Pre-Commerce: How Companies and Customers are Transforming by Bob Pearson

By Bob Pearson

Rules for leaders to have interaction without delay with clients to form their model and industry successSince its debut E-commerce has been situated at the transaction, which represents below one percentage of the time we spend on-line.  Now, we're coming into the period of Pre-Commerce the place buyers make their very own selection to shop for or aid a model prior to the transaction. Pre-Commerce explains how the exploding use of social media channels has essentially replaced the best way consumers move approximately making their buying judgements, how they train themselves and why they decide to help convinced manufacturers above others. It indicates what executives needs to do to re-create the best way their businesses have interaction with and study from their consumers, staff and opponents. It comprises unique interviews and anecdotes Pearson has performed or skilled with quite a few influential C-suite executives in the course of his time as chief of Dell’s worldwide social media workforce and as a specialist to Fortune one thousand businesses, worldwide.Offers a step by step strategy for leaders to use this information to start remodeling their businesses, correct nowBegins with a foreword from Mark Addicks, leader advertising Officer, normal MillsOver 25 Fortune 500 executives interviewed, together with particular side-bar interviews with Michael Dell and Marc BenioffExplores the concept that of "Pre-commerce"--the customer's selection making occurs good prior to a transaction occurs and maintains after the transaction, representing ninety nine% of time spent on-line, usually outdoors a company’s achieve todayShows the right way to construct inner worker networks and the way to take your first and most crucial steps to combine social media all through your company.Pearson finds that the simplest rules are usually unfastened and the know-how wanted isn't a cost-issue. as a substitute, it is a subject of the pinnacle govt determining to undertake a brand new means of enticing without delay with its buyers.

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While social media inherently involve a range of content—from text to podcasts to YouTube videos—most insight comes in word form. Invariably, your customers will use their own language to communicate. We use fancy terms to describe the analysis of all this, tossing around ideas like “keyword dictionaries” and “search engine optimization” to put a complex and high-minded terminology on what, ultimately, comes down to nothing but words. Words remain the primary currency at the foundation of Pre-Commerce.

5 Your customers might start their journey toward a purchase when they see your paid search program. They might start it when they run across a blog post you had nothing to do with. They’re much more likely to start their journey when they see both. Regardless, they’re going to start that journey, and they’re going to take it whether you come along or not. OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW It’s time to clean the garage. Most of us, if we clean the garage at all, do it grudgingly. At some point, though, all those old items we needed years ago—or, like that wagon wheel coffee table, never needed at all— simply have to go.

And by 1963, companies had started using ZIP codes in the United States to send direct mail to targeted groups of customers. Each media revolution opened up broad new audiences, and with each step companies developed increasingly effective ways to draw customers through advertising. But at the core of each medium, the essence of advertising and marketing never really changed: The company always controlled the message, and in a manner, it hoped, that connected with its target audience. From rock walls to billboards, from commercial messages in Pompeii to commercial messages on your flat-screen TV, the company delivered the message and the consumer, well, consumed it.

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