Many franchise brands continue to struggle to define their presence on social media and outline an effective strategy in a world that constantly changes. Getting the franchisee network to adopt a new system that produces quantifiable results often presents another hurdle in the process.
This webinar hosted by Google’s Wildfire Social Media Team and Location3 Media will help franchise systems address the following social media challenges at the national and local level:
- Balancing Corporate messaging with consumers’ desire for local voice, content and connection
- Trusting local managers and store owners to represent the brand
- Store-level resources, time, training and turnover
- Ability to create content and manage engagement at the local level
- Centralized reporting for all social channels across all stores
Insights and Reporting (i.e. What?, Why? So What?, Now What?)
- Consistently evolving marketing channel
- Perceived Costs
3. Angie Pascale – Social Media Director
As Social Media Director,Angie Pascale provides strategic direction in developing, executing and
analyzing social media and content programs for enterprise and multi-unit businesses, and oversees
internal and external communications for Location3 Media.
Bethany Tsui – Strategic Partner Manager
Bethany is a Strategic Partner Manager at Wildfire by Google, a marketing platform that enables brands
to grow, engage and monetize their social audience. Bethany has co- led the Wildfire Channel Sales
Initiative since January of 2011.
4. ABOUT LOCATION3
Location3 was founded in 1999 as a digital marketing company providing direct response results to clients on a global scale through search
engine marketing, display, mobile, social and creative design & development solutions. Given that Google was launched in 1998, it’s fair to
say that we are veterans in the search marketing space with a wealth of experience in integrated digital marketing strategy.
Location3 Media forms strategic partnerships with brands to increase findability and performance across all digital platforms. In an ever-
shifting and growing environment, we strive to stay at the forefront of digital innovation to ensure our clients have access to the most
dynamic and effective strategies and solutions.
5. Control
Integrated
Digital
Solutions
Build Awareness &
Word of Mouth
Capture Leads
& Data
Reputation
Management &
Customer Service
Amplify Reach Across
All Channels Drive Sales
Our Objective
Connect Google Partners experienced
with integrated digital solutions to
businesses that want to drive results
across all channels.
GOOGLE’S WILDFIRE PARTNER PROGRAM
6. THE TRADITIONAL MENTAL MODEL OF MARKETING
First
Moment of
Truth
Second
Moment of
Truth
Stimulus
Sales Representative,
Website or
Retail
Experience
Source: Socialnomics, 2009; Google/ Shopper Sciences Zero Moment of Truth Study, 2011,
Febuary 23, 2012; Alex Trimpe via Ogilvy — February 21, 2011, ThinkQuarterly, Google
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
7. THE NEW MENTAL MODEL OF MARKETING
First
Moment of
Truth
Second
Moment of
Truth
Stimulus
Research, Education,
Validation
Sales Representative,
Website or
Retail
Experience
Source: Socialnomics, 2009; Google/ Shopper Sciences Zero Moment of Truth Study, 2011,
Febuary 23, 2012; Alex Trimpe via Ogilvy — February 21, 2011, ThinkQuarterly, Google
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
8. In 2010, we needed information from 5.4 sources before making a purchase.
By the end of 2011, we needed 10.4.
Source: Socialnomics, 2009; Google/ Shopper Sciences Zero Moment of Truth Study, 2011,
Febuary 23, 2012; Alex Trimpe via Ogilvy — February 21, 2011, ThinkQuarterly, Google
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9. An era of self-serve information
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11. Your owned social presence is becoming more important than your website
Visits in May 20121
23,000 website
320,000 Facebook
Owned Media is all of the advertiser’s pages on the internet
1. ComScore “The Power of Like 2,” 2012
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12. Having a paid media strategy for social is evolving from an option to a necessity
11Bbranded impressions
monthly
Paid Media drives traffic to owned properties
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13. You can’t create it, you can’t buy it, but you can try to influence more of it
WOM
Branded
Website
92%1
58%
Consumer
Trust Report
Earned Media is created by users, for a business
1 Nielsen Global Trust in Advertising Survey, 2012
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15. CONVERGENCE OF MEDIA IS IMPORTANT, BUT WHY
DOES IT HAVE TO BE LOCAL?
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16. A POST FROM A LOCAL
BUSINESS REACHES
5X THE PERCENTAGE
OF FANS AS A
CORPORATE POST
Source: Mainstay Salire, Research Study “The Power of Going Local,” 2012 #FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
17. It’s Someone They Know. Local fans relate more effectively to localized content from their local merchants.
Corporate pages by contrast, suffer from what many people dub the “creepiness” factor.
Local Content is More Visible in News Feed. Facebook uses a complex algorithm called EdgeRank that filters the
user’s news feed to give greater visibility to posts considered more “personally relevant” to individual users.
Local Relevance. Local business owners and managers occupy a front row seat in their community, and as such,
are ideally positioned to create timely, pertinent posts that spur clicks, likes, comments, shares and views.
LOCAL FANS DELIVER EXPONENTIALLY MORE MARKETING
VALUE THAN CORPORATE FANS…TO THE TUNE OF 40:1
Source: Mainstay Salire, Research Study “The Power of Going Local,” 2012
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18. LOCAL SOCIAL CONNECTIONS = LOCAL SEO VALUE
Social activity is factored into organic search engine results on Google and Bing, making it important to actively manage social media not just for
the connections you can create on that social media channel, but also for potential ranking benefits.
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19. LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD, GIVING
SMALLER BRANDS A BIGGER VOICE.
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20. A NETWORK OF LOCAL
SOCIAL PAGES HAS
THE POTENTIAL TO
DRIVE DRAMATICALLY
GREATER BUSINESS
RESULTS.
Source: Mainstay Salire, Research Study “The Power of Going Local,” 2012 #FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
21. Balancing Corporate messaging with consumers’ desire for local voice,
content and connection
Trusting local managers and store owners to represent the brand
Store-level resources, time, training and turnover
Ability to create content and manage engagement at the local level
Centralized reporting for all social channels across all stores
Insights and Reporting (i.e. What?, Why? So What?, Now What?)
Consistently evolving marketing channel
Perceived Costs
SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGES
AT THE LOCAL LEVEL
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24. Understand The
Needs of Your
Audience
Understand The
Behavior of Your
Audience
Deliver Value To
Your Audience
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27. Content Pillars provide a creative filter and platform that is rooted
in customer needs, brand voice and personality, and business
objectives.
Pillars represent a starting point that allow a brand to live within
its core environment, while also stretching into adjacent, relevant
and credible aspects of your customers’ lives.
Local stores can also use the pillars to understand what content
should be created and curated.
CONTENT PILLARS
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29. WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS SHOULD YOU USE?
Primary
Facebook Twitter
LinkedIn
Personal
Pages
Secondary
Pinterest YouTube Instagram VineFoursquare
Google+
Local
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
30. SPEND 1 HOUR PER DAY (MON-FRI)
MANAGING SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS AND
LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO ENGAGE WITH.
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31. WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS SHOULD YOU NOT USE?
MySpace
(New or Old)
LinkedIn
Company Pages at a
Local Level
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32. THE #1 REASON PEOPLE FOLLOW BRANDS IN SOCIAL MEDIA IS
COUPONS/DISCOUNTS.
Source: Get Satisfaction Study
To increase your audience:
• Offer coupons/discounts
• Create social-only promotions
• Run contests or sweeps
Special
Offers/Deals,
37%
Current
Customer,
33%
Friends are
Fans of
Brand, 6%
Interesting or
Entertaining
Content,
18%
Service,
Support or
Product
News, 5%
Other, 1%
Special
Offers/Deals,
44%
Current
Customer,
24%
Friends are
Fans of
Brand, 6%
Interesting or
Entertaining
Content,
23%
Service,
Support or
Product
News, 4%
Other, 1%
FACEBOOK &
MYSPACE
TWITTER
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
33. Objective
• Expand online community & drive traffic into restaurants
Strategy
• Fan- gated a coupon campaign, redeemable in-store
• Integrated marketing approach to advertise campaign and generate
online interest
Results
• > 7,000 coupons to fans
• Coupons directly contributed to additional restaurant visits and ROI
• Facebook page received > 10,000 new “Likes”
• Web traffic continue to rise in the months following the campaign.
Expand Social Audience, Drive Traffic In-store
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
34. Grow Online Community, Drive Sales
Objective
• Increase market share, create new brand advocates, expand social
audience
• Daily sweepstakes for 100 days
• Social as part of integrated marketing solution
Results
• 2 biggest sales days during the campaign
• 322,664 total entries (3,226 entries per day)
• Social audience increased by 1,000%:
–5,200 to over 59,000 fans #FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
36. TheDosBE HUMAN
BE KNOWLEDGEABLE
BE CURRENT
BE FRIENDLY AND OPEN
BE CONSISTENT
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37. TheDon’tsSHOW-OFF
IGNORE PEOPLE
ASSUME EVERYONE IS ON
YOUR LEVEL
BE REPETITIVE
OSTRACIZE YOUR AUDIENCE
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38. The most successful brands on social media post content
that ascribes to one (or all) of these three themes:
• PASSION: Connects with user passions and/or interests
• PERSONALITY: Entertains users with an engaging
personality
• INFORMATION: Provides interesting and/or important
information to users
3 THEMES TO KEEP IN MIND
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40. HOW CAN YOU BE MORE EFFICIENT?
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41. Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adambowie/967409050/
CURATE, DON’T JUST CREATE
You don’t have to create all of your content; share and engage with content
from others:
• Content provided by National
• Other locations
• Relevant local and national news
• Related local businesses and organizations
• Influencers
• Employees
• Customers
USE TOOLS
Use free and inexpensive tools to make management, monitoring and
measurement simpler and more effective.
KICKSTART YOUR ENGAGEMENT
Encourage staff to Like, comment on and share your social media content
shortly after posting to give it an initial boost, and increase reach and
likelihood of continued engagement.
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
42. • On Facebook, videos are shared 12x more than links and text posts combined
• On Facebook, photos are liked 2x more than text updates
• Photo and video posts on Pinterest are referring more traffic than Twitter, Linkedin
and Google+
• Viewers spend 100% more time on pages with videos on them
• Viewers are 85% more likely to purchase a product after watching a product video
VISUAL CONTENT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT FOR
GENERATING AWARENESS AND ENGAGEMENT IN SOCIAL MEDIA.
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44. HOW TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS IN SOCIAL MEDIA
Getting to know them
Understand what topics they discuss and share,
who they communicate with and how often they
link to social profiles of other brands (indicating
the likelihood of them doing the same for you).
The payoff
The objective is to develop such a good rapport
that they are compelled to retweet or engage with
you on other social channels; thereby getting your
name and content out to their entire network.
Showing the love
Engage with them through social channels (e.g.,
reply or retweet on Twitter). Share their original
content or share the messages they post.
Finding the influencers
Use manual searching and Klout to locate
individuals within your market that have large
followings and similar audiences.
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
45. WHO ARE THE INFLUENCERS?
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46. People that draw a huge
crowd in social media and
have big mouths.
LOCAL REPORTERS
BUSINESS OWNERS
LOCAL ORG BOARD MEMBERS
LOCAL BLOGGERS
LOCAL INDUSTRY PROS
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47. 30% OF CUSTOMERS SHARE GOOD EXPERIENCE VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
Generating testimonials:
• Ask!
• Make it easy to provide
feedback
• Prompt with questions, don’t
leave it open ended
• Incorporate into website
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Source: Dimensional Research 2013 Report
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48. Capture Leads, Drive Engagement, Scale for
Enterprise
Objective
• Coordinate marketing efforts across regional teams on a
single platform to drive growth and engagement
Results
• 200+ unique tabs published
• 85,000+ leads acquired
• Engagement increasing by 14% MoM
• Managed 130,000+ social messages
• 2.9+ million impressions
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
49. .Incentivize & Boost Sales with Discounts
Strategy
• Coupon giveaway to Lasik procedure
• Integrated campaigns with client testimonials on YouTube
Results
• 373 coupon entries
• Huge sales boost:
• 2 highest sales months since company’s founding
in 1996
• 40% increase in sales from previous year
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
51. SOCIAL & MOBILE
MAKE INFORMATION
INSTANTLY ACCESSIBLE
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52. SOCIAL & MOBILE
MAKE INFORMATION
INSTANTLY ACCESSIBLE
BUT INCREASE THE
RISK OF BAD REVIEWS
IN REAL TIME
53. “The majority of the reviews
submitted are 1- star or 5- stars.
People are usually motivated when
they’ve had a very good or very bad
experience.”
1/3 of people will remove a negative
review if business responds.
Sources: David Latham, CarWoo VP of Markting; Yelp #FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
55. HOW TO PRIORITIZE CUSTOMER HAPPINESS
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Monitor frequently
Know who is responsible
Respond quickly
Create standard responses, but keep it flexible
and personalize
Drive conversations offline, or at least off social
Engage with and reward positive brand
advocates
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
56. UTM link tracking to see conversions to a website from Wildfire pages and posts
• Attribute website traffic to Wildfire campaigns using link tracking
• Measure social traffic using standard web metrics & multi-channel funnels
Attribute to campaigns
Attribute to channels
Wildfire & Google Analytics: End- to- End Tracking
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
57. Reduce Client Attribution, Drive Calls, Capture
Leads & Referrals
Strategy
• Campaigns & winners published across YouTube,
Facebook & Twitter
• Campaigns encouraged recommendations, sharing,
and option to receive a follow-up call from the
practices
Results
• Social audiences grew by 217%
• Average campaign received 138 leads
• 12% participants requested call from dentist
• 29% participants from outside the practice #FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp
62. NATIONAL
National should have at least one full-time, dedicated social
media staff member.
Job duties include:
• Create content for national and local efforts
• Manage communities
• POC for HR, operations and other internal departments
• POC for marketing department or digital/social media
agency
• Track performance to show success at meeting business
objectives
LOCAL
Local owners can handle social in a variety of ways:
• Hire part-time employee
• Assign social duties to current employee
• Owner manages social media
• Hire college intern in marketing/communications
• Hire freelancer/contractor
Individual should be a good communicator, have excellent
written skills, experience in marketing or communications
field and preferably have experience using social media in a
professional environment.
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63. Enterprise Scale & Control
One account to manage thousands of properties
80+ templates for instant execution, deployment, & duplication
Activity audits & customized workflows for complete corporate admin control
Campaign Performance & Measurement
Best-in-class social campaigns (400k+ campaigns built)
Analytics dashboard integrated with Google Analytics tracks end-to-end performance & attribution
Visionary Roadmap for Google Integration
An integrated roadmap will allow partners to leverage Google products for all aspects of their clients’ marketing
services, with a deep focus on G+, YouTube, and Google Analytics
Client Satisfaction & Success
Google’s social platform drives business results for clients and advertisers
Leverage Wildfire’s leadership and experience in marketing strategy and best practices
Wildfire + Google Partnership Advantage
#FranchiseSocial | @Location3 | @WildfireApp