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Become the Pied Piper of Community Building

Waxing UnLyrical

Communities have been around for centuries, however online communities have only been around for a few decades. According to Computerworld the first “online community” came about in 1973 when Talkomatic for the PLATO time-sharing system released a text-based group chat. Let’s get right to it, how to build your brand’s community.

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Brand Authenticity Will be Here Awhile

5W PR

As communities and people return to a new normal, brand authenticity will be as important as it was during the pandemic, if not higher. This news comes amidst reports that 6% of marketers expected bigger 2021 advertising budgets. If anything increased significantly during the pandemic, it was consumer interest in brand trust.

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How to Encourage Customers to Create User Generated Content

5W PR

UGC includes reviews, testimonials, images, videos, and social media posts created by customers to promote a brand. Encouraging customers to generate UGC can have significant advantages, fostering trust, authenticity, and a sense of community around a brand. Use branded hashtags to aggregate UGC.

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Purpose Driven Branding

5W PR

While some brands like Ben & Jerry’s, Timberland, and Nike have been espousing various causes for years, recent events have greatly accelerated this movement, among many others. 93% believed that brand purpose would increase consumer trust and loyalty, while 88% felt doing so would differentiate them from their competition.

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Brand Ambassadors, Brand Advocates: These Programs Aren’t Easy!

Rock the Status Quo

Don’t Let The Plethora of Blog Posts Fool You It’s easy to tout the benefits of brand advocate programs – of which there are many – but there isn’t enough discussion around just how difficult it is to create and sustain one. It can be an industry, a career field, a product or service or just an idea.

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The Future of Twitter

The Proactive Report

Apparently brands don’t consider Twitter as sexy as Instagram or Snapchat. It doesn’t create social media stars and their advertising is not producing as much revenue as other networks. Used correctly, Twitter can have a huge impact on customer service, perception and reputation. Back in November 2016 the shares were $18.

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How To Grow Your Facebook Community

Waxing UnLyrical

They are a service business. One that could have a vibrant Facebook community, if they could just get to that point. Ask your customers – directly – to Like the Page. Pay for a Facebook ad campaign that targets the most likely prospects (who you think will convert to customers). Because the network is flawed.