Should you ignore negative tweets? If not, what should you do? It’s a question which keeps coming up as marketers and companies get more and more involved in social media. Among most social media evangelists and analysts (I don’t like the term “expert”), the consensus appears to be that a negative comment is an opportunity for you to shine via social media channels such as Twitter.
When the passion and commitment of your social media front line people is not reflected in your processes and not shared by your customer service reps or even supported by your corporate culture or values, you are shooting yourself in the head.
Yesterday I posted about how important it is to use social media to monitor the brand conversations going on out there. I’ve just been reading a whitepaper from Forrester titled: “Defining Social Media Intelligence” which lists in detail how social media intelligence can be applied in an organization.
Social media is NOT just about distributing your marketing message. I frankly don’t think any digital media channel is solely about that. From email to Facebook, it’s as much about listening as it is about talking.
Remember that old video game called “Pitfall”? You had to leap over pits of alligators and swing across swamps and avoid other obstacles. That might be a great analogy for social media if you happen to be new to it.
In 2010 we saw a lot of agencies consolidating resources and services via acquisition and it appears that 2011 will be no different. European social monitoring and research company, Attentio, just announced they’ve acquired 365Research, a market research technology company.
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