AI Social Listening for Direct Selling Companies
Social Listening is probably the most important service a direct selling company can utilize to grow and protect the brand.
Why It's Important For Your Company:
- You can develop a marketing plan and social content that generates real engagement
- Understand what aspects of your brand people are positive/negative/neutral about and what to do to turn a neutral into positive and a negative to neutral or positive
- Help manage your online reputation and mitigate crisis issues
- Keep tabs on what everyone in the field is saying about your company, product claims, earnings claims
- Discover new influencers and how to engage with them
- Understand exactly what to say to get people to become customers/reps
- Uncover important trends with support issues to help fix problems before they happen
- Identify the products/services/tools/training that customers want the most
- Track all aspects of your marketing campaigns to make sure your marketing budget is optimized
Understanding Your Competitors and Industry:
- See exactly where your competitors are succeeding and failing
- What competitor products/services/tools work the best for them
- Find gaps in your industry (products, services, comp plan features, training, support, etc) that you could easily fill to create a competitive advantage
- What is positive about the industry that people identify with that could be brought into the company
- Get a sense of your share of the social media audience. And understand the volume of your messages vs. theirs.
- Understand why their customers may not be satisfied with their product. And how you could create a better experience.
- Find the content they share that outperforms your own. And analyze why it resonates with your shared audience.
- Quickly identify the new products or solutions they are offering. Find out what the general market sentiment is towards those products and solutions, and set a goal to outperform them