Kaylah Buckman (a.k.a TEQ Surprise and Delight Fairy) presented on the success of the Surprise and Delight program that was established by Tourism and Events Queensland.
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11. Pretty
big
dealPhoto:
Kleenex
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h:ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGFflwe4mtI
Photo:
West
Jet
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h:ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk
Photo:
Canada
Tourism
Commission
12. Little
somethi
ng
somethi
ng
Pretty
big
deal Photo:
West
Jet
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h:ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEIvi2MuEk
9M YouTube views
6 x Facebook
engagement
Global press
coverage
50 kits sent
Total impressions
650,402
Interactions 1,800
A weekly gift that
#explorecanada
advocates would
truly covet
So stoked – most
people re-grammed
the gift.
Photo:
Kleenex
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h:ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGFflwe4mtI
28. 1. Create a list of people, topics & locations
Who
Travellers in transit
Backpackers
Event goers
Foodies
Where
Airports
Hostels
Events
Restaurants
When
Flights land/depart
Mid-morning
Pre, during & post
event
Breakky, lunch,
dinner
30. 3. Add streams of
Twitter talk
TIP: Click Add Stream and start
putting terms into the Search
field, this is preferred over
Keywords (you pick up more
natural conversations).
31. 4. Add geo-location
TIP: Once you get a feel for
the streams, start to think
about which ones could be
geo-targeted to a certain
area.
38. Strike up a conversation
• Casual & friendly replies will get
the best results
• Make it clear the you have
something to offer them
• What’s the catch? There is no
catch!
41. Stalk a little…
so you can
surprise a lot
Photo:
The
Internet
(aka
Google
Image
Search)
42. • Check the bio
• Scroll through recent tweets
• Check out the frequency of
tweets
• Pick up on interests / likes /
dislikes / problems that need
solving (surprise)
• If you get a weird vibe – abort
Photo:
The
Internet
(aka
Google
Image
Search)
44. • Travellers are travelling
• Real time surprises can be hard
to execute
• Might need to take the
conversation into DM while
discussing itinerary / where they
are staying
• Provide travel advice &
customer service
Photo:
@chriznobs
45. Photo:
@kellytheobald_
1. Surprise scale
2. Learning to listen
3. Be human
4. The actual
surprise!
5. Insights
46. Successful surprises…
• Directly related to the original
tweet
• Tapped into the traveller
experience
• Tapped into the location of
traveller
• Tapped into personal interests
Photo:
@sabbiak
52. Photo:
@kellytheobald_
1. Surprise scale
2. Learning to listen
3. Be human
4. The actual
surprise!
5. Insights
53. • Keep your team excited internally
• Create a tiers of surprisees &
engineer surprise
• Social listening – internal vs external
community management
• Tool up industry – create a state of
surprise and delight fairies.
54. 1. Pick 3 topics & start
listening
2. Create Hootsuite streams
to monitor the
conversations
3. Strike up a conversation
4. Surprise with a little
something something
So what do I do now?
Photo:
The
Internet
(aka
Google
Image
Search)