Always On: Managing Online Communities in a 24/7 Society

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Author(s): Sarah Williams (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 15
Source title: Promotional Strategies and New Service Opportunities in Emerging Economies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Vipin Nadda (University of Sunderland, UK), Sumesh Dadwal (Northumbria University, UK)and Roya Rahimi (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2206-5.ch014

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Electronic Services & Service Science / Marketing

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Social media is often viewed as a solution to service sector engagement issues, since it presents a cost-effective alternative to traditional promotional strategies; acting both as a promotional platform and a forum for customer engagement. Social media is increasingly being used by service sector organisations to engage with communities and create dialogue between organisations and their service users. In a world where consumers are increasingly ‘always on', the challenge is how to effectively use social media as a key promotional, communications and engagement tool, and to move its use from broadcast platforms to forums for online customer engagement. The aim of this chapter is to understand how service sector organisations are engaging with social media platforms and customer communities; to identify whether, in an ‘always on' world, this represents the ideal method of community building, or whether it is being used as a more cost effective broadcast tool; and to identify areas of good practice.

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