The document provides an overview of social media strategies and best practices. It discusses understanding audiences, developing strategies, joining conversations, determining return on investment, and maintaining long-term engagement. Case studies on Dell and Walmart's social media successes and missteps are also presented. The presentation encourages companies to view social media as a long-term strategy rather than just short-term campaigns.
10 answers to questions about social media and young people that can change the way you design and build relationships with your most critical audience.
From Social Media to Social Business - Marketing in the 'Social Age'Stefan Pfeiffer
Presentation on how Marketing needs to change in the 'Social Age' from Mass Marketing to 1:1 Marketing taking in particular Social Channels and behaviors into consideration. A bit of a focus on Healthcare due to the fact, that this was presented for one of our Healthcare customers.
Digital Influence is one of the hottest trends in social media, yet is largely misunderstood. "The Rise of Digital Influence," the new report by Altimeter Group Principal Analyst Brian Solis, is a 'how-to' guide for businesses to spark desirable effects and outcomes through social media influence. The report helps companies understand how influence spreads, and includes case studies in which brands partnered with vendors to recruit connected consumers for digital influence campaigns. Brian evaluates the offerings of 14 Influence vendors, organizing them by Reach, Resonance, and Relevance: the Three Pillars that make up the foundation for Digital Influence as defined in the report. Also included are an Influence Framework and an Influence Action Plan to help brands identify connected consumers and to define and measure strategic digital influence initiatives.
The first thing you must remember when adopting social media is to approach with caution: apply forethought and integrate social media as part of your overall marketing toolkit. Here I provide a general overview of what shapes my approach to social media strategy.
This is the presentation I gave to the French American Chamber of Commerce in Dallas on August 4, 2011.
10 answers to questions about social media and young people that can change the way you design and build relationships with your most critical audience.
From Social Media to Social Business - Marketing in the 'Social Age'Stefan Pfeiffer
Presentation on how Marketing needs to change in the 'Social Age' from Mass Marketing to 1:1 Marketing taking in particular Social Channels and behaviors into consideration. A bit of a focus on Healthcare due to the fact, that this was presented for one of our Healthcare customers.
Digital Influence is one of the hottest trends in social media, yet is largely misunderstood. "The Rise of Digital Influence," the new report by Altimeter Group Principal Analyst Brian Solis, is a 'how-to' guide for businesses to spark desirable effects and outcomes through social media influence. The report helps companies understand how influence spreads, and includes case studies in which brands partnered with vendors to recruit connected consumers for digital influence campaigns. Brian evaluates the offerings of 14 Influence vendors, organizing them by Reach, Resonance, and Relevance: the Three Pillars that make up the foundation for Digital Influence as defined in the report. Also included are an Influence Framework and an Influence Action Plan to help brands identify connected consumers and to define and measure strategic digital influence initiatives.
The first thing you must remember when adopting social media is to approach with caution: apply forethought and integrate social media as part of your overall marketing toolkit. Here I provide a general overview of what shapes my approach to social media strategy.
This is the presentation I gave to the French American Chamber of Commerce in Dallas on August 4, 2011.
This deck was prepared for a workshop session with NHS comms directors hosted by NHS Providers in London on 25 January, 2018.
If there’s anything that I can do in my role at Ketchum to help your organisation address any of the issues highlighted, please let me know.
In this issue of the People’s Insights monthly briefs, we cover three big innovations launched by Apple, Amazon and Google; three new approaches to Black Friday from TD Bank, Santander Bank and Patagonia; and two examples of upcycling by Southwest Airlines and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. As a bonus, we also take a quick look at the immensely popular podcast Serial – which mashes-up different types of storytelling.
Here’s an overview of the examples featured in this report:
• Apple Pay – Simplifying mobile payments
• Amazon Echo – Virtual assistant for your home
• Google Inbox – A new way to Gmail
New approaches to Black Friday
• Santander Bank’s Black Tea Friday
• Patagonia and Yerdle’s Worn Wear swap parties
Upcycling & Paying it Forward
• Southwest Airlines’s Project LUV Seat
• Ben & Jerry’s The Chunkinator
Bonus! A new way to tell stories
• Serial Podcast
We’d love to hear your take on these approaches. Do share your thoughts with us at @PeoplesLab on Twitter. You can also reach out to us on Twitter @msl_group.
From Hype to Impact: Applying This Year's SXSW Highlights to Business Transfo...Publicis Sapient
Three of our global thought leaders explore the most coveted topics at SXSW, practical applications to our clients’ business (and our own), and how SapientRazorfish takes these highlights from hype to reality.
Whether you were in Austin or not, top trends are not difficult to find. Which is why we’re taking it a step further. Not only have we shared our takeaways from this year’s sessions, but we've also examined how the conversations at SXSW relate to business reimagined for a connected world.
Optimising Digital Collaboration From the Inside OutMSL
Companies have come a long way using social media, collaborative tools and social networks to connect people, information and company assets in more effective ways. With many seeing significant improvements in operations, people satisfaction and bottom line results. Among the lessons learned is that it’s not just about technology. Determining digital collaboration’s role, how it will be used and how to incorporate it into company culture are what really matters.
A lot has changed since publishing my inaugural Design in Tech Tech report at SXSW last year. In this year's report, we dive deeper into analyzing some broader themes ranging from the record amounts of funding flowing into design-led startups to questioning how design will continue to evolve as a good business practice. Below are some takeaways from the report:
-Design isn’t just about beauty; it’s about market relevance and meaningful results.
-M&A activity continues in the design space, and it’s increased.
-Increasing the designers needed in the tech industry requires rethinking education.
-The adoption of design by public companies is only growing.
-Designers bring needed critical thinking/making in the economic case for inclusion.
-Work in the research labs from decades ago drives today’s startups. Be aware.
Intro To Online Advertising Greg StuartGreg Stuart
The attached was developed by Greg Stuart, co-author of What Sticks, for a client to give them a very comprehensive view of online advertising by the former CEO of the IAB-Interactive Advertising Bureau. It gives away many unknown secrets of online advertising practices and is an insiders view to the research, measurement, practices by the world's blue-chip brands.
The future of recruiting is social.
Social media has revolutionized marketing - now, it is changing the face of recruiting. Never before has talent deep in an organization been so accessible. The wide array of social media tools are becoming more critical to success than traditional methods of recruitment advertising and prospecting.
This event will discuss the dramatic impact social media and web 2.0 technologies are having on the staffing practice in many organizations today. You'll learn how companies are successfully using social media tools to identify, source and build meaningful relationships with the top "A" level passive candidates in their industries.
We'll evaluate each of the social media platforms and discuss how you can apply them within your own organization to attract more qualified candidates faster and at a lower cost.
You'll also learn the metrics and evaluations you can apply to quantify the impact this is having on your business.
KEY TAKE-AWAYS:
* Understand all the important social media trends and how they are impacting recruiting
* Learn best practices, potential risks and company investments required
* Learn how to evaluate success and measure business impact
* Learn how to identify, connect and build relationships with passive candidates in these environments
* Learn how this can be applies to enhance your employment brand
This conceptual paper discusses eWoM as a coping response dependent on positive, neutral, or negative experiences made by potential, actual, or former consumers of products, services, and brands. We combine existing lenses and propose an integrative model for unpacking eWoM to examine how different consumption experiences motivate consumers to share eWoM online. The paper further presents an eWoM Attentionscape as an appropriate tool for examining the amount of attention the resulting different types of eWoM receive from brand managers. We discuss how eWoM priorities can differ between public affairs professionals and consumers, and what the implications are for the management of eWoM in the context of public affairs and viral marketing.
Social Media Convergence - The ARF/Adweek 2009Lynne d Johnson
Social media is a critical part of progressive marketing thinking. The consumer, with the rise of social media, has been able to drive the conversation with or without input from the brands. This change in who controls the dialogue has transformational impact:
1. Social media creates a brand/consumer conversation that will transform organizations.
2. Social media blends brand communications, PR, customer care, research and insights as all happen simultaneously via the conversation.
3. Most marketers are still struggling to find a coherent social media strategy.
4. Social media produces naturally occurring conversation and behavior that offers incredibly rich insights, but companies are still learning how to mine this continual stream.
The ARF launched its new Social Media Council with a panel of industry experts explaining how social media creates convergence among the advertising, marketing, public relations, customer care and consumer insights spheres.
CRETACEO 2.0?
Presentazione realizzata per la conferenza nazionale "Express Yourself" 2015
Autori: D. Biclungo, F. Camedda, M. Capozzi, F. Cerino, A. Metalli, D. Migliaccio e A. Tassieri
(II Cs, I.I.S.S. “Nitti” di Napoli, prof. D. Colamonici)
This deck was prepared for a workshop session with NHS comms directors hosted by NHS Providers in London on 25 January, 2018.
If there’s anything that I can do in my role at Ketchum to help your organisation address any of the issues highlighted, please let me know.
In this issue of the People’s Insights monthly briefs, we cover three big innovations launched by Apple, Amazon and Google; three new approaches to Black Friday from TD Bank, Santander Bank and Patagonia; and two examples of upcycling by Southwest Airlines and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. As a bonus, we also take a quick look at the immensely popular podcast Serial – which mashes-up different types of storytelling.
Here’s an overview of the examples featured in this report:
• Apple Pay – Simplifying mobile payments
• Amazon Echo – Virtual assistant for your home
• Google Inbox – A new way to Gmail
New approaches to Black Friday
• Santander Bank’s Black Tea Friday
• Patagonia and Yerdle’s Worn Wear swap parties
Upcycling & Paying it Forward
• Southwest Airlines’s Project LUV Seat
• Ben & Jerry’s The Chunkinator
Bonus! A new way to tell stories
• Serial Podcast
We’d love to hear your take on these approaches. Do share your thoughts with us at @PeoplesLab on Twitter. You can also reach out to us on Twitter @msl_group.
From Hype to Impact: Applying This Year's SXSW Highlights to Business Transfo...Publicis Sapient
Three of our global thought leaders explore the most coveted topics at SXSW, practical applications to our clients’ business (and our own), and how SapientRazorfish takes these highlights from hype to reality.
Whether you were in Austin or not, top trends are not difficult to find. Which is why we’re taking it a step further. Not only have we shared our takeaways from this year’s sessions, but we've also examined how the conversations at SXSW relate to business reimagined for a connected world.
Optimising Digital Collaboration From the Inside OutMSL
Companies have come a long way using social media, collaborative tools and social networks to connect people, information and company assets in more effective ways. With many seeing significant improvements in operations, people satisfaction and bottom line results. Among the lessons learned is that it’s not just about technology. Determining digital collaboration’s role, how it will be used and how to incorporate it into company culture are what really matters.
A lot has changed since publishing my inaugural Design in Tech Tech report at SXSW last year. In this year's report, we dive deeper into analyzing some broader themes ranging from the record amounts of funding flowing into design-led startups to questioning how design will continue to evolve as a good business practice. Below are some takeaways from the report:
-Design isn’t just about beauty; it’s about market relevance and meaningful results.
-M&A activity continues in the design space, and it’s increased.
-Increasing the designers needed in the tech industry requires rethinking education.
-The adoption of design by public companies is only growing.
-Designers bring needed critical thinking/making in the economic case for inclusion.
-Work in the research labs from decades ago drives today’s startups. Be aware.
Intro To Online Advertising Greg StuartGreg Stuart
The attached was developed by Greg Stuart, co-author of What Sticks, for a client to give them a very comprehensive view of online advertising by the former CEO of the IAB-Interactive Advertising Bureau. It gives away many unknown secrets of online advertising practices and is an insiders view to the research, measurement, practices by the world's blue-chip brands.
The future of recruiting is social.
Social media has revolutionized marketing - now, it is changing the face of recruiting. Never before has talent deep in an organization been so accessible. The wide array of social media tools are becoming more critical to success than traditional methods of recruitment advertising and prospecting.
This event will discuss the dramatic impact social media and web 2.0 technologies are having on the staffing practice in many organizations today. You'll learn how companies are successfully using social media tools to identify, source and build meaningful relationships with the top "A" level passive candidates in their industries.
We'll evaluate each of the social media platforms and discuss how you can apply them within your own organization to attract more qualified candidates faster and at a lower cost.
You'll also learn the metrics and evaluations you can apply to quantify the impact this is having on your business.
KEY TAKE-AWAYS:
* Understand all the important social media trends and how they are impacting recruiting
* Learn best practices, potential risks and company investments required
* Learn how to evaluate success and measure business impact
* Learn how to identify, connect and build relationships with passive candidates in these environments
* Learn how this can be applies to enhance your employment brand
This conceptual paper discusses eWoM as a coping response dependent on positive, neutral, or negative experiences made by potential, actual, or former consumers of products, services, and brands. We combine existing lenses and propose an integrative model for unpacking eWoM to examine how different consumption experiences motivate consumers to share eWoM online. The paper further presents an eWoM Attentionscape as an appropriate tool for examining the amount of attention the resulting different types of eWoM receive from brand managers. We discuss how eWoM priorities can differ between public affairs professionals and consumers, and what the implications are for the management of eWoM in the context of public affairs and viral marketing.
Social Media Convergence - The ARF/Adweek 2009Lynne d Johnson
Social media is a critical part of progressive marketing thinking. The consumer, with the rise of social media, has been able to drive the conversation with or without input from the brands. This change in who controls the dialogue has transformational impact:
1. Social media creates a brand/consumer conversation that will transform organizations.
2. Social media blends brand communications, PR, customer care, research and insights as all happen simultaneously via the conversation.
3. Most marketers are still struggling to find a coherent social media strategy.
4. Social media produces naturally occurring conversation and behavior that offers incredibly rich insights, but companies are still learning how to mine this continual stream.
The ARF launched its new Social Media Council with a panel of industry experts explaining how social media creates convergence among the advertising, marketing, public relations, customer care and consumer insights spheres.
CRETACEO 2.0?
Presentazione realizzata per la conferenza nazionale "Express Yourself" 2015
Autori: D. Biclungo, F. Camedda, M. Capozzi, F. Cerino, A. Metalli, D. Migliaccio e A. Tassieri
(II Cs, I.I.S.S. “Nitti” di Napoli, prof. D. Colamonici)
Keynote given by Christophe Ginisty, President of IPRA, on Thursday, May 16th 2013 in Doha during the 3rd Regional Conference organized by the Gulf Chapter of the International Public Relations Association.
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Social Media for the Equipment Finance CompanySuzanne Henry
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Social Media Advertising presented by www.SocialMediopolis.comMichael Crosson
This presentation was created for a group of international executives attending the Copenhagen Business School during seminars in San Francisco, Oct. 2009. It is focused on helping them understand the general social media advertising landscape and is not intended to be comprehensive or in-depth due to time limitations. Several reference slides included were taken from other presentations and credited at the end.
A look at client-agency relationships. Mark Linder
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A Social Media Primer Driving Better Engagement For Your EventsLumen Consulting
Events are by definition social, yet many companies are hesitant or uncertain how to leverage social media in their portfolio. Social media is transforming the way we network and communicate personally and in business. In this interactive session, we'll consider what differentiates this technology trend from other fads and look at the demographics of who is using social media. See how any size organization can use social media to build awareness, foster word of mouth, and deepen attendee engagement.
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5. “ if a new technology extends one or more of our senses outside us into the social world, then new ratios among all of our senses will occur in that particular culture” -Marshall McLuhan The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man,1962
6. All media is inherently social Communication vector Ubiquitous Social media is a solidarity good User Generated Content Blogs Wikis Lifestreaming Review sites NOT a broadcast (or push) medium 1 Billion 4.1 Billion Social Media Videos viewed per day on YouTube.1 YouTube outperforms Yahoo! as the second largest search engine.2 Source: YouTube, ComScore SMS text messages that are currently sent each day, nearly doubling the number from last year.3 Source: CITA
11. Understanding the Audience Social Technographic Profiles, 20097 Joiners The number of users that maintain an online profile has more than doubled since 2007.7 Source: Forrester Research Inactives The number of users that are inactive in social media has dropped nearly 60% since 2007.7 Source: Forrester Research .2008. 2009(est)
22. Why are people talking (or staying quiet)?65 Million 20% Understanding the Audience active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices … 50% more active than non-mobile users.6 Source: Facebook Twitter traffic comes thru the website. Where does the other 80% come from?10 Source: Guardian
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***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****This is: the crowded space / the business case for social media marketingWe are going to look at reaching target consumers through social media, but more importantly why we would want to and whether or not a strategy of this type is justified.So, this is usually the part where the audience is asked to please silence their cellphones, If you have, turn ‘em on, or don’t pretend like they were off to begin with. I’ve got a screen here that’s monitoring twitter, and I’ll be able to see any questions and comments that come through. I might not respond, but I will definitely see them. So, those of you that are on twitter, please tweet along with the hashtagreddoor, and for those of you that have no idea what a hashtag IS, please pay attention.***
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***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Nearly 50 years ago, Marshall McLuhan postulated that “if a new technology extends one or more of our senses outside us into the social world, then new ratios among all of our senses will occur in that particular culture”, and depending on our interpretations of what’s being said, I think we’ve seen this kind of paradigm shift occur over the last few years with the attention toward social media***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****All media is inherently social - Media is a communication vector, and communication IS SOCIAL.SOCIAL - MEDIAWhat’s referred to as ‘social media’ is simply a manifestation of our inherently social nature enhanced by a level of technological prowess that we’ve become BORED with. We’re not talking about the latest and greatest thing in technology, we’re talking about things that have become so ubiquitous that they’ve become commonplace, and that’s when things become socially interesting – when I can talk about it with anyone, that’s when media becomes valuable. Social Media is a solidarity good – the more people use it, the more valuable it becomes.As far as I’m concerned, social media is a really broad category. It is technology that empowers non-technical people to communicate. The lines are very blurry, and it could arguably go back to the telephone or the printing press – perhaps we simply don’t recognize that association because no one was ever successful at pushing advertising into people’s phone conversations? So, it’s not one thing – it’s lots and lots of things, so the name is really inappropriate, and confusing, really. Let’s call it the radical socioeconomic displacement of capitalistic disinformation. No?Blogs, wikis, lifestreams (like facebook) for our purposes here, we’ll focus on that transparent and boring old technology known as the internet, and a subclass of that known sometimes as User-Generated Content, and as that relates to advertising, it’s also referred to as WOM.Now, this user generated content is nothing new, it’s merely gained momentum by measurably affecting interruption advertising and push messaging. Some companies are embracing a social approach simply because it's the new IN thing, but the savvy companies embrace it because of the metrics they can extract.I’m very intrigued with the marketing application, and the way this technology is impacting traditional, but frankly I'm surprised by the seemingly widespread confusion associated with engagement. This is the stuff we learned in kindergarten – you be nice, people will play with you. When you’re a jerk or a showoff, they split.***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Here’s some data from a recent Nielsen Survey which queriedover 25 thousand Internet consumers from 50 different countries. That huge line at the top is telling us that consumers trust their friends recommendations with 90% confidence – that makes sense. But just below that we see that the people surveyed trust the opinions of strangers at 70%. Those two things are completely independent from corporate messaging, and we can see that we are reaching the tipping point of influence – WOM carries more weight than anything that a brand can say about itself.The quote alongside here seems to indicate that reliance on WOM drives SM, but the converse is just as well true. A classic conundrum - Which came first?Another statement made in this release tellsadvertisers to “be encouraged by the fact that brand websites are trusted at that same 70 percent level as online consumer opinions,” which really obscures an issue that is really tormenting brands and agencies – the fact that consumer opinion is weighted equally with brand websites -GLOBALLY. What’s really interesting to note here is consumers’ opinion in the US outperforms the website by 2%.This kind of data really drives home the importance of listening to what’s going on in this groundswell, but I believe that levels of consumer trust in traditional advertising will continue to drop, and media in general will evolve to the point that the our concept of media will become based on the level of interaction we have with it. ***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Anyhow, I believe that beyond ubiquity, there is one core reason why the topic is so hot right now, that consumers have become jaded by decades of interruption. We tivo our commercials. We hang up on telemarketers. We throw away junk mail. We walk into movies late. Couple those psychological factors with the measurability of online activity, and the availability of these word-of-mouth vehicles, and we have the shadow of a successful messaging vector. I say a it’s only a shadow, because the point of message origination, and the messaging itself is nearly impossible to control. To fully flesh out this vector, we need to understand where point A is, and I think that challenge leads a lot of people into the confusion around engagement that we see today. Companies wishing to engage this space should understand two things: That control was a function of broadcast messaging, and does not exist here. In social media, we trade control for influenceThat social media represents a copernican revolution in the way the company interacts with it’s customers, and it’s essential to get high level, preferably c-level buy in. In this space, engagement is truly social, and the conversation can go south – it needs to be honest, forthright and transparent, with a very trusted spokesperson at the wheel. Our goal would be to plant the seed. It’s kinda like pushing a car out of a snowdrift. Nobody’s going to be able to push the car out in one lunge – the car is far too heavy, and the ground is too slick. The best you can do is slowly start rocking the car, give it a nudge, let it rock back past where it was, and give it another shove. The car absorbs your energy, which makes it seem hard to push, but it also stores the energy you exert, and after some effort, the car has momentum of its own, and pops out of the drift. That was a bit too esoteric, huh? Yeah, a little rich. I think the point comes through though, that despite all the admonitions to engage with otherwise socially responsible behavior, to be effective in word-of-mouth, marketers have to not only communicate transparently, but instigate subtly.***
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***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Understanding the Audience is going to start with segmentation - you really have to understand how your audience breaks down – some demographic groups skew very differently when looking at technographic profile.The Technographic profile is a term coined by Forrester, and basically helps us to drill down into a segment and identify that segment’s level of participation in social. Creators – these are the people that maintain a blog, a website, post videosCritics – reviewers, online opinionsJoiners – maintain a profileCollectors – taggers and RSS feedsSpectators - read blogs/forums/reviews, watch videos, or listen to podcastsInactives – well, they’re pretty boring really.These categories aren’t mutually exclusive, they do cross-pollinate. For example, a Creator is definitely a Joiner, and could easily be a Critic as well as a Spectator. A Collector could be a Spectator. A Joiner could be a Critic. But, Inactives, yeah they’re pretty boring.***
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***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Here’s a quick screenshot of a free, web-based tool called social mention, with an example search on the term ‘pepsi’. This is a real time platform providing very quick results from multiple sources (such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, and blogs) You can see that there are various sources to choose from in the top of the tool, and it looks a lot like traditional search results with the addition of various metrics alongside – some top keywords that occur in the results, number of authors… if you actually take it for a spin, you’ll see quite a few metrics down the left side, but as with all tools, it does take some experimentation to determine which metrics are valuable to you.Across the tools, we do see different metrics and terminology, but keywords, sources and sentiment are pretty common.***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****our goal is ultimately to identify communities, discussions, and influencers, but also to locate challenges.Brand Challenges: A customer who’s had a negative experience can impact brands like never before. Really quick, let’s look at this statistic from facebook – 65 million active users access the site through a mobile device. These consumers can and do express their experiences immediately online. Other challenges obviously, come from competitors’ products or marketing efforts We want to look for relevant industry information //key trends, sentiment of the general consumer, and the influential personalities in your spaceWe need to use our understandign of the audience to inform the social media strategy.Who are your influencers? //Which websites and bloggers are mentioning your selected keywords? Which have large audiences? Obviously, these are the people you’re going to want to reach out to.What are they saying? Look for the most common words or phrases that appear alongside mentions of your selected keywords, and consider augmenting your list with them. Determine whether this instance is a positive or negative mention. When? Look at the activity// Do online discussions increase after your company runs a promotion or issues a press release? Clearly, this will help determine the effectiveness of those efforts at driving awareness and interest.Where are your chosen keywords being mentioned online? If blogs dominate the discussion, consider participation to help shape the conversation. Maybe it’s time tostart a corporate blog (or update it, which is more often the case)Why are people talking? //What key drivers recur in the conversations online? //Perhaps there is an overwhelming sentiment toward a particular product? Do customers have a strong tendency to recommend a particular product, or even a particular usageOnce we have compiled solid behavioral and traffic data on our target segments, then we’re ready to define a strategy.***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****now that understand WHAT it is, WHY it is, and whether or not the target demographic is using it, we’re ready to begin defining a strategy***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Some initial considerations:Verify your infrastructure – make sure the destination site has been load tested, and can withstand the flood of traffic you’re hoping for.Analytics – any responsible marketing strategy will be able to identify ROI, and social media is not different. We’ll take a deeper dive into ROI a bit later, but we can’t get there without analytics.Traffic benchmarks – if we want to be able to show a before and after snapshot, we’ll need benchmarks, but fortunately, most analytics packages have this feature built in, but do confirm.Establish a policy – alongside here is a quote from Intel’s policy, which is one of my favorites. In it, they are very honest, objective, and forward-thinking. There will no doubt be a few squeaky wheels, and it’s very good advice to plan for it.Next, let’s consider visibility – the thought that if you build it, they will come, may work well in movies, but not so much on the web. How are you going to let consumers know that you’re ready to engage with them on this level? Most successful campaigns are blended, utilizing email, PR, and possibly even traditional.So, what’s plan B? I hate to sound like a scratched CD, but control is not an option. Despite due diligence and informed decisions, the grand plan may not come off the way you’ve hoped. So what’s best? Fail fast. Monitor the progress of the strategy closely and be willing and able to adapt. Your contingency plans should also account for third party outages – what’s going to happen when twitter goes down?High-level buy-in – again, social media engagement will radically change the way your company communicates with it’s customer, so it’s prudent to make this understood all the way up the chain.***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****So, now that we have the groundwork covered off, what are the next steps?Well, this may seem obvious, but our strategy is going to hinge on budget. Despite what you may have heard, social media is not free, and a gregarious strategy can require tremendous resources to initiate and maintain, so let’s make sure we know what we’ve got to work with. If you’re looking for something with a proven track record and extremely high ROI, consider an email campaign, but that’s another presentation…Identify your motivation, ask yourselves the question – what are you doing here?Market research? Fabulous! We spend countless dollars on market research, asking people what they think about products, and here are all these millions of people telling us what they’re doing.Customer Service? Now, beyond the types of things that we see that are directly related to customer service, like pushing requests through twitter (ala bestbuy, comcast, qwest) are there any creative applications here? Suppose you have a line of products that evoke an endless stream of mundane questions, and an established base of brand loyalists? Well, the etail company backcountry.com was in just this situation, so they created an integrated forum in which their ‘experts’ could (and do!) answer these questions for curious customers.crowdsourcing? Anyone familiar with Threadless? They’ve brought social media full circle, back into the real world. They engage customers to submit and vote on slogans through social media, the highest rated of which become t-shirts. That’s crowdsourcing.Advertising? Remember, in social media, we trade control for influence. If you’re not ready to relinquish control, you’re not ready for this. The best we can hope is to influence. We think back to the basics of normative economics in which everything has a value attached to it, and realize that just doesn’t fly in social interaction. If we try to financially incentivize social behavior, it could backfire easily. If you think I’m wrong, try leaving a tip the next time your mother cooks you dinner. The currency of social interaction is trust.Using the monitoring tools we discussed earlier, you will need to select the appropriate channels for this campaign, any strategy that’s willing to define the channel without due diligence is suspect.Within these channels, locate the key influencers. These may not necessarily be people with huge followings, but quality followings.At this point, we’re ready to make an informed definitions of LOE and KPI.***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Plan for high visibility – anything worth doing is worth doing rightHeavy engagement – levels will be very low at the beginning, and you don’t want to appear as though you’re talking to yourself, or broadcasting, but you should be prepared to respond quickly. People have the expectation that they are being listened to. For companies that are used to the velocity of impact that comes from “mass” media, the slow, steady approach may be frustrating.Basics: provide value – without good content, you’ve got nothing - unless you’re a celebrity, then it’s just about being a celebrity.Expertise and Opinions are a good way to energize your base – where can you provide a solution or insight?Another way to encourage interaction is to herald certain messaging with expectations, and meet those expectations, building trust.Design social objects: everyone raise their hands please? The best way to influence behavior is to give them something to imitate. These are social objects.Contests also work well, and the winners are generally very vocal, socially.***
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Web marketers are spoiled. They are so focused on analytics, and the measurability of everything – drawing a line from point a to point b. We can’t necessarily connect the dots that way in social media.So… forget the technology for a second.How did anyone ever sell outdoor - billboards, bus benches etc?
By drawing connections to what the client cares about – Cost reduction& Revenue Gen.These soft metrics might sound cool, but so what? How do we DEMONSTRATE “so what”
Maintain an activity profile…Track what you’re doingConfigure analytic funnels…Track what’s happening
Compile the soft metrics (transactional precursors)And the hard metricsAnd OVERLAY them.
When measurable events affect the bottom line, we can hypothesize that our actions had impact. The more remarkable the reaction, the more likely it is that we had impact.These numbers may still be fuzzy.But they mean something to decision makers.
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***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****Social media should be approached as a long-term strategy, supported over time by consistent communication and valuable content – you don’t want to just show up and leave – remember, the currency of social media is trust, and dependability is key.Short-term campaigns work best for follower acquisition, short bursts of increased activity to support a seasonal promotion, larger campaign or just to do something nice for your followersTo be successful, you have to stay connected***
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***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****walmart - "communities already exist, instead***
***CLICK IN TO SCROLL*****What’s the future of social media? Personally, I think it will be people connecting not only with people, but identifying with brands. It’s not been fully executed yet, but I suspect that somewhere, someone is working on a social community that panders to people’s greed and ego, and gives them an opportunity to brag (or lie!) about the products they consume. Social media will also become more mobile, and more geo-aware. Could it even evolve to the point where, sitting in a café, you hold up your smart phone, and on the screen you see an image of the people sitting at the tables, with icons hovering above their heads and hyperlinks to their profiles?***