Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Social Media Engagement
1. Social
Media
Engagement
Training
David
Liem
Partner,
Happy
Marketer
david@happymarketer.com
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2. About Happy Marketer?
• Headquartered in Singapore
• Provides Strategic Consulting and
Training Services
• Focused on bringing market leading
thought leadership in Social Media
Marketing to APAC
• Trained over 1500 professionals in
less than 2 years
• Yahoo & Google Certified Partners
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3. Happy Marketer.
more business from your website
A little about myself…
David Liem
Senior Consultant, Happy Marketer
david@happymarketer.com
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27. How do you spend time on the Internet?
Rank the following according to time spend:
1. Games
2. Social Networks / Blogs
3. Email
4. Search Engines
5. Videos/Movies
6. IM
7. Online Shopping
8. Online Portals: (Yahoo!, MSN)
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40. Emerging Web Design Trends
• “Don’t make me think”
• Simple Navigation
• Large Headlines vs lots of text
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41. Socialize Your Website
• Add social media buttons to your home page
• Add a Facebook Like box to your website
• Portal for your social media channels
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42. Strengths & Weaknesses
• Strengths
• Effective for branding, sparking excitement with product
announcements, information gathering from official source
• Weaknesses
• May appear ‘one-sided’, glossed over, fake
• Info may not be as ‘cutting edge’ as 3rd party sites
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49. Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
• Source of ‘alternative’ views, comments = transparency,
better understanding
• Product reviews / testimonials are powerful to shape
customer sentiment
• Great for PR
Weaknesses
• Lots of clutter / overload of information
• No control over user sentiment
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56. Strengths & Weaknesses
• Strengths
• It’s where the fishes are
• Repeat visitors, convenient channel to communicate
• Great for branding, short term engagement
• Weaknesses
• Hard to find direction/purpose, takes time
• Not strong for conversions without significant incentives
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61. Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
• High degree of engagement, realism, more likely to be
shared and go ‘viral’
• Powerful to shape user sentiment
• Consistent content rewards consistent viewers
Cons
• Can be Costly (but high quality content almost always
works)
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66. Strengths & Weaknesess
Strengths
• ‘Faster than TV’, cutting edge
• Easy to use, get ideas and answers
• Used by mobile & tablet users
• Share info quickly, directly interact, listen
Weaknesses
• 140 characters, time consuming, narcissistic, boring, service
often overwhelmed, low engagement levels
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70. Deals websites
• Effectively boost your brand visibility
• Groupon: 77 per cent of their users are women
• Can also tarnish your company’s reputation if deal is
misleading.
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73. Google +
Strengths
•Friend’s circle makes it easy to share info with the right
group of friends, or colleagues,
•Less invasive / embarrassing adding people
•Group Hangout : video chat with up to 10 people
•Integrates with other Google products
Weaknesses
•Not easy to sort out info on Stream
•Reminiscent in many way of its main competitor: Facebook
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76. A fast sincere response = fast recovery
• A video apologizing from Director of Operations
• Ensures customers of
Action steps
• Invited to voice
Concerns on facebook
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77. Not So SMRT:
A Case Study of Communications Failure
• Disruptions not updated by Twitter despite happening
during working hours
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78. Even internal messages were made public
• Public did not take lightly to
the internal memo.
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79. Only at 11pm SMRT Responded
• In the absence of information, ‘Trolls’ take over
• Failure to develop communication channel in crisis situation
for internal and external parties
• Failure to listen to public feedback during crisis
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