GETHiTS
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Get Hits is a proudly South African Digital Marketing agency based in Cape Town. Our specialist team works closely with all of our clients, both locally and internationally, to get their websites thriving. The internet as a place for business and it is growing very fast, if you have just a small percentage of your market sector, you can have a profitable business. We will do all the research and identify all the online possibilities for your business, at affordable prices. Enquiring with us costs nothing and we’ll try to accommodate your budget and needs. Even if the majority of your sales don’t come from an online community it’s important to maintain an online presence. With that presence comes a community that will need to be maintained and interacted with. Online communities drive sales and boost brand reputation. Studies show that people are more likely to buy from someone they know or associate with than from a stranger which is why community participants at online auction sites both buy and sell more, generating on average 56% more in sales than non-community users. This is the case when you have a healthy community. But what happens when your community isn’t a healthy one? Some are good communities with fewer members and some are non-interactive communities with millions of members. The quality of your audience doesn’t depend on the numbers. It depends on whether that audience is not only interacting with you but also with each other. The best type of audience is the kind that knows enough about your brand to give advice to others when they ask. If your community is not active with you or each other then you will need to go back to the drawing board and figure out a way to entice them into participating. When you run a professional page or group you want to look like you know what you’re doing. Which is all fine and well, but there is no harm in trying to find out what your online community wants with things like polls and questionnaires. Having a poll once in a while to help you understand your audience is invaluable, and it shows your audience that you are taking the time to do the research you need in order to make their experience better. Just be careful not to get your audience’s hopes up and then leave them hanging. No matter what people say, they really only want a leader. They want you to take the initiative and give them what they need. Community members will come to you with some crazy ideas and it’s up to you to make the decision of whether that idea is viable for the community as a whole or if it just helps that one person. If it does only help that one person you now need to decide if complying with the request will impact the community in a negative way or if its ok to comply for the sake of helping that person. Remember that as a leader you need to do what is best for your community as a whole first. Remember that not everyone online has a hide as thick as a digital marketer, and they can be affected by something you may see as a non-issue. This rule applies to online communities across the board. If your community is centered around a business or news site then giveaways will work well. You want your community to be interactive with you because they like you not because you are giving them something. This only leads to a superficial relationship between content creator and audience, limiting the interaction they have with you. At the end of the day, how you interact with your audience is up to you. But just remember that no matter what your reason for starting or maintaining a community it will be a lot of hard work.