Online reputation management may be one of the most useful tools to business looking to extract a value out of social media. Continuous monitoring of what people are saying about your brand, product or service can provide incredibly valuable insight into how you are perceived in the market. After all, perception is reality – at [...]
Social Media Crisis Management
By Mike Saunders • June 1, 2011 • Online Reputation Management, Social Media, Social Media World Forum • 1 Comment
What if it hits the fan? This fear is one of the main reasons why companies don’t get in social media. Companies are worried that if they enter the social media space, they will generate bad PR. The problem is that this bad PR, if it exists, is on those social media channels already. In [...]
The biggest benefit to monitoring online reputation and sentiment
By Mike Saunders • June 1, 2011 • Online Reputation Management, Social Media World Forum • 6 Comments
Standard Bank did a detailed presentation around their listening strategies online. The presentation was very interesting and went into detail about crunching the stats in such a way to get valuable, workable results. Now for a few of the key points: Tailoring your offering on different social media platforms This was spoken about in the [...]
Five steps to successful social media monitoring
By Mike Saunders • June 1, 2011 • CRM, Online Reputation Management, Social Media, Social Media World Forum • 6 Comments
Why should I bother monitoring social media? Quite simply, monitoring social media allows you to track what the public is saying about you, analyse the comments and then identify opportunities to engage the public better with your products and services. Here are Meltwaters “Five steps to successful social media monitoring” Step 1: Start listening in [...]
Social Media can’t fix everything
By Mike Saunders • July 29, 2010 • Online Branding, Online Reputation Management, Social Media • 5 Comments
I read an interesting article on Groundswell which highlights a very important aspect of BP’s current social media nightmare and what they should do about it. Basically the suggestion is to do nothing and actually fix the problem of the spill. In fact all BP’s resources should be focused on this one problem. In the [...]
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