Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Trouble with Twitter? Marketers use with care!

As a marketer, I love the opportunities that social media platforms have brought to businesses of all sizes.

I enthusiastically embrace all the new social media tools and we encourage our clients to use them too – where appropriate.

Just because a tool exists does not mean that a business has to use it!

Twitter is a case in point. Used correctly, it is a very powerful CRM tool. Used badly, it will make a company appear ridiculous.

For an amusing video that makes this point very well see http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8puil_twouble-with-twitter-soustitre_creation

For an easy guide to Twitter (by the excellent Commoncraft) see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What do you mean by CRM tool ?

Marketing Maverick said...

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. Twitter is being used by a number of major customers - such as Dell and British Airways - to keep in contact with their customers.

Happy to send you more information on Twitter if you would like it.