This document discusses the importance of listening to customers on social media for building a successful business. It outlines Dell's journey over 5 years of experimenting with social listening and engagement across platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and their own communities. The key lessons are that listening is fundamental to understanding customer needs and improving the business. Dell created a Listening Command Center to scale their social media listening across languages and departments to resolve issues and share best practices. Embedding social listening across functions allows companies to improve products, marketing, sales and service by utilizing customer feedback.

1. Building a Social Business: It all Starts with Listening Maribel Sierra, Director of Social Media Listening June 21st, 2011 Twitter: @MaribelSatDell

2. It is your choice to listen to your customers 2 Confidential

3. “ The social web amplifies our opportunity to listen and learn and invest ourselves in two-way dialogue, enabling us to become a better company with more to offer the people who depend on us.” Michael Dell 3 Confidential 6/20/2011

4. Five years of experiments and experience December 2006Ratings and reviews on Dell.com February 2006Michael Dell Asks Why don’t we reach out and help bloggers with tech support issues? October 2007Michael Dell quote in Business Week Jeff Jarvis story quote, “These conversations are going to occur whether you like it or not. Do you want to be part of that or not? My argument is you absolutely do. You can learn from them. You can improve your reaction time. And you can be a better company by listening and being involved in that conversation.” May 2008Dell Outlet achieves $0.5M in sales via TwitterCommunity team active on TwitterSmall Business blog launched June 2009Global Twitter revenues of $6.5 M April 2011 Dell named #1 most social brands in ranking of 100 top March 2010 Launch @DellCares; today 24/7 11 languages August 2006Blog outreach expands beyond tech support March 2008Accepted Solutions launched on Community Dell France begins Online Community Outreach February 2007IdeaStorm Launched A voting based site allowing customers and others to submit ideas for Dell. China Micro-Blogging January 2009Dell Organizes in to4 customer focused business units June 2009$2M+ Salesvia Twitter Dec 2010 launched Social Media Listening Command Center 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 July 2006Direct2Dell launchedToday Direct2Dell exists in English, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese and Chinese. October 20101 Altimeter recognizes Dell with “Open Leadership Award for Innovation and Execution on Listening 2009Dell TechCenter June 2007Dell joins Twitter Dell launchesEmployeeStormInternal Blogs Launched for Employees. April 2008Inside IT launchedBlog focused on business customers, and Cloud Computing. January 2008Dell aligns organization for success Spring 2009Some Members of Community and Conversations deployed within each of the new Dell Business units December 2009Huffington Post Blog Dell Social Media and Community University launched/5,000 teammembers trained byend of year(Aug.) August 2006Blog outreach expands beyond tech Support January 2007StudioDell launched Dell’s video and podcast site, with helpful tips and tricks. Eventually expanding this into the YouTube channel making sharing easier. February 2008Twitter expanded 4 June 2010 Dell launches B2B pagesFacebook November 2007DellShares launched The first investor relations blog by a public company. June 2008Channel blog launched Confidential

5. Find the area that will help build your business case on the power of listening and engagement 5 Confidential 6/20/2011

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7. @DellCares Across the Web Generates Positive Connections The Customer: Model Supplies Sales, Followers: 60,000+ Issue/Resolution: The customer tweeted in regards to an LCD issue w/her PC on 4/18 to her friends. @DellCares identified the customer was in need of assistance and responded on 4/19, The issue was resolved on 4/29. MSD tweets her a thank you on 5/25, which she responds to immediately. … Dell Listens, Engages and Resolves issue… … delighting the Customer whose following retweets to 150k+ users Customer voices frustration… Model Supplies raves Michael Dell jumps in… @ModelSupplies Thanks for contacting @dellcares and for positive feedback too. Thrilled to hear you are a happy Dell customer! 6:14 PM May 25th via web You're very welcome! @MichaelDell Thank you for the fantastic service - and for the reminder of things still to do! x0x 7:43 PM May 25th via web Confidential 7

8. 8 Confidential Dell wins the Bee Awards-Listening Program and Command Center (5/11) "The Bees Awards received entries from 33 countries. The quality of work this year was extremely impressive which made the judging quite interesting for our 20 world experts. The list of nominees and winners announced represents work that is exceptional and is considered as the World's Best in Social Media Marketing" Bee Awards http://www.beesawards.com/bees/2011winners 6/20/2011

9. Embedding Listening across every functional area at Dell

11. Early Warning

13. Lead Generation

15. Communities

17. Thought Leadership

19. Support Widgets

21. Brand Reputation

22. Influence

24. 12 Confidential We have been building strong Listening and Engaging teams across Dell, yet we needed a Listening Command Center

26. Across 11 languages

27. Role: support listeners and responders across Dell

28. Contain viral issues

29. Coordinate on-boarding

30. Maintain standards

32. Fundamental to have a SM policy and training program in place

33. Finding the balance between a push, pull mechanism is key

35. SM  B2C & B2B 16

36. 17 Customers and businesses are in this together…

37. … and employees are your company’s rock stars 18

38. So guide your team members participation in the social media space 19 Confidential

39. Social Media & Community University Principles Policy Governance Training, Certification & Tools

40. Listen, Engage, Act. It’s at the heart of all strategies…But How to Scale? Think of it as a tool, not a channel

41. For your customers, offer a LIVE place to Capture Feedback and have a conversation on our business… 22

42. Capture insights

43. ROI. Business Value. Measurable in many forms = Intersection of customer value + benefit to business at various points Not 1 number …

44. Simple Takeaways Starts with listening…. …build a case and deploy across all levels Empower/train your employees… …yet provide a mechanism for escalation and control It is a journey… … you need to keep innovating Confidential 25

45. 26 Not Listeningis a strategy that won’t work

46. Thank you