70% of purchase decisions are made before a buyer reaches sales. In an era when self-educating buyers are scouring the internet for information before forming a buying decision, before even consulting your brand, how can you not get out in front to tell your brand’s story? And how do you breakthrough the noise to ensure that your brand story is the one that successfully resonates with your customer?
The key is creating smart content that is equal parts timely, relevant, and interesting.
The social newsroom is not about identifying a trending topic and contributing to the collective noise. By driving marketing with a newsroom approach, any brand can create content and campaigns that resonate for their audience here and now. The magic of the social newsroom happens when three things align: the brand agenda, the audience’s agenda, and the news, of course. When a brand can add something insightful and new to the dialogue – that is when you successfully “win the moment.”
5. #C2C15
70% of B2C and B2B purchase
decisions are made before a
buyer ever reaches sales.
6. In an era when self-educating buyers are scouring the
internet for information before forming a buying
decision, before even consulting your brand, how can
you not get out in front to tell your brand’s story?
#C2C15
7. #C2C15
The Art of Listening:
Are you listening to what your audiences are saying?
14. “A brand journalist is a strategic
storyteller who discovers and
creates news content on behalf
of a brand.
”PR Daily
Marketer + Journalist = Brand Journalist
“Brand journalists bring a
reporter’s sensibility to your
content – an editorial approach
to building a brand.
”Ann Handley
#C2C15
19. Beyond Pageviews: Measuring Success
#C2C15
EXPOSURE
How much
exposure (stories,
social media
posts, etc.) has
been generated?
ENGAGEMENT
Who and how are
our audiences
interacting with
our content (likes,
shares, etc.)?
INFLUENCE
Have we
influenced
perceptions and
attitudes of the
target?
ACTION
Did our audience
take a desired
action (purchases,
website traffic, etc.)
as a result of
exposure?
The art of listening
With the award show season in full swing, we wondered who really drives fashion trends – the consumers or the designers? How can we help design houses “listen” to the consumers? Today, technologies exist that allow organizations to quickly gather data from many sources including social media and customer historical purchases.
To illustrate our point, we are running a sentiment analysis leading up to and after the Oscars. The data will help answer questions such as:
What outfits or styles are appearing most on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest boards, Twitter, and Instagram?
How do past sales of like styles and color trends inform which outfits or styles will be popular again?
How big data analytics can reveal fashion winners and losers?
SAP will display the volume and location of social conversations, tracking key Super Bowl XLVIII topics from which quarterback boasts a more passionate fan base to determining if fans want it to snow during the big game, all of which will be displayed in the bright lights of Times Square.
For fans that can’t make it to New York, they can keep up with the conversation right here in the NFL Fan Visualization section. An interactive map will display social conversations using an adjustable slider tool to track the conversation -- and how it shifts -- over time.
If a player returned a kick for a touchdown or a team forced a crucial turnover, fans will be able to see how the overall social conversation shifted in that team’s favor following the play. There are always a few plays that come to define a Super Bowl and SAP’s Social Media Analytics by NetBase will measure online social sentiment to determine which plays generated the biggest response from fans.