Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Building Very Good Stakeholder Relations

By Marcie Goodman


The stakeholders are probably the most important people to a corporation because it is these people who would hold up the corporation. In the long term, they are the ones who would affect the business and they might come in the form of investors, clients, or workers. So when one would run a corporation, his management team has to always make sure that the business has good stakeholder relations.

Now the best way to have good relationships with the stakeholders would be to apply some marketing strategies in order to please them. Because marketing is the bridge that would connect the business to the people, then the same tactics may actually. So if one does not how to do this, then here are some tips that may actually help.

The very first thing to do would be to do some market research on the target audience of the company. Now these people would include the shareholders, the business analysts, employees, suppliers, clients, and more. It may even include the government agencies and other government related entities that a business must be in good terms with.

Of course when the research has already been done, then it is important to put that research into action by using it to know how to communicate with them. Communication is very important in this case because without proper communication, stakeholders will not have a relationship with the business. The business on the other hand has to be the one to initiate.

Of course customer service is another form of communication that may be used in order to please the stakeholders. When the stakeholders would communicate with the company, they will obviously have to go through the front line which is the customer service. Customer service representatives have to be trained to know what to say in the event.

Now another form of communication would actually be social media and the internet. These days, businesses would actually make use of the internet entities or bodies in order to quickly update the people who are affecting the business. Of course the management may make use of blogs, social networking sites, and also websites in order to keep on updating the stakeholders.

Now aside from the internet and customer service, the management may actually also use the mass media in order to reach out to these stakeholders. Now it is for this very reason that the public relations team has to be very good because they will be dealing with the media or the press directly. The media can help build up the name of the company by making articles or stories about them.

So if a company would want to succeed in the long run, then they would have to make sure to have good stakeholder relations. Now when it comes to these types of relations, marketing tactics may be very helpful. As long as one follows some of these tips, then he will definitely be able to gain the favor of the stakeholders and actually lift up the corporation to become more successful.




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