advocacy and crisis communications - social media and pr
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Advocates?
The power of the people – why what
they say counts
Cultivating brand advocates to support
you through the good and bad
A look at brand advocates in action
What I’m going to cover…
How everything has changed
And how everything remains the same
The importance of advocates in both
publicity generation and reputation
management
A few real life examples
Everything’s changed? Or not?
Public relations is the discipline which
looks after your reputation, with the aim
of earning understanding and support
and influencing opinion and behaviour.
It is the planned and sustained effort to
establish and maintain goodwill and
mutual understanding between an
organisation and its publics
A quick canter through …
…the history of comms
1981/2. ZX Spectrum V BBC MicroChannel 4 launchedMass media started a decline
Relationships between PRs and journalists (previously our clients’ biggest advocates) have changed
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Source: Nielsen Global Trust In Advertising Survey / Base: Europe, which includes: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK Nov 08
Has who consumers trust changed?
But have they really changed?
66% of the economy is influenced by personal
recommendations - McKinsey& Company
20% of consumers are key influencers of purchasing
activities of 74% of the pop - Gartner
Consumers mention 56 brands in conversation per
week - Keller Fay
Each peer recommendation reaches 150 people on
the social web – Forrester
40% of advocates answer, comment, or give opinions
online several times each week - Yahoo! and
Comscore
If I tell my Facebook friends about your brand, it's not because I like your brand, but rather because I like my friends
Mike Arauz
PR = social media marketing?
1. Enable others to advocate for your
business by creating compelling
content, designed to share
2. Monitor, defend and enhance your
reputation online: for people and for
spiders
3. Build relationships especially when you
don’t need them
Your audience is now your channel
1. Create content which makes people
feel like laughing out loud, feel loved,
feel clever, feel inspired, and feel like
passing on
2. Solve people’s problems. Proudly
3. Be in it for the long term, not for a
quick win
Enabling advocacy through content
You can’t buy advocacy.You can only earn it.
Enabling advocacy through content
But it’s helped by transparency, passion, a service mentality and helpfulness
We’re now in an era of nodes, net promoter score and propagation planning
So what’s the value of an advocate
$3.60Vitrue, April 2010
So what’s the value of an advocate
$136.38Syncapse, June 2010
Reputation-enhancing
Monitor and defend your reputation
online: for people and for spiders
Customer service is now totally transparent
Your genuine fans will stick up for you
2011 will see Google and Bing going big
on ‘social’ search, as well as ‘Live’.
Google’s algorithm now demotes brands
with critical forum comments
Transparency leads to advocacy
Advocacy in crisis comms
TV LICENSING EGSIn 2008, the community of fans for US TV
Series, Jericho, badgered CBS to recommission
the programme by delivering 20 tonnes of nuts
to their offices. They did.
In 2010, the community of fans for a TV
advertisement in the UK decided how a
relationship would pan out
The Great Schlep mobilised young
Jews to persuade their retired family
in Florida to vote for Obama
Build relationships
Relationships featuring PRs and
stakeholders have always been reciprocal
Relationships between advertisers and
media owners have always been
transactional
Build relationships
People like people who like what they like
Experiences make great talking points
Build relationships
Listen with passionEngage with understandingCreate great experiencesHelp by solving problems
Your audience is now your channel
1. Create content which makes people
feel like laughing out loud, feel loved,
feel clever, feel inspired, and feel like
passing on
2. Solve people’s problems. Proudly
3. Be in it for the long term, not for a
quick win
Define the specificsSales increase? Reputation improvement? Customer service?
Measure the outputssocial mentions, links, views, engagement, followers and friends
Evaluate the outcomes and
impacts against budgetCPA, tracker research, behaviour change, sales increase
[email protected]@chris_reed