Ignite Social Media Founder & President Jim Tobin and special guests Anita Root and Josh Gunderson from Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group give us an in-depth view of how they are using social media marketing to drive revenue and retain loyal customers.
This webcast teaches us:
- How to grow your communities by targeting and acquiring qualified fans and followers
- How to develop a content strategy that will engage and mobilize your communities
- How to turn your communities into revenue platforms
2. Presenters
Jim Tobin
Anita Root
Joshua Gunderson
Founder, President
Ignite Social Media
@jtobin
Director, Member
Communication and Engagement
Club Carlson - Americas
Manager, Campaigns and
Communications
Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group
#SocialRev
6. 5 Priorities for Social Media
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5.
Create Brand Awareness
Evolve Brand Perception
Engage Customers Directly
Foster Loyalty
Generate Revenue
#SocialRev
7. PRIORITIES
STRATEGIES
KPIs
Create Brand
Awareness
Leverage Social
Channels and
Industry
Influencers
Total Fans
Total Organic
Impressions
Evolve Brand
Perception
Engage Customers
Directly
Bring Brand to
Life with
Engaging Content
for Target Market
Foster Loyalty
Drive Revenue
Drive
Engagement via
Social Campaigns
and Promotions
Average Post
Virality
Average Post
Engagement Rate
Revenue
28. Thank you.
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Editor's Notes
Jim: Tell us about Club Carlson and how you fit into the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group?Carlson: Answer.Jim: And being a part of this larger group provides a distinct advantage for Club Carlson and your social media marketing efforts…Carlson: talk about how the other brands impact reach of social media marketing efforts
Jim:Jim to Anita: Anita, tell us about your roleJim to Josh: And your role Josh?
Talk about how each Carlson brand has it’s own objectives. How this fits into Carlson Rezidor’s overall social media marketing prioritiesClub Carlson is an umbrella to drive
revenue from Promoted Posts accounted for 29% of all revenue generated on Facebook.Posts with revenue driving links launched on the same day as a Promoted Post also assisted in generating revenue .Promoted posts play and will continue to play an important role in generating online revenue for Club Carlson.We’ve done “X” promoted posts
Percentage of online bookings vs tradition. (with out disclosing specifics). Could it be true that FB is contributing as a larger driver of bookingsNow that online booking is the norm – what’s next? Social media.
What Carlson is doing is working – let’s talk to you about why and how
Here’s how we think about Revenue in terms of facebookWhat’s working? What hasn’t worked? Why? How has your strategy evolved?
What types of content are you posting on the Club Carlson Facebook Page? How does this support your goals?Organic vs. Promoted Posts How do you measure success?
As a measure of content effectiveness, we look at virality and engagement rates to indicate the level of fan involvement in content published on Facebook.On average Promoted Posts had an 800% increase in reach over the quarterly average.Revenue from Promoted Posts accounted for 29% of all revenue generated on Facebook.Club Carlson fans are more engaged than ever before. From Q4 2012, Club Carlson’s Facebook page had a 38% rise in average daily reach and 116% in social actions.
What’s working? What hasn’t worked? Why? How has your strategy evolved?
What types of tweets are most successful
Increased tweeting cadence and follower engagement in Q1 2013 contributed to a 234% rise in impressions over Q4.
Promotions work because of your content mix – not just asking people to book, book, book…
“I’m a Fan” and Triple Points Returns drove 15% more net new fans than all of 2012 combined.Based on Q1 engagement and virality rates , which stayed consistent with the huge spike in fans, shows that “I’m A Fan” drove quality fans that have and will continue to interact with the Club Carlson page.Highest fan growth occurred during programs. It is important to have a consistent cadence of programs and promotions moving forward in order to keeps fans engaged and grow the overall fan base.
Talk about Fan Growth. Jim: What caused this spike in Fan Growth?Answer:Two of our programs which we’ll delve into more deeply in a little bit drove 15% more net new fans than all of 2012 combined.Fan growth delivered qualified, targeted fans to Club Carlson.Josh and Anita: talk about fan growth and how it impacts reach – more fans may mean reach isn’t as high initially – this is why you want quality fans: you don’t just want the numbers to increase and engagement to decrease.
There are “traditional” promotions and in order to make those work we have to leverage our other channels and assets
Moving forward, we will create “Hybrid” categories, using a combination of engagement types (left column) and content topics (right column) in each and every post.Posts will include engagement techniques to create conversation and links based on the content topics to generate revenue and lead users to Carlson Rezidor websites. The Engagement category had the highest engagement & virality numbers, but the Promotions category generated the most revenue.
You surpassed a lot of expectations – Do you have any pressures from higher-ups to drive revenue? Do they understand that content mix and other elements play into this? Customer service elements. the more fans and the more engaged fans we are seeing a huge pay-off with revenue dividends
Hard to set a goal for since this is new and always changing