experience.

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