The document discusses David B. Thomas's presentation on listening to communities and building social media engagement. Some key points: - Thomas is the director of community and social strategy at Radian6, a social media monitoring company. - He discusses how to build communities by listening to conversations, discovering insights, measuring engagement, and actively engaging. - Case studies show how companies like Kinaxis and Relish Gourmet Burgers improved metrics like traffic, leads, and sales through social media. - Thomas provides tips on getting started with social media and highlights differences and similarities between B2B and B2C engagement.

1. Listening to Your Community
5th Annual Social Media for PR and Corporate
Communications Conference
Feb. 14, 2012
David B. Thomas
@DavidBThomas
Director of Community and Social Strategy
Radian6, a Salesforce.com company
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2. What is Radian6?
Leader in Social Media Monitoring and Engagement
Global Brands
• More than 3000 clients
including 55 of the
Fortune 100
• Leader in Gartner Social
CRM Magic Quadrant
Mice • Leader in Forrester
Social Listening Wave
report
• Over 400 employees
globally
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3. Who am I?
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4. Who am I?
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5. How big is it? It’s big.
35 plus hours of video 300 000 new people
11.5% of the world
are updated to join Twitter every day.
are now on Facebook,
YouTube every 155 million Tweets per
51% of the US.
minute. day.
The average US home Over 5 billion photos
50% of TV viewers
will have 5 to 10 web on Flickr, 2.5 billion
around the world
enabled devices by photos per month on
watch Internet TV.
2014 Facebook.
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6. THERE ARE
800 MILLION
PEOPLE ON
FACEBOOK.
THAT’S LIKE, ALMOST A BILLION, YO.
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7. June 2009
493 tweets per second
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8. May 2010
10,000 tweets per second
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9. The Social Graph
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10. The Social Graph
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11. The Social Graph
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12. Competitive Advantage of Community
Emphasize
customer
service
Develop personal
relationships
Be more
responsive
Leverage your
social graph
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13. What is a
community?
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14. What is a community?
• Customers
• Prospects
• Employees
• Influencers
• Suppliers
• Partners
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15. Where is a community?
• Forums run by fans
• Forums run by
companies
• Blogs
• LinkedIn groups
• Facebook groups
• Yahoo and Google
groups
• Twitter
• Google+
• Flickr and others
• YouTube and others
• Social bookmarking
• Location-based apps
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16. How do you build
your community?
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17. Listen
Discover
Measure
Engage
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18. Listen
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19. Listen
People are talking about you
whether you’re there or not.
Ignoring them is like ignoring a
ringing phone.
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20. People are Talking About Your Company
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21. Dell Command Center
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22. Radian6/Salesforce Command Center at Dreamforce
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23. Listening Tools
• paid tools like Radian6
• free tools:
– Google Alerts
– Twitter Search
– Google Blog Search
– Social Mention
– BoardTracker and BoardReader
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24. Discover
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25. “Customer service is the new PR”
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26. Market Research
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27. Listening for Intent
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28. Measure
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29. Listening: Know what you want to measure
Fans, followers, subscribers
and potential reach
What are the raw numbers?
Is your content being retweeted
and shared?
How many people are in the
extended network who it could
potentially reach?
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30. Listening: Know what you want to measure
Share of conversation
How much of the conversation
around a particular topic is about
your company?
Are you getting the right
eyeballs?
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31. Listening: Know what you want to measure
Strength of Referrals and
Recommendations
Are people recommending your
company online?
Do those people end up in your
pipeline?
Does increasing your online
outreach increase the percentage
of referrals that result in leads?
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32. Listening: Know what you want to measure
Inbound Links
Who is linking to and visiting your
website?
Where are they coming from?
Are your social media activities
generating inbound links and
driving traffic to your website?
Are people bookmarking your site
on services like Delicious?
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33. 7 Steps to Measuring
Social Media ROI
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34. 7 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Establish your goals in
advance.
If you don't know what
you want to do, you're much
more likely to fail. (As in life.)
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35. 7 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Tie them to your
existing business goals:
• leads
• conversions
• web traffic
• customer satisfaction
sentiment
• awareness
• employee satisfaction
recruiting
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36. 7 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Understand that every
department will have a
different definition
of ROI.
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37. 7 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Decide in advance how
you will measure
success.
What are the metrics that
spell success for you?
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38. 7 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Focus on campaigns.
Break your activities down
into manageable chunks.
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39. 7 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Make them trackable
through your web
analytics
• Create a unique landing
page
• Create a unique URL for
each social channel
• Use your web analytics
to see where the traffic
came from
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40. 7 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Understand that, in the
end, ROI is a formula
and you need all the
data to truly calculate
it
ROI = gain – cost
cost
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41. Engage
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42. Six Keys to Social
Media Success
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43. Engagement: The Basics
Be real.
Understand your community
before diving in.
Speak with a human voice.
Engage with your community
person-to-person.
Admit when you’ve made
mistakes.
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44. Engagement: The Basics
Be relevant.
It’s not about you, it’s about your
community.
Share a lot that’s useful for them
and they’ll accept a little that
promotes you.
Yet another 80/20 rule.
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45. Engagement: The Basics
Be practical.
Social media is a set of tools, not
a strategy unto itself.
Tie your efforts to existing,
bottom-line business objectives.
How you will know if you’ve
succeeded?
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46. Engagement: The Basics
Be patient.
It takes time to build a
community.
If you want to create valuable
relationships, there are no
shortcuts.
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47. Engagement: The Basics
Be active.
Engage often.
Engage regularly.
Respond quickly when
people engage with you.
Keep your content fresh.
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48. Engagement: The Basics
Use what you have.
Create a content calendar.
Tie it to your quarterly
communications goals.
Look for content you’re already
creating.
Share it in all your channels.
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49. Success Stories
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50. Success Stories – Kinaxis
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51. Success Stories – Kinaxis
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52. Success Stories – Kinaxis
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53. Success Stories – Kinaxis
2.7x increase in web traffic
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54. Success Stories – Kinaxis
2.7x increase in web traffic
3.2x increase in leads (conversions)
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55. Success Stories – Kinaxis
2.7x increase in web traffic
3.2x increase in leads (conversions)
5.3x increase in
blog/community traffic
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56. Success Stories – Kinaxis
2.7x increase in web traffic
3.2x increase in leads (conversions)
5.3x increase in
blog/community traffic
5,700+ community members
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57. Success Stories – Kinaxis
2.7x increase in web traffic
3.2x increase in leads (conversions)
5.3x increase in
blog/community traffic
5,700+ community members
double digit sales growth
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58. Success Stories – Relish Gourmet Burgers
Traditional forms of marketing do not
allow you to engage and connect with
your client. That’s how relationships are
built.
Rivers Corbett
Chief Experience Officer
Relish Gourmet Burgers
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59. Success Stories – Relish Gourmet Burgers
How are they using social
media?
• connecting with customers
• finding employees
• promoting franchise
opportunities
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60. Success Stories – Relish Gourmet Burgers
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61. Success Stories – Relish Gourmet Burgers
2010: 1 store
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62. Success Stories – Relish Gourmet Burgers
2012: 8 stores
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63. Success Stories - Blendtec
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64. Success Stories - Blendtec
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65. Success Stories - Blendtec
700% increase
in sales
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66. Six Steps to Getting
Started
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67. Six Steps to Getting Started
1. Start listening.
2. Find out where your
customers are engaging.
3. Learn what your competitors
are doing.
4. Get everybody together in
the same room.
5. Develop a social media policy.
6. Determine what works best
for you.
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68. radian6.com/resources
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69. David B. Thomas
@DavidBThomas
www.radian6.com
http://dbthomas.com
dave.thomas@radian6.com
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70. Other than my own, the photos in this presentation were
sourced via www.creativecommons.org and Flickr, and are
licensed under Creative Commons.
My sincere thanks to the photographers.
To see the photo credits, please visit
http://delicious.com/davidbthomas/presopics.
Photo credits
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71. What about B2B?
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72. B2B vs B2C – The Differences
Longer sales cycles
More influencers
Higher dollar
value sales
(considered purchase)
Higher value to
relationships
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73. 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 Cs
are all people
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