social marketing strategy - engaging the connected customer

Social Marketing Strategies Engaging the Connected Customer

Rotterdam, April, 18th 2012 klaas@energize.nl | @klaasweima

Introduction | Who am I? 2

Hi! I am Klaas Weima.

I am founder of creative and digital agency Energize. From our offices in Amsterdam and Shanghai we create

campaigns worth sharing. We help ambitious brands grow, including KPN, Chiquita, Hi, KLM, Miffy and

SEAT.

Moreover, I am a proud father of little my daughter May and (beware)

am highly energetic.

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Q: Who has a clear and shared social marketing strategy?

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The silo of bought attention needs heavy maintenance. Brands should not solely rely on buying attention per inch, pixel or second.

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#1 More messages, less attention

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People increasingly block commercial messages

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#2 People, not sheeple

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People watch what they want, when they want.

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#3 More options, more stress

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#2 People not sheeple

With Spotify I can choose over 13 million songs

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#4 More Transparency, Less Credibility

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Shopsavvy and Boodschapp are great shopping buddies

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Tripadvisor is my best friend away from home.

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#5 Advertisers are Afraid of Change

#5 Advertisers are Afraid of Change

Q: How much budget is spend on bought attention in the Netherlands?

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#6 Old Models are Malfunctioning

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My Journey Planner to earned attention approaches brand communication from a hybrid perspective.

As a result, the silo of traditional brand communication is cracking.

Brands should start talking with instead of sending to people.

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Hybrid brand communications puts the best ingredients of bought, relational and earned attention in a blender.

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Blendtech’s iPad video was viewed 14.000.000 times on Youtube. That’s almost the total population of the Netherlands.

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Bought attention

“Advertisers pay for the usage (rental) of a medium to send their brand message to their target audience”

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Relational attention

“Advertertiser use their own channels to communicate their brand message to their target audience”

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Earned attention

“People become a channel themselves to share brand content, without the direct influence of advertisers”

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1.  Free (sorry ) 2.  An ideal project for an internship 3.  A temporarily fad 4.  A new advertising channel 5.  The exclusive playground of youngsters

Social Brand Communications is not

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KPN’s introduction of iTV for the iPad was based on a earned social strategy. Through 40 bloggers we reached 1,2 million people.

Q: What are the three main ingredients of effective social brand communications?

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Conversations Shareable Content

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Social Channels

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Contents need to be creative, authentic and social.

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KLM keeps developing creative social activation campaigns. And as a result generates much earned attention.

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McDonalds was’t really authentic in their #MDStories and #Meethefarmers social campaign. It backfired on Twitter.

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Hi Chill & Charge concept is social. All campaigns fullfill to the needs of their 2 million customers: ‘The Hi Society’

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KPN

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KPN offers Spotify Premium to their triple play-customers (voice, tv, internet). How can we let people experience this new service?

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Miffy

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How can we increase brand awareness of the cartoon brand miffy in China?

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We brought miffy to life and let her travel around China

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We started listening.

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Beware. Western social platforms are blocked in China

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We look at what the target group is saying about miffy; online and offline

Photo of offline research

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We talked to youngsters online and offline.

We hired a conversation manager, our virtual miffy.

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On a QQ campaign site anyone could invite miffy to travel to their hometown by sending her a postcard.

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After receiving postcards from all over China, the users decided to which 3 cities miffy should travel.

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Chengdu

Guangzhou

Dalian

In the 3 cities miffy surprised the winners by showing up on their door step: a hug to never forget.

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While travelling, miffy shared photos, videos and updates with her friends on social networks in real time.

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Chengdu

Guangzhou Miffy drawing events where organized in each city to extend the reach of miffy’s visit

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Buzz$volume$

Miffy%beat%compe.tor%Hello%Ki3y%in%the%amount%of%buzz%and%ranks%#5%online%cartoon%brand%

275% increase

The$amount$of$online$conversa4ons$about$miffy$exploded$over$the$past$two$years$

The%amount%of%brand%conversa.ons%on%open%social%media%channels$

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True Story from Nanjing, China..

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And some fans took miffy very seriously

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Philips

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Philips is shifting focus to healthcare (45% of revenu). To increase the relation with healthcare pros, Philips created GetInsideHealth.

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GetInsideHealth is a social CRM strategy, based on thought leadership, relationship, insights and purchase intent.

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Philips partnered with LinkedIn and created Innovation In Health-groups. Currently, almost 55.000 members and NPS of 51.

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One more thing

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Helps to prepare your brand on your journey to earned attention.

Questions? Klaas Weima

klaas@energize.nl +31 6 26 31 83 70

@klaasweima