?Social Network for Business: Etiquette? series disclaimer: too many people in business (marketers, you are the #1 culprit) very obviously to users on the social networks, do not understand the medium they are working with. No one is asking you to create new content. We (we the people, the cool cats on these networks) just want you to put a little effort into making sure the way the content is presented is appropriate for where you?ve placed it.
Today we tackle the all-mighty Twitter with it?s PR-filled postings and the outright lies about being passionate about *insert B2B-sold tech object here.*
I know that there are likely thousands of ?what to do on Twitter if you?re a business? blog posts out there ? most were from two years ago a la the blog posts on Pinterest (am I a hypocrite?) swirling around right now ? but I believe the time has come to assess some of the silly little things we?re still seeing out of business Twitter handles and lay down our collective pleas for the universal ?you? to stop it. (I think I really missed an opportunity here to headline these blogs ?Hey you! Stop it.?)
As a little precursor I want to say, this list used to be so much longer. Companies are doing a great job learning from their mistakes in the past ? so don?t be discouraged when reading these, just keep them in mind.
Let?s throw out a couple of gripes we?ve all had with ?you??
1. Sounding the alarm then putting in the earplugs and taking a nice long nap: stop it! I?m actually cool with companies marketing to me assuming I?ve opted to follow them (that is a dig at promoted tweets) but then when I want to ask you something, you listen. You not only listen, you respond.
2. Acting like a robot: stop it! Continuing from the gripe above, you not only respond, you respond like a human ? not a robot. I didn?t go to your self-service site because? I didn?t want a canned answer. I know we?re all busy and it?s easier to provide our employees with canned answers rather than training them on etiquette from medium-to-medium, but by being on Twitter, this is what you signed up for. Are these standards too high? I don?t think so. Personal example: I had a jolly old exchange with UPS over them sending my package to the wrong address. I was pissed that my package was across town, but I actually forgave a pretty substantial error because the person tweeting from @UPShelp was so real with me. Now I?m not the ?every man,? but I immediately thought much more highly of UPS. (Plus my new UPS guy at home keeps bringing my packages into the foyer instead of leaving them on the porch, but I digress?)
A gratuitous why-I?m-such-a-pain-in-the-neck:
3. Businesses that ask employees to do their bidding from the employees? personal IDs: stop it! Why? For one, everyone knows it wasn?t your employees idea to tell their friends about your product ? unless they are a regular product evangelist, they won?t have followers who care and your sweet ?impressions? number means nothing. For another, what if someone then comes back to that employee to answer a question and your employee either doesn?t know the answer or is not usually on Twitter so they see it 5 days later. It reflects poorly on the company for the employee to say ?hey I don?t really know what I was just talking about, go on this wild goose chase to find out? or to not respond at all. Plus we all pity the employee and think a little less of him/her for being such a slave to the groove.
4. Hijacking a tag for competitive communications purposes: STOP, please stop. Some of you may be familiar with hijacked tags advertising adult themed products or services, but there has been talk in the past of hijacking tags for a competitive purpose. An example of this would be if during one of Coca-cola?s events that had a hypothetical hashtag of #cola2012 where attendees were discussing things happening at the event, Pepsi came in and said something like ?Pepsi is better than Coca-cola as proven in taste tests #cola2012.? All you?re doing is spamming a community. ?But it?s relevant and clever.? No it isn?t. If people wanted to talk to you about your product/service/topic they would have used a tag that called you to attention. Back off. You?re ruining Twitter.
?
What else bugs you about businesses? approaches to Twitter? Anything you see that you actually really like?
Category: customer service marketing social crm social media ? ? Tags: #gartner360, 360, gartner, gartnercrm, twitter
Source: http://blogs.gartner.com/jenny-sussin/2012/03/05/social-networking-for-business-twitter-etiquette/
girl fight jacoby brissett danielle staub last of the mohicans last of the mohicans ryan howard meteor shower 2011
No comments:
Post a Comment