This was a presentation given at the Corporate Image & Branding Conference. Answers the question why they are in social media, what has social changed, how have they operationalized their efforts, and what surprised them in their journey.
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B2B Social Media Strategy - The Caterpillar Journey @kevingespinosa
1. Caterpillar - What’s New in Social Media
and How to Use it for Branding
@KevinGEspinosa | January 30, 2013
2. Kevin Espinosa
•Social Media Manager
•25 years at Caterpillar
•Responsible for developing
Caterpillar’s public facing social
media strategy, implementation,
processes, platforms, and
organization
@kevingespinosa
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3. About Caterpillar Inc.
A global leader in size, scope, reach and character, Caterpillar Inc. is a
genuine enabler of sustainable world progress and opportunity, defined by the
brand attributes of global leadership, innovation, and sustainability.
• 125,000+ Employees
• Sales & Revenue +$60 Billion
• 191 Cat Dealers Around the Globe
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10. Social Media Strategy: Capabilities to
Build Customer Relationship
Social Promotion Thought Customer
Listening Leadership Support
@kevingespinosa
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11. Giving the Always there for
Customer what Providing Solutions
Understanding the the Customer
they need when to our Customers
Customer’s needs they need it
Social Promotion Thought Customer
Listening Leadership Support
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12. Enterprise Impact of Social Listening
> Deeper insight into what is being said about us, including:
> Who is talking about us
> What they are talking about
> What our competitors are doing
> Key influencers (individuals and sites)
Social
> Tone of conversations: positive, neutral or negative Listening
Includes social and business networking sites, content sharing
sites, blogs, Wikis, discussion forums and many more digital
communication channels. 1
Forum
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15. Caterpillar
> Date: 10/5/2012 ~ 1/3/2013
> Web data collection by Radian6
& Sysomos
> Over 76,000 posts
> Observation
> News articles make up a large
portion of social media volume
> Twitter, Forums, and Blogs are
nearly equivalent
[ Media Distribution ]
> What topics drive volume from
each media type? @kevingespinosa
16. Sentiment
> Forums, Blogs, and News are generally consistent with ~60% positive
sentiment, while Twitter remains highly neutral
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18. Social Media is Often the First Point of Contact
and Last Line of Defense
Thought
Leadership Promotion
Customer Support Social
Listening
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Forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and micro-blogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos).