Jan 21, 2013, 10:37am

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/s6chss/social_media_and) has announced the addition of the "Social Media and Tools 101" report to their offering.

Few industries rely as heavily on reputation as the financial sector. Since the economic downturn of recent years, consumer sentiment regarding financial services providers' dependability, reliability, and trustworthiness has become even more important. Social media can quickly establish and reinforce a company's attributes of dependability, reliability, and trustworthiness.

Mercator Advisory Group's latest report presents examples of successful social media strategies by financial services companies to build brand visibility, reputation, and trust. It describes various metrics for analyzing the efficacy of such strategies and winning buy-in from organization management to invest in social media marketing. The research also assesses the analytic approaches and tools used by a variety of financial institutions.

Since social media connects so many groups of people instantly and without geographic limitations, it can be seen as an extension of word-of-mouth communication with speed and reach that are unmatched. This direct connection between businesses and consumers is a powerful and diverse tool. With a sound social media strategy, it can be extraordinarily effective," comments Ken Paterson, VP for Research Operations at Mercator Advisory Group and the primary author of the report.

Highlights

- Discussion of the areas in which financial services firms are focusing media measurements: online brand visibility, engagement, customer care, and conversion

- Description of standardized measurement approaches gaining widespread use

- The key metrics major financial service organizations are using to manage the channel in social media campaigns and strategies

- Identification of a variety of free and paid analytic tools tailored to various social media outlets that are available to communications managers

Key Topics Covered:

Executive Summary

Introduction

Metrics for Social Media

Online Brand Visibility

Engagement

Customer Care

Conversion

Embracing Social Media: How Top Companies Measure Success

Wells Fargo

American Express

ING

Citibank

Social Media Measurement Tools: Brand Monitoring

Google Alerts

TweetDeck

Social Mention

Radian6

Sysomos

Social Media Management Tools: Social CRM

Facebook

HootSuite

Sprout Social

Spredfast

Vitrue

Sales Cloud

Conclusion

Appendix A: Lexicon of Social Media Terminology

Appendix B: Active Social Networks of the Financial Industry

Copyright Notice

End Notes

Companies Mentioned

- American Express

- Citibank

- Facebook

- Google

- HootSuite

- ING

- Salesforce Radian6

- Salesforce Sales Cloud

- Social Mention

- Spredfast Social Media Management

- Sprout Social

- Sysomos

- Twitter

- Oracle Vitrue

- Wells Fargo

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