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Driving More Revenue from Your Social Strategy
Azita MartinVP Marketing@AzitaMartin
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Consumers sharing and interacting
Companies figuring out transparency
Service folks tweeting
Marketers building audiences on Facebook
Agencies creating campaigns
Companies “broadcasting”
First Generation of Social
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1Gartner, “Gartner Says Worldwide Social Media Revenue Forecast to Reach $16.9 Billion in 2012”, 7/25/2012, www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=2092217
So What are the Returns?
Have Companies/Brands turned Social into another Ad Channel?
Gamification
TwitterAds
Linked In
Ads Contests
FacebookApps
FacebookAds
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Consumer Research
Shows Another
Path
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Customers Have Different Expectations
Social Media is the door into
Brand’s Customer Community
Consumers show a strong preference for “Branded Customer
Communities”
of participants show a preference for relevant content vetted by other
consumers
50%
of consumers have joined an internet
community based on a friend’s Facebook post
58%
Websites, not social networks, are the
primary place consumers go
to make purchase decisions
of consumers use company website
to research products
81%
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What’s the Second Generation of Social?
Build Authentic Engagement with Customers and
Prospects Throughout the Customer Life-Cycle
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Managing Your Brand
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PotentialCustomers
Existing Customers
TheBrand
Help
Content
Service/Support
Loyalty Programs
Ads & Branding
Word
-of
-Mouth
Promotions
BondBuy
Experience
Discover
Advocate Evaluate
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Conversations Accelerate the Lifecycle
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TheBrand
Help
Content
Service/Support
Loyalty Programs
Ads & Branding
Word
-of
-Mouth
Promotions
BondBuy
Experience
Advocate Evaluate
PotentialCustomers
Existing Customers
Discover
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Evaluate
PotentialCustomers
Existing Customers
Discover
Social Media Management Tools Can Help
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TheBrand
Help
Content
Service/Support
Loyalty Programs
Ads & Branding
Word
-of
-Mouth
Promotions
BondBuy
Experience
Advocate
But, they don’t help you:• Build the customer relationship• Facilitate conversation across the lifecycle• Collect and re-use valuable social content.
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Customer Community Builds Engagement
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TheBrand
Help
Content
Service/Support
Loyalty Programs
Ads & Branding
Word
-of
-Mouth
Promotions
BondBuy
Experience
Advocate Evaluate
PotentialCustomers
Existing Customers
Discover
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Social Content has a Short Shelf-Life
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Customer CommunitiesDeliver engagement and revenue
cultivating persistent, discoverable & relevant
conversations
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Making Fleeting Social Interactions Persistent
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Time period: 2 hours
Time period: 7 hours
Act
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Time period: 11+ months
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Community Makes Social Content Discoverable
of the most persistent conversations by leveraging organic search
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Optimized URL Structure
Community Activity
Social Sharing
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Relevant Content Drives Conversion
by prioritizing and surfacing contextually-appropriate community topics
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How Communities Work
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Consumer-facing experiences
Internal processes
Social NetworksCompany Website
& Product
Social MediaManagement
Customer Communities
Organic Search
Your Employees
Community Moderation
CRM / Marketing
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Monetize community data
• Pinpoint product interest by curating topic types
• Gauge community sentiment to activate brand advocates
• Identify most active users and champions leverage their conversations as rich marketing content
• Use search analytics to get insight into what customers and prospects are looking for
Drive Revenue With Insight Into Your Community
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An eCommerce case study
The Situation
30% drop
in one-to-one interactions
5% gainin search-driven site traffic
8% drop in cart abandonment
63% gainin first call resolution rate
▸ High levels of
cart abandonment
▸ Low search-driven
site traffic volume
▸ Desire to harness
word of mouth to
drive conversions
▸ Customers couldn’t
ask product-specific
questions during
purchase flow
Outcomessolution
the
embedded conversations
▸ Product-specific
WOM content
▸ Community
drives
discussions
▸ Widgets
throughout
purchase flow
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A marketing case study
The Situation
▸ Employees lacked
a social media
presence
▸ Desire to easily
facilitate customer
conversations
▸ Needed a
mechanism to
operationalize
customer
endorsements
Outcomessolution
the
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Social post permanence
Discoverable discussions
Embedded advocate content
Customer Advocates
can self-identify
Social Praiseleveraged in
marketing content
More Employee Interactionswith customers
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• What type of companies you sell & market to?
B2B – Business to Business
B2C – Business to Consumer
• Select your most effective social channel
Linked-in
Youtube
Other
Polling Questions
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• Do you currently have a Forum or Customer Community
Forum
Customer Community
None
Polling Questions
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Q&A
The Second Generation of Social is Here
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