{"id":95081,"date":"2016-11-08T11:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T11:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=95081"},"modified":"2016-12-22T17:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:14:40","slug":"five-reasons-why-social-media-monitoring-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/five-reasons-why-social-media-monitoring-is-essential\/","title":{"rendered":"Five reasons why social media monitoring is essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>For most PRs monitoring online conversations, knowing what your customers are looking for, responding to complaints, or engaging with audiences on social media channels is essential.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/pr-software\/media-monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelio<\/a> we help thousands of PRs, marketers, and brands to find out what people are saying about them online, across millions of social media platforms and sources, anywhere in the world. But if you are still unconvinced here are five reasons why social media monitoring is essential.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>1. Engage in conversations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ENGAGE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ENGAGE.jpg\" alt=\"engage\" width=\"508\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you know what people are saying about you across different social media channels? If not, social media monitoring helps you to engage with people who are talking about your brand or the social media conversations that are most important to you. Using monitoring services like Vuelio will help you to\u00a0analyse these conversations and transform one-sided mentions into fruitful relationships.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>2. Identifying influencers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Influencer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Influencer.jpg\" alt=\"influencer\" width=\"518\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another benefit of social media monitoring is being able to communicate and identify influencers. Creating successful influencer campaigns is not just about finding a blogger who has a large following to promote your services, it&#8217;s about matching with an influencer who represents your values and brand identity. Social media monitoring gives you a head-start by giving you the tools to see what influencers are chatting about on their channels, what their interests are, how they like to engage with their followers, which will help you to strategise how to best engage and reach out them. It will also help you to discover which bloggers have the most influence on your topic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>3. Crisis Management<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Crisis-Management.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93764\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Crisis-Management.jpg\" alt=\"crisis-management\" width=\"520\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, social media presents more complex challenges to maintaining your brand&#8217;s reputation in this digital age. If an unexpected crisis unfolds that threatens to dismantle your company&#8217;s reputation, social media monitoring can support you in providing real-time monitoring and help you to stay on top of conversations before they become a full-scale crisis.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>4. Track viral success<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/viral-success.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-95469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/viral-success.jpg\" alt=\"viral-success\" width=\"549\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/viral-success.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/viral-success-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/viral-success-450x268.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/viral-success-500x298.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most PRs the goal is not just about securing traditional media coverage, it&#8217;s about creating content that will potentially go viral. Social media monitoring provides you with metrics needed to measure engagement ranking, social media followers, and the number of people who are commenting on your content on channels like Twitter. Most importantly social media monitoring helps you to demonstrate ROI on your campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>5. Identify trends<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trends2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-95470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trends2017.jpg\" alt=\"trends2017\" width=\"569\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trends2017.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trends2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trends2017-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/trends2017-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we come towards the end of the year, perhaps it&#8217;s time to think about the trends that will have the most impact in the near future. With social media now leading way for most trends, using monitoring tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/pr-software\/media-monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vuelio<\/a> can support you in planning future campaigns that integrate\u00a0these new trends. Through being\u00a0given advanced insights, you will have the edge over your competitors which will put you in good stead for 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most PRs monitoring online conversations, knowing what your customers are looking for, responding to complaints, or engaging with audiences on social media <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":95096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[865,184,7272,3729,3734],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100459,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95081\/revisions\/100459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}