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why facebook shouldn’t be the
center of your social strategy
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        1	        your status with facebook: it's complicated
        2	        it's easy to be liked, but it's hard to be loved
        3	        why facebook alone is not enough
        5	        a clean, well-lit place on the internet
        7	        control the experience and drive sales
        11	       how Lithium can help
        12	       the takeaway




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your status
with facebook:
it's complicated


   Facebook was a good place to start your brand’s foray into
   social media. The likes rolled in, and showed you what you
   already knew—there are millions of people out there who are
   passionate about your brand. You answered a few questions
   and resolved a few issues for your customers, and maybe
   even got some new customers off a fans-only coupon. But
   despite all the effort you’ve put into your Facebook presence,
   you’re not seeing the kind of effortless engagement and sales
   growth you thought would follow once you got enough likes.
   Now what?




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it's easy to be
liked, but it's hard
to be loved


    Likes may be the currency of interaction on Facebook, but        In this discussion, we’ll explore why Facebook and other
    they don’t mean much when it comes to purchases and brand        social networks, while important channels for creating
    loyalty. This isn’t surprising when you consider that 98% of     awareness and driving traffic, can’t provide the level of
    Facebook users who like a brand page never return to that        engagement you want with your customers—especially when
    page again , and 61% of Facebook users only like a page in
               1
                                                                     it comes to converting that engagement into purchases.
    order to get access to a special offer or coupon.2 No matter     But we’re not here just to offer doom and gloom. Instead,
    how good your Facebook content might be, it’s likely to get      we’ll propose a solution to this problem—a way to bring
    lost in the sea of posts, photos and videos from thousands of    engagement back to your home turf, and build customer
    other sources—including your competitors.                        relationships that translate directly into sales.

    You may have even experimented with setting up a shop on
    Facebook. Like many brands, you probably discovered that,
    as Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru notes, selling on
    Facebook is like “trying to sell stuff to people while they’re
    hanging out with their friends at the bar.” Even some of
    the world’s most recognizable brands like Gap, Gamestop,
    J.C. Penney, and Nordstrom have shuttered their fledgling
    Facebook shops. The likes simply didn’t translate into
    in-Facebook sales.3




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why facebook
alone is not
enough


   We’d never say that Facebook isn’t useful. Facebook is an                        Though its users might see it as a terrific distraction from
   increasingly valuable addition to advertisers’ digital media                     work, Facebook itself is always on the job. Like any other
   plans. Its strengths in reach and targeting are useful for                       company, they’re in the business of making money, especially
   creating awareness and driving traffic. For many advertisers,                    now that they’ve gone public. That’s why, even when a
   Facebook is becoming a viable alternative to traditional                         Facebook user has liked your page, there’s an 84% chance that
   awareness-building media like television and radio. That’s why                   your communication won’t appear to them at all, because it
   marketers who buy ads on Facebook are increasingly more                          will be filtered out of their newsfeed by Facebook’s EdgeRank
   focused on building brand awareness than on accumulating                         algorithm.5 The only way to reliably reach your Facebook fans
   fans or engaging with their existing fans. 4
                                                                                    is to pay Facebook to run an ad campaign. Like a matchmaker,
                                                                                    Facebook has facilitated your initial connection with the
   But at the end of the day, Facebook is in the business of
                                                                                    consumer, but they want you to pay for the privilege of sending
   building Facebook. Even on your brand’s page, Facebook’s
                                                                                    love notes. Given these facts, it’s no surprise that the vast
   branding, style, and colors are the centerpiece, not yours.
                                                                                    majority of users never return to your page once they become
   Facebook sets the framework for the way your page is laid out,
                                                                                    fans. They’re just not seeing your messages.
   and the things a customer can do there. There’s no getting
   around the fact that the user experience on your Facebook
   page is less about your brand, and more about Facebook.




   what leading analysts say about where brands should send their traffic
   “Your audience uses social media     “It’s...dumb to keep driving traffic into   “While you might want to leave your   “Stop sending all your traffic to
    — that doesn’t mean you should       Facebook. You should drive traffic          Twitter followers and Facebook        Mark Zuckerberg!”
    use Facebook at the heart of your    to your sites and your communities          fans on Facebook, the smart          Jeremiah Owyang, Altimeter Group
    branding ecosystem. Your big idea    by pulling from Facebook into what          move is to divert them to your own
    should live on a site you own.”      you’re doing.”                              communities whenever possible.”
    Nate Elliot, Forrester Research      Ray Wang, Constellation Research           Dion Hinchcliffe, Dachis Group

                                                                                                                                                              3
Even if you’re content with the way your Facebook page
looks and functions, there’s still an enormous competition
                                                                You need your own social place.
for your customers’ attention when they’re there. Not only
are you fighting for attention with other brands, you’re also
                                                                A deeply engaging place where
fighting to be heard above a din of non-shopping-related
things that people deeply care about: photos of their loved
                                                                your customers can connect
ones, important news stories, even memorial pages for the
deceased. You’re literally competing with jobs and kids and
                                                                with each other about their
pets and dinner and football.
                                                                shared passions, and where
If Facebook remains the main social place where you interact
with your fans, you’ll continue to have to fight to make your   your brand is always central to
voice heard, and Facebook will continue to broker your
relationship with your own customers.                           the conversation.




                                                                                                  4
a clean,
well-lit place
on the internet


   As we said, we don’t want to be too hard on Facebook. They’ve                People want to belong: it’s a basic human need. We all want
   successfully created a place where people want to spend                      to share our passions and experiences with other like-minded
   time. Facebook and Twitter have become the new broadcast                     people. If you can make your website a thriving community,
   media, and like the television studios were in their heyday,                 you’ll transform it from a place your customers visit to a
   they are immensely powerful. When you’re frustrated with the                 place where they dwell. You’ll create a party where you’re the
   business results you’re getting on Facebook or Twitter, your                 host, and the guests have engaging conversations that center
   first impulse might be to work with or change the system on                  around your brand. By doing so, you’ll also drive purchases,
   those sites, but their rules are already established. You need a             build brand loyalty, and foster brand advocacy. While top
   place where you can decorate in your own way, arrange things                 brands like Home Depot, Sephora, and Best Buy have already
   how you like, and create an immersive environment with a                     taken this path (and reaped enormous sales benefits), it’s still
   customer experience that is all your own.                                    a relatively new phenomenon that many top retailers haven’t
                                                                                yet adopted. By creating this kind of community now, you have
   On your website, you have an opportunity to connect with
                                                                                a unique chance to stand out from your competitors.
   your customers in a way you can’t anywhere else. That’s
   why your website is the perfect centerpiece for executing a                  The best social strategy is manifested as a hub-and-
   comprehensive social marketing strategy. But when we say                     spoke system. Your website is the social hub, and it’s a
   “your website”, we really mean “your website as it should be,”               clearinghouse of conversation on subjects that relate closely
   not “your website as it is now.” If you’re following the same                to the products you sell. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest
   pattern as some other major brands, your website still lacks                 and other social networks serve as the spokes, picking up
   the social experience that consumers have come to expect                     people from their far-flung digital points of origin and bringing
   in their favorite digital places. And no, the share buttons you              them to the bustling metropolis that is your website, where
   placed on your pages don’t count as a social experience!                     they can engage more fully with each other—and with you.
   We’re talking about an authentic community.




                how home depot centralizes and controls the social customer experience
               “The How-To Community on homedepot.com deeply engages our customers with useful DIY social content. In the community,
                our customers connect with each other and our store associates over a shared passion for home improvement. The creation
                of a central social hub on our own website has unified the components of our social commerce strategy, tying together our
                presences on social channels like Twitter and Facebook. This 'all roads lead to homedepot.com' strategy ensures that the
                Home Depot brand is always top-of-mind among customers who are passionately discussing their home improvement projects.”
                Eric Breier, Sr. Director Online Customer Experience, The Home Depot                                                                5
Best Buy
          superfan

                                                                             Sephora
                                                                            superfan
When they arrive, it’s important to have some top-notch
greeters who can guide them in doing what they want to
do, whether it’s researching a purchase, getting a question
                                                                                                                     Home De
                                                                                                                           po
answered, or just talking with others about a shared passion.                                                        superfant
Luckily, those people already exist for you. We call them
superfans. They’re ordinary folks, but their passion for your
products gives them extraordinary power. If you provide them
                                                                 You’ve always known that customers are far more likely to
with encouragement and the right social tools, they will spend
                                                                 trust their friends’ recommendations than they are to trust
hours of unpaid time talking about their great experiences
                                                                 yours, but research has shown that they’re also more likely
with the products you sell, or your fantastic customer service
                                                                 to trust the opinions of unaffiliated strangers.6 (If you’ve
that more than redeemed the time something went wrong.
                                                                 ever visited a restaurant on the strength of a top-notch Yelp
When new consumers show up with questions (“What’s
                                                                 rating or perused Rotten Tomatoes before plunking down
the best style of shoe for jogging?” “Which lipstick lasts the
                                                                 your $10 at the multiplex, you’ve put your trust in strangers,
longest?”), superfans are happy to share their experiences
                                                                 too.) On the Internet, strangers with common interests are
and guide the questioner to the product that’s right for
                                                                 just friends you haven’t met yet, and their opinions can mean
them. And once they identify the right product, but express
                                                                 the difference between “Add to cart” or closing the browser.
trepidation about buying (“Is the return policy good?” “Is the
                                                                 If strangers can have this much of an impact on your sales,
shipping fast?”), superfans are there to reassure them.
                                                                 then it’s worth the time to create a place where the ones who
                                                                 love your brand want to hang out.




                                                                                                                                  6
control the
  experience and
  drive sales


            When you’re in control of your social customer experience,
            some pretty amazing things can happen. Part of the beauty
            of centralizing your social strategy on your website is
            discovering needs that you never recognized—and having
            the ability to immediately fulfill them, without relying on
            Facebook or Twitter to introduce new options on their own         Even if the peer reviews for a given product are less than
            schedules. That said, there are some tried-and-true methods       stellar, there can still be positive results. Negative user-
            that top retailers have used again and again to drive customer    generated content is still a powerful conversion tool: Reevoo
            interaction. Here are a few of our favorites:                     found that shoppers who go out of their way to read bad
                                                                              reviews convert 67% more than the average customer.
            Peer reviews. Imagine you’re trying to buy a new pair of jeans,   Though this may seem counterintuitive, it actually makes a
            and you’re confronted with two identically-designed product       lot of sense. The mere presence of reviews, whether good
            pages for a specific SKU, with identical photos of a model and    or bad, engages the customer and keeps them on the page,
            identical copy. One of them is full of glowing reviews from       ultimately increasing their likelihood to convert to purchase.
            strangers, talking about how comfortable the jeans are.           And when a consumer sees negative peer reviews on your site,
            The other has nothing—you’ll just have to take the company’s      the message they receive is that you’re honest, and that you
            word for it. Which page is more likely to have you clicking       don’t censor less-than-ideal feedback just to make a buck.
            the “Buy” button?
                                                                              24 Hour Fitness customers are passionate about staying
24 Hour Fitness features ratings and reviews for each                         healthy and strong, and that engagement drives the high-
of its gym locations and classes, increasing buyers’                          quality reviews they submit to 24HourFitness.com. Most 24
confidence by assisting them in their research.
                                                                              Hour Fitness locations and classes have scores of reviews,
                                                                              with candid opinions of fitness fanatics. If a user sees 18
                                                                              reviews averaging a four-star rating for a gym location, they’re
                                                                              able to feel far more confident when they click the Purchase
                                                                              Membership button. And if they have a question about that
                                                                              specific gym location, they can post it on the individual
                                                                              location’s Q&A section (more on that below).




                                                                                                                                                 7
Q&As. Consumers are increasingly turning to the Web for
product research. You can see it in their Google searches,
where the word “best” pops up a lot, from “best power drill” to
“best paring knife.” Allowing customers to state their needs,
and get feedback from their peers on what constitutes “best”
for them, is an important part of converting visits to sales.

Suppose a customer comes to your site to look for a
Blu-Ray player. They have specific features in mind, so they
visit many product pages. Eventually, they get frustrated at
                                                                  Product research questions from newcomers
the sheer number of options, close the browser, and put           to Best Buy’s Unboxed community are quickly
                                                                  answered by helpful superfans.
off the purchase for later. Imagine a site where the same
customer can quickly post, “I’m looking for a Blu-Ray player
that up-converts DVDs, has Netflix and Hulu Plus included,
and has a sleek profile to fit under my TV,” and get two or
                                                                  off hours, helping customers with the knowledge they’ve
three passionate, confident recommendations back from
                                                                  picked up working in the store. It also allows consumers to
other people who’ve already been through the Blu-Ray player
                                                                  troubleshoot technical issues and complete installations,
shopping process. The consumer is far more likely to take
                                                                  saving them a return trip to the store and increasing their
a look at two or three product pages, make a decision,
                                                                  satisfaction with their purchases.
and buy.
                                                                  Innovation and ideas. Part of the care and feeding of
These Q&As have a long shelf life. Other people looking for
                                                                  superfans is making them feel as important to you
the same type of Blu-Ray player can peruse them a month
                                                                  as they are, especially because they’re advocating for
or a year later, using the same information to research and
                                                                  you without a paycheck. Luckily, there’s a way you
execute a purchase. And the the Q&As have fantastic SEO
                                                                  can do this without spending much (or any) money:
value. A person who might not know your site, but is looking
                                                                  enable them to have a say about a brand that’s important to
for a “best” product, might end up at that very same Q&A
                                                                  them. When you’re considering a new site design, expanding
after a Google search—and proceed to purchase it from you.
                                                                  into a new product category, or deciding which of two similar
Best Buy has reaped many of these benefits with their             products to carry, you might spend thousands of dollars
Unboxed community, which not only has consumers posting           on market research with people who have little or no love
about their technology interests and getting responses, but       for your brand. Superfans, on the other hand, want you to
many other silent readers following the threads. Even some        succeed, because they’re the only people who care as much
Best Buy retail employees have gotten in on the act in their      about your brand as you do.



                                                                                                                                  8
As customers vote on their
                                                                                             peers’ ideas in the Verizon
                                                                                             Idea Exchange, the ideas are
                                                                                             automatically prioritized for
                                                                                             consideration by the Verizon
                                                                                             product team.




Verizon has the crowdsourced innovation process down to
a science. Verizon Ideas is a popular way for customers
to shape Verizon’s products and strategy with feedback and
ideas. The idea prioritization system is similar to popular
social sites like Digg—a community member submits an idea,
and other members can vote that idea up to the top of the list,
if they think it deserves to be there. In a single year, Verizon
received 1,700 idea submissions, over 280 of which were
implemented. Verizon clearly takes customer ideas seriously:       how verizon uses customer feedback
85% of the features in the company’s IMG 1.9 software were         to make products that sell
customer-suggested.                                                “The Verizon Community has now become fully ingrained in
                                                                    our product management processes. It has helped Verizon
                                                                    get closer to the customer, gain insights to help us take
Making superfans feel valued can have benefits that go far          action, look for issues needing attention (early detection),
beyond just keeping them coming back to your site. When             and improve customer retention.”
a superfan feels like they’ve had an impact on the design          Becky Carroll, Community Manager, Verizon

or implementation of a product, it’s like having a new
baby: they’re proud. They might head over to Facebook
and Twitter and promote it to their family and friends,
explaining that they backed the winning horse. It’s a virtuous
cycle, and one that can drive more sales than you ever
thought possible.




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Gamification. Another way to keep superfans coming back is
                                                                               to give them a way to show their status to other users, and
why beauty talk members outspend regular                                       reward them for their contributions. This method is known
sephora customers by 150%                                                      as gamification, because it allows users to rack up points for
“We built our Beauty Talk community on our website and, as we                  contributing, just like they would if they were playing a video
 opened our doors, it was flooded with clients dying to talk about
 beauty with each other. It was exactly what we wanted. What we                game. When a user provides something that contributes to
 found was that clients were not only trying to talk with us, they were        the whole community, whether it’s writing a post, answering
 trying to talk with each other. And they were actually engaging in
 ways we had no idea they would.”                                              a question, or correctly tagging a Q&A so that other users
Bridget Dolan, VP of Interactive Media, Sephora                                can quickly search for it, they’re creating value. By showing
                                                                               them exactly how much value they’re creating—and offering
                                                                               a reward for a certain level of contribution, like a badge or
                                                                               special permissions—you motivate them to return to your site
                                                                               again and again, instead of answering a question or two and
                                                                               ending the relationship there.

                                                                               Sephora’s BeautyTalk community is a great example of
                                                                               how gamification can promote engagement. When a user
                                                                               registers, they’re initially classified as a “Newcomer,” but the
                                                                               more they post and answer other users’ questions, the higher
                                                                               up the ranks they go. Users who have answered 20 questions
                                                                               are labeled “Beauty Maven,” those who’ve posted 50 or more
                                                                               times are labeled “Beauty Pro,” and the biggest contributors
                                                                               are marked as “Beauty Master” or even “Hall of Famer.” Each
                                                                               title comes with its own special graphic (like a lipstick kiss or
                                                                               a shopping bag) next to the user’s name, indicating to newer
                                                                               users who the experts are.




                                                                          Sephora uses gamification
                                                                          elements such as badges,
                                                                          titles and special website
                                                                          privileges to confer status to
                                                                          its highly valued superfans.



                                                                                                                                                   10
how Lithium
can help



   If you’ve ever bought anything online, these behaviors
   probably make sense to you, because you’ve engaged in
   them yourself. But your budget has limits and your web
   development team is busy. Facebook is free and easy to use,
   which is why it was a no-brainer for you to set up a page
   there—but creating an amazing customer engagement hub
   on your website? That takes time and money.

   We created Lithium for people like you. Our products provide
   an out-of-the-box solution that encompasses all of the arenas
   we discussed, from peer reviews to Q&As to gamification.
   But every brand is different, and our solutions aren’t cookie-
   cutter. We’ll work with you and your technical team to identify
   a look, style, and gamification system that work within the
   existing design of your website, and integrate social and
   community features seamlessly into every single page.

   Unlike Facebook, we’re not interested in stealing the show
   from the brands we work with—even though our technology
   is plugging away behind the scenes at many of the Web’s best
   retailers and consumer brands.




                                                                     11
the takeaway




   We hope this paper has provided some insight into the                        taking an important step towards promoting and guiding
   possibilities of social marketing beyond Facebook and Twitter,               the conversation about your brand online, and fostering an
   and energized you to start exploring ways you can transform                  environment where people feel good about making larger and
   your website into a thriving digital hub (and drive sales,                   more frequent purchases.
   loyalty and advocacy in the process). The impulse that led you
                                                                                Now that you’ve seen how Home Depot, Sephora, Best Buy,
   to establish a presence on Facebook—forming bonds with
                                                                                Verizon, 24 Hour Fitness and other top brands have used
   customers, and making them feel heard and important—is a
                                                                                the Lithium platform to incorporate peer reviews, Q&As,
   good one. Listening to and interacting with your customers
                                                                                innovation, and gamification into their digital strategy, we
   is the best way to create a brand that people admire and
                                                                                hope you’ll consider working with the Lithium team to
   want to support with their dollars, and when people feel like
                                                                                transform your own website into the center of your brand’s
   a company is truly hearing what they have to say, they’re
                                                                                social customer experience.
   far more willing to talk. By giving them a destination on the
   Web to share their passions and connect with others, you’re




   resources
   1. AdWeek and Networked Insights, 2011.                                      4. Ad Age, 2012.
   2. IBM, 2012.                                                                5. TechCrunch and Facebook, 2012.
   3. Mashable and Bloomberg, 2012.                                             6. Business News Daily and SocialMediaAd, 2012.




   Lithium social software helps the world’s most iconic brands to build brand nations—vibrant online communities of passionate social customers.
   Lithium helps top brands such as AT&T, Sephora, Univision, and PayPal build active online communities that turn customer passion into social media
   marketing ROI. For more information on how to create lasting competitive advantage with the social customer experience,
   visit lithium.com, or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and our own brand nation – the Lithosphere.

   lithium.com | 6121 Hollis Street, Suite 4, Emeryville, CA 94608 | Ph 510.653.6800 | Fx 510.653.6801
   © 2012 Lithium Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Why Facebook Shouldn't be the Center of Your Social Strategy

  • 1. why facebook shouldn’t be the center of your social strategy
  • 2. contents 1 your status with facebook: it's complicated 2 it's easy to be liked, but it's hard to be loved 3 why facebook alone is not enough 5 a clean, well-lit place on the internet 7 control the experience and drive sales 11 how Lithium can help 12 the takeaway subscribe to request a demo SocialMatters we help companies unlock the passion of their customers. The Lithium Social Customer Suite allows brands to build vibrant customer communities that: reduce service costs with grow brand advocay with drive sales with innovate faster with social support social marketing social commerce social innovation lithium.com | 6121 Hollis Street, Suite 4, Emeryville, CA 94608 | Ph 510.653.6800 | Fx 510.653.6801 © 2012 Lithium Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved
  • 3. your status with facebook: it's complicated Facebook was a good place to start your brand’s foray into social media. The likes rolled in, and showed you what you already knew—there are millions of people out there who are passionate about your brand. You answered a few questions and resolved a few issues for your customers, and maybe even got some new customers off a fans-only coupon. But despite all the effort you’ve put into your Facebook presence, you’re not seeing the kind of effortless engagement and sales growth you thought would follow once you got enough likes. Now what? facebook fan #7,864 facebook fan #23,653 1 n facebook fa
  • 4. it's easy to be liked, but it's hard to be loved Likes may be the currency of interaction on Facebook, but In this discussion, we’ll explore why Facebook and other they don’t mean much when it comes to purchases and brand social networks, while important channels for creating loyalty. This isn’t surprising when you consider that 98% of awareness and driving traffic, can’t provide the level of Facebook users who like a brand page never return to that engagement you want with your customers—especially when page again , and 61% of Facebook users only like a page in 1 it comes to converting that engagement into purchases. order to get access to a special offer or coupon.2 No matter But we’re not here just to offer doom and gloom. Instead, how good your Facebook content might be, it’s likely to get we’ll propose a solution to this problem—a way to bring lost in the sea of posts, photos and videos from thousands of engagement back to your home turf, and build customer other sources—including your competitors. relationships that translate directly into sales. You may have even experimented with setting up a shop on Facebook. Like many brands, you probably discovered that, as Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru notes, selling on Facebook is like “trying to sell stuff to people while they’re hanging out with their friends at the bar.” Even some of the world’s most recognizable brands like Gap, Gamestop, J.C. Penney, and Nordstrom have shuttered their fledgling Facebook shops. The likes simply didn’t translate into in-Facebook sales.3 2
  • 5. why facebook alone is not enough We’d never say that Facebook isn’t useful. Facebook is an Though its users might see it as a terrific distraction from increasingly valuable addition to advertisers’ digital media work, Facebook itself is always on the job. Like any other plans. Its strengths in reach and targeting are useful for company, they’re in the business of making money, especially creating awareness and driving traffic. For many advertisers, now that they’ve gone public. That’s why, even when a Facebook is becoming a viable alternative to traditional Facebook user has liked your page, there’s an 84% chance that awareness-building media like television and radio. That’s why your communication won’t appear to them at all, because it marketers who buy ads on Facebook are increasingly more will be filtered out of their newsfeed by Facebook’s EdgeRank focused on building brand awareness than on accumulating algorithm.5 The only way to reliably reach your Facebook fans fans or engaging with their existing fans. 4 is to pay Facebook to run an ad campaign. Like a matchmaker, Facebook has facilitated your initial connection with the But at the end of the day, Facebook is in the business of consumer, but they want you to pay for the privilege of sending building Facebook. Even on your brand’s page, Facebook’s love notes. Given these facts, it’s no surprise that the vast branding, style, and colors are the centerpiece, not yours. majority of users never return to your page once they become Facebook sets the framework for the way your page is laid out, fans. They’re just not seeing your messages. and the things a customer can do there. There’s no getting around the fact that the user experience on your Facebook page is less about your brand, and more about Facebook. what leading analysts say about where brands should send their traffic “Your audience uses social media “It’s...dumb to keep driving traffic into “While you might want to leave your “Stop sending all your traffic to — that doesn’t mean you should Facebook. You should drive traffic Twitter followers and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg!” use Facebook at the heart of your to your sites and your communities fans on Facebook, the smart Jeremiah Owyang, Altimeter Group branding ecosystem. Your big idea by pulling from Facebook into what move is to divert them to your own should live on a site you own.” you’re doing.” communities whenever possible.” Nate Elliot, Forrester Research Ray Wang, Constellation Research Dion Hinchcliffe, Dachis Group 3
  • 6. Even if you’re content with the way your Facebook page looks and functions, there’s still an enormous competition You need your own social place. for your customers’ attention when they’re there. Not only are you fighting for attention with other brands, you’re also A deeply engaging place where fighting to be heard above a din of non-shopping-related things that people deeply care about: photos of their loved your customers can connect ones, important news stories, even memorial pages for the deceased. You’re literally competing with jobs and kids and with each other about their pets and dinner and football. shared passions, and where If Facebook remains the main social place where you interact with your fans, you’ll continue to have to fight to make your your brand is always central to voice heard, and Facebook will continue to broker your relationship with your own customers. the conversation. 4
  • 7. a clean, well-lit place on the internet As we said, we don’t want to be too hard on Facebook. They’ve People want to belong: it’s a basic human need. We all want successfully created a place where people want to spend to share our passions and experiences with other like-minded time. Facebook and Twitter have become the new broadcast people. If you can make your website a thriving community, media, and like the television studios were in their heyday, you’ll transform it from a place your customers visit to a they are immensely powerful. When you’re frustrated with the place where they dwell. You’ll create a party where you’re the business results you’re getting on Facebook or Twitter, your host, and the guests have engaging conversations that center first impulse might be to work with or change the system on around your brand. By doing so, you’ll also drive purchases, those sites, but their rules are already established. You need a build brand loyalty, and foster brand advocacy. While top place where you can decorate in your own way, arrange things brands like Home Depot, Sephora, and Best Buy have already how you like, and create an immersive environment with a taken this path (and reaped enormous sales benefits), it’s still customer experience that is all your own. a relatively new phenomenon that many top retailers haven’t yet adopted. By creating this kind of community now, you have On your website, you have an opportunity to connect with a unique chance to stand out from your competitors. your customers in a way you can’t anywhere else. That’s why your website is the perfect centerpiece for executing a The best social strategy is manifested as a hub-and- comprehensive social marketing strategy. But when we say spoke system. Your website is the social hub, and it’s a “your website”, we really mean “your website as it should be,” clearinghouse of conversation on subjects that relate closely not “your website as it is now.” If you’re following the same to the products you sell. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest pattern as some other major brands, your website still lacks and other social networks serve as the spokes, picking up the social experience that consumers have come to expect people from their far-flung digital points of origin and bringing in their favorite digital places. And no, the share buttons you them to the bustling metropolis that is your website, where placed on your pages don’t count as a social experience! they can engage more fully with each other—and with you. We’re talking about an authentic community. how home depot centralizes and controls the social customer experience “The How-To Community on homedepot.com deeply engages our customers with useful DIY social content. In the community, our customers connect with each other and our store associates over a shared passion for home improvement. The creation of a central social hub on our own website has unified the components of our social commerce strategy, tying together our presences on social channels like Twitter and Facebook. This 'all roads lead to homedepot.com' strategy ensures that the Home Depot brand is always top-of-mind among customers who are passionately discussing their home improvement projects.” Eric Breier, Sr. Director Online Customer Experience, The Home Depot 5
  • 8. Best Buy superfan Sephora superfan When they arrive, it’s important to have some top-notch greeters who can guide them in doing what they want to do, whether it’s researching a purchase, getting a question Home De po answered, or just talking with others about a shared passion. superfant Luckily, those people already exist for you. We call them superfans. They’re ordinary folks, but their passion for your products gives them extraordinary power. If you provide them You’ve always known that customers are far more likely to with encouragement and the right social tools, they will spend trust their friends’ recommendations than they are to trust hours of unpaid time talking about their great experiences yours, but research has shown that they’re also more likely with the products you sell, or your fantastic customer service to trust the opinions of unaffiliated strangers.6 (If you’ve that more than redeemed the time something went wrong. ever visited a restaurant on the strength of a top-notch Yelp When new consumers show up with questions (“What’s rating or perused Rotten Tomatoes before plunking down the best style of shoe for jogging?” “Which lipstick lasts the your $10 at the multiplex, you’ve put your trust in strangers, longest?”), superfans are happy to share their experiences too.) On the Internet, strangers with common interests are and guide the questioner to the product that’s right for just friends you haven’t met yet, and their opinions can mean them. And once they identify the right product, but express the difference between “Add to cart” or closing the browser. trepidation about buying (“Is the return policy good?” “Is the If strangers can have this much of an impact on your sales, shipping fast?”), superfans are there to reassure them. then it’s worth the time to create a place where the ones who love your brand want to hang out. 6
  • 9. control the experience and drive sales When you’re in control of your social customer experience, some pretty amazing things can happen. Part of the beauty of centralizing your social strategy on your website is discovering needs that you never recognized—and having the ability to immediately fulfill them, without relying on Facebook or Twitter to introduce new options on their own Even if the peer reviews for a given product are less than schedules. That said, there are some tried-and-true methods stellar, there can still be positive results. Negative user- that top retailers have used again and again to drive customer generated content is still a powerful conversion tool: Reevoo interaction. Here are a few of our favorites: found that shoppers who go out of their way to read bad reviews convert 67% more than the average customer. Peer reviews. Imagine you’re trying to buy a new pair of jeans, Though this may seem counterintuitive, it actually makes a and you’re confronted with two identically-designed product lot of sense. The mere presence of reviews, whether good pages for a specific SKU, with identical photos of a model and or bad, engages the customer and keeps them on the page, identical copy. One of them is full of glowing reviews from ultimately increasing their likelihood to convert to purchase. strangers, talking about how comfortable the jeans are. And when a consumer sees negative peer reviews on your site, The other has nothing—you’ll just have to take the company’s the message they receive is that you’re honest, and that you word for it. Which page is more likely to have you clicking don’t censor less-than-ideal feedback just to make a buck. the “Buy” button? 24 Hour Fitness customers are passionate about staying 24 Hour Fitness features ratings and reviews for each healthy and strong, and that engagement drives the high- of its gym locations and classes, increasing buyers’ quality reviews they submit to 24HourFitness.com. Most 24 confidence by assisting them in their research. Hour Fitness locations and classes have scores of reviews, with candid opinions of fitness fanatics. If a user sees 18 reviews averaging a four-star rating for a gym location, they’re able to feel far more confident when they click the Purchase Membership button. And if they have a question about that specific gym location, they can post it on the individual location’s Q&A section (more on that below). 7
  • 10. Q&As. Consumers are increasingly turning to the Web for product research. You can see it in their Google searches, where the word “best” pops up a lot, from “best power drill” to “best paring knife.” Allowing customers to state their needs, and get feedback from their peers on what constitutes “best” for them, is an important part of converting visits to sales. Suppose a customer comes to your site to look for a Blu-Ray player. They have specific features in mind, so they visit many product pages. Eventually, they get frustrated at Product research questions from newcomers the sheer number of options, close the browser, and put to Best Buy’s Unboxed community are quickly answered by helpful superfans. off the purchase for later. Imagine a site where the same customer can quickly post, “I’m looking for a Blu-Ray player that up-converts DVDs, has Netflix and Hulu Plus included, and has a sleek profile to fit under my TV,” and get two or off hours, helping customers with the knowledge they’ve three passionate, confident recommendations back from picked up working in the store. It also allows consumers to other people who’ve already been through the Blu-Ray player troubleshoot technical issues and complete installations, shopping process. The consumer is far more likely to take saving them a return trip to the store and increasing their a look at two or three product pages, make a decision, satisfaction with their purchases. and buy. Innovation and ideas. Part of the care and feeding of These Q&As have a long shelf life. Other people looking for superfans is making them feel as important to you the same type of Blu-Ray player can peruse them a month as they are, especially because they’re advocating for or a year later, using the same information to research and you without a paycheck. Luckily, there’s a way you execute a purchase. And the the Q&As have fantastic SEO can do this without spending much (or any) money: value. A person who might not know your site, but is looking enable them to have a say about a brand that’s important to for a “best” product, might end up at that very same Q&A them. When you’re considering a new site design, expanding after a Google search—and proceed to purchase it from you. into a new product category, or deciding which of two similar Best Buy has reaped many of these benefits with their products to carry, you might spend thousands of dollars Unboxed community, which not only has consumers posting on market research with people who have little or no love about their technology interests and getting responses, but for your brand. Superfans, on the other hand, want you to many other silent readers following the threads. Even some succeed, because they’re the only people who care as much Best Buy retail employees have gotten in on the act in their about your brand as you do. 8
  • 11. As customers vote on their peers’ ideas in the Verizon Idea Exchange, the ideas are automatically prioritized for consideration by the Verizon product team. Verizon has the crowdsourced innovation process down to a science. Verizon Ideas is a popular way for customers to shape Verizon’s products and strategy with feedback and ideas. The idea prioritization system is similar to popular social sites like Digg—a community member submits an idea, and other members can vote that idea up to the top of the list, if they think it deserves to be there. In a single year, Verizon received 1,700 idea submissions, over 280 of which were implemented. Verizon clearly takes customer ideas seriously: how verizon uses customer feedback 85% of the features in the company’s IMG 1.9 software were to make products that sell customer-suggested. “The Verizon Community has now become fully ingrained in our product management processes. It has helped Verizon get closer to the customer, gain insights to help us take Making superfans feel valued can have benefits that go far action, look for issues needing attention (early detection), beyond just keeping them coming back to your site. When and improve customer retention.” a superfan feels like they’ve had an impact on the design Becky Carroll, Community Manager, Verizon or implementation of a product, it’s like having a new baby: they’re proud. They might head over to Facebook and Twitter and promote it to their family and friends, explaining that they backed the winning horse. It’s a virtuous cycle, and one that can drive more sales than you ever thought possible. 9
  • 12. Gamification. Another way to keep superfans coming back is to give them a way to show their status to other users, and why beauty talk members outspend regular reward them for their contributions. This method is known sephora customers by 150% as gamification, because it allows users to rack up points for “We built our Beauty Talk community on our website and, as we contributing, just like they would if they were playing a video opened our doors, it was flooded with clients dying to talk about beauty with each other. It was exactly what we wanted. What we game. When a user provides something that contributes to found was that clients were not only trying to talk with us, they were the whole community, whether it’s writing a post, answering trying to talk with each other. And they were actually engaging in ways we had no idea they would.” a question, or correctly tagging a Q&A so that other users Bridget Dolan, VP of Interactive Media, Sephora can quickly search for it, they’re creating value. By showing them exactly how much value they’re creating—and offering a reward for a certain level of contribution, like a badge or special permissions—you motivate them to return to your site again and again, instead of answering a question or two and ending the relationship there. Sephora’s BeautyTalk community is a great example of how gamification can promote engagement. When a user registers, they’re initially classified as a “Newcomer,” but the more they post and answer other users’ questions, the higher up the ranks they go. Users who have answered 20 questions are labeled “Beauty Maven,” those who’ve posted 50 or more times are labeled “Beauty Pro,” and the biggest contributors are marked as “Beauty Master” or even “Hall of Famer.” Each title comes with its own special graphic (like a lipstick kiss or a shopping bag) next to the user’s name, indicating to newer users who the experts are. Sephora uses gamification elements such as badges, titles and special website privileges to confer status to its highly valued superfans. 10
  • 13. how Lithium can help If you’ve ever bought anything online, these behaviors probably make sense to you, because you’ve engaged in them yourself. But your budget has limits and your web development team is busy. Facebook is free and easy to use, which is why it was a no-brainer for you to set up a page there—but creating an amazing customer engagement hub on your website? That takes time and money. We created Lithium for people like you. Our products provide an out-of-the-box solution that encompasses all of the arenas we discussed, from peer reviews to Q&As to gamification. But every brand is different, and our solutions aren’t cookie- cutter. We’ll work with you and your technical team to identify a look, style, and gamification system that work within the existing design of your website, and integrate social and community features seamlessly into every single page. Unlike Facebook, we’re not interested in stealing the show from the brands we work with—even though our technology is plugging away behind the scenes at many of the Web’s best retailers and consumer brands. 11
  • 14. the takeaway We hope this paper has provided some insight into the taking an important step towards promoting and guiding possibilities of social marketing beyond Facebook and Twitter, the conversation about your brand online, and fostering an and energized you to start exploring ways you can transform environment where people feel good about making larger and your website into a thriving digital hub (and drive sales, more frequent purchases. loyalty and advocacy in the process). The impulse that led you Now that you’ve seen how Home Depot, Sephora, Best Buy, to establish a presence on Facebook—forming bonds with Verizon, 24 Hour Fitness and other top brands have used customers, and making them feel heard and important—is a the Lithium platform to incorporate peer reviews, Q&As, good one. Listening to and interacting with your customers innovation, and gamification into their digital strategy, we is the best way to create a brand that people admire and hope you’ll consider working with the Lithium team to want to support with their dollars, and when people feel like transform your own website into the center of your brand’s a company is truly hearing what they have to say, they’re social customer experience. far more willing to talk. By giving them a destination on the Web to share their passions and connect with others, you’re resources 1. AdWeek and Networked Insights, 2011. 4. Ad Age, 2012. 2. IBM, 2012. 5. TechCrunch and Facebook, 2012. 3. Mashable and Bloomberg, 2012. 6. Business News Daily and SocialMediaAd, 2012. Lithium social software helps the world’s most iconic brands to build brand nations—vibrant online communities of passionate social customers. Lithium helps top brands such as AT&T, Sephora, Univision, and PayPal build active online communities that turn customer passion into social media marketing ROI. For more information on how to create lasting competitive advantage with the social customer experience, visit lithium.com, or connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and our own brand nation – the Lithosphere. lithium.com | 6121 Hollis Street, Suite 4, Emeryville, CA 94608 | Ph 510.653.6800 | Fx 510.653.6801 © 2012 Lithium Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved 12