Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Targeting
people
Segmenting
people
“Campaigning”
It‘s like companies are at war
with customers
Then came the Internet and Social media
And because humans are hardwired to be social
Digital Strategy
Helps broadcast commercial messages and seek
customer feedback in order to facilitate marketing and
sell goods and services
Social Strategy
Helps people improve existing relationships or build new
ones if they do free work on the company’s behalf
For example…
Digital Strategy: Facebook page
Fiskars
Threadless
Yelp
Online reviews in exchange for social
connections
Cisco
Cisco Learning Network
How to design a social strategy?
Identify
genuine
needs to
connect
Incentive design framework [Dellarocas 2012]
Design Design Design
intrinsic status material
incentives incentives incentives
Is this recruiting?
To summarize…
Customer Partner
Channel Network
Hierarchy Crowd
My suggested social pilot project approach
Step 2: Think how you can help them (not sell to them, not get them
to do something you think is worthwhile, even if it’s charity)
Step 3: Figure out how you can best offer this help through online
communities, twitter, facebook, youtube etc.