The cost of advertising on social networks continues to increase substantially quarter over quarter. Brands need to become more more agile in their media investments to maintain a sustainable return. In this panel hear how brands are starting to shift some of their attention to loyalty, expanding their reporting scope to include new metrics, justifying continued and future investments.
SEO Master Class - Steve Wiideman, Wiideman Consulting Group
How Brands Utilise Social Beyond Acquisition and Focus on Loyalty
1. Charles Tidswell@charlestidswell | charles@socialbakers.com
VP JAPAC,
SOCIAL BAKERS
SINGAPORE ~ SEPTEMBER 20 – 21, 2017 | DIGIMARCONAPAC.COM
#DigiMarConAPAC
How Brands Are Utilising Social
Networks Beyond Acquisition
and Starting to Focus on Loyalty
KEYNOTE
2. HOW LONG WILL I HAVE
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C H A R L E S T I D S W E L L
VP JAPAC
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5. ADSPEND IS RISING.
WHAT DO CONSUMERS THINK?
Source: eMarketer
• Pay $8 for Netflix and you are ad
free
• Pay $10 for YouTube and you are
ad free
• Pay $15 for HBO and you are ad
free
• Pay $4.99 for Spotify and you are
ad free
Global Ad spend on social
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
$USBillions
People don’t dislike
ads, they don’t like
bad experiences.
6. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT’S RELEVANT?
Your brand Your audience
Value exchange
By understanding your brand and audience in a deeper level, you can identify the sweet spot
between what your brand wants to offer and what your audience actually wants.
MEETING
BUSINESS
OBJECTIVE
WHAT’S IN IT
FOR ME?
The brand dictates
The consumer desires
7. MARKETERS’ CHALLENGE
Your brand
Your
audience
DISTANCE -
KNOWLEDGE
GAP
You have enough understanding of your brand but you don’t know enough about your audience.
KNOWLEDGE
OVERFLOW
KNOWLEDGE
DEPRIVATION
The brand dictates
The consumer desires
13. OBJECTIVE
Banks by nature are competitive and
have a significant portfolio of products to
communicate to prospects and
customers.
The tendency is to communicate through
all available channels, especially those
with a lower barrier to entry. The
downside, diminishing returns.
The more that’s posted, the lower the
engagement. For the bank it’s about
avoiding this scenario; ensuring the
content posted is always relevant.
15. UNIQUE AND REPEATED LIKES
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
Unique likes (H2 2016) Repeated likes (H2 2016) Unique likes (H1 2017) Repeated likes (H1 2017)
THE PERCENTAGE OF ONE-TIME VS. REPEATED LIKES
Based on posts from 1. 7. 2016. – 30.6. 2017.
A B C D E F G H I J
16. KEY LEARNINGS
• Understanding the behaviors of their audience and
how they consume and interact with content
• Get deeper understanding about their content
performance in relations to competitors performance
• The report used as a part of their strategic planning
in engaging with audience on content
17. BRANDS NEED TO MEASURE DIFFERENTLY…
Social customer care
Reach & Engagement
Audience response to content
Socially
DevotedTotal Growth of Fans
Fan Base
today
BRANDS NEED
tomorrow
Competitive paid
content analysis
PROMOTED
POST
DETECTION
Engaged Users, Negative
Feedback, Avg. Relevance
Score
ADVANCED
METRICS
Connect social ads and Google Analytics data
to track the impact of social media, on
website traffic and goal conversions
3rd PARTY
DATA
Predictive recommendations
when to post and what to promote
PERFORMANCE
PREDICTION
18. LEADER IN SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS & INNOVATION
PROMOTED POST
DETECTION
The first analytics company to provide insight into
paid vs. organic strategy
on your competitors
REVOLUTIONARY
RECOMMENDATIONS
Get the best ROI, know exactly when
to publish and what to promote
with predictive analytics
10M+Social profiles monitored
(World’s largest
social media dataset)
COMPETITIVE
& INDUSTRY
BENCHMARKS
of any social media analytics
provider
The most robust set of
SOCIAL MEDIA
CONTENT
LIBRARY
to look for inspiration
The largest
19. Start
Classic
Journey
Evaluate
Consider
SOURCE : David C Edelman and Marc Singer
FROM : Competing on Customer Journeys
RESALE
THE LOYALTY LOOP
Start
New Journey
Validation
BUY
Bond
Advocate
Enjoy
• We are buying more, quicker, we have become impatient and
demanding
• We rely less on marketing messages from advertisers, a friends
validation is has much greater weight
• Brands have to become exceptionally selective in the
messages they post, consumers perception of your content has
a massive impact. Content remains king
• Just because social is digital, don’t always apply an ROI via an
attribution model, social is a validation model. Look for
operational efficiencies and loyalty metrics
A look into our day.
If I asked you how many times you look at your phone or social channels today, I am sure it would be 100+
We are multi-tasking at multi-tasking
For all of us, constant interruptions.
We post something on Facebook or IG, we regularly look to see how many engagements and from who. We hear an alert for a new message or notification, when this happens, a chemical reaction in our brain occurs releasing Dopamine, Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers. We cannot resist to look behind the alert for that reward.
Layering a message into these interruptions are advertisers hoping they will get our attention!
But guess what, posts from my friends of their amazing holidays, their pets, their screaming children doing supposedly doing cute things, a picture of a swimming pool which I must have seen a thousand times, foodies posting pictures of foodies, it’s still more interesting than ads.
So, here is the thing….....
The cost of ads on social channels is increasing…..2017, Q2, Facebook, it was reported the cost of ads increased by 24%. As an advertiser, you have three options
increase ad spend to maintain status quo
maintain ad spend with no improvements
or, get smart.....
and this is why you need to get smart......
Consumers don’t like ads…...
They like relevance
How do we know what’s relevant?
Your content should provide value to your audience whether it’s about entertainment, new knowledge, commercial value, or opportunity to share something cool with their friends.
In exchange, your brand should be able to meet some sort of business objective whether it’s about lifting brand image, or amplifying word of mouth for new product. Each content piece should serve certain purpose that will benefit the brand in one form or another.
Only way to find out this sweet spot where the value is exchanged is by having the deep understanding of your audience. You should be able to create detailed persona around your target audience beyond demographics.
But the challenge is we don’t know enough about our audience.
We know so much about our brand because we think about it everyday and talk about it everyday.
There is a big knowledge gap here.
Because we don’t know enough about our audience, and potential audience, brands are constantly challenged on identifying an anchor or talking point in which to engage with the customer. The result, few brands have a clear social communication strategy. There are constant challenges for brands in bridging this relevancy while maintaining internal KPI’s.
Engagement, frequency, relevancy, return – metrics which appear to be all pulling in different directions, challenging brands and marketers alike.
The take out from these charts is formality i.e. few brands are being
Analysis across a different verticals in the Australian market. With a population of 25 million and very focused on the domestic market, essentially all engaging with the same audience within the given vertical.
Interactions on the Y axis, fans on the X. From the charts we see clusters with only a few outliers.
There is minimal differentiation, lack of content innovation.
Ongoing social media spend investment does not differentiate.
Role of social will diversify.
Consumers are making decisions outside of the brand traditional acquisition channels.
Influencers, and more importantly micro influencers play a significant role in purchase decisions. The role of the influencer is changing to become more genuine.
Brands need to diversify their focus (and investments) to using social platforms for engagement retention, not purely acquisition. And what’s interesting in the process the brand is no longer the key driver or owner of the dialogue,
I would like to share a brief case study on a financial brand that is starting to shift their focus to loyalty driven content.
want to create meaning conversation and engage with their consumers
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