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Quora Blogs

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What is Quora Blogs?

Quora headquartered in Mountain View, California now offers Blogs on Quora to replace their previous Board system, providing site users with a blogging platform.

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Quora Blogs - Giving a platform to interact with our customers and more importantly, the genuine people.

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Chandrabhan SinghView profile
Assistant General Manager in Engineering at Airports Authority of India (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Quora Blogs gives you the platform to interact with an authentic customer base.
  • It is used for addressing the issue more clearly. Writing an article clarifies a lot of things.
  • The real-time interaction on the comments gives you a direct linkage to know the customers better.

Cons

  • Quora Blogs is ideal for streamlined blogs. It is not convenient for multi-topics single user type Blog.
  • It has definitely not developed a good marketing strategy to reach out to more users.
  • Many times Quora Blogs searches fail to address my issue directly. Searches could be built better.

Return on Investment

  • Positive - Customer Feedbacks using Social Media Interaction
  • Positive - User Authenticity gives us great targeting and ultimately good customer satisfaction.
  • Negative - Over-reliability on the data cause us more harm on the operational basis.

Alternatives Considered

Medium and LinkedIn Publishing Platform

Other Software Used

Medium, LinkedIn Publishing Platform, Twitter Ads, Facebook for Business

The answer to any question is in Quora

Darrell ReynoldsView profile
Sales Manager in Information Technology at Ovi Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • I like a lot of interesting topics, I have signed many of them.
  • I also like that I can help people. I often go to the questions tab and answer them.
  • Quora can help you find answers to any questions.
  • I share my experience.

Cons

  • I would like the Quora interface to be more understandable to the beginner.
  • Many authors are not experienced or are still too young.
  • Many answers to questions are comic or wrong.

Return on Investment

  • None, since I use this service for personal purposes.

Alternatives Considered

Yammer, Opzi and Rypple

Other Software Used

TeamViewer, Adobe Photoshop, UberConference, Microsoft Office 2016, Shopify

Quora Blogs - a personalized and authentic portal for your daily feed.

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Homdipa SahaView profile
Quality Ambassador in Customer Service at Zomato (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Users are verified. The full profile is verified by many sources!
  • Tags in the blogs are used to identify the topics one is interested in.
  • Freedom to write anything. Readers accept many things written on blogs. It's a huge freedom.

Cons

  • Deep knowledge is not on Quora Blogs. One gets the overview only.
  • It is not a single specialized source. If tech, one would follow Stack Overflow instead of Quora Blogs.
  • Old posts are still circulated currently, which should be modified.

Return on Investment

  • Positive: Gives induction program for new batches an easy module
  • Positive: Reduced Induction Time
  • Negative: Too much wastage of time. New employees invest too much time.

Alternatives Considered

Tumblr and LinkedIn

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Publishing Platform, Tumblr, Facebook for Business

Pros and Cons of quora blogs

RANDHIR KUMARView profile
UI Designer in Information Technology at ANS Commerce (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Customer Interaction is direct
  • Diverse views in the comment section
  • People also share their personal experience through blogs that are related to my domain

Cons

  • Advertising - not many people know about it
  • Generic view, people would have to follow some dedicated websites rather than using blog
  • Verification is solely based on social profile

Return on Investment

  • Positive : CRM investment decreases a little bit.
  • Positive : Good delivery rate of products
  • Negative : Too much priority on quora blogs is not good for a good customer feedback database

Alternatives Considered

Twitter Ads and Facebook for Business

Other Software Used

Twitter Ads, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, Facebook for Business

Feedback for quora blog

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Sumit JainView profile
Graduate Engineering Trainee in Engineering at Larsen & Toubro (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Question - Answer platform which helped solving many user's queries
  • Can follow only related topics one needed
  • Trending Topics

Cons

  • Should be a rating system of answers
  • Followers or upvotes should be unbiased

Return on Investment

  • It gives you an edge on skills and growth.
  • Blogging

Alternatives Considered

Tumblr and Blogger

Other Software Used

Twitter Counter, Facebook for Business