With or without our help, communities of interest are forming around categories and products – and even our brands. This session, led by Wendy Tarr of IBM and Matthew Wallis of Quark, looks at how to get the most out social media and how much influence you can (and should) have:
Matthew shares Quark’s experience of building a new community using social media.
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3. It’s a brave new world!!
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Facebook........350 Million users
55 M ll o updates day
Million updates/day
3.5 Billion pieces of content
“If Facebook was a nation it would be the 3rd
most populous after China and India “
Source: Economist
Windows Live
MySpace
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LinkedIn
Twitter
4. Social Networking surpasses E mail
Average time spent on Social Media
Australia
Britain
Italy
USA
South Korea
Hours/day
Spain
Brazil
Germany
France
Japan
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Source: Economist
5. Who do you trust??
% of respondents
Billboards
Radio
Magazines
Newspapers
Television
Trust Somewhat
Brand Sponsorship
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Editorial Content
Consumer Forums
Brand Websites
Friends Reccomendations
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Source: Economist
6. How do customers buy IT today ?
They read blogs
They check forums or online groups
They ask friends in social networks
When they are ‘ready to buy’ their product decision is pretty
much set i stone.
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They mostly ignore advertising
Hate cold calls
Have email spam filters and can opt out of lists
Vendors/Resellers are no longer the local go to point for
information – prospect customers use the internet to
research and social networks to validate
validate.
7. How do most vendors sell today?
Buy contact lists
Do mail shots
Advertise using Google ads and billboards
Follow up with cold calls
Engage call centres
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Qualify leads
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Call and try to get an appointment
Start the sales process
Perhaps it’s time to change!!!!!
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9. Setting Standards
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3 million+ QuarkXPress users worldwide
5 billion+ pages produced using QuarkXPress
10. GED11
Three Legs to our game !!
Promote
Desktop Enterprise
11. Slide 10
GED11 Should Promote be SMB for consistency seeing as Quark Promote is a product but desktop and enterprise are not?
I'm also not particlarly keen on the 3 leg stool imagery. I think it's fine to say it but there are better ways to represent the business as currently
it doesn't make us look very grown up. I can help if needed although I'm sure we must have existing slides.
Gavin Drake, 01/04/2010
12. Social Media effects ALL Channels....
Quark has multiple channels to market
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The Channel Partners are very key for
Quark........
Quark
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learning h
i how to use S i l
Social
Media!!
Let’s take a look at an example.....
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GED12 Presumeably this slide needs some updating as this will not be a channel specific event.
Gavin Drake, 01/04/2010
15. Objectives of Site
Initial when we launched in 2008
• Drive upgrades of our software to late adopters by
referencing a wide range of users of the current
version from world famous designers, to global
companies to ‘unknown designers i.e. find someone
unknown designers’ i e
like you
Now
• Build an online community for designers
• Establish Quark as brand associated with great design
and a company that is passionate about design
• Provide a platform for Quark to communicate with
designers
16.
17. Other components
• Facebook application – “What Font are you?”
• Live eve ts for des g e s
ve events o designers
• Blogs
• Twitter
18. Statistical Results
Registered Users: 19,957 Also track user
Gallery Uploads: 4,845 engagement through:
Unique Visitors: 415,681
415 681 • New Comments
• New Ratings
• New Uploads
Top 10 Visits by country
• Send to a Friend
3% 2% 2% United States
4%
4% United Kingdom
27%
5% Germany
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France
10% Italy
Canada
Spain
India
24%
Mexico
19%
Australia
19. Market results
• Design community is more engaged with the
Quark Brand
• Quark brand is better respected by the
creative magazines
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• Reaching a much younger demographic
• Extended Quark’s online reach
20. Social Media and PR
Blogs
8x8 London was mentioned on a
number of prominent design
blogs,
blogs perhaps the first time
Quark has appeared on these
design focused blogs. We also
provided a limited number of
free tickets as prizes for
bloggers to give away on their
sites. See some examples at
http://noisydecentgraphics.type
pad.com/,
http://www.airside.co.uk/blog/
?p=259.
21. Social Media and PR
Twitter
We setup #8x8 as a live Twitter feed for the event
(http://twitter.com/#search?q=%238x8). Tweets
were appearing online about 8x8 in advance of the
event but then at the event itself we encouraged
attendees to leave their phones on silent and Tweet
on the event. The host had access to the incoming
Tweets and was then able to read out some of the
best throughout the evening. The Tweeting continued
after the event concluded. Just search for 8x8 on
Twitter to see.
22. Social Media and PR
Media Partners
Design Week was the Media Partner for
the event and as such let us promote the
event free of charge t th i subscribers
tf f h to their b ib
using eshots, online banner ads and media
coverage. In addition we setup a 1:1
interview with Vaughan Oliver (arguably
the
th most well-known speaker) and
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Computer Arts magazine. This will appear
in in their next issue. We also filmed the
interview and will provide an edited
version on il
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Press Coverage
A press release and subsequent media
alert drove stories in Macworld, Digital
Creative Arts, Design Taxi and many more
media that helped drive interest and
ticket sales in the event but also just
great free exposure for the Quark brand.
23. Ilovedesign.com on the iPhone
Free app for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad
Features include:
News feed - See the latest activity
on the site
Gallery - Easily browse and
interact
with design projects including your
design portfolio
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My account - Log into your
ILoveDesign.com account to see
and show off your projects and
show-off
comment on and rate other
people’s designs
25. New Flash Magic Campaign
• Focussed on driving awareness and adoption of Flash and Web
design features in QuarkXPress 8
• Strong social media element
• Magic Passwords that unlock downloads have been placed on
various social media platforms
• Users can become Quark Magicians with benefits including a
LinkedIn Recommendation and display of work on social media
sites
• Rebranded Twitter Feed
• New and branded QuarkXPress Facebook Group
• Rebranded youtube.com QuarkXPress 8 channel
• Renamed Forums to School of Flash Magic
• New LinkedIn Group for QuarkXPress Magicians
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28. Some thoughts and conclusions
The future i about market d
Th f is b k depth
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and involvement,
NOT market width and
awareness.
29. Different marketing vehicles by buyers at
stages of th b i process
t f the buying
Awareness Discovery Validation
Industry News
Industry Analysis
Advertising
Viral Messages
Podcasts
Search
Webinars
Tradeshows
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Blogs
Vendor Sites
30. Social Media Advice
• Make sure it’s someone’s job (not just a ‘if remember
activity’)
• Have a plan and schedule
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Have criteria f d idi i a particular social media
it i for deciding is ti l i l di
vehicle is adding value to your business.
• For certain social media you will need domain experts
from your company participating e.g. LinkedIn groups
• Be innovative