Social Commerce: Turning Their Friends into Your Salesforce -- Going Beyond Recommendations into Social Commerce
Learn how to leverage social networking technology to go beyond recommendations and link your customers to each other. People trust recommendations from their friends more than any form of advertising. Leverage these relationships to turn your online store into a social community where your customers come to talk with their friends. Social commerce creates "sticky" sites that bring customers back for more. Learn how Ripple6 will integrate a community with your eStore.
1. Turning Their Friends into Your Salesforce Going Beyond Recommendations into Social Commerce July 29, 2009 [email_address]
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6. Social Media Drives Purchase Almost half of online users have made purchases based on social media recommendations
7. Looking to Social Media When Shopping Source: “The Impact of Social Media on Purchasing Behavior” DEI worldwide, OTX Research; The Society for word of Mouth Shoppers look to social media more than anything else for information that drives their purchase decision.
30. Next Week’s Webinar How Conversations Between Your Customers Improve your Business Or why you should put a big comfy couch on your web site. July 29, 2009 [email_address]
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Employing social networking technology to increase interest, increase engagement, and leverage the power of social marketing to get friends to help each other choose to purchase your products.
More than half of online community members (54 percent) log into their community at least once a day, and 55 %-- say they feel as strongly about their online communities as they do about their real-world communities. 56% of members reported meeting their online counterparts in person. 71% of members said their community is very important or extremely important to them.
Source: “The Impact of Social Media on Purchasing Behavior” DEI worldwide, OTX Research; The Society for word of Mouth
Objectives (anyone can bring these tools) More time on site Frequency of visits More members Strategic Execution (Few can build the things that…) Encourage participation Introduce members so they build networks Integrate products to the experience
Personalization, profiles, and the creation of identities. When users do this, it enhances the first two parts with context and relevance. More conversation are started. More connections are made. For retailers, this creates an environment where you can understand much more about the community, and about what members of the community are looking for.
One criteria is the amount of content that users are creating, and, more importantly, the amount that they’re sharing with one another. This post was actually the shared piece of content on the network this month, something WE MEASURE AS RIPPLES – THE NUMBER OF TIMES SOMETHING IS SAVED, SHARED WITH A FRIEND, OR SHARED WITH A GROUP. AND WE CAN MEASURE THE DEGREES OF RIPPLES FROM ONE GROUP TO THE NEXT AND THE NEXT AND THE NEXT.
Self perpetuating
AKA Reverse Book Club Recent purchase groups
Groups create friends News feeds drive recommendations
Self perpetuating
98% of the visitors who are visiting and not purchasing Private Insights Groups Primary Research Ongoing discussions Listen and Engage Opportunistically Lots of conversations Lots of Social Data
This happens in the community section of the site not the commerce section If you’re selling Hitachi and Sony, maybe Hitachi wants to talk to Sony’s customers.
Creates organic conversations around brands and builds advocates in an influential environment Scales across communities Does not cannibalize PV revenue 6-Multiple Package Options
“ Not just unique users, but how and why they’re unique.” What are they talking about? Are they interested in a product we’re not offering?
The web is much more social today.
Employing social networking technology to increase interest, increase engagement, and leverage the power of social marketing to get friends to help each other choose to purchase your products.