All posts tagged social channels

This week, our own CMO, Debbie DeGabrielle, was featured in Dashboard Insight on the topic of Social Intelligence. You can find an excerpt and link to the full article below:

To create a stronger business that is able to better respond to market needs, a growing number of marketers are leveraging Social Intelligence to better understand where, when and how to reach their target audiences. Forrester defines Social Intelligence as, ’the concept of turning social media data into actionable marketing and business strategy.’ Social Intelligence, in particular, can be transformative for business. It’s what a company needs to maintain meaningful, productive relationships with not only current and potential customers, but also employees, partners, and any other relevant group interacting with the organization – as well as with each other – through social channels.

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Delivering good service through social channels can extend well beyond your community in ways you may not imagine.  The following client use case on FedEx does a great job of showing how using a social network such as Twitter to service customers can garner not only goodwill with that customer and your Twitter community but can extend far beyond – in this case one positive experience lead to 88 thousand Twitter exposures and 20 thousand retweets.  Now that’s what I call harnessing the power of Social Intelligence!   Check it out…

 

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Here at Visible we are privileged to work with many industry-leading clients who are leveraging social channels in innovative ways.  One of them, Vail Resorts is set to launch a proprietary social network for skiers called EpicMix in November.  Epic Mix integrates RFID tracking, social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, as well as mobile devices to create a very cool, unique and highly differentiated user experience for its community of skiers.  Watch the video to see how EpicMix works and let us know what you think!

About a week ago I attended an outdoor concert. The opening band completed their set. Then 30 minutes passed, and then 60…where was the headliner?  I’ve been to many concerts and rock shows in my life and delays are not uncommon, but over an hour between sets is pushing it. Finally, a spokesperson took the stage and informed us that someone in the band was ill and the concert was cancelled. Everyone thought it was a joke at first, but quickly realized we had all been waiting around for nothing.

The crowd responded collectively with moans, expressions of frustration and disappointment as they snatched up their blankets and picnics and headed for the parking lot traffic jam. Curious if the expression I was hearing offline was the same online, I turned to Twitter. Sure enough profanity, doubt and extreme frustration filled the “Tweetwaves.”

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