sports marketing 2.0 treviso 2013

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Sports Marketing 2.0‘The times they are a changing’

Dr. Jim Hamill

jim.hamill@energise2-0.com

@drjimhamill December, 2013

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A conversationnot a broadcast presentation

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Agenda

• Morning– ‘Lecture’ and class discussion

• Afternoon– Group work and group presentations

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Group Work

Groups of 4/5 students

Taking a Sports Marketing Organisation of your own choice, critically evaluate the progress made in using social media

Make strategic recommendations for improvement

Your evaluation should cover use of social mediaon the organisation’s own web site and the extent of theirinvolvement in external social media sites

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Agenda

• Opportunities and threats for Sports Marketing Organisations from the Social Media Revolution

• Content– The Social Media Revolution– Social media in action – examples (non-sports)– Key things to remember about social mediaCoffee– Social media and sports marketing– Social media in action - examples (sports marketing)– Sports Marketing 2.0: strategy development, implementation and

performance measurementLunch

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Let’s start with a few questions?

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Social Media: The State of Play

Where are sports marketing organisations (SMO) with social media?

What progress has been made?

Where are they going?

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What road are they on?

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Our View on Progress Made

Interest and enthusiasm has grown rapidly

Channels are being set up

But lack of strategic planning leads to problems down the line - resourcing, content, customers, performance measurement, business impact and ROI

A broadcast mentality prevails…….

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Is there something fundamentally wrong with our approach to

Social Media?

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Something Wrong…..

Are we using social media as just another PR/marketing channel for broadcasting messages AT customers telling them how good we are?

Is anyone listening anymore?

Have the rules of businesschanged?

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Be Social

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Be ‘Customer Led’

Talking WITH rather than AT your customers is the core foundation of a successful social media strategy

The basis of a good conversation is to listen first

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The Social Media Revolution

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Social Media

An Overview

»Applications»Features and Characteristics»Implications

Social MediaApplications

Social/ Prof Network SitesMultimedia Sharing SitesBlogsMicro-blogging - TwitterWikisPodcasts/ VodcastsVirtual RealitiesMash UpsRSS FeedsMobile WebThe Cloud (SaaS)Open Source/CrowdsourcingSocial Business (Internal)

Characteristics

Communities and NetworksOpennessSharingPeeringHosted Services – online applications; the Internet as the platformInteractivitySocial ElementMass CollaborationEmpowermentGlobal

Impact – Wikibusiness

MindsetBusiness IntelligenceCustomer Insight and

UnderstandingCustomer InteractionEnhanced Customer Experience

– Rich Internet ApplicationsReputation ManagementSales and Marketing Product Development and R&D

e.g. engage and co-createIT/Software/ApplicationsOperations, Internal Processes

and HRM

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Social Media in Plain English

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How important has it become?

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The Social Media Revolution

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Potential Business Benefits of Social Media

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Business Benefits

• Market Knowledge

• Customer Insight and Understanding

• Customer Interaction/Service

• Enhanced Customer Experience

• Business Intelligence

• Reputation Management

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Business Benefits

• Improved Sales and Marketing

• Identify/network with high value, high growth contacts

• NPD and R&D e.g. engage and co-create

• Internal cost savings • Improved Operations & Internal Processes;

Efficiency/Collaboration

• Increased ROI

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Potential Business Benefits

5 main areas:

• Market/Customer Knowledge & Insight• Engagement & Reputation Management• Enhanced Customer Experience and Loyalty• Sales/Marketing Effectiveness, Efficiency and ROI• Internal – efficiency, knowledge exchange etc

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Social Media in ActionQuick Examples

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In a Web 2.0 Era, the Brand Becomes the Customer Experience of the Brand

A quick ‘personal experience’

Dubai Hotel

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From the web site

• This 5-star hotel and residence offers European hospitality with an unmistakable French touch. The hotel consists of 318 beautifully appointed guest rooms/suites, while the residence offers 112 fully furnished and equipped deluxe Studios and 1-3 bedroom apartments.

• The ultimate in comfort, we offer 318 luxuriously elegant rooms and suites.

• Take a trip. Escape. Go and visit somewhere new and see if we are there… Give in to that irresistible wanderlust. Discovering and staying in the most exceptional hotels in the world has become the modern-day Graal, a game, a quest…

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The Customer Experience of the Brand

Tripadvisor

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From Tripadvisor

• It's getting old, the rooms are unappealing and it will never be more than a business hotel

• Being a Sofitel hotel we expected something quite 'flashy' unfortunately we were let down. The rooms, although comfortable and clean, were not of the standard we expected and were definately not what we expected after looking at the photos on the hotel's website.

• Booking my stay via the Sofitel website after a pleasant experience at several other Sofitel locations over the past 2 years with my new job I was looking forward to a 5 star luxury stay after a stressful business trip. My expectations were reasonable, however certainly not met by this hotel

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United Breaks Guitars

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Crowdsourced NPD

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www.skittles.com

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The rules of the game have changed

The 5 key things to remember about Social Media

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1. It’s a Revolution

A fundamental and revolutionary changein online behaviour, expectations and the online customer experience. The end of the ‘read only’ internet

Content generated by the network for the network

We are no longer passive consumers of content/brand messages

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2. It’s Social

A conversation not a broadcast platform

Conversations are taking place relevant to your brand – are you listening?

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Social Media Monitoring

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www.topsy.com

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www.topsy.com

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www.topsy.com

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www.socialmention.com

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www.mention.net

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www.mention.net

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3. Power Shift

Social media empowers customers, empowers the network

We no longer control the brand The brand becomes the customer

experience of the brand – experiences that are widely

shared online

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Scottish Power

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4. Declining Effectiveness

Declining effectiveness of traditional approaches to sales and marketing Does anyone listen any more?

We are no longer passive sheep waiting to be ‘driven’ to your web site

If you treat us like sheep, we will tell youto ‘flock off’.

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Do You Listen?

Source: The Future of Advertising, APA, 17/02/09 as published on Slideshare (www.slideshare.com)

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Do You Listen?

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5. The End of Business as Usual

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The End of Business as Usual

‘Winners’ will be those organisations who fully utilise the interactive power of Web 2.0 technology for

engaging with and energising customer and network relationships

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Why Now?

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Why Now?

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Why Now?

Social Media + Connectivity + Mobile + The Cloud + Big Data + Gen C

= The End of Business as Usual

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The Connected Consumer

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New Performance Measures

• Business success depends on the quality of your customer base; the strength of the relationship you have with quality customers; and your ability to leverage that relationship

• In a social media era, business success depends on the – Quality of your network– Relationship strength– Ability to leverage

The 6Is Approach

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Performance Measurement

Involvement – network/community numbers/quality, time spent, frequency, geography

Interaction – actions they take – read, post, comment, reviews, recommendations

Intimacy – affection or aversion to the brand ; community sentiments, opinions expressed etc

Influence – advocacy, viral forwards, referrals and recommendations, social bookmarking

Insight – customer insight Impact – business impact

Social Media Monitoring Tools –Audit, Assess, Impact

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The ‘6Is’ Approach

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Bob Dylan

Come gather 'round peopleWherever you roam

And don’t criticiseWhat you can't understand

Your sons and your daughtersAre beyond your command

Your old road isRapidly agin‘

Then you better start swimmin’Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin’

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Some Useful Tools and Apps

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Some Useful Tools and Apps

• Feedly for Social Media Listening• Pocket for bookmarking content• BufferApp for scheduling posts• Hootsuite as your Social Media Management Dashboard• Wordpress for blogging• Yammer for internal networking and collaboration• Social Media Performance Measurement Tools

Social Media Performance Measurement

Tools and SoftwareA large number of tools exist

Individual Channels

• Blog– Blog Stats– Google Analytics

• Twitter– Twitter Analytics; Twitter Counter; Tweet Reach;

Twitalyzer; Tweet Stats; Tweet Grader; twtrland• Linkedin

– Linkedin Insights• Facebook

– Facebook Insights

Overall Buzz (Free)

• Klout• Kred• Peer Index• Topsy• Social Mention• Mention.net• Hootsuite

Overall Buzz (Paid)

Coffee Time

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Social Media and Sports Marketing

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Sports Marketing 2.0

• Business benefits for sports marketing organisations (SMO)

• What progress has been made? How well are sports marketing organisations utilising the power of Web 2.0 for building community and network relationships with their tribe?

• Emerging ‘best practice’ examples

• Social media strategy development

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‘Football is nothing without the fans’

Jock SteinManager of Celtic FC1965 to 1978

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Social media and sports marketing A marriage made in heaven?

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A Marriage Made in Heaven

Social Media Sports Fans

Information ‘pull’ rather than ‘push’

User generated content Openness Sharing Collaboration Interaction Communities Networking

The ‘Tribe’ Passion Loyalty Commitment Desire Involvement Community Belonging Family

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Business Benefits to SMO

• Increased sales

• Improved marketing ROI (efficiency and effectiveness)

• Relationships and networking effects – engage and energise – increased fan loyalty and commitment

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'Internal' Use of Social Media*

• Increased visits to the official site• Increase ‘stickiness’ (length) of site visits• Divert traffic from unofficial fanzine sites • Increased advertising revenue• Increased e-commerce sales for the official site• Actionable customer insight, knowledge and understanding • A channel for responding to customer comments and feedback • Enhanced online customer experience• Build community and leverage network effects - engage, energise* Use of social media on the SMO’s own web site

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Use of ‘External’ Social Media

• Social Networking Sites: Sports Marketing Organisation becomes a ‘community aggregator’ - ‘Talk with rather than at fans’ - actionable customer insights

• Blog – for ‘telling the story’• Multimedia Sharing Sites - a very powerful marcoms channel leveraging

networking and ‘word of mouth’ effects • Podcast Sites: Provides the SMO with a rich media channel for maintain

on-going dialogue with customers/fans • Virtual Reality: ‘virtual stadium’ allowing fans to interact with each other

in a virtual space• Mapping Tools: - satellite images of the Stadium etc. Can enhance the

online customer experience leading to increased site visits, advertising revenue and e-commerce sales

• Mobile apps

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What progress has been made?

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Progress Made

• 2008 Study – evaluation of the Web 2.0 progress made by the top 20 football teams in Europe

• 2011/2012 update

• Group work – update further?

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Internal Use (own web site)

• UGC (User Generated Content)– text, images, video, wiki

• User FOD (Feedback, Opinion, Discussion)– blog, forum, ratings, favourites, online chat

• RIA (Rich Internet Applications)– widgets, mash-ups, podcasts/vodcasts

• Folksonomies– social tagging, social bookmarking, tag cloud

• Feeds– content feeds in and out

• Community– site community

• External Links– to other 2.0 sites

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External 2.0

• Social Network Sites– facebook

• Multimedia Sharing Sites– Youtube, flickr

• Podcast Sites– Itunes

• Twitter• Linkedin

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2008 Results – very limited progress

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2008 Results – very limited progress

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2012 Update

Top European Football Clubs – Facebook/Twitter League Tables,

2011/2012

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Some Useful Links

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Some Useful Links

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October 2011

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October 2011

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EPL Clubs – High Numbers

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Few ‘Replies’

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67% are ‘Replies’

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Progress?

Good progress in channels being used and number of ‘followers’/‘fans’

But are they using it in the right way?

Fan engagement or broadcasting?

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Broadcasting or Engagement?

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Twitter Profiles

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Column 6 – only 6% are ‘replies’

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Stats from twtrland.com

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A Broadcast Mentality

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Is fan engagement enough?

What about fan ownership?

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Fan Ownership?

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Crowd Power

• The ‘crowdsourcing’ movement - could this help to break down barriers to fan ownership of clubs?

• ‘Crowdfunding’ is the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the Internet, to support a ‘common cause’. Why can’t football clubs be funded this way through an online community membership scheme?

• ‘Crowdsourcing’ could also provide a solution for decentralised, democratic fan control

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Crowd Power

• Rather than a decision-making structure where total power lies with a small wealthy elite, in a crowdsourcing model power would lie with the community (or crowd)

• Mass collaboration, rather than leading to anarchy, will often result in better decision-making building on the collective intelligence of the crowd.

• Why does control have to be in the hands of a small number of oligarchs when the collective intelligence of the masses will always be greater than that of the few?

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Emerging ‘Best Practice’ Examples in Sports Marketing

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Ebbsfleet Utd 2007 Fan Takeover

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MyFootballClub.co.uk

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Examples

Chelseawww.chelseafc.com

Old site – update in group exercise?

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Standard Home Page

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The Shed

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Chat

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Fan Blog

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Images

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Player Ratings

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Pick the Team

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Rumours

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Facebook – 7.6 million

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Youtube

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Twitter

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Flickr

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Many other interesting developments

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Others

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A good site

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Run by a Celtic Supporter

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Mission Control – Fan Management

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Euroleague Case Evaluation

How effective are Euroleague using social media – internally and externally?

Update in group exercise?

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Web Site - little evidence of SM

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Its under fun

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130,469 Twitter Followers

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twtrland score – high engagement

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Live Score Updates

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114,000 Facebook ‘Likes’

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Use of QR Codes

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45m YouTube Views

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Limited Use of Google +

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Mobile

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Euroleague

What ‘Buzz’ is being created?

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Social Mention

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Social Mention

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Topsy

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Shows Trend in ‘Mentions’

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Fewer ‘mentions’ than SPL?

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Influence

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‘Social Media Planning Pays’Strategy Drives Tactics:

Never the Other Way Round

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Practical Adviceand Next Steps to Avoid the Road to Nowhere

‘Social Media Planning Pays’

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Social Media Strategy and Action Plans

• Use a simplified Balanced Scorecard approach to social media strategy development and implementation

• Will ensure that your future social media actions and initiatives are fully aligned with and supportive of agreed business goals; that KPIs are agreed for evaluating on-going social media performance, business impact and ROI; and that all key success factors are considered, including organization, people and resource aspects

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Develop a Strategy

• What is the overall social media vision for your organization?

• What are the key objectives and targets to be achieved?

• Who are your customers?

• What are the key actions and initiatives you need to take?

• Organisation, resource and people issues

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Social Media Strategy Map

Brief statement of your overall 2.0/Social Media Vision and Mission Strategic Objectives Customer Perspective Internal Management Perspective Organisation Perspective

Strategic Objectives KPIs / Targets

KPIs / Targets KPIs / Targets

KPIs / Targets

Customer Group 1

Customer Group 2

Customer Group 3

Customer Group 4

2.0/Social Media Initiative 1 - Objectives - KPIs - Targets - Actions

2.0/Social Media Initiative 2 - Objectives - KPIs - Targets - Actions

2.0/Social Media Initiative 3 - Objectives - KPIs - Targets - Actions

2.0/Social Media Initiative 4 - Objectives - KPIs - Targets - Actions

Organisation People Resource

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Key Questions to Address

• What is the overall social media vision for your organisation?• What are the key objectives and targets to be achieved from

social media? Are these fully aligned with and supportive of your overall business goals and objectives?

• Who are your customers? Where do you find them ‘hanging out’ on social media? How can you best engage with them?

• What are the main Social Media Actions and Initiatives you need to take – short, medium and longer term?

• What generic social media strategy should you follow (number of channels used/ depth of engagement in each channel)?

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Key Questions to Address

• For each priority Social Media Channel, what are your core objectives for that channel; what KPIs will be used for measuring on-going channel performance; what are your targets for each KPI; what key tasks are needed to achieve these targets?

• Do we have the right organisational ‘culture’ and ‘mindset’ for Social Media? ‘Be social before doing social! Is the right organisational and decision-making structure in place?

• Has agreement been reached on resource allocation?• Who will be responsible for your social media activities? What

balance has been agreed between internal and external roles and responsibilities?

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Key Questions to Address

• Who is the Social Media Champion?• Do you have agreed Social Media Policies and Guidelines in

place covering ‘Proper Use’, ‘Content Management’, ‘Customer Response Times/Quality’ and ‘Legal’ aspects?

• Performance evaluation and business impact

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‘Be Customer Led’

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Be Customer Led

• Who are our customers, community, tribe?

• Where do they hang out in social media?

• How can we best use Social Media to deliver an exceptional customer experience at all stages of the customer life cycle?

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www.mashable.com

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Who Are Your Customers?

• Your Social Media Strategy should be aimed at building a ‘quality’ customer base i.e. a strong online network of high value, high growth potential customers providing your company with a strong foundation for achieving sustained growth and profitability

• First step:– Undertake a detailed Customer Mapping and

Segmentation Analysis to identify your ‘Most Valuable’ and ‘Most Growable’ customers (actual and potential)

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In Summary……..‘Social Media Planning Pays’

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Finally……

For your future career development, it is critical that you build a strong personal brand online

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Thank YouQuestions

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