Dell's Director, Social Media, Adam Brown shares how Dell is harnessing the power of social media to connect with customers, build relationships, and be a valued partner.
7. Social Media & Community At Dell… 7 Confidential Ratings & Reviews Voice of the Customer Syndicated Content Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Blogs Support Forums TechCenter Direct2Dell
11. Confidential 11 Social Media Across the Fabric… Customer Service Comms PR & HR Product Group Services Solutions Online Sales Marketing QUALITY DEMAND CREDIBILITY CONVERSION CYCLE TIME RESOLUTION REPUTATION
78. The Five Principles 1. Protect Information 2. Be Transparent and Disclose 3. Follow the Law, Follow the Code of Conduct 5. Be Nice, Have Fun and Connect 4. Be Responsible
79. Social Media Training Fantastic success to date Awesome numbers & tremendous feedback… From 101 basics to themore complex… Social Media Principles Get Started SMaCing Brand on SMaC Building CustomerRelationships via Twitter Building CustomerRelationships via Facebook Opportunity for all of usto become stronger &smarter marketers Confidential 19
80. But what are our takeaways? Don’t just look for ROI via NPS scores and attributable sales (although these are awesome) Embedding awareness & enthusiasm for social media needs to take place throughout your organization (starting with EVERYONE in marketing) Listening is absolutely critical, but you will fail if all you’re using it for is pretty reports Confidential 20
We are pioneers in this space, leveraging new marketing and communications tools for the first times in our business.
As such, we have to wear a lot of different hats. Are we marketers? Are we communicators? What do we do? How do we rationalize our value?
Story of asking a CMO for money – has to take it from another project.
It is critical that we crack the code on demonstrable ROI on social media. That’s one of the things we’re getting awfully close to at Dell.
DELL.COM – Drive Commerce, Lower Support Costs, Increase Repeat VisitorsCOMMUNITIES – Connect Questions to Answers, UGC Fuels Dell.com, Shorten Sales CycleEXTERNAL – Drive Traffic & Link Love to Dell.com, Increase Reach & Awareness, Monetize & Enable Virtual Storefronts
One thing we’re realizing – Social Media is effective at connecting with customers – both consumer and business. We must build long-term relationships with influencers and customers in both the b2b and b2c spaces, and it’s working.
Who would have thought that 4000 different server customers of ours would upload pics of their servers onto Flickr?
TechCenter – we can correlate TechCenter member ITDMs as they come to participate in conversations before they make significant IT infrastructure purchases. While we’re not quite there yet - this has the potential to be the ultimate in lead generation as well as sales projection tool.Social Media is an integral part of our brand building. As we transform into a brand about solutions, it changes the way we talk, who we talk to and how we interact with our customers online.
While Social Media may have begun in the marketing organization, we at Dell firmly believe that it impacts almost every facet of our business. We are leading initiatives to help all of our organization leverage Social Media to help us develop better products, market ourselves, strengthen the relationships with our customers, shorten the sales cycle, improve customer support and, of course, enhance public relations and communications initiatives.Examples: SMaC Governance & Leadership Council – 20 functional areas across BUs,
IdeaStorm – 3 years old, wisdom of crowds. Still an extremely valuable tool for us, and we’re working on IdeaStorm 2.0. But there’s an interesting point to be made here – the way people interact with our brand and share product/corporate insight is different than just 3 years ago. Today, there are 22,000 conversations about Dell and our products in the social media space. No longer do we need to have a place like IdeaStorm where people can talk about and rate our products, although those who frequent places like IS are our power users. And we need to recognize and celebrate them…
While Social Media may have begun in the marketing organization, we at Dell firmly believe that it impacts almost every facet of our business. We are leading initiatives to help all of our organization leverage Social Media to help us develop better products, market ourselves, strengthen the relationships with our customers, shorten the sales cycle, improve customer support and, of course, enhance public relations and communications initiatives.
When we do include R&R content on Dell.com pages, we see a conversion and margin lift. Revenue per visitor is 3X higher in Japan, 134% higher in US. Right now, we have reviews on over 14,000 products on Dell.com, in 62 countries and 14 languages. And over 170,000 reviews have been submitted. (75% of all ratings are 4 or 5 stars.)
While Social Media may have begun in the marketing organization, we at Dell firmly believe that it impacts almost every facet of our business. We are leading initiatives to help all of our organization leverage Social Media to help us develop better products, market ourselves, strengthen the relationships with our customers, shorten the sales cycle, improve customer support and, of course, enhance public relations and communications initiatives.
Those who have heard me speak before know I talk about the 4Rs: Review, Respond, Record, Redirect. Listening is so critical to everything we do – listening to the 22,000 conversations online that mention Dell every day.Goal is to first put a “phone” on everyone’s desktop at Dell, then we can put a phone on many people’s desktop… 600 Dell team members trained with listening and engagement console to use as part of their job.