From leveraging social platforms for employee-driven innovation, to customer care, CSR and integrated marketing campaigns, social media is a way of life at Pitney Bowes. Presentation prepared by Matt Broder
5. Social Media is Part of Everything We Do Employee Innovation Marketing Customer Service PR Philanthropy/CSR Social Media Tools & Activities
6. Are the Conditions Right for SM Success? Organizational Questions Does your organization tolerate ambiguity? How about failure? Is ‘reputation risk’ a major concern? Are experiments encouraged? Personal Questions Can you take on ‘extra’ work? Are you a social media believer? Can you commit for the long haul? WELL POORLY NO PROB I’M DEAD OH YEAH NOT REALLY FOR SURE NEVER I PROMISE MAYBE A WEEK UM, MAYBE NEXT QUESTION X MY HEART ON THE FENCE
9. Employee Innovation Basic Metrics 42 Challenges 3,000 Ideas Submitted 700 Ideas Implemented or Under Review Business Results Incremental Revenue Opportunities Increased Customer Satisfaction Increased Employee Satisfaction
10. Employee Innovation – the PR Payoff "It goes far beyond management deciding to change and to innovate, and there are so many good ideas that could be acted on that are with the people who are right there every day, dealing with customers," says Pitney Bowes Chief Executive Officer Murray Martin.
11. Customer Service – Quality, not Quantity Total Interactions # Responded To Positive Outcomes Monthly Customer Service Twitter Activity
21. Social Media is Integrated into Campaign Celebrity Endorsements Press Releases Program Website Card-Signing Events Media Outreach Social Media Tools & Activities
22. For social media, targeting is crucial Mommy bloggers Military family bloggers Teacher bloggers Amy Grant fans Spontaneous bloggers @holidaymail
24. No such thing as too much content… DC card making event Original program video DC veterans day event US Congress card signing New program video Amy Grant’s PSA Dr. Phil’s PSA Hartford state card signing Chicago Chapter volunteers Stamford card making event Individual videos Walter Reed event Thank-you 2008 Videos 2009 Videos
29. Red Cross Landing Page Traffic Veteran’s day kickoff Final push before 12/7 PO box closing Fox News Coverage Total of 155K visits; fourth most popular site on redcross.org
31. Traditional Media Results Also Strong Cumulative Media Stories: 1,249 Cumulative Impressions: 554 million
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33. 2010 Campaign is Underway… Lincoln Correctional Center Lincoln, IL
34. Please Join Us…the Mailbox is Open! Holiday Mail for Heroes PO Box 5456 Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456 www.redcross.org/holidaymail
35. Social Media as a Way of Life Matt Broder VP, External Communications Pitney Bowes Inc. Oct. 25, 2010 Twitter: @ctwordsmith
Notas do Editor
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
Welcome. Hope everyone has had a chance to visit. Today, going to cover: Overview of what the forum is How it creates value for Pitney Bowes And why creating a dynamic, vibrant community with lots of participation is essential to creating that value For those that aren’t familiar, forum… Is a venue for peer-to-peer discussion. Is organized around a series of discrete topics, like… Each topic is a “board” -- <click on one of the boards…>
… and you find a list of conversation threads. Threads are created by users Anyone can read/browse – you have to be logged in to reply/post Most common are customer service questions – usually problems with a machine – Often these are addressed to our customer service team or to people with specific hardware knowledge <click> But also topics of general interest to our customer base. One that gets a lot of traffic is a discussion of certified letters, e-signature and related issues.
Let’s take a look at how the forum creates value for Pitney Bowes. There are all sorts of intangible benefits from community – customer engagement, brand loyalty, and so forth – but measurable ROI comes mostly from customer service call deflection. We launched the Forum in April of last year with a specific goal of deflecting calls during rate change – a lot of opportunity there. <read>
We launched our community in the last week of March, 2008 [see slides]
To estimate our call deflection savings, we used a method outlined by Forrester Research in their book, “Groundswell” - created for a review a Dell Computers support forum. There are more than one kind of message in a forum – some are part of a general dialogue, and some, like this one, are direct answers to specific questions – in this case, “How do you update rates on your equipment?” [see slides]
Clearly, our investment in the forums paid off during rate change. We see it continue to pay off in our ongoing ability to provide support. While this ROI was terrific, it was based mostly on the leverage of many users reading answers from our own customer service people…..
We’re just starting to get to the point where real superusers are emerging. Our current emerging star, “Karios” is a good example of why these people are so important. This is a recent post – Viewed just 74 times so far… not much reach But that’s because it was only 1 week old when I took this screen grab.