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Social Media ... a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. Anne Kavanagh Kavanagh Communications. What is social media?. It’s like taking your brand to a cocktail party and mingling with guests
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Social Media ... a fundamental shift in the way we communicate Anne Kavanagh Kavanagh Communications
What is social media? It’s like taking your brand to a cocktail party and mingling with guests Ultimately it’s about engaging with online communities to generate exposure, footfall and sales! BUT . . . Don’t turn up when uninvited or uninformed!
Time flies • Insert slide 5 of 101026 Social Media for Shopping centres TOTAL • Dawn : PLEASE IMPROVE ON IT AND ADD IN AUGMENTED REALITY AT THE TOP OF THE LIST PLEASE
Wish you were here? • Insert slide 7 of 101026 Social Media for Shopping centres TOTAL • (the map)
WHAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU? • Insert slide 8 of 101026 Social Media for Shopping centres TOTAL • DAWN : CHANGE IMAGE A LITTLE – CHK WITH JANE AS SHE MAY HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS ON ANOTHER PRESENTATION
Why take social media seriously? 1. Your Reputation is at stake 2. Long term brand awareness 3. Cultivation of retailer and shopping trust 4. Search engine positioning benefits 5. Cultivation of multiple brand ambassadors online 6. Reach further 7. Fast, easy, distribution of key messages 8. Cost effectiveness and ability to understand ROI more effectively 9. Real time market intelligence
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What can Social Media do for Travel Retail? COMMERCIAL VALUE BRAND VALUE Drive footfall, boost sales, enhance offer Generate loyalty, shopper understanding • Encourage fandom and engagement to maintain/improve brand reputation and awareness and to meet commercial objectives • Promote reasons to shop - events, retail offers - to drive footfall and sales • Generate loyalty to become a shopping destination of choice • Understand your shoppers better and let them help you to develop your offer (tenant mix, retail theatre, services etc)
How? By incentivising fandom to build numbers engaging with your destination/brand Reward fans with exclusive offers/prizes Incentivise fans to get friends and family signing up Cross-communicate with website and other social networks - identify any correlation in members between website/Facebook/Twitter Link to retail and brand partners’ social media to joint leverage profile
...and by encouraging conversations that drive footfall and sales • Set expectations about your retail destination to drive visits • Leverage excitement around retailers/brands/exclusives to create desire • Leverage excitement around topical news and link back to your retail offer Get people talking: Measure the impact on footfall and sales Broadcasting TRAVEL RETAIL CONSUMER Conversations Feedback
Four Levels of Social Media Engagement Drive footfall, boost sales Level 1: Listen, tell Level 2:Listen, tell, inform Level 3: Listen, tell, inform, reward Level 4: Listen, tell, inform, reward, engage Generate loyalty, shopper understanding
WHAT’S COMING UP NEXT? • Dawn : Insert text from slide 12 of 101026 Social Media for Shopping centres TOTAL change group buying to collaborative buying and insert Location based/geo positioning networks (says ‘geo positioning networks’ only at present) • + CHANGE IMAGE– CHK WITH JANE AS SHE MAY HAVE ALREADY DONE THIS ON ANOTHER PRESENTATION AND GET BULLETS TO POP IN ONE AFTER THE OTHER PLEASE
A NEW KIND OF REALITY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGwHQwgBzSI&NR=1&feature=fvwp
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step ~ Confucius CHOOSE WHAT YOU’RE FIT FOR AND WHAT’S RIGHT FOR YOU
www.kavanaghcommunications.com Best PR Campaign European Excellence Awards 2008 E: anne@kavanaghcommunications.com @annekavanagh