Presentation given at TFMA Februray 2010, covers:
- What ‘social media marketing’ will mean in 2010
- The listening organisation
- How to move from listening to customer engagement
- Effective ways of managing organisational challenges
Introduction To Social Media Marketing Tfm 2010 Presentation Michelle Goodall
1. Introduction to social
media marketing
Feb 2010
michelle.goodall@econsultancy.com
Michelle Goodall http://twitter.com/greenwellys
Online PR/Social Media http://www.linkedin.com/in/michellegoodall
Consultant
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3. This is what you’ll learn
- What ‘social media marketing’ means in 2010
- The listening organisation
- How to move from listening to customer
engagement
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8. Still experimenting…
How would you describe the extent of your organisation's social media activity?
Source: http://econsultancy.com/reports/social-media-and-online-pr-report
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9. News about social media + profitability
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10. Experimenting with analysis
Email
SEO
Affiliate
Links
Social Media
Paid
Search
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11. Evolution of customer service through
SM
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15. BUT, many orgs remained
unconvinced of value…
Source: http://econsultancy.com/reports/social-media-and-online-pr-report
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16. Because social media has key
challenges for orgs
Cultural
Resource
Speed
Departmentalism - corporate silos
Skills
Rapidly evolving tools
Measurement
Global vs. local
Individuals can have a loud voice
Reputation
ROI
Regulatory and legal – e.g. financial services
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18. Challenge - Culture change
Interest Invest Commit Engage Embed
Recognise Make case for Long term Move from Create a
problem or investment – commitment listening org to feedback loop to
potential resource, time, from top down to one that engages ensure
opportunities development, improve with customer innovation and
For better training etc customer through multiple evolution of org
customer interaction channels
interaction - through
further research investment
required
Source: Forrester
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21. Habitat
... ‘Twinterngate’
Social media channels are your organisation/brand eyes, ears and
voice – should you use untrained junior staff/agencies?
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25. Challenge - Skills
Increase in job roles:
Community Manager
Social Media Researcher
Social Media Strategist
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26. Challenge - Focus business objectives
not tools
“We’ve got to have a……..
……..strategy.”
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34. Do I want to hear it?
Earplugs Flickr image by: quinn.anya
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35. Why monitor?
Competitor Uncovering Discovering Reputation
Monitoring Customer opportunities Management
issues
New Entrants Products/ Expressed need – “can Social media
services/staff/ anyone recommend..” audits/network
partners analysis
New products/ ID other Gap analysis Early warning
service complainants issues IDing
New partners/ Preferred Research and Tracking
suppliers channel development campaign
success
Key advocates/ Key Key advocates/ Key advocates/
detractors advocates/ detractors detractors
detractors
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36. A successful listening organisation
has…
1. Set objectives – clear about why the are doing it
2. Understood resource required and has mandate
3. Tested and evolved keywords/phrases that they are monitoring
4. Established its main listening posts (but not ruled out evolving
channels and peripheral sites)
5. Tested and evolved free tools
6. Invested in enterprise technology if free tools unsuitable
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37. How to monitor
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38. Simple and free listening process
Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5.
Define, refine Snapshot Set up alerts Set up and Tweak
monitoring Tools and feeds manage in keyphrases
keywords/ RSS reader
phrases
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39. Enterprise Tools
Soon to be updated – Econsultancy’s Online Reputation and Buzz
Monitoring Buyer’s Guide
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40. Organisations who have moved from
listening to engaging have…
1. Set objectives based on sound business objectives
2. Have established meaningful metrics
3. Established workflows
4. Established processes – e.g. online comment policies, social
media risk matrix, escalation procedures
5. Established social media/customer engagement guidelines
6. Are prepared for positive comment and things they don’t like/
aren’t prepared for
7. Take a multi-channel approach
8. Have the right channels to respond – on-site and off-site
9. Have the right people and resources to respond
10. Established key advocates and detractors
11. Something genuinely interesting, useful and relevant to say
12. The mandate to learn by doing
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44. What channels do you own? Twitter
blog
press centre
presentation sharing
Image sharing
Video sites
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Econsultancy
45. Summary Quiz
1. What Percentage of B2B and B2C UK orgs are ‘doing nothing
in social media’?
a) B2B = 11% B2C = 8%
b) B2B = 21% B2C = 17%
c) B2B = 24% B2C = 19%
2. To the nearest $.25 million, how much has Dell Outlet
reportedly made from direct sales via Twitter? $6.5
3. What are the five key stages in Forrester’s process for orgs
wishing to develop a customer-centric organization?
a) Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
b) Relationships, Functionality, Colonization, Context, Commerce
c) Interest, Invest, Commit, Engage, Embed
4. What %age of UK orgs surveyed for Econsultancy’s SM/OPR
survey manage SM through a cross functional team? 19%
5. What %age of UK orgs have processes and workflows in place
to encourage staff use of SM? 17%
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46. Suggested reading/subscribing
Social media generic
- http://www.mashable.com
- http://www.econsultancy.com/blog
Social media measurement
• http://econsultancy.com/blog/3407-10-ways-to-measure-social-media-success
• http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/metrics/
• http://measurementcamp.wikidot.com/start
Brand monitoring
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/3890-20-free-buzz-monitoring-tools
- http://econsultancy.com/reports/online-reputation-and-buzz-monitoring-buyer-s-guide-2008
- Soon to be updated for 2010!
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47. Thanks and do connect…
michelle.goodall@econsultancy.com
http://twitter.com/greenwellys
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michellegoodall
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Most brands and orgs have a social media presence
Experimentation has moved from toe in the water to full blown integrated campaigns and use of SM to highlight customer sentiment and provide visible challenge to orgs to do better….e.g F Direct
Experimentation has moved from toe in the water to full blown integrated campaigns and use of SM to highlight customer sentiment and provide visible challenge to orgs to do better….e.g F Direct
Most brands and orgs have a social media presence
That some orgs and brands have seen value in social media for acquisition, sales and traffic, e.g. Dell…ASOS
Some orgs (less likely to share this type of date) are reviewing comparative ROI against other DM channels This report shows ave value of a visit to econsultancy from indiv dig mktng channels
Some orgs are serious about the role SM plays in customer service and retention e.g. Carphone Warehouse, Dell, Easyjet, Virgin Trains
Others have had unfortunate human errors issues painfully exposed due to the high profile of social media
And other issues have taught us that social media is more than brand, marketing and PR campaigns that a social media strategy needs to cross traditional departments and functions rather than viewing it as a bolt on to their marketing comms campaigns or operating in silos – e.g. Eurostar, Habitat Twinterngate
Community includes support forums, blogs and Ideastorm A single customer has saved Dell $1million in support costs 12,000 ideas contributed to Dell Ideastorm 400 ideas put into practice - including 6 key features in the new Latitude laptop
The biggest barrier and most underestimated…. What’s the secret of those orgs who have a well developed social media strategy? they’ve been through Hell…e.g. Dell they are a young, digital business…e.g Zappos, ASOS It’s supported top down and bottom up - They are small organisations with flatter hierarchies and silos not established What do you need to do to drive the culture change?
Forrester outlined a five stage process that organizations need to go through to foster the evolutionary change towards a customer-centric organization: 1) Interest – Discuss that there may be a problem with customer interaction and that the company may need to research its stakeholders 2) Invest – Upon realizing that there is a lack of understanding about customer needs, get the company to invest in a “voice of the customer” program 3) Commit – This is where getting C-Suite buy-in is absolutely necessary for success. The company must commit to responding to customer feedback. 4) Engage – Take the feedback from customers, and apply it across the line. Change the experience. 5) Embed – Make the customer experience feedback loop and product innovation part of the actual cultural lifeblood of the organization. metrics, Covered by Karl Harvard but can include – operational cost savings as well as
MM can help develop the Invest stage by using metrics that orgs are used to and introducing others that might be learned and developed through social media strategy development Reputation/PR metrics - PR industry has been grappling with this…reality is very few orgs deny the value of a positive/earned reputation (with exception of Ryan Air)….value of conversations through dig channels is the ability to create some tangible metrics. Covered in more detail by Karl Harvard but can include – ….
Increase in social media manager, community manager type roles…..the Dell’s of this world have cross functional and community manager approach….understand role and resp within the enterprise and who to pass on to… Most orgs currently view social media as the resp of the digital marketing or PR teams…but I predict that we will see more cross functional teams in 2010.the 2% who are allowing students or interns to manage their SM will have learned from Habitat’s Twitter hashtag issue
For those of you who don’t know….
‘ Real time’ not fast enough…..orgs struggling to manage the issues that real time conversations can have on their siloed structures…..expectations from customer Tweeting a customer service complaint or posting an issue on a Face book Group vs. different from posting a feedback form in an in-store box or writing a letter. Equally so many orgs are ill equipped for the social media issues that can erupt (almost out of nowhere)..e.g. Paper chase Hidden Eloise Motrin Mums (Jeremiah Owyang’s blog post)
Obvious that the orgs who are embracing and seeing most value from SM are smaller orgs with flatter org structures and therefore, fewer dept/silo issues….reality is that a customer using social media won’t care who you are, but that you represent the org that they want to engage with, complain to, get involved with, donate to etc…
When my car breaks down, Louise is the person who represents the RAC, yet she is only one touch point… Telling that the orgs who are embracing and seeing most value from SM are smaller orgs with flatter org structures and therefore, fewer dept/silo issues….reality is that a customer using social media won’t care who you are, but that you represent the org that they want to engage with, complain to, get involved with, donate to etc…
Couple of issues here: Early adopters of SM have largely been Marketing/PR/Digital experts – some wanting to hold on to their knowledge In spite of the wealth of information and assets out there, those (agencies and orgs) who have invested heavily in SM are reluctant to share knowledge (quite rightly)… Training can cover a lot of the basics (quick plug for Econ – 2,500 OPR/SM students in X years), but no substitute for getting your hands dirty…..do things under the radar, measure, demonstrate ROI etc
We can so we will…..develop X Twitter feeds, X FB pages, X LinkedIn group, 8 org blogs etc Being first can give you some PR mileage, but when you have to exit/abandon channels because you can’t justify resource/time – better to create a strategic plan to resource, manage and provide content for a few channels dependent on where you audiences are and what you wish to measure do…..BUSINESS OBJECTIVES!!!
Can be a bad or a good thing…. Paper chase Hidden Eloise Coca Cola – unofficial FB group Issue here is understanding who your customers are, where they are, the networks they operate within and how you can help and engage (is it appropriate, who, what channels etc)
Can be a bad or a good thing…. Paper chase Hidden Eloise Coca Cola – unofficial FB group Issue here is understanding who your customers are, where they are, the networks they operate within and how you can help and engage (is it appropriate, who, what channels etc)
Social media with all its instant "updates" is a medium where mistakes will happen. Ideally, not too often, and there is a need for companies to have social media guidelines. However, human errors will occur and by doing so, will demonstrate that there are real people, with real personalities, like you and me, behind the corporate face. Sometimes it's not a bad thing to divert from scripts and rigourous communications processes. Isn't this what the social web is all about? Online organisations recognising this fact have the opportunity to build stronger relations with their customers and attract new ones. People relate to people. I suspect Vodafone will come out of this in a very positive way, especially with the honesty they demonstrated after the incident occurred. Although the @mentions to everyone did turn up the Twitter decibels somewhat, I'm pretty sure they will look back at last Friday very fondly in the months to come, even if it doesn't feel like that at the moment.
Social media with all its instant "updates" is a medium where mistakes will happen. Ideally, not too often, and there is a need for companies to have social media guidelines. However, human errors will occur and by doing so, will demonstrate that there are real people, with real personalities, like you and me, behind the corporate face. Sometimes it's not a bad thing to divert from scripts and rigourous communications processes. Isn't this what the social web is all about? Online organisations recognising this fact have the opportunity to build stronger relations with their customers and attract new ones. People relate to people. I suspect Vodafone will come out of this in a very positive way, especially with the honesty they demonstrated after the incident occurred. Although the @mentions to everyone did turn up the Twitter decibels somewhat, I'm pretty sure they will look back at last Friday very fondly in the months to come, even if it doesn't feel like that at the moment.
Publishing and retail leading with the most involvement in social media, clear that some sectors e.g. financial services and healthcare are hindered by specific regulatory environments
Many orgs struggling with legal issues around SM name squatting now the whole new area of location based SM issues, data, privacy etc
More robust solutions for organisations serious about listening – most have dashboards, multiple user capabilities, workflow tracking, sentiment analysis etc
ASOS have this too….
Forrester A – is 5 stage of open source software development, B – 5 eras of social web