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2010년 11월 22일 월요일

Using Twitter To Connect with Audiences: Personality Matters

Hi, everyone. I was unable to post articles for a week because of my college visit to NYU Abu Dhabi. You never know how amazing that place is until you personally go there. I spent my weekend with the most talented and amiable people on Earth. I was really lucky to be in that group. Now it is time for us resume our conversation on social media. Let us start now.

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Now back to Twitter. Today's posting is not that directly related to Twitter marketing. However, I wanted to show you how important it is to have your own "personality" on Twitter to strike up conversations with other people. And that "personality" charm, as I will point out later, can be a genuine solution for those who are struggling with how to market their brands with Twitter.

Completing your bio on Twitter is absolutely important. When one takes a look at your bio, one has a glimpse of who you are. Keep it very simple and concise. Tell people about who you are by listing up the words that best characterize you. My bio says "High School Student Who Has A Deep Passion for Passion and Social Media." It is short, indeed. Yet, people will know that I am a high school student and that I have interests in fashion and social media. That is enough. Bio must not tell everything about you. People will get to know you once they follow you.

Now I will take Domino Pizza as an example. Domino Pizza was struggling at that time because of a video in which two part-timers spat on a pizza dough. People started attacking Domino Pizza for its low sanitation control. To be literal, people were shocked and evey boycotted whatever was made by Domino Pizza. To deal with this crisis, Domino Pizza came up with the idea of launching a Twitter. HOWEVER... things went awry...

Search results for Dominos were nearly catastrophic. People were obviously ignoring Domino Pizza or were not informed of the fact that it started tweeting.

It was quite apparent that things went differently from what Domino Pizza had expected. Since it barely had followers to support it and propagate its messages, it ended up failing to sort out the reputation issue that agonized it for a long time.

 

We have to take this example seriously. In terms of a crisis management, it was literally a disaster. BUT we need to see thing in another perspective, too. Why did Dominos fail miserably in the first place? You got it right. They had no followers at its side. From its inception, Domino Pizza's Twitter was created not to establish relationships, but to tackle the controversy surrounding them. There was no personality in it. People were not enchanted by this fact.

We always talk in the first person. It is all about "I" after all. You have to have charms that naturally attract people. Twitter, as we repeatedly witnessed, is an extended conversation. We are just doing our conversations online, not offline. What type of person do you love to chat with? People with their own colors. That is so true. So do not forget to have "you" in your Twitter if you want to be a twitter star.

2010년 7월 14일 수요일

Domino's Pizza's Social Media Marketing: A Half-Success?

I am finally on vacation. Yeah~

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Today's topic is Domino's Pizza. I ate it yesterday, and it was very delicious as usual. What happened to Domino's Pizza? Let us check it out.

 

A few weeks ago, an e-mail came in. The title read "You can eat Domino's Pizza for free." I clicked an e-mail hurriedly so as not to miss a chance to eat it free of charge. The e-mail turned out to be an advertisement, not so surprisingly...

The advertisement featured its newest model, Girl's Generation. (Yeah~ I should eat it more frequently.) The advertisement said that I can get a 1000 won discount per 100 followers. If you have more than 20000 followers, you can get a pizza for free because you will get a 20000 won discount. This advertisement was invented in order to encourage customers to follow a Domino Pizza Korea's Twitter account. I thought this advertisement was very ingenuous and was sure this one is going to succeed. Yet... it went against my expectation.

This picture illustrates the process by which messages are propagated via Twitter. If one twitter user posts a 140-words tweet, the message is directly sent to his or her followers. If followers like this message, they can retweet it so that their followers also can share this useful information. It is like a cell division. Messages can be spread to a huge number of people in an amazingly short period of time. This is the dynamics of Twitter, and this is the very reason why many people are addicted to it. Moreover, this is the core reason why enterprises keep their eyes close on Twitter.

The outcome of this advertisement was disastrous. People were only interested in increasing their followers so that they can get their pizzas for free. People did whatever they could do. This phenomenon only ended up increasing the number of zombie accounts. Domino's Pizza tweeted an apology for creating this huge chaos.

 

What did Domino's Pizza miss? The very purpose of Twitter, as I repeatedly said, was communication. However, when marketers designed this advertisement, they excluded communication factor. They should have designed the advertisement in a way that people can communicate with Domino's Pizza. However, by its mistake, the only incentive given to its customers was money: eating pizzas for free. Avid Twitter users castigated Domino Pizza's for violating Twitter rules and honor codes.

 

The lesson corporate marketers should learn from this incident is that social media is all about communication, not profit maximization.