SEO, PPC, Email Marketing – sorry you’re in the wrong place!
Whilst SEO, PPC and Email Marketing are facilities you may use and see spoken about, let’s give you a comparison….
Ever heard of……
“PUSHING A PEBBLE UP A MOUNTAIN”
So, yes we are going to get “Flack” over this article and people/companies rubbishing it but let’s be clear about one thing – those that will be rubbishing/trashing this article, will be the ones that are selling or trying to sell you those services – NOT THINKING OF YOUR LONG TERM INTERESTS!!
Here at The Social Piggy whilst we can offer help, guidance and assistance in these areas, we don’t look at these as long term solutions and are in our opinion, items of the past – not the present or the future!
With us, we work with you and your company long term, building a strategy, ethos and Community to really make sure you are engaging with both your audience, prospective clients and clients – if you aren’t building that relationship, then you aren’t valuing your audience!
Let us look at this…
As an example, people are changing and wanting to get the most out of their time – so you need to make them feel welcome and part of your family.
If you are asking people to sign up for your newsletter before they get through to the right page they are looking for or have to register their details first, more and more people are either giving you their spam email or closing your site and going elsewhere!
(Note – Spam email is becoming more and more common! A Spam email is where someone sets up a gMail, Outlook or Yahoo email address for example and never use it. What they do, is give this email out when they have to sign up for something to divert all these emails away from their email InBox – have you ever wondered why so many of your emails aren’t even opened?)
The whole industry of Digital and Social changed entering 2014 and we started to see that people and companies did not want to be sold to and the switched on people really ramped up their game. (Yes we talk about this and maybe we should do more of what we talk about with regards to for example extending our Video and Live Streaming content, yet at present, we are focused on helping others to implement their strategy).
If you look back a few years for example, we already were riding the explosion of YouTube but 2014 was the real Boom where those in the know stood up and said, “see we were right” and thus Companies started to really embrace this by saying we need to look at this.
Now we have names coming from nowhere with the likes of Pew Die Pie, Zoella and Cutie Pie with 42.5 Million, 10.1 Million and 6.1 Million subscriber’s respectively, who are utilising Social Telling and Social Selling as a medium for brands to reach out to new audiences.
None of this is really using the implements of SEO, PPC or email marketing but the real life of Social Selling where using the old adage of “referral marketing“, people are watching and then sharing the links or telling their friends via “word of mouth marketing“.
So, this is why and how we work with you on your strategy to look at what you are doing and how you need to be looking long term with buliding first your Internal Community and then your External Community to embrace both Social Community and Social Selling.
With you following (if you are not – WHY NOT?) Gary Vaynerchuk, you will see that he is all about him and by this, we mean he is giving, sharing and communicating. He has built his community – #VaynerNation – whether this is on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter or YouTube, with him giving advice and assistance to everyone. He is open and transparent – very straight talking.
So, this is why we don’t say you need to do this and we will charge £X per week to manage your Facebook or run your Facebook Campaigns for example, we actually work with you to help understand what is happening in the worlds of Digital and Social to enable you to develop your strategy not just on Facebook or Twitter for example but the whole Social Eco-System.
Another example of someone who delivers the same ethos as us here at The Social Piggy (in our honest opinion) is Victoria Taylor. Victoria is constantly being there for others and helping to share content of others across her platforms. What she is doing is all part of the Social Sharing Economy where she is also seen as someone who understands Social Engagement over the Sell, Sell Sell, approach that is riding it’s way too much through the Digital and Social world today.
Too many people are all of sudden becoming Digital or Social experts overnight without having the insights, knowledge and vision to look at both you and your company long term as they are just here for the quick sale using the Social ethos of pre 2014!!
Afterall, if you not are engaging, then how do expect your audience to be interested in what you are doing?
We have just seen the latest changes with Instagram where the natural feed is been changed by what Instagram feel you are interested as a priority. This has lead to outrage by many but look behind on the scenes and see what is really happening.
Whilst someone may be following you on Instagram but they are engaging mostly with say Food and Fashion by liking or commenting, but your business is books, then Food and Fashion posts are going to be placed first on their timeline and you will be pushed down.
So, you need to think smarter and act more Social by engaging with them. There are such simple ways to address this and this is how we help you.
Thus, the time has come for you to play catch up and you can do this by making sure you are really engaging with people that are listening and helping to develop strategies with their clients.
Can you really say this about your Digital and Social Advisors, Coaches, Experts, Trainers etc?
With the world of Digital and Social chnaging on a daily basis, you need to make sure that you are on-game and in the right places, thus we help you to roadmap your future with your communities and help you bring in those people/companies that can help with the channels you need to be looking at.
As if for example, you are using old marketing methods or using marketing tactics aimed at say the 40 plus groups – why are you doing this when your target market is the 14 to 28 age group?
All age groups have different platforms they use and you need to make sure your business is there!
Just think back to the above where we mentioned the likes of Pew Die Pie, Zoella and Cutie Pie, yet you mention these people to say the over 30/35’s or most broadrooms and they have no idea who you are talking about!
So, if you are wanting to create that Social Community for your audience to engage with you and your company in Social Engagement leading to Social Selling, then you really need to deliver “Jab, Jab, Jab Right Hook” as Gary Vaynerchuk is always sharing with #VaynerNation!
Whether you want to discuss your needs of how Digital and Social uses the elements of The Social Family or how to create your Social Strategy then make sure you are speaking to the right people who really understand about Social Strategy and the elements that make up The Social Family.
If you are wanting to look at examples of how of this can work for you before speaking to us, just take a closer look at the likes of Cutie Pie, Gary Vaynerchuk, Pew Die Pie, Victoria Taylor and Zoella to understand how they are being engaging with their audiences not SELLING!
To learn more about how you you need to be creating your Social Strategy and implementing all the other aspects of The Social Family, then complete the form below to discover how we can help your company:-
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