THE COMPANY
IS THE
CONTENT
LECTURE 3: LISTENING
SOCIAL FRAMEWORK
Conversation
Talk Listen
Strategy
Goals,
Metrics
SOCIAL FRAMEWORK
Conversation
What are you
going to say?
What else is
being said?
EMC QUESTIONS
Define EMC’s customer centric approach. Why is social
media ideal to support customer centricity?
What is a “VAR”? How can social media help EMC maintain
close customer relationships, despite its reliance on VARs?
Look at EMC’s website (www.emc.com) Find one example of
inbound marketing, one example of customer listening.
CONVERSATION
MODEL Press
Analysts
Company
Channel
Customers
Influencer
CUSTOMER CENTRIC
CONVERSATION
ALWAYS IN CONTACT
VAR
EMC.COM
TALKING
AND
LISTENING
TALKING =
STORYTELLING
Identify your audience
Share
• Histories
• Emotions
• Dreams
Say something…
converse
LISTENING
As the sales blogger Jim Keenan puts it, “A lead today can
be a complaint on Twitter, a question on LinkedIn, or a
discussion on a Facebook page.”
LISTENING
• Getting into the conversation
• Know what is going on
• Don’t be the “dig me” guy
• General market intelligence
• Prospecting
• Hearing what the pain points are
• Understanding your customers’ concerns
• Empowering sales people
• Support
• Solving problems
• Being available
LISTENING TOOLS
HANDS ON
DELL: GETTING TO
WORK
Conversation: Community of users helping each other
Strategy: Offset costs, have users sell for you
CISCO: INFORMING
Conversation: Talking about the industry
Strategy: Level of engagement with content
METASWITCH:
COLLECTING
Conversation: Talking about the industry
Strategy: Level of engagement with content
HUBSPOT: SELLING
Conversation: Learn about marketing
Strategy: Trusted advisor to marketers
• Website has standard corporate info on offering
INTEL: GOOFING OFF
Conversation: Fun topics around technology
Strategy: Create a community around Intel
NEXT WEEK
April 29 – Strategy
• Case: OSSCube
• Social Marketing to the Business Customer: Chapter 14

Lecture 3 listening

Editor's Notes

  • #7 Rise of new category of ecosystem partner-> the influencerThe person who seems to be in the know, who people just listen to
  • #8 Rise of new category of ecosystem partner-> the influencerThe person who seems to be in the know, who people just listen to
  • #9 Rise of new category of ecosystem partner-> the influencerThe person who seems to be in the know, who people just listen to
  • #10 One example of inbound marketing- http://web.emc.com/bigdata_ebook?cmp=micro-big_data-general-emcExample of listening - https://community.emc.com/welcome
  • #12 Who is saying something:Cisco - http://newsroom.cisco.com/Intel - https://www.facebook.com/IntelMetaSwitch - http://www.telecompetitor.com/tag/carrier-evolution/ HubSpothttps://twitter.com/HubSpot (300 person company, not that big)Dell TechCenter - http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/default.aspx
  • #14 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HTML5-Professionals-3007928?home=&gid=3007928&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=.gmp_3007928http://www.reddit.com/
  • #15 TweetDeckhttp://www.linkedin.com/groups/HTML5-Professionals-3007928?home=&gid=3007928&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=.gmp_3007928http://www.reddit.com/http://www.tweetstats.com/graphs/billgateshttp://www.linkedin.com/today/?trk=hb_tab_to
  • #17 http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/default.aspx
  • #18 Cisco - http://newsroom.cisco.com/
  • #19 MetaSwitch - http://www.telecompetitor.com/tag/carrier-evolution/
  • #20 Tweet - https://twitter.com/HubSpot/status/323743514947104768Landing page: http://offers.hubspot.com/ultimate-library-of-inbound-marketing-templates?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=aaf70f61-8674-4a85-ac38-4c130ce9a330
  • #21 tel - https://www.facebook.com/Intel