Digital Identity: Know What you Look Like to Customers

Does the marketplace know who you are? Check out these key ideas in understanding the importance of keeping up with your digital identity. 

1. Situational Awareness: The retail empire has undergone an overhaul. More than ever, savvy businesses are wising up to the power of digital identity—of creating a presence in the social network medium. Word of mouth is less about rubbing elbows with the folks we find ourselves sitting next to at a diner. Instead, everyone’s sitting in a coffee shop with their laptops open and connecting to each other through social media. Word of mouth has now become the click of a button labeled “share”, “like”, or “tweet”.

1. Respect the danger in neglect: As retailers grapple for consumer attention, underestimating the power of this digitized marketplace can put you in a position where your visibility becomes eclipsed by other businesses. This is about perspective and viewing a passive attitude towards social media presence as a threat to the very backbone of your company.  Prioritize that your digital presence rings loud and clear in declaring that you are open for business as though your livelihood depends on it, because nowadays it actually does.

1. Take action, and delegate it before you shortchange it: Understand the scope of what it means to maintain an ongoing connection with potential customers. This includes an enduring stream of written posts, images, and the like. Realistically, this is a job in itself, so if you don’t already have a designated team member in your business to take the helm, you may very well need to. If you need to be your own marketer, though, tap into the many resources available that can help you get the job done well.

The beauty of this digitized shopping world is that mom and pop stores can run in the same league as chain store giants. “Bigger is better” is not so relevant anymore because the size of your storefront doesn’t count the way it used to. The magnitude of your presence is at your command; you can attract however much attention you want, as long as you learn how to navigate the various social platforms available and present a digital identity that will turn heads.

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