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WordPress & Social Media Tools – 1

This is part 1 of our tutorial series on using social media tracking and analysis tools to improve your business results online …

WordPressThe days of talking “at” audiences online are well and truly over. Putting up a static page on your site about your company or services is no longer enough. To succeed in today’s connected world, requires actively “listening” to your audience’s needs and feedback, and building a social community around your services, brand, and company.

Social channels create a direct line of communication between your company and your target audience and give anyone with an Internet connection instant access to the latest buzz about your services or products.

Social media monitoring allows you to find insights into your company’s overall visibility on social media, measure the impact of campaigns, identify opportunities for engagement, assess competitor activity and market dominance, and help you take preventative measures if you detect negative comments or feedback by dissatisfied users. It can also provide valuable data about emerging trends and what clients and consumers are thinking about specific topics, businesses, brands, or products.

As a business intelligence tool, being able to monitor social media channels like blogging, forums, wikis, micro-blogging platforms, discussion boards, video sites, and user-generated content is invaluable. Using social media monitoring as a form of business intelligence, however, is a complex undertaking, typically carried out by various groups that include PR companies, market research, marketing teams, sales teams, social media marketing agencies, and social engagement and community personnel. Typically, smaller businesses do not have the budget to pay a social media monitoring service to track their coverage in the media.

Fortunately various service providers have made available tools that facilitate the tracking of a wide range of social media channels, allowing you to track what consumers are saying about your brand or products so you can respond proactively to conversations and engage with consumers in a timely fashion.

In the article below, we explore several social media monitoring tools that you may want to check out.

WordPress And Social Media Marketing – A Guide For Website Owners

WordPress is not only a powerful, scalable and really easy to use content publishing platform used by millions of businesses worldwide, WordPress also integrates fully with many social media applications, allowing you to easily grow your online presence in the social realm.

To learn more about why the WordPress platform is a vehicle that every business owner needs to know about, go here: Using WordPress To Grow Your Small Business

Using some of the tools listed in Part 2 of this article and a WordPress site, you will be able to market your business effectively on social media and take advantage of new social business marketing opportunities.

Let’s take a look at some of the reasons why WordPress makes an ideal platform for marketing your business on social media.

Promote Your Products And Services To A Wider Audience On Your Social Networks With WordPress

WordPress includes built-in social features, like interactive commenting and discussions. A range of WordPress plugins can add additional social features to your site that let you reach a wider audience on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and many others.

For example, there are plugins that can add social sharing buttons, forums, add images from Instagram, Twitter feeds, Facebook feeds, testimonials, surveys, polls … even optimize your content for social networkign sites.

The WordPress content management system (CMS) is not only great for social media as a content publishing tool, it can also be transformed into a full-blown social network, using plugins like BuddyPress, WPSymposium, and others.

BuddyPress

Set up your own social networking website with BuddyPress plugin for WordPress

(Run your own social networking site with BuddyPress plugin for WordPress)

BuddyPress lets you add a suite of social networking components to your website, such as:

  • Profiles
  • Activity Streams
  • Private Messages
  • Extensible User Groups
  • Friendship Connections
  • Online Forums
  • Notifications
  • Many Add-On Features

BuddyPress is known as “social networking in a box.” You can turn features on and off to suit your needs and the plugin boasts a thriving community of plugin developers who contribute new open source plugins that greatly extend the application.

WP Symposium

WPSymposium WordPress social network plugin

(WPSymposium WordPress social networking plugin)

WPSymposium Pro provides members with a strong support community and assistance for users who require professional help. Social features of the plugin include:

  • Friends
  • Activity Wall
  • Private Messaging
  • Notifications
  • Member Directory
  • Groups
  • Online Forum
  • Photo Galleries
  • Chat
  • RSS Feeds

WPSymposium lets you work with the theme you have. You can add social features to your posts and pages using shortcodes.

Share Your Content Across Multiple Social Channels

With most social media tools, syndicating your content is very easy. There are services and tools that let you compose, schedule and broadcast your content over multiple social channels and manage your social media marketing campaigns from one central location, saving you considerable time and money.

If you want to manage your social marketing strategy from WordPress, you can. WordPress not only lets you publish content on your own domain, it also has many great plugins that allow your site visitors to share your web content on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc. For more information, read the article we’ve written about WordPress social media sharing plugins and our comprehensive article series on how to automate your content syndication across social media networks with WordPress.

Social Media – Great For Researching Your Market

Using social media tools and applications allows you to discover what consumers want, identify new trends and opportunities and stay ahead of competitors.

Once you have identified new content opportunities, you can post messages individually on each of the social networks you’d like to reach, or publish these on a WordPress site that’s been configured to automatically notify your social networking sites.

Additionally, many applications are available that let you run surveys online. Many apps can be integrated with WordPress.

Strengthen Your Reputation And Brand Online

Strengthening your business reputation and brand online, showcasing your talent, or establishing your authority online requires commitment, dedication and a solid social marketing strategy.

You are trying to engage with real people online, and so your interactions must be genuine and meaningful. Focus on the needs of your target audience, and listen to their conversations for valuable insights.

Remember, we are born with two ears and one mouth as a reminder that we are meant to do twice as much listening as talking. What you post and how you respond to users online is very important, and can make or break your reputation online. Everyday we hear stories of brands that handle a situation poorly and end up being the subject of much scorn and derision when their response or behavior gets exposed online.

Although social media lets you be seen and known everywhere, it can also be extremely demanding on your time.

An expertly configured WordPress-driven blog is an ideal platform for building your reputation or brand online. It can help establish your authority online, showcase your talents, share great content and strategies with your clients and customers, and drive more visitors to your business.

Automatically distribute your content across various social channels using an expertly configured WordPress blog.

(Automatically syndicate content across various social networks using an expertly configured WordPress-driven website.)

Study Authority Sites In Your Niche

Being able to monitor social media allows you to reverse engineer what thought leaders and influencers in your niche are doing right.

Explore Joint Venture Opportunities, Find Affiliates, Recruit Talented Staff, etc.

Recruitment companies research social media profiles of individuals when looking for potential candidates to fill specific positions. As a business owner, you can do the same, and look for staff, network with other business owners, and connect with like-minded marketers and potential JV partners. Using social media to explore new opportunities can increase your revenue, get your name out there, and lead to potentially lucrative new ventures.

“Go Viral” Faster

Many businesses would love to have a viral marketing campaign. “Going viral,” however, is a difficult outcome to achieve, as it relies on many factors that cannot be controlled. Throwing loads of money at a clever advertising is no guarantee of viral success. Many ridiculous memes have become internet viral hits while large brands and corporations have failed to take off.

In many cases, the best you can do is know your audience well, and provide content that users will find so useful, compelling, informative or “spot-on”, that they will be naturally motivated to share with others.

Some of the tools listed in Part 2 of this article can help your content go viral, or at least help you run relatively inexpensive marketing campaigns.

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Social Media Monitoring – Not Just For Large Brands

Social Media Monitoring - Useful For All Businesses, Big And Small

(Social Media Monitoring – Not Just For Big Brands)

Social media monitoring activities can be divided into two main groups:

  • Online Reputation Management (ORM)
  • Online Trend Monitoring

Managing Your Digital Reputation

You have probably heard of online reputation management (ORM). If you haven’t, you will be hearing about it more and more as time goes on, because it is becoming increasingly more important for high profile and even general individuals and brands to track what is being said about them online – especially if what is being said is negative. No doubt you’ve heard it said before that when someone has a bad experience with a product or service they tell 10 other people about it. Bad news travels fast. People or competitors could be posting negative stuff online about you or your business and if left unchecked, this can seriously damage your reputation.

Originally an aspect of the work of public relations firms, reputation management is an issue that now affects many businesses and individuals online.

If you or your image, name or good standing is being affected by negative material being posted online, you have to find a way of diluting the negative with an excess of positive content, or restoring consumer trust and confidence.

Before you can begin to stop negative things being said about you or your brand from spreading further, however, you first have to find out about it. The sooner you can spot a negative comment, bad review, or misinformed opinion, the sooner you can begin to do something about it.

That’s where social media monitoring tools can help you. If you Google your name or your business/brand name and spot a negative comment or review, you can then do something about it, e.g. post a response, contact the person directly, etc.

Many companies are ignoring opportunities to create happier customers and boost their revenues because they are still ignoring their online reputations.

Monitoring what is being said online extends beyond multinational corporations, celebrities, movie stars, famous musicians, and security-related departments. The ability to monitor the online reputation of of individuals is also very important. Consider the following situations:

  • A former spouse in the middle of an acrimonious divorce or child custody dispute is feeling hard done by.
  • A former employee feels disgruntled after being fired.
  • A potential employer searches online for information about you. They may not find anything bad, but there may not be a lot of good, positive things published online either to support the things you have listed in your job application.

Even if you are just starting out, it’s good to create a “set and forget” alert system, so that if anything about you does come up online, you can act proactively and deal with it in a timely manner.

Useful Tip

How are you managing your online reputation in the online economy?

We’ve written an article about a simple WordPress plugin that can help you avoid the escalation of problem reviews about your services through effective user review management. Go here for more information: Power Online Reviews – Client Reviews Management Plugin For WordPress Users

Online Trend Monitoring

Regardless of which niche or industry you operate your business in, there are always new and exciting things happening. New products get released, new services get launched, events get scheduled and announced online, influential people say something controversial that gets mentioned in the news, companies publish useful research data, new videos are published containing fantastic tips or ideas, an outdated fact gets updated and becomes relevant again, something goes viral on social media, yesterday’s must-have new thing suddenly stops trending and gets replaced with the new “new” thing, services get discontinued, people retire, and so on.

All of this can provide you with an endless source of new content and new content ideas (have you noticed how all news media channels now incorporate a segment on what’s trending on social media?)

Social media content is topical content. Implementing a regular schedule of posting content with your useful comments or insightful opinions to your site not only can help drive more traffic to your business, but your blog or website could end up becoming a “go to” destination or resource for your niche or industry. People could end up referring you to others on social media, and who knows … your website or brand could even end up becoming a topical, or newsworthy source of information that others will write about and post in their content.

Social Media Tracking Resources For WordPress

This is the end of Part 1

In part 2 we explore WordPress social media measurement tools. To continue reading, click here: WordPress And Social Media : Useful Social Measurement Tools – Part Two

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"Wow! I never knew there's so much to learn about WordPress! I bought one of the WordPress for Dummies three years ago, such authors need to be on this course!" - Rich Law, Create A Blog Now

Author WP CompendiumPosted on May 5, 2016April 29, 2020Categories WordPress & Social Media, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Business Strategies, Social Media PluginsTags Social Media Tracking Tools, WordPress Social Media Tools, Track Social Engagement, Social Media WordPress

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