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Social Marketing

A workshop for Education & Training

Agenda

• What is social marketing?

• Spot the difference!

• 5 key concepts

• Summary

Agenda

• What is social marketing?

• Spot the difference!

• 5 key concepts

• Summary

It can help us meet our goals

more effectively...

more cheaply...

and without intrusive

regulations

The Times

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George Osborne

The Guardian

What is Social Marketing?

70’s

80’s 90’s

00’s

Commercial marketing

AIDA

• Attention

• Interest

• Desire

• Action

But what we do is different…

• Lifestyle changes

• Personal benefits aren’t

always so clear

• People aren’t that rational – Social norms

– Habit

– Mental short-cuts (heuristics)

Social norms

Habits

Heuristics

Agenda

• What is social marketing?

• Spot the difference!

• 5 key concepts

• Summary

• Aimed at everyone

• Focused on the

product

• What’s it asking

me to do?

• Targeted at 18-34

working women

• Focused on the

customer benefit

• Clear call to

action

Agenda

• What is social marketing?

• Spot the difference!

• 5 key concepts

• Summary

1) Segmentation

There’s a tendency to try to focus on everybody.

You can’t.

Please don’t try.

Demographic

Behavioural Attitudinal

Geographic

Age

Gender

Family size

Income

Occupation

City or borough

Postcode

Urban / rural

User status – non-user, ex-user, potential

Usage rate or occasions

Loyalty status

Readiness stage

Motivations

Personality

Values

Beliefs

Lifestyle

Education

Religion

Race

Generation

Nationality

How do you segment?

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Environmentally Aware

Income

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

“Rupert & Penelope”

2) Insight

A deep truth about the citizen based on

their behaviour, experience, beliefs, needs

or desires, that is relevant to the task or

issue and rings bells with targeted people ”

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Sir David Varney

Truth campaign

Traditional messages

Life expectancy, illness

& disease

Cost, disposable

income

Teen insights

Living in ‘the now’

Self-perception as ‘an adult’

not ‘a child’

Distrust of authority;

rebellion

3) Behavioural goals

Your campaign should focus on changing

actual behaviour.

Not just raising awareness or changing attitudes.

4) Methods mix

Use a mix of interventions to achieve your goals.

4) Methods mix

5) Evaluation

Awareness

Understanding

Behaviour (claimed or actual)

Attitudes

from 12% to 61%

from 54% to 69%

“very likely” to join:

from 2% to 4%

Membership from 654 to 2,158

Agenda

• What is social marketing?

• Spot the difference!

• 5 key concepts

• Summary

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Don’t die before you’ve lived

• Segmentation: 11-15yr, weighted BAME, boys and girls

• Insight: Most teens aspire to a dream; death seems a

long way off. Linking carelessness on the road with

shattered dreams strikes a chord

• Behavioural goal: Reduce the number of Teens killed or

seriously injured on London’s roads by 40%

• Methods mix: Advertising, partnerships with Bebo /

Channel 4, work in schools etc

• Evaluation: Proved effective with “medium risk” teens;

“high risk” teens tend to ignore any road safety messages

Further reading

• National Social Marketing Centre’s Big Pocket Guide to Social Marketing:

http://www.thensmc.com/sites/default/files/Big_pocket_guide_2011.pdf

And finally…

A small group of thoughtful people

could change the world.

Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

US anthropologist Margaret Mead

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