Yes, social media is littered with fads & fails. And, yes, there are a few too many experts & evangelists. But there’s no denying it is also the true environment for engagement; truly connecting you with the hearts & minds of your consumers. In this module finally find out what Twitter, and trolls mean and why they matter to you.
The shift: in the hands of your consumers
Opportunities
Challenges
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Agenda
• The shift: why social media matters
• Opportunities
– How does social media work? Where do you start?
– Where are your audience?
– How do you manage and measure conversations with your consumer?
• Challenges
- Management buy-in
- Resourcing
- Integration
- Messaging
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Time spent in social is growing at 3x the overall internet rate,
accounting for ~10% of all internet time.
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BUILDING A SOCIAL BRAND
Traditional
marketing
Social
Influence
marketing
Advertising: “I assert”
Brands MarketsAssertions flow one way
Social Brands MarketsTrust
Social community building: “We discuss”
Two way
discussion
Transparent
Authentic
Conversations
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SOCIALLY CONNECTED CONSUMER = DEEPER RELATIONSHIP
Millward Brown says “digital consumers”
have 15% stronger relationships with
brands.
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SOCIAL BRAND EXPERIENCES CREATE CUSTOMERS
• 97% report increased brand
awareness
• 98% show increased
consideration
• 97% will more likely
purchase a product
• 96% may recommend the
brand to their friends
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Opportunities
• How does social media work? Where do you start?
• Where are your audience?
• How do you manage and measure conversations
with your consumer?
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Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Twitter make up 71%
of the Social Networks and Forums industry.
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Australia leads the world in time spent
Country Time per Person (hh:mm:ss) Unique Audience (000)
Australia 6:52:28 9,895
United States 6:09:13 142,052
United Kingdom 6:07:54 29,129
Italy 6:00:07 18,256
Spain 5:30:55 19,456
Brazil 4:33:10 31,345
Germany 4:11:45 28,057
France 4:04:39 26,786
Switzerland 3:54:34 2,451
Japan 2:50:21 46,558
Source: The Nielsen Company January 2010
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YouTube
• 79.1% of internet users in Australia view online
video.
– Universal McCann, July 2009
• YouTube receives 6.17 million monthly Australian
visitors.
– ComScore, 2009
• Skews GenY & male
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MySpace
• 1.9m people in AU
• 55 minutes per month
• They return 5.6 times a month
• 28.5% of MySpace users are aged 12-17
• Myspace has just reinvented itself as a social
entertainment-based destination for 13 to 35 year-
olds with real-time functionality.
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Twitter
• Twitter growth in the past 12 months in Australia
equates to 1150%.
– November 2009
• Twitter’s power lies in real time & searchable
interaction
• Organic search benefits
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Facebook number 1 social
• Facebook is currently the second most visited website behind Google
Australia (the week ending 17 October 2009), and… it is not
unprecedented that Facebook could become the number one website
in Australia.
– Experian Hitwise Asia Pacific, November 2009
• Facebook now accounts for 29 per cent of all time spent online by
Australians – this has seen research group Nielsen define the trend as
“Facebook Time” and “Non-Facebook Time”.
– Nielsen, November 2009
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Facebook
• 7 million active Australian users
• 25-34 yr. is the fastest growing segment in Australia
with a 201% YOY increase in unique visitors
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Australian social technographics
45% Joiners
35% Critics
26% Creators
16% Collectors
63% Spectators
• Publish a blog • Publish your own Web
pages • Upload video you created • Upload
audio/music you created • Write articles or
stories and post them
• Post ratings/reviews of products or
services • Comment on someone else’s blog
• Contribute to online forums • Contribute
to/edit articles in a wiki
Use RSS feeds • “Vote” for Web sites online •
Add “tags” to Web pages or photos
• Maintain profile on a social networking site
• Visit social networking sites
• Read blogs • Listen to podcasts • Watch
video from other users • Read online
forums • Read customer ratings/reviews24%
Inactives
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Gen Y are super social
35% Creator
43% Critic
21% Collector
63% Joiner
75% Spectator
12% inactive
Gen Y
45% Joiners
35% Critics
26% Creators
16% Collectors
63%
Spectators
24%
Inactives
AU Population
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Listening Tools
• Radian6
• Lithium (formerly ScoutLabs)
• Buzz Numbers
• Alterian SM2
• People Browsr
• Facebook Search
• Twitter Search
• Blogpulse
• Google blogsearch
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Kit Kat Mentions – Jan to July
2010
Initial launch
of
Greenpeace
video and
campaigning
Success of
Greenpeace
campaign
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Kit Kat – Sentiment is influenced
by Greenpeace campaign
247 of very negative
& 44 of somewhat
negative are the
Greenpeace related
negative campaign
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Defining success
• On the one hand, you can develop an in depth,
concrete social media strategy
– on the other hand, you can just leap in and see what
happens (not recommended!)
• Proving social is of “value” relates to how much its
linked to the overall business objectives
• Measuring (and reporting) success also helps
• Success is different for every case
– E.g. Better customer relationships, increase in positive
sentiment, share of voice against defined competitors
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Strategy
• Social is a means to an ends
• What is/are the ends?
Customer
Service
Community
involvement &
thought
leadership
Retail Sales &
offers
Recruitment
Business to
business
Sponsorship &
events
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continuous monitoring &
conversations
Implementation process
1. objectives
2. audit
3. listen
4. develop
5. outreach
6. converse
7. monitor &
report
8. threat & crisis
management
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Return on Investment
Before we start,
this line represents
baseline activity
We know that this is the base of sales
e.g. 7% YOY growth
This represents the
uplift due to social
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Resourcing
• Social media is always on
• 24/7 if you’re running a global business
• Decide on your “SLAs”
• Is it a team effort? e.g. customer service with
marketing
• Who does what? Define responsibilities
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Integration
• Social is not
something you do in
isolation
• What’s the rest of
your marketing mix?
• Must integrate with
the rest of your digital
channels
• Cross promote!
• Social aggregation
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Managing conversations
• What are your chosen platforms?
• Platform/channel specific tools
• Multiple administrators (team effort)
• APIs – Twitter (CoTweet, Hootsuite, Tweetdeck)
• Facebook Page admins
• Blog comment platforms
– e.g. Disqus can be commenter and moderator in one
profile
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Messaging
• Putting a push or advertising message on a social
channel is not social
• Messaging should be mindful of the channel you are
participating in
• Two way conversations
• Don’t be frightened of feedback
• Is there a reason for people to engage?
• Co-creating
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Homework
• Try a new social platform
• i.e. if you’re on Twitter, try Foursquare or Tumblr, or
if you’re on Facebook try Twitter
• Find/join/create a community of interest
• Become a (public) social content creator
• Tag your posts (something unique helps)
• Link it to your other social profiles
• See if you can publish automatically
• Measure and report on your impact
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Photo Credits
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoutedrop/2317065892/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktylerconk/2163760529/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guiguibu91/2889883615/
http://www.flickr.com//photos/alosojos/338099901/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegoodbyeletter/2590857221/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vauvau/3989766534/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pup/372937504/
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/eelssej_/401919914/
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Tiphereth Gloria
Social Media Strategist, GPYR Sydney
http://twitter.com/tiphereth
http://www.digitaltip.com.au
http://www.gpyr.com.au/blog/
Notes de l'éditeur
what I’m going to talk about today is how you can use social channels to communicate with your audience.
the term for this is social media marketing or social influence marketing or just plain social
When I talk about brand – I mean brand, product or service – anything that you are advertising or promoting in other channels
Firstly, lets find out who’s social.
Hands up who has a personal blog?
Personal twitter account?
Has watched anything on YouTube this week?
Who has a Facebook account?
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Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
social is now more popular than porn
that means that other website visits and other media and offline activity is being sacrificed for social time
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Its broadcast.
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People are talking about your brand, product. service or program whether you are there and participating or not
Its about behaviour
Social means everyone has become a content creator
You are competing with every tweet and blog post on your subject matter
Is almost enough argument for participation
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Social media is about engaging in 2 way conversations and eliciting feedback and thoughts
the technology has enabled the circle of friends to grow far far bigger than ever before
lots of small online interactions have just as much impact as the deeper ones face to face
friends – look to peers for recommendations
people are connecting with each other to do business on their terms
third party endorsement – same principle as PR or the dating wingman
has more clout if you hear it from someone else
social’s definition of friends is much looser – you may never have met them in real life but their influence is just as great as if you knew them personally
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Getting To The Bottom Of Brand Engagement
Everyone is chasing after a metric to define brand engagement.
The Altimeter Group attempts to correlate social media activity to financial performance, citing Dell, Starbucks and eBay as leaders.
The Question is: does a deeper relationship constitute more spending?
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The overwhelming majority of consumers who engage with a brand online move from passive “receivers” to advocates almost instantly :
So how do you engage with people on the social web?
FEED:The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report
In August 2009 Razorfish surveyed 1,000 U.S. “connected consumers”*:Broadband accessSpent $150 online in the past six months (travel, Netflix, tickets, Amazon, etc.)Visited a community site (MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Yelp, etc.)Consumed or created some form of digital media such as photos, videos, music or news
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social is the virtual water cooler
instead of congregating around the water cooler at work, spontaneous communities form around topics, tv, movies, sport, conversational pieces
Marketing, PR and advertising industries have grasped the opportunities early and social influence marketing is a recognised strategy
Spontaneous communities form around great content - doesn’t matter whether its branded or not
Reminders of a shared experience
Symbols for shared memberships or beliefs
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Monty Python watched their content being uploaded by users for 3 years
Until they started their own YouTube channel and upload all their catalogue in HD format – making it available to everyone for free. They asked their fan base directly to buy their DVDs – so they could make money.
The channel has had more than 3 million views and more than 115,000 subscribers
In January 2009, Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.
Blogs, wikis, forums, social channels for sharing music, video, photos, business networks, collaboration, crowdsourcing, reviews and ratings, social bookmarks, and now location based services
Globally 82% increase year on year for time spent in social led by Facebook and Twitter
Google & Bing both signed deals with Twitter in November 2009 to have live indexing
17th March 2010 - UK Greenpeace posted a gory parody video of the standard Kit Kat – Take A Break ad, showing an office worker gnawing on an orangutan’s finger instead of a Kit Kat bar, and the tag line “Kit Kat Killer”
The aim was to get Nestle to stop buying unsustainable palm oil from Sinar Mas, a global supplier that was destroying the south east Asian rainforests where orangutan’s were being threatened
The campaign took off globally, with many people posting boycott Kit Kat messages on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
The Nestle Facebook page was overrun with people begging Nestle to stop using palm oil and killing the orangutans. Nestle deleted the messaging and responded with angry comments faced additional backlash for handling their social badly
Greenpeace globally used other peaceful demonstrations on and offline
By 20th May 2010, only 10 weeks later, Nestle announced it would stop sourcing the unsustainable palm oil, a huge victory for Greenpeace and social networking
Using Alterian SM2, the keyword and brand searches related to Kit Kat and then isolating Kit Kat and Greenpeace mentions and putting them in a separate category showed that Greenpeace took over a third of the conversation around Kit Kat
http://socialmedia.alterian.com/
The volume of the keyword & brand searches in the timeframe
http://socialmedia.alterian.com/
When looking at the mentions over time, we can clearly track the peaks of mentions in the initial launch and then success of the Greenpeace campaign.
http://socialmedia.alterian.com/
When isolating the Greenpeace content, the sentiment toward Kit Kat and Nestle was categorised as either negative or very negative
http://socialmedia.alterian.com/
The blue bars included both Kit Kat and the Greenpeace mentions. The red bars show the impact of the Greenpeace mentions on the overall sentiment of Kit Kat. When mapping the negative or very negative Greenpeace commentary, the Greenpeace campaigning then affected Kit Kat’s overall sentiment directly (Greenpeace negative sentiment mapped in red)
http://socialmedia.alterian.com/
Twitter was the primary channel for mentions for the Kit Kat brand and product
http://socialmedia.alterian.com/
Twitter was the primary channel for Greenpeace mentions
http://socialmedia.alterian.com/
Even though the platforms are free, social media marketing involves
People
Time
Requires resourcing
Return on investment – So make sure you’re tracking what your results are. What are you measuring?
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Can run short term “campaigns”
But
Takes time and effort to build a community
Want you to keep talking to them
Otherwise they will feel neglected
need to manage expectations if its only short term
e.g. the party is on from this time to this time
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http://www.wagonwheeels.com.au
Its about listening as well as talkiing
By listening you can:
Find your influencers and advocates
Product development
Customer service
Customer relationship management
Research & Focus groups
General feedback
Industry share of voice
Sentiment
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Moral of the story: Register your usernames across major channels whether you use them or not
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