The 5 Types Of Community Members You Must Include In Your Social Media
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Make Social Media Work Better For Your Business
Discover the 5 types of community members you must include
THE COMMUNITY BUILDER
Your business already has a community even if you’ve never thought about it like that …
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… and as a business owner you can develop that community to grow your business
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Character + Language + Purpose + Members +
Energy
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You can improve your results by focusing on using social media to build your community
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Be sure to connect with each of the 5 different types of members in your community
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Step 1 Identify the 5 different
types of members in your businesses’s community
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The first type of member is your customers who should be easy to identify
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Within your customers you will find a group who are your star buyers
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Star buyers might be your biggest spenders or they might be stars for other reasons
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Browsers are the people who engage with your business but don’t buy
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Browsers aren’t necessarily prospects but this doesn’t mean they aren’t important
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For the passersby you need to think about where they are so you can reach them there
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Your most obvious team members are the other people in your business
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Think beyond this definition to people like your suppliers and your business network
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Step 2
Recognise where and how you are already connecting
with these people
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Use this framework to take an audit of where you are now
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Think About …Do you do anything special for your star buyers?
Are you looking after your customers?
What reasons do you give browsers to come back?
How do passersby find your community?
How do you involve your team in your social media?
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Take Action …
Highlight any things you do that need improvement
Note where you have gaps
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Step 3
Fill in any gaps so you are connecting with all 5 types
of members
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Insider information is a great way to reward star buyers
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Rewarding Star Buyers• Separate email list
• A closed Facebook group
• Elicit their opinion
• Reach out to them on a one-to-one basis
• Special events
• Advance notice
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Don’t take your customers for granted
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Strengthening Customer Relationships• Be generous with your knowledge
• Provide your customers with useful resources
• Keep customers in the loop
• Provide support or networking opportunities
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Treat your browsers well
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Keep Your Browsers Coming Back• Give them opportunities to buy
• Move browsers on to an email list
• Paid promotion to get your posts seen
• Make it worthwhile for them
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Make your passersbyaware of you
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Lure The Passersby In• Create content that people will engage with
• Actively encourage sharing, e.g. contests
• Use paid advertising
• Have a great community!
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Team are by far the most common group of people that businesses forget to include
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Include Your Team• Encourage members of you team to engage with your social media
• Assign social media activities to members of your team
• Promote your suppliers
• Be generous to your business network
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Next StepsDo something new in the next 24 hours
Send feedback or questions to:
Book a community strategy call with me:
https://www.timetrade.com/book/4H6SG
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Be sure to connect with your star buyers, customers, browsers, passersby and team
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