Presentation for Loyalty Labs client immersion day on hot topics in digital marketing. Audience of smart, rigorous emarketers with robust curriculum and practices in direct marketing, crm, search and other data-driven, accountable marketing disciplines. Objective: to introduce a theoretical approach in influencing consumers and offer additional forms of ROI that complement lifetime value of direct influence such as brand, consideration, new market development and search effect from Social Marketing.
2. SOCIAL MEDIA TRANSFORMS APPROACH Distribution Content Development Strategy Audience Profiling Media Landscape Change Competitive Analysis Brand Objectives & Immersion Digital Roadmap Define Design Develop Partner Deploy Measure, Optimize Plan Design Develop Partner Deploy Measure, Optimize
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5. SEARCH The SocialMap Identifies Microformat Channels and informs “The Search Cloud” through population, distribution and connecting THEORETICAL APPROACH
6. SEARCH EFFECT THROUGH SOCIALMEDIA OPTIMIZATION OLD CONTENT MODEL NEW CONTENT MODEL The website has a new role and value proposition by sharing and consuming microformatted content to the web, devices and socialnetworks
7. SEARCH EFFECT THROUGH SOCIALMEDIA OPTIMIZATION TRAD DISTRIBUTION MODEL NEW DISTRIBUTION MODEL By microformatting content you create greater relevance potential for Search demand as well as for distribution
15. SOCIAL TECHNOGRAPHICS 21% 37% 19% 35% 69% 25% Source: North American Technographics Media and Marketing Online Survey, Q2 2008
16. USERS IN EACH CATEGORY ENGAGE DIFFERENTLY Source: 2007, Trends “Social Technogaphics, Forrester Research
17. USERS IN EACH CATEGORY ENGAGE DIFFERENTLY Source: 2007, Trends “Social Technogaphics, Forrester Research
18. USERS IN EACH CATEGORY ENGAGE DIFFERENTLY Source: 2007, Trends “Social Technogaphics, Forrester Research
19. AMERICANS ARE GETTING MORE SOCIAL Source: North American Social Technographics Online Survey, Q2 2007, North American Technographics Media And marketing Online Survey, Q2 2008
In 2008 the website as we know it has new relevance, but can’t be executed absent a strategy that’s Web2.0 aware. That means we need to be microformatting our content to feed into many more places than just an email communications action plan, a promotional sitelette and a media campaign. The good news is, like the previous slide pointed out, we can leverage our past investment in digitizing our brand assets and apply many of the same best practices we’ve learned along the way. Another mandate for 2009 will be to make our brand websites and activities SocialNetwork aware through leveraging programs like Facebook Connect and Google, MySpace and Yahoo! Friend Connect so we can also earn this network effect.
Now, the quality, relevance and immediacy of experience dictate how far a signal can carry thanks to the network effect. One event can have the equivalent effect of being noticed by the local newspaper, ending up on the local news and being picked up by national and international media. Let’s spend a few minutes here following a couple of Meme’s to illustrate this network effect and how it can jump the natural bounds of geography or society like wildfire traversing a highway. Follow the Meme: Elf Yourself & Mumbai Definition: A unit of cultural information that represents a basic idea that can be transferred from one individual to another
As the Cluetrain predicted, “ Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, markets are getting smarter—and getting smarter faster than most companies. ” The effect it has on our brand’s lifetime value and marketing curriculum is profound. We’ve gone from somewhat sedentary activities like awareness, consideration, liking, preference, action and loyalty to more specific and active terms: thinking, saying, watching, researching, buying, reviewing, rating and more. How do we impact all these spaces? Through being more of us, not less. By populating more areas of the SocialMap. If it sounds daunting, don’t be too concerned. There’s great news in technologies that facilitate quicker distribution, monitoring, listening and participating more efficiently than ever.
The new brand funnel along with authentic, strategically plotted and planned executions in Social Media will bring you to the pearly gates of brand nirvana versus the alternative.