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How to Socialize a Brand

Forbes INSIGHTS WEBER SHANDWICK Advocacy starts here. SOCIALIZING YOUR BRAND: A BRAND'S GUIDE TO SOCIABILITY Being social online is fast becoming critical to being a world class brand. Technology alone does not make a brand social. The reality is that internal strategy, planning, cohesiveness and comfort in the digital space must come first if brand sociability is to come at all. Weber Shandwick partnered with Forbes Insights to survey nearly 1,900 senior marketing/communications executives with digital responsibility in 50 countries worldwide to identify what makes brands social - and how. Why does brand sociability matter? Global brand executives attribute 52% of their brand's 65% reputation to how social it is today. They project it to be 65% in three years. 45% in 3 years +44% today 1 year ago Global brand executives think the rewards of social media outweigh the risks by more than a 2-to-1 margin. 54% 23% 20% Risks outweigh rewards Risks and rewards are fairly even Rewards Don't know outweigh risks 84% BUT... One-third say quality of online presence or engagement is a prime driver of A large majority of global 33% corporate executives believe their brand's sociability is not yet "world class." reputation. 9 Drivers of World Class Brand Sociability 1. It's not the medium -and it's more than the message World class brands are much more likely than the average brand to create original oontent. 45% of them create content specifically for social media purposes, compared to 28% of all global companies. World class brands depend upon much more than just the medium to make themselves social. 2. Put your brands in motion World class companies do more than experiment with social media tools. They apply their tools in more social ways than the average global company. For example, they are 44% more likely to offer brand-related mobile content, 43% more likely to participate in "check-in" apps, 41% more likely to do proximity marketing and 40% more likely to have their own branded YouTube channel. 3. 3. Integrate or die World class organizations are much better integrators of brand personality – they are nearly twice as likely as other organizations to have a consistent brand personality across all social and traditional media channels and are much more likely to include a social media element to their traditional print or broadcast messaging. 4. WORLD CLASS SOCIAL BRANDS 4. Make social central 61% of world dlass brands have a dedicated social media strategist or manager, vs. 41% of all global brands. "The most important thing we can do is to centrally plan social media activities across all channels to amplify key messages."- Global Executive 5. Listen more than you talk World class companies fine-tune their messages to customers and integrate what is on their fans' minds into their brand stories. Nearly twice as many world class brands have changed a product or service based on fan recommendations compared to the average global brand. 6. Count what matters -meaningful engagement World dlass brands place more weight than other brands on their number of contributors when measuring social media effectiveness. Social contributors are ranked #1 by world dass companies but #6 by other companies as a key metric. 7. Think global Executives managing world dass brands consider global reach as important as customer service as a driver of corporate reputation while the average global executive ranks global reach last. "Our social branding goals involve a very firm commitment to increase the recognition of the company's globalization."-Global Executive 8. Go outside to get inside World class companies are nearly twice as likely as average global companies to engage outside support to enhance and measure their brand's social performance. 9. Be vigilant To protect their social brand integrity, world class brands are always on high alert. Compared to the average global company, they are 85% more vigilant since Wikileaks has been in the news and are 58% more likely to be concerned about privacy violations. WEBER SHANDWICK Go to www.webershandwick.com for executive summary or click here. Forbes INSIGHTS You Advocacy starts here. For more information, please contact: Chris Perry [email protected] James Warren [email protected] [email protected] Jon Wade

How to Socialize a Brand

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Given the shear amount of daily world wide internet usage and an exploding size of user base of various social media services, internet today is the very first target for any brand which plans to make...

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