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Let us start off with a brief description of customer advocacy. Well, it is not a difficult term to understand, however, it is undeniably the most important term a business has to focus upon!
It is that part of your business that will help you increase your brand power and will ultimately usher in good conversions. It adds up to your goodwill as well as your monetary outlook. Nowadays, a business should take customer advocacy programs effectively.
They should employ a great team who are willing to engage on various social media platforms with great enthusiasm. An innate interest to discover who, where, how, and why are the people buying and appreciating your products and services should be there.
“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.” – Steve Jobs
Can you now surmise the importance of customer advocacy? I believe you are pretty convinced!
Have a look at these key ingredients that will help you sail your ship smoothly on this huge ocean of business
Nowadays, everybody has a social media account- companies and individuals. You would be having a website as well, however, this is not enough.
Yes, you heard me right.
Create your pages on Instagram and Facebook and other social media platforms and interact with the consumers in the most direct way. Guide your customer advocacy executives to follow specific hashtags. You will be flooded with posts based on these hashtags. It would probably be profitable for you if the results are in favor of your brand. Use keywords including your brand name to stumble upon blogs spreading some good things about you.
Interact with the consumers by liking or commenting on their posts. Fill up your own social media page with the latest goods and services. Tag individuals or groups who have significantly spoken about your brand. Tagging is substantially possible on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Now that you have built your army of customer advocacy executives. You’ve created your own customized social account too. You should get them to do all the necessary surveys on those individuals or groups who’ve been talking about your brand on various social media platforms.
Right from Instagram, Facebook to other online blogs. It is essential to conduct thorough research on them as they are ultimately your customer advocates. They’ve been weaving beautiful tales around your products and services.
Isn’t that actually great customer advocacy?
Undoubtedly, yes!
You haven’t been even paying them for this and they are already that reason behind most, or, some of your sales at least. You cannot afford to miss them at all!
Celebrating your customer advocates should be one of the foremost aims of all your customer advocacy programs.
Recent study shows that brands see 650% ROI for every dollar invested.You need to make sure that your customer advocacy crew takes the best steps to let these advocates know that you value their efforts. Also, know that your business is actually making valuable gains from their kind gestures. Send them little but meaningful hampers or written acknowledgments. Hold events or conferences dedicated just to them.
These people include bloggers or individual social media account owners who make the time and the effort to make your brand appealing.
And you know what?Almost every consumer listens to their opinions. The reason is that they present the products and services in a much more relatable way than most of your campaigns. Their opinions appear to be true and immediate.
Ask your customer advocacy team to customize the niche that they create. Give an interesting name to the group, assign a signature design to the forum where they meet. If it is offline, keep your display boards and your place cards specific and personalized.
Create customized goods for them, bestow them with notepads and badges with their and your brands’ initials. Do it when they show up in the conferences held especially for their efforts- buck up and be a little more creative!
Make them feel like they matter because they actually do.
You would obviously be knowing what is best for your business, however, don’t push your needs towards them and do not burden them by being too cheesy. Keep it simple and significant because they already love your brand. Your work is to nurture their interest in you rather than forcing them to hold on to you. Nothing works well in this way, not even business.
Their word of mouth is very vital for your company! You think that this is catching up on an emotional track. Well, just think about why you started your own company! Statistics matter but what is the use of creating something that does not touch someone’s mind or heart.
Take my word, a great customer advocacy program is going to get you sales and some genuine love for your brand!
“The way to a customer’s heart is much more than a loyalty program. Making customer evangelists is about creating experiences worth talking about.” – Valeria Maltoni
Your company spends quite a fancy amount on advertisements while launching your products. Also at specific times when you upgrade them.
Now imagine, there are some customer advocates who create content for your products because they feel that they are worthwhile. They personally spend a lot of their efforts and most importantly put in their precious time! I have written about some ways to celebrate and pamper them and over here, I am giving you an insight into why your customer advocacy team should think about paying some of these advocates.
You do not need to get into paid partnerships with every one of them because you have obviously done something right to earn their admiration. However, there are some exceptional people out there who not only help you advertise your products but are well equipped with how SEO works as well. They understand the concept of creating significant traffic. These advocates are genuinely helping you in marketing and are positively affecting your return on investments.
Aren’t these your goals?
As a business, you have to invest in quite a number of other secondary businesses to help you accelerate your end goals and some of these talented customer advocates are worth your trust and investment.
It does not make any sense to leave something like customer advocacy in the middle, and especially, after putting in all the necessary efforts to create yourself a social media presence. Involve yourself in researching about your consumers, discovering your customer advocates, pampering them, building a platform for them to meet up (online and offline), customizing their platform, etc.
It takes a lot of effort to do all these and you are surely going to end up losing in a big way if your team fails to regularly follow up on their progress. You should keep your crew motivated enough to keep doing whatever they are already doing, no matter how circular it may seem to them. Agreed that it is circular, and seldom do people wish to go round and round, but your team should realize that, no matter how repetitive the process, the statistics are always different.
Your graph will not take much time to climb up or slide down based on your efforts to maintain whatever is already built. Pamper your advocacy team as well- make them applaud the best individual or group of executives, thank them for their efforts- thank you is indeed magical!
“Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We have to be great every time or we’ll lose them.” – Kevin Stirtz
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The ultimate goal of a business is to make a significant place in the business world and implement ways to keep holding on to that position and grow in quality and quantity day by day. You should make sure that you place your core intention on building goods and services which people genuinely love and can use in making their life easier or more valuable.
Consumers have become very aware of their needs and they want quality and quantity. And please be aware that, when they think, shoes! Or any other products or services, a million of them would pop up on the search engines.
However, if you take care of your business perseveringly and spend quality time and investment on your customer relationship management including the customer advocacy programs, then, it would conspicuously ease your journey in a practical way. There may be some tactics that never seem to work out. But trust the vibes of a customer-company relationship for once and strengthen your customer advocacy team. Make them implement those necessary methods to bridge the gap between you and your customers.
Go ahead and engage with your consumers effectively. I know it is not possible to go door to door or get in touch with every genuine customer. There might even be people who buy your products regularly but are not socially active and there is not much you can do to engage with them on online platforms but they obviously use emails, so keep in touch with them through your personalized emails.
There are numerous tools that help you analyze consumer and market trends, your work is to find them and utilize them in the best possible manner.
Trust in the powers that lie within great customer advocacy and help your business make worthwhile decisions and up gradations to grow and prosper.
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