Aberdeen Group research firm is one of the premier analyst firms covering the social media landscape, and Dell is highly regarded as a world-class leader in social media strategy. Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear from both organizations in a live PRWeek/Visible Technologies webcast Interacting with Social Media to Strengthen Communication Strategies, featuring Jeff Zabin, Aberdeen Group research analyst and an industry case study from Bob Pearson, Dell VP of communities and conversations.
Interacting with Social Media to Strengthen Communication Strategies
1. Blake Cahill
SVP of Marketing
www.visibletechnologies.com
2. Why Social Media Matters
Consumers are increasingly turning to online
communities and Social Media to form opinions of
brands and to make purchasing decisions
• A study by The Society for New Communications Research found:
– 81% of consumers believe that blogs, online rating systems and
discussion forums give them a greater voice regarding
customer care, but less than 33% believe that businesses take
customers’ opinions seriously
– 74% of respondents based their purchase intent of
brands on others’ experiences shared online
– 59% of respondents use social media to “vent” about a
customer care experience
• BusinessWeek recently reissued their 2005 cover
story on blogs to emphasize the importance of
social media and the need for social networking
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3. It’s Chaos Out There!
HEALTHCARE
Newsgroups
Social Media Challenges
Uncontrollable environment
Where do I get started?
What can I glean?
Where is the ROI?
4. PR and Social Media
Currently the PR and Communications industry are
primarily focused on:
• Listening for mentions about clients’ brand
• Using Social Media for outreach and campaign publicity
• Monitoring and mitigating in the event of a crisis
Tomorrow - communications and PR need to evolve and
focus on:
• Real-time social media engagement to monitor and manage
brands effectively
• Influencer identification
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5. Social Media PR Benefits…and risks?
• Speed - instantaneous dissemination of not just news, but
images, audio, video, and other multimedia content as well
• Reach - widespread coverage, enabling breaking news to
reach a much larger and broader reader base than standard
media outlets alone
• Perception - enhances both brand awareness and image
• Insight - gather input and feedback directly from target
audiences, for more effective reputation management,
products and services, campaigns, etc.
• Influence – identify key brand advocates and influencers to
engage with
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18. Chapter One – what we have
learned so far…
Bob Pearson PR WEEK
June 19, 2008
19. #1 – the online world is
undergoing its most
significant
transformation ever in
our history
20. GROWTH EVERY SECOND
2 Million
2 New Blogs e-mails Sent
7 PCs Sold
Created
7 People Logon For 11,000 Songs
1,157 Videos
the First Time Shared
Viewed on YouTube
21. #2 – Customers want to
speak with us in their
first language
English reaches 1/3 of the world in a good
day
22. Internet Usage by Language
Internet Usage by Language
English Chinese Spanish Japanese French German
Portuguese Arabic Hindi Korean Italian Russian
Dutch Swedish Norweigen Danish Rest of world
Swedish Norweigen Danish
1% 0.5% 0.3%
Dutch
Russian 2%
2% Rest of
Italian world
3% 8%
Korean
English
3%
Hindi 30%
3%
Arabic
4%
Portuguese
4%
German
5% Chinese
15%
French
Spanish
5%
9%
Japanese
7%
23. #3 – new countries have
formed that are not being
treated with the full respect
that their nation’s population
deserves…..
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25. #4 – your new home page is
really cool…….but do you
know where it is?
AND DID YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE
HELP IN MAINTAINING IT?
27. #5) Less than 1% of a person’s time
online will be spent buying a
product.
28. THE REAL WORLD OF OUR
CUSTOMERS ONLINE
Opinions are formed during the 99% of time
outside of purchase path
THE BROWSING
EXPERIENCE The Purchase
Experience
You poke around for
information when <1% of a person’s
interested and you go time is spent actually
to what you know (e.g., purchasing our
ratings and reviews, products
special reports)
Broadband users spend more than an hour and 40 minutes (48% of their spare
time) online, and more than half of this is spent accessing entertainment and
30. #1 – The most important thing
you can do is help customers
with their technology
problems
31. DIGITAL MEDIA STRATEGY: ENGAGE IN
RELEVANT CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR
CUSTOMERS ONLINE 24/7 WORLDWIDE IN
ALL MAJOR LANGUAGES
Resolve Dissatisfaction Tell Our Story
• Identify online & resolve CE issues • Direct2Dell now leading blog & serves
• New monitoring system tracks 99% of as “Dell wire service”
online • One of top corporate blogs
• 6MM page views per month
• 65MM page views for all community in
first quarter
Join Conversations Share Content & Participate
• Enter conversations via blog posts (up • StudioDell – 127 videos produced in
to 100 per day) last three months
• Pay attention regardless of size of blog • IdeaStorm (9,100 ideas & 130 business
• Negative sentiment has dropped from improvements)
48% to 21% since August ‘06 • 173k members of ReGeneration
• Communities in 7 languages and
growing
32. #2 – Blogging is
global…..blogging is multi
-lingual…blogging is by
community of
passion….blogging is not
“one blog”
33. Outreach
OBJECTIVE:
Transparent, candid
and quick
communication
RESULTS:
6 million views last month
Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese,
Norwegian...
New blogs for small business, consumer, IT, cloud
computing and more…..
DELL CONFIDENTIAL
34. #3 – would you rather do a focus
group with 10 people or listen to
100,000 people debate ideas for a
few months and ask them questions
throughout the process?
35. Listen
OBJECTIVE:
Encourage ideas,
feedback, input
and dialogue
RESULTS:
13,000 ideas (external and internal)
130 ideas in action externally
www.dell.com/ideastorm
DELL CONFIDENTIAL
36. #4 – Customers are partners
and partners join together to
make a difference
37. Partnering with
Customers
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41. #6 – the online
experience at work
should be similar to the
online experience at
home
Web access for all….
Wikis, blogs and forums…..
Ratings and reviews…..
And more….
47. #9 – if you are dealing with an issue,
be truthful, transparent and diligent
in updating your customers
48. “We believe that the video Dell produced, as well as other
creative notification measures companies have pursued, are a
positive for consumers and for the impression customers have
of a recalling firm. “ – Scott Wolfson, Consumer Product Safety
Commission
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49. #10 – Measurement requires thinking
outside the box. Don’t try to
measure with yesterday’s thinking
50. A New Set of Metrics
Awareness & Activity – SOV, visits, downloads and
more
Conversations – comment to post/ratio; screen
penetration; raw word increase/decrease; google
screen analysis
Community – frequency of return visits; frequency of
comments within visitors; idea generation
51. LEADERS WILL ENTER
AND BECOME RELEVANT IN
CONVERSATIONS THAT
OCCUR EVERY DAY IN
EVERY LANGUAGE ALL
AROUND THE WORLD ABOUT
THEIR COMPANY OR
PRODUCT
Companies that cling to the past may not realize
it, but they will lose relevance.
53. Ten Digital Media
Observations
1) Messages are co-created in the marketplace. What
you announce is the start. The community completes
your message.
2) Customers don’t care about LOB’s. They gravitate
to their “community of passion”.
3) If you focus on english, you are not reaching 65% of
the audience. Ten languages = global.
4) When one billion new people enter a market in 4-5
years, they change it…….get ready for change
5) Great companies will excel in transparency. Others
will find you cannot hide.
54. Ten Digital Media
Observations
6) Ideasourcing allows the customer to walk our
hallways every day. Become their advocate.
7) Response to issues must happen in minutes and
hours, not days and weeks.
8) Language is no longer a barrier for news to travel
9) Your digital experience should be similar at work and
at home.
10) Gut feel and common sense matter more than ever,
despite the overwhelming feeling that it is all about
technology