{"id":4529,"date":"2012-07-07T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2012-07-07T06:40:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T13:40:16","slug":"burberry-a-great-brand-with-poor-social-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/burberry-a-great-brand-with-poor-social-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Burberry: A Great Brand with Poor Social Engagement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the BIGGEST mistakes made by major brands \/ celebrities on social media is a lack of reciprocal engagement with fans and customers. Allow me to clarify. Many companies feel that simply posting status updates or announcements on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ constitute social networking and interaction.<\/p>\n<p>However, just like in real life offline, in order to successfully build a strong relationship both individuals need to participate in the conversation and be EQUALLY heard. Just &#8220;notifying&#8221; your audience of what&#8217;s going-on is like going to a party, doing all of the talking, and not listening nor being concerned with anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick video I created of one of my favorite companies, <a title=\"Burberry\" href=\"http:\/\/us.burberry.com\/store\/\">Burberry<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been a loyal customer for years so this is more like constructive criticism than anything.<\/p>\n<p>I will say the overwhelming majority of brands are making this same exact mistake revealed in the video and it&#8217;s limiting their revenue generated from social media to a small fraction of what it could be. In order to truly maximize effectiveness, these strategies shared in the clip need to be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Click the play button below to watch:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"485\" height=\"275\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jQIbBEVkl2M?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"485\" height=\"275\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jQIbBEVkl2M?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Did you like this post? 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Allow me to clarify. Many companies feel that simply posting status updates or announcements on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ constitute social networking and interaction. However, just like in real life offline, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,63],"tags":[1489,1481,1477,1478,1486,1487,1480,1479,1485,1483,366,1488,1482,365,5,1490,21,753,2662,1484],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marketing","category-social-media-marketing","tag-brands-internet-marketing","tag-brands-marketing","tag-burberry","tag-burberry-brit","tag-burberry-fall","tag-burberry-london","tag-burberry-outlet","tag-burberry-sale","tag-burberry-spring","tag-burberry-usa","tag-dr-matthew-loop","tag-internet-marketing-for-brands","tag-luxury-brands","tag-matt-loop","tag-matthew-loop","tag-online-marketing-for-brands","tag-social-media","tag-social-media-for-brands","tag-social-media-marketing","tag-social-media-marketing-for-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4535,"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dcincome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}