Traditional top-down marketing is dead. Consumers don’t trust advertising, but they do trust each other. Online technologies such as FaceBook, MySpace, and the iPhone are facilitating a revolution in peer-to-peer communication. How does business today engage with new online strategies to build loyal customer communities? Learn about Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Phones, Blogs, and other rapidly emerging technologies that are forever changing the foundations of marketing. Learn how Sustainable Business is perfectly aligned to take advantage of this new era of Transparency and Trust. Joey Shepp will help you decode the online jargon and prepare you for marketing in an online world.
14. New Media is the Vehicle for Green Marketing
•Transparent
•Accountable TRUST
•Accessible
The Basis for
•Open Communicating and Facilitating
•Democratic Sustainability
Moving Beyond
Greenwashing
16. Embrace Going Green
• Meet customers where they are at:
• busy, guilty, cautious
• understand their suffering
• Congratulate people for their
progress
• Think timeline to sustainability
17. Do it Yourself, for FREE
• Build a Web Page
• Start a Blog
• Start a Social Network
• Start a Media Channel
18. Tell Your Story
• Blogs: Frequent Updates
• YouTube: Your Own Video Channel / Seeing is believing
• Respond to your customer!
• Create Fans, Gain an Audience
23. Avoid Greenwashing
1. THE AD MISLEADS WITH WORDS
2. THE AD MISLEADS WITH VISUALS AND/OR
GRAPHICS
3. THE AD MAKES A GREEN CLAIM THAT IS
VAGUE OR SEEMINGLY UNPROVABLE
4. THE AD OVERSTATES OR EXAGGERATES
HOW GREEN THE PRODUCT/COMPANY/
SERVICE ACTUALLY IS
5. THE AD LEAVES OUT OR MASKS
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, MAKING THE
GREEN CLAIM SOUND BETTER THAN IT IS
24. Green Marketing 2.0 Summary
•Web 2.0 is a disruptive technology for marketing
• Away from Top Down, moving to Peer to Peer
•Web 2.0 has inherent Green and Social qualities
• Open, Affordable, Transparent, Democratic, Accountable
•Green Marketing 2.0 combines New Media with Values
• Opportunity to move beyond Greenwashing into facilitating real sustainability.
30. The New Venture
The Virtual Business
No Overhead
Rapid Development
Collaboration
Free Marketing
31. Tools You Need
1. Google Apps: Email, Calendar, Office Documents
2. Skype: Free world-wide calling
3. Basecamp: Project Management
4. Survey Monkey: Market Research
5. Google Analytics: Web Stats
6. Highrise: CRM
7. Vonage: Cheap VOIP Phone
8. Google Alerts: PR Clipping