social technology

With the growing use of social technologies as a business tool, and its general impact on our ability to reach goals, many organizations are recognizing the need to integrate it into their business processes.  However, most are not sure where to start or how to develop a robust strategic plan.

There are many powerful ways to use social tech, including engaging customers, developing new sales prospects, improving branding, and doing free market research. There is a huge benefit to learning how to apply a powerful technology trend earlier than your competitors. For this reason, we have developed a holistic plan for helping organizations move from very little use of social tech, to integrating social technology deeply into their overall strategy in effective ways.

By helping clients and audiences understand new trends, WSI has a material impact on their ability to leapfrog competitors. The following are just a few of the trends we help people apply:

• Technology practices to improve sales and marketing
• Social Technology as a customer generation and communication tool
• Online Reputation Management
• Managing Virtual Teams through technology
• Crowdsourcing
• Developing Rivers of Information

90-Day Enterprise Social Technology Strategy:

During our 90-day Enterprise Social Technology Strategy engagement, we will help your company / organization move from a state chaos to an organized, strategic social technology plan using the following milestones:

1. Analysis and Goal Development for leveraging social technologies
2. Identify evangelists on client side and select social tech team
3. Governance Policy Created
4. Integrating Social Technology with Web Properties
5. Building a River of Information
6. Sales integration Process
7. Online Reputation Management Process
8. Crowdsourcing – who will own this internally
9. Measurement and ROI process
10. Choosing the Organization’s Social Media Tools
11. Develop Pilot Projects
12. Social Media Security and Usage

For more information about our 90-day Social Technology Coaching program, click here. This program is designed to help organizations go from beginners to experts with applying social technologies in order to leapfrog competitors.