Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) and Blogging: can we maintain CRM with the help of blogging? In this
article, we will look for the answer to the aforesaid question. In doing so, we
will have to answer three questions first. The questions are:
As a marketer, it is always a tough job to build the online brand reputation for your offers.
It takes a considerable amount of time, endeavor, money and intellects to build
a strong brand. We know from our personal life that building a good relation
might take years, but one single misbehavior or mistake can destroy the
relationship within seconds. This can happen to a strong brand too. In the
past, it was relatively difficult for a single customer to impair the brand of
a reputed company. Now a days, this is an easy job to do. Using the internet,
one dissatisfied customer can spread out the bad news and thereby can damage
the reputation of an online brand. So
a brand whether it is well-established or not, is at stake these days.
Not that your online brand
is at stake only by the activities of a dissatisfied client. Your competitors
can also take such actions, which can defame your goodwill. They can do it either
intentionally or unintentionally.
As an owner
of a website, this is an utmost important task to know the ins and outs of the brand equity of the brand you are going
to establish for your site. This is a proven notion that a strong brand always
encourages the customers to revisit the site and thereby generates more and
more leads. The equity of a brand is not just the logos and colors on your
site; it is the core to the branding message. Now let’s see what brand equity is and what its
implications are:
Building
an online
brand identity can boost your
business up by manifold ways. What we know about a brand is it’s a name, term,
sign, symbol or a combination of these that distinguishes the offers of one
seller from those of others. Establishing a brand identity is not an easy task
to do. You cannot achieve it within a shorter span of time. It requires consistent
and continual endeavor. There are a number of pointers that help establish a
brand identity. When you try to build an online brand identity, those key pointers remain the keys to
success. Let’s have a look at what are the key pointers:
With more than a billion active users from every country
in the world, whether you agree or not, Facebook has established itself as the
popular most social network in the world. People from each and every corner of
the world engage themselves in that platform to build a network among their
fans, friends, and families.Establishment
of a network by which people can keep themselves in touch with others was one
of the major goals for creating that platform. Facebook has become one of the
great ways for the business people these days to promote their offers to their
target audiences. Only a well-planned Facebook strategy can make use of that
great opportunity. Here, I have pointed out the three basic steps you as a
business people, should touch while establishing the Facebook strategy.
Blogging for
marketing your offers in the online marketplace is one of the most popular ways
marketers are using these days. This is somewhat different from that of other
ways like social media marketing, article marketing, email marketing, referral
marketing, and affiliate marketing. You have a full-fledged control over your
business blog. You can share everything there including texts, videos and
images. Those contents can be of your personal or business related. Blogging is
totally free. There are a number of free blogging platforms including Blogger,
WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous Space, Blogetery, LiveJournal, and many more. Just
select one and start blogging for marketing your goods or services.
Well, how
can you get most out of blogging? Here are the pointers:
Establishing
a successful blogis not an easy job. As a
blogger, when you succeed, you enjoy a manifold benefits. If you are a
businessman, you will succeed in gaining online exposure to your products or
services. If you are a blogger blogging only for making money online, you will
earn a handsome income.If you just want
to share your ideas and thoughts in the online community, then your blogging
success will help you gain self-actualization. The question is how you can
establish a successful blog. Right? Just avoid the mistakes a blogger makes
while blogging. The most common mistakes you should avoid establishing a
successful blog are:
Article
marketing is a widely used way of bringing the potential customers to your
website or blog. There are a number of ways you can use to attract the visitors
from all around the world. You can use social media platforms; you can comment
on blogs in your niche; you can post on forums; you can take part in the guest
blogging; you can submit your site to directories. All of those techniques will
bring thousands of visitors to your site. There is nothing harm with those
techniques. In addition to bringing visitors; article marketing does a lot more
than that of other techniques do.Here
are the six specific features of article marketing:
The one and
only way to succeed in blogging today is the acquiring of the techniques on how
to write article. While blogging, visitors are the target audiences to whom you
are selling your intellect. If you don’t provide them with quality contents,
i.e. relevant articles, they will never come back to your blog. That means you
will fail to achieve your predetermined goal. On the other hand, if you have
the writing competencies, you will succeed for sure; you will find regular
readers when you write article.
How to write
article for the readers is a big question. This is not an easy job though. Only
continual endeavor can help you acquire the techniques on how to write article.
Here are a few simple tips:
Are you looking for some
ideas on how to make money online? Create your own blog; provide with quality
contents; attract visitors; monetize your blog with ads. Write quality
articles; sell them to the people who have not enough time to write. Including
these ones, there are many other ways you can make money online. Now a
days, Facebook with millions of active users from all around the world is the
popular most place for the small businesses who don’t have enough budgets to
promote their products or services through the traditional forms of marketing.
This phenomenon has created the opportunity for the Facebook lovers to earn
some money while hanging out at Facebook. Below are some examples of how you
can make money with Facebook:
Now a days, creating a Facebook page
has become one of the greatest ways you can use to interact directly with your
prospects and customers. Most businesses create their Facebook pages by
hiring an expert or request a friend to create it for them. Creating a Facebook
page is not as difficult as you are assuming. Rather, it is very simple job
to do. As a businessperson, you might have not enough time in hand and have
other jobs to oversee. That’s why you might depend upon others to do the job. There is no harm with that. Here, I
have pointed out some key issues you should keep in mind while employing an
expert to create the Facebook page for your business.
Marketing
your product or service using social media networks is one of the cheapest ways
you can use. A number of social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace,
Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google+ are operating successfully in the market. Every
platform has its unique features. As a marketer, if you decide on to go with every
platform, you can. For this, you must have a unique strategy for each network before
going with them all. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to be
successful in promoting your products or services. Here in my article, I am
going to discuss the Twitter strategy that you can apply in generating more
leads for your business.
This is the final
chunk of my previous article on “Social Media Marketing MythsRevealed: Part One”. Here,
I have addressed another seven myths about social media marketing by the
following paragraphs:
Social
networks have become a craze to the young people. They have over 100 billion of
active members from every country of the world. Most of the users use those
networking sites for personal interactions only with their followers, friends,
families, connections, and acquaintances. At the same time, the businesses also
use those sites for promoting their goods or services to their target audiences.
While using those sites for the business interests, they try to measure the
return on their investment. At the same time, they also develop some myths
about the social media marketing. In my article, I have addressed the first
seven social media marketingmyths.
Now a days, the
small businesses are relying on the social media marketing to expose their
goods or services to their target customers. As the traditional marketing
requires big cost, they are shifting their focus from that type of marketing to
the social media marketing. The popularity of social media marketing is
increasing over time. It requires a very negligible cost. While using the
social networking sites as the platforms for advertising your goods or
services, you can surely reach out your target audiences, who feel interest in
your goods or services.
Social Media Marketing is the most recent phenomenon
in the field of marketing. Thousands of small businesses are using this new way
of marketing to reach their targeted audiences. Just consider the current
generation. Can they imagine a single day without the social networks? They are
technology oriented; they engage themselves in the internet for the
entertainment; they collect information from there; almost everything they
share with their friends, families, and acquaintances. So the social networking
sites are vast sources of audiences. Some of them may become your potential
customers if you can properly expose your products or services to them. Keeping
them in mind, social media marketing is an obvious way of marketing your
products or services. Now, let us find out what you can get from social media
marketing.
It is not easy to write rich contents for your blog or website. Similarly, creating quality links is also very tough job to do. If it is for the online marketing, then it is far more difficult to
succeed compared to other fields. Billions of scholars are your competitors there.
All of them are striving to gain the concentration of their target audiences.
They are evolving their ways continuously to reach that people. They are
introducing new ideas according to the scenario of the market place. As an
online marketer, if you want to take part in the race, you must have to come up
with the new techniques. In my article, I have addressed a few important issues
that will help you write rich contents and create quality links:
Your savings in a bank earns
you continual income without additional investment. Contents of a website are
just like an investment in the form of a savings in the bank. If you calculate
the inflation rate of your savings over time, you surely will say that quality
contents are better than the bank savings. In my article, I am going to touch
some of the important points while writing quality contents.