social crm: how businesses can use twitter to increase sales

Social CRMHow businesses can use Twitter to

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How businesses can use Twitter to increase sales.

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Please tell me:

• Company you are with?• Are you using Twitter?• Level of experience on Twitter?• What are you hoping to learn here?

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What is Twitter

Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real time.

Twitter is considered a micro-blogging platform where you only have 140 characters for your message.


message.

An estimated 5-10 thousand new users are signing up daily on Twitter. Traffic to the site has grown by 600% over the last 12 months with 20% of Twitter users joining in the last 60 days.

Terminology

• To tweet - post a message• Follow – subscribe• Reply – respond• Direct message DM – private


• Re-tweet (RT) - repost someone else’s msg with comments or not

• Hashtag – mark a topic/subject

Twitter Demographics

The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study, Twitter and Status Updating, recently. The study provided the percentage of online adults that have said they have used Twitter before:


19% - 18 to 24 years old20% - 25 to 34 years old10% - 35 to 44 years old5% - 45 to 54 years old4% - 55 to 64 years old

2% - 65 and older

As of February, 2009

CoffeeGroundz Cafe (@coffeegroundz)

Is a local coffee house in Houston, Texas. They are proclaim to have taken the first to-go order through Twitter. A regular customer messaged them asking if he could place an order and pick it up at the drive-

Profile:


he could place an order and pick it up at the drive-thru. From there CoffeGroundz started to take orders via direct message from their cleintele. Clients are now even ordering via Twitter directly from a table in the store without having to walk up to the counter and order a coffee.

Business Value:

Doubling clientele and building Community.

@coffeegroundz


Zoomdweebie's Tea Bar (@52teas)

Local tea company in Wichita, Kansas. They set up a Twitter account and offered a new tea blend each week. Customers were also alerted to daily specials.

Profile:


specials.

Business Value:

The owner stated that they typically sold one or two packages every two or three weeks, but Twitter has allowed them to ship 40 to 50 packages. They are even getting orders from as far away as Scotland and Australia.

@52teas


Namecheap (@namecheap)

70 person domain registrar out of Los Angeles, started their Twitter account in December. They initially ran a trivia contest once an hour and the first @ replies won an

Profile:


trivia contest once an hour and the first @ replies won an one-year domain registration.

Business Value:

Namecheap's traffic increased by 10% in December and domain registrations increased by 20%.

@NameCheap


Dell Made $3 Million From Twitter!

Dell sells refurbished systems through Twitter at @DellOutlet, which the computer maker says has more than 600,000 followers.

Since launching @DellOutlet in 2007, the company


Since launching @DellOutlet in 2007, the company has taken in more than $2 million in sales directly attributed to Twitter and another $1 million from people who start at Twitter and then move on to buy a new computer somewhere else on the Dell Web site.

How Dell does it?

In making sales through @DellOutlet, Dell sends tweets to subscribers, telling bargain hunters the latest available refurbished systems. The company also messages coupons and clearance events.

The strategy has taken @DellOutlet to the top 50 most


The strategy has taken @DellOutlet to the top 50 most followed Twitter users, according to Dell. Such standings are tracked on a third-party Twitter monitoring service called TwitterCounter.

Other top 50 Twitter users includes brands like @Zappos, @Woot, @JetBlue, and @WholeFoods.

@Delloutlet


How to play this game?

• Be creative, fun, passionate• Build relationships• Listen• Respond


• Reward loyalty, referrals• Integrate with other sales/marketing activities

What matters?

• Twitter profile• Links• Not too many hashtags• Some hashtags


• Retweets

Twitter profile

• Bio• Links• Logo• Wall


How?

• Contests• Help me create a product• Deals• Offers


Example


Tools• Google alerts• Wefollow – directory• Lists• Listerious• Twitterfeed• Twellow


• Twellow• Blip-fm• twtQPon• Twitpic• Hootsuite – manage tweets• Tweetbeep• [oneforty]• Ping.fm[seesmic]

http://www.oneforty.com


Cross Links

• Put twitter link on your web site• Email signature• All other communications• If company has more than one person

tweeting – create a page with their twitter ids


tweeting – create a page with their twitter ids• Create twitter list

Who to follow?

• Follow your target customers• Follow your brand in conversations


• Follow your brand in conversations• Follow your competitors in conversations• Follow industry analysts• Follow influencers: bloggers, reporters, etc..

Content

• Useful• Responsive• Interesting• Fun


• Personal

80% - non direct business related content

Analyze• The bottom line: sales!• Number of followers [in your target markets]• Number of click-throughs [for posted links]• Traffic to your web site• Traffic to your blog


• Traffic to your blog• Document downloads• Newsletter subscriptions• Retweets• Replies• Lists

Key points

• Build trust• Establish yourself as a subject matter expert• Communicate: respond, answer, support, etc..• Contribute useful content


• Build community• Measure • Adjust

It’s a commitment!

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