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What makes great Social? A presentation for Social Media Week
1. What Makes
Great Social?
Miguel Bernas
Director, Digital Marketing
SingTel
@phatfreemiguel
Presented at Ogilvy Singapore for Social Media
Week Singapore 2013
2. Great Social is …
Supported at the top of the organization
Built around clear objectives
NOT free
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3. Top management support
Because the social media strategy is supported by the SingTel’s CEO, resources can be
drawn from multiple departments. Social is plugged into the core of SingTel’s business.
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4. Objectives
Social allows SingTel to transform its brand image, from
slick salesman (left) to a more, friendly collaborative partner
(“Stuart the comic book store owner”, right).
SingTel’s mission to dialogue with customers through social is
more than just lip service. Social is the company’s fastest
growing Customer Support channel.
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5. SingTel’s Facebook page: first 12 months
Once the social media strategy was in place, “fans” responded by willingly
following SingTel on Facebook. Today SingTel’s FB page has over 200,000
Likes, making it among the top 10 brand pages in Singapore.
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6. NOT Free
21x more new daily followers 14,800+ players; 16,000+ Likes;
163,000+ referrals to Singtelshop.com
Social media strategy should never be entirely dependent on paid advertising
but ads can provide the needed “boost” to get conversations and participation
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7. TIP #1: Be simple
Simple copy leads to more interaction and, although it may sound counterintuitive,
starts more conversations on your page. (Refer to this tip the next time your 7
Marketing or Sales team insists on longer copy, more product descriptions, etc.)
8. TIP #2: Be human
Twitter helps to give your brand a human side. This exchange, which started with a customer complaint,
turns into a conversation about how hard SingTel’s staff works to hear customers. (More on this example 8
in my blog.)