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We have a brand new white paper online on the topic Brands need People and People need Brands: How social analytics benefit consumers while protecting their privacy.

Using new social tools, consumers can decide, what information they want to reveal to the advertisers and what to keep private. For marketers and advertisers, this is a unique opportunity. They can concentrate on promoting their products and services to those who have already shown interest to them.

In the white paper, we analyze ways of making marketing relevant and useful for the end users. This can be done by targeting the Alpha users, the most influential persons in a social network.

We list six topics to consider when planning social analytics:

1. Provide simple opt-out
2. Inform users on data usage
3. Protect customer information
4. Respect industry guidelines
5. Let users control their privacy
6. Advertise to youth with care

The white paper also presents, how mobile operators can use Xtract Social Links to find effectively the targets for marketing campaigns. The Product Marketing Module for Xtract Social Links can bring this power to targeting specific products effectively to the influential users.

Did you find the white paper useful? Was there something missing? All feedback is welcome!

Download the white paper here.

With Xtract Social Links Base, the foundation of Xtract Social Links, you can find the generic Alpha Users. These influencers are the most connected customers in the social network, especially great for customer understanding and feedback, but not directly related to any products. But what if you want to advertise two different products to Alpha Users: one about Mobile TV and a second one about push e-mail? Or, here’s another option, what if you wanted to advertise a new 12 months contract with cheaper rates to those about to churn, and a contract to those with a lot of connections outside the operator’s customer base? Xtract Social Links add-on modules enable you to find specific Alpha Users:

• Product Alphas are the influencers who have a highest probability to buy a specific product, the most receptive neighbours to this product and the highest effect on the product penetration rate.
• Churn Alphas are the customers who have a highest probability to leave the operator and take neighbours with them, so the ones you will want to keep at all prices.
• Acquisition Alphas are the customers who have the most connections to people outside the operator’s network, therefore the best to target for new customer acquisition campaigns.

Once you have the Alpha Users to target, you can for example create one or several personalised campaigns based on your segmentation. Read more about these add-on modules on the Xtract Social Links page.