In many ways, social media is just another channel. Most of the marketing techniques they teach in business school are just as applicable to social media as they are to direct mail. And if you’ve worked in or managed a call center, translating those skills to social is relatively straightforward.
But here’s the big difference: Whereas traditional marketing and call centers have focused on 1-to-1 experiences and, in the case of mass marketing, 1-to-many, social media introduces the phenomenon of many-to-many experiences.
What does this mean for your business? It means that if you don’t get the offline experience right, you are likely going to suffer the consequences in social media…
