3-7: Experience the Product or Service One of a website’s most useful contributions may
be the vivid information it provides about a firm’s
goods and services—how they work, how to use
them, and where they can be obtained.
Ask students: How often do they use YouTube to
find demonstrations of how to use products or
services?
3-8: Engage the Customer By encouraging the use of social media tools
such as blogging and microblogging, firms ensure
that customers actively engage with the firm’s
products, services, and their own social networks.
Positively engaged consumers tend to be more
profitable consumers, purchasing 20 to 40 percent
more than less engaged customers.
Dave Carroll, a traveling musician whose guitar
was roughly handled by United baggage
handlers, was also closely engaged (in a negative
manner) with the company and other users.
3-9: Check Yourself 1. Excite the Customer, Educate the Customer,
Experience the Product or Service, and
Engage the Customer.
2. Best social media elements:
a. Excite the Customer—social networks
like Facebook and Google +
b. Educate the Customer—blogs and
blogging tools (e.g., WordPress and
Twitter), HubSpot (all-in-one marketing
software), YouTube, and Google +
c. Experience the Product or Service—
YouTube, blogs, and retailer’s website,
d. Engage the Customer—blogging and
microblogging.