The high street has been hit hard by the digital age. Communicators have subsequently had to diversify their tactics to adapt to these developments.
This webinar looks into understanding the impact of your PR strategy in the current retail landscape.
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The Evolution of Digital PR in Retail
1. The Evolution of Digital PR in Retail
Alistair Wheate
October 15th 2014
2. About me
Alistair Wheate
Head of Social Media Insights
Email: alistair.wheate@gorkana.com
Twitter: @alistairtweet
LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/alistairwheate/
Questions:
– In event – through Webinar panel
– Post-event – tweet to @Gorkana or @alistairtweet
Events contact: events@gorkana.com
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3. Social Media and Reputation in
Financial Services
Topics covered:
• Challenges and opportunities for PR online
• How social media monitoring can inform messaging
• Tracking influencers and understanding how they relate to
each other
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4. POLL QUESTION
To what extent does Social Media listening and analysis form a
part of your team’s responsibilities?
A. Social Media listening and analysis is done by another department
B. Social Media listening is done elsewhere but we include social in
our PR evaluation
C. We do some social media listening in PR but don’t do any social
media evaluation or analysis
D. We have a social media listening setup for PR and include social
media in our PR evaluation
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6. Challenges & Opportunities
• 90% of consumers say buying decisions are influenced
by online reviews online reviews
• 88% say they trust online customer reviews as much as
personal recommendations
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http://blogs.constantcontact.com/fresh-insights/do-customers-trust-online-reviews/
http://searchengineland.com/88-consumers-trust-online-reviews-much-personal-recommendations-
195803
7. Rapid Changes in Retail
“Our customers are embracing new technologies
and that in turn is fundamentally changing how
they go about their shopping and what they
expect of retailers.
“In this world of instant access, instant price
comparison, instant social reviews, at the heart
what we’ve chosen to stand for is trust. It’s the
very kernel of the John Lewis brand.”
- Marks Lewis, Online Director, John Lewis
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http://www.retail-week.com/sectors/department-stores/john-lewis-online-boss-more-retail-change-
in-next-five-years-than-in-our-generation/5065162.article?blocktitle=More-news-&-
analysis&contentID=13146
8. Online Plays a Big Role Offline As Well....
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John Lewis Retail Report 2014
9. Social Media is for Listening
• “Social media is not a
bullhorn for broadcast
but a coffee shop for
conversation.”
– Kevin Ashton
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None of the Interbrand Top 100
Brands are in the Twitter Top 100
https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/social-media-
is-for-listening-125283bc4100
11. Measures to Include in Reporting
In “Traditional” Media Analysis:
1. Proportion of articles referencing Social
2. Sentiment of Social element
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12. Measures to Include in Reporting
In “Traditional” Media Analysis:
• Proportion of articles referencing Social
• Sentiment of Social element
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13. Measures to Include in Reporting
In “Traditional” Media Analysis:
1. Proportion of articles referencing Social
2. Sentiment of Social element
3. Categorise by Incident, Review or Reaction
4. Channels Referenced
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14. Measures to Include in Reporting
In Social Media Analysis:
1. Prominence of mainstream stories in social
2. Identify key drivers of negative and positive comment
3. ‘Organic’ message penetration
4. Influencer SOV
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15. Influencer Tracking
Our Social Media Analysis:
• 1700 Fashion and Beauty Bloggers & Vloggers on Twitter
• Jul 1st – Sep 30th
• Tweet an average of 4.6 times per day
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16. Social Media Celebrities
• 6.2m YouTube Subscribers
• 3.18m Instagram Followers
• 2.37m Twitter Followers
BUT
Not in the Top 100 most mentioned
twitter profiles by Blogger community
Only mentioned 849 times out of 867k
tweets (<0.1%).
Fashion & Beauty bloggers pretty
much ignore her.
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17. 16
The most mentioned Fashion & Beauty
Bloggers as referenced by other bloggers
22. Top Tips
1. Identify key influencers and focus on them
2. Include social as a dimension within traditional media
evaluation
3. Incorporate analysis of reviews and peer
recommendations in analysis
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Brand synonymous with ‘organisation’, charity, department etc.
Mention Events team at events@gorkana.com
Too big a subject to cover everything.
Monitoring trends
... For PR in social media
http://blogs.constantcontact.com/fresh-insights/do-customers-trust-online-reviews/ stat for positive reviews 86% negative review
http://searchengineland.com/88-consumers-trust-online-reviews-much-personal-recommendations-195803
From October 14th - John Lewis online director Mark Lewis said there would be more change in retail in the next three to five years than within our generation.
Coined the term “the internet of things”
Belkin example
“For PR” -
“Traditional” here meaning mainstream press: nationals, regionals, magazines, trade titles. Online, offline and broadcast. Key blogs should be included in key title analysis.
Important to pay attention to as they can have a reputation impact – but often short term. More important to look at lower level, ongoing trends. These underlying perceptions are far more damaging to a brand than one off ‘twitter storms’. Symptomatic of bigger problems.
3 – Incident = “I wish we hadn’t done that” category. Can sometimes be positive story too though. “reaction” = comment or response to an announcement or ad.
important because it helps understand what is affecting the journalists perception of the brand and what they find interesting in social.
4 – can help indicate new channels that the media are interested in. These may not be big – but perception of a channel’s potential can be part of hype rather than real traction.
1. May require manual analysis of a sample.
Slightly higher than average journalists 4 tweets per day
Why Twitter – channels for other networks, e.g. Youtube, blog links, Vines, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr
Zoe Sugg – 24 yo
YouTube pinup
Done stuff with 1D
Who’s the audience?
Different demographic to Zoella
Don’t go for the ‘obvious’ “celebrities”
1 https://twitter.com/zoelondondj
2 https://twitter.com/bigfashionista
3 https://twitter.com/britbeautyblog
Online ASOS is strongest
Online ASOS is strongest
Which authors mention brands the most
Which authors mention brands the most
1 – not to say other audiences aren’t important – but for PRs with limited time and other stakeholder groups to engage with attention needs to be focused.
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