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The VALUE of Search and Social




   Gillian Muessig, President & Co-founder, SEOmoz
              GlobalEIM| November, 2011
ROI is a business metric,
not a media metric.



                            ROI
ROI is media agnostic
100%



                        ROI
Every resource has a cost




                            ROI
Non-financial
positive and negative KPIs
 Clicks, hits, complaints, CTR, press, content views,
brick and mortar store numbers, employment apps,
      FB friends, likes, comments, and shares,
blog comments, UGC submissions, social mentions,
       twitter followers, tweets and re-tweets




                                                    NOT ROI
You Get the Idea




                   NOT ROI
Those are non financial KPIs
          not ROI




                          NOT ROI
Financial ROI of Social Media




                                ROI
Average sales
before SMM
initiative




                ROI
Average sales
after SMM
initiative




                ROI
Before           After

Avg growth 10%   Avg growth 16%




                                  ROI
If your cost


                     <



       Increases receipts
                            ROI
You have achieved a
   positive ROI.




                      ROI
Ok. We’re done.
      Bye bye.




                  ROI
What?
You want more?

     Ok.



                 ROI
An increase in POSITIVE KPIs




                      Positive KPIs
Number of Customers




                      Positive KPIs
Average Dollar Value per Purchase




                            Positive KPIs
Customer Lifetime Value




                          Positive KPIs
Increased Average Margin




                           Positive KPIs
Decrease in returns




                      Negative KPIs
Decrease in customer complaints




                          Negative KPIs
Decrease in left over stock




                              Negative KPIs
Decrease in bad sentiment




                            Negative KPIs
Decrease in need for paid ads




                           Negative KPIs
Decrease in recalls or failed new products




                              Negative KPIs
Ok. NOW we’re done.
        Bye bye.




                      ROI
No. Wait. There’s more.




     Think more deeply about VALUE
LINKS: HOW WE GET AROUND
LINKS: VOTES OF POPULARITY
LINKS: A REALLY BAD SIGNAL
LINKS: A REALLY BAD SIGNAL
A BETTER SIGNAL




    SOCIAL SIGNALS ARE BETTER
NEWS EVENT
Users:   50mm   750mm       200mm   120mm      10mm




Users:   14mm    Millions       14mm        6.5mm


                            TWITTER: <60 SECONDS
22 MINUTES
RADIO: 1+ HOURS
TV: PM NEWS
TV: PM NEWS
SOCIAL SIGNALS
NEWS SOURCE




        FASTER DELIVERY
GOOGLE PIVOTS
IMMEDIACY
SENTIMENT
So what good is it to me?




                            ROI
FOCUS GROUPS ARE BOGUS
FOCUS GROUPS ARE UNCOMFORTABLE
YOU’RE NOT PARANOID
IT’S THE BEST WE HAD
REPLACES FOCUS GROUPS




   FASTER ANSWERS, LARGER DATASETS
CROWD SOURCING




Image credit: http://www.businessesgrow.com/2011/08/31/the-top-five-crowdsourcing-mega-trends/
FUND RAISING
                      WITHOUT
                     MIDDLEMEN



Image credit: http://www.psn.ie/parents_pa/other-fundraising-events.html
CROWD SOURCE SIMPLE TASKS
CROWD SOURCE SIMPLE TASKS
Involvement Marketing




       CROWD SOURCE MARKETING
ASK ME ANYTHING
What color do you feel like this morning?
What color do you feel like this morning?




                        A SIMPLE QUESTION
More than 1000 responses
      within 1 hour




          MARKETERS SOULS SING!
POETRY
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH IT?
HEADS UP, CORPORATE BUYERS!
INDUSTRIAL DECISIONS
ASK US; WE’LL TELL YOU
GET SOME PERSPECTIVE
MASS MARKETED PRODUCTS
OPM
INDUSTRIES IN NEED OF PIVOTING
SOME PEOPLE DON’T ASK
THOUGHT LEADERS
Apple - BMW




        Crowd source everything – R&D, improvements, innovations, marketing
        Governments, NPOs, for-profits




Basic Necessities - no need to crowd source around these, except perhaps marketing




  THOUGHT LEADERS DON’T ASK DIRECTIONS
FINAL THOUGHTS
ONLINE REPUTATION
The ROI of Social Media =
 Adjusted Gross Receipts
           less
    Cost of Initiative



                  FINAL THOUGHTS
The VALUE of
Social Media is much more




                 FINAL THOUGHTS
So how do I sell this to a client
        or my boss?



                                    ROI
Why should I spend money on SEO?




                               ROI
We’re all clicking on Organic SERPs
Paid

    <20% of
marketing budget




     >80% of
 marketing budget

Organic




                                                CTR
All the money is spent on Paid Ads
Paid

    88% of
marketing budget




     12% of
 marketing budget

Organic




                                               CTR
SEO represents a
 huge potential
     for ROI

                   CTR
Fine. But I do really need to be #1?




                                   ROI
Do I really have to rank #1?




                               CTR
How will I know SEO made me money?




                               ROI
Look for the lift




                    ROI
Yes! That lift!




                  ROI
PROMODO12

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• Email: gillian@seomoz.org

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Увеличение конверсии (in English) (The VALUE of Search and Social)

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  21. Sometimes, we don’t immediately see the applications for the products we build.
  22. Similarly, let’s take a look at the uses of Social Media.Remember links? They’re how the web is put together. Links are how bots travel from page to page, discover new ones.
  23. They were also the only way search engines decided which pages were ‘popular’ and worthy of the best placements on the SERPs
  24. But links are a really bad signal. Because, unless you’re name is Rand or Evan Fishkin, your Mama doesn’t link. In 2001, even fewer people knew how to link.
  25. Only a select few techies linked to anything, so it was easy to ‘game’ popularity.
  26. Social media signals serve as better signals of what’s important to searchers and what local, regional, and global societies are thinking about.
  27. When Michael Jackson died,
  28. …twitter carried the news around the world within seconds. It took Google 22 minutes to get the information to rank at the top of the SERPs for queries on the term, ‘Michael Jackson’. Radio broadcast it within the hour. TV reported it on the evening news. And newspapers carried stories in the morning press.
  29. It was clear who ruled the news that day.
  30. Social media delivers news faster than any other resource our world has ever known.
  31. You know what was really amazing about that event? Within 72 hours, the behemoth corporation, Google showed amazing agility and pivoted ‘on a dime’, as it were. They incorporated social signals into the algorithm and began to track
  32. Immediacy and
  33. An sentiment in a big way. They never turned back
  34. Image credit: http://www.careerealism.com/network-offensive/and
  35. Similarly, focus groups are a really bad signal. How many of you have ever participated in a focus group as an attendee or run one as a marketer?
  36. They’re weird, right? From a marketer’s standpoint, they are WAY too small. Unless your customer base is about 100 people, a focus group of 10 is just a joke. We’re playing games with ourselves when we convince ourselves that this is a reliable sampling of… anythingFocus groups are uncomfortable. If you’ve ever experienced being in one, you know that you don’t really give your full, dispassionate opinion on the matter. You’re being watched. You’re being paid. You’re feeling awkward in the presence of the other members. One strong personality can skew the whole group who simply want to get away from him/her.
  37. …and you’re even more self conscious because you know you’re not paranoid in this case. You ARE being watched! The only other place that happens is at the police interrogation room or an insane asylum. No wonder these are bad signals.
  38. But hey, it was the best we had.
  39. Social media provides a platform to replace focus groups with much larger data sets, far better audience participation, and faster results.
  40. Enter: crowd sourcing
  41. Now, we can raise funds and donate to groups directly, without middlemen
  42. With MobileWorks and the much better known, MechanicalTurk, you can crowd source and outsource at the same time.
  43. Mechanical Turk is a job site, but you can get 1000 people to give you an opinion of a UI or product as easily as you can get a dozen to input data for your email campaigns.
  44. …and increasingly, marketers are turning to crowd sourcing to optimize the design, deployment, and ROI of their campaigns. Crowd Source Marketing is INVOLVEMENT MARKETING. You are involving your customers in your own marketing processes. You are giving them a voice in what you’ll build and sell to them. They help not only create, but market the product(s) for you as well.
  45. Now we can query hundreds and thousands of people about what they’d like from us and get changing answers in real time.
  46. Carefully, now” Note the choice of words… Not: what color do you like? Not: what color shirts do you want to buy? What COLOR do you FEEL like? Not: today, but THIS MORNING.
  47. When I saw this demonstration live, the presenter entered the question and refreshed the screen as dozens of answers came in within the first 7 seconds. Then he refreshed the screen periodically over the next 40 minutes of his presentation. But no one was listening to his presentation… they only wanted to see the increasing number of responses, moaning and gasping at the numbers as they rose into the hundreds and topped 1000.
  48. And the answers! Oh, the answers! Some were one-word only… blue. Green. Red. But many were poetic, florid, beautiful! ….lavender like the soft dawn before the sun rises over the horizon outside my window…. Baby blue, to match the eyes of my infant, sleeping in my lap as the dappled sun splashes warmth over us.
  49. Immediate gratification: if you said, “pink”, you’re in luck. All pink shirts and tops are 20% off on the Lane Bryant website. Don’t forget to use the code ‘pink’ when you check out.
  50. Mine the data – the Lane Bryant buyer will be placing orders for lavender bras and panties for next season!
  51. This kind of crowd sourcing is applicable to all kinds of industries. Vehicle manufacturers can determine what color cars will sell best, what features customers are missing in this year’s model that they can add to next year’s model. And what features no one cares about.
  52. Go ahead. Ask them anything. They’ll tell you what they want and even how much they are willing to pay for it.
  53. Now those of you who still have enough caffeine left over from this morning are thinking, “That’s all very interesting, Gillian. But customers don’t really know what they want. They want whatever new, shiny thing you put in front of them at an affordable price.
  54. And you’d be right. In many cases, people follow whatever trend is ‘out there’, because they follow the thought leaders, the fashion trend setters, and they’ll buy whatever you tell them is fashionable this year.
  55. The actor Danny DeVito played the role of a merger and acquisition trader in a film made at the end of the 20th century. He gave a wonderful speech that included a story about buggy whip manufacturers. He said, “I bet that the last buggy whip manufacturer on the planet was the best buggy whip manufacturer. But you wouldn’t have wanted to be an investor in that company. That entire industry was going to die no matter what you wished for.”
  56. Many industries don’t dream of crowd sourcing ideas around their product line. And it’s exactly these industries I’d urge to get involved as fast as humanly possible.
  57. I think there’s a huge role for crowd sourcing ideas around details, features, and specifications of your existing product lines. You can improve your chances of having things fly off your shelves while your competition takes a shot in the dark, spends huge amounts promoting the hell out of whatever they made, and hopes for the best.But some people don’t ask.
  58. When Steve Jobs died a couple of weeks ago, we took a moment to take stock of an amazing life, burned out early, as geniuses often do. Jobs really was a luminary in the field of inventors. He stands up there with the likes of Thomas Edison, R Buckminster Fuller, and Galileo. He saw a vision of the future that no one else could see. He didn’t ask his customer what they wanted. They couldn’t tell him, because they did not know what was possible.
  59. Some basic necessities simply don’t require crowd sourcing information. But, the more I think about those ‘basics’ – toilet paper, salt, concrete, grass seed, paint, socks – the more I can see ways for the manufacturers and/or the marketers of each of these products might benefit from asking some cogent questions of their customer and potential customer base.The large central swath of the products and services are well served by crowd sourcing answers to thoughtful questions about how customers use current products, what they wish for, related needs that might be met with new products, and more. Think of it as innovating based on a communication between designers, producers, and customers. It’s not a one way flow of information. Take responses in context. Answers are not non-negotiable edicts; they are input to be considered when making product and sales decisionsAnd Finally there’s the top triangle, in which you find the movers and shakers in the world of invention. While genius requires the ability to envision a future the rst of the world cannot envision, even in this arena, there are times when crowd sourcing – communicating with customers and Raving Fans – can improve a brilliant product. BMW has a famous case study around using social media to engage its most ardent fans to share their ideas around making BMWs even better than they are today.
  60. There is a place for crowd sourcing. Ask your community of customers and engaged fans how they want to engage with you. Don’t necessarily ask what they want in the way of products. They may not know what they want until you show it to them. But, once you’ve created your stroke of genius, you might want to ask what color they’d like to see it in.
  61. A strong social media based brand community will protect you and support you when trolls attack you online and off. Image credit: http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/geico-commercials-ermey-unloads-on-obama/
  62. There is a place for crowd sourcing. Ask your community of customers and engaged fans how they want to engage with you. Don’t necessarily ask what they want in the way of products. They may not know what they want until you show it to them. But, once you’ve created your stroke of genius, you might want to ask what color they’d like to see it in.
  63. There is a place for crowd sourcing. Ask your community of customers and engaged fans how they want to engage with you. Don’t necessarily ask what they want in the way of products. They may not know what they want until you show it to them. But, once you’ve created your stroke of genius, you might want to ask what color they’d like to see it in.
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  66. Ummmm. Yeah! You do!
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  72. Look for the lift… no! not that one. The LIFT… no! Image credits: http://www.elevatorpreservation.com/2009/09/antique-elevator-for-sale-in-london-uk/ and http://www.criticalbench.com/lifting-weights-russia.htm
  73. Look for the financial lift. Increased sales and conversions AFTER the SEO and/or SMM initiative. Follow it over time. A minimum of 6 months commitment is required. SEO is not a short term play.