There are many factors required for a successful marketing campaign, but if you aren't enabling your advocates to share your content and messages, you're missing a huge opportunity to drive awareness, social engagement, and website traffic. In today's socially-connected world, its more critical than ever that marketers maximize their social reach to amplify their marketing messages and credibility.
Listen in as DJ Waldow, Digital Marketing Evangelist at Marketo, and Gregory Shove, Founder and CEO at SocialChorus, demonstrate how to create emails that encourage social sharing, and how to develop an advocacy program that can transform your customers into advocates.
You'll learn how to:
-Encourage advocates to share content from existing email campaigns
-Leverage marketing automation data to find existing advocates
-Empower advocates to create and share brand content
3. Greg Shove – Founder & CEO of SocialChorus
DJ Waldow – Digital Marketing Evangelist at Marketo
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4. Over the next 38 minutes you will
learn …
• Why social matters
• How to create emails that encourage social sharing
• The importance of advocate marketing in transforming your
customers and employees into advocates
• Empower advocates to
• Reach new audiences
• Increase web traffic
• Increase conversions
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30. From email to advocates
Email is a great way to reach
your customers…
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…Advocate Marketing enables
distribution to additional audiences
through authentic, trusted sources
(friends, family and followers)
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31. Customers trust advocates
%
77
of consumers are more likely to
buy a product when they hear
about it from someone they trust
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84
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of consumers worldwide trust
recommendations from friends
and family more than any form
of advertising — Nielsen 2013
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32. The benefits of customer advocates
Customer advocates will:
• Promote brands to their
network
• Share content and
messaging
• Drive web traffic and
conversions
• Write reviews
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33. The benefits of employee advocates
Employee advocates will:
• Promote thought leadership
• Share company news
• Showcase new products
• Promote company
conscience
• Create demand for jobs
• Drive web traffic and
conversions
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34. Advocates solve marketing problems
Reach new
audiences
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Increase
web traffic
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Increase
conversions
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35. Reach new audiences
Advocates share brand content and their audiences reshare
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only 8% of employee and brand
audiences overlap, highlighting
the huge gains in reach made via
advocate marketing*
*Fortune 100 technology brand results
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36. Increase web traffic
• Thousands of trusted
sources promoting your
brand
• Average reach of over
10 million people in 12
months
• Tailored content drives
audiences to your website,
social and event pages
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37. Increases conversions with your
brand content in the feed
Audiences click on advocate shares and
tweets to drive:
• More sales
• More product trials
• More form completes
• More mailing list opt-ins
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38. Five key steps to
Advocate Marketing
• Invite your best
advocates
• Curate brand content
• Advocates create
and share content
• Audiences engage
and reshare
• All sharing and
engagement is
tracked & measured
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39. Advocates are always working for
your brand
Continual relationship with advocates who will:
• Always share on behalf
of your brand in exchange
for small Thank Yous
• Come to your brand’s
defense when things
go wrong
• Always be willing to say
something positive about
your brand
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40. This audience is proof that
Advocate Marketing works
• Webinar registrations via
SocialChorus employee
advocate program
• Supplement email
invitations
• Increase engagement
• Reach new audiences
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41. Top advocates
Social network breakdown
Amount of sharing/resharing
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Top content
Audience engagement
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43. Additional questions?
Want to learn more?
Click here to get in touch with
us: socialchorus.com/contact
Click here to get in touch with
me: djwaldow@marketo.com
Click here to learn more about
launching your Advocate
Marketing program:
socialchorus.com/resources
Click here to learn more about
Marketo:
www.marketo.com/resources
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Notas do Editor
DJ and Greg fun facts:DJ – his son’s middle name is VikingGreg -
We believe that buying has changed forever.Not that long ago, there were few 3rd party sources of information – information scarcity – which meant that a buyer had to get most of their information from sales. It also meant we lived in a world of attention abundance, with fewer channels competing for a buyer’s attention. But now, there is an explosion of readily available information— so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.All this data = buyers today are more empowered. The Web provides them with instant information gratification. They can access detailed specs, pricing, and reviews about goods and services 24/7 with a few flicks of their thumbs. Meanwhile, social media encourages them to share and compare, while mobile devices add a wherever/whenever dimension to every aspect of the experience. Result: Forrester Reports that 65-90% of buying process is complete when consumer walks into store/branch/dealer, or contacts sales. This translates to an organizational power shift from Sales to Marketing, and a corresponding responsibility shift to Marketing for a much greater share of the buying cycle.All this requires deep changes in how we market.
add slide before – three kinds of advocates giving context
website traffic, sign up and buy
Our average, an advocate participates once per month and engages 5 fans or followers with each action. Using 144 as the average number of fans/followers, the total potential reach of for any 1 advocate over a 12 month period is is 10,368. Multipled by 1000 (the average size of a successful consumer advocacy program), the average consumer advocate marketing program can reach over 10.3MM of your customers' friends/fans/followers over a 12 month period. We can tailor the content that we provid advocates to share so that when their audiences click-through, we send them to the desired environment: website homepage, special offers, purchase funnel, Facebook page, etc.