Identifying and Activating Communities of Interest on the Social Web
Marketers clearly recognize the enormous growth in the amount of social interactions that occur online each day. But the real story effecting marketers isn't how much growth there has been, rather how these social interactions have changed the way consumers make purchasing decisions. Consumer buying decisions are now highly influenced by information obtained in their peer-to-peer networks. These online communities, with their inherent trust and loyalty networks, are sitting side-by-side with search, and literally changing the way consumers take in information and choose which products to purchase.
Im this new world (called the "conversation layer"), where advice seeking and advice giving behavior happens faster than brands can sometimes react, marketers must continually monitor and find ways to identify and activate the communities that matter most to their brand.
In this session we will cover:
· How these new social channels are driving your customer’s buying decisions are affecting your marketing efforts
· How to identify the communities that matter the most to your brand
· How to engage and activate those areas to intersect the buying
2. OVERVIEW: KEY TAKEAWAYS
Key Takeaways
• Decision Making is Always Core
• Decision Making Now Happens in the Conversation Layer
• Mapping the Conversation Layer = Your Social Strategy &
Customer Understanding
• This Customer Understanding Advises all Channel
Activation Including Social
3. TAKEAWAY 1 : DECISION MAKING
Takeaway 1: Decision Making is the CORE
4. TIMELINE : THE SOCIAL CONSUMER
Evolution of Decision Making
5. TAKEAWAY 2 : CONVERSATION LAYER
Takeaway 2: Decisions are made in the “Conversation Layer”
9. TAKEAWAY 3 : MAPPING THE CONVERSATION LAYER
Takeaway 3: MAP the Conversation Layer = Strategy
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10. TAKEAWAY 3 : COI RESEARCH
400+ Communities of Interest & Opportunities are Identified
200 Communities of Interest based on Content & Audience Relevancy
100+ Communities Scored using Data Points that cover the Scoring Criteria
Best for Scale, Relevance, Connectedness
11. TAKEAWAY 3 : COI RESEARCH
Scale, Relevance & Connectedness
16. R2INTEGRATED: CONTACT US
www.r2integrated.com
Matt Goddard
CEO, R2integrated
R2integrated- Digital Marketing & Technology [P] 410-299-2810
Twitter: @R2iMatt
Notas del editor
Decision Making is always coreDecision making now happens in the “Conversation Layer” – People, Places, & ContentMap Conversation Layer = Your Social Strategy (or you customer understandingThis customer understanding advises all channel activation including social
As we look at the web’s evolution and especially the disruptive power of social interactions it seems we are all scrambling a little bit. Despite all the social guru’s you can find on twitter or at the local coffee shop.The tools are changing, the adoption is growing, usage patterns maturing and the goal of programmatic social marketing on everyone’s agenda.
Social PPC. We know all the places that seem to matter. We know all the people that seem to matter and we know the content that seems to matter. The social web has given us transparency we never had before. What we are seeing is that organizations that are looking at social as a channel are starting to leverage these methodologies and strategies all up. How can search, RM, Publishing and community building benefit. Social PPC puts social at the center of things. Again a behavior focus.Concept is getting thrown around called Social PPC. Now we all are familiar with Pay per Click and that is certainly what PPC stands for. So this won’t be an industry term anytime soon. But it has started to stick a little bit internally and with some clients. Social PPC describes a strategy that looks at the social web in the context of People, Places, and Content. And methodologies start to appear.
If you were to show the PPC network for a brand it would look something this. And this might just be a 5 minute snap shot in time. So there are big challenges understanding all of this data and using it. And doing so the right way. New software products are working to solve this issue creating PPC maps for brands. But we aren’t there yet. I like to look at this graph and I think decision making. A decision making network using places, people, and content to inform almost everything.
When asked what sources "influence your decision to use or not use a particular company, brand or product” 71% claim reviews from family members or friends exert a "great deal" or "fair amount" of influence. (Harris Interactive, June 2010)
So the idea is that everything in social is really a network of people, places and content. At the core of a social strategy our owned properties of Facebook and Twitter etc matter but there is this outer web of conversations that just keeps growing and growing and its more and more data. Decisions are being made here. Brands that understand the places that matter most, the people that matter most, and the content that matters most can try to get some transparency into what is going on out there. They may be able to gain some efficiencies as it’s hard to be everywhere. And the strategy takes on more of a behavior driven focus. So how is it done?
Reach, Relevance, Connectedness =People Research, Filtering & Scoring Process
Now we get to the content. What content matters. What content is shared most. What content resonates with the target audience in these places. By know this information we can understand the taxonomy being used, grab hold of trends early, look at our content strategy in general
And what content types are working best. Videos, graphics,. What content is the most appealing to the audience
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