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How I got here
• Digital strategy at Razorfish, 2000 - 2001
• Head of global digital marketing + ecommerce at PUMA,
2001 - 2004
• Analyst at Forrester, 2005 - 2008
• Employee #1 at Dachis Group, 2008 -
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Dachis Group is 200+ professionals worldwide
Austin
London
New York
Portland
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Lincoln
Madrid
Amsterdam
Sydney
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We’ve worked with...
Fortune 100
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We have delivered 500+ Social Media Solutions
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7. Let’s rewind it back.
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From institutions to individuals
• Subservient Chicken, 2004
http://www.subservientchicken.com/
pre_bk_skinned.swf
• BowieChick, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jXe8pyY9G80
• @delloutlet, 2009
http://twitter.com/delloutlet
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Social media myths
• Fail fast
• Customers in control
• Brands don’t need Facebook or Twitter strategy
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($2.7) billion in market cap
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Imported from Detroit
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Don’t fail - be strategic instead
Fail fast =
quit and give up easy =
spaghetti against the wall =
no clear strategy going into your business =
no ability / willingness to try and pivot as market
conditions change =
easy way out =
today’s management mantra that will be laughed at in 10
years.
- Mark Suster, VC and General Partner at GRP Partners
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/03/11/the-fail-
fast-mantra-needs-to-fail/
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Start with culture
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Organize for connectivity
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Use the right tools for the right jobs
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18. “Consumers are in control.”
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Austin Solid Waste Services
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Consumers are not in control
The overheated rhetoric acts as a deceptive
rationalization.
We marketers have far more control than we let on.
We buy the media, make the product, write the message,
pick the messaging platform, select the suppliers, and hire
the employees who ultimately do all the above.
- Pete Blackshaw, Nestle Global Head of Digital Marketing
and Social Media
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1696074/repeat-after-
me-were-still-control
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21. A framework for sharing control
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The goal: create business value
Activate!
Unite! + Cultivate loyalists into
advocates for your
+ Engage consumers in brand and have them
Communicate! meaningful relationships demonstrate your brand
+ Brand values to that drive loyalty" values in the
Create! consumers in new, marketplace"
+ A company that lives compelling ways"
brand values from the
inside out"
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23. “You don’t need a Facebook strategy.”
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800M
users worldwide
$77 billion valuation
Source: Wall Street Journal
Source: Facebook
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Facebook would be the world’s 3rd largest country
1,340 million
312 million
1,210 million
238 million
191 million
800 million active users
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Planning for Facebook
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27. “You don’t need a Twitter strategy.”
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Twitter now has 100 million active users
Source: Twitter
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How to succeed with Twitter
• Build a follower base
- The bigger the better - think Duncan Watts’ “Big Seed”
- Promoted accounts have stickier follows
• Publish organic and promoted tweets
- Engage with consumers naturally
- Promoted tweets don’t spur unfollow lift and show 3 - 5%
engagement
• Plan ahead with a promoted trend
- High visibility, high traffic
• http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2011/09/twitter-media-
plan.html
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Social business by design
• Don’t fail by
making stupid
mistakes - plan
holistically
• Remember that
brands have
control - you
make the market
• Social networks
have critical mass
- you need a
integrated media
plan
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