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PRESENTED: 11/19/09 at the Vancouver Entrepreneur Meetup AUDIENCE: Entrepreneurs, solo practitioners, marketers for startups; who are interested but not yet heavily involved in social media This presentation covers: - How culture shifts are forcing a shift in the marketing practice - How entrepreneurs must approach their markets - Some free tools for engaging with your customers
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Social Marketing is the New Marketing◼ And why you need to represent.
◼ ERIC WEAVER | TRIBAL DDB◼ 19-NOV-2009
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Excess hype, overshare, pokes, "how well do you know me" quizzes and stalkers. Why would I use this for biz?
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I don’t have a lot of money, especially now. I keep hearing about social media. Is this a fad? Do these efforts actually work? The conversation seems so shallow. Who's got time to manage all this?
Srsly??
People ask me if their business should be using social media◼ And I say, I don’t know, is there more business near the
freeway?
Bringing your baby to market
Create a business plan
Create a marketing plan
Create a brand identity
Create business cards, pamphlets, website
Get the word out!
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Outbound mktg is a $1TT machine. Each niche = a full industry. We're rewarded for storytelling/ intrusion/repetition. Unchanged in 150 yrs.
Back in the day
Limited product choiceLimited media channelsLonger brand interactionsHigher barriers to entry
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Customer shifts
The new realities
HIGH NOISEYou’re competing for
time/attention with huge marketing budgets, bloggers,
crises
LOW TRUSTConsumers in particular
distrust advertising/marketing
HIGH CHOICECustomer choice is largely off the charts. Plus, we can find anything
we want through Google
LOW TIME/ATTENTIONVery few people have time
for your marketing message!
But marketing is stuck in the past
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Trust
ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE’S RISK
People turn to peers when time is short, risk is greater
TRUST IS WIDELY SPREAD56% age 35-64, 63% 25-34 share trust/distrust on the
web
WE TRUST PEERS THE MOST(57%); 13% trust
advertisers/marketers (least trusted group)
PEOPLE BUY TRUSTTrust drives preference: 91% buy from trusted
companies; 77% refuse to buy from distrusted
EDELMAN TRUST BAROMETER
drives transactions
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So…◼ Does it make sense to spend money on traditional advertising
when people don’t want it?◼ Does it make sense to spend money to compete against larger
offerings?◼ Why use methods that create distrust?◼ Why ask for scarce time and attention without giving something
of value in exchange? ◼ Why not leverage the most trusted channel—peers—instead of
the least trusted—advertising?
The approach is easy.◼ BE FOUND at the end of a search◼ PROVIDE VALUE at the end of that search
◼ If you don’t give, you won’t get (time, attention)◼ CREATE TRUST at the end of that search
Social marketing◼ A shift in focus from crafting a message and spamming it out
everywhere to allowing the market to engage with your offering◼ Leverages peer trust to drive awareness and sales
◼ The market becomes your sales force◼ You’re at the end of a search, not an interruption along the way
◼ This is a hard thing for baby boomers (40+) to understand. Why?
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BOOMERS = propriety. Trained in formalities, don’t offend, guarded means safe, not so great with “random.” Suit & tie = trust.
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GENS X&Y = affinity. Formalities ignored, sharing means finding, tech is easy, random is life. Consider your lens. Suit & tie = distrust.
Your offering’s social efforts◼ Create digital marketing materials for the end of the search
◼ Shareable, downloadable, bookmarkable◼ Optimized for search with keywords, tags, intended audience◼ Printable
◼ Reinforce trust◼ Real testimonials are MONEY◼ Show your hard-won expertise, life lessons, vision for your category◼ Inject some personal into the professional
◼ Enable customers to talk about your offering◼ Comments, rankings, social sharing
◼ Respect time starvation◼ Short, sweet, to the point
Step up your own personal social efforts◼ YOU are as much a part of your brand as the company is
◼ You provide a backbone of trust or distrust in the offering◼ People want to connect with people more than brands◼ Gens X and Y trust others less when they’re opaque with their
information◼ Share a bit of personal data to build trust
◼ There is a line! Decide where to draw the line between professional and personal, good sharing and oversharing
◼ Own your $#%@◼ If you have experiences where you have damaged others’ trust, make
a nod to them before others do◼ Disarms naysayers, engenders trust
The new marketing means…
STILL NEED A BRAND!What’s your promise? Your unique value? Your primary differentiation? The benefits
you’ll always deliver?
NO MORE SET & FORGETDialogue requires feedback
mechanisms, time, effort and good conversational skillz
BE TRANSPARENTAbout everything except that which
must be kept secret
IT’S BOTH ONLINE & OFFOnline lets you be found;
offline provides final chemistry/trust check
“But I don’t have time for one more thing!”
Telemarketing, 1977
Web marketing, circa 1996
Learning the computer for graphic design, 1986
Email marketing, 1995
This qualifies as a “profound shift.”◼ There are over 300,000 businesses now on Facebook.◼ More than 750,000 people join Facebook every day.◼ Twitter grew 1382% between Jan/Feb 2009.◼ Companies that utilized social media had an average 18%
increase in sales in 2008.◼ Those with least social media: decrease of 6%.
◼ Only 18% of traditional TV campaigns generate a positive ROI.◼ Economist, 2008: 75% of business executives think that
increased market engagement will translate into higher profits.◼ 49% think that inadequate engagement was responsible for up to ¼
of all lost sales.
Example: Burger King
◼ Spent $50,000 on social marketing efforts for BK Sacrifice Facebook application
◼ Received $400,000 in media value◼ 32MM free media impressions
◼ Equal to combined population of 19 states
Example: Gary Vaynerchuk
Example: Servus/Commonwealth CU
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Growing revenue is not about a clever tagline, an elegant logo, being a better nuisance, or showing up in unexpected places. It’s about PEOPLE TRUSTING YOU.
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DON’T KILL TRUST W/INTRUSION: Don’t interrupt search. Be found/referred. Don’t talk abt ur value, demonstrate it.7:12 PM Oct 21 from PowerPoint
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BUILD PROOF POINTS. Demonstrate u know ur stuff, a vision for sector/mkt, that others took a chance & benefitted, that ur ethical, easy, trustworthy.
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EMPOWER OTHERS TO SPREAD THEIR TRUST IN YOU. Give customers a voice. Amplify their words. Make value sharing effortless.
It’s not about just “being on social media”
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Look for and target ur organization’s trust soft-spots. Rebuild trust there w/proof pts. Be real. Take fodder from conspiracy theorists.
Soft-spots in trust: would you still hire someone after this?7:16 PM Oct 21 from PowerPoint
Okay, I get the Why. Now, how do I get started?
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THOUGHT STARTERS, BLOGGING: CEO media/invstr relations; industry trends/insights; legislation impacts
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THOUGHT STARTERS, TWITTER (here, now): crisis PR, timely insights, content alerts, community bldg, event notices
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THOUGHT STARTERS, VIDEO: great for intensive learning, how-to vids, personality pieces, company storytelling, humor
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THOUGHT STARTERS, AUDIO: great for distracted learning, storytelling, conversational thought ldrship, testimonials, sensory experiences
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THOUGHT STARTERS, WIKIS: great for event planning, product developing, crowdsourcing ideas, shared learnings, distributed wk-in-progress
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THOUGHT STARTERS, WIDGETS/APPS: get your content into more places, allow engagement w/o leaving venue, aggregating valuable content
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THOUGHT STARTERS, SOCIAL VENUES: brand awareness, community/CSR discussions, loyalty programs, consumer feedbk/trials/testing
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Some free and easy tools for reprezentin’
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Simple, free tools for reprezentin’
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Qapacity
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LinkedIn Q&A
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So. Where does that leave us?
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Social media is so NOT a fad. Google gave us search. SocMed gave us sharing, connecting. Consumers will not give up this ability.
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Its rapid adoption shows that we are time-starved creatures who want to be found by like minds.
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One more thing for marketers to do: more like engaging ur market where they prefer to be. How’d that last trade show budget work out?
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RECAP: Rethink your marketing approach (and your personal brand) from a prospective of trust and with a wider lens.
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Build trust by being found, demonstrating your knowledge, your vision and offering proof of trustworthiness.
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Finally, use social marketing to leverage the EXISTING TRUST already established between peers, rather than buying new trust.
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