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Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

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Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

10com — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:17:11 -0000

Great to read this quality post with quality comments, even two years later. Our focus at the moment is on the way consumers use social media. In doing this, we step aside from the mainstream-message that socmed is IT. We observe, young consumers use social media as a "push" medium (too) - they send out messages and are promoting themselves. They get friends with brands, because brands follow back. The US is much more is an Adland than the EU, so we're happy to hear feedback at this point.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

youtube downloader — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:06:45 -0000

I think it’s an interesting and worthwhile list. And like I said, go to Douglas’s site and comment on the measurement aspects, for those of you who are into measuring.

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Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

king — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:36:52 -0000

I think this is a perfect example of how social media blurs the marketing/PR line. A marketer is interested in pushing a message. A PR person is tasked with building relationships. The "good will" you're seeking is a key component - brands engaging and understanding their consumers. This is why PR plays an important role in social media adoption for brands.
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Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Anthony — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:09:34 -0000

Rather than defining the communication objectives of social media, I turned the tables and asked myself how can social media be used to achieve marketing's objectives? So starting with an old article on Forbes.com entitled "Who needs a CMO Anyway?" comes this list: (slightly shortened)

"... CMO responsibilities should include:

-- Ensuring the company's products and services are in tune with consumer demand. ... a CMO should be the representative of the customer within the C-suite.

-- Directing new product development and ensuring the continuing appeal of existing offerings. ...This means no more resources wasted on products that customers don't have a reason to choose over the competition.

-- Marketing communications. To those who equate marketing with advertising, this is often seen as the primary CMO function. Marketing communications certainly are part of the CMO agenda, but they shouldn't define it. This is due to the simple reason that a great product will trump a bad ad, but a great ad won't save a bad product.

-- Hold CMOs accountable for achieving top-line growth objectives. Revenue and share offer the best measurement of how well a company fulfills the needs of its customers.

-- Hold CMOs accountable for meeting corporate margin goals. This will ensure that product formulation, pricing, trade and consumer promotion are balanced business decisions. "

In short, marketing is about the alignment of needs and solutions to everyone's mutual benefit. Social media can/is/should be used in all of the ways listed above to achieve that.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

chrisbrogan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:32:04 -0000

@Casey - I'm not sure. Might be a great question for Lionel Menchaca from Dell. He's on Twitter ( @lionelatDELL). I bet he'd have a great answer.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Casey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:04:37 -0000

At what point does the company re-evaluate their product/ service based on consumer/fan reactions and feedback? As far as I can see you didn't mention that...

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

davefleet — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:05:37 -0000

@rapella - I respectfully disagree, although I don't think our perspectives are too far apart. If you look at what Dell is doing (to use the obvious example), the company (which has a global reach) is connecting with individuals - through blog comments, through Twitter and so on.

I do agree that there are plenty of effective one-to-many approaches (and Dell's blogs are an example) but I think to write-off the more personalized applications is a mistake.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

rapella — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:20:29 -0000

@dave fleet - 'two way media' is only possible in direct communication, e.g. sender and receiver, speaker and hearer.

Social media is (mostly) the constraint-free link between one (individual, enterprise) and thousands (or millions) of recipients.

How you measure their response is a different matter altogether.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

francine hardaway — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:58:17 -0000

List sucks. Sounds like lists from twenty years ago and totally ignores, as you point out, the role of audience/customers in product development. To me, the best use of social media is to find out what your market really needs, so you can evolve your product or service to satisfy that need. Then all the rest "just" happens.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

chrisbrogan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:26:29 -0000

@Dave - and yes, I think it's out of context a bit in my questioning, but that was somewhat intentional. I'm not slamming Doug in any sense. I think the list is interesting. Instead, I'm thinking about it in the deeply abstract sense. What is two way media about?

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

davefleet — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:51:15 -0000

I chatted with Doug about this list when he first posted this back in May. It's a good, well thought-out list (although it does seem impersonal, especially when you boil it down to 10 quick bullets from his original post). What I like about Doug's approach (if you read the original post) is that he acknowledges that we're not going to find "one metric to rule them all." Social media isn't a single tool or approach and different measurements will be necessary to measure different ways of using it.

The area where I would differ from Doug's take is that I would put more emphasis on the relationship and trust-building side of things -- seeing it as more of a two-way effort and less top-down. I think that's a common difference between marketers and communications folks.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Ari Herzog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:20:58 -0000

You didn't ask me to change the structure of the list, Chris, so I will. I haven't seen Douglas' link yet, but if I kept the same steps, I'd re-arrange them as follows for social media:

ORIGINAL
1. Generate awareness.
2. Drive Trial.
3. Product Launch.
4. Establish Need/Want
5. Product/Service Comparison.
6. Positive Association.
7. Form/Change Opinion.
8. Influence the Influencers.
9. Drive Action/Traffic.
10. Establish/Regain Trust.

NEW
1. Establish Need/Want
2. Drive Trial
3. Form/Change Opinion
4. Product Launch
5. Product/Service Comparison
6. Positive Association
7. Generate awareness.
8. Drive Action/Traffic
9. Establish/Regain Trust
10. Influence the Influencers (which may not be necessary)

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Ultimate Blogging Experiment — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:15:22 -0000

Gaining trust is huge. Without trust you really do not have anything.

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david gandrud — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:29:41 -0000

This is interesting as I am in the middle of launching our business into the social media arena and justifying (to myself) why it is worth the time and effort. The list posted is very traditional and should be part of most every campaign. My rational includes:
-Thought Leadership
-Industry Alighnment
-Networking
-Lead Generation (yes sell more goods and services)

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

chrisbrogan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:02:26 -0000

Wow. You sure had your opinions. : ) Glad you're all here. That's the proof to the pudding, eh?

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Missy Blankenship — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:52:50 -0000

1. Communicate.
2. Collaborate.
3. Connect.
4. Create.
5. Consider.
6. Cooperate.
7. Compare.
8. Converse.
9. Compel.
10. Confide.

All leading to the big "C": CHANGE.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Frank Neill — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:16:27 -0000

Great post, Chris. And, the 10 listed are all approaches that companies take with their marketing efforts. This list applies to social media, traditional media, electronic media, etc. However, I tend to take a KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid) approach to most things and marketing is no exception. There are really only Two marketing objectives:

1) To get a specific target to DO something within a timeframe
2) To get a specific target to believe something

Every marketing goal can be traced back to the above. And, once you break a campaign down to it's simplest form, it becomes measurable and trackable.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Carl Weaver — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:12:18 -0000

Others have said this as well but I will throw my two cents in. Relationship is missing from the list. However, relationship is more of a "how" we do it than a "what" we do. I think the list is good for listing the what. Social media is largely about the how.

Traditional sales folks in my space often will try to get everyone to buy. Part of my sales model is to help the buyer decide what he/she wants or needs and how I can help. Sometimes the best way for me to help is to help them see that they need some sort of other service or product. If I can help people figure this stuff out and give them a solution, even if it is elsewhere, I have built a relationship that will last for a long time.

Sure, I'd love to have the money, but in the long run it is helping people that is most valuable and worthwhile.

The goals listed in the post are not bad ones and are not even in conflict with social media. It's all about how we approach it and use the newer tools to do the things that we need to do anyway.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Shannon Ehlers — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:10:14 -0000

In spite of all the guides and lists, I think I usually just write something on my blog, or "Digg" something, or comment on your blog and others' blogs, when I have something nice to share or when I want or need some feedback, or just as a way of sharing a bit of myself in a public arena. For a person who is by nature very private, this really illustrates the magic of social media - the ability to draw out some who might otherwise be "lurkers".

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Ray Deck III — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:03:38 -0000

I'd have to say that this list is pretty representative of how I have leveraged social media in the past. The above comment (yes, definitely oversimplified :-) ) notes that, "Public Relations is about building relationships". But what if your product is relational? I work for a ministry that is very relationship oriented. Discipleship is at the heart of our ministry model, and oversimplified -- relationships are our product.

Social Media is not just PR, Marketing or Communications. For me social media has become a ministry method in and of itself.

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Ana Lorena Hart — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:35:30 -0000

To answer your question: No. These goals do not make sense as it relates to how I interact through social media. Oversimplifyng, marketing is about product/service; communications is about information; and public relations is about building relationships. This list reminds me to what I call the Wizard of Oz approach to marketing and it doesn't work for me; I like marketing efforts through social media and I am open to marketer's creativity, but it has to be all about what happens to the wizard behind the curtain. :)

Re: 10 Communications Objectives of Social Media

Vicki — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:53:35 -0000

Social media is about engaging people in conversations through various platforms. When people participate and understand they have a voice where their thoughts/opinions are valued, the objectives Douglas lists can then be accomplished. The missing piece, however, is consumer engagement.