{"id":124,"date":"2009-09-19T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog-socialmediamarketing\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-11-08T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T11:21:19","slug":"starting-a-social-media-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/starting-a-social-media-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a Social Media Strategy:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Begin with the final output in Mind<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strategy\">Strategy<\/a> isn\u2019t the goal. The process is essential. The objective though has to be though of. Else it becomes like walking down an unknown path exploring options. This isn\u2019t bad but then it is better with objectives. Then think about building a strategy to reach them. Following can be the objectives. They are just listed. They are not comprehensive.<br \/>\n1. Increase customer base.<br \/>\n2. Generate leads.<br \/>\n3. Drive sales.<br \/>\n4. Build awareness.<br \/>\n5. Make money from your content.<br \/>\n6. Establish thought <a href=\"http:\/\/wisdomleadership.org\">leadership<\/a>.<br \/>\n7. Educate customers.<br \/>\n8. Customer-source part of your <a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_product_development\">product development<\/a>.<br \/>\n9. Reach new channels of customers.<br \/>\n10. Improve <a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internal_communications\">internal communication<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions before the Strategy<\/p>\n<p>1.\tAre your customers likely to be online? Note that lots of people are online these days, but it might be that you have a product or service that isn\u2019t as frequently purchased via the web.<br \/>\n2.\tAre you ready to handle negativity? Platforms like blogs and videos allow for negative comments, and some company cultures aren\u2019t ready to engage with those opinions.<br \/>\n3.\tHow will you incorporate this into people\u2019s daily jobs?<br \/>\n4.\tHow will you measure results?<br \/>\n5.\tHow long are you willing to give it a try?<br \/>\n6.\tWhat\u2019s your willingness to experiment, take risks, and adjust your plans?<\/p>\n<p>These answers might show you the direction for your future course of action of building a strategy using social media tools. It\u2019s a lot easier to turn a deaf ear towards customers and just blast your messages out with no regard to how they are received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begin with the final output in Mind Strategy isn\u2019t the goal. The process is essential. The objective though has to be though of. Else it becomes like walking down an unknown path exploring options. This isn\u2019t bad but then it is better with objectives. Then think about building a strategy to reach them. Following can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,67,79],"tags":[138,136,139,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}