Recently, an admirer of mine has approached me having a few questions regarding the social media strategy that his company was planning on implementing. The company is in the business of designing software for {telephone businesses, and while I won't talk about the name of the company out of politeness, I'll let you know this; that they had a great deal to learn about their social media profit formula.

Their plan was to create a company blog to engage their clients, and add value to their website. Which is usually a fairly good start; a blog works very well for both of those things. However, the company was very concerned that their competition would set out to steal ideas from them through whatever information was transmitted through the site and decided that every article had to be accepted through the president of the company before it could get posted. The other problem was that the blog content could not discuss any of the company's services or products, once more since they were afraid that their opposition would pinch their ideas. But, they had made their blog. Thats more than the majority businesses had been doing.

Sorry to say, the blog was doomed on the way to failure. Despite the fact that they did want to begin blogging, and had plans to build a complimentary presence on Twitter, the blog posts would only be visible to readers who were already valued clientele of the corporation. Which begs the question, what were they planning to tweet about?. Since each reader of the site has to become a client first so that they can access the content pieces, what is the point of alerting the Twittersphere concerning up-to-the-minute posts, or bringing people back to their blog to begin a discussion, if only the people youve previously sold to can get into it? How are you going to entice customers into a discussion of your services if you cannot talk about your products? Finally, if its a private weblog, why are you so concerned about the competition gaining access to it?

In essence, this company is hopping on the Social Media bandwagon without thinking it through. Maybe they do have a sound security concern, when that is the argument then a medium that's all in regards to the distribution of information and concepts possibly isn't the best fit for them. I have been blogging on behalf of this little flower shop here in Houston for a little more than a year, and if I had to express the single biggest lesson I've learned while doing it, it would be this; "the greater you communicate, the more you get back". Where businesses like this flop at Social Media is leaping in head first devoid of taking some time to develop a strategy that enhances their company. Without taking a candid look at your business, then developing a Social Media strategy that works for it, it will be like trying to enlighten to guys how women think. An exercise in uselessness.

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