webinar australia: what you should know about social media for corporations
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“What you should know about Social Media for corporations” This introductory webinar gives you a comprehensive insight into Social Media for corporations: 1) Cross functional strategy for business improvements 2) More effective way to compete for mind-, and market share 3) Less expensive way to create a better customer experience It is a 60 minute compressed presentation of our 2 month leadership class Social Media in corporations - are you ready?: What do you know about your customers in the social web? Do you know what customers say about you and your brand? Do you know how open your customer base is and therefore how vulnerable you are? How do you identify and work with key influencer? Are you ready if your competitors go after your customers in the social web? Are you able to create a social media strategy? Do you know how to leverage the social web for your support organization? Do you have an idea about ROI and effectiveness of social media? Do you know how to measure improvements and success in the social web? Did you ever consider involving and leveraging your partners? Did it occur to you that the social web may be ideal to compete for mindshare? Do you have enough information to decide whether to ignore or engage? Agenda/Content: The Social Web from a corporate point of view Assessing a company’s social presence Social media as a cross functional model Creating a social media strategy Understanding reporting and analytics tools Dealing with ROI, budget and resource planning Developing an execution plan Building a successful social media organization This is not about tools and how to better use LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter. It is about developing and executing a social media strategy for a 500 or 5,000 employee organization and creating a better business experience for customers, prospects and partners. Target Audience: - Business professionals on all levels and all department across all industries. - Social media consultants or consultants entering the social media space.TRANSCRIPT
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Speaker Introduction
Axel SchultzePresident
Axel Schultze is the founder and president of the Social Media Academy. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and experienced executive in the fields of social media, Software as a Service and global alliance management. He is an author, chaired Groups in industry associations and won the SF Entrepreneur Award in 2008.
Walter AdamsonAustralian Partner
Social Media Academy
Walter Adamson is the Founder and Principal at Digital Investor Pty Ltd and CEO at NewleaseG2M. NewleaseG2M is the exclusive partner in Australia for the Social Media Academy. Walter has been awarded with 6 Australian patents and is Advisor to the ICT Strategy Board of the Government of Victoria, Australia.
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300 Million using the social web – can’t be all kids.$23 Billion advertising shift to online media in 2008 and $1B add revenue reported by MySpace for 2008 is no longer funny money.25,000 business groups on Yahoo alone can’t be all faked.A strategic presidential campaign based on Social Media is more than an experiment.Companies with $100 Million social media budget is no longer a game.
Social Media Phenomenon
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Elevate your point of view for the next 50 minutes
Get away from the tools, blogs, campaigns and the other noise and elevate your point of view
Take off and have a look at the social media world from outer space.
Get a holistic view, let’s think business, implications and the consequential development.
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Let’s start with YOU, ME, all of us
When you select a brand or product
You read blogsYou check forums or online groupsYou get some feedback in Twitter or other toolsYou ask friends in your social networkWhen you are “ready to buy” your brand and product decision is pretty much set in stone
Most of us ignore advertisingMost of us dismiss cold callsMost of us through mail in the waste basketMost of us have spam filtersMost of us have changed
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Now let’s look at our companies
The current way of doing business:Buy contact lists, do mail shotsFrom small Google ads to bill boardsAugment lead generation with cold callsQualify, engage, try selling …Compete harder then ever – lower profits than everLead flow dried out
The previous slide indicated: A brand decision is made before a sales process even began.
A huge disconnect between company and market
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It doesn’t happen to me
This may work in B2C but not in B2BElaborate sales processes
Our industry is not readyMaybe high tech but not…
My company is not ready for thatAll the complicated structures and responsibilities
My team is not there yet…Some are close to retirement
All good stuff – but security, integration…IT infrastructure dominance
All of the above maybe 100% true
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If you don’t follow your customers
There are numerous examples from past history, demonstrating what happens if customers take new routes.Many companies however just don’t recognize when that is happening to them.
“No opportunity is lost – someone will take it”
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Social Media as corporate initiative
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Corporations are ready to engage
Corporate executives do get itBut they need to overcome some major hurdles
No.1 obstacle: EDUCATIONExpertise with corporate experience is rarely availableHundreds of social media consultants - but most do just tactical marketing campaigns
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Alignment: Social Media & Corporate Objectives
Companies can’t just say – “Hey everybody goes on LinkedIn, let’s have a page on Facebook and start twittering”Companies need to manage their possible presence in the social web in a holistic way, incorporating
Corporate objectivesTeamsBrandsProducts
Companies are complex organisms that are managed by key value pairs like “Objectives – Achievements” “Investments – Returns” “Strategy – Execution” …
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Business Social Media Tasks & Responsibilities
Understanding the socio economic changes in our societySocial media impact on corporationsSocial media assessments and vulnerability analysisTools, places and spaces – what makes sense for businessCreating and crafting a Social Media strategyCompeting for mind, and market share in the social webThe changing face of marketing & PR in the Social Media ageThe new sales organization (from behavior to execution)Social Media in logistics and procurement departmentsProduct development, co-creation and new support structuresFrom "Human Resources" to "Human Talent Management“Social media plan developmentSocial Media team building, organizational structures, reportingBrand development in a super active marketThe Social Media presence, tools and places & spacesReporting and analytics tools. Asking the right questionsBudgets, resources, planning and ROI considerationsBuilding a sustainable social media culture & presenceCreating and managing a social media departmentCreating a profitable social media consulting practice
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Starting with a professional assessment
Your customers
Your status
Your team
Your partn
ers
Your competitors
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Creating a “Dual Presence” strategy
1. Companies need to be where their customers areBusinesses will need to be present in the various networks, groups, tools and initiatives
Groups on LinkedIN, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, SlideShare, YouTube, Flikr…
2. Companies need to have a space where they point their customers toBusinesses also need a “social home” where they can point everybody to – where they can invite their customers
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Social relationship considerations
ABC Corporation
Empower your partners because they “own” the social relationship to your customers
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Developing a social media strategy
10 Questions to form a social media strategy
1) What is the purpose of the engagement?2) Who is the target audience?3) What are the main topics in the eco system?4) What are the top goals of the community?5) What places, spaces and tools are used?6) What are benefits for the ecosystem?7) What are the goals and objectives?8) What tools and places will support the
engagement?9) How will we leverage our team, partners and
other resources?10) How will we measure progress and success?
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Cross functional Social Media engagement
Product ManagementSocial Media is – again – the perfect seeding ground to develop a co-creation strategy
Support GroupAugmenting support forces with engaged customers is more powerful than just adding 1+1 – Imagine the synergetic forces
Logistics and ProcurementNeeds and trends was never been faster to analyze than through a vast open network think of the implication to procurement
SalesSocial selling is theoretically not new – yet with the new tools it’s a whole new experience
MarketingThe biggest change in marketing history – don’t market INTO but THROUGH your ecosystem
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Tools Selection – What makes sense for business
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Social Media Planning
Managing an ecosystem of thousands of customers and hundreds of partners with hundreds of team mates requires some planningGroups in LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, MySpace and many other locations are very resource demandingTopics, timelines, sentiments and news need to be covered and at the same time company news, product launches, product updates, technology introductions, organizational changes need to be orchestratedSocial Media Planning goes beyond the traditional media plan in marketing. It needs to consider products, support and other topics.
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Resources, budgets, ROI
Tools may be even free – time never is
Social media investments are dominated by investments in human resources / human talents
Social media is all about people – it may well become even more massive as in the 80’s or 90’s when engineers were the most sought after people
We need to help companies to plan and allocate resources, plan the respective budgets and develop sound ROI models.
ROI
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Reporting – Reporting - Reporting
Network size
Connection strength
Influence
Social Capital
Sentiment
Communication frequency
Authority level
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Network size
Connection strength
Influence
Social Capital
Sentiment
Communication frequency
Authority level
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Methodical approach versus a “campaign”
Objective driven “Creating a better business experience for the respective eco system”Methodical assessment of the social landscape, presences, influencer, sentiments, brand presence, partners and competitors.Creating a strategy, a media plan, using tools and frameworks to make that possible for an enterpriseManaging resources, budgets, ROI…Tools may be free – time never will.25 people cost over $3 Million a year – you better understand what you are doingResult: Turn a company into a well respected, approachable, yet highly competitive organization!
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The consulting side of the business
The tools may be free but the time, whether it is your own or the time from your consultants never will.
The assessment is typically first: $5,000 - $50,000+The strategy part follows: $5,000 - $300,000
$250 - $800 / hour
Strategy execution: $1,500/month - $50,000+/month$180+ per hour or $2,500+ per project
Let’s say you task 35 people @ $180k we are talking $6,300,000 – make sure you have adequate guidance$100 Million investments in Social Media do exist
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The agency side of the business
Ad agencies need to learn how to deal with the new media. Social Media is a creativity challenge – the old pattern are worn out. New agencies will bring new creative models to the marketPublic relations will not go away but radically change. It is no longer pushing information into an anonymous mass market, but seeding and nurturing conversations within a socially engaged market. TV advertising no longer helps getting mind share. But parties and community engagement models do. Video clips can be produced and distributed at much lower cost – but we need more of them.The marketing budget requirements are not going to shrink but it will be used very differently
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The Key Elements Of The Leadership Class
Cross functional business approachSocial media assessment(Tools & methodology)Social media strategy frameworkFunctional social media in sales, marketing, support, HR, logistics, product design…Tools, places & communitiesDetailed presence & execution planReporting & analyticsBudgets, resources, ROIReality, management and servicesConsulting & team building
MethodsModels
Frameworks
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SMLC-09 Alumni
Janice Chai-Chan(Florida)Kevin Mannion(UK)Laureen Earnest(South Carolina)Mike Dubrall(California)Nancy Chou(California)Tim Moore(Missouri) Tom Swift(Texas)
@nchou
@janicefl
@LaureenEarnest
@TimMoore
@MikeDubrall
@KevinMannion
@tomswift
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Leadership Class Details
Online Entrance Examination (required)
Course start June 3rd
All sessions are instructor lead online meetingsstart at 10:00 am EDT (Sydney/Melbourne Time)16 Days - 2 hours per dayEvery Wednesdays and FridaysBetween each sessions we will work on exercisesAfter most session you will complete a testFinal session Friday, July 24Cost $3,600 for Gold Members ($112/hour webinar)
At the end you will have a final test and graduateWhen you pass you get a the certificate
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Leadership Class Details
Online Entrance Examination (required)
Course start June 2rd
All sessions are instructor lead online meetingsstart at 5:00 pm PDT 16 Days - 2 hours per dayEvery Tuesday and ThursdayBetween each sessions we will work on exercisesAfter most session you will complete a testFinal session Thursday, July 23Cost $3,600 for Gold Members ($112/hour webinar)
At the end you will have a final test and graduateWhen you pass you get a the certificate
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Social Media Academy AwardJanuary 22 - 2010
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About
The Social Media Academy is an education and research institute providing education for business professionals from all industries on how to best apply social media to their respective businesses. The main emphasis is to help business managers and consultant to get a comprehensive education on Social Media, including strategy development, planning, execution, tools, resources ways to report and analyze development and success and help understand the evolutionary changes in our society. As part of the educational development, the Social Media Academy conducts research exploring the ongoing changes in the field and support the continuous learning process as well as monitor ongoing changes in the field. The main course is the institute’s leadership class which focuses on how to plan, implement and engage with social media in all business areas including marketing, sales, product development, service & support, logistics, administration and engineering.
The Social Media Academy is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information go to http://www.socialmedia-academy.com