How to Weave Social Marketing into your Word of Mouth Marketing Programs

How to Weave Social Marketing into your Word of Mouth Marketing programs July 2009 Sarah Hofstetter Vice President Emerging Media & Client Strategy 212.703.7220 [email_address] Twitter: @Pezmeister1

What we’ll discuss in the next 45 minutes
Provide a framework for establishing a set of clear objectives and strategy when approaching social marketing.
Move beyond the checklist approach and offer a filter for evaluating the myriad opportunities and platforms.
Encourage thinking of social marketing as an opportunity to have a continuous, valuable exchange with customers.
Advance discussions on amplifying marketing results through the integration of social marketing and offline campaigns

Jeff Bezos - Chairman, Amazon “ A brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room”

People talk about you when you’re not in the room Playground Water Cooler Bar Starbucks

What’s different now? There’s a newer bigger room

The Internet delivers tremendous scale to WOM Around the office: Linear Progression Around the Internet: One click = instant audience

Brands are online – with or without you Awareness Advocacy Loyalty Brands have an unprecedented opportunity to converse with their customers and drive deeper connections

So what are you going to do about it? OR Listen & Participate Cover Your Ears and Pretend It’s Not Happening

Social marketing playbook helps you figure it out Download at www.360i.com/playbook

Don’t fall into this trap!

Game plan for success in social marketing

Training to Win

The Internet is a real-time focus group *KCI: Key Conversation Indicators SM Purchase Consideration
KCIs SM * assess quality and quantity of conversations online
May include:
Sentiment
Favorability
Topics of conversation
Categorical analysis
Audience aggregation
Social media activities by demographic
Relative chatter
Brand Health Scorecard

Audit: What’s the competition doing? Social media investments by competitive brands… … and what people thought of it
Look at your brand and your competitor’s brands to understand:
What is your current social footprint?
How are your competitors and industry approaching social media?
Glean actionable consumer insights that can inform future social marketing endeavors

Developing a Game Winning Strategy

Let’s evaluate opportunities by asking 4 questions SOCIAL MARKETING STRATEGIC LENS Does it meet our marketing objectives? Does it use our social media arsenal? Does it follow social media best practices? What is the value exchange between consumer & brand?

Establishing an architecture to tie communities together will maximize online conversations HUB & SPOKE APPROACH With new hub HUB & SPOKE APPROACH With your brand as hub MATRIX / INTERCONNECTED Without central destination Note: Example architectures for discussion purposes only Existing Asset Global Marketing New Asset Existing Asset New Asset Existing Asset New Asset

Finding your voice in social spaces
No one voice will do
For each environment, we measure against the arsenal and the goals
Options could include:
Voices throughout the food chain
Voices for each brand/product
Voices from your citizens – part of the brand ambassador program

Develop your game-winning strategy
Apply listen + audit to create a plan that will engage the target audience with the right messaging at the most relevant moment
Build a unifying theme that will create deep engagement with consumers to reach objectives
Build communications & promotions plan

The Arenas

Social platforms command growing audiences Viewers Users Readers

Brands have harnessed the arenas Coca-Cola Super Bowl Ad Syndication Amplify Content via Video Syndication Nat Geo Channel on Twitter Sprite Step Off Social Program NBC across blogosphere

Adapting the execution to the objective Client: H&R Block Objective: CRM Client: National Geographic Objective: Tune-In

Building your fan base

Integrating with traditional marketing Integrate with Offline Digital Word of Mouth Igniting Distribution Branded Integration

Customized Outreach yield rich results

Social marketing can be used to promote offline initiatives TV Ads Events Petition Drive-to-Store

Firing up the Fans

Build deeper relationships Nurture Communities Co-Created Environments Branded Communities By the fans, for the fans

Preventing & Managing Social Marketing Fumbles

Motrin had quite the headache….

What could Motrin have done? Channel the Conversation Online buzz monitoring is different than focus groups Keep an ear close to the ground to understand brand perception, competitive landscape…

Case Study: Listening helped inform NBC and make quick decisions during crises April 19, 2007 April 26, 2007 How bad is the damage to 30 Rock? Only 9% of Alec Baldwin blog posts mention “30 Rock” … of that, only 12% said they’d never watch 30 Rock again Season Finale

Keeping Score

What to measure with social media ROI All can be tracked over time to gauge trends

Measure against KCIs & KPIs
Sample KCIs SM :
Volume of interactions with content
Volume of user generated content
Brand sentiment
Other:
Benchmarking
Ties to brand health metrics
Traffic & links
Branding metrics
Custom scorecard
Branding studies
eCPM
Custom Social Media Scorecard Action Weighting* Impression 1x View video 20x Click through 30x Rate video 20x Share video 60x Embed video 60x Create video 100x Social Media Dashboard Reach Engagement Favorability Impressions Photos/Video Views Voting/Rating Comments Entries Content Creation Fans Likes Sentiment Purchase Intent

Establish baselines of quality & quantity chatter & then measure regularly Source: 360i analysis of YouTube Insights, Facebook Insights & Blogosphere SOURCE OF VIEWS % OF TOTAL Embedded Player 77.0 Related Videos 6.1 YouTube Other 5.6 Viral/Other 3.6 Advertising 2.1 Promoted Video 1.8 External Links 1.6 YouTube Search 0.87 Google Search 0.13 Demographics Viral Sourcing Buzz Monitoring Daily active listening can highlight potential problems with escalation plan in place

Measure the right things Questions to Answer Metrics to evaluate Who
Audience demographics and psychographics
How many people interacted
What
Engagement
Weighted scorecard based on objectives
Where
Audience aggregation
Brand-influenced chatter vs. organic chatter
When
Timing in conjunction with other campaign promotions
Why
Understanding what motivated the conversation or engagement, including volume, sentiment, and sphere of influence
How
Benchmarking
Setting baselines then measuring during and after campaign
Online surveys
Adapt traditional metrics

Summary
Social media commands a growing and influential audience who engage in conversations about your programming every day.
You can benefit from these conversations by facilitating them, listening, and getting involved where appropriate.
The first step is reviewing where target customers are and how they’re using these new sites and platforms.

Thank you!
Sarah Hofstetter
Vice President
Emerging Media & Client Strategy
212.703.7220
[email_address]
Twitter: @Pezmeister1
Get the full playbook at playbook.360i.com Keep up on trends at blog.360i.com Follow 360i on Twitter @360i

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