Listening and Monitoring in Social Media: American Marketing Association

+ Engagement in Social Networks Angela Hausman, PhD Hausman and Associates American Marketing Association; Associate Professor of Marketing August, 2011 Howard University

+ Agenda  Why Study Social Networks/ Social Media?  What Are Social Networks?  How Social Networks Differ From Social Media? Brand Communities?  Method  What is Engagement and Why Its Important?  What are the Challenges of Engagement?  Engagement Marketing Paradigm?  Future Directions American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Why Study Social Networks ? Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal communications tool for young people into a new vehicle that business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction Bill George, CEO Medtronics American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Why Study Social Networks ?  Magnitude  750 Million Facebook Users  300 Million Twitters  100 Million LinkedIn members (Branson, 2010)  30 Million Google+ users in 3 weeks (Mashable, 2011)  Consumers are happier with Facebook pages than company websites (Freed, 2010)  Declining effectiveness of traditional media (Maddox, 2008) American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Why Social Networks (cont)  Positive results (Steltzner, 2010)  Brand awareness  Website traffic  Leads  Reduced costs  Enact roles  Share information  Answer questions  Cheerleaders for brand  Evangelists American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ What are social networks?  Social Networks involve a pinball game where “companies serve up a „„marketing ball‟‟ (brands and brand-building messages) into a cacophonous environment, which is then diverted and often accelerated by new media „„bumpers,‟‟ which change the offering‟s course in chaotic ways.” (Hennig- Thoreau, 2010)  Firms don‟t control the message (Hoffman and Fodor, 2010)  Two way interactions looking like Friendships American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ How Social Networks Differ from Social Media  Consumers use social networks to create value  Connection, community  Entertainment  Information  Celebrity  Social networks differ from virtual or brand communities  Social media is a fusion of (Branson, 2010):  Advertising  Public Relations  Customer Service  Brand monitoring  Brand management American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Research Questions  What is engagement in social spaces?  How can firms manage engagement in social spaces?  Tensions between commercial and non-commercial elements in social spaces?  Dangers of Social Media? American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Method  Netnography of Social Media Blogs  Google Alerts < 100k Alexa  4 months 4760 posts  Strategic rather than tactical focus  Interviews  1-3 hours  Online interviews in open networks – G+  Agencies, corporate bloggers  Participant Observation  http://hausmanmarketresearch.org  1+ years -- 100+ visitors/day American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ What is Engagement?  Engagement  consumer to consumer interactions  Amplify message beyond traditional word of mouth  Heart of the relationship between consumers and brands  Authentic relationships (http://liminal.razorfish.com/?page_id=13)  Purchase behavior is a social process (Rosen, 2000)  Engagement builds affinity and people buy from people they like (Odden, 2011) American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Engagement Requires Different Communication Style  Not just tools and technology  Understand the art, the environment and how you can fit in.  Build your own community, but also be able to successfully grab the attention of your audiences authentically and via relationships.http://socialmediatoday.com/pammoore/258004/2011-predictions-top-12- reasons-businesses-will-fail-social- media?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Social+Media+Today+(all+p osts) American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Engagement and its Benefits  Write blog entries, provide quality content, analyze Google analytics, update Twitter and Facebook accounts  More unique visitors  More time on site  More leads  More positive comments on search engines  Increase in Google indexing  Augmented online branding (Mike, Community Manager) American Marketing Association, August, 2011

Social Network Hierarchy of Effects Awareness Attraction Liking Phase --------------------------------------- Engagement ParticipationRelationship Phase Community ---------------------- Evangelism Loyalty Phase

+ Engagement Drives Hierarchy of Effects  Engaged Fans/Followers enact roles  Engagement drives consumers down the hierarchy  Having a website not enough  Organize social graph  Make messages attractive, valuable, and easy to share  Go where your target market lives online  Processes driving hierarchy:  SEO, SMM create awareness  Engagement encourages trust and relationship  Engaged fans share, create, promote – more engaged fans  Increasing recognition – loyalty and evangelism American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Increasing Engagement  4 Elements (Nambisan and Baron, 2009)  Cognitive/ learning  Social  Hedonic  Status  Transform commercial messages into social messages (Kozinets, et al. 2010)  Self-disclosure  Expressiveness  Interaction  Reciprocity (Arnould and Price, 1999) American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Tension Between Commercial and Relational Aspects of Relationships  Engagement must create value for consumers  Through user-generated content (Henning-Thoreau, 2010)  Objective, credible information (Brown and Reingen, 1987)  Solutions  Engagement creates company value (Henning-Thoreau, 2010)  Create and watch YouTube videos  Post and comment on blogs  Tweet about the brand and RT brand messages  Discuss the brand on Facebook  Engagement must influence purchase behavior American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Gift Economy  The point is to regularly put up new, fresh engagement features that are easy and fun for users to interact with, that they will want to post to their wall and share with their friends. Then users will interact with your brand just like they interact with their friends on Facebook! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_most_facebook_marketing_doesnt_workp2.php  people share content, expertise, and experience with everyone – without cost. It is a form of information commerce, with creation and curation of content. They also launched a mobile app to bring that experience to anyone anywhere. Their idea is to earn social capital by making a contribution to the wider community of small business owners (Solis, 2010) American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Decommodification  Imagine this. Stefano posts to his Facebook that he just had the most delicious cookie he‟s ever eaten. His friends comment and say, really, where can we get them? Stefano is probably going to answer them, but you come in as a representative of the brand and say here‟s a link to our website where you can find out all about our cookies, they‟re great, here‟s a coupon, yum, yum. Now, there‟s a good chance that the conversation is over because your response looks like spam and it feels a little like you were spying on their private chat. (Even though Facebook is far from private.) Using the Watkins method, you could email Stefano and offer him a free box of cookies for him and five friends. Now Stefano himself is going to mention your generosity and ask who wants free cookies? Me! Me! Me! That conversation is going to continue and when everyone gets the free cookies, they‟re going to talk about it on their Facebook pageshttp://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2011/03/turning-social-media-followers-into-brand- evangelists.html DC Marketing Colloquium; April, 2011

+ Engagement is A Two-Edged Sword  Using social media as a channel to spread commercial messages can damage the brand (Kozinets, et al. 2010)  Using social media takes time and skill  Customer empowerment highlights the nightmare reality of the broken relationships between consumers and brands.. http://adage.com/cmostrategy/article?article_id=145996  Other aspects of marketing must be optimized first (http://businessinsider.com/ hot-to-make-money-with-facebook). American Marketing Association, August, 2011

+ Conclusion and Future Research  Strategic shift from traditional view of online community  Inherent recognition of the person-ness of network users  Not a conduit for commercial messages and commerce  Requires different language and behaviors  Rights of users to self-organize and control their environment  Non-transactional behaviors create value  Acceptance of the gift economy  Rejects commodification of social networks American Marketing Association, August, 2011

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