If you are into social media deeply or have been using it for some time, then you are probably somewhat familiar with Klout. Klout is a company that tracks your social media influence. It is easy to sign up for and gives you a
measuring and marketing platform to see how effective your efforts are. This company has been around awhile but recently has gained some popularity and is getting a foothold in businesses for providing analytics. The key word here is influence and not so much anything else. So having said that who would care about using Klout? In a nutshell those who are trying to influence their audience or market share. As you use social media and are trying to get a certain sector of the population to pay attention to you or your product or service, then using Klout will help you via your score they provide. The higher the score, the better your influence. If you are a small business or enjoy a local or small regional market then Klout is probably not for you. Klout works best on a national or international stage. How it works. As you produce engaging content or topics, followers who tap into your feeds are tracked by Klout through their very detailed analytics or algorithms. Simply, the higher your score (up to 100) the better you are influencing your followers. Some say that Klout does not really work that well and at the moment as I stated for small business, that is true as there just is not enough sampling for the system to be strongly effective. But if you are a say a famous speaker, offer a service or product geared toward a specific market and you are wanting a larger share of that market then give Klout a try. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Get yourself a plan of action, build great content and start loading your social media! Markeing,especially in today's uncertain economy can be at the very least, a "hair
pulling experience." Some of us don't even have any hair left to pull. Here are some tips that I found to be "standards in the industry" that will work if you follow through. These tips in and if you don't you should. I hope you find these useful.Marketing, especially in today's uncertain economy can be at the very least, a "hair pulling experience." Some of us don't even have any hair left to pull. Here are some tips that I found to be "standards in the industry" that will work if you follow through. These tips Listen To The Customer Understand what your customer needs. Look through what they are saying and help build a relationship to gain value in their growth. If you don't understand your customer, how are you going to help them? Don't say "We can do that" when in fact you really can't. Know your Market or Vertical Nothing is worse than going to market and committing business suicide because you dont' know who you are selling to. Select your customers you wish to target, study that vertical they are in, manage your customers professionally. If you don't know their business make-up, how can you expect to be of any value to them? Connect You must have ties with your customers, with your vendors or distributors, and with your staff. Everyone must be in your playbook if you want that home run, touchdown, or winning basket. You are developing a relationship that you want for years to come. If you are looking for a one stop sale, you can stop reading now. Growth Emergence I am going to use this term in the context of your competition. It can be used as a global experience but most of you are focused on your local market growth and your competition. The term "I don't need to worry about what my competition is doing." is insane. Always watch your market and see who is playing in it. As your vertical grows, your customer base grows and if you're not in that circle, you need to find out why. What is your competition doing? Are they getting a larger pieces of that pie? If so, why? An example I can use here is health care. This is a huge vertical right now. Marketing to this industry is on fire right now. Value Every customer wants value. they want to know their ROI with you. What is your value statement? Is it clear and concise to your customers? Do they know doing business with you is going to not only going to help grow their business but it will bring value to them and save them money? If they don't understand this why should they do business with you? Short term-Long Term Investments How you position yourself in the market place as far as investing in your business in this present day economy is tricky. Some look for the short-term due to uncertainty in the business climate yet you can short-change yourself if you don't look at the big picture down the road. I can say this. If you don't do some investing in the tools of your trade for things like lead generation, CRM software and support, you are setting yourself up for a long and difficult climb. I hope the above mentioned items will be of some help to you. Check out my web site, Facebook site, and Twitter feeds for more information. Thanks! |
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