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Can a People-Centric Social Media Strategy Scale? | HubSpot

Can a People-Centric Social Media Strategy Scale? | HubSpot | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Want to learn how social media can scale? Use this strategy and it cannot fail....

 

Remember when social media was social? Now, among the deluge of complaints, emoticons, and spam, individuals and businesses alike now find it nearly impossible to find and manage those one-to-one conversations that matter. Instead, social media strategies have become automated, impersonal, and actually contribute further to the exact problem they were put out there to solve for: streams of noise, shouting, and irrelevant messages.

 

Developing a people-centric social media strategy is a huge opportunity for companies to differentiate themselves from their competitors. A seemingly “faceless” brand making a personal connection over social media is such a rarity, that when it does happen, the resulting positive emotion from the recipient is remarkable in comparison to the avalanche of noise out there....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

It's called "social" media for a reason people.

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Experience: The Blog: The Rapidly Diminishing Authenticity of Social Media Marketing

Experience: The Blog: The Rapidly Diminishing Authenticity of Social Media Marketing | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

...How does any of this pass for authentic engagement that reflects authentic brand relationships? The better question is how can this sort of vapid, pandering "engagement" build brands? Are you encouraged to check out a brand, research its products or consider a purchase because one of your friends announced he or she is on "team Peanut Butter" by liking a post by GE Appliances? "OMG, my friend is on team Peanut Butter--I should buy a GE refrigerator," said no one ever.

 

Social media was supposed to strip away the meaningless clutter of the mass media era, exposing true brand affinity and advocacy; instead, social media marketing strategies have encouraged brands to post any meaningless thing in pursuit of a comment, like or share. The irony is that none of this actually helps brands--just as inauthentic fans cannot create authentic engagement, neither can inauthentic engagement build authentic brand value.

 

Asking people to spell your brand name one letter a time or share your picture of a vegetable on a unicorn doesn't spark awareness, consideration, preference or usage....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Here's a cutting look at social media and authentic engagement and transparency. How do your social media strategies measure up?

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