In a world of social media that is often filled with a pressure for immediacy, our strategy team works hard to keep us focused on the “why.” Quick wit is great, but it’s even better when it aligns with the objectives and goals of the brand and plays a measurable role in building the brand’s success. Whether it’s content planning, technology integration, or crunching the numbers, our team will keep the whole organization focused on what it takes to win.
Toyota published 3 posts on their Instagram channel; one of which included a 4Runner next to a mountain bike. The brand received an uptick in negative feedback as the community expressed disappointment in the use of a bike that wasn't up to the mountain biking community's standards Social Factor recognized a pattern of negative comments via our platform and escalated this potential crisis to the client. Social Factor then monitored the social media streams while the client and Social Factor team discussed a strategy to alleviate the crisis.
The Social Factor team strategized to engage vs. delete with comments and show the community we hear what they have to say. Toyota agreed and approved engagement with a “playful” tone and an admittance that Toyota missed the mark on these posts. Social Factor prevented a potential crisis by providing Toyota with documentation and a clearly defined strategy to change post sentiment from negative to positive.
Within 24 hours, Social Factor caught and reversed a potential crisis for Toyota. Sentiment analysis showed an almost complete turnaround in overall community sentiment.. Toyota’s positive engagement during this potential crisis was shared throughout the mountain bike community and was commended on how this situation was handled by the social media team.
The creation, management, approval and publishing of social media content for Toyota comes from 250+ Users across many teams within Toyota North America. The PR/Social Team sits at the middle of this whirlwind of conversation, responsible for ensuring published content is world-class, and that Consumer responses are met with real-time answers. Toyota was frustrated with the lack of strategic focus and measurable results for their social media efforts, driven by ineffective platform reporting and incomplete user training. The PR/Social team reached out to Social Factor to analyze these problems and understand Users’ behaviors, to create a solution that would organize the chaos, and keep everyone driving toward Toyota’s business goals.
Our team began with a complete audit of the Toyota North America social business stack. We invested 550+ hours researching and interviewing 33 different teams, vendors and agencies to document the processes and behaviors for each group of Users. Our team reviewed Toyota instances for every software platform involved including Khoros, Brandwatch and Proofpoint - a total of 600+ hours of analysis. This groundwork enabled us to develop a comprehensive Future State Blueprint defining the tools, processes, and people necessary to achieve success. This laid out not only the projects to be completed over the next 30/60/90 days, but also the team organization needed to maintain and continuously improve (kaizen).
In the first 90 days we closed over 700 potential security gaps across the global team of Users and migrated them all onto a single password management system. Through our audit, training, and platform reconfiguration we were able to save Toyota thousands of dollars in overlapping services or underused / not needed features. Most importantly, we were able to hire personnel for and launch the GSMHub, an on-site team of 4 that support Toyota PR/Social Governance, Strategy and Metrics.
Magna Life Settlements married the legacy industry of life insurance settlements with a trend directly from the startup world: Direct To Consumer. Magna approached Social Factor with an unique proposition: since Seniors are the fastest growing group on many digital and social media networks, could we reach out directly to Policy Holders there? Moreover, by leveraging the targeting and tracking resources these platforms provide, could we realize policy closures at a lower cost of acquisition than with traditional media?
Social Factor uniquely married eCommerce analytics and paid media best practices with a focused individual conversion flow optimized to provide maximum tracking clarity. We maximized efficiency starting with the bottom of the funnel, emphasized the best conversion keywords for each Magna brand, while keeping them separated to prevent cross-cannibalization. We also developed a new Analytics Strategy, completely overhauled their Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager instances, and developed custom Data Studio dashboards.
Cost per lead reduced by over 40%, and 100% accuracy in tracking from first touch to conversion - all within 90 days.