Social Media and Revenue Models
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What is a key aspect of social media and customer service?

  • Peer-to-peer support is not a common practice
  • Companies have full control over customer relationships
  • Product users are not involved in solving problems
  • Customers have as much control as companies (correct)
  • What is a benefit of using social media in inbound and outbound logistics?

  • Reducing solution ideas
  • Loss of privacy
  • Numerous solution ideas and rapid evaluation of them (correct)
  • Reducing user created content
  • What is an example of a social media platform used for internal communications in human resources?

  • MySite and MyProfile in SharePoint (correct)
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • What is a risk of using social media in human resources?

    <p>Forming erroneous conclusions about employees</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the value of social capital in terms of resources?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does social capital add value according to the text?

    <p>Through information, influence, social credentials, and resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a social media platform used for product reviews and testing?

    <p>YouTube</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of Yammer in an organisational context?

    <p>Enterprise social networking service</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of Chatter, a social media platform developed by salesforce.com?

    <p>To connect employees and customers within an organisation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of capital refers to the investment of resources for future profit?

    <p>Social capital</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do internal-facing communities using social media improve organisations?

    <p>By making organisations better</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the benefits of social capital to people?

    <p>Information and opportunities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is personal reinforcement in the context of social capital?

    <p>Professional identity, image, and position in an organisation or industry</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of a hyper-social organisation in using social media?

    <p>To transform interactions into mutually satisfying relationships</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary reason why social capital is valuable?

    <p>It has marketplace returns</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of using social media within an organisation?

    <p>To improve internal communications</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the concept behind the phrase 'You Are the Product'?

    <p>Renting your eyeballs to an advertiser</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between social capital and social media?

    <p>Social media can be used to increase social capital</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of a freemium revenue model in social media?

    <p>To offer users a basic service for free, then charge for upgrades or advanced features</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the average click-through rate of smartphones compared to PCs?

    <p>Smartphones have a lower click-through rate than PCs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary concern of organisations in terms of mobile ad revenue?

    <p>The growing use of ad-blocking software</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of a social media policy in an organisation?

    <p>To delineate employees' rights and responsibilities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the first pillar of Intel's social media policy?

    <p>Disclose</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the projected number of mobile devices by 2018?

    <p>10 billion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Hyper-Social Organisation

    • A hyper-social organisation uses social media to transform interactions with customers, employees, and partners into mutually satisfying relationships with them and their communities.

    Revenue Models for Social Media

    • Advertising: pay-per-click, display or banner ads, mobile ads, classifieds, or digital video ads
    • Freemium: offers users a basic service for free, then charges a premium for upgrades or advanced features
    • Sales: apps and virtual goods, affiliate commissions, donations

    Does Mobility Reduce Online Ad Revenue?

    • Number of mobile devices to reach 10 billion by 2018
    • Mobile data traffic to increase by eleven-fold
    • Average click-through rate of smartphones is 4.12%, but just 2.39% on PCs
    • Conversion rate: frequency someone clicks on ad makes a purchase, “likes” a site, or takes some other action desired by advertiser
    • Use of ad-blocking software growing by 69% per year

    Addressing SMIS Security Concerns

    • Develop and publicise a social media policy to delineate employees' rights and responsibilities
    • Intel's Three Pillars of SM Policies: Disclose, Protect, and Use Common Sense

    Social Media and Customer Service

    • Relationships emerge from joint activity, customers have as much control as companies
    • Product users freely help each other solve problems
    • Selling to, or through, developer networks most successful (e.g. Microsoft's MVP program)
    • Peer-to-peer support risks loss of control

    Social Media and Inbound and Outbound Logistics

    • Numerous solution ideas and rapid evaluation of them
    • Better solutions to complex supply chain problems
    • Facilitate user-created content and feedback among networks needed for problem-solving
    • Loss of privacy: open discussion of problem definitions, causes, and solution constraints

    Social Media and Manufacturing and Operations

    • Improve communication channels within organisation and externally with consumers
    • Design products, develop supplier relationships, and improve operational efficiencies
    • Crowdsourcing
    • Businesses-to-consumer (B2C) marketing
    • Internal-facing communities use social media to make organisations better

    Social Media and Human Resources

    • Employee communications using internal personnel sites (e.g. MySite and MyProfile in SharePoint)
    • Finding employee prospects, recruiting candidates, candidate evaluation
    • Place for employees to post their expertise
    • Risks: forming erroneous conclusions about employees, becoming defender of belief or pushing unpopular management message

    What Is the Value of Social Capital?

    • Value of social capital: number of relationships, strength of relationships, and resources controlled
    • Adds value in four ways: Information, Influence, Social credentials, and Personal reinforcement

    How Do SMIS Increase Social Capital?

    • Capital: investment of resources for future profit
    • Types of business capital: Physical capital, Human capital, Social capital
    • Social capital: social relations with expectation of marketplace returns

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    This quiz explores the concepts of hyper-social organizations, monetizing social media, and revenue models such as advertising, pay-per-click, and freemium.

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