The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World
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The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing: How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World
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"A must read for media and marketers.”
—Alan Cohen, CEO, OMD USA
"What do fish tacos, data storage, and disaster relief all have in common? Each has harnessed the power of marketing that amplifies via the real-time social web. These and many other case studies are part of this engaging new book that details strategies for marketers to understand, evolve, and profit in the social age."
—John Gerzema, Chief Insights Officer, Young & Rubicam, and coauthor of Spend Shift
"Understanding what's possible and how to use social media will be essential for every marketer; this book will hold your hand in this brave new world."
—John Miller, CMO, NBC Universal TV Group
"Like it or not, social media is here to stay. It needs to be understood, managed, and harnessed. This book tells you how. Read it!"
—Zhihang Chi, Ph.D., Vice President and General Manager, North America, Air China Limited
"Beverly Macy is a true innovator and thought leader in the field of social media marketing."
—Cathy Sandeen, Ph.D., MBA, Dean, UCLA Extension, University of California Los Angeles
About the Book
In an era when information travels at phenomenal speed along the “real-time Web,” a brand can explode into popular culture overnight--and die just as quickly. As a marketer, how can you stay ahead of the curve? How do you control the chaos? Two words: Social Media.
With The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing, you'll learn how to take advantage of today's "fluid" business environment and develop innovative ways to meet market demands. And here's the best part: all your tools--Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites--are free!
Leading figures in the exciting new world of sophisticated social media marketing, Beverly Macy and Teri Thompson explain how you can use this global, real-time platform to change how consumers interact with your brand. They then present detailed case studies illustrating how top organizations and emerging brand giants have proven the remarkable effectiveness of social media marketing. Find out how:
- The American Red Cross turned a single "tweet" into $33 million worth of donations to earthquake victims in Haiti
- Orange County Transportation Authority engaged citizens to participate in transportation planning and use
- DIRE CTV boosted customer loyalty and trust by finding and solving complaints in real time
- EMC transformed business processes by leveraging workforce social media proficiency and "open" behavior models
Marketers no longer have the luxury of time to develop, test, and measure a brand. Use the lessons in The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing to launch your brand in a fixed amount of time, accurately measure the impact of your activities, and instantly adjust to any unforeseen events.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780071753470 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | McGraw Hill LLC |
| Publication date: | 01/07/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 256 |
| File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
Prior to these positions, Beverly spent 14 years at the Xerox Corporation in sales and marketing where she received top honors for generating outstanding revenue growth. Beverly is a published and accredited business author and is a much sought-after speaker and lecturer on social media, international marketing, and strategic business initiatives to government agencies, businesses, and non-profit organizations. Beverly lives real-time social media and has over 5K followers on Twitter.
Teri Thompson (Beverly Hills, CA) is Creative Director - Marketing, Media and Innovations with Gravity Summit Consulting Services and President of Rocky Peak Enterprises, LLC specializing in new technology, entertainment, social media, and branding. Teri served on the Innovations team at Initiative Media/IPG where she scoured the globe for new platforms from 3-D interactive to electronic ink. She was Media Director for U2 Bono's (RED) campaign with partners Apple, Converse, Motorola, Emporio Armani and Gap. Teri has spent 25 years as a marketing executive at ABC, CBS, NBC, and launched Fox Sports Net.
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THE POWER OF REAL-TIME SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
How to Attract and Retain Customers and Grow the Bottom Line in the Globally Connected World
By BEVERLY MACY, TERI THOMPSON
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Copyright © 2011The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-07-175263-3
Excerpt
CHAPTER 1Real-Time Marketing: The Now Lens
Consider the following:
* One tweet—a message with no more than 140 characters—turns into $33 million-plus in disaster aid.
* A town hall meeting on transportation systems in Orange County, California, is viewed in Russia, Western Europe, and Asia.
* Formerly struggling competitors are thriving by sharing customers.
Real-time marketing is the unlimited, boundless opportunity of now. This book explains why the time has come for marketers to plant a stake in the ground as thought leaders for the businesses they serve and transition their companies into this new zone. It also reveals in broad terms what is changing in the global business landscape and how businesses can adapt their strategies to maximize the power of real-time social media marketing for the present and future.
In addition, the selected case stories in Chapter 5 represent real-world stories that are just beginning to surface and illustrate the explosive power of real-time marketing. They provide exclusive insights from innovative companies and organizations that are realizing significant benefits by applying new real- time strategies. Their stories highlight specific solutions and tactics used for tackling the complex and exciting opportunities that the use of real-time and the power of social media present.
Corporate executives, small business owners, entrepreneurs, marketers, advertisers, and consumers are actively seeking education and information on exactly what is required to join the conversation and harness the potential of real-time social media marketing because the world has changed forever. There is no going back. You cannot afford to be a wallflower. Step into the conversation now.
People all around the world are connecting via social networks and communities with lightning speed. Every day it seems that the numbers build. The swiftness is exhilarating because real-time is what is happening in this instant, where you are or where someone else is at the exact same moment, next door or on the other side of the world. This new speed is being combined with the development of free social media platforms that create virtual water cooler spaces where people share similar interests, opinions, reviews, and conversations. These two elements—real-time and social media platforms—deliver information faster than television or radio, with a broader reach and at dizzying speeds.
The merging of real-time with social media–empowered conversations has become rocket fuel for the world of marketing. Marketers now have the ability to target consumers with laser accuracy and link them to a brand with relevant and ongoing dialogue on platforms such as blogs, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, and YouTube. The conversation chain has no limits in its capacity to sweep up every demographic and ethnicity. Facebook was started by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg as a proprietary way for friends to stay in touch and foster relationships, regardless of the dramatic liberties taken in the film The Social Network, released in fall 2010. In late 2009, Facebook's fastest growing segment was baby boomers. As of July 22, 2010, Zuckerberg announced that the number of Facebook profiles worldwide had exploded to over 500 million. That number is larger than the U.S. population. To put it in perspective, if Facebook were a country, it would be the world's third largest.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Interactive International Data Map, 52 percent of the world's population was under age 30 in 2010. These global digital natives are mobile, socially networked, and live fluidly in real-time. The human need to connect and share is evident in the various platforms that are being embraced around the world. OhMyNews is a favorite all-digital citizen journalism community in South Korea with tens of millions of profiles, while Renren.com and its new merger partner Kaixin are a leading force in China along with Kaixin001.com and 51.com. Google's Orkut is still Brazil's top social network. Hi5 is the hub of choice in Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Thailand, and Mongolia. Maktoob is the place to be in Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. V Kontakte just passed Odnoklassniki as the most popular social site in Russia, areas of Eastern Europe, and Turkey. StudiVZ is exclusively for college students in Germany. The digitally socially active in Japan are on Mixi.
The map in Figure 1.1 shows social media around the world.
1.1 World Social Media Map as of June 2010
Since this human tsunami is occurring in real-time, marketers, content creators, and enterprises must view their world through the Now Lens. Consumers want directions now, search now, movie reviews now, personalized news now, sports scores now. People want it on their screen of choice—the TV, computer, smartphone, iPad, or Xbox—to share with friends, fans, and followers now. Consumers are creating or clamoring for content that is personalized, sharable, and available anytime, anyplace, anywhere.
Those who provide content and capabilities to these demanding consumers in real-time will capitalize seemingly overnight. Corporations that are prepared will discover that "conversations" are one of the most powerful brand accelerators and business development tools to appear in years. Conversations in real-time are shoring up customer retention and brand loyalty. More than ever, real-time marketing must be viewed as a business management function that contributes to the bottom line.
Companies that quickly learn how to master the art of attracting and retaining customers in real-time will be ready to generate sustainable, profitable growth and will end up winners in the globally connected world. Companies that don't, won't. It's really that simple. That is why it is imperative to take a moment to understand the following facts about and insights into these digital natives from around the planet. These are the people you will be marketing to and the companies you may be working for sooner than you think.
Global Perspectives
China
Mona is an 18-year-old Chinese native who is studying science at a community college in Southern California. Before her arrival in the United States, she had traveled extensively throughout Europe, Dubai, and Mongolia. As is typical of digital natives, borders are insignificant to her. Though she is far from her friends in China, she uses social media as a tool to stay close and see what they are doing by means of their status updates and photos. She uses the Chinese instant messaging service QQ and Renren, which is similar to Facebook. All her friends use those social platforms to avoid making expensive phone calls. Mona's goal is to continue her undergraduate and graduate work in America and then secure a job. If that does not happen because of fierce international competition for opportunities in the United States, she will return to China.
Sam Flemming is based in Shanghai and is the chairman of CIC, a company he founded in 2004 as the first and leading social media research and analytics firm in China. CIC is at the forefront of exploring Chinese digital culture, helping leading brands in that country such as L'Oreal, Pepsi, and Nike understand how social media can be leveraged across the entire organization. Sam provides this insight into the state of social media in China today:
According to the government run China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which serves as the de facto source of China Internet statistics, China has over 420 million Internet users as of July
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Table of Contents
1.Real-Time: The Now Lens2. How We Communicate Has Changed Forever
3.The Power of Conversation and Engagement
4.Real-Time Marketing Strategies
5.Real-Time Marketing Case Studies: Peer- to-Peer Learning
6.Analytics & Metrics
7.There’s an App for That and Why It Matters to Your Brand
8.Resources