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Why Blogging Matters: 6 Degrees of Perspective
Technology has enabled customers to dramatically change their attitude towards marketing. As a result, they are tuning out in increasing numbers and talking back. Customers are shifting massively their entertainment and information consumption away from traditional media to the new web space.
According to a recent Forrester survey of US households, only 6% trust search engine ads and 2% online banner ads. Customers trust themselves and each other in influencing their perception of a brand.
#1 - PR
- Blogging is everything that PR isn't supposed to be. Blogs are conversations between company and customer. They are decentralized and informal, based on practices being created as we speak.
- Employee bloggers have a great deal more freedom. Their comments are not market tested and rarely reviewed beforehand by employers.
#2 - Marketing
- The blogosphere has disrupted the economics of publishing, dramatically lowering the costs of content creation.
- This will require traditional marketers to develop new skills and a solid understanding of the blogosphere.
- Marketers will then need to develop relationships with these bloggers from inviting them to traditional offline events, to giving them access to products or engaging in blogging discussions with them.
#3 - Advertising
- The utilization of blogs is critical, particularly in a growing world where social currency is more and more important. They are powerful communication and business tools which can connect with a variety of audiences for your brands/products/services. These audiences range from core customers to prospects to influencers to investors.
- Right now they are one of the most cost effective tools you can use to reach influencers who will recommend you to others.
#4 - web strategy
- Looking at a corporate blog or blogs in the wider context of an organization’s overall web strategy can yield some interesting benefits if applied tactfully and with basic measurement.
- In context, a blog is an efficient way for a corporation to quickly publish onto the Internet and through a syndication pipeline, messages that may need rapid dissemination or a more personal voice than the corporate online edifices represented by so-called traditional web sites.
#5 - Conversational touchpoints
- What we need to avoid with consumers, at all cost, is coming across as though we're speaking through two mouths. So many of the companies out there who are waxing poetic about corporate blogging are divorced from everyday consumer listening protocols.
- In fairness, one could argue that isolated corporate blog initiatives grounded in meaningful participation and “conversation” can help catalyze, ignite, or inspire impenetrable brand bureaucracies into getting to a better “conversational” place overall. But the principle of consistency still holds: you can’t sing through too many mouths in the eyes of your consumers. Consistency matters. Consistency drives credibility.
- As corporate leaders, we need to develop the right strategies and tactics to ignite and catalyze positive change leveraging blog tools and methods while keeping the rest of the organization in tow.
#6 - Creativity, Innovation
1. Instant feedback from a qualified network of peers
2. A digital journal, scrapbook and sketchpad
3. The ultimate marketing and brand challenge
It’s a highly interactive way to share ideas, educate and be educated in the process.
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