Leverage Social Media to drive your business

Simone VersteegPR & Corporate Communications Manager Dell – @simoneversteeg

A leading global provider of technology solutions

Founded by CEO

Michael Dell for

$1,000 in 1984

Over $60bn revenue

103,000 team members in 64 countries

8,000 Dell employees participated Social Media

trainings of which 3,000 are certified

25,000 online posts about Dell each day

98% resolution rate on Social Outreach Services (like @DellCares @DellLuistert)

First company tohit $1M a day inonline revenue

One of the first companies to launch online

support

First to sell complex

configurable items

Leader in online frictionless

commerce from order to delivery

Dell’s Direct & Online Heritage: Critical Enabler

One of the firstto launch online

discussion forums

Early adopter of social media

June 2005 – August 2006: Several Online Issues = Offline too

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Five years of experiments and experience

August 2006Blog outreach expands beyond tech Support

August 2006Blog outreach expands beyond tech support

December 2006Ratings and reviews on Dell.com

July 2006Direct2Dell launchedToday Direct2Dell exists in English, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese and Chinese.

February 2006Michael Dell AsksWhy don’t we reach out and help bloggers with tech support issues?

January 2007StudioDell launchedDell’s video and podcast site, with helpful tips and tricks. Eventually expanding this into the YouTube channel making sharing easier.

February 2007IdeaStorm LaunchedA voting based site allowing customers and others to submit ideas for Dell.

June 2007Dell joins Twitter

Dell launchesEmployeeStormInternal Blogs Launched for Employees.

October 2007Michael Dell quote in Business WeekJeff Jarvis story quote, “These conversations are going to occur whether you like it or not. Do you want to be part of that or not? My argument is you absolutely do. You can learn from them. You can improve your reaction time. And you can be a better company by listening and being involved in that conversation.”

November 2007DellShares launchedThe first investor relations blog by a public company.

January 2008Dell aligns organization

for success

February 2008Twitter expanded

March 2008Accepted Solutions launched on Community Dell France begins Online Community Outreach

May 2008Dell Outlet achieves $0.5M in sales via TwitterCommunity team active on Twitter

Small Business blog launched

April 2008Inside IT launchedBlog focused on business customers, and Cloud Computing.

June 2008Channel blog launched

January 2009Dell Organizes in to4 customer focused business units

Spring 2009Some Members of Community and Conversations deployed within each of the new Dell Business units

June 2009$2M+ Salesvia Twitter

2009Dell TechCenter

June 2009Global Twitter revenues of $6.5 M

December 2009Huffington Post Blog

March 2010China Micro-Blogging

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

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Altimeter recognizes Dell with “Open Leadership Award for Innovation and Execution”

(Oct.)

Dell Social Media and Community University launched/5,000 teammembers trained byend of year(Aug.)

DelllaunchesB2B pagesFacebook(Jun.)

Dell named #1 most social brand in ranking of 100 top brands

Social Media Listening

Command Center

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Before the Social Web: Our Online Perspective

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Dell.comOur

Communities

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Lesson #1: Opportunity of a Powerful Ecosystem

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Dell.com

External Communities Our Communities

Team Members

Rishi Dave | Inside Out14 Confidential

04/11/2023

Lesson #2: starts with listening to Be A Better Business, across the Business

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Lesson #3: Integrate where Customer & Business Value are realized across all business functions

Product Development

• Feedback Loop• Early Warning• New Product

Ideation

Marketing

• Demand Forecast• Lead Generation• Message Reach

Online Presence

• Ratings & Reviews• Communities• Customer Stories

Sales

• Collaboration• Thought

Leadership• Blogs

Customer Service

• Listening• Support Widgets• Outreach

Communication

• Rich Media• Brand Reputation• Influence• Reputation

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Think of it as a tool, not a channel

Lesson #4: Listen + Engage = Act. It’s at the heart of all strategies…

But How to Scale?

Rishi Dave | Inside Out

Lesson #5: Empowering Employees: Social Media & Community University

Principles

Policy

Governance

Training & tools

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Lesson #6:

The quest for a single ROI?

Business Value across the full customer lifecycle

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Look across the entire customer lifecycle. It can be used everywhere …

• Insight: Social media improves Dell’s reach and share of voice

• Insight: Social Media provides high Business Value and contributes to demand gen vehicle

• Insight: SM keeps customers engaged, provides solutions and improves loyalty.

• Insight: Social media based support improves sentiment and correlates with higher revenue

• Insight: Established causality between social media activity and purchase

Awareness

Research and Consideration

Demand / Lead Gen and SalesSupport

CLV (loyalty)Dell.com

External Communities

Our Communities

Rishi Dave | Inside Out

Lesson #7: It is a journey not simply “marketing campaigns”

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SM B2C & B2B

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Marketing;

Time for renewal and evolution?

Image thanks to Hugh McLeod @Gapingvoid

The world around us is changing

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• Disintermediation between the customer and the expert is happening already

• Users spending more time across the web engaging – beyond company’s website

• Customers trust their peers more than anyone else

• Traditional methods are not scaling; Does Social Media?

companies that embrace this the fastest will win

Control is not as successful as influence

Dell’s Social Grid on Facebook (Consumer)

• Content to increase favorability• Profile of your Social Life• Discover new things through the

passion of your friends• No ongoing conversations

Alienware on Facebook (Gaming)

• Dell’s Gaming brand• Separate from Dell NL• Active (gamers) community• Ongoing conversations• Daily content

CSR: American Red Cross Disaster Operations Center – Powered by Dell

Looking for…

• Positive buzz about Dell in social media

• Increase in positive coverage across social/traditional media (measured via Communications Pulse Tracker)

• Key learning and feedback to help drive improvements to our business

• Ongoing relationships with influencers who can help tell the Dell Story and become brand advocates

• First and foremost, it’s a LISTENING event.• Agenda/objectives/attendees determined based

on existing conversation online• A discussion with customers, experts or bloggers

who are particularly vocal / influential in social media

• Open/honest face-to-face dialogue• Forum for feedback that is funnelled back to the

business for action.• An opportunity to build relationships with key

influencers.

CAP days / Think Tank is….

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Dell Social Biz Community

•  Share social media best practices 

•  Discuss how online engagement meets business objectives

•  Explore the journey to become a social business

http://dell.com/socialbiz

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Connecting Around the Web

www.dell.com / www.dell.nl

www.dell.com/conversations

www.direct2dell.com

www.dell.com/twitter

http://www.slideshare.net/dell_inc

http://www.youtube.com/user/DellVlog

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/

http://www.facebook.com/dell

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@simoneversteeg@DellNederland @DellLuistert