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I gave this presentation at the MIT enterprise forum of NY a year and a half ago. The NY Times Bit blog piece on comments by Venrock's Brian Ascher about the "Right Time Web" made me dust it off. I tidied it up a bit, but not much. My predictions about the imminent arrival of the "Trusted Reference" model in the e-commerce world were at least a year too soon.
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The “Trusted Reference” Modelfor Social Commerce
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How do I get the maximum marketingbenefit from my current customers?
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Focus on user-generated content,community, ratings & reviews
2007 2008 2009 2010
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i.e. Facilitating interactionsbetween strangers
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Personal advice
Online comments by users
Articles posted by magazine/newspaper
Reviews by website editors
Articles in printed newspaper/magazine
Online info posted by manufacturers
Advice from salesperson
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Influence of various sorts of information on purchas-ing
“Influence me very strongly”
Source: Rubicon Consulting
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“People I like”
“People like me”
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Which emails do you read?
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“The friend name”has magical power
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So how do you get “the friend name”into the buying process?
Hey friends, I just got a vertalizer, and it’s the
best thing ever!
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Oops…
Why are you bothering me
with that?
Not interested.
Not again!?!?
Spammer
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Shill.
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There is another way.
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Instead of trying to activate the recommender…
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…activate the buyer to reach outand get the recommendation
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Recommendations that were requested are:
Trusted&
Welcome
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To activate the buyer:
Tell them,at the moment they are shopping,
which friends can help them
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Context is king
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“Trusted references” in context
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Good places to deliver “the friend name”(ie where purchase
intent can be inferred):
Merchant sitesComparison sites
Search sitesRelated content sites
Bad ones:
EmailSocial networks
Unrelated content sites
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Social-graph-powered applicationswill be major focus of attention
for ecommerce players
2007 2008 2009 2010
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Advice from friendsis better than
advice from strangers
Thank you!George Eberstadt