Unique Content Article: Advertising Through Your Customers

<h2 class = 'uawtitle'>Advertising Through Your Customers</h2><br />
<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Philip Daniels</div><br /><br />
<div class='uawarticle'>The idea of engagement marketing is actually rather simple. When you contact people who are already your clients and interact with them, you are engaging with them. You send them something that inspires them to interact with you, whether it be through an e-mail or one of the many social networks out there such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or more. Getting them to engage with you creates social visibility. It puts your brand name in front of your customers in their social stream. If these customers or clients respond to you, you gain visibility in the streams of their friends, which can be seen as implied endorsement.<br />
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This kind of marketing is different from more traditional methods of getting your name out there, as it focuses on getting interaction with your existing customer base instead of just broadcasting your message. Traditionally, when someone thinks about marketing, the idea that comes to mind is one of a business issuing a call of action. This usually takes the form of "buy," "call," or something else that gets a potential customer to do something that might get them to spend money. <br />
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In engagement marketing, the call of action is different: "tell us what you think" or "give us feedback." It is all about conversation and getting people to click on the like or share button. Initially the goal is different, but the ultimate desired result is the same: getting the brand name in front of new potential customers.<br />
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The moment of contact is the moment engagement marketing should begin. We are talking about the moment they walk through your front door. It is about knowing, without any doubt, that your mission is to get your customer engaged with you from the first moment. Every business needs to understand how important Facebook is, from an engaging way to deliver early announcements and sneak peeks to how many likes and shares your customers give you. It is important to keep them engaged and interested.<br />
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Small businesses do not have resources to waste. Engagement marketing can be an effective strategy for budget-strapped operations. It is advised to look closely at your existing marketing strategies and see if any of them can be effectively replaced by engagement marketing.<br />
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The best method of employing engagement marketing is to spend brief periods of time working on it on a regular basis. Spending roughly ten minutes doing it three times a week is a good initial strategy. There is an initial learning curve, but once started the unique features of engagement marketing are easy to pick up. <br />
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On the plus side, content is usually on the short side. The age of the seven paragraph blog post or the multi-page magazine article has been replaced with single paragraphs, pictures with a brief comment under them, or 140 characters.<br />
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Measuring how effective this strategy is being is easy, with metrics such as how many likes and comments you are generating being key indicators. It is essentially a small numbers game that can have a huge effect on your business. If the average Facebook user has over 100 friends, then two shares gets your brand name in front of over 200 people. Small actions can have large ripples in the social networking space.<br />
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Title: Advertising Through Your Customers<br />
Author: Philip Daniels<br />
Email: dirasu.678269.0@articlesamurai.com<br />
Keywords: online marketing,internet marketing,facebook for business<br />
Word Count: 537<br />
Category: Marketing<br />
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