Wednesday, April 13, 2011

10 Best Social Media Case Studies


You can locate hundreds of ways to use social media site for marketing your product and services. Social media site brings a revolution in the overall sale and traffic, if marketed properly using some best SEO techniques. And the most important fact is that, key to every site’s success is through good marketing or advertising. Even if you have really good and considerable content on your site, you still need to promote it to avoid getting missing at the back of the competition. If we talk about the internet society, the best way to accomplish an augment in website traffic and revenue is to take advantage of social media sites. When used correctly, this tool can give a stage for product or service awareness, publicity, networking, and an enormous increase in traffic & sales.

Nowadays, companies use social media tool to launch a product and also to interact with its customers. In fact, there are many companies have used social media to promote their brand to improve and some of those companies have achieved remarkable success. So to list out some of those brands, we at honeytechblog have compiled the Top 10 social media case studies that will inspire in some way or the other!

Top 10 social media sites: Orkut, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Hi5, My Space, Xanga, Linkedin, Blogger & WordPress. Listed below are the 10 best social media case studies.

1. Coca-Cola

Coco-Cola social media case study is one of the best examples available out there.  The company was also named by Slate’s The Big Money as the brand “making the best use of Facebook,” and their well-publicized Expedition 206 campaign is billed as the company’s largest social media project ever. Coco-Cola has used several ways such as blogging, sharing photos/videos, tweets, social media apps to promote their brand and achieves huge success.

Best Social Media Case Study - Coca Cola
Best Social Media Case Study - Coca Cola


2. X-Men

During the movie release of the X-Men-3, “Last Stand”, it used the social networking site to promote itself. It added that all the users who will add the X-Men profile as a peer can use certain exclusive functionality. As a result of this media plan, almost 3 million members of the myspace.com community added X-Men as peer in just 1 month. The movie got a huge opening and it became the fourth-biggest movie in box office history.

Best Social Media Case Study - Xmen
Best Social Media Case Study - X-Men


3. British Airways

The airways launched the program Open skies.  This program used social media and community marketing to promote itself.  It created a corporate blog to influence the globe trotters. Managing Director Dale Moss even shared a blog with the common people so that they get to know about OpenSkies development. Then he discussed about the meal service and showed people the cabin classes.

Best Social Media Case Study - British Airways
Best Social Media Case Study - British Airways


4. Dell

Dell is usually known for its cost-effective methods that it uses and so it jumped in social media to reach people. Back in December, Dell reported that offers from its Dell Outlet Twitter account has booked more than $3 million in revenue attributable to its Twitter posts. It might sound like a small percentage for a company that books $16B in revenue annually–but a nice number however, especially in a dreary economy.

Best Social Media Case Study - Dell
Best Social Media Case Study - Dell


5. SAP

This third largest software company in the world faced a challenge in the year 2002. It wanted to become a platform company using NetWeaver. The company had to open its platform and allow the other developers to use the platform in order to solve their business problems. The company had to interact with several developers across the globe. As a result of which, the company gained global collaboration and adoption of new SAP products increased.

Best Social Media Case Study - SAP
Best Social Media Case Study - SAP


6. SeaWorld

The main aim of the Journey to Atlantis social media program was to develop contact with the coaster community and bring about alertness regarding Journey to Atlantis. Influential people said that social media will give a chance for SeaWorld to make inroads.  So, 22 coaster enthusiast blogs and forums were recognized during its beginning period.

Best Social Media Case Study - SeaWorld
Best Social Media Case Study - SeaWorld


7. British Telecom

Corporate intranets use social media tools to promote their interests.  Unlike other companies, BT has completed web liberalization project. The company wanted all its employees to excess social media sites. According to the company, these networking sites, gives a chance to change the way our employees relate with one another, with the customers, partners and also with the suppliers.

Best Social Media Case Study - British Telecom
Best Social Media Case Study - British Telecom


8. Starbucks

Mystarbucks.com got to know about the company and their customers through various social sites. They also used social media in order to promote their ideas. Moreover, the company has forums where the customers can directly interact with Starbucks representatives.

Best Social Media Case Study - Starbucks
Best Social Media Case Study - Starbucks


9. HP

HP social media case study is another good example, HP social media managers engaged experts who work daily with customers to develop relevant marketing content grounded in true client need and real-life business issues. By combining podcasting with blogging and traditional tech-media syndication, HP now validates its messaging via an extensive buyer audience review process that yields vetted, relevant content that HP marketing can deploy in its ongoing sales and marketing efforts.

Best Social Media Case Study - HP
Best Social Media Case Study - HP


10. StackSafe

Marketing professionals use social Computing technology in order to startup a community conversation platform. It resulted in better understanding between the company and its customers.

Best Social Media Case Study - StackSafe
Best Social Media Case Study - StackSafe


(honeytechblog.com)
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6 ways to market on facebook

Marketing on social networks is not always that successful but there are sly ways to garner some success. Facebook has an interesting feature — the news feed. Depending upon members' privacy settings, it will chronicle their activities and broadcast them to their friends.

6 ways to market on facebook
6 ways to market on facebook


While some Facebook denizens loathe this feature, it enables people to find out what their friends are up to. From a promotion point of view, the news feed is a great channel for others to advertise a person's or organization's cause. As Facebook denizens interact with such entities, the news feed can broadcast such action to their friends. Further, they are also indirectly vouching for a cause making it more appealing, important, or hip for their buddies.

Here are some tips on how to harness the news feed for peddling a product, person, or cause that will coax people to do things that are visible to others:

(1) Create a profile

People cannot befriend anyone who doesn't have a profile. Further, create one for your "mascot." Many of my friends have added such icons to their buddy lists. I've searched Facebook, and Smokey the Bear doesn't have a profile. Why?

(2) Host an event and post it

How about a costume party with a competition to see who can cross dress better than Rudy Giuliani?

(3) Share a funny video or picture

Blendtec's viral "Will It Blend?" video series lends itself well to this tip. It even makes high-end blenders hip to younger folk. In fact, I like the one when glow sticks are liquified, and my Bivings colleague Erin brought it to my attention by sharing it via Facebook.

How about a reel of bloopers from TV commercials?

(4) Post pictures

These could include candid shots of products, people, or other silly related items. If Facebook users are in these photos, either they or their friends can tag them, and these tags can show up on the news feed.

(5) Post news articles

Offbeat news involving a person or organization is a great item to share. For instance, a lost dog was returned to its owners four years after it was MIA by a shelter about 1,100 miles away from its owners since they had a microchip idenfitification chip implanted in the pooch. The Associated Press article profiling this news even mentions the chip maker, Avid. If Avid had a Facebook profile, it should share this article via the site.

(6) Write a note

This is a great way to directly communicate with people sans the filters of journalists and spin doctors.

It is very important to note that people can, have, and are creating groups, sharing media, and writing notes about people, organizations, and causes (for example, the "One Million Strong for Barack" group in anticipation for the 2008 US Presidential Election). There is nothing stopping organizations from entering the fray to get their voice heard as well.

There are a plethora of social networks other than Facebook, but not all have a feature like the news feed. However, these tips are also applicable to marketing on other sites.

(bivingsreport.com)
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Before I die…


One month and seven hours of intense stenciling later and it’s up! With a lot of support from old and new friends, I turned the side of an abandoned house in my neighborhood into a giant chalkboard where residents can write on the wall and remember what is important to them. Before I Die transforms neglected spaces into constructive ones where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us.

Before I die…
Before I die…

 It turns out this entire process (including obtaining official approval from many entities) has been a great lesson, experience, and project in itself – more on that later. If you’re in New Orleans, stop by the corner of Marigny and Burgundy (900 Marigny Street) to add your thoughts to the wall and see what matters most to your neighbors. It’s a question that has changed me in the last year, and I believe the design of our public spaces can better reflect what’s important to us as residents and as human beings.

Before I die…
Before I die…


The responses and stories from passersby while we were installing it have already hit me hard in the heart. More installations to come. Huge thanks to Kristina Kassem, Alan Williams, Cory Klemmer, Anamaria Vizcaino, James Reeves, Alex Vialou, Sean Knowlton, Carolina Caballero, and Gary Hustwit for installation assistance and many others for support along the way! Concurrently installed in East/West Galleries. A project site is in the works.

Before I die…
Before I die…


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(candychang.com)
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Nike Show Your 5


Nike Show Your5 is a football tournament designed to boost sales of Nike’s new kit for the five-a-side version of the game. But it’s also much more than that. It’s about making the players famous, on their terms, putting them in control of the message and distribution.

Nike Show Your 5
Nike Show Your 5


Insights, Strategy & the Idea

With a target audience of urban youth, Show Your5 pitted English city against English city and street team against street team. Show Your5 enabled them to promote their teams, communicate their victories and delivered fame.
We used social media, branded content - editable and broadcastable by consumers - as well as traditional media and events to deliver massive interest. We created a unique partnership with the target audience's medium of choice, YouTube, the place where they compete for bragging rights. But while anyone can upload on YouTube, we did much, much more, creating a series of never-been-done-before communications.

Creative Execution

Embracing our target's dual consumption of TV and online, we launched the first simultaneous TV and YouTube takeover during half-time in a key Champions league game. We taunted rival cities through OOH, radio and mobile to provoke local teams. Radio included a partnership with XFM where DJs recruited their own teams. Online we let players hero their ground and celebrated the best players via highlights. Social media let players keep up with the news. We enabled our audience to edit and publish Nike content through a unique masher tool on YouTube. Players could extract clips from films of Rooney, Torres and Cole to create their own movies. We turned YouTube into a broadcaster for the final - the platform's first "appointment to view' content. Thousands of urban footballers tuned into YouTube for the game, an event promoted via advertising and editorial.
Additional content was produced by YouTube Super User Smivadee.

Results and Effectiveness

Sales of Nike5 product exceeded expectations. Nike5 kitbags sold out and T5, the most expensive boot in the Nike5 range - 40% more expensive than Nike5's cheaper options - outsold lower priced boots during the campaign.
The tournament sold out in 10 days, and 2,160 teams took part.
YouTube placements delivered a 500% increase in traffic to nikefootball.com.
6,500 new subscribers to Nike's YouTube channel, an increase of more than 100%.
More than 20,000 videos created in the Masher.
Cumulative views of Show Your5 content hit 1.1m, including 240,000 views for the final.
Smivadee had his most successful video ever.

(Mindshareworld.com)
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Monday, April 04, 2011

10 Crazy Facts About Coca-Coca You Didn’t Know


What you are about to read you won’t find on any official Coca-Cola history site because the corporation would rather keep these facts buried and forgotten about.

The soda giant Coca-Cola has been a favorite drink for millions of people all over the world for the last 100+ years. Through out the years the company has tried everything under the sun to sell their products to whomever they could which has brought a lot of controversy on to them.

10 Crazy Facts About Coca-Coca You Didn’t Know
10 Crazy Facts About Coca-Coca You Didn’t Know

In the past 100 years the company has been in trouble with racism, child labor, water depletion and much more. I was truly speechless after some of the facts I heard about and you might be to. So if you got an interest in Coca-Cola then this might be for you!

10 Crazy Facts About Coca-Coca You Didn’t Know
10 Crazy Facts About Coca-Coca You Didn’t Know



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Saturday, April 02, 2011

7 of the biggest advertising mistakes

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Twitter Campaign Case Study: 6 Success Stories


Who are the groups “doing it right” when it comes to ad campaigns on Twitter? In this post we will take a look at what has made for successful campaigns on Twitter 6 separate groups.

Twitter Campaign Case Study: 6 Success Stories
Twitter Campaign Case Study: 6 Success Stories


The internet marketing community is “a buzz” with excitement over the possibilities of what can be done with twitter.  It’s FREE!  In this economy that is almost all you have to tell an exec to sell them on whether or not Twitter is a good move to help build their business.  But running a Twitter campaign does take significant resources of time.  And, as we will reveal below, some of the best campaigns require the development of websites to make the Twitter campaign exciting enough to get people involved.

So what are these good case studies for success from a twitter campaign?


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19 great advertisements

19 great advertisements
19 great advertisements

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Friday, April 01, 2011

MediaVest wins Yahoo regional business


ASIA-PACIFIC - MediaVest has been named the media agency-of-record in Asia for online player Yahoo.
MediaVest will be the strategic lead and counsel for Yahoo's media planning and buying across the region. The agency will work with Yahoo in eight key markets — Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore.

MediaVest wins Yahoo regional business
MediaVest wins Yahoo regional business

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Why Global Brands Work


Japanese automakers create single products and brands for worldwide consumption, while Ford customizes products for local markets. You know who won. Why do global brands work? What makes them work? Professor John Quelch provides some answers. Key concepts include:
• For decades, Ford has created specialized products for different countries while Toyota, Nissan, and Honda sold standard products under a single brand umbrella.
• Ford's strategy resulted in added manufacturing and supply chain costs, a balkanized bureaucracy, and deteriorating market share, financial performance, and stock price.
• There are 5 characteristics that all top global brands have in common.

Why Global Brands Work
Why Global Brands Work

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Ford has finally woken up to what Toyota knew a long time ago: the power of a single global brand. Over 20 years ago, Harvard professor Theodore Levitt praised Japanese manufacturers for their focus on "what every consumer in the world is seeking: world-class modernity at affordable prices." Either because they didn't understand regional differences in consumer preferences or out of self-confidence, Toyota, Nissan, and Honda sold standard products under a single brand umbrella. For decades, Ford adapted its manufacturing platforms, features, and model names from one country to another. The results: added manufacturing and supply chain costs that strained consumers' willingness to pay; a balkanized bureaucracy in which regional managers exaggerate the need for local adaptations to defend their turf; and a deteriorating market share, financial performance, and stock price.


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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Advertising Media Planning: A Primer

Advertising Media Planning: A Primer
Advertising Media Planning: A Primer

 

1. Introduction

The two basic tasks of marketing communications are message creation and message dissemination. Media planning supports message dissemination. Media planning helps you determine which media to use--be it television programs, newspapers, bus-stop posters, in-store displays, banner ads on the Web, or a flyer on Facebook. It also tells you when and where to use media in order to reach your desired audience. Simply put, media planning refers to the process of selecting media time and space to disseminate advertising messages in order to accomplish marketing objectives. When advertisers run commercials during the Super Bowl game at more than $2.5 million per thirty-second spot, for example, media planners are involved in the negotiation and placement.


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