How To Take Back Social Media Marketing From Facebook & Twitter | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

It's shameful so many brands still ask social media to deliver likes, fans, followers, views and channel performance indicators, not real business results.

 

It's 2013. Social media is no longer new. It's a mature medium, one that has been woven into the fabric of consumer life online. So why are brands still determined to act like naive tourists, blundering around a foreign land and upsetting the natives? It's time to take back control. Brands have been lectured for the last few years on the need to let go of the vice-like grip on their brand, to hand over control to their customers in social media. And it's true that social media has ushered in a new age of transparency, where customers want a far greater stake in any brand they interact with....