This presentation was prepared for a PR Newswire hosted event in Seattle on October 10, 2012. PEMCO CMO, Rod Brooks, discusses the importance of monitoring customer conversations when developing meaningful brand content.
2. 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)
3. Key takeaway
Actively monitoring
industry trends and
consumer conversations
can lead to
• Integrity
content marketing
• Responsibility
• Courage
success.
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
8. 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.
9. Social 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.”
10. Cogs of “content excellence”
Informative
Interesting Positive Entertaining
Thought
Engaged
Listen
Listen
Listen
• Integrity
• Responsibility Motivating
Timely
• Courage
Language
Relevant
11. The content continuum
Selfless+
Inspiring +
Compassionate
=
HUMAN
• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Courage
26. But Is It Working?
Optimize PEMCO’s
home court “If you see
advantage by someone
without a
connecting with smile, give
Northwest values them yours!”
• Integrity
• Responsibility - Stanley O. McNaughton
• Courage Former PEMCO C.E.O.
27. Active listening
• Online social
engagement
• Offline interaction
face-to-face
• Integrity
• Shared pulse as
• Responsibility
• Courage
Northwest residents
28. PEMCO NW Insurance Poll
• Independent survey each quarter
• Integrity
• Relevant consumer-education topics
• Responsibility
• Courage
• Behavior and attitude trends over time
• Exclusively Northwest design & delivery