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Social media in companies
The online relationship
with the market
2
The new consumption relations


       After the breaking down of physical barriers fueled                                            In this context, Deloitte has developed the “Social
       by the Internet worldwide, access to information                                               Media in Companies” survey with the aim to
       has become much easier and faster. At the Web,                                                 determine the degree of maturity achieved by Brazilian
       connected customers have gained more bargain                                                   organizations as to the social media boom in the
       power and they play now the role of decision-                                                  world.
       makers that interfere in the reputation of suppliers,
       influencing and being influenced by other people                                               Through this study, Deloitte’s efforts were aimed at
       navigating online in the internet.                                                             showing how social media can be used as a strategic
                                                                                                      business pillar while bringing consumers and suppliers
       At the same time, these media have opened                                                      near to each other.
       opportunities for companies to foster debates on
       their own products and services. And so, through                                               Identifying the benefits of these online tools, the
       the aggregate of opinions on their brand from large                                            survey also introduces the social media as a social
       groups, these companies can benefit from a type                                                platform through which companies can use not only
       of collective intelligence which can surely bring                                              as an advertising channel, but mainly as a way of
       innovation and differentiation to their products,                                              getting closer to their consuming public.
       services and other elements of their business model.




       Index
       Study methodology and sample. ....................................................................................................4
       Social media landscape in Brazil ......................................................................................................5
       The adoption of social media ...........................................................................................................7
       Companies exploiting social media................................................................................................8
       Companies that watch the revolution from afar .................................................................... 16
       Tips to enhanced social media strategy..................................................................................... 18




                                                                                                                                                   Social media in companies 3
Study methodology and sample


       “Social Media in Companies” survey carried out            followed by Rio de Janeiro (7%), and Minas Gerais
       by Deloitte aimed at portraying the new ways of           (6%). Multinational companies represent 16% of the
       interaction between companies and their public,           participating companies and the remaining 84% are
       provides a panorama on the use of these tools in the      domestic companies.
       country, and was developed through the application
       of an online questionnaire on the Deloitte website        A little over 50% of the participants are small sized
       (www.deloitte.com.br) from February to March 2010.        companies, while medium and large companies
       Deloitte has also visited ten companies for qualitative   represent 26% and 22% respectively, in the sample.
       interviews: Accor Hospitality, Azul, Boehringer           The measurement criteria concerning the size of the
       Ingelheim, Bradesco, Editora Globo, IBM, Natura,          participating companies in this survey was the same
       Nokia, Roche, and Tecnisa.                                employed by Deloitte in its internal classification.

       The survey approached companies of various                The companies in the services industry represent
       segments and economic sizes, an aggregate of 302          33% of the sample, followed by retail, consumer
       companies operating in the country. São Paulo was         goods and transport (20%), technology, media and
       the state with the majority of respondents (63%),         telecommunications (17%).




       Surveyed companies revenue*                               Distribution by respondent company segments
       (%)                                                       (%)
                                                                                5    3
                                                                           5
                                            22
                                                                      6                                33



                                                                 11
       52
                                                    9




                                            17                            17
                                                                                                20

            Above R$ 500 million                                      Services
            From R$ 201 million to R$ 500 million                     Retail, consumer goods and transport
            From R$ 51 million to R$ 200 million                      Technology, media and telecommunications
            From R$ 5 million to R$ 50 million                        Manufacture
                                                                      Health
       *R$ 1 = US$ 0.55 (june 2010)                                   Financial services
                                                                      Real estate
                                                                      Energy and natural resources




4
Social media landscape in Brazil


                          With the increase in popularity among the very                            In this context, the tools promoting social relationship
                          consumers in recent years, social media have                              and online dialogue among users make these new
                          become a relevant strategic tool to companies of all                      customers a lot more demanding at the time they, are
                          sizes and economic industries. Customers’ patterns                        to procure a product.
                          have changed when the Internet broke down the
                          geographic barrier and brought speed to the access                        On social media, the reputation of a company is
                          to information, making it easier to find companies and                    beyond the control of its management. Through
                          products on the Web, and consequently, increasing                         communities, blogs, sites such as Orkut, applications
                          the prospects of online transactions.                                     such as Twitter, and other channels, the reputation
                                                                                                    starts to be defined by the actions of people,
                                                                                                    customers and other online influencers. The graphic
                                                                                                    below shows an example of this loss of control by the
                                                                                                    companies over the generation of information and
                                                                                                    dissemination process.



 The flow of information in the new media

                                                                   3
                                        2                               Contents        Online user post comments and the
   Comments on independent blogs                                       aggregator       readers vote the best postings
   on the article                             Blog



                          1                                                                                      4
      Article describes
                              Article
      the new products
                                                                                             Email, SMS
                                                                                              and MMS                Readers send links to friends via
                                                                                                                     email or text messages




                                                                                                           5
                                                                                    Blogs, videos              The article becomes the topic of the day in blogs
                                                                                     and social                and “video-responses” generated by users are the
                                                                                      networks                 most viewed worldwide. Positions such as “I love/
                                                                                                               hate” are present in hundreds of fan links

                                        News, media
                                        and portals

                                                                   6


                                   News portals and mass media
                                   select “most popular stories”


                                                                                                                                     Social media in companies 5
Feeling comfortable in this virtual environment,            that defines the success of any interaction that
                            this neo-customer wishes to perform the maximum             companies may have with their consumers when
                            number of online activities possible, from making           considering the social media as a strategic
                            new friends to shopping, since on the Web the               business pillar.
                            shopping and consume experience can go in a much
                            differentiated and social way. On the Internet, other       In order to enhance the use of social media,
                            consumers can express their preferences in favor of         companies need to establish their own brand
                            suppliers and products, which tends to influence            spokespeople, who will talk to the market and see
                            a potential buyer at the time of purchase. Further          that value is passed on to their businesses. The
                            still, consumers do identify themselves with virtual        companies need, after all, to “humanize” themselves
                            strangers coming to trust, and it is this identification    through the social media.




                                      Uses new
                                     channels for
                                        online
                                    communication

                                                                                        The challenge – complexity of the new
                                                                 Takes on online
       Seeks support                                              opinions from         social consumer
      to connect with                                              friends and
        his/her peers                                               strangers           • Internet connects consumers and encourages
                                                                                          relevant changes in the consumer behavior

                                                                                        • Social platforms create a new and complex
                                                                                          paradigm to connect individuals
                                      The new
                                       social
                                     consumer                                           • Interactions between consumers and brands
   Reads and                                                             Tends to         start at an early stage and see no end
creates rankings,                                                     buy more online
   blogs etc.                                                           rather than
                                                                          offline       • Social relationships with consumers cover
                                                                                          more than simply reacting to the demand and/
                                                                                          or manufacturing customized products and
                                                                                          services
                      Expects
                       better                         Is willing to
                     experience                      offer feedback
                    online rather                   on products and
                    than offline                        services




6
The adoption of social media


        Companies that use or monitor on social media   The survey reveals that about 70% of the Brazilian
        (%)                                             companies have already stepped into this new
                                                        trend and use and/or are monitoring on what’s
              30                                        going on online. Despite the large number of
                                                        organizations that use social media, their majority
                                                        still don’t fully achieve all promised benefits, don’t
                                                        understand the risks, or could not yet fully
                                                        implement social media to the whole company, which
                                                        would demand a change of culture and habits to
                                                        those actors-to-be professionals in the relationship
                                         70
                                                        activity with the market. These factors cause these
                                                        companies to lose competitive advantage as the
                                                        ones that have spearheaded the adoption towards
          Yes
                                                        these practices are to enjoy the benefits associated
          No
                                                        with image, reputation, and customer satisfaction
                                                        beforehand.

        Companies that use or monitor on social media
        by segment (%)                                  Among the participating sectors, the manufacture
                                                        industry is the fourth biggest in number of
                       4   3
                   4
                                                        companies already using or monitoring the social
              5
                                                        media. This data is contrary to the perception by a
                                              38        portion of the market that social media apply only
         7                                              to companies having a close relationship with
                                                        end-users, such as services, telecommunications,
                                                        and retail organizations. This evidences a certain
                                                        maturity of the Brazilian market concerning the
                                                        knowledge of what social media can provide to the
         19
                                                        various types of businesses.


                               20
                                                          The report on this survey is split in two parts:
          Services
          Retail, consumer goods and transport            the first details the insights of companies already
          Technology, media and telecommunications        involved in social media initiatives, including an
          Manufacture                                     understanding of what they do and how they
          Health
          Financial services                              perform and measure their actions. The second
          Real estate                                     part presents the perception of companies that as
          Energy and natural resources                    yet neither use nor monitor these tools.




                                                                                  Social media in companies 7
Companies exploiting the social media


          The danger of a focus restricted to marketing                                 The result, however, shows that social media
          Pursuant to this survey, the most popular tool among                          are seen as much as a medium than as a social
          the companies using the social media are the social                           platform. The survey shows that companies still
          networks (81%) followed by Twitter (79%); however,                            care little about opportunity capture (46%), client
          due to the increasing drive Twitter in gaining in Brazil,                     support (43%), and innovation through collective
          it is expected it to soon overtake the social networks.                       intelligence (17%).
          The corporate blog is also a very popular tool as
          indicated by 70% of the companies plugged on the                              This sharing is very close to surveys on the use of
          social media. Wiki and social bookmarking are less                            these media in other countries, which shows that
          used by companies.                                                            Brazil is following in the steps of more established
                                                                                        countries as the United States, Canada, Australia,
          These companies revealed that they use social media                           United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands,
          for marketing actions and products and services                               in the use and penetration of social media in the
          advertising (83%) and for monitoring on brand or                              companies
          market (71%). The popularity of marketing actions
          appears to be natural, particularly because the social                        Other actions mentioned by the respondents
          media are deemed to be a channel of communication                             are: news launching, dialogue and exchange of
          that reaches thousands of people at a low cost.                               experiences, investor relations, customer relationship.
          Additionally, the Marketing is the department
          having the highest opening to testing new ways of
          communication.



          Most used tools by companies using social media (%)

       Social networks (Facebook, Orkut, internal social networks etc)                                                            81

                                    Microblogs (Twitter, Yammer etc)                                                            79

                                                                 Blog                                                     70

                                                   Discussion forums                                    43

                                             Photo and video sharing                                   42

                                                                 Wiki                         27

                                                  Social bookmarking                  16
                                                                         0                                              70

                                                                         Multiple answers questions




8
If we segregate the companies that actively use                             A new trend already active outside Brazil, mainly in
social media but do not monitor on the Web, we                              the United States and Europe, is the migration or
see that 29% of them fit the case. This is strong                           equalization of the use of social media focused on
evidence that companies may have adopted the social                         customer relationship. As the concept of Customer
media by following in the trend, without worrying                           Relationship Management (CRM) is already known
about the information coming from the market. This                          to the companies, it is expected their use of these
monitoring does not apply only to brand but also to                         social tools to this end to gain strength in 2010.
the sector where the company operates or the sectors                        Ed Thompson, VP of the Gartner Group, stated
influencing the performance of the company within a                         that “more than 80% of the increase in the use
given productive chain. The first recommendation to                         of social media by companies in 2010 are directly
organizations starting in the field of social media is for                  associated with relationship initiatives.” A term that
them to take on the monitoring on the Web in order                          gains strength to describe this type of social media
to be able to design a more accurate strategy of use                        approach is the “Social CRM”. Thereby, one can
followed by an assessment of customers already using                        expect sales, customer relationship and internal
these tools, and subsequently assessing the existing                        cooperation to be the next steps to be taken by
benefits resulting from their picking a more proactive                      companies on social media.
standing in the use of such tools. This monitoring
should continue even after the aforementioned steps,
particularly when facing the need to measure the
performance of such actions.




Most explored initiatives by companies using social media (%)

      Marketing actions and advertising products or services                                                            83

                                Brand or market monitoring                                                      71

                                Sales or opportunity raising                                     46

        Support to customers, suppliers or business partners                                 43

                                  Knowledge management                                      40

                       Talent identification for employment                       25

                        Internal integration or team support                     23

Development of products or innovation through cooperation                   17

                                                     Others          9
                                                               0                                              70
                                                               Multiple answers questions




                                                                                                       Social media in companies 9
The concern over the large quantity of companies                                  Noble purposes but low investment
                                   using the social media with no strategic arrangement                              Subsequently to the company’s strong focus on
                                   but just to follow in the trend, confirms itself if we                            marketing actions and advertising of products and
                                   compare with the statement made by 35% of the                                     services, the raise in brand reputation and outspread
                                   organizations that their use of the social media is                               word of mouth marketing are the two business goals
                                   due to the press coverage as well as to the very                                  most pursued by organizations using social media
                                   social media broadcast on the subject. The search for                             (85% and 82% respectively).
                                   benefits in connection with the social media is the
                                   primary factor that has led the companies to use the                              The cost reduction in transactions through customer
                                   social media in their businesses (54%).                                           relationship is among the least business goals pursued
                                                                                                                     by the companies. To place a page on the Facebook
Leading factors for companies to use or monitor on social media (%)                                                  or open a Twitter account costs nothing and takes
                                                                                                                     the time of navigating on the Internet for just a
          Pursuit of one or more promised benefits                                                        54
                                                                                                                     few minutes. To host a blog or an exclusive social
                  Press and social media coverage                                      35
                                                                                                                     network on owned servers are also low cost deals
                                                                                                                     when comparing to other IT initiatives taken by any
         Complaints against the company made by
                    customers on the social media            8                                                       company. Cost doesn’t seem to be a major barrier to
                                                                                                                     the companies’ entry on the social media, therefore
                           Use by the competition        4
                                                                                                                     it is difficult to understand why its reduction is not a
                                                     0                                                                    70

                                                     Multiple answers questions




                                                         Business goals for use of social media (%)

                                                                                      Increase brand reputation                                                                   85

                                                                          Generate word of mouth marketing                                                                       82

                                                                                  Create competitive advantage                                                         59

                                                                                      Increase customers fidelity                                                  57

                                                                                                   Increase sales                                                 55

                                                                                        Innovate business model                                               53

                                                                     Bring in ideas from outside the company                                                 50

                                                                   Improve relationship with business partners                                          43

                                                                        Enhance the success of new products                                            41

                                                                  Improve the quality of support to customers                                      38

                                                                         Improve public relations productivity                                    36

                                                                        Decrease customers’ prospecting cost                             25

                                                                  Prepare the company for crisis management                          22

                                                                             Decrease marketing survey costs                        19

                                                                                  Decrease client’s support costs              12

                                                                                                           Other         6

                                                                                                                    0Multiple answers questions                             70

10
business priority to them. The companies still don’t      Investments
see the social media as a potential way to efficiency     When the talk goes on social media investment, the
gains in processes, considering the low cost of word      great majority of companies are still keeping it at
to mouth recommendations made by customers, in            little. Nearly 80% of companies invest up to R$50,000
addition to their spontaneous help when offering          per year in social media, while a very small portion
support or answering to queries from other customers      (6%) state their investment to go over R$200,000/
online.                                                   year. A deeper analysis, taking into consideration
                                                          only companies with revenues over R$ 200 million/
In addition to the purposes stated in the first graphic   year and using social media, about 58 % invest below
below, some companies have indicated as goals:            the R$50,000/year threshold. This shows that social
benchmarking with other companies, networking             media are still not receiving significant investment and
and exchange of experiences, an added-on                  it should take a while for these tools to displace the
communication channel, visibility enhancement, and        traditional media.
brand protection.
                                                          However, this scenario may change before long.
Concerning competitive vision, the companies              Nearly 60% of the companies surveyed stated their
acknowledged being aware of their competitors’            intention to increase the invested value in the next 12
actions, and 92% of them can state whether or not         months, which reveals an increase current towards the
their competitors are using social media. About 85%       use of social media by the organizations.
of the companies already visualize their competitors’
actions through the social media in their businesses.



Companies that visualize or have visualized their         Companies’ annual investment on social           Investment trend on social media in
competitors’ social media action (%)                      media (%)                                        the next 12 months (%)
                2                                                        6
      13                                                           4

                                                          10
                                                                                                           36




                                                                                                                                              57


                                                                                                                  7
                          85                                                         80
  Yes                                                          Up to R$ 50,000                                  Increase
  No                                                           From R$ 51,000 to R$ 100,000                     Decrease
  Don’t know                                                   From R$ 101,000 to R$ 200,000                    Maintain
                                                               Above R$ 200,000




                                                                                                                      Social media in companies 11
The lack of support issue                                Very few are the companies that also have a
                                       How do Brazilian companies apply social media to         department in charge of the actions, only 26%.
                                       their organizations? Who performs the task? What are     Picturing a realistic scenario where any interaction
                                       the barriers and how are they measured?                  with the consumer on social media, even considering
                                                                                                marketing campaigns, may generate claims, queries,
                                       Most of the company’s actions on social media            doubts, and other situations requiring a more
                                       are connected to marketing campaigns, therefore          specialized treatment by a department different
                                       it is not surprising to realize that in 75% of the       from the one generating the initiatives, it is believed
                                       organizations initiatives are led by the Marketing       that the result of this engagement would not
                                       department. The other departments hold a much            fulfill the expectations of customers involved in or
                                       lower participation. What adversely surprises though,    contemplated by the company’s messages. To be on
                                       is the lack of engagement from both Management           the social media has a much broader significance for
                                       and the Communications department in leading the         a consumer than the mere presence of the brand; to
                                       social media actions. Management and Chairmanship,       the consumer it means the front door into a more
                                       expected to be the first sponsors as well as the great   humanized and holistic service. The engagement
                                       drivers in the change of culture in these modern         of another department is critical to enable the
                                       times, are still minority. IT is the second department   companies to address all interactions with their
                                       more engaged in the social media actions, although       customers.
                                       with only 16 % share, which is a very low percentage
                                       when considering IT importance for the realization for
                                       carrying out the initiatives.

Department in charge of social media actions(%)                                                 Number of departments in charge of social media
                                                                                                actions (%)
                     Marketing                                                            73

                                                                                                   26
     Information Technology (IT)                       16

                           Sales                   13

                Public Relations                  12

     Research and Development             6

                Communication            6

                  Management             5
                                                                                                                           74
                         Others               9                                                   Only one department in charge
                                                                                                  More than one department in charge
                                   Multiple answers questions
                                   0                                                 70




12
The new occupations brought by social media into the                          an array of companies offering from technology
 companies, as social media strategists and community                          solutions to full functionality of actions to support
 managers, are still rare in Brazil. Respondent                                such companies. The results point out that 62% of the
 companies that already have full time professionals                           companies use or have used third party services in aid
 in their payroll represent 55%, however, the great                            of social media projects, while 3% of them manage
 majority of them are not ranked high in terms or                              their affairs internally, combining all activities from
 leadership or management. A large portion (45%),                              conception to execution. Comparing the companies’
 neither employs any full time professional nor use                            degree of satisfaction between internal teams
 temporary staff in the company.                                               and third party services, it seems that the external
                                                                               help service, in accordance with the respondents,
 Quality of teams                                                              has offered regular to good quality and almost all
 If the companies can’t yet rely on large dedicated                            options were satisfactory, although none has reached
 teams, there can be already found in the market                               significant levels of excellence.


 Number of professionals fully dedicated to social                                 Team in charge of social media actions
 media (%)                                                                         (%)




                                                                                                                                 38
45
                                                                              47
                                              51




                   4                                                                                       15
      1 to 5 people                                                                  Internal team
      More than 5 people                                                             Third party
      None/Part-time                                                                 Both




 Company’s degree of satisfaction on services rendered by the team performing social media initiatives (%)

                    Publicity Advertising agency   5          14                        38                                  36              8

                             Marketing agency            15                        35                             35                   15

     Public Relations or Communication agencies    6                28                                46                              19

                    Web development company 1                      32                                      52                          15

                       Management consultants      5       11                      35                                  43                   5

                                  Internal team 1 4                32                                      45                          18

                                                       Very bad         Bad   Regular        Good    Excellent


                                                                                                                 Social media in companies 13
Measurement and metrics                                                            the company, either by the perception of the brand or
     To follow on the results of what the social media do,                              the satisfaction of its customers, or more importantly,
     great part of the companies, about 71%, monitor                                    by the return on investment. The brand equity indicators,
     on the number of users and visitors, while 63 %                                    return on investment and net promoter scores are
     monitor on the number of pages viewed, and 50%                                     the least used by the companies (24%, 18% and 6%,
     the visit frequency. However, it is in the group of                                respectively) to measure the results on social media.
     least used options that is found an important piece
     of information for optimization of the use of social                               On the Web, almost everything performed is
     media by the companies.                                                            thoroughly traceable and measurable, although the
                                                                                        challenge of translating qualitative and quantitative
     Any activity or process employed by a company use                                  results into financial quantitative numbers still exist.
     indicators that are regularly linked to and grouped up                             This can be achieved through correlation and analysis
     with the performance of other processes in order to                                of the before and after the social media, crossing off
     fill in an indicator for the area or department, which                             effects of seasonality and market movements. Yet, the
     in turn is passed on to the shareholder or the owner.                              task is hard and the company needs planning in order
     The business of an organization is usually managed by                              to structure the aspects to be measured before the
     these numbers, which can be translated into value to                               starting of any actions.


     Social media initiatives measurement types (%)

        Number of users, active users, visitors, or frequent visitors                                                                     71

                                                       Pages viewed                                                                       63

                                                 Frequency of visits                                                                 59

                                                Site navigation time                                                            52

                                                  Users growth rate                                                        49

                            Number of email or messages senders                                                            48

                                                  Posting frequency                                                   45

                                     Citations or links in other sites                                           41

                 Increase in number of searches to your company                                                  40

                             Number of useful ideas or comments                                             32

                Number of people recommending your company                                                  32

                            Positive versus negative mentions rate                                     26

                                                        Brand equity                               24

                                          Traffic change along time                           20

                                              Return on investment                          18

                                               RSS users recurrence                 9

                                                Net promoter score              6

                                                        Other forms         2

                                                                         0Multiple answers questions                                           70


14
Without fully understanding the social media financial                                Lack of knowledge on social media management
     impact on the results of the companies, it is hard to                                 comes in the third place with 31% of the surveyed
     justify the sustainability of a social media initiative.                              companies. Twelve percent of the companies state to
     This may be the reason why so many express                                            have met no obstacles, taking from their successful
     campaigns are abandoned at the peak of the                                            initiatives.
     relationship with the customers. In this context, the
     inclusion of companies on the social networks can                                     Lack of time stated by most of the respondents
     also be hindered, as no entrepreneur will invest in                                   demands a reevaluation of the need to recruit a
     something relatively new, in constant mutation, and                                   professional, a dedicated team or third party services
     unknown to the management. A well written business                                    to take care of social media initiatives.
     case is the key to reverse this situation.
                                                                                           Other obstacles appointed by the companies are:
     Obstacles to success                                                                  culture, bureaucracy, lack of a comprehensive strategy,
     Lack of time and mobilization are the main obstacles                                  IT security issues, and customers lacking social media
     met by the companies in the performance of their                                      profile, team’s synergy, contents deficiency, and return
     social media strategies, 49% and 38% respectively.                                    on investment.




     Main obstacles hindering social media success (%)

              Lack of time to manage social media or communities                                                            49

                           Difficulty in getting people to participate                                             38

                  Lack of knowledge on social media management                                                31

      Difficulty in making people to keep on using and connecting                                        25

                                             Difficulty to attract users                                 24

Difficulty to find properly qualified people to manage the initiatives                                   24

                Fund raising to continue investing in advancements                                    23

                   Management unwillingness to share information                                    21

      Lack of commitment from the company’s high management                                   14

                                                        Not applicable                     12

                          Difficulty to get people to fulfill the profile                10

                                                                 Others            6
                                                                            0Multiple   answers questions                                  70




                                                                                                                        Social media in companies 15
Companies that watch the revolution
from afar

                                     Within the universe of companies that are yet to                but the difficulty in having a case study at hand is still
                                     use or monitor the social media, 53% state that the             a challenge to be overcome.
                                     difficulty to measure and monitor on the benefits
                                     is the main barrier to their starting to use these              The following was mentioned by the companies as
                                     tools. Lack of knowledge on the subject and lack of             further barriers: Lack of funds for the implementation
                                     adequacy to the culture of the company follow suit              of the tools and concern over their turn into a channel
                                     with 45% and 42% respectively.                                  for complaints.

                                     Absence of approval from higher level management                Barriers still exist that hinder the decision of some
                                     and low benefit appeal are not included in the list             companies towards using the social media, however,
                                     of the main barriers. This may evidence that the                64% consider this new communication format
                                     companies’ leadership are interested or entertain the           of importance to their business, and only 4% of
                                     social media as a potential communication channel               the companies state that the social media play no
                                                                                                     important role in business.




Primary barriers hindering the use of social media (%)                                               Degree of importance given to social media (%)

     Difficulty in measuring and monitoring benefits                                           53                      4
                                                                                                                                16
                                                                                          45             18
                  Lack of knowledge on the subject

         Lack of adequacy to the company’s culture                                       42

                             Concerns over security                                 32

                                                                                                    14
         Lack of approval from higher managemen                       16

                             Non attractive benefits             11

                                        Don’t know       2                                                                      48
                                                                                                         Very important
                                             Others                    17
                                                                                                         Important
                                                   0
                                                       Multiple answers questions                        Little important
                                                                                                          70

                                                                                                         Indifferent
                                                                                                         Not important at all




16
Interest and investments                                                   Companies intending to invest in social media
                                    Marketing is confirmed as the most interesting type                        (%)
                                    of action by the companies’ views, even among those                                                     14
                                    that are still to use the social media. About 84% of
                                    the companies stated their interest in this type of
                                    use. Other interests mentioned by the respondents
                                    include identification of business partnerships and
                                    encouragement to more frequent use of products.                       51


                                    The majority of respondents also deem necessary to
                                    think over this idea of getting into the virtual world                                                         35

                                    or that the use of social media by the companies
                                    needs to gain maturity in Brazil. About 51% of the
                                    companies state their intention to invest in social                          No, do not intend to
                                    media within the next 3 years. Approximately 35%                             Yes, next year
                                                                                                                 Yes, in the next 3 years
                                    intend to invest as soon as in the next 12 months, and
                                    14% do not plan to invest in social media.



Most interest-rising social media (%)

            Marketing actions and advertising products or services                                                                   84

                                      Brand or market monitoring                                                        68

              Support to customers, suppliers or business partners                                               59

                                      Sales or opportunity raising                                         53

                                        Knowledge management                                         33

      Development of products or innovation through cooperation                                   31


                             Talent identification for employment                              30

                              Internal integration or team support                           27

                                                           Others      2

                                                                     0Multiple   answers questions                     70




                                                                                                                                             Social media in companies 17
Tips to enhanced social media strategy


        Based on the results of the visits paid by Deloitte              6. Assign roles and responsibilities to both the team
        to ten companies that already use or that have had                  in charge and other departments that may have
        successful return from the use of social media, it was              their processes impacted.
        created a list of 10 tips to help strategies in this field to
        be successful to your business too:                              7. Establish policies and guidelines on social media
                                                                            using clear and simplified language. The best
        1. Gather backing from your company’s high                          practices offer guidelines manuals and promote
           management to enable a seamless cultural                         workshops to educate both the professionals
           transformation in the various areas of the                       directly involved in the subject and those less
           organization.                                                    involved.

        2. Gather internal disseminators that can tip off other          8. Make assessments on the impacts social media
           areas of the company on the benefits the social                  may bring to the company’s processes, whether
           media do to business.                                            these processes are focused on customers or are
                                                                            internal support processes. Also identify the risks
        3. Start implementing social media step by step. First,             the social media offer to the business and draw up
           the online monitoring followed by an internal pilot              plans for their mitigation.
           project of the participation in online conversation,
           and eventually the launching of your own initiatives          9. Find the best means to mobilize your public,
           on the Web.                                                      aiming at encouraging their participation on social
                                                                            media. To award prizes is a good thing, but most
        4. Define the core goal of this strategy and break it               of the times the transparent dialogue can have the
           down to smaller goals determined in accordance                   same effect.
           with the profile of the customer and the social
           media to be used. Understand where your                      10. Understand the language to be used in the
           consumers are and determine what interaction                     communication with the market. Conversations
           format can mostly benefit the company in terms                   must be human, show emotions, and be
           of support to customers, sales promotion, idea                   praiseworthy to and supportive on your clients.
           capture, and other processes. This exercise helps
           to define the metrics to a close follow up of the
           activities.

        5. Have flexible corporate governance, that is, an
           internally accepted leader that can grow in the
           extent of new demands. Also assess the need
           to have more than one leader for this initiative,
           allocated in accordance with the product lines and
           types of social media performed.




18
The results of the survey show that Brazilian
companies sparsely use social media as a strategic
pillar to their business.




                                         Social media in companies 19
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Social Media in companies - full research report

  • 1. Social media in companies The online relationship with the market
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  • 3. The new consumption relations After the breaking down of physical barriers fueled In this context, Deloitte has developed the “Social by the Internet worldwide, access to information Media in Companies” survey with the aim to has become much easier and faster. At the Web, determine the degree of maturity achieved by Brazilian connected customers have gained more bargain organizations as to the social media boom in the power and they play now the role of decision- world. makers that interfere in the reputation of suppliers, influencing and being influenced by other people Through this study, Deloitte’s efforts were aimed at navigating online in the internet. showing how social media can be used as a strategic business pillar while bringing consumers and suppliers At the same time, these media have opened near to each other. opportunities for companies to foster debates on their own products and services. And so, through Identifying the benefits of these online tools, the the aggregate of opinions on their brand from large survey also introduces the social media as a social groups, these companies can benefit from a type platform through which companies can use not only of collective intelligence which can surely bring as an advertising channel, but mainly as a way of innovation and differentiation to their products, getting closer to their consuming public. services and other elements of their business model. Index Study methodology and sample. ....................................................................................................4 Social media landscape in Brazil ......................................................................................................5 The adoption of social media ...........................................................................................................7 Companies exploiting social media................................................................................................8 Companies that watch the revolution from afar .................................................................... 16 Tips to enhanced social media strategy..................................................................................... 18 Social media in companies 3
  • 4. Study methodology and sample “Social Media in Companies” survey carried out followed by Rio de Janeiro (7%), and Minas Gerais by Deloitte aimed at portraying the new ways of (6%). Multinational companies represent 16% of the interaction between companies and their public, participating companies and the remaining 84% are provides a panorama on the use of these tools in the domestic companies. country, and was developed through the application of an online questionnaire on the Deloitte website A little over 50% of the participants are small sized (www.deloitte.com.br) from February to March 2010. companies, while medium and large companies Deloitte has also visited ten companies for qualitative represent 26% and 22% respectively, in the sample. interviews: Accor Hospitality, Azul, Boehringer The measurement criteria concerning the size of the Ingelheim, Bradesco, Editora Globo, IBM, Natura, participating companies in this survey was the same Nokia, Roche, and Tecnisa. employed by Deloitte in its internal classification. The survey approached companies of various The companies in the services industry represent segments and economic sizes, an aggregate of 302 33% of the sample, followed by retail, consumer companies operating in the country. São Paulo was goods and transport (20%), technology, media and the state with the majority of respondents (63%), telecommunications (17%). Surveyed companies revenue* Distribution by respondent company segments (%) (%) 5 3 5 22 6 33 11 52 9 17 17 20 Above R$ 500 million Services From R$ 201 million to R$ 500 million Retail, consumer goods and transport From R$ 51 million to R$ 200 million Technology, media and telecommunications From R$ 5 million to R$ 50 million Manufacture Health *R$ 1 = US$ 0.55 (june 2010) Financial services Real estate Energy and natural resources 4
  • 5. Social media landscape in Brazil With the increase in popularity among the very In this context, the tools promoting social relationship consumers in recent years, social media have and online dialogue among users make these new become a relevant strategic tool to companies of all customers a lot more demanding at the time they, are sizes and economic industries. Customers’ patterns to procure a product. have changed when the Internet broke down the geographic barrier and brought speed to the access On social media, the reputation of a company is to information, making it easier to find companies and beyond the control of its management. Through products on the Web, and consequently, increasing communities, blogs, sites such as Orkut, applications the prospects of online transactions. such as Twitter, and other channels, the reputation starts to be defined by the actions of people, customers and other online influencers. The graphic below shows an example of this loss of control by the companies over the generation of information and dissemination process. The flow of information in the new media 3 2 Contents Online user post comments and the Comments on independent blogs aggregator readers vote the best postings on the article Blog 1 4 Article describes Article the new products Email, SMS and MMS Readers send links to friends via email or text messages 5 Blogs, videos The article becomes the topic of the day in blogs and social and “video-responses” generated by users are the networks most viewed worldwide. Positions such as “I love/ hate” are present in hundreds of fan links News, media and portals 6 News portals and mass media select “most popular stories” Social media in companies 5
  • 6. Feeling comfortable in this virtual environment, that defines the success of any interaction that this neo-customer wishes to perform the maximum companies may have with their consumers when number of online activities possible, from making considering the social media as a strategic new friends to shopping, since on the Web the business pillar. shopping and consume experience can go in a much differentiated and social way. On the Internet, other In order to enhance the use of social media, consumers can express their preferences in favor of companies need to establish their own brand suppliers and products, which tends to influence spokespeople, who will talk to the market and see a potential buyer at the time of purchase. Further that value is passed on to their businesses. The still, consumers do identify themselves with virtual companies need, after all, to “humanize” themselves strangers coming to trust, and it is this identification through the social media. Uses new channels for online communication The challenge – complexity of the new Takes on online Seeks support opinions from social consumer to connect with friends and his/her peers strangers • Internet connects consumers and encourages relevant changes in the consumer behavior • Social platforms create a new and complex paradigm to connect individuals The new social consumer • Interactions between consumers and brands Reads and Tends to start at an early stage and see no end creates rankings, buy more online blogs etc. rather than offline • Social relationships with consumers cover more than simply reacting to the demand and/ or manufacturing customized products and services Expects better Is willing to experience offer feedback online rather on products and than offline services 6
  • 7. The adoption of social media Companies that use or monitor on social media The survey reveals that about 70% of the Brazilian (%) companies have already stepped into this new trend and use and/or are monitoring on what’s 30 going on online. Despite the large number of organizations that use social media, their majority still don’t fully achieve all promised benefits, don’t understand the risks, or could not yet fully implement social media to the whole company, which would demand a change of culture and habits to those actors-to-be professionals in the relationship 70 activity with the market. These factors cause these companies to lose competitive advantage as the ones that have spearheaded the adoption towards Yes these practices are to enjoy the benefits associated No with image, reputation, and customer satisfaction beforehand. Companies that use or monitor on social media by segment (%) Among the participating sectors, the manufacture industry is the fourth biggest in number of 4 3 4 companies already using or monitoring the social 5 media. This data is contrary to the perception by a 38 portion of the market that social media apply only 7 to companies having a close relationship with end-users, such as services, telecommunications, and retail organizations. This evidences a certain maturity of the Brazilian market concerning the knowledge of what social media can provide to the 19 various types of businesses. 20 The report on this survey is split in two parts: Services Retail, consumer goods and transport the first details the insights of companies already Technology, media and telecommunications involved in social media initiatives, including an Manufacture understanding of what they do and how they Health Financial services perform and measure their actions. The second Real estate part presents the perception of companies that as Energy and natural resources yet neither use nor monitor these tools. Social media in companies 7
  • 8. Companies exploiting the social media The danger of a focus restricted to marketing The result, however, shows that social media Pursuant to this survey, the most popular tool among are seen as much as a medium than as a social the companies using the social media are the social platform. The survey shows that companies still networks (81%) followed by Twitter (79%); however, care little about opportunity capture (46%), client due to the increasing drive Twitter in gaining in Brazil, support (43%), and innovation through collective it is expected it to soon overtake the social networks. intelligence (17%). The corporate blog is also a very popular tool as indicated by 70% of the companies plugged on the This sharing is very close to surveys on the use of social media. Wiki and social bookmarking are less these media in other countries, which shows that used by companies. Brazil is following in the steps of more established countries as the United States, Canada, Australia, These companies revealed that they use social media United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands, for marketing actions and products and services in the use and penetration of social media in the advertising (83%) and for monitoring on brand or companies market (71%). The popularity of marketing actions appears to be natural, particularly because the social Other actions mentioned by the respondents media are deemed to be a channel of communication are: news launching, dialogue and exchange of that reaches thousands of people at a low cost. experiences, investor relations, customer relationship. Additionally, the Marketing is the department having the highest opening to testing new ways of communication. Most used tools by companies using social media (%) Social networks (Facebook, Orkut, internal social networks etc) 81 Microblogs (Twitter, Yammer etc) 79 Blog 70 Discussion forums 43 Photo and video sharing 42 Wiki 27 Social bookmarking 16 0 70 Multiple answers questions 8
  • 9. If we segregate the companies that actively use A new trend already active outside Brazil, mainly in social media but do not monitor on the Web, we the United States and Europe, is the migration or see that 29% of them fit the case. This is strong equalization of the use of social media focused on evidence that companies may have adopted the social customer relationship. As the concept of Customer media by following in the trend, without worrying Relationship Management (CRM) is already known about the information coming from the market. This to the companies, it is expected their use of these monitoring does not apply only to brand but also to social tools to this end to gain strength in 2010. the sector where the company operates or the sectors Ed Thompson, VP of the Gartner Group, stated influencing the performance of the company within a that “more than 80% of the increase in the use given productive chain. The first recommendation to of social media by companies in 2010 are directly organizations starting in the field of social media is for associated with relationship initiatives.” A term that them to take on the monitoring on the Web in order gains strength to describe this type of social media to be able to design a more accurate strategy of use approach is the “Social CRM”. Thereby, one can followed by an assessment of customers already using expect sales, customer relationship and internal these tools, and subsequently assessing the existing cooperation to be the next steps to be taken by benefits resulting from their picking a more proactive companies on social media. standing in the use of such tools. This monitoring should continue even after the aforementioned steps, particularly when facing the need to measure the performance of such actions. Most explored initiatives by companies using social media (%) Marketing actions and advertising products or services 83 Brand or market monitoring 71 Sales or opportunity raising 46 Support to customers, suppliers or business partners 43 Knowledge management 40 Talent identification for employment 25 Internal integration or team support 23 Development of products or innovation through cooperation 17 Others 9 0 70 Multiple answers questions Social media in companies 9
  • 10. The concern over the large quantity of companies Noble purposes but low investment using the social media with no strategic arrangement Subsequently to the company’s strong focus on but just to follow in the trend, confirms itself if we marketing actions and advertising of products and compare with the statement made by 35% of the services, the raise in brand reputation and outspread organizations that their use of the social media is word of mouth marketing are the two business goals due to the press coverage as well as to the very most pursued by organizations using social media social media broadcast on the subject. The search for (85% and 82% respectively). benefits in connection with the social media is the primary factor that has led the companies to use the The cost reduction in transactions through customer social media in their businesses (54%). relationship is among the least business goals pursued by the companies. To place a page on the Facebook Leading factors for companies to use or monitor on social media (%) or open a Twitter account costs nothing and takes the time of navigating on the Internet for just a Pursuit of one or more promised benefits 54 few minutes. To host a blog or an exclusive social Press and social media coverage 35 network on owned servers are also low cost deals when comparing to other IT initiatives taken by any Complaints against the company made by customers on the social media 8 company. Cost doesn’t seem to be a major barrier to the companies’ entry on the social media, therefore Use by the competition 4 it is difficult to understand why its reduction is not a 0 70 Multiple answers questions Business goals for use of social media (%) Increase brand reputation 85 Generate word of mouth marketing 82 Create competitive advantage 59 Increase customers fidelity 57 Increase sales 55 Innovate business model 53 Bring in ideas from outside the company 50 Improve relationship with business partners 43 Enhance the success of new products 41 Improve the quality of support to customers 38 Improve public relations productivity 36 Decrease customers’ prospecting cost 25 Prepare the company for crisis management 22 Decrease marketing survey costs 19 Decrease client’s support costs 12 Other 6 0Multiple answers questions 70 10
  • 11. business priority to them. The companies still don’t Investments see the social media as a potential way to efficiency When the talk goes on social media investment, the gains in processes, considering the low cost of word great majority of companies are still keeping it at to mouth recommendations made by customers, in little. Nearly 80% of companies invest up to R$50,000 addition to their spontaneous help when offering per year in social media, while a very small portion support or answering to queries from other customers (6%) state their investment to go over R$200,000/ online. year. A deeper analysis, taking into consideration only companies with revenues over R$ 200 million/ In addition to the purposes stated in the first graphic year and using social media, about 58 % invest below below, some companies have indicated as goals: the R$50,000/year threshold. This shows that social benchmarking with other companies, networking media are still not receiving significant investment and and exchange of experiences, an added-on it should take a while for these tools to displace the communication channel, visibility enhancement, and traditional media. brand protection. However, this scenario may change before long. Concerning competitive vision, the companies Nearly 60% of the companies surveyed stated their acknowledged being aware of their competitors’ intention to increase the invested value in the next 12 actions, and 92% of them can state whether or not months, which reveals an increase current towards the their competitors are using social media. About 85% use of social media by the organizations. of the companies already visualize their competitors’ actions through the social media in their businesses. Companies that visualize or have visualized their Companies’ annual investment on social Investment trend on social media in competitors’ social media action (%) media (%) the next 12 months (%) 2 6 13 4 10 36 57 7 85 80 Yes Up to R$ 50,000 Increase No From R$ 51,000 to R$ 100,000 Decrease Don’t know From R$ 101,000 to R$ 200,000 Maintain Above R$ 200,000 Social media in companies 11
  • 12. The lack of support issue Very few are the companies that also have a How do Brazilian companies apply social media to department in charge of the actions, only 26%. their organizations? Who performs the task? What are Picturing a realistic scenario where any interaction the barriers and how are they measured? with the consumer on social media, even considering marketing campaigns, may generate claims, queries, Most of the company’s actions on social media doubts, and other situations requiring a more are connected to marketing campaigns, therefore specialized treatment by a department different it is not surprising to realize that in 75% of the from the one generating the initiatives, it is believed organizations initiatives are led by the Marketing that the result of this engagement would not department. The other departments hold a much fulfill the expectations of customers involved in or lower participation. What adversely surprises though, contemplated by the company’s messages. To be on is the lack of engagement from both Management the social media has a much broader significance for and the Communications department in leading the a consumer than the mere presence of the brand; to social media actions. Management and Chairmanship, the consumer it means the front door into a more expected to be the first sponsors as well as the great humanized and holistic service. The engagement drivers in the change of culture in these modern of another department is critical to enable the times, are still minority. IT is the second department companies to address all interactions with their more engaged in the social media actions, although customers. with only 16 % share, which is a very low percentage when considering IT importance for the realization for carrying out the initiatives. Department in charge of social media actions(%) Number of departments in charge of social media actions (%) Marketing 73 26 Information Technology (IT) 16 Sales 13 Public Relations 12 Research and Development 6 Communication 6 Management 5 74 Others 9 Only one department in charge More than one department in charge Multiple answers questions 0 70 12
  • 13. The new occupations brought by social media into the an array of companies offering from technology companies, as social media strategists and community solutions to full functionality of actions to support managers, are still rare in Brazil. Respondent such companies. The results point out that 62% of the companies that already have full time professionals companies use or have used third party services in aid in their payroll represent 55%, however, the great of social media projects, while 3% of them manage majority of them are not ranked high in terms or their affairs internally, combining all activities from leadership or management. A large portion (45%), conception to execution. Comparing the companies’ neither employs any full time professional nor use degree of satisfaction between internal teams temporary staff in the company. and third party services, it seems that the external help service, in accordance with the respondents, Quality of teams has offered regular to good quality and almost all If the companies can’t yet rely on large dedicated options were satisfactory, although none has reached teams, there can be already found in the market significant levels of excellence. Number of professionals fully dedicated to social Team in charge of social media actions media (%) (%) 38 45 47 51 4 15 1 to 5 people Internal team More than 5 people Third party None/Part-time Both Company’s degree of satisfaction on services rendered by the team performing social media initiatives (%) Publicity Advertising agency 5 14 38 36 8 Marketing agency 15 35 35 15 Public Relations or Communication agencies 6 28 46 19 Web development company 1 32 52 15 Management consultants 5 11 35 43 5 Internal team 1 4 32 45 18 Very bad Bad Regular Good Excellent Social media in companies 13
  • 14. Measurement and metrics the company, either by the perception of the brand or To follow on the results of what the social media do, the satisfaction of its customers, or more importantly, great part of the companies, about 71%, monitor by the return on investment. The brand equity indicators, on the number of users and visitors, while 63 % return on investment and net promoter scores are monitor on the number of pages viewed, and 50% the least used by the companies (24%, 18% and 6%, the visit frequency. However, it is in the group of respectively) to measure the results on social media. least used options that is found an important piece of information for optimization of the use of social On the Web, almost everything performed is media by the companies. thoroughly traceable and measurable, although the challenge of translating qualitative and quantitative Any activity or process employed by a company use results into financial quantitative numbers still exist. indicators that are regularly linked to and grouped up This can be achieved through correlation and analysis with the performance of other processes in order to of the before and after the social media, crossing off fill in an indicator for the area or department, which effects of seasonality and market movements. Yet, the in turn is passed on to the shareholder or the owner. task is hard and the company needs planning in order The business of an organization is usually managed by to structure the aspects to be measured before the these numbers, which can be translated into value to starting of any actions. Social media initiatives measurement types (%) Number of users, active users, visitors, or frequent visitors 71 Pages viewed 63 Frequency of visits 59 Site navigation time 52 Users growth rate 49 Number of email or messages senders 48 Posting frequency 45 Citations or links in other sites 41 Increase in number of searches to your company 40 Number of useful ideas or comments 32 Number of people recommending your company 32 Positive versus negative mentions rate 26 Brand equity 24 Traffic change along time 20 Return on investment 18 RSS users recurrence 9 Net promoter score 6 Other forms 2 0Multiple answers questions 70 14
  • 15. Without fully understanding the social media financial Lack of knowledge on social media management impact on the results of the companies, it is hard to comes in the third place with 31% of the surveyed justify the sustainability of a social media initiative. companies. Twelve percent of the companies state to This may be the reason why so many express have met no obstacles, taking from their successful campaigns are abandoned at the peak of the initiatives. relationship with the customers. In this context, the inclusion of companies on the social networks can Lack of time stated by most of the respondents also be hindered, as no entrepreneur will invest in demands a reevaluation of the need to recruit a something relatively new, in constant mutation, and professional, a dedicated team or third party services unknown to the management. A well written business to take care of social media initiatives. case is the key to reverse this situation. Other obstacles appointed by the companies are: Obstacles to success culture, bureaucracy, lack of a comprehensive strategy, Lack of time and mobilization are the main obstacles IT security issues, and customers lacking social media met by the companies in the performance of their profile, team’s synergy, contents deficiency, and return social media strategies, 49% and 38% respectively. on investment. Main obstacles hindering social media success (%) Lack of time to manage social media or communities 49 Difficulty in getting people to participate 38 Lack of knowledge on social media management 31 Difficulty in making people to keep on using and connecting 25 Difficulty to attract users 24 Difficulty to find properly qualified people to manage the initiatives 24 Fund raising to continue investing in advancements 23 Management unwillingness to share information 21 Lack of commitment from the company’s high management 14 Not applicable 12 Difficulty to get people to fulfill the profile 10 Others 6 0Multiple answers questions 70 Social media in companies 15
  • 16. Companies that watch the revolution from afar Within the universe of companies that are yet to but the difficulty in having a case study at hand is still use or monitor the social media, 53% state that the a challenge to be overcome. difficulty to measure and monitor on the benefits is the main barrier to their starting to use these The following was mentioned by the companies as tools. Lack of knowledge on the subject and lack of further barriers: Lack of funds for the implementation adequacy to the culture of the company follow suit of the tools and concern over their turn into a channel with 45% and 42% respectively. for complaints. Absence of approval from higher level management Barriers still exist that hinder the decision of some and low benefit appeal are not included in the list companies towards using the social media, however, of the main barriers. This may evidence that the 64% consider this new communication format companies’ leadership are interested or entertain the of importance to their business, and only 4% of social media as a potential communication channel the companies state that the social media play no important role in business. Primary barriers hindering the use of social media (%) Degree of importance given to social media (%) Difficulty in measuring and monitoring benefits 53 4 16 45 18 Lack of knowledge on the subject Lack of adequacy to the company’s culture 42 Concerns over security 32 14 Lack of approval from higher managemen 16 Non attractive benefits 11 Don’t know 2 48 Very important Others 17 Important 0 Multiple answers questions Little important 70 Indifferent Not important at all 16
  • 17. Interest and investments Companies intending to invest in social media Marketing is confirmed as the most interesting type (%) of action by the companies’ views, even among those 14 that are still to use the social media. About 84% of the companies stated their interest in this type of use. Other interests mentioned by the respondents include identification of business partnerships and encouragement to more frequent use of products. 51 The majority of respondents also deem necessary to think over this idea of getting into the virtual world 35 or that the use of social media by the companies needs to gain maturity in Brazil. About 51% of the companies state their intention to invest in social No, do not intend to media within the next 3 years. Approximately 35% Yes, next year Yes, in the next 3 years intend to invest as soon as in the next 12 months, and 14% do not plan to invest in social media. Most interest-rising social media (%) Marketing actions and advertising products or services 84 Brand or market monitoring 68 Support to customers, suppliers or business partners 59 Sales or opportunity raising 53 Knowledge management 33 Development of products or innovation through cooperation 31 Talent identification for employment 30 Internal integration or team support 27 Others 2 0Multiple answers questions 70 Social media in companies 17
  • 18. Tips to enhanced social media strategy Based on the results of the visits paid by Deloitte 6. Assign roles and responsibilities to both the team to ten companies that already use or that have had in charge and other departments that may have successful return from the use of social media, it was their processes impacted. created a list of 10 tips to help strategies in this field to be successful to your business too: 7. Establish policies and guidelines on social media using clear and simplified language. The best 1. Gather backing from your company’s high practices offer guidelines manuals and promote management to enable a seamless cultural workshops to educate both the professionals transformation in the various areas of the directly involved in the subject and those less organization. involved. 2. Gather internal disseminators that can tip off other 8. Make assessments on the impacts social media areas of the company on the benefits the social may bring to the company’s processes, whether media do to business. these processes are focused on customers or are internal support processes. Also identify the risks 3. Start implementing social media step by step. First, the social media offer to the business and draw up the online monitoring followed by an internal pilot plans for their mitigation. project of the participation in online conversation, and eventually the launching of your own initiatives 9. Find the best means to mobilize your public, on the Web. aiming at encouraging their participation on social media. To award prizes is a good thing, but most 4. Define the core goal of this strategy and break it of the times the transparent dialogue can have the down to smaller goals determined in accordance same effect. with the profile of the customer and the social media to be used. Understand where your 10. Understand the language to be used in the consumers are and determine what interaction communication with the market. Conversations format can mostly benefit the company in terms must be human, show emotions, and be of support to customers, sales promotion, idea praiseworthy to and supportive on your clients. capture, and other processes. This exercise helps to define the metrics to a close follow up of the activities. 5. Have flexible corporate governance, that is, an internally accepted leader that can grow in the extent of new demands. Also assess the need to have more than one leader for this initiative, allocated in accordance with the product lines and types of social media performed. 18
  • 19. The results of the survey show that Brazilian companies sparsely use social media as a strategic pillar to their business. Social media in companies 19
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