Convince The Curmudgeon

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Presentation on April 28, 2009 in San Francisco at the Inbound Marketing Summit. It's so obvious what you need to do -- the audience is there, you've got the technology lined up, and a vision of the utopia that your social strategy is going to create. The only problem: the curmudgeon in the corner office. S/he just doesn't get it! This session will examine the typical objections to a social media strategy, layout a process to follow to address those objections, and provide best practices to turn that curmudgeon into your greatest advocate.

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Convincing The Curmudgeon

Charlene LiAltimeter GroupApril 28, 2009

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Meet your curmudgeon

“It’s a fad and waste of time.”

“There’s no ROI.”

“It’s way too risky.”

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Your curmudgeon can’t tell these apart

Source: Wordle.net

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“It’s a fad and waste of time.”

•Identify an area of passion.

•Connect with old friends.

•Showcase conversations with real

customers, that teaches them something

they didn’t know.

Make it real for them.

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Pair different social media mindsets

FearfulSkeptic

Cautious Tester

Realist Optimist

Transparent Evangelist

Find the “moments of truth” and “moments of crisis” for each

mindset

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Examples of Realist Optimists

Lionel MenchacaDell

Ed TerpeningWells Fargo

Paula DrumH&R Block

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“There’s no ROI.”

What will you do?

What won’t you do?

With limited time and resources

Tie it to strategy and goals

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What kind of relationship do you want?

Transactional

OccasionalImpersonalShort-term

Passionate

ConstantIntimate

Loyal

Focus on relationships, not technologies

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Tie technologies to the goals

Learn

Dialog

Help

Innovate

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Measure the right things

Your goals determine your metrics

Use the same metrics as your corporate goals

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Example “micro” metricsGoal Metric Value

Learn # of customer feedback

Impact of faster, better insights

Dialog # of comments# of referrals# of sales

Brand loyaltyFaster, more closes

Help # of issues addressed

Employee satisfaction

Innovate # of implemented ideas

Faster development

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Higher order metrics to consider

How likely are you to recommend this to someone you know?

Net Promoter Score

Lifetime revenueCost of acquisitionCost of retentionCustomer referral value (CRV)

Lifetime Value

Embrace and prepare for failure

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Identify the top 5-10 worst case scenarios.

Develop mitigation and contingency plans.

Prepare everyone for the inevitable failures.

“It’s way too risky.”

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Wal-mart failed many, many times

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Buyer blog hit the right note

16Photo: Kantor, http://www.flickr.com/photos/kantor

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Thank You

Charlene LiAltimeter Group

charlene@altimetergroup.comblog.altimetergroup.com

Twitter: @charleneli

Slides available at slideshare.net/charleneli

Copyright © 2009 Altimeter Group