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The New Order of Business
With social media on the rise and businesses finally beginning to realize its potential, a new sort of industry is being created- and its much more than just social media. Everyone has been asking, “What will be the next big thing in the social web?” The answer lies within the business world.
It isn’t simple to integrate the business world into the social web. This demands precise technology, and groundbreaking insight on the part of developers and social strategists. Technology such as this, just like you, me, or social media, will always be changing and adapting to new developments and technologies. One side, either the consumers or the business world, needs to bend to the other; and if consumers are forced to bend to the business world, both sides will lose. The business world needs to shoulder most of the burden and all of the costs. And since the consumers are the ones who mostly contribute to social media, it only makes sense for the business world to intertwine themselves with these consumers- correctly, efficiently, and without causing any privacy concerns.
If the business world wants to have effective social connections with consumers to serve them for various marketing and sales functions, there need to be a few more attributes. As we have been learning from Social Media Connection, there are five elements to adapting social media to the business world. All five steps are important, but the last step, and the only truly revenue-generating, is action. Action can refer to a consumer transferring information to other consumers (by retweeting, posting on Facebook, leaving a comment, etc.), or making a financial transaction with a business. For a financial transaction to take place, one needs a financial institution that understands the new innovation economy.
Consumers have a lot to gain if the business world joins social media. With a social business network a consumer can seamlessly engage and purchase goods directly through social networks. A social business network allows for consumers to socially shop with their friends on social networks. And with a social business network consumers know there is one place within all social networks where they can connect, engage with, buy from and share information with a social business.
If a business doesn’t jump aboard, their competition surely will. Will you be a leader or a follower? Will you allow for your competition to leap frog you onto the social business network? This is the wave of the future, the new order of business, and what consumers will demand.
It isn’t simple to integrate the business world into the social web. This demands precise technology, and groundbreaking insight on the part of developers and social strategists. Technology such as this, just like you, me, or social media, will always be changing and adapting to new developments and technologies. One side, either the consumers or the business world, needs to bend to the other; and if consumers are forced to bend to the business world, both sides will lose. The business world needs to shoulder most of the burden and all of the costs. And since the consumers are the ones who mostly contribute to social media, it only makes sense for the business world to intertwine themselves with these consumers- correctly, efficiently, and without causing any privacy concerns.
If the business world wants to have effective social connections with consumers to serve them for various marketing and sales functions, there need to be a few more attributes. As we have been learning from Social Media Connection, there are five elements to adapting social media to the business world. All five steps are important, but the last step, and the only truly revenue-generating, is action. Action can refer to a consumer transferring information to other consumers (by retweeting, posting on Facebook, leaving a comment, etc.), or making a financial transaction with a business. For a financial transaction to take place, one needs a financial institution that understands the new innovation economy.
Consumers have a lot to gain if the business world joins social media. With a social business network a consumer can seamlessly engage and purchase goods directly through social networks. A social business network allows for consumers to socially shop with their friends on social networks. And with a social business network consumers know there is one place within all social networks where they can connect, engage with, buy from and share information with a social business.
If a business doesn’t jump aboard, their competition surely will. Will you be a leader or a follower? Will you allow for your competition to leap frog you onto the social business network? This is the wave of the future, the new order of business, and what consumers will demand.
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