How SAP Uses Communities to Connect With Customers
In this video I interview Mark Yolton, senior vice president of the SAP Community Network.
Mark shares how SAP’s community of 2 million members from 200 countries is organized around business roles (such as developers, IT professionals and business process experts) to better engage with customers.
You’ll find out how SAP puts together content focused on specific needs to build their community. Listen to the tips to learn how you can get customers to participate in your community.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.
5 Tips for Building a Community Management Strategy
Are you looking to build a community management strategy for your business?
Here are five ways to get started building an effective community management strategy.
Social media allows great opportunity for building relationships and communicating directly with customers. To facilitate these relationships, the role of community manager is becoming increasingly important for all types of businesses.
Usually, community managers are the social media voices of their brands, fulfilling multiple roles including social media strategists, customer service managers, content creators, product managers and evangelists.
Facebook Questions, Wibiya & Social CRM: Social Media Examiner TV
Welcome to Social Media Examiner TV with your host Mari Smith. In this episode, Mari examines Facebook Questions and reveals if it’s a game changer for businesses.
Plus, she looks at the Wibiya social toolbar and how it can create social buzz for your business. Then Mari shares insights into three social CRM tools and how they can have a big impact on your business networking.
Share your feedback, see the show notes and discover how you can be part of a future show below!
How Clorox Engages Customers With Its Social Media Community
In this video I interview Greg Piche, Social Media Architect for Clorox. Greg shares insights into how the company’s new social media site Clorox Connects helps Clorox connect with partners and consumers to generate new ideas.
You’ll also hear how the 100-plus year old Clorox rolled out its social media community.
Be sure to read the other takeaways below.
5 Easy Ways to Drive Social Media Fans to Action
Do you know how your social media activities are driving offline sales? How many customers came into your store or called for more information after viewing your social media profiles?
Here’s one of the biggest questions for businesses: Will the time they spend interacting on Facebook and Twitter affect their sales? Though they spend the considerable effort necessary to create thriving social media communities, small business owners and marketers often fail to drive floor traffic, inbound calls, store sales, and other offline business success metrics.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Savvy marketers will begin to tie the development of communities on social media networks to increased revenue if they implement a few of these simple steps that make sense for their specific business.
How TurboTax Uses Social Media to Engage Customers
If you live the U.S., then you’re likely thinking about next month’s tax deadline. You’re also likely using TurboTax Free Efile to file you tax returns. In this video I interview Christine Morrison, Social Media Marketer at TurboTax. Christine shares some of the social media tactics TurboTax uses to engage their community.
Be sure to check out how TurboTax uses the social media platforms listed below.
How One Man Used Social Media to Raise $91,000 for Charity
The Big 4-0. For most, turning 40 inspires something big.
For Danny Brown, it wasn’t a sports car, Vegas trip or marathon run. He was inspired to set a different challenge for himself—to bring people together and raise money for worthy causes. And the response was very unexpected…
To celebrate his 40th, Brown and his wife spent a few days at Niagara Falls. Taking a break at a local café, they noticed an elderly woman come in by herself and order ice cream.
Brown wondered about her story.
After he and his wife headed home, Brown couldn’t stop thinking about the lonely-looking woman in the café—and regretted not talking with her.
