Monitoring Is Listening
February 12th, 2009 by ZachOne of the powers of emerging technologies is allowing companies to niche market like never before. Using Social Radar allows me to begin building a strategy around social media monitoring and, down the line, customer engagement. This is the first post in a series that will describe the significance of this tool in your usage of social media as a company.
Social Media Monitoring
Social Media Monitoring is becoming more and more popular and essential for companies. For better or for worse, your brand is not completely in your hands. Any person can talk about different aspects of your company in a variety of forms and make their opinion public for potentially millions of people to read using social networks and online tools. It is absolutely imperative that all companies begin to monitor their brand, products, and industry on the internet. Specifically, within the social media world. More people are participating more frequently in social networks every day. Perhaps they are a “fad,” but do you want to take that chance? With all of these online tools, it is becoming easier and easier for more people to become content creators online instead of just content consumers.
Using Social Radar allows you to monitor your company in as many or as few ways as you like. Monitoring is listening. How many times are we told that a good businessperson or a good salesperson is someone who has the ability to listen and deliver? Now you can listen to people talking in social media and utilize their feedback immediately. The information flows in real time, as if you can sit in a stadium full of people and hear only the conversations you want. Can you imagine receiving that kind of instant feedback? Now you can. With Social Radar, you can retrieve content instantly without having to scrape the entire internet or wait for aggregation. This allows for lightning fast and accurate analysis.
Social Radar allows you to build a query you can carry across multiple tools to track trends, key influencers, and even just the posts themselves. You can continue to build and refine your social media monitoring platform in one place using all the tools available from Social Radar. All content created in social media is time sensitive and is attached to specific dates, so you know when things are said, not just that they exist. This is key for information gathering and allows you to plan for the future.
So the questions areā¦
Are people talking about your company? Product? Industry?
Are you tuning into your customers and what they are saying?

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