ACT Chesapeake Chapter TDM Workshop 12/10: Sparking Engagement
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Presentation given 12/1/10 to the attendees at ACT Chesapeake Chapter's TDM Workshop. PPT Deck gives examples and incites audience participation on three levels: 1) Traditional Media with a Twist; 2) New Media Engagement; and 3) Shift to Mobile.
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ACT Chesapeake Chapter TDM Workshop 12/10: Sparking Engagement
- 1. Sparking Customer Engagement SPARKING CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT
- 2. SPARKING RIDERSHIP SPARKING RIDERSHIP (ON DWINDLING BUDGETS)
- 3. Grant Mizell (@G24NT)Grant Mizell (@G24NT) Digital + Emerging Media | PulsarDigital + Emerging Media | Pulsar December 1, 2010December 1, 2010 Market Planning/Research Brand Development Public Relations Advertising Social Media Website/Interactive Media Planning Media Buying Multi-Cultural Marketing Corporate Identity About Pulsar
- 4. About Pulsar QuickTime⢠and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. QuickTime⢠and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 5. NON-TRADITIONAL MARKETING TO SPARK RIDERSHIP J Grant Mizell â Digital + Emerging Media, SPARK Team Katherine Carlson - Managing Director of D.C. and Kelly Poe - Senior Account Executive
- 6. How can we ignite a spark? a spark?
- 8. WOR D of MOUTHL
- 10. WORLD of MOUTH Consumer Trust Index ⢠90% of consumers trust recommendations from people they know ⢠20% over a brandâs website ⢠30% over traditional advertising
- 12. Sourcing Ridership From Within
- 13. Direct Messaging
- 14. Direct Messaging
- 15. Media Mix campaign billboardtweet broadcast message youtube competition web banner bus shelter message
- 16. Quick Poll: My companyâs Marketing Strategies includeâŚ ďź Traditional Media (e.g. print, outdoor, tv, radio) ďź PR (e.g. events, press releases, outreach) ďź Online (e.g. enewsletters, email mktg, online ads) ďź Social Media (e.g. facebook, twitter, blogging) ďź Non-traditional (e.g. street teams, point-of-sale, guerilla) ďź Mobile (e.g. SMS/text marketing, mobile website, smartphone app, QRs)
- 17. Non-traditional Marketing I. A Twist on Traditional II. New Media Engagement III. Shift to Mobile
- 18. I. A Twist on Traditional 1. Target existing resources 2. 3.
- 19. I. A Twist on Traditional Examples
- 20. I. A Twist on Traditional 1. Target existing resources 2. Renew old mediums 3.
- 21. I. A Twist on Traditional Examples
- 22. Examples
- 23. I. A Twist on Traditional 1. Target existing resources 2. Renew old mediums 3. Crowdsourcing
- 24. Examples I. A Twist on Traditional
- 25. Examples
- 26. Quick Poll: How is my agency using Social Media? ďź Broadcaster (sending out our message) ďź Active Listener (listening to whatâs being said) ďź Bystander (not participating) ďź Conversationalist (listening, interpreting and broadcasting)
- 27. II. New Media Engagement 1. Transparency 2. 3. 4.
- 28. Examples
- 29. Examples
- 30. II. New Media Engagement 1. Transparency 2. User Generated Content 3. 4.
- 31. Examples
- 32. Examples
- 33. II. New Media Engagement 1. Transparency 2. User Generated Content 3. Geo Social, Loyalty Rewards 4.
- 34. Examples
- 35. Examples
- 36. Examples
- 37. Examples
- 38. Examples
- 39. II. New Media Engagement 1. Transparency 2. User Generated Content 3. Geo Social, Loyalty Rewards 4. Online Advertising (CPC, etc)
- 40. Examples
- 41. Examples
- 42. Examples
- 43. Examples
- 44. III. Shift to Mobile 1. 2.
- 45. Americans who receive news through their mobile phone26% â USA Today, March 2010 Americansâ mobile data use of text, email and internet surpasses voice data2009 â CITE (via NYT), May 2010 Months to reach 1 billion downloads through the App Store. 9 â Apple, April 2009 Mobile Shift
- 46. Mobile Shift 86 Million iPhone/iTouch users, versus 18 million Netscape users, at Q11. â Morgan Stanley Research, Q1 2010
- 47. speaking Mobile Shift â Pew Research, July 2010 African-Americans continue to be the most active mobile web users because their devices commonly function as the primary or sole connection to the web Latinos & English-
- 48. Mobile Shift 2012Smartphone sales will outpace personal computer sales â Morgan Stanley Research, Q1 2010 2011US Smartphones will outsell traditional mobile phones 2010US Mobile browsing and Mobile App use doubles from Q1 2009
- 49. III. Shift to Mobile 1. Text/SMS 2.
- 50. Examples
- 51. Examples
- 52. Examples
- 53. III. Shift to Mobile 1. Text/SMS 2. Smartphone Technology
- 54. Examples
- 55. Examples
- 56. Examples
- 57. Examples
- 58. Examples
- 59. Rules of Engagement ⢠Provide access anytime/anywhere ⢠Make it easy ⢠Provide tools to s ⢠Focus on the greater good ⢠Be community centric ⢠Listen ⢠Experiment ⢠Have fun!
- 60. Challenge⌠Do one thing next week to challenge the status quo of your current marketing efforts. i.e. start a mass email of ideas around the office, place a box for marketing ideas in the break room, take an internal survey of social strengths/expertise, explore 1 new social site, etc. Share it. Email me at gmizell@pulsaradvertising.com; OR Tweet me @G24NT, ending with the hashtag #acttdm12110
- 61. Extended. Extra slides and info to help answer all your questions. 1. Ford Fiesta lauch through social Case Study 2. Arlingtonâs CFD Skeptics integrated campaign Case Study 3. Live Links for stats and tips for winning the Boss over to Social and Mobile
- 62. Ford gave away one hundred, pre-released Fiestas for six months. Case Study: Ford
- 63. And started a MovementâŚ
- 65. Pre-Launch Awareness among Millenials âYou canât just say it. You have to get the people to say it to each other.â â James Farley, CMO Ford 2010 - Ford moves 25% of Marketing Spend to Digital/Social Media 37%
- 66. Ways to Create Engagement using UGC & UGC Campaigns Case Study: CFD Skeptics 5
- 74. Turn the Boss onto Social & Mobile Marketing ⢠Suvey internal expertise ⢠Twitter: Mashableâs Guide, Apps, Lists ⢠Foursquare: BART, VisitPA ⢠Multi-updaters: Cotweet, Hootsuite, Ping ⢠All Socialnomics vids & stats ⢠What The Heck is Social Media? ⢠Internet trends ⢠Can Social Media sell cars? Explore Potential (Fire power) Load-Up on Stats (Ammunition)
- 75. Winning the Boss Over Other resources. The Secret Sauce of Social Marketing 5 Tips to Convince the Boss Adding Blogger Outreach to Your PR Plan 10 Ways to Initiate Social Conversation Social ROI Facebook Stats Social Media Business Tools
- 76. J. Grant Mizell Digital + Emerging Media Ph (410) 922-6600 Fx (804) 225-8347 gmizell@pulsaradvertising.com www.pulsaradvertising.com Twitter: @G24NT, @mizellg Contact Info
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- Good afternoon. I hope everyone had enough to eat, but not too much. Weâre making this interactive so no settling in and taking a little siesta. Sparking Customer Engagment. I want to address this first, when I started putting this thing together, I stumbled quite a bit. ⌠Quick, little aside. How many of you have customers? See. Youâre stumbling. Letâs rework this title.
- How âbout âSparking Ridership on dwindling budgetsâ That feels a little richer. That should pretty much hit home with everyoneâs situation â and likely why you havenât headed out to beat the traffic. Right? OK, so letâs talk about me. Two reasons to hear me out⌠I have a twitter account. Technically, I have two. And a facebook page, a foursquare account, a linkedin, slideshare. Because when youâre talking dwindling budgets and increasing riders, the âbe all, end allâ must to be social media. Right?
- 2) Not exactly. The second reason, Iâm on a team that does pretty much anything (communications related), with a specialty in moving people.
- We like to say, âIf it moves, we market it.â Many of you with a logo up here can attest, in TDM situations, we often target SOVs head-on. To do it effectively, we use a two-part strategy. Using integrated (multi-faceted) communications campaigns, often in unconventional means. (Because I know, you know, getting people out of their Mercedes and onto the bus or into a vanpool is not exactly a walk in the park.) Actually, letâs include that too. Re-wind. Extras about Pulsar: Fully integrated and full-service advertising, PR/PA, social networking agency 18 year history developing brands Offices in Richmond, Washington, DC, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
- Hey. I think I can work with this. I havenât yet introduced the rest of the crew whoâll help answer questions, as we get into the forum style, in a bit. Kelly Poe is a Senior Account Executive (also with a background in interactive and digital media) and Katherine Carlson, is our fearless leader in the DC office as Managing Director and a Lead on several accounts. Ok, back to the presentation. Thereâs only one, single thing you have to walk away with todayâŚ
- Itâs this question. I want you to keep that in the back of your mind as well, while I present case studies or we collectively bring up ideas and experiences.
- Sooo, in the beginning. In âOld Schoolâ traditional marketing campaigns, we funneled our dollars to a single goal of behavior change and converting consumers into buyers of our message or product. In our case, ultimately getting them to ride the bus. Or telework. Vanpool. Carpool. Etc. 100% of the time. But todayâs different. Quick Poll: Who has a cell phone? Get it out and wave it at me â if you donât you can wave a lighter! By a show of phones â How many of you use Facebook or Twitter? And how many of you tried a new product, a new restaurant or a new book because of something one of those respective friends shared with you?
- Thatâs just it. Through rapid sharing of information and experiences, weâve left Word of Mouth in the dust. And itâs drastically affecting our marketing spend.
- This data from Nielsen came out in the latter half of last year. Check it out. Itâs big and bulky, but glance at the top bar in relation to all the others.
- Surmise it to say⌠Consumers are listening to each other. Our riders are creating their own, authentic content and passing it on. Itâs that same authentic content, we want to tap into. Quick Poll: How many of you have used Yelp!, Zagat or Google to check reviews of restaurants?
- More and more, weâre getting involved in our favorite brands and sharing those experiences with others. If we spend some dollars on already converted users, theyâre likely to share those positive experiences and convert others for our cause! <With the rise of internet, email and social networks integrated more and more into our daily lives, the funnel becomes expanded out based on consumer engagement with the product/message and the [social] sharing of that experience across their networks. New marketing plans when including a focus on user involvement, engagement, trial and experience, result social sharing from current brand ambassadors (current users/believers) with positive experiences, generating Word of Mouth interest and gathering new customers (and ultimately greater conversions).>
- So it stands to reason, by engaging current riders theyâll in turn engage others, sharing their stories and experiences, building our brand awareness.
- The importance of the integrated marketing campaign stems from all the ways we now receive messages. Think back to the late 80s, early 90s, when we marketers were awed by the targeting power of Direct Mail (targeting messaging down to the Zip Code). Then email in the mid to late 90s, allowed us to target even further, and more affordably.
- Now social networks allow us to target even more, based on our embedded profiles, likes and interests.
- Now we have to understand our target audience much more, to find the right media mix to reach them.
- Weâre all marketing in one form or another. And most even understand the importance of online marketing and even social media. But thereâs still a slow move into the mobile space. For those reasons weâll go over more âHow toâ when speaking on those elements, and more of the âWhat does it meanâ and âWhy should I careâ when discussing mobile.
- Weâll divide up the non-traditional tactics you can use in your integrated marketing campaigns, in three ways. First weâll look at ways to twist traditional media. Then weâll discuss ways to engage through new media and social. Finally weâll discuss how the shift to mobile is taking place and what it means for our marketing plans.
- First, look at the resources you already have. Look at current partnerships, your staff, etc, and think about expanding their role. Can you think of staff whose role you could expand? Our example. Using VDOTs internal video editors, we create Video News Releases we distribute on YouTube and can be used by the press, if so inclined.
- Invest in a little training or take an internal audit of skills, and transform traditional Press Releases into more multimedia versions, with embedded links and buttons. During the Virginia Tax Amnesty campaign, we created multimedia Press Releases with links to additional content, our social networks and campaign commercials.
- Next, think about revamping or reinventing mediums in unexpected ways.
- Has anyone ever gotten stuck in congestion caused by Northern Virginia road construction? Pulsar was tasked with communicating the road projects, delays and detours to residents across the region. The message seemed to be too big for ad, so we created the Megaprojects newspaper insert, funded almost entirely with outside advertising. The result after printing, stuffing and distribution to 500k homes -- 5¢ per impression.
- Itâs hard not to notice HCAâs new campaign promoting the wait time at their area hospital ERs. Theyâve repurposed billboards for a major 2-way benefit. Providing consumers the wait time before they walk in the door is a great public service, but also helps the hospitals even out traffic throughout the region. FYI, thereâs also a text message component to this campaign, where you can text in to get wait times for the closest ERs using your Zip code.
- A final tactic I want to touch on, is the power of crowdsourcing. A cost efficient way to learn more about your consumersâ needs. Think about it as outsourcing input directly from your customers, via open-ended questions on your social networks, surveys and polls, or even encouraging comments on blog posts, etc. An easy explanation of crowdsourcing would be American Idol. Think of how the judging has completely been outsourced to the audience, engaging viewers through participation.
- Hereâs a wonderful case study on crowdsourcing for urban planning. Some Virginia Tech graduate students partnered with local planners. The result, an interactive Google map studying residents transit habits. Locals can go on and draw out their frequent bike or walk paths. The information will be used when distributing funds for bike/walk path development. So how can user input make your business, product or message better? And whatâs the best way to invite it?
- NextStopDesign.com was created to give riders the chance to design their next bus stop. Hugely successful with hundreds of designs submitted, they recently completed their 2nd stop! So how can user input make your business, product or message better? And whatâs the best way to invite it?
- My crowdsourcing of respondents to todayâs workshop, determined how I could best gear the presentation and following discussion. The results show many of you are participating in social media and even a few of you really understand the value of the channels as two way conversation mediums. Social sharing, Iâm sure most of you here are guilty of in some degree as individuals. But why and how do businesses start using it? VDOTâs use of youtube and more recently, flickr, came out of a need for data storage and a lack of funding. Now they send press directly to the Flickr to download photos, and use YouTube for B-roll. It sounds like most of you see the opportunity for free data hosting or using the channel to post or broadcast your message. Then others see the value of conversing with consumers over your brand or product. Letâs discuss why and how that works. The next focus of our discussion will center on that very topic. Engaging through new and social media.
- Transparency is the underrated, highly beneficial result of a two-way conversation with your customers via Social Media channels. Broadcasting your message is fine, and a well-equipped, efficient use of the free mediums, but the real value comes from listening and quickly being able to address issues as they arise. This is often what has agency heads and CEOs nervous, believing their audience could turn on the brand and they may lose control. The important thing to remember is this: in this day of rapid social sharing between consumers, the conversation will take place, but you can only help shape it if youâre participating to begin with. There are hundreds of case studies where letting issues stir and brew ends often ends up much worse than facing it head on. Think of Social Media as an avenue to listen and attack the issues faster. What are some examples? In the Digital World or the Real world? Tylenol, Ford/Firestone, Toyota
- Most sites like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, but especially Facebook have taken advantage of DIY bloggers, web managers & non-profits, creating free code to distribute and plugin for added fuctionality.
- With limited knowledge of web & code, most can easily implement these social-share features.
- Who hasnât heard of YouTube? One of the biggest reasons it became so popular, so fast is because it gave users the power to produce their own content. Another factor is the authenticity of the content. The top ranking videos are rarely highly-produced or corporate-sponsored. How are some ways you could engage your audience or encourage User Generated Content? Think about creating competitions or at the end of your own shared video, adding a blip at the end challenging viewers to make their own response videos.
- We recently saved some dollars by taking already existing content from our website and transferring it to a Facebook tab. For added engagement within the space, we included the Comment option.
- UGC doesnât always have to be digital. Hereâs a great example of inviting users (or commissioning artists) to build something interesting around your brand -- in this case Chalk Art. These 3D drawings only appear 3D from one angle, so their made for users sharing it via camera phones, etc. Think about other ways you can engage your audience and incite UGC⌠e.g., Twt/Fb/YT Competitions
- Geo-Social or Location-Based Networks have the potential to connect with users on the move, and on the ground, in real-time.
- SCVNGR, on the far left, engages users through a myriad of challenges to complete at any single location/checkin. An evident trend on the rise and not going away any time soon, Facebook jumped onboard recently, integrating âPlacesâ (seen in the middle) into their mobile app. But the big boys on the block are no doubt, Foursquare and Gowalla.
- NuRide is an excellent partnering opportunity to drive (strike that - motivate) users to keep ridesharing through rewards. Thereâs a cost associated with the service but it provides unprecedented analytics for Employer-TDM targeting and basically adds another member to your cause/team. Plus, it can benefit your LEED status with Green credits and the cost can be significantly reduced with greater numbers of partners within the area. HINT: Look at colleges and universities â UVA recently helped bring NuRide in Charlottesville.
- In short, the goal is 1) to increase traffic; and 2) broaden awareness, much further than your own social reach. Sometimes our social audience isnât spreading the message fast enough. To expand your reach beyond, look to social and search advertising. At cost-per-click, itâs extremely cost effective because it may be shown along a search sidebar a hundred times but you only pay when someone actually clicks it.
- If you frequently have events, use the Fb tab and create a reason for users to stop by every now and then to see whatâs new. This takes action, beyond receiving a message in their stream. Ride Solutions does a great job getting the news out of local events through their Facebook and Twitter audience. But if youâre not a fan or a follower, the message never gets to you. Using Facebook advertising or Promoted Tweets, they could exponentially increase the reach to drum up more attendees.
- Starting from the lower-left corner, moving clockwise, you can see an example of a Facebook Ad, then the recently started Promoted Tweets, and finally some Google AdWords ads. Facebook advertising offers unprecedented Return on Investment, mainly because of its user profiling-ability. Google AdWords recently started offering Click-to-Call and Click-to-Map links when searching on a mobile phone. All options make great, cost-efficient tools for competition promotion, giveaways, event support, while increasing traffic and broadening reach.
- Mini Cooper made a great call-to-action when creating a specific landing page to promote an event. Clicking on the link from the Facebook Ad redirected you to a particular tab of their Facebook Page. Custom tabs or landing pages within your Facebook Page only take simple html AND IT LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Sadistically, I hope this disturbs you a bit. Every car company is doing this. The good newsâŚ
- Custom tabs or landing pages within your Facebook Page only take simple html AND IT LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Plus, this creates a more engaging intro to your brand for new users who stumble upon your Page or link. If you currently have an internal web manager, they should be able to take current material and figure this out in a matter of days, even hours, from zero.
- Before we address some of the opportunities of Mobile, we should understand how the shift is taking place and why you should take notice.
- http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2010-03-01-news-cellphone_N.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/technology/personaltech/14talk.html These stats show a trend of dramatic increase of use shifting toward our mobile phones. (Ironic to call them that anymore, because many of us use the device for so many reasons beyond simply talking.)
- http://www.slideshare.net/CMSummit/ms-internet-trends060710final Hereâs proof of the rapid use of mobile web. When thinking back, it often seems AOL really took off in a matter of a few years. But in comparison to how fast Mobile Web has taken off since the inception of iPhone and iPod Touch (through wifi), itâs growing roughly 4 times faster.
- http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/increased-mobile-web-use-and-the-digital-divide/?emc=eta1 The Mobile Web is being endorsed in the greatest droves, by household incomes under $30k/annually, as the primary internet connection. There are parts of Africa (where mobile internet is much more reliable and accessible) that are having addiction problems to mobile devices. They use mobile devices for connection, shopping, gaming, etc.
- http://www.slideshare.net/CMSummit/ms-internet-trends060710final Back in the US, smartphones have seen a dramatic rise to power. Next year will see the devices outsell traditional âfeatureâ phones and 2012 will find them outselling computers, both desktops and laptops combined. So how do we use the mobile device within integrated marketing plans?
- A Text/SMS campaign has broad reach, as even traditional mobile phones have the functionality and many are using the feature in increasing numbers. For a few hundred dollars a month you can secure a 5-digit shortcode and service that collects numbers and schedules out-bound messages.
- Itâs hard to forget the powerful text-to-donate campaign, the Red Cross put together for the Haiti relief efforts. And on the right, see the text component to HCA hospitals ER wait-time campaign. But how do you afford an SMS campaign on a dime? Shared shortcode for only a couple hundred dollars per month ORâŚ
- Look directly in the middle along the right-hand side. Someone read it for me. Another cost effective way to promote your message is encouraging the SMS subscription to your tweetsâŚ
- or subscription to Facebook Page updates. LOOK at the lower left-hand corner. What do you see?
- Smarthphones enable a wide range of engagement tools. Think about how you can integrate GPS, or a compass application, a phoneâs camera, emailing or text capabilities, even barcode reading, to make a campaign or just one execution, that much more engaging.
- VPSI proved a recent social marketing success using email marketing for a photo contest to win an iPad, cross-promoted through their blog, facebook and twitter. They even took entries through twitter using a hashtag, the shortcut for turning words or phases into search terms or bookmarks within twitter. Iâd love for them to have also added a group pool on flickr and allowed users to populate their photos there.
- 400 photo submissions and 28,000 votes.
- http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/associations/3665.html Dockers used the accelerometer in the iPhone to create one of the first interactive ads. Every shake of the phone, would have the subject do a little breakdancing. The engagement of the ad increased the response of the ad exponentially. Additionally, ads can now load videos, even link to online content without leaving the phone application.
- A smartphoneâs camera is more and more commonly finding use as a tool. Newer Android phones are delivered with the software built in, other smartphones only require an application download. The phoneâs camera now acts as a shortcut to bypass keying in a url (on the tiny keyboard using your thumbs) and get you straight to the content. A shortcut to coupons, a shortcut to video, a shortcut to product ratings, a shortcut to real-time bus/rail tracking, etc.
- For example, downloading the app and snapping this tag links to my personal vCard (virtual business card).
- Keep in mind these rules of engagement, when attracting new customers via social media or mobile. *USP: Unique Selling Point
- I challenge youâŚ
- Like we said, know your competition. And Ford is certainly it. The strongest of the 3 Domestics after rejecting the bailout, Ford has also proven their risks arenât so risky. To launch the Ford Fiesta they planned on snagging from their European market, Ford decided against traditional advertising (and all good sense) and gave 100 cars away to 100 socially-savvy, but otherwise typical, consumers for six months with the requirement of several missions. These missions, after completion, had to be submitted through social channels such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr.
- Their social channels are now overflowing with authentic content, highlighting the car in everyday settings. And has been shared, viewed and reshared, some hundreds of times over.
- Adapting to the appeal, Ford cleverly incorporates it into their homepage for the Fiesta, literally allowing you to âexperienceâ the Fiesta on your own or through otherâs documented experiences.
- Post the 6 month social awareness campaign, Ford found 37% pre-launch awareness among Millenials, almost identical to the Ford Focus several years ago with Millions in traditional advertising spend. James Farley puts it best, âYou canât just say it. You have to get the people to say it to each other.â Resulting from the Fiesta campaign, Ford has now moved 25% of their annual marketing spend to Digital/Social Media. What theyâre paying hundreds of thousands to companies to run their social/digital, we can train from within and accomplish similar goals on a smaller scale.
- Also called UCG (user generated Content) â includes anything that can be generated online by users such as blogs, discussion boards, wikis, social networking sites, advertising, reviews, videos, photos. Youtube and Facebook were both built on UCG. Our case study to demonstrate UGC is⌠The Car-Free Diet Skeptics Challenge was a user-generated campaign launched by Arlington County Commuter Services in 2010 with the goal of encouraging trial of the Car-Free Diet. The campaign was targeted at SOVers â car lovers from Arlington County â and asked them to go car free for 30 days and to share that experience online via a variety of social media tools (blog, FB, twitter, Foursquare, photos and videos).
- So lets take a look at HOW we sourced our Skeptics and how this campaign created engagement. Our skeptics came to us via a combination of traditional and non-traditional media and many heard about the challenge via word of mouth. The skeptics were asked to apply online and to submit a youtube video describing how they would go about going car-free for 30 days.
- Based on a combination of online voting (we received over 1200 votes in one month) and judging criteria â the two skeptics finalists were chosen.
- Ross and Todd were both provided with a starter kit of elements to complete their challenge including a bike and a smartrip card loaded with fare value and trip planning advice. We created a single interface for them on carfreedietskeptics.com that enabled them to provide their updates in whatever format they wanted to â FB, Twitter, Foursquare, blog, youtube videos, photo updates.
- The results! They both successfully completed the 30 day challenge and based on judging criteria, Todd was the grand prize winner and Ross was the first prize winner. Todd â Grand Prize Winner lost 10 pounds saved $242 reduced his CO2 emissions by approximately 437 lbs cut his bike commute time by 8 minutes continues to live a car-lite lifestyle Ross â First Prize Winner saved $51 burned 6,400 calories by bike commuting and took him just 5 minutes longer to commute home by bike than by car Traveled over 400 miles Saved 20 minutes RT travel time by taking Metro reduced his CO2 emissions by approximately 408 lbs sold his car continues to car-light
- And what are the engagement metrics? How do we measure engagement with this campaign? Here is an example of the metrics we were able to gather for Todd. Through a variety of sources, we know how many updates he did and in what medium and we can see how engaged his followers were â the number of FB likes, twitter followers, views of his videos, blog comments, and overall dashboard views. We also have other metrics on our overall FB fan page, twitter feed, youtube views, website hits/visits, etc. as additional metrics for the campaign. Post campaign, we saw a 30% rise in our Fb fan base, double our twitter followers (now reaching close to 2k), our Skeptics branded YouTube channel and videos received over 2500 views, and the website received over 26,000 visits with an average of 2 page views. 7,500 on AdWords and Fb Advertising.
- Since the campaign, Ross and Todd went from Skeptics to believers. They are now being used in a testimonial campaign for ACCS promoting the Car-Free Diet and helping give tips to newbies about how easy it is to go on the Diet. You can find their tips on carfreediet.com and on our FB page.
- And starting January 3rd, Skeptics Season II will be launching and we will be looking for TWO NEW Skeptics to take the challenge. This time around, we are testing out bar code tags to make it even easier to learn more about the challenge.
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