This white paper by Paul Kennedy, Head of Consulting at Callcredit Marketing Solutions demonstrates that social media is no longer 'new' and has evolved in many different ways, therefore challenging businesses who, going forwards, will need to embrace a variety of tactics in order to engage and measure success
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Social media comes of age
1. White Paper
Social Media Comes of Age
The new “business as usual”
By Paul Kennedy,
Head of Consulting at Callcredit Marketing Solutions
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There are clear signals that social media
is now being accepted as just another
element within the marketing mix.
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Facebook is important
but despite its reach, it is
not the silver bullet many
initially may have hoped for
UK financial services
firms like Twitter more Social is now a normal part of marketing
than Facebook due to
being more content
Siloed social marketing is doomed brand presence. Insight into what is best
than relationship driven to failure. Instead, initiatives for your proposition can, for example be
which have been based on clear gleaned by undertaking social profiling of
commercial objectives (e.g. data customer groups.
captured, opt-ins gained, trackable But it is about more than just statistics
customer journeys, or direct or anecdotes – there are some underlying
marketing sales measures) and a trends which confirm the arrival of social
coordinated approach across the media into business as usual marketing
business have the best probability activity. These include:
of success.
Sure, Facebook is important but despite 1. nhancing established engagement
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its reach, it is not the silver bullet many and marketing techniques
initially may have hoped for, e.g. UK 2. Encouraging real participation
financial services firms like Twitter more
3. Transacting socially
than Facebookxviii due to being more
content than relationship driven. Some 4. Mobile displacing desktop time
advertisers are looking beyond Facebook
5. Growing role of location
to alternatives such as YouTube and
Foursquare. There is even evidencexix 6. Evolution of social monitoring
that Facebook may not be so good for 7. ntegration of social data into
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some brand categories. Yes, it’s a good customer databases
idea to have a presence on Facebook
8. Social Relationship Marketing
for most businesses, but that alone
is not enough. You must understand
your target audience’s preferred social
behaviours and reflect those within the