CASE STUDY: How 3M is driving brand relevance across a diverse audience through social and digital

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Driving brand relevanceSimon Edwards – Area brand and marketing communications leader, West Europe

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3M… who…?

Our Vision3M Technology Advancing Every Company3M Products Enhancing Every Home3M Innovation Improving Every Life

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3M Science is how the hard work gets done.How the toughest problem gets solved.

patents100,000

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2014 sales

Industrial Health Care Consumer Safety & Graphics

Electronics & Energy

Target audience

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A lot of people don’t know who 3M is, and those who do struggle to understand what we actually do.

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U.S

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Canada

Latin Americ

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Western

Europe

Central/

Eastern

Europe

Middle

East/Africa Great

er China

Asia Pacifi

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Over 550 social properties

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7am Instagra

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9am Mobile News

Noon LinkedIn

2pm Mobile Twitter

6pm Facebook

9pm Hulu / YouTube

A Day in the Life

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Unify our presence into one vibrant 3M

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Outcome:

1) Develop single idea, a platform to unite diverse business groups and drive relevance & engagement to our core target audiences2) Align our brand architecture and digital platforms, to how our customers look and search for information3) Create a strong visual and verbal identity4) Harmonise social platforms5) Develop and deploy content strategy6) Measurement framework

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Expertise categories align to key customers and markets

Automotive Health Care Manufacturing Safety

Energy Consumer Electronics Commercial Solutions

Transportation Communications

Design & Construction

Mining, Oil & Gas

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LEVEL 2+SUB-CATEGORIES TO SEGMENT HUBS

LEVEL 1EXPERTISE CATEGORIES

PRODUCT DETAILPRODUCT DETAIL

LEVEL 0HOMEPAGE

PRODUCT CATALOGPRODUCT GALLERYLANDING PAGES

3M.COM FUZE EXPERIENCE

Brand activation on social platforms

Expanded business relevant content•Build audience (followers)

Curate target audience relevant content• Increase subscribers

Connecting audiences with content•Followers

Broad audience engagement•Likes and followers

Image strategy•High quality image and video content

•Followers

Marketing effectiveness

Brand engagement

Long term brand health

On average, five times as many people read the headline as the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents of your dollar

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Video

Social

3rd Party

Continuous Data Feedback Loop

eCommerce

Content Creation 3m.comAudience

Understanding

Primary insights

Expertise and interest targeting

Customer targeted

Community focused

Social Platform

Ratings and Reviews

Integrated with Purchase Pathways

Community Management

Performance-based real-time optimization and quarterly dashboards

Campaign Management

Programmatic Media/Search

Content Syndication

Paid Media Channels

Social / Mobile / Local

Expertise Categories

Customer Service

Always On, Responsive Marketing: Road Map

Video links

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Rainy NightSafety

Sweet DreamsManufacturing

Favourite visitorHealth Care

Social posts #Lifewith3M

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Where We’ve Been Successful…2014

Fan Growth

Follower Growth

Follower Growth

View Growth

44.95%35,783 Total

281.77%4,230 Total

57.09%378,852 Total

33%347,076 Total

As of 5/5 329.4 K

YTD 2015

Fan Growth

Follower Growth

Follower Growth

View Growth

8,655.4%3,132,940 Total

10,698.1%456,758 Total

12.3%425,495 Total

232%1,152,396 Total

Summary:

1) Speak with one voice - develop single idea, a platform to unite business groups and drive relevance & engagement to core target audiences2) Understand your customer journey - align brand architecture and digital platforms, to how customers look and search for information3) Cut through the clutter - create a strong visual and verbal identity4) Policy versus strategy - harmonise social platforms5) Engage your audiences - develop and deploy content strategy6) Measure the engagements which count – don’t just count

Contact details:E: sedwards2@3M.comT: +44 7920727001

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