Social listening: discover valuable insights about your target audience
Franziska Schaadt
Co-CEO of The Awake Origins Movement | Conscious Entrepreneurship & Leadership | Keynote Speaker & Serial Entrepreneur
What is social listening?
Social listening, also known as social monitoring skills, describes a process tracking everything what is being said about a company, individual, product or brand online and leveraging this pool of information in the best possible way.
The great added value of Social Media doesn't necessarily lie in what we say, rather it is in what we hear! Every post, update, share, comment, etc. offers valuable insight into your target group's live, choice, preference and behavior.
Why do you need it?
1. The goal is to establish yourself as industry experts.
You are doing this by discovering what your client’s needs and challenges are. Especially if your focus is cross-industry do your research and know what the industry is developing towards. This will also improve your social sensitivity: understand your target audience such as discovering client’s needs and challenges and spot industry trends
2. Boost the customer experience
Be present on a regular basis, identify when to engage and being able to have a quick reaction time to needs that are out there. Engage with them in the long-term and establish a relationships.
3. Reputation building & option to avoid cold calling
Automatically this will boost your reputation and position you as a trusted advisor. Moreover, it gives you an alternative to cold calling. In fact, 90% of BDMs don’t react to cold calling anymore. Change this cold way of engaging by making it warmer: listen to your customer and engage in key insights: what’s going on in their life, industry, interests?
How? Your Guide for Social Listening
1. Identify your followers
2. Who views my profile?
3. Who are my readers? (Content lead-generation)
4. Follow companies, influencers, show-case channels
5. Join groups / news channels
6. Search for relevant keywords
Curious to hear your thoughts on Social Listening! Let me know which tools you use to socially listen and share. Happy social selling everyone!
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7 年Very interesting Franziska and what software do you suggest for this social listening or monitoring? DYK https://www.big-social-media.com it seems to be one of the best tools around...used by many major players!
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8 年Very interesting, Franziska! Right now, we are creating a product to boost users social relationships by tracking what really matters to them. Maybe you can be one of the first users ?? Do you wanna try it?
I help FMCG companies to scale globally.
8 年For me, its important to be updated about your industry. But helping others in adapting to changes in surrounding not limiting to industry is also rewarding.