listening to the consumer: is social media the new market research?
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Social Media is free marketing research—people are using blogs, Twitter, video, Facebook, forums, and other social networking sites to talk about brands without companies having to pay them to find out what they like or dislike. Because of this, social media monitoring of your brand offers real-time feedback for conducting brand and customer satisfaction research, as well as competitive intelligence. In this webcast learn how brands successfully mine online activity to: * Gain customer insights * Test new product ideas * Improve existing products * Drive brand growthTRANSCRIPT
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Listening to the Consumer
Listening to the Consumer Is Social Media the New Market Research?
THURSDAY JANUARY 28, 2010 Bently Reserve, San Francisco
Join us at our upcoming San Francisco event to learn how to use listening, evaluate listening applications, develop a listening strategy, integrate it into your existing research program, create an action plan and apply its learnings. Get answers to your questions on listening and develop an action plan that specifically addresses your business needs during this interactive day.
Speakers include:
» Jeremiah Owyang, digital media strategy superstar and blogger and Partner, Customer Strategy, Altimeter Group
» Steve Patrizi, Vice President, Advertising Sales and Operations, LinkedIn
» Doug Frisbie, National Social Media and Product Integration Manager, Toyota
» Johanna Skilling, EVP, Director of Strategic Planning, Saatchi and Saatchi Wellness
Putting Listening to Work 2010 ARF Industry Leader Forum
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Welcome
Lynne d Johnson SVP, Social Media
The ARF
Twitter: @lynneluvah
#ARFCAST
Social Media Council
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Social media is becoming a critical part of progressive marketing thinking. With the rise of social media, the consumer has been able to drive the conversation with or without input from the brands.
• Help companies understand how they can be the chief storytellers for their own brands within the midst of all of the noise and conversations. • Create appropriate metrics that can gauge the impact of
marketing efforts in social media.
• Develop a plan for research/insights to bring the voice of the human into the boardroom by “listening” to what is said in social media as part of a cohesive research program.
• Have the ARF leverage social media with its membership and the marketing/media community to develop and demonstrate successful social media marketing principles.
The Council will:
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What is traditional marketing research?
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Why it’s changing?
20% of Tweet about brands
4,130,382 fans
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What is listening?
“The study of naturally occurring conversations, behaviors, and signals, that may or may not be guided, that brings the voice of people’s lives in to the brand” – ARF Listening Playbook
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Why brands listen…
• Take the customer’s pulse • Get deep insights into what consumers say, and learn about their wants, unmet needs and challenges • Integrate the voice of the customer into traditional re-search • Redefine relationships with consumers and bring their voice into the brand •Understand shifts in consumer perspectives on lif-style, category or issue •Understand context and reasons why
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Why brands listen…
Discover New Customers
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Why brands listen…
Develop New Products
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Why brands listen…
Give the consumer a voice
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Why brands listen…
Take Brand Pulse
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Why brands listen…
Customer Service
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How to listen
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THURSDAY JANUARY 28, 2010 Bently Reserve, San Francisco
Join us at our upcoming San Francisco event to learn how to use listening, evaluate listening applications, develop a listening strategy, integrate it into your existing research program, create an action plan and apply its learnings. Get answers to your questions on listening and develop an action plan that specifically addresses your business needs during this interactive day.
Speakers include:
» Jeremiah Owyang, digital media strategy superstar and blogger and Partner, Customer Strategy, Altimeter Group
» Steve Patrizi, Vice President, Advertising Sales and Operations, LinkedIn
» Doug Frisbie, National Social Media and Product Integration Manager, Toyota
» Johanna Skilling, EVP, Director of Strategic Planning, Saatchi and Saatchi Wellness
Putting Listening to Work 2010 ARF Industry Leader Forum
TO FIND OUT MORE AND REGISTER www.TheARF.org/assets/ilf
Upcoming ARF Events
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Thank You!
Lynne d Johnson SVP, Social Media
The ARF
Twitter: @lynneluvah