The explosive use of social media and mobile devices are fundamentially changing just any everything about the way comapnies are engaging with consumers. And enterprise sales and marketing teams are right at the center of this transformation.
Altimeter analyst Susan Etlinger and tracx EVP Geoff Farris discuss the latest trends in enterprise social media measurement, as well as practical tips on how you can drive more revenue and sales through social channels.
In this session, you'll learn:
- Latest trends in enterprise social media measurment and ROI: what other companies are doing and where they're still falling short.
- Why both organizational and technical elements play such a critical role in effective social measurement and what changes are required.
- How social media management system (SMMS) pioneer, tracx, can help you mine social conversations in real time to find--and engage--with people actively looking for your product on social networks.
You'll find the audio webinar archive here: https://www.slideshare.net/tracx/enterprise-social-media-money-pit-or-revenue-golden-ticket
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Susan Etlinger
Analyst, Altimeter Research
Twitter: @setlinger
Geoff Farris
Executive Vice President, tracx
Twitter: @gfarris
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Erin Collopy
Director of Marketing, tracx
Twitter: @erincollopy
TODAY’S PRESENTERS
WELCOME!
MODERATOR
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The Social Media ROI Cookbook
How Top Brands Measure the Revenue Impact of Social Media
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• Social is the new normal
• Measuring business
value
• Organizational impacts
• What‟s next
AGENDA – PART 1
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Example: Anecdote
The power of anecdote + metrics
Social media frees SAP sales team to focus on
lower-funnel activities, improving productivity
and close rate.
Social media has changed the point at which
many sales professionals begin to engage with
prospects, because it helps prospects to
“self-qualify” by engaging with others in SAP
communities early in their decision process.
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Example: Links and Tagging
Moved 101,000 samples in 48 hours 46% view-to-conversion rate
Courtesy Nexxus / Offerpop
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Example: Integrated
“The transaction is the most sacred part of the funnel, but we‟re optimizing all
parts of the funnel. For example, if you look at total attendee sharing, 60% of
sharing occurs after the purchase.
One in 100 people who look at an event page before purchase share it, while 1
in 10 share it after purchase. And a post-purchase share drives 20% more
ticket sales than a pre-purchase share.”
− Tamara Mendelsohn, VP Marketing
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You need a shared map
and playbook
1. Social data is
uncharted territory
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Don‟t just focus on the sale
– the customer doesn‟t
2. It yields customer
insight
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Plan for a holistic approach
with tailored execution
3. It breaks silos
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Test and learn, then
operationalize
4. It‟s specific to your
organization
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Aligning your organization
for social data puts you
ahead of the game
5. It‟s the canary in the
coalmine for big data
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- Albert Einstein
“You cannot solve a problem from the
same consciousness that created it. You
must learn to see the world anew.”
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• Who is tracx
• Key market trends
• Driving sales through
social
AGENDA – PART 2
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TRACX IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
PLATFORM THAT ENABLES
BRANDS TO MANAGE, OPTIMIZE
AND MONETIZE THEIR BUSINESS.
WHO IS TRACX?
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TRACX COMPANY SNAPSHOT
PROBLEM WE ARE SOLVING
Tracx takes social out of its silo and enables
companies to bring its value to the whole enterprise.
HISTORY AT-A-GLANCE
Founded in 2008
Initial 2 1/2 years in R&D
Commercial launch in early 2010
PRODUCT & TECHNOLOGY
Combining social monitoring, publishing and
engagement; deep social analytics and
reporting, influencer management, and the ability to
identify sales leads on social networks, tracx
provides the most comprehensive, robust and
scalable social „big data‟ platform for the modern
enterprise.
CUSTOMERS
300 customers worldwide including Kraft
Foods, Mondelez, Samsung, Progressive
Insurance, Garmin, RBS, among others.
OFFICES
NYC
London
Tel-Aviv
RECENT AWARDS
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Consumers have fundamentally changed - and so have
their buying patterns:
Brand loyalty to various
Single touch point to multiple
Scale to demand rather than supply
These are few patterns that can help manage businesses in
a disruptive world
Enterprises must adopt social across their organization to
keep pace with demand moments
CONSUMERIZED TECHNOLOGY
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BREAKING SOCIAL OUT OF ITS SILO
MARKETING
Real time, manageable and measurable cross organization processes
SALES CUSTOMER CARE
PRODUCT
INNOVATION
SUPPLY
CHAIN MNG.
BIG CHALLENGE
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HOW WOULD YOUR ORGANIZATION HANDLE THE FOLLOWING TWEET?
@MaryCustomer tweets:
New glasses I got at @SunglassHut on Sunday keep slipping down my nose & fogging up.
Some “promo”. ;-/
A POP QUIZ
MARKETING SALES CUSTOMER CARE
PRODUCT
INNOVATION
SUPPLY
CHAIN MNG.
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DISRUPTING THE TRADITIONAL MARKETING
SALES MODEL
BEFORE
Companies cast a wide net to find
a few ‟quality‟ fish
NOW
Companies cast a smaller net which
is full of ‟quality‟ fish
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ENTERING THE ERA OF REAL-TIME SALES
IF YOU KNEW…
• Exactly where your customers are in their buying process
• What other products they‟re considering
• If they‟ve already formed an opinion on your (or a
competitor‟s) product
• If they‟re just doing research or are really ready to buy
THEN…
• You‟d be able to provide customers with the information or
offer at the right time, every time
• Increase sales
• Shorten time-to-revenue
• Improve customer loyalty
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SALES AT THE SPEED OF
SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS
TRACX SOCIAL LEADS IS REVOLUTIONIZING THE WAY ENTERPRISES MARKET AND SELL
First product in the industry to analyze social conversations and automatically organize prospects by
where they are in the sales process:
• Product awareness
• Active product research
• Opinions formed
• Intent to purchase
• Repeat and loyal
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KEY TAKE-AWAYS
CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOR IS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING
And enterprises and brands must evolve to meet key demand moments
THOSE WITH AN ENTERPRISE-WIDE VIEW ON SOCIAL WILL WIN
Only by taking social out of its silo, can organizations really tap it‟s full potential
YOU CAN DRIVE MORE REVENUE THROUGH SOCIAL WITH THE RIGHT TOOLS
It‟s time to flip out-dated sales and marketing models to engage with prospects the right way, at the right time
We have the perfect storm in technology emerging“Big Data” is not new. Enterprises have been storing and processing massive amounts of data for decades.BUT--- add the explosive growth of social media in the past several years and on top of that you add an accelerator coming from mobile and you have a business transformational trend.Companies and brands that embrace this trend and put the systems and processes in place to capitalize on this will leave the ones that don’t well behind the curve.
Consumers have completely changed the way they interact with enterprises –brand loyalty is gone. As well as the consumers expectation of a single touch point into any organization.Companies need to embrace the fact that consumers are no longer just loyal to a single brand/product and also that loyalty is always at risk based on the consumers perception of what brands do publicly, what they are perceived to stand for and/or the causes they support and of course the experience they have with the brand -- your message and brand is in constant flux. Companies need to manage a multi touch engagement model- connecting with consumers on the platform they choose at the time they need it– all of this across many groups within the organization. This is very tricky and requires an enterprise approach and internal collaboration.Organizationsnow have the opportunity to scale to the customers demand-- Companies can now gauge the true demand for the products and services using social and adapt production and the logistics to meet that demand. The most important thing organizations need to do is scale social across the organization so they can take advantage of the demand moments that consumers present--- Delivering the information or offers that meet the consumers needs– At that point in time– Demand moments are the opportunity.Tracx is keenly focused on building social software solutions that enable enterprises to evolve to meet these changing consumer buying habits.
In the early days Before 2010– Social was really limited primarily to shopping sites such as amazon and ebay as well as consumer reviews and ecommerce sites and some of the early social networks like the king of the social wild west– Myspace. Between 2010- 2012 Then Marketers got pretty good at leveraging this data to listen and even engage– problem was most of this has been done in a silo and very often duplicated across the organization.Enter the Social Enterprise--- Moving forward companies will need to embrace social across the organization not just in Marketing and leverage this when are where it is needed most. The silo’d organization will struggle to realize the true value of social. The major shift this is driving for enterprises is that today’s consumer expect enterprises to engage with them on any and every channel they’re on –whether that’s Twitter or Facebook, LinkedIn or Pinterest and whether that’s via a desktop, tablet or mobile device.Companies need to focus on the WHAT, WHERE AND HOW--- What is the consumer looking for? Where are they at? Facebook, twitter etc. and How are they accessing this data; Desktop, tablet or mobile.
Social can’t live in a silo. Many companies are managing social in a silo– many times using multiple tools that don’t talk to each other and often doing duplicate work. Marketing, Customer care etc.For an enterprise to reach it’s full potential when it comes to social media, an organization wide view is required. Social cant live on its own either- the value of social with other data is exponentially higher– integration is the key. For example- integrating your CRM systems- Such as SugerCRM, SAP and Salesforce. Web analytics such as Google analytics, Omniture etc.
New glasses I got at @SunglassHut on Sunday keep slipping down my nose & fogging up. Some “promo”. ;-/ For most organizations, thiswould be routed to customer service who would reach out to the customer and offer to swap the glasses out for another pair. All fixed, right? Not so fast… In some organizations both marketing and CS might respond because they’re using separate tools. They also might deliver a different message.. Further confusing the situation for the consumer. Consider the potential impact this information could have if routed to everyone who could benefit.The product team needs to be alerted because perhaps there’s a design flaw that needs to be addressed.Supply chain team is alerted and can trace back to where this batch of frames may have been producedThe marketing team is about ready to pull the trigger on another round of advertising to promote this frame, by being alerted of this issue, perhaps they’d choose to delay that campaign and or spend that money elsewhere.And sales, of course, would also need to be alerted so they didn’t push this particular frame as hard until issue is resolved.What seemed like an open and closed customer service case really provides insights that impact the whole organization when you look a bit more closely.One other example- A CPG company we’re working with found they had a packaging issue that was cutting people and in real-time they were able to address the issues in production and evolve to another packaging already ready to go.. As they were listening about the new taste and flavor.
Now that I’ve set the stage, I want to dig in a bit deeper to what’s changing when it comes to marketing and sales…In the traditional marketing model, companies use a lot of tools in their marketing toolkit to find sales opportunities –Radio, TV, Print Digital etc. We think of this approach as casting a wide --and often very expensive –net, to catch a few high quality fish –or prospects.But when a company’s able to harness the true power of social media, you can flip this model completely on its head and cast a much smaller –targeted –net, which is full of quality fish.
Imagine if you could know…Exactly where your customers are in their buying processIf you’re up against any other competitive productsIf they’re just doing research –or actually ready to buySocial can enable you to:increase salesshorten time to revenueimprove loyaltyThis is all about delivering the right information to a prospective buyer at the right timeFor example- if someone is in research phase-- Its not appropriate to push them a coupon or push them to a retail store. Instead, you might want to send them a product data sheet.
Tracx is using very sophisticated software and advanced algorithyms to do just that. A system that allows you to connect to the customer where they are in their buying cycle.Introducing tracx Social Leads….The very product in the industry that sorts through all the millions of social conversations happening every day to find those most relevent to you ---and automatically categorizes them based on exactly where each person is in the buying cycle. And engage directly through the software to move them through the sales cycle.We organize these “Social Leads” in to 5 categories:Product awarenessActive product researchOpinions formedIntent to purchaseRepeat and loyal
Social Leads is so unique and different, it allows you to see not only the leads by stage for you but also compared to your competitors. It tells you what products are driving the most leads and where those leads are trending geographically. All of this can be filtered by many things such as geography, gender and age.
We also let users see how their top products stack up to one another and where they fall in terms of the funnel. Top 5 areas shows the top website, forums, blogs, etc that are diving the most leads by stage–this knowledge can be very powerful to inform advertising and promotion strategies. Top lead drivers highlights the most commonly used words along side those leads – which can be very useful when building out marketing copy oriented around those positive attributes shoppers most frequently associate with your brand
Geography also plays a huge role. We’re looking at that convergence of mobile and social as I discussed earlier. This gives us the ability to not only target individuals at the different buying stages they are in but actually target them down to the street level in real time.This provides a tremendous opportunity for companies to not only understand the trends by geography but actually connect and engage with consumers at or near the point of sale.
In closing I’d like to leave you with 3 big take-aways:First, consumer shopping and buying behavior are fundamentally changing. This means enterprises must evolve to meet their new expectations.Using social strategically means that you have to take an enterprise-wide view. Different social tools and data sets for each department won’t work.And lastly, social can absolutely drive real, tangible revenue and ROI, but you need the right tools, processes and people in place.