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                               SOCIAL MEDIA
                               & ECOMMERCE
                               4/27/09




I’d like to start this morning by doing something dangerous and unwise. I’m going to
shred any credibility I may have as a social media expert by suggesting it is
possible to use social media to sell.

I know that’s an heretical statement. We all know that the social media priesthood
has decreed that social media is about relationships and conversations and all that
warm fuzzy crap. And we also know that selling through social media is particularly
odious social media sin.
NOBODY
                                            EXPECTS
                                            THE SOCIAL MEDIA
                                            INQUISITION!




                                                                     flickr.com/brockleyboyo




No doubt, elite members of the social media inquisition are galloping here even as
we speak to force me to recant. But in the little time I have left before they put me
on the rack, or at least ridicule me on Twitter, I’d like to explore this heretical notion
with you.
flickr.com/sea-turtle
                                                                           flickr.com/krypto




Now, I don’t deny that using social media to sell requires a delicate balance. And
I’m not really suggesting that social media isn’t about relationships and
conversations.

But, I believe that there are brands out there who have done a good job of using
social media to grown their ecommerce businesses, and in some cases their brick-
and-mortar businesses too.

So, I’d like to take you through a quick survey of five brands who excel in social
media and see just how they’ve been able to use social media to grow their
business.
In the interests of transparency, I’ll tell you that the only one of these brands that is
a client of mine is Build-a-Bear. I’ve spoken to people, etc. but as far as the others
go, I’m just an observer and fan.
SERVICE
                                               CULTURE



                                                              flickr.com/adventuresinlibrarianship




Let’s start with Zappos. Probably no retail brand has received more accolades for its
use of social media. And it isn’t hard to divine their strategic approach. It really boils
down to two things—Service and Culture. And for Zappos, those two things are one
thing, because service IS their culture.
flickr.com/scobleizer




         “The primary purpose of the blogs
          and Twitter is so that outsiders
          can get a glimpse into our
          company culture.”
                                                             – Tony Hsieh
                                                             CEO, Zappos


Zappos is very clear about how and why it uses Social Media. They believe they
have a strategic advantage in their culture, and they use social media as a way to
project that culture out into the world.

That strategic intent is clear from the top and it’s consistent with every person I’ve
talked to at Zappos. They all believe that their culture and hiring processes are so
strong, that all they have to do is put their people in contact with customers, and
those contacts will breed loyalty.

So most of their social media initiatives aren’t about talking about the company or
about product, it’s about exposing the people who work at Zappos.
"Success isn't the key to happiness.
          Happiness is the key to success.
          If u love what u do, you will be successful."
          – A. Schweitzer
             9:21 AM Apr 29th from web




                                                                  flickr.com/stewtopia




You can see that in the Tweets of CEO Tony Hsieh, for example, where he’s more
apt to talk about his personal passions and philosophies than about the business.


And this is a key point. It’s a common trait across all of the successful brands I’ve
looked at to have leaders at the C-level who are personally invested in social
media. Whether it’s Tony Hsieh at Zappos, Maxine Clark at Buildabear or Barry
Judge at Best Buy, leading by example is a critical success factor.
“Anyone can do
                                             what we do, but
                                             nobody can be
                                             who we are.”
                                                                 – Jo Casey
                                               Zappos Help Desk Coordinator




And you see it in other forms of social media content. Their blogs for example,
have more content about day-in the life things and fun, quirky, life at Zappos
vignettes than they do product news.


And as you can see from this quote from a Help Desk Coordinator, everyone really
buys into the idea that simply by openly being themselves, they can benefit the
company.
The social media channel that Zappos is best known for is Twitter. Not only does
the CEO tweet, but every Zappos employee is encouraged to tweet. There are over
400 Zappos employees on Twitter now, and the company conducts employee
training on how to use Twitter.


In fact, Tony Hsieh wrote a Beginners guide to Twitter, which you can see here.
“...we feel that if you hire correctly,
              you don't need to worry about
              stuff like monitoring employee
              use of social media.”        – Aaron
                                          Zappos Insights moderator




Now some brands might be worried about so directly embracing employee’s
personal Twittering. But when I asked about this, I consistently got this kind of
response:
And of course, as you would expect, Zappos uses Twitter (and social media in
general) as a forum for customer service. They have a dedicated Twitter account
to handle service issues.


•Uncover service opportunities
•Initiate response
•Amplify praise, reinforce service reputation


And it works.
PERSONAL INTERACTIONS LEAD TO LOYALTY


                      “How many conversations
                       can we have in a day?
                       Let’s have more of them.”
                                                            – Brian Kalma
                                              Director of User Experience



I also asked what Zappos measures in the social media space and how they track
success and impact on ecommerce. And I was told very clearly that they do
measure, but they don’t treat social media like a traditional marketing channel. So
they explicitly do NOT look at ROI from sales.

So, in this respect, Zappos is fairly safe in terms of the social media orthodoxy, but
given that service is their primary business strategy, I think it is fair to say that they
believe that if you hire the right people and let them interact with customers, you’ll
breed more loyal customers and increase sales and profit.
SHOP
                                        SUPPORT
                                        PARTICIPATE




Dell is another brand that receives frequent accolades for its social media acumen.
And they’ve taken a slightly different approach than Zappos. Whereas Zappos uses
social media to project culture and deliver service, Dell uses social media to invite
customers to participate in shaping the brand, and even it’s products.


You can see this approach spelled out explicitly in Dell’s website navigation –
Shop, Support, Participate. These are three separate but complementary pillars.
Good website navigation reflects a combination of user priorities and business
objectives. So it’s pretty clear that Dell views the three most important things its
website has to accomplish as helping people shop, gain support or participate in
the community. That’s a strong statement.
from            to the
                                                48       low




                                                20s               flickr.com/iandolphin




There are several interesting aspects of Dell’s story. For starters, this is a brand
turnaround story. If you go back to 2005, Dell was roundly criticized in the social
media space. Their online sentiment measures showed negative mentions running
at 48% of all online mentions. Today, that number has been lowered to the low 20s.
flickr.com/davidberkowitz




And it’s only one measure of Dell’s investment in social media. Dell has a
Conversations and Communities team of 40 people. They have an active presence
in nearly every major social media channel, they have their own direct-to-consumer
blog, and several special interest blogs.
There are over 65 Twitter accounts managed by Dell, and the Dell Outlet Twitter
account is followed by nearly 400,000 Twitterers, or Twits. And they use it not only
externally, but internally as well.
They’re also one of the few brands to have released information publicly about
sales through social media. As of last year, Dell had sold over $1 million through
sales alerts on Twitter alone. So, someone has figured out how to monetize Twitter,
it’s just not Twitter.
Dell IdeaStorm – 10,000 ideas, 200 implemented, sales results?
Implemented in 6 wks, btw.
Launched in 2007
August of 2008, Dell launched 9 new laptops “designed” by ideastorm community
SOCIAL
                                           SHOPPING




In contrast to the previous two retailers, WetSeal has tied its social media strategy
directly to ecommerce. They launched a community area of their site last Spring,
where Wet Seal fans can build ensembles and publish them to the community for
reviews.
So what you’re seeing here are outfits that Wet Seal shoppers have put together on
the Wet Seal site and published to the community for reviews.
It’s obviously an ensemble sales strategy, and it does a couple of things:


-It leverages the wisdom and creativity of crowds to market the product
-It provides social validation of fashion choices to enhance selling.

This is a step beyond user reviews. You can think of it as user-generated
merchandising.
-It leverages the wisdom and creativity of crowds to market the product
-It provides social validation of fashion choices to enhance selling.
10
                                                     +
                                                    10
So what are the results of this particularly obvious bit of heresy? Within a couple of
months of launch, WetSeal saw sales increases of 10% on its’ site, and they have
seen a 10% increase in average ticket for purchases where people visit the
community section of the site. So, both in total revenue and in avg. order, the
integration of social media directly into the shopping process has proven beneficial.
flickr.com/mikefischer




Another interesting aspect of this story is that Wet Seal is now running a pilot
program to take the concept in store. They are testing kiosks that will allow you to
scan an item in store and see all of the online ensembles that have been created
with that item. It’s a way of bringing the online social experience into real-world
retail.
RADICAL
                                TRANSPARENCY



                                                                 flickr.com/imuttoo




The next brand I want to take a look at has really gone beyond conversations and
has opened up their brand and business functions to consumers. I think it’s the
brand that has really pushed the boundaries of social media to something you
could call radical transparency.
We’ll start with Best Buy CMO, Barry Judge. I talked earlier about leaders diving in,
here’s another example. Barry is the most followed CMO on Twitter with over 5000
followers. Not quite Aston Kutcher territory, but not bad for a CMO.


* Used blog to post rough cuts of creative and solicit input, which CDs hated, btw.
And they’re one of the brands participating in MO Film contest, UGC advertising
contest with brief.

So, in terms of marketing, they’re already engaging consumers to help shape the
brand.
But I think the most groundbreaking stuff is coming out of their technology group.
This year, they launched ReMix. It’s an open API, or applicatoin programming
interface that allows developers to use the BestBuy catalog data from their
ecommerce site to create applications.

3 Simple Stipulations:
-Don’t claim to be Best Buy
-Acknowledge the data came from them
-If you offer ecommerce, Best Buy has to be ONE of the options
So we’re seeing the first wave of applications come out, like CamelBuy, which
sends alerts to you on price drops at Best Buy, and . . .
Consumers Price, which is sort of like Priceline for electronics. It’s a site that lets
you set a price for an item, and it will let you know when the item reaches that price.
And now that they have the platform, they’re leveraging it to engage the community
further, launching an idea contest recently to generate application concepts, and
community adjudicated application contests seem to be in the works.


At the end of the day, what Best Buy gets out of this is two things:


 - they get broader distribution for their content and commerce applications, more
touchpoints with more consumers, and
 - they get a bunch of free R&D on the interface layer. Successful applications will
yield revenue AND guidance on features that can be incorporated into the Best Buy
site interface.


So, they get the chance to increase revenue and improve the customer experience
in the same stroke.
The last brand I want to talk about is Build-a-Bear Workshop. This is one I know
personally. And the project I want to talk about has been one of the most
interesting and gratifying in my 17-year interactive career.


Online has always had a few unique wrinkles for BABW. It’s one thing for an
electronics retailer or apparel retailer to conduct business online, but when you’re
an experience retailer, how do you take your brand online without losing your
experience and commoditizing your product?


Well, the tidal wave of kids virtual worlds has helped us answer that question. In
2007, we launched buildabearville.com.
this is what a kids’ virtual world entails. There are spaces where kids can gather and
chat.
There are games they can play. That electric eel is a beast, btw. And as you play
games, you earn virtual currency, Bear Bills in our world.
And you can spend that currency on items in the world, like clothing . . .
QuickTime™ and a
                                                     PNG decompressor
                                               are needed to see this picture.




. . . or furniture for your cub condo, . . .
. . . or even a virtual makeover
One thing to understand about these kids virtual worlds is that they’re very social
spaces. Kids can chat, share emotions and trade virtual items. This is in essence,
training for Facebook.
Now as I mentioned, BABW didn’t create the concept of a kids virtual world, but it
has some unique twists when it comes to retail.

1- Fundamental change in value proposition for guests. Extends the instore exp. To
online.
2 Frequency of interaction - Occasional engagement to weekly/daily interaction
3 - Of course, our premise here is that engagement leads to repeat retail or
ecommerce purchases, and we’re seeing that BABV is influencing 10% of sales.
But the impact of BABV on the business is only just beginning to be realized. It’s
also opened up the door to a whole new category of product – Virtual Goods.
We have a dual currency model in BABV. Not only can you earn and spend the in-
world currency, Bear Bills, but you can also get Store Credits using real world
dollars, either as a gift with purchase when you buy at BABW or, you can pay cash
and buy store credits directly.
Social Media & Ecommerce
We’re selling these items in store, in the form of cards . . .
. . . and also online.
Since initiating this program late last year, we’ve sold over 60,000 units of virtual
goods and reached nearly a half million dollars in revenue, just from virtual goods.
Montage of Maxine being swamped in BABV
                    Montage of Maxine being swamped in BABV




And one last point I’d like to make about BABV, this is yet another example of a
CEO, or Chief Executive Bear in this case, who is actively involved in her brands’
social media efforts.
Maxine Clark is an absolute dynamo. She has leaped into the social media space
with both feet. She makes appearances in world and is absolutely mobbed, she
also is an active blogger, and I can testify that she is on Facebook at the oddest
hours of the day. We have probably the longest running series of Lexulous games
in the history of Facebook. She usually plays at 2:00 AM, and I usually respond at
6:00 AM.
SERVICE                         SHOP
                                                              SUPPORT
                              CULTURE
                                                              PARTICIPATE


                                           EXPERIENCE
                                           RETAIL



                             SOCIAL                       RADICAL
                             SHOPPING                     TRANSPARENCY




So, in the end, we have five different brands, five different approaches to social
media ranging from fairly orthodox to outright heresy, but all delivering an impact to
the bottom line.
MARK LOGAN
   VP – INTERACTIVE




mlogan@barkleyus.com
  @mlogan on Twitter


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Social Media & Ecommerce

  • 1. flickr.com/smigol SOCIAL MEDIA & ECOMMERCE 4/27/09 I’d like to start this morning by doing something dangerous and unwise. I’m going to shred any credibility I may have as a social media expert by suggesting it is possible to use social media to sell. I know that’s an heretical statement. We all know that the social media priesthood has decreed that social media is about relationships and conversations and all that warm fuzzy crap. And we also know that selling through social media is particularly odious social media sin.
  • 2. NOBODY EXPECTS THE SOCIAL MEDIA INQUISITION! flickr.com/brockleyboyo No doubt, elite members of the social media inquisition are galloping here even as we speak to force me to recant. But in the little time I have left before they put me on the rack, or at least ridicule me on Twitter, I’d like to explore this heretical notion with you.
  • 3. flickr.com/sea-turtle flickr.com/krypto Now, I don’t deny that using social media to sell requires a delicate balance. And I’m not really suggesting that social media isn’t about relationships and conversations. But, I believe that there are brands out there who have done a good job of using social media to grown their ecommerce businesses, and in some cases their brick- and-mortar businesses too. So, I’d like to take you through a quick survey of five brands who excel in social media and see just how they’ve been able to use social media to grow their business. In the interests of transparency, I’ll tell you that the only one of these brands that is a client of mine is Build-a-Bear. I’ve spoken to people, etc. but as far as the others go, I’m just an observer and fan.
  • 4. SERVICE CULTURE flickr.com/adventuresinlibrarianship Let’s start with Zappos. Probably no retail brand has received more accolades for its use of social media. And it isn’t hard to divine their strategic approach. It really boils down to two things—Service and Culture. And for Zappos, those two things are one thing, because service IS their culture.
  • 5. flickr.com/scobleizer “The primary purpose of the blogs and Twitter is so that outsiders can get a glimpse into our company culture.” – Tony Hsieh CEO, Zappos Zappos is very clear about how and why it uses Social Media. They believe they have a strategic advantage in their culture, and they use social media as a way to project that culture out into the world. That strategic intent is clear from the top and it’s consistent with every person I’ve talked to at Zappos. They all believe that their culture and hiring processes are so strong, that all they have to do is put their people in contact with customers, and those contacts will breed loyalty. So most of their social media initiatives aren’t about talking about the company or about product, it’s about exposing the people who work at Zappos.
  • 6. "Success isn't the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If u love what u do, you will be successful." – A. Schweitzer 9:21 AM Apr 29th from web flickr.com/stewtopia You can see that in the Tweets of CEO Tony Hsieh, for example, where he’s more apt to talk about his personal passions and philosophies than about the business. And this is a key point. It’s a common trait across all of the successful brands I’ve looked at to have leaders at the C-level who are personally invested in social media. Whether it’s Tony Hsieh at Zappos, Maxine Clark at Buildabear or Barry Judge at Best Buy, leading by example is a critical success factor.
  • 7. “Anyone can do what we do, but nobody can be who we are.” – Jo Casey Zappos Help Desk Coordinator And you see it in other forms of social media content. Their blogs for example, have more content about day-in the life things and fun, quirky, life at Zappos vignettes than they do product news. And as you can see from this quote from a Help Desk Coordinator, everyone really buys into the idea that simply by openly being themselves, they can benefit the company.
  • 8. The social media channel that Zappos is best known for is Twitter. Not only does the CEO tweet, but every Zappos employee is encouraged to tweet. There are over 400 Zappos employees on Twitter now, and the company conducts employee training on how to use Twitter. In fact, Tony Hsieh wrote a Beginners guide to Twitter, which you can see here.
  • 9. “...we feel that if you hire correctly, you don't need to worry about stuff like monitoring employee use of social media.” – Aaron Zappos Insights moderator Now some brands might be worried about so directly embracing employee’s personal Twittering. But when I asked about this, I consistently got this kind of response:
  • 10. And of course, as you would expect, Zappos uses Twitter (and social media in general) as a forum for customer service. They have a dedicated Twitter account to handle service issues. •Uncover service opportunities •Initiate response •Amplify praise, reinforce service reputation And it works.
  • 11. PERSONAL INTERACTIONS LEAD TO LOYALTY “How many conversations can we have in a day? Let’s have more of them.” – Brian Kalma Director of User Experience I also asked what Zappos measures in the social media space and how they track success and impact on ecommerce. And I was told very clearly that they do measure, but they don’t treat social media like a traditional marketing channel. So they explicitly do NOT look at ROI from sales. So, in this respect, Zappos is fairly safe in terms of the social media orthodoxy, but given that service is their primary business strategy, I think it is fair to say that they believe that if you hire the right people and let them interact with customers, you’ll breed more loyal customers and increase sales and profit.
  • 12. SHOP SUPPORT PARTICIPATE Dell is another brand that receives frequent accolades for its social media acumen. And they’ve taken a slightly different approach than Zappos. Whereas Zappos uses social media to project culture and deliver service, Dell uses social media to invite customers to participate in shaping the brand, and even it’s products. You can see this approach spelled out explicitly in Dell’s website navigation – Shop, Support, Participate. These are three separate but complementary pillars. Good website navigation reflects a combination of user priorities and business objectives. So it’s pretty clear that Dell views the three most important things its website has to accomplish as helping people shop, gain support or participate in the community. That’s a strong statement.
  • 13. from to the 48 low 20s flickr.com/iandolphin There are several interesting aspects of Dell’s story. For starters, this is a brand turnaround story. If you go back to 2005, Dell was roundly criticized in the social media space. Their online sentiment measures showed negative mentions running at 48% of all online mentions. Today, that number has been lowered to the low 20s.
  • 14. flickr.com/davidberkowitz And it’s only one measure of Dell’s investment in social media. Dell has a Conversations and Communities team of 40 people. They have an active presence in nearly every major social media channel, they have their own direct-to-consumer blog, and several special interest blogs.
  • 15. There are over 65 Twitter accounts managed by Dell, and the Dell Outlet Twitter account is followed by nearly 400,000 Twitterers, or Twits. And they use it not only externally, but internally as well.
  • 16. They’re also one of the few brands to have released information publicly about sales through social media. As of last year, Dell had sold over $1 million through sales alerts on Twitter alone. So, someone has figured out how to monetize Twitter, it’s just not Twitter.
  • 17. Dell IdeaStorm – 10,000 ideas, 200 implemented, sales results? Implemented in 6 wks, btw. Launched in 2007 August of 2008, Dell launched 9 new laptops “designed” by ideastorm community
  • 18. SOCIAL SHOPPING In contrast to the previous two retailers, WetSeal has tied its social media strategy directly to ecommerce. They launched a community area of their site last Spring, where Wet Seal fans can build ensembles and publish them to the community for reviews.
  • 19. So what you’re seeing here are outfits that Wet Seal shoppers have put together on the Wet Seal site and published to the community for reviews.
  • 20. It’s obviously an ensemble sales strategy, and it does a couple of things: -It leverages the wisdom and creativity of crowds to market the product -It provides social validation of fashion choices to enhance selling. This is a step beyond user reviews. You can think of it as user-generated merchandising.
  • 21. -It leverages the wisdom and creativity of crowds to market the product -It provides social validation of fashion choices to enhance selling.
  • 22. 10 + 10 So what are the results of this particularly obvious bit of heresy? Within a couple of months of launch, WetSeal saw sales increases of 10% on its’ site, and they have seen a 10% increase in average ticket for purchases where people visit the community section of the site. So, both in total revenue and in avg. order, the integration of social media directly into the shopping process has proven beneficial.
  • 23. flickr.com/mikefischer Another interesting aspect of this story is that Wet Seal is now running a pilot program to take the concept in store. They are testing kiosks that will allow you to scan an item in store and see all of the online ensembles that have been created with that item. It’s a way of bringing the online social experience into real-world retail.
  • 24. RADICAL TRANSPARENCY flickr.com/imuttoo The next brand I want to take a look at has really gone beyond conversations and has opened up their brand and business functions to consumers. I think it’s the brand that has really pushed the boundaries of social media to something you could call radical transparency.
  • 25. We’ll start with Best Buy CMO, Barry Judge. I talked earlier about leaders diving in, here’s another example. Barry is the most followed CMO on Twitter with over 5000 followers. Not quite Aston Kutcher territory, but not bad for a CMO. * Used blog to post rough cuts of creative and solicit input, which CDs hated, btw.
  • 26. And they’re one of the brands participating in MO Film contest, UGC advertising contest with brief. So, in terms of marketing, they’re already engaging consumers to help shape the brand.
  • 27. But I think the most groundbreaking stuff is coming out of their technology group.
  • 28. This year, they launched ReMix. It’s an open API, or applicatoin programming interface that allows developers to use the BestBuy catalog data from their ecommerce site to create applications. 3 Simple Stipulations: -Don’t claim to be Best Buy -Acknowledge the data came from them -If you offer ecommerce, Best Buy has to be ONE of the options
  • 29. So we’re seeing the first wave of applications come out, like CamelBuy, which sends alerts to you on price drops at Best Buy, and . . .
  • 30. Consumers Price, which is sort of like Priceline for electronics. It’s a site that lets you set a price for an item, and it will let you know when the item reaches that price.
  • 31. And now that they have the platform, they’re leveraging it to engage the community further, launching an idea contest recently to generate application concepts, and community adjudicated application contests seem to be in the works. At the end of the day, what Best Buy gets out of this is two things: - they get broader distribution for their content and commerce applications, more touchpoints with more consumers, and - they get a bunch of free R&D on the interface layer. Successful applications will yield revenue AND guidance on features that can be incorporated into the Best Buy site interface. So, they get the chance to increase revenue and improve the customer experience in the same stroke.
  • 32. The last brand I want to talk about is Build-a-Bear Workshop. This is one I know personally. And the project I want to talk about has been one of the most interesting and gratifying in my 17-year interactive career. Online has always had a few unique wrinkles for BABW. It’s one thing for an electronics retailer or apparel retailer to conduct business online, but when you’re an experience retailer, how do you take your brand online without losing your experience and commoditizing your product? Well, the tidal wave of kids virtual worlds has helped us answer that question. In 2007, we launched buildabearville.com.
  • 33. this is what a kids’ virtual world entails. There are spaces where kids can gather and chat.
  • 34. There are games they can play. That electric eel is a beast, btw. And as you play games, you earn virtual currency, Bear Bills in our world.
  • 35. And you can spend that currency on items in the world, like clothing . . .
  • 36. QuickTime™ and a PNG decompressor are needed to see this picture. . . . or furniture for your cub condo, . . .
  • 37. . . . or even a virtual makeover
  • 38. One thing to understand about these kids virtual worlds is that they’re very social spaces. Kids can chat, share emotions and trade virtual items. This is in essence, training for Facebook.
  • 39. Now as I mentioned, BABW didn’t create the concept of a kids virtual world, but it has some unique twists when it comes to retail. 1- Fundamental change in value proposition for guests. Extends the instore exp. To online. 2 Frequency of interaction - Occasional engagement to weekly/daily interaction 3 - Of course, our premise here is that engagement leads to repeat retail or ecommerce purchases, and we’re seeing that BABV is influencing 10% of sales.
  • 40. But the impact of BABV on the business is only just beginning to be realized. It’s also opened up the door to a whole new category of product – Virtual Goods. We have a dual currency model in BABV. Not only can you earn and spend the in- world currency, Bear Bills, but you can also get Store Credits using real world dollars, either as a gift with purchase when you buy at BABW or, you can pay cash and buy store credits directly.
  • 42. We’re selling these items in store, in the form of cards . . .
  • 43. . . . and also online. Since initiating this program late last year, we’ve sold over 60,000 units of virtual goods and reached nearly a half million dollars in revenue, just from virtual goods.
  • 44. Montage of Maxine being swamped in BABV Montage of Maxine being swamped in BABV And one last point I’d like to make about BABV, this is yet another example of a CEO, or Chief Executive Bear in this case, who is actively involved in her brands’ social media efforts. Maxine Clark is an absolute dynamo. She has leaped into the social media space with both feet. She makes appearances in world and is absolutely mobbed, she also is an active blogger, and I can testify that she is on Facebook at the oddest hours of the day. We have probably the longest running series of Lexulous games in the history of Facebook. She usually plays at 2:00 AM, and I usually respond at 6:00 AM.
  • 45. SERVICE SHOP SUPPORT CULTURE PARTICIPATE EXPERIENCE RETAIL SOCIAL RADICAL SHOPPING TRANSPARENCY So, in the end, we have five different brands, five different approaches to social media ranging from fairly orthodox to outright heresy, but all delivering an impact to the bottom line.
  • 46. MARK LOGAN VP – INTERACTIVE mlogan@barkleyus.com @mlogan on Twitter 46