19. Blake Cahill
SVP of Marketing
www.visibletechnologies.com
20. Brands & Social Media Today
Doing Nothing
• Do not feel social
Listening
media is affecting them
• Do not have the time • Have started to pay
or budget attention
• Getting Google
Alerts or investing in
Learning
a basic monitoring
programs • Investing in research
about social media
conversations Engaging
• Have knowledgeable
staff follow consumer • Thought leaders in
conversations space
• Are significantly
investing in programs
and have dedicated
personnel to the
channel
• Recognizing ROI
21. Measurement/Analytics for Social Media
How big is the
space? What is the
overall Who’s important Pt. I
sentiment?
How well are my
engagements doing?
Who’s important Pt. II
How much is
relevant?
What have I done?
What’s the overall
What’s still left topic breakdown?
to score?
What’s left to do?
22. Social Media vs. “Traditional” Online Tactics
• Background/Initiative:
– Client was launching a new application development platform
– New product launch planned in conjunction with promotional conferences
– Client needed to identify and engage potential customers who would have
interest in attending these events
• Goal:
– Drive registrations and attendance across all planned promotional conferences
• Approach/Actions:
– Discover all relevant social media content, prioritize, analyze, determine
sentiment and identify influential authors and sites for engagement
– Gather customer input to focus efforts on the critical sites and authors
– Engage in conversation to promote conferences, including Vanity URL
placement
– Connect consumers and brands to inspire action via interactive advertising and
relationship marketing
23. Results
Engagement increased average comment volume by 41%: Interaction creates
dialogue
Posted links in relevant blog threads to campaign specific “Vanity URL’s” earned
2.5x the CAR% of Paid Search
Sentiment before, during and after Joint Launch Events
TruCast
All Other Paid Media
Paid Search
Overall increase in positive sentiment, Higher registration percentage than any
increase in brand equity, greater event visibility other campaign channel
and exposure to non-search users Outperformed Paid Search by 2.5x
Volumes rose 200%+ around events, and Simultaneous PR and advertising win
settled more positive than original positions
24. Building a Social Media Roadmap
Marketers need to develop a roadmap and
strategy for listening, learning, leveraging and
engaging in social media conversations
1
1 join 2 listen 3 learn 4 participate 5 share 6 evaluate
Brand insight and Word-of-Mouth opportunities increase
with marketer engagement
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25. Getting Started
5 tips for leveraging social media
1.Define goals
2.Identify your audience
3.Experiment
4.Listen and learn from feedback
5.Join the conversation
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29. ROI
•‘Eyeballs’
•Shopping cart
•Downloads
•Corporate
reach
•Sentiment
•Share of
Voice
•Advocacy
•Community
reach
30. Source: Marketing’s New Key Metric: Engagement
By Brian Have, Forrester report, August 8, 2007
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Questions for AMA:
Marla Chupack
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