Digital, mobile and customer centric approaches are not always easy to accomplish for a 32-year-old icon entrenched in networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other high-tech services and products. It's not for a lack of innovation. Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, two Stanford University computer scientists founded Cisco and pioneered the concept of the local area network (LAN) used to connect geographically disparate computers over routers. Sound complicated? Join Diane Pease, regional audience manager at Cisco, as she walks through the transformation.
5. The World is Changing
Billions of Connected People and Things
Digitization Creating Massive Opportunity
Customer Experience More Important Than Ever
Businesses Have to Transform
21. 21
To respond we need to stitch
together a complete profile of
each consumer, carry that
consistent identity across all
channels both online and off and
use it to create tailored marketing
experiences that drive sales.
Putting the customer first
23. Campaign Framework
Technology Optimists
Target Audience
We Securely Connect Everything
to Make Anything Possible
Brand Promise
Position Cisco as the Networking
Leader and Technology Visionary
Objective
Optimistic, Confident, Ambitious,
Courageous, Inspiring,
Provocative, Succinct, Human
Tone
Digital Business, Core
Networking, Security, Corporate
Social Responsibility
Cisco Tech Focus Areas
Technology is the Driving Force
for Change in the World
Mindset
24. Who is our Tech Optimist?
Ages: 20-45
68%
Male
32%
Female
Usually Browsing:
Common App Usage:
Business Travelers:
10+ trips/year
Possibly shops at:
*Data compiled from BlueKai Audience Discovery (Tech Optimists+Cisco Visits), IPSOS survey
25. Paid Cisco.com
Social Mobile
14.4M Tech Optimist
Members on LinkedIn
20M Lifetime Social
Interactions with Cisco
50M Tech Optimist
Cookies on BlueKai
92K visited Cisco.com in
last 30 days
500K Mobile Devices
with Cisco Apps
30M Visitors / Month,
10M of that Pre-Sales
Be Where Tech
Optimists Are
Targeting Key Traits –
Biz. Travel, Entrepreneurial
Story Telling Landing
Homepage
Seamless integration into
Cisco.com using modular,
flexible designs
Responsive Pages
1
Push
Notifications to
Activate Users
Potential Reach of
~70M Global
Audience
Targeted Social Outreach
through
Ambassadors/Champions
1
Gain Social Insights from
Sprinklr for Targeting
Explore App
Partnerships
Reaching the Tech Optimist
29. Global Search Engines
Searching
Finding solutions
Setting up time with vendors
Checking linked In
Reading the latest articles
Prepping for meetings (data
sheets, fact checking, data stats,
etc.. )
30. Out For Lunch
Yelp for restaurants near by
Eat at company café
Do a little social while out
Business meeting over lunch
Billboards on the way
Checking in on weekend
plans
31. Back at Work
Global Search Engines
More meetings at the office,
with partners
Searching
Finding solutions
Setting up time with vendors
34. A New Kind of Cisco Brand Launch
Based in Customer Success Country-Led Mobile and Digital First Omni-Channel Journey
Socially Driven Agile Marketing Embracing Our Partners
Designed for Audience
Engagement
35. 7am
AEST
7am
EDT
May 2,
2pm PT
May 2,
4pm PT
May 2,
7pm PT
May 2,
10pm PT
May 2,
11pm PT
May 3,
4am PT HQ Time
7am
CEST
7am
BST
7am
CST
7am
IST
“Follow-the-Sun” Launch
Aug
TBD
June
TBD
36. 7-day social results surpass
first 30 days of Tomorrow
Starts Here campaign
Trending Hashtag
91.4M
trend impressions of
#NeverBetter
#NeverBetter
Social Impact
2X
Engagement Points
115%
of goal to date
(10% of Tomorrow Starts Here
campaign total)
Early Momentum
42. The Transformation of Marketing
Omni Channel Always On Conversations Customer Centric
Notes de l'éditeur
All about the base
The love story
30 years as the network powerhouse
Core – routers and switches
Shift from routers and switches to solutions provider
Software solutions – major focus
IOE – tomorrow starts here
Customer experience poor - no warm fuzzy, not positive
Dec 2015 – the scary hacker
Having a plan for security needs to be a part of every business
Welcome to 2016
Telling customers what we think they want
The network and the internet have transformed the world – time for a new Cisco point of view – helping customers navigate changing world
Billions of people and things are connected globally
Period of unprecedented growth, opportunity and change
Digitization is forcing organizations to reimagine business models, products and services
Customer Experience is a critical differentiator
Companies are asking: How can we deliver an amazing customer experience?
Our customers are looking for a partner to help them navigate this changing world
Time for new Cisco point of view
We started by asking internal and external audiences
What’s their point of view on Cisco and the world
Despite challenges, business leaders believe technology plays a crucial role
Solves biggest problems
They are tech optimists
Looking to us for help
It was clear, our message had to be a positive one
Optimism, the glass half full
Technology can solve so much if applied the right way
New point of view
Customer lens
Then January hit
Zika, stock market, conflict around the world
Was this really the right time for a message of optimism?
We took our creative to our customers and partners
Was this the right time to launch a message of optimism?
So we did something radical…took the creative to our customers and partners
Was this the right time?
Unanimous…optimistic, positive
Technology largest driver for change…
Global agreement
Cisco has earned credibility, 30+ years as reliable network powerhouse
New Brand campaign needed to build off that…
Position Cisco as…Networking Leader and Technology Visionary
Before building campaign…needed solid foundation
Guiding star around which everything focuses
Along w/ Cisco Exec Leadership team…
New brand promise.
Commitment to stakeholders…what we are fundamentally about
Fits with our company vision and strategy
We believe…there’s never been…a better time
Solve tough challenges in business and society with technology
Our theme will…
Share stories of innovation, inspiration and social responsibility
Demonstrate how Cisco securely connects everything
Anything is possible
Embracing the sense of optimism…
Idea: Powerful, innovative technology — applied in smart and unique ways — can solve any problem the world is facing.
And we had a long way to go
We spoke to our customers – we didn’t listen them
Develop omnichannel experience
Looking through the customer lens
New brand promise…new stakeholder-supported theme…daily meetings, tracks
Began building the campaign
Objective: Position Cisco as the networking giant and technology visionary.
Audience: Technology Optimists. These are people whose mindset is that technology is a driving force for change in the world. Tech Optimists believe technology strategy and business strategy are the same thing. Like us, they are not naïve about the world and the challenges we face, but they believe that with the thoughtful application of technology we can solve big problems.
Focus Areas (From Brand to Demand): Networking, Digital Business, Security, and Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility. Additional technologies will be emphasized throughout the campaign
Voice/Tone: Optimistic, ambitious, courageous, inspiring, provocative, succinct, and human. This tone will be reflected across the campaign, both visually and verbally.
In the day in the life
Based in customer success: Stories of innovation, inspiration and social responsibility
Country led: Launching around the world in 12 countries in a follow-the-sun model beginning with Australia, May 3rd local time
Mobile and Digital First: Optimized for our audiences when and how they consume information, particularly on mobile and digital platforms.
Push notifications per country (follow the ‘Sun’ model), campaign stories, hub, and global cisco.com homepages are built with ‘responsive web’ to support both smartphone and tablets
Omni-channel Journey: Seamless journey from brand to demand
Socially Driven: New media partnerships with Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Employees engaged through social.
Agile Marketing: Launched in 12 countries in 2 months, and iterative based on success
Partner Activation: Activating partners like never before with joint marketing, training, assets
Designed for audience engagement: Our key real-time measure is audience engagement, which we will measure, test and optimize against on a daily basis in all our key markets. Our goal is to increase engagement 5x over previous Cisco campaigns.
Monday May 2 is a holiday in Australia, China, UK, Canada, Mexico
In France websites and employee annt will go live on May 3rd but Media will begin on May 9th due to holiday on May 5th
Japan will launch in June to align with their Tokyo 2020 Olympics annt and the current concerns with the recent earthquake. May 2 – May 9 is a Golden Week in Japan.
Brazil will go live with “There’s Never Been A Better Time” in Q1 FY17. They will run their current Rio campaign through the Olympics.
On launch day we will go live with social media, webpages, campus signage (buildings where applicable, pop-up and digital), paid digital and social media depending on country media plans, employee engagement activities, external communications (PR/AR).
Influencer
Adweek Ad of the Day on May 3
2 blogs written by industry analysts in Forbes and Network World
3 articles written in partner facing publications
“Considering there isn’t another network vendor that’s even close to having the same scale, size and capabilities of Cisco, this should be Cisco’s best opportunity to fulfill its goal of being both a networking leader and a technology visionary.” – Zeus Kerravala, ZK Research for Network World
Customer
91.4 million trend impressions surpassed the b2b benchmark by 5.8% globally
Trend impressions = the number of times the Promoted Trend appeared to a user on Twitter
Social Clicks up 10x from Day 1
Social Engagement up 15x from Day 1
52 million display impressions globally
Over 1 million Global Unique Sessions to homepage and other brand pages
Employees
Digital signage in 54 countries reaching 63,000+ employees
Brand training for 4% of employees & contractors - 5,300+
27,569 Brand Anthem Video Views (3x since day 1)
1,058 Social shares #wearecisco & #neverbetter (2x day 1)
Employee Quote ““Love this! Amazing. Makes me feel so proud to work for this great company.”
Partners –
1st brand launch we did all 4 motions with partners on day 1 (TO,THROUGH, WITH, ABOUT) partners
4222 unique visitors of partner sites (3x since day 1)
249 asset downloads from partner content
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Change the World Together social media video has 1,903 views to date
25 partners have completed all 3 brand eLearning courses
We translated and produced 336 total assets for partners.
Those assets span across 9 local campaign pages* on Partner Marketing Central (PMC) as follows:
Past – email night before
Social Ambassadors
Examples of the new ads. Each of these images has a customer story behind it. Visit the Cisco website to learn about these stories and more.