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Creating Winning Social Media Strategies Charlene Li Altimeter Group September 9, 2009 For a copy of slides, send an email to [email protected]

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Presentation by Charlene Li at the Stanford Breakfast Briefing Series, Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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Creating Winning Social Media Strategies

Charlene LiAltimeter GroupSeptember 9, 2009

For a copy of slides, send an email to [email protected]

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What engagement often looks like today

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Meet Dave Carroll

Source: davecarrollmusic.com

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Welcome to the Groundswell

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A power shift, catalyzed by social technologies

When people get what they need from each other

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Technologies can be confusing

Source: Wordle.net

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It’s about the relationship

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What kind of relationship do you want?

Transactional

OccasionalImpersonalShort-term

PassionateConstantIntimate

Loyal

Focus on relationships, not technologies

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Goals define your strategy

Learn

Dialog

Help

Innovate

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Always start with Learn

Learn

Dialog

Help

Innovate

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Learn with monitoring tools

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Radian6 enables learning organizations

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How Oracle encouraged feedback

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Dialog with your community

Learn

Dialog

Help

Innovate

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Curators

Producers

Commenters

Sharers

Watchers

The Engagement Pyramid

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HP actively encourages sharing

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At Southwest, a planner talks

Post received 98 comments over 10 days

In the future, everyone is a marketer

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Driving sales with Twitter

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Help your members support each other

Learn

Dialog

Help

Innovate

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Comcast provides support via Twitter

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Goals define your strategy

Learn

Dialog

Help

Innovate

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Starbucks innovates across the organization

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Getting started

“We don’t have the time, money, or people.”

“People will abuse it.”

“Our boards/volunteers are short-term focused.”

“IT/Legal won’t let us.”

“I’m afraid of losing control.”

What’s stopping you?

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Audience

#1 Start small, start now

Goal

Revolutionary

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Deal with different mindsets

FearfulSkeptic

Cautious Tester

Realist Optimist

Transparent Evangelist

Find the “moments of truth” and “moments of crisis” for each

mindset

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Wal-mart failed many, many times before they figured it out

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#2 Measure the right things

Your goals determine your metrics

Use the same metrics as your strategic goals

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Example “micro” metricsGoal Metric Value

Learn # of customer feedback

Impact of faster, better insights

Dialog # of comments# of referrals

Greater loyaltyFaster, more closes

Help # of issues addressed

Increased satisfaction

Innovate # of implemented ideas

Faster development

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Higher order metrics to consider

How likely are you to recommend this to someone you know?

Net Promoter Score

Lifetime revenueCost of acquisitionCost of retentionCustomer referral value (CRV)

Lifetime Value

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#3 Give up the need to be in control

Photo: Kantor, http://www.flickr.com/photos/kantor

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Deciding how open to be

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Your goals

Your audiences’ needs

The competiti

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The Sandbox Covenant

How to give up control and be in command

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The Red Cross handbook/policies help keep order

http://sites.google.com/site/wharman/social-media-strategy-handbook

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Summary•Focus on the relationships,

not the technologies

•Start by learning from the conversations

•Prepare to let go …

… of the control you never had

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Thank You

Charlene LiAltimeter Group

[email protected]

Twitter: @charleneli

For slides, send an email [email protected]

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