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© 2012 Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

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Associate Professor of Strategy and Richard Hodgson FellowHarvard Business School

Social Strategies in Automotive Industries


2,000,000,000+ internet users are very social

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They love to look at other people, not companies…

Viewing pictures and profiles

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They also love video and mobile…

• Video

• 80% of social platform users do this

• Average = 150 videos/month

• Men watch 2x as many videos as women do

• Mobile

• 40% global cellphone users have data access

• Primary activity: search + social networks

• 45% of Facebook traffic is mobile now


Social media is critical to car industry:Bought as a result of seeing content on social media

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Social is critical to automobile industry:People use social when they make decisions

• 80% of auto shoppers in US use Facebook

• 30% use it to make car buying decision

• 41% saw post and added a car to consideration

• 58% mentions new car purchase on Facebook

• What kinds of content matters to them?

• 60% will get advice from friends

• 60% will go to company page on Facebook

• 50% will go to dealership page on Facebook


Social is critical to automobile industry:They want to connect to brands and other drivers!

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Four steps to successful social strategy

Find your currentand future customers

Make their socialexperience better

Get them to tell their friends how great you are

Integrate socialtechnologies into

your business


Connect:Use a Facebook Page as your entry point


Connect:Ask your customers off-line to “Like” you


Connect: Ask on-line customers to “Like” youand use the power of social endorsement!


Engage:Content that makes their social experience better

• You are not a friend,

you are a brand• Research shows you

should stay on brand

• Use pictures and video

• 30% people search for

car after seeing a video

of it online


Engage:Content that makes their social experience better

• Get others to tell your

story• 60% people do not

believe stories that car

companies tell

• User generated content

• Volkswagen

• Ford Fiesta Movement

• Chevy Sonic


Engage:Typical economic outcomes for social campaigns

• Ford Fiesta• Some videos received 200,000 views – average 1,600

• 1st quarter name recognition at 42% of intending to buy

• Compare to 23% for Nissan Cube comparable

• 289,000 website visitors vs. 144,000 comparable

• 20% configured vehicle online

• 72,000 annualized test drives

• Cost them roughly $6 million

• $83 / test drive versus $300 average for the category


Influence:Get people to tell their friends how great you are


Influence:Get people to tell their friends how great you are


If you really want friends to influence others,you need to integrate into product experience


Integrate:eBay and GroupGifts










Integrate + Influence:eBay and GroupGifts


Integrate + Influence:Economic outcomes of integration campaigns

• Lots of happy people getting gifts• Average 4.2 contributors

• Economic benefits• Average ticket price increased 5 times

• 1 in 3 people signed up for a PayPal account

• Everyone returned to eBay four times

• How much did this cost eBay?• Fixed cost of technology, nothing in marginal costs


Use Facebook Platform•To get friendship data•To write to people’s profiles

To connect people to each other in ways

•They can’t connect on FB•Or in the off-line world

And get them to do tasks for you

•Such as advertising or providing inputs for free as they connect to others

Integrate + Influence:General prescription

How American Expressis growing market share

over Visa and MasterCard?







Integrate + Influence:How to leverage this in car selling?

Want to be the 1st to test ride?

Use your Facebookto sign up for

exclusive previewtest rides…

And bring at least three friends!

And post this on your Facebook page to get your friends to

vote for you







Integrate + Influence:How to leverage this in car selling?

Sign up if you already own

Come to serviceyour car

Post on-line discounts for your

friends to use


Four steps to successful social strategy

Start withFacebook Pages

Provide pics and videoand get others to do it

Get people to sharecontent with their friends

Make sharingcentral to your

business model


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More detail: http://bit.ly/SocialCarReport

Thank you!