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Organization models for social media
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Speaker Introduction
Axel SchultzePresident
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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.
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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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Why social media IS NOT marketing
Why it appears so: Because marketing is the only budget an average social media “expert” can tap into.
Why it is not:The most asked question: “Has anybody experience with…”The second most searched term: “I have problems with…”Customers want to talk to real people – not to a “campaign” Customers have something important to say and need somebody to listenCustomers have a voice that an operations manager should be able to hear
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Social media is where customers meet customers for
experience, skill development, failure prevention…
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Social Media Stories / Cases
Domino Pizza– Video causing disasterMattel – Mother’s feedback – AwarenessStarbucks – Customer Co-Creation of businessBurger King – Attention Deficit – Drop your friendsBlend Tec – Video Clip – AwarenessDell – Holistic approach - RevenueLinkSys – customers help customers – support costCisco – Partner EngagementSkittles – Lot of noise – but new business?eBags – Product Quality Engagement +30%Salesforce.com – Idea Exchange
The larger portion of social media engagement is based on a tactical marketing idea – rather than a customer experience driven holistic business strategy.
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Social Media A strategic approach
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A strategic Model
Assessing what your customers, partners and the market has to sayAnalyze your strength and weakness, opportunities and threatsDevelop a strategy based on your findingsCreate a plan to execute the strategyBuild out an organizational structure that allows you to actually execute the strategyMeasure, model and tune your progress and results
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Most likely corporate social media scenario
Company need to be more approachable and provide better touch points for customers and prospectsService response time and quality is not satisfactory – need improvementsProduct features do not exactly match what customers really wantOverly advertised products do not meet expectationProduct availability does not match consumer requirements
The social media requirements span everything from support, product definition, availability, sales, marketing and business approachability.
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Developing a social media strategy
10 Questions to ask for forming a profound social media strategy
1) What is the purpose of the engagement?2) What are the main topics in the eco system?3) What are the top goals of our customers?4) What are our partners doing?5) Which internal groups need to be involved?6) What benefits can we offer?7) What will we need to do to achieve our and our
customers objectives?8) How will we leverage our team, partners and
other resources?9) What tools and places are important?10) How will we measure progress and success?
Don’t walk because it is too complex – make it work
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Cross functional Social Media engagement
Product ManagementConnect with the market, listen to customers, give them part ownership, co-create what they wantThe most economic way to introduce a new product
Support GroupAugmenting support forces with engaged customers is more powerful and less costly than an outsourced call center and improves the customer experience
Logistics and ProcurementTrend analysis through a vast open network - think of the implication to procurement
SalesSocial selling is theoretically not new – yet with the new tools we see an 5X in productivity increase over traditional outbound sales calls
MarketingThe biggest change in marketing history – don’t market INTO but WITH your ecosystem
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What are we talking about
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Managing a community
180 large farmers in Brazil
800 US Customers
Over 500 groups and communities
Over 500 groups from New HollandIt takes probably 1-3 people in different countriesto properly engage and leverage that ecosystem
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Social Media Leverage IS Orchestration, big time
Managing an ecosystem of thousands of customers and hundreds of partners with hundreds of team mates requires some planning
Topics, 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 orchestrated
AGAIN: Customer Service, Support, Product Management, Sales, Procurement…
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STOP !!!!
You cannot tweet and chat with your customers without the involvement of sales
You cannot discuss topics in a forum without the involvement of your support team
You cannot have a product feature dialog without the participation of your product managers
You cannot explore trends and demands without the inclusion of your procurement department
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Social Media An organizational challenge
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From a vertical to a horizontal structure
PASTA small group maybe in marketing focusing on social media “doer”
Managing the social media places and spaces and engaging with the communitiesPosting blog posts, dealing with comments and taking care of the communitiesThe rest of the organization continues with business as usual
FUTUREThe Social Media Service Team (ComStar™)
Works as an internal service team supporting all relevant departmentsThe whole organization develops a more connected approach organically
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Social Media Growth
Phase IA few people blog, tweet, random noiseA “strategy” evolves based on some social media marketing ideas
Phase IILack of impact elevates the topic and some major social media campaigns get developedThe rest of the company does “business as usual”
Phase IIILack of impact – or worst – negative impact brings the engagement to a complete reviewA cross functional engagement strategy is on the agenda – social media rock stars are questionedA structural shift from isolated blogging and tweeting social media teams – to a social media service group.
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Social Media Team Responsibility
The social media teams may grow and have different objectives, tasks, responsibilities and support different departments
Social relationships are like assets and other values and need to be treated that wayLike Finance and IT, the Social Media Team will service all aspects of an organization’s ecosystem
The core responsibilities include:Initial and ongoing assessmentManaging the social media strategyOrchestrating internal and external resources around the demand of the ecosystemManaging and reporting progress and objective achievements
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Organization Size
Social media team considerations for different company sizes:
Small business 20-100 employeesSMT most likely 1-3 people
SMB 100-1,000 employeesSMT most likely 3-6 people
Enterprise > 1,000 employeesCountry organizationsProduct line or brand organizationsSMT may grow to 500+ people
It’s probably all initiated by one person!
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Tools Selection – What makes sense for business
ONLY IF WE KNOW:What customers wantWhat the objectives areHow support needs tobe involvedWhat role PM playsHow sales will get engagedHow marketing will be involvedWhat our strategy is…
THEN WE SELECT THE APPROPRIATE TOOLS AND ENGAGE
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Reporting – Reporting - Reporting
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, customers, prospects, influencer, sentiments, brand presence, partners and competitors.Creating a strategy, a media plan, using tools and frameworks to make that possible for an enterpriseDeveloping a strategic social media service organizationResult: Turning a company into a well recognized, approachable, and highly competitive organization!
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Some of the key methodologies (5 out of 7)
Four Quadrant Assessment MethodologyCustomer, Brand, Partner, Competition
Hexagon Strategy FrameworkGoals, Mission, Benefits, Action, Programs, Reporting
NCP ModelNetwork – Contribution – Participation
ComStar Organization ModelA Social Media Service Architecture
Advocacy Driven Engagement ModelAdvocacy is the currency for customer satisfaction and business success
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The new social media manager
Start with an assessment for the eco system you are currently responsibleShare it with others and help them do the sameDevelop a strategy that makes sense for the customersAgain work with others and guide and support themHelp the respective departments to understand that they need to remain responsible and keep controlDevelop a position of guidance and support, with ongoing monitoring you help the company to stay on top of things.Build your position on proven methodologies
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Social Media AcademyLeadership Class
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The Key Elements Of The Leadership Class
Cross functional business approachSocial media assessment methodSocial media strategy frameworkFunctional social media in sales, marketing, support, HR, logistics, product developmentTools, places & communitiesDetailed presence & execution planReporting & analyticsBudgets, resources, ROICorporate organization strategyConsulting & team building
MethodsModels
Frameworks
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Leadership Class Details
Online Entrance Examination (required)All sessions are instructor lead online classes
US Morning Session 08:00 AM (PST)US Evening Session 05:00 PM (PST)EU Session starting 16:00 (BST) London timeAU Session starting 10:00 AM Sydney Time
Classes are 20 – 25 people maxLeadership Class, $3,195 /AU$3,920 / £1,960*
Admission at: http://www.socialmedia-academy.com payment: paypal or credit card* = Gold Member
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Social Media Academy Team
Axel Schultze
Marita Roebkes
John Todor
Adrienne Corn
Walter Adamson
Kevin Mannion
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Social Media Academy Alumni
Xeesm.com/KM Xeesm.com/LaureenEarnest Xeesm.com/MikeDubrall Xeesm.com/NancyChouXeesm.com/TomSwift Xeesm.com/SusanRice Xeesm.com/CatherineSherwood Xeesm.com/MarkEldridge Xeesm.com/ElsomEldridgeXeesm.com/SteveGasserXeesm.com/MatthiasBeckmanXeesm.com/MatsonSparlingXeesm.com/WendySoucieXeesm.com/LisaRobbXeesm.com/RMarkMooreXeesm.com/BarbaraDanielsXeesm.com/SpecialeXeesm.com/LamiaLeeXeesm.com/BoughtyXeesm.com/Walter
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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