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LESSONS FROM B2B SOCIAL MEDIA David B. Thomas Director of Communityand Social Strategy @DavidBThomas Jeffrey L. Cohen Social Strategist @JeffreyLCohen Radian6, a salesforce.comcompany Sept. 6, 2011, #SocialFresh
Safe Harbor Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2011. This documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
B2B vs B2C: The differences Longer sales cycles More influencers Higher dollarvalue sales (considered purchase) Higher value to relationships
B2B vs B2C: The similarities Importance of the social graph Reach is still important Content Rules Emotional aspects of purchase decisions Everybody loves a good story The Bs and Csare all people
Create guidelines Make them realistic to your organization. Be clear and concise. Include do’s as well as don’ts. Give real world examples of how to engage. socialmediagovernance.com
Create guidelines
Tie social media to your business objectives Social media is a set of tools, not a strategy unto itself Tie your efforts to existing, bottom-line business objectives. Decide how you will measure success.
Tie social media to your business objectives
Use what you have Develop a content mindset. Create a content calendar. Tie it to your quarterly communications goals. Look for content you’re already creating.
Use what you have
Give your peoplethe tools People are talking about you whether you are there or not. Customers are sharing their needs, their hopes, their dreams. Prospects are asking questions about your industry and your competitors. (leads!) It’s a new focus group every day if you’re there to listen.
Give your people the tools
Listen, Discover, Measure, Engage
Many of the photos in this presentation come from Flickr, under a Creative Commons license. Our thanks to the photographers who have shared their work. For attribution, go to delicious.com/davidbthomas/presopics.
LESSONS FROM B2B SOCIAL MEDIA David B. Thomas Director of Communityand Social Strategy @DavidBThomas Jeffrey L. Cohen Social Strategist @JeffreyLCohen Radian6, a salesforce.comcompany Sept. 6, 2011, #SocialFresh

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Lessons From B2B Social Media

  • 1. LESSONS FROM B2B SOCIAL MEDIA David B. Thomas Director of Communityand Social Strategy @DavidBThomas Jeffrey L. Cohen Social Strategist @JeffreyLCohen Radian6, a salesforce.comcompany Sept. 6, 2011, #SocialFresh
  • 2. Safe Harbor Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2011. This documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
  • 3. B2B vs B2C: The differences Longer sales cycles More influencers Higher dollarvalue sales (considered purchase) Higher value to relationships
  • 4. B2B vs B2C: The similarities Importance of the social graph Reach is still important Content Rules Emotional aspects of purchase decisions Everybody loves a good story The Bs and Csare all people
  • 5.
  • 6. Create guidelines Make them realistic to your organization. Be clear and concise. Include do’s as well as don’ts. Give real world examples of how to engage. socialmediagovernance.com
  • 8. Tie social media to your business objectives Social media is a set of tools, not a strategy unto itself Tie your efforts to existing, bottom-line business objectives. Decide how you will measure success.
  • 9. Tie social media to your business objectives
  • 10. Use what you have Develop a content mindset. Create a content calendar. Tie it to your quarterly communications goals. Look for content you’re already creating.
  • 11. Use what you have
  • 12. Give your peoplethe tools People are talking about you whether you are there or not. Customers are sharing their needs, their hopes, their dreams. Prospects are asking questions about your industry and your competitors. (leads!) It’s a new focus group every day if you’re there to listen.
  • 13. Give your people the tools
  • 15. Many of the photos in this presentation come from Flickr, under a Creative Commons license. Our thanks to the photographers who have shared their work. For attribution, go to delicious.com/davidbthomas/presopics.
  • 16. LESSONS FROM B2B SOCIAL MEDIA David B. Thomas Director of Communityand Social Strategy @DavidBThomas Jeffrey L. Cohen Social Strategist @JeffreyLCohen Radian6, a salesforce.comcompany Sept. 6, 2011, #SocialFresh

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