1. Buzz Monitoring Strategy
From search to careful listening
Group B
Ali Merchant | Ana Vieira Dias | Nicholas Bednall | Patricia Casal | Pierre Gaulis | Vasiliki Dimitropolou
2. Introduction
• Consumers trust each other the most
• Social media now feeds SERPs
• Legitimate voice of the consumer must be actively heard
• Imperative to hear what the competition is saying
• Measure of voice of an on-going campaign>invaluable data
• WOM equity = Experiential + Consequential + Intentional
Therefore conversation mining has become critical!!
3. Main Areas to Monitor
• Product
• Brand
• Reputation
• Competition
4. Why businesses need to monitor buzz
• Buzz monitoring takes place of traditional market research
• Search engines magnify smaller voices
• Buzz Management now equals Brand Management
• Co-opetition is a key to mitigation
• To answer customer complaints and questions on the
Web
• To collate customer suggestions and help product
development
• To prevent and mitigate negative coverage
5. Metrics
• Brand Monitoring (including threats & other
associations)
• Brand Connections and Customer Relations
• Consumer Insights
• Brand Campaign Planning and Measurement
6. Metrics to Measure
• Visitor Loyalty: direct or bookmarked site visits (as opposed to visits
from search engines or ads)
• Subscriptions Initiated: email, print, and mobile signups
through wish.org
• Content Shares: pages, stories, videos shared to social networks
or emailed from company website
• Visitor Promotion: downloaded banners/badges or creation of
related personal pages/blogs
• Page Views of Mission-Centric Content: stories and
videos of experience
• Comments
7. Types of Searches
• Blogs Search
• Social Mention Search
• Media sites like YouTube Search
• Google Search!!!
• Microblogs Search
• Photos Search
• Corporate Websites
• Whitepapers and Case
Studies Searches
• Online Encyclopedias Search
All searches involved some form of keywords Search
8. Available Tools
Moreover.com – industry
news.google.com
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Co.mments.com
Blogpulse.com/conversation
Blogpulse.com/trend
Flickr (other photo sharing sites)
video.google.com – now a true search engine
keotag.com
wikipedia.org
oodle.com
google.brand.edgar-online.com
upcoming.yahoo.com
amazon.com/tag/iphone
google.com/trends/
searchanalytics.compete.com
copernic.com
pipes.yahoo.com
Read more: http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/08/23/ses-san-jose-day-4-buzz-monitoring/#ixzz1YIQcZ17o
9. Usage of Tools
Social Buzz tools can be set up to inform company
of specific keyword mentions directly in their mail
boxes. This can help the company take timely
action and mitigate any negativity.
Another important purpose of buzz monitoring is
the aid it can provide in product development or
achieving the company objectives of good
customer service.
10. Close
• You have specialized websites that offer
dashboards of services for Buzz Monitoring
• 21 Century Customers are more relationship-
based
• You have to build leverage by listening closely
• There are too many pieces to put together!