1. The Journey of Building a Social
Business: Corporate Culture, Employees
& Creating Powerful Social Connections
Richard Binhammer, Dell, Social Media
M2C, March 26, 2012, Hamburg, Germany
3. Conversations
are
conversations
not
Business
segments
Where to find you
Share with others how & why
you have great products/services
…………….and more
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7. Phone
Business?
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8. This Is What Business Has Always Been About…Social brings
new dynamics to continuing to grow the intersection
Business Customer
Value Value
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9. Scaling????
Listen, Learn, Engage & Act
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5 years: 4000 posts per day to 25,000 post per day
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10. A Tool to be Leveraged Across the Fabric of a
Company: different functions, uses and values
Product Development Marketing Online Presence
• Feedback Loop • Demand Forecast • Ratings & Reviews
• Early Warning • Lead Generation • Communities
• New Product • Message Reach • Customer Stories
Ideation
Sales Customer Service Communication
• Leads
• Collaboration • Listening • Rich Media
• Thought Leadership • Support Widgets • Brand Reputation
• Blogs • Outreach • Influence
• ReputationMarketing
Global
11. Six years of experiments and experience
February 2006 December 2006 October 2007 May 2008 June 2009
Dell named #1 most
Michael Dell Asks Ratings and Michael Dell quote in Business Week Dell Outlet achieves Global Twitter social brand in
Why don’t we reach out and help reviews on Jeff Jarvis story quote, “These conversations are $0.5M in sales via Twitter revenues of $6.5 M ranking of 100 top
bloggers with tech support issues? going to occur whether you like it or not. Do you
Dell.com want to be part of that or not? My argument is you
Community team active on Twitter brands
absolutely do. You can learn from them. You can Small Business
improve your reaction time. And you can be a blog launched
August 2006 better company by listening and being involved in
Blog outreach that conversation.”
expands beyond February 2007 March 2008 March 2010
tech support Accepted Solutions China Micro-
IdeaStorm Launched January 2009 June 2009
launched on Community Blogging
A voting based site allowing Dell Organizes in to $2M+ Sales
customers and others to submit Dell France begins Online 4 customer focused
ideas for Dell. Community Outreach via Twitter Social Media Listening
business units
Command Center
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Dell Social Media and
Community University
July 2006 launched/5,000 team
Direct2Dell launched June 2007 April 2008 2009 members trained by
end of year
Today Direct2Dell exists in Dell joins Twitter Inside IT launched Dell TechCenter
English, Spanish, Norwegian, January (Aug.)
Blog focused on business
Japanese and Chinese.
Dell launches 2008 customers, and Cloud
Dell aligns Computing. Altimeter recognizes Dell with
EmployeeStorm Spring 2009 December 2009 “Open Leadership Award for
Internal Blogs organization
Launched for for success
Some Members of Huffington Post BlogInnovation and Execution”
Community and (Oct.)
Employees.
Conversations Dell
August 2006 January 2007 deployed within each launches
Blog outreach StudioDell launched of the new Dell B2B pages
Facebook
expands beyond Dell’s video and podcast site,
February 2008 Business units
(Jun.)
tech Support with helpful tips and tricks.
Eventually expanding this into November 2007 Twitter expanded
the YouTube channel making DellShares launched
sharing easier. The first investor relations blog by
June 2008
a public company. Channel blog
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12. Improve Data
Quality
Usability &
Application
From Incident to
Aggregation and Meaning
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13. ROI?
Business Value
across the full
customer
lifecycle
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14. Yes Virginia, there is ROI Business Value: It is
measurable in many forms, there is not 1 number …
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15. Social media
improves Dell’s reach
and share of voice
Social media
keeps
customers Established
AWARENESS causality
engaged,
provides between social
solutions and media activity
and purchase
improves loyalty RESEARCH
LOYALTY AND AND
ADVOCACY CONSIDERAT
ION
Social media based Social Media
support improves provides high
sentiment and CUSTOMER DEMAND AND business value and
correlates with SERVICE/ contributes to
LEAD demand gen
higher revenue GEN/SALES
SUPPORT vehicle
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18. Fundamental Changes to Organizations and Operations
• Mass Media • Individualized Information
• Control and Push Messaged • Conversation, Collaborate, Connect
• Institutions to distribute and • People and Relationships to
connect connect and build
• Issue Management • Rapid Response/Agility
• Deadlines • Real Time
• Just the Facts • Facts and Feelings
• Powerful Media • Powerful Networks
• Target Audiences • Communities
• Announce/All answers • Listen and Collaborate
• Top Down • Leadership and Bottoms Up too
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19. Sizzle? or The Hard Work of Getting it Done for
Better Business
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Entering another period of rapid innovation and change in the role technology plays in how we run our business; the products and services we offer and how we communicate, collaborate and respond to our customers – in a b2c or b2b contextRecent report released by Dell and Intel – entitled the Evolving Workforce we have explored some of the ways technology is changing the workplace again. And some of the social, technological and economic factors that are influencing that – gen Y entering our workforces (the first fully Internet generation); consumerisation of business technology; expectations of corporate transparency in the social era etc.Focus here on how we have changed as a business with the emergence of the social web – or social media. But this is just one of the ways our relationships and dialogue with customers of all types have changedCustomers are using the social web throughout their personal and business life. They increasingly expect their financial service provider to engage directly with them or provide services and information there too. Clearly in retail banking but increasingly in the b2b world too.Transparency/access and online reputaiton is a dominant factor in who we choose to buy from or work with.We also expect to be asked for feedback and to see the company respond with improvements or new products and services.We turn to the social web to assess the quality not just of the company’s products and services; but to see what customers think of them – and to ask for advice.We have too much choice so we turn to trusted intermediaries to help us navigate – and we don’t need deep relationships with these ‘advisors’ to trust what they say.Your brand exists not on your website or in your advertising alone – it is not only defined (and certainly not controlled) by you…it is defined by what comes up on a search engine or is said in Twitter. It is not within your 100% control…but this is not always a bad thing.As well as helping your run your businesses more efficiently – the change technology is bringing and developments like social media have the ability to turn that heavy investment to your commercial advantage.Even in regulated sectors like finance the same opportunities and threats hold true. A bad rating for service on an influential blog or a recommendation for a product on an online financial community can make the difference between success or failure.Companies or brands that ‘get it’ or embrace social web will succeed. Those that don’t – won’t.
August 2006Blog Outreach Expands Beyond Tech SupportEngagement with anyone who commented about the company. Business model and other issues considered.August 2006Blog Outreach Expands Beyond Tech SupportEngagement with anyone who commented about the company. Business model and other issues considered.June 2007Dell joins TwitterWhy don’t we reach out and help bloggers with tech support issues?February 2008Twitter ExpandedStart experimenting with Twitter for business– another venue to help customers, but also thanking Dell customers. Outreach leads to some Twitters asking for help on purchases.May 2008Dell Outlet Achieves $0.5M in Sales via TwitterCommunity team active on TwitterJune 2009 $2M+ Sales via TwitterDell outlet on Twitter surpasses $2 million in sales with another $1 million dollars in sales at dell.com 2009Dell TechCenterA Collaborative Community for Datacenter pros grows by 400%December 2009Huffington Post BlogDell’s VP of Social Media and Community, Manish Mehta, begins blogging at Huffington PostJune 2009Global Twitter Revenues of $6.5 M Community across the social web =3.5 million direct customer connections
Our current daily listening reports are circulated widely across the company; We also have incident-specific reports that are generated at the BU level or through our central ground control.Driven deeper understanding of customers, brand, industry and technology trends through social, research, and analytics• Strengthen listening and the use/action related to Data (ENGAGEMENT), through:o Improved data quality (through natural language processing)o Consolidated and improved set of reports – optimize for insights and leadership vs. volume of reportso Content and audience strategy o Solved dis-connects with other key data sources (brand, NPS, etc) to tell a consolidated story
we have established new policies and governance so that our social media efforts are methodical, logical and coherent and resonate across our business in a meaningful manner….When we convened the Facebook Reinvention project in October 2009, there were more than 100 Dell brand pages and scores of Dell groups. The majority of these were abandoned, redundant, off brand and/or mis-managed. We defined Dell’s Facebook strategy, guidelines, best practices and processes, bringing the total pages down to 37 organized, structured and managed communities. The core team then expanded into all social media properties, like Twitter, leveraging our social media strategy, processes and guidelines to ensure adherence to FTC and other local policies, alignment to the brand, tracking, analytics, operating efficiencies and more. The dozen people on the original global, cross-segment core team now has 39 representatives from the company all contributing to Dell’s continued effective use of social.
Fundamentally we see ourselves as doing the hard work of building on momentum of past 18 months to make social media a key driver of business results and customer-centricity across Dell. We also are focused on driving deeper understanding of customers, brand, industry and technology trends through social, research, and analytics