Social Media Time Management

Social Media Time Managementfor business managers

Speaker Introduction
Axel Schultze is the founder and president of the Social Media Academy. He is an author, chaired groups in industry associations and won the SF Entrepreneur Award in 2008. He is also CEO of Xeequa, the creator of XeeSM.
Axel SchultzePresident
XeeSM.com/AxelS

Agenda
The shift in customer behavior in all aspects of business
Making sense out of all that - by finding your very own customers
Understand where to look and what to look for in the social web
Being able to define how much time is well spend - how much is wasted
Creating your own social presence
Dealing with the social web regardless if your company has a strategy or not

Shift in customer behavior

Why social media IS business
The most asked question: “Has anybody experience with…”
60%-80% of purchases are based on recommendations. A business need to be part of that “recommendation chain”
The second most searched term: “I have problems with…”
Over 80% of user problems are solved in groups. Businesses need to be part of that service circle.
New products are primarily discussed in the social web – not based on a TV commercial.
Product management need to understand the dynamics in the social web
Future buying trends are discussed in social media – here and now
Logistics managers need to understand how to identify influencer and read trends early on

Social media is where customers meet customers forexperience, skill development, failure prevention…

How many still engage today
The current way of doing business:
Buy contact lists, do mail shots
From small Google ads to bill boards
Augment lead generation with cold calls
Qualify, engage, try selling …
Compete harder then ever – lower profits than ever
Lead flow dried out
The previous slide indicated: A brand decision is made before a sales process even began.
A huge disconnect between company and market

A shoe dealer gets bought for $800 Million
Tony Hsieh (CEO) brought Zappos from $1.6Million in 2001 close to$ 1 Bn in revenue by 2008 – It’s NOT an e-commerce success storybut a customer experience / social media success story.

Making sense out of all that - by finding your very own customers

Finding your customers
You can get professional and setup tools like Techrigy, Scoutlabs, Radian6 and many others.
You can also start simply by taking your customer list and look them up in LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare, YouTube, Flickr, find their blogs and groups and communities they post and comment on topics.
If you have a good relationship with them just ask them. Check out XeeSM and ask them to tell you.

Socialize
Let’s assume you have 50 customers it takes about 1-2 minutes to socialize.
Tweet about something they care or they may need
Write something on their wall
Respond to their posts or comments
Understand what is important to them
If you have 500 customers you care about, you will need tools to manage to connections.
In any case you don’t WASTE time by surfing around and chatting with random people. You focus on your important relationships.
Allocate 10% of the time you are investing in the eco system for new connections.

Being able to define how much time is well spend - how much is wasted

The social media time sink
Time well invested
Conversations with your customers
Introducing them to important people
Searching for relevant connections
Providing links to important stories
Blogging about your experience and subject matter expertise
Exposing as much as possible about you and your professional and private life
Time wasted
Surfing around and reading stuff that “may be” interesting – (social media lottery)
Connecting with as many people as possible
“Selling and marketing” in the social web

The customer care oxymoron
Customer service people spend on average 20% with customers and 80% with “their other work”
Only the very best sales people spend more than 10% of their available time with the customer. The rest is seeking new customers, trying to connect, preparation, reporting, travel…
Product managers spend on average 2% of their time with the request group and 98% with processes, definitions, reviews, launches…
_____________
With the social web you can grow your efficiency easily by 100%
Moving from “tele sales” to “social sales” for example is on average a 100% gain in effectiveness and 500% increase in efficiency

First Social Relationship Manager

Creating your own social presence

It takes time to develop a social graph
What you wrote on your resume you write on your LinkedIn profile – not a big deal – not of great value
The network you create (your social graph) and the activities over that network is of outmost importance
Do you have recommendations on LinkedIn?
Do you have a blog exposing your subject matter expertise?
Do you have twitter conversations with other experts?
Are you quoted and commented or recommended on other blogs?
It may take a few month to get there.

It’s not time “spend” but time “invested”
Brush up your LinkedIn profile
Photo, recommendations, join groups and discuss. (15 min a day)
Create a Facebook fan page
Encourage people to post their experience(20 minutes a week)
Get up on Twitter
Photo (not logo), real name, bio, be selective who you follow and maintain dialogs(15 minutes a day)
Create / boost your blog
Blog about your subject matter expertise (30-60 minutes a week)
Present your business on SlideShare
Consider YouTube, Flickr, Social bookmarks, XeeSM, and others

Dealing with the social web regardless if your company has a strategy or not

My company is not ready for that
We have no budget
We have no resources
We have no plan
We are way to busy (with your success?)
Act or die
I don’t know of anybody who was fired by acting and developing a positive drive.
I know many who never understood why they got replaced at some point sometimes after 5 or 10 years.

What you can do – with or without exec buy-in
Invest some time and understand the new dynamics of the social web
Check where your customers are
Connect with them
Check where your prospects are
Connect with them
Check partners, alliances, suppliers, influencers… and engage
Care, converse, help, ask for help…
Allocate a random hour for this every day and consider it an INVESTMENT. Once you see a success, you will spend as much as you can.

Purpose – Objective - Execution
Skip the strategy part fore now (seriously)
Write down the purpose of your engagement
Create a better customer experience
Write down your objectives
50 of my customers talk about our products within the next 3 month.
Write down what you want to do every day (execution)
Connect with all customers, prospects, partners…
Have a conversation with 50 every day
Meet them on Facebook, Twitter in LinkedIn groups

Building a successfulSocial Media Engagement Programfor your or your clients business

Social Media AcademyLeadership Class

The Core of the Social Media Academy
Cross functional business approach
Social media assessment method
Social media strategy framework
Functional social media in sales, marketing, support, HR, logistics, product development
Tools, places & communities
Detailed presence & execution plan
Reporting & analytics
Budgets, resources, ROI
Corporate organization strategy
Consulting & team building
MethodsModelsFrameworks

Some of the key methodologies (5 out of 7)
Four Quadrant Assessment Methodology
Customer, Brand, Partner, Competition
Hexagon Strategy Framework
Goals, Mission, Benefits, Action, Programs, Reporting
NCP Model
Network – Contribution – Participation
ComStar Organization Model
A Social Media Service Architecture
Advocacy Driven Engagement Model
Advocacy is the currency for customer satisfaction and business success

Leadership Class Details
Leadership Class for Certified Social Media Strategists
Entrance Examination (required)
September 16 – October 30
Every Wednesday and Friday
8:00 am – 10:00 am
All sessions are instructor lead online classes
US Morning Session 08:00 AM (PST)
EU Session starting 17:00 (CET)
AU Session starting 10:00 AM Sydney Time
Classes are 20 – 25 people max
Leadership Class, $3,195 /AU$3,920 / £1,960*
Admission at: http://www.socialmedia-academy.com payment: paypal or credit card
* = Gold Member

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Social Media Academy Team
Axel Schultze
Marita Roebkes
John Todor
Adrienne Corn
Walter Adamson
Kevin Mannion

ThankYou
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About
The Social Media Academy is an education and research institute providing education for business professionals from all industries on how to best apply social media to their respective businesses. The main emphasis is to help business managers and consultant to get a comprehensive education on Social Media, including strategy development, planning, execution, tools, resources ways to report and analyze development and success and help understand the evolutionary changes in our society. As part of the educational development, the Social Media Academy conducts research exploring the ongoing changes in the field and support the continuous learning process as well as monitor ongoing changes in the field.
The main course is the institute’s leadership class which focuses on how to plan, implement and engage with social media in all business areas including marketing, sales, product development, service & support, logistics, administration and engineering.
The Social Media Academy is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information go to http://www.socialmedia-academy.com

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