Starbucks: Blogs are not just for website marketing
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October 12th 2009
Social Media Optimisation News
Companies should approach blogs as a customer
relationship management tool as much as a website marketing channel, it has been claimed.
Blogs can enable companies to learn things from their
customers, according to the vice-president of brand,
content and online at Starbucks Chris Bruzzo.
Speaking to the Seattle Post Intelligencer, he explained
that a blog can help a company to forge relationships
with customers, rather than being constant website
promotion.
Mr Bruzzo told the newspaper that a blog can "only go so
far" as a marketing tool.
He added: "If you approach it as a customer relationship
and as a multi-faceted human connection between
Starbucks and customers, then we can have more than a
conversation about products.
"It can be a customer-insight channel and we can learn
things from them."
Web Worker Daily's Dawn Foster recently warned that
search engine optimisation (SEO) can only do so much to
boost interest in a company blog.
She explained that unless a website blog has interesting
content on it, users are unlikely to stick around in
order to bring any search engine optimisation (SEO) benefit.