Posts Tagged ‘digital strategy’
Where Does the Devil Revel?
Sure, you look pretty and busy but do you have a soul I can trust?
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It is often said that the devil lies in the details. Details are those little things that are big things. The details are the granular twines that manifest like promises and mission statements that we articulate to others when we swear to deliver quality and always act with our clients’ best interest.
These details are not just the fine print in our contracts but the whispers we give over handshakes when we ask others to trust us as new media strategists, digital agencies and professional organizations that coexist in the new paradigms of social business networks. We connect within these ecosystems for the purpose of collaboration and cooperation and though interactions are not always face to face over a coffee or at the proverbial water-cooler these undertakings and incantations still matter.
On open social networks where we flock, cluster and topically share we are more likely to readily come in contact with others with common interests. Finding a thread of similarity becomes easier than in a crowded physical room where everyone is wearing grey pin-striped suits and requisite blue-collared shirts or the stereotypical little black dress. Whilst discussions tend to be fragmented the conversational loose ties are indeed highly personal and demonstrate the greatest level of passion as we choose to align with ideas, companies and organizations that we think will add meaning to our life in the WIIFM (whats in in it for me) era and hold even higher expectations of reciprocity in The Thank You Economy of this decade.
Don’t pay lip service to your colleagues or customers and promise them that you care and then not have the decency to ensure that you offered their business the very basic polite courtesies you could never get away with in real life. Further, don’t expect them to look the other way when you indeed act nonchalant. This is a cardinal sin. The passe behavior because such relationships are not “in real life” bears the scarlet letters F-A-I-L and revels in opposing authenticity. This ethos can only be conquered – with care.
It is the kind of care that Gary Vaynerchuk articulates in Crush It, his book on entrepreneurial opportunities in the digital economy that swept the reading lists in 2010. Herein he devotes a whole chapter of marketing secrets to one single word, CARE, which I believe he totally fucking meant and could not have summed it up any simpler.
Care is when you fact check. Care is when you spell check. Care is when you bother to get your guest speaker’s name right on your published marketing material for your commercialized webinar. #imjustsaying…
Care is when you get your members name right when they pay your association big annual dues. Care is when you love their email address beyond their annual subscription fees and aim for drive some kind of relationship and value beyond spamming an email account multiple times a week with a message addressed to someone else. I quote Kevin Roberts, author of Lovemarks (one of my manifestos of marketing) – “No Care, No Love.”
‘Nuff said.
Mighty Media Group Get their Halloween Groove On.
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Brian Solis Defines “the Digital Sociologist” role in Marketing today.
Today someone sent me a link to this video in an email. The subject just said this: “Hey Steph – I Get It.” My friend Brian Solis @brianSolis (author of Engage – a must read for marketers and forward thinkers) sheds some light on the important role the Digital Sociologist plays in what I refer to as “social marketing architecture“.
This little post is for all those people who struggle to understand the importance recognizing the “social consumer” and the necessity of the Digital Sociologist in the ideation, planning, development and execution of new media engagement strategies. It is simply not enough to throw up a brand Fan page on Facebook.
Driving connection through a bought audience using competitions and contests does serve to list build and nudge the brand mention figures in analytic reporting, drive a few impressions, etc. but at the end of the day you gotta ask:
“Where is the love?”
It’s almost like a relationship with a prostitute – it feels great for five minutes but over when money changes hands. Empty. Devoid of emotion, loyalty and deep connection.
With so many opportunities in the social web to foster rich meaning through conversations and connections just being present/visible isn’t merely enough. The brand story has to be unique, authentic and relate-able. The value of remarkable social articles (the kinds of things that people seek, discover and voluntarily share to their streams) trumps fancy brand badges that bear no lovemark value. If I wouldn’t tattoo a brand name on my ass it is highly unlikely that I will utter that brand’s name in my sleep. In the digital landscape I see Inception beginning at the conversational level and happening because those engaged are driving discussions.
What do you think?
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