Rod Brooks is the Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of PEMCO Insurance. He is also the Chairman of WOMMA (Word of Mouth Marketing Association) in 2011. The document discusses PEMCO's social media strategy and engagement over time, moving from a traditional approach to becoming fully engaged on social media. It outlines PEMCO's vision, social media mantra, and strategies to build advocacy and positive word of mouth by listening to customers and enabling two-way conversations.
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Developing Social Engagement Strategy
1. Rod Brooks
PEMCO
Insurance:
V.P. and CMO
WOMMA:
Chairman – 2011
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Follow Rod on
Twitter:
@NW_Mktg_Guy
source | Nielsen study (August 2010)
2. Let’s get connected!
Twitter: @NW_Mktg_Guy
Tonight’s Hashtag:
#UWInfx598
source | Nielsen study (August 2010)
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4. PEMCO Mutual Insurance Company
• Customer centric
• Relationship led
• Values based
• Challenger brand
• Hyper-local
• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Courage
5. Challenges: Both old and new
1
Industry
• Highly regulated industry
• Product perceived as a commodity
• Insurance is an unsought product
2
Environment
• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Industry ad spending at astronomically
• Courage high levels
• Heavy influence by peers, friends, and strangers online
• New & unfamiliar channels sustain brand conversations
10. “… companies that are both
deeply and widely engaged in
social media surpass their peers in
terms of both revenue and profit
performance by a significant
difference.”
11. Word of mouth is the
most powerful form of
marketing there is!
12. US consumers have at least one
daily brand-related discussion…
face-to-face – 93%
voice-to-voice – 45%
Online – 22%
source | Keller Fay & Yahoo! study (June 2010)
13. Human approach
Social Media Socially Engaged
Voice of the Company Voice of the Customer
Top-Down Control Bottom-Up Messaging
• Integrity
Company-Generated Consumer-Generated
• Responsibility
Messages
• Courage
Messages
Infrequently Updated Continuously Updated
14. Human approach
Social Media Socially Engaged
Voice of the Company Voice of the Customer
Top-Down Control Bottom-Up Messaging
• Integrity
Company-Generated Consumer-Generated
• Responsibility
Messages
• Courage
Messages
Infrequently Updated Continuously Updated
15. Which way to go?
1 Traditional
2 Experimental
3 Operational
4 Measurable
5 Nirvana - Fully Engaged
20. Stage 5: Nirvana - Fully engaged
Business Organizational Customer
Outcomes Impact Evidence
• Faster to market • Customer Advocacy Scales:
with product engagement equally • “I’m valued &
improvements distributed heard”
• In depth customer • Breakthrough • “You anticipate my
knowledge business results needs”
• Better risk • Brand dashboard • “You get me”
management ties to revenue and
loyalty • “No reason to
• Less requirement for guess”
price differentiation • 360 view of the
customer • “I trust you”
• Improved talent
• Senior executives • “I recommend you”
• Increased efficiency leading with • “I’ll be loyal and
• Change customer’s customer defend you”
lives and lifestyles engagement
21. Challenges: Both old and new
Consumer
• 100 In-home Ethnographic Interviews
Research
Internal • Cross Functional and Multi-level
Reviews Conversations
• Integrity
• Responsibility
Competitive
• Courage
• Studied Top 12 Companies – S.W.O.T.
Assessment
22. Voice of the customer
• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Courage
23. LOVE THE LOCAL GUY!
Hometown Heros
Local Trumps Large
Personal Trumps Price
24. Building social strategy
Company “PEMCO Gets It”
Vision
Social Listen, Participate,
Mantra Encourage & Enable
Social
Fierce Advocates
Goal
25. Our Vision
• Integrity
PEMCO is the Northwest insurance company
• Responsibility
that “gets it.” An organization that’s great to do
• Courage
business with, one that shares the values of those who
live here, one that’s genuinely likeable. It’s the first
choice of responsible people.
26. Social engagement mantra
“PEMCO’s success
depends on the
positive opinion of
people like me.
They listen,
participate,
• Integrity
• Responsibility
encourage and
• Courage
enable me to
share with others.”
27. Six Social Strategies - 2007
360
Content Is Internal
Degree
Critical Alignment
View
Engaging Operational Platform
Experience Excellence for Success
33. Establish a credible presence
•Create online and
offline presence.
•Test and learn
•Establish enabling
guidelines
34. 23% of people’s time
spent on the Internet is on
Social Media websites
source | Nielsen study (August 2010)
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38. Don’t let your first day of social be “not so good”
source | Scott Adams Dilbert Cartoons @dilbert.com | 09-13-10
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42. 54% of US adults identified
old-fashioned Word of Mouth
as most important influencer
of purchase decisions.
source | “Digital Marketer Report, Experian – 2011
43. Word of mouth marketing basics
Know your
talkers…
Give them
something to
talk about…
• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Courage
Make it
easy to share.