9:00 am–9:40 am
A distinctive story helps define and successfully communicate unique personal and business attributes. Storytelling has become a powerful business tool in today’s digital age because it begins and ends with empathy, driving an immersive and emotional experience for stakeholders and audiences that inspires them to action. In this dynamic and interactive session, Miri will share practical tools to help you become a skilled storyteller in a looming robopocalypse so that you can successfully keep relevant in the marketplace, drive engaging relationships and win in business and in life.
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9:50 am–10:30 am
Walmart constantly strives to be transparent with associates, customers, and stakeholders. Social media is how many consume information, and people can sense authenticity a mile away. Whether the goal is to share news, support a business objective, or celebrate an associate, stories shared need to be representative of our company culture and guiding principles. The most genuine way we can elevate those stories is by using the voices of our more than two million associates.
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2:20 pm–3:00 pm
When our brands are empathetic, appreciative, compassionate, recognizant, responsive, supportive, emotive, that can drive the strongest resonance and affinity with our audiences. At Santa Monica Studio, we embrace this to the fullest to engage and empower our fans. Hear how we've transformed our social media strategy from being a digital billboard, to a powerful, connective voice with our audience that significantly helped elevate our studio brand and ongoing critical success of the latest God of War.
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3:30 pm–4:10 pm
The internet is full of conversations – demands rather – about the injustice of the missing white wine emoji. Red wine emojis pervade keyboards everywhere leaving vineyard-sized holes in conversations thirsty for red wine’s lighter counterpart. The people spoke and we listened. For Kendall-Jackson, the 35+-year-old winery, it was a matter of igniting the community behind the cause and creating a platform for the voices of the global internet to come together under a common goal. Hear about the 2-year long process, the value of never giving up and how brands can listen and adapt to changing consumer preferences and media habits.
4:20 pm–5:00 pm
In Bryan’s “Learning How to Speak, Market, and Sell Human-to-Human, H2H” keynote, he explores what traits humans have that machines don’t. The business world has long referred to itself as either “B2B” or “B2C”. But Bryan Kramer argues that it’s humans who do business with humans – not companies – and in his book, his “H2H Human to Human” movement inspired the business world to humanize the way they operate. And like companies, people have their own brands that reflect their reputation, values, and character. In today’s connected and social world, a personal brand is “career insurance” you can’t afford to have.
Through examples pulled from Bryan’s viral smash-hit first book “There’s No B2B or B2C: It’s Human-to-Human H2H” that birthed the H2H movement, and through entertaining stories from his own experiences, he delivers practical tools and steps you can use right now to connect with your customers, be smarter marketers, managers, and fellow members of the human race.
Join Bryan as your personal change agent, and learn the steps to take control of how others see your most valuable asset – you.
11:00 am–11:40 am
Identifying what engages your audience is key to developing a successful social strategy. In this discussion, Kyle will describe how the Oakland Athletics went about identifying who their fanbase and audience was on social, and how they were able to reflect that with their content and storytelling tactics.
After this talk, attendees will understand how to:
11:50 am–12:30 pm
CERN is the world's largest particle-physics laboratory. Thousands of scientists from all over the world work together to advance our knowledge of matter, its fundamental constituents and the forces that link them. With more than 2.5 million followers on Twitter, nearly 700,000 fans on Facebook and more than 450,000 followers on Instagram, CERN has built a large community on social media. But is that enough? We still need to publish engaging posts, publications that speak to our followers and makes them want to click, enjoy and share. The challenge is how to reach more people while staying true to the Laboratory’s ideals and values.
With social media today, scientific institutes must work hard to be stronger than Facebook, Twitter or Instagram algorithms. This requires getting closer to the online community by showing more of what we do on a daily basis in our facilities while continuing to make people dream. Content such as Facebook Live, 360° images and videos, Instagram Stories and scientists directly engaging with questions from an online community all work to build engagement.
This talk presents CERN's quantitative objectives and KPIs on social media and shares how we go beyond these in analyzing the impact of social media posts. Because behind the numbers, it can be more important to redefine success on social media.
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1:30 pm–2:10 pm
Ryan will share the considerations and framework to build a successful social media marketing strategy, as well as methods to achieve leadership and cross-functional buy-in. Whether your goal is to add value to a current strategy or develop a foundational plan from the ground up, this session is perfect for attendees that want to optimize the way they plan, activate, and measure a successful social media program.
1 - Identify the building blocks of a social media strategy
2 - Develop a scalable cohesive social structure
3 - Align social KPIs with business objectives
11:00 am–11:40 am
At Vitamix, we are moving from created brand-centric content to campaigns and assets that speak to the needs of our target audiences. Using a mix of owned brand content and user-generated content, we've been able to develop a new, more approachable identity on social. During this discussion, you'll learn how to:
11:50 am–12:30 pm
Zenia, who uses 3Q’s creative matrix, will discuss ways attendees can fuse the art and science of marketing and SEO, and how to use data-backed creativity to drive growth. Zenia will share how data can remove busywork from campaigns, opening up more room for creative thought. She will also discuss the ways data empowers brands to make creative decisions—allowing social teams to make creative decisions and pivot quickly to another approach if it's not working.
11:00 am–11:40 am
Influencer Marketing is not a one-size-fits-all industry. Based on your company’s KPIs, budget, and overall marketing workflow - your strategy may just dictate itself. However, as brands continue to spend more and more dollars on the ever-growing industry, many have started creating internal influencer marketing teams to create and manage longterm relationships. Learn how to get started (regardless of your resources) from one of Dollar Shave Club’s Influencer Marketing leads, Amanda Chavira. Amanda will walk you through the process of how to get started via an agency, how to bring the process in house and how to achieve results from an in-house team.
11:50 am–12:30 pm
Science creator William Osman and David Seelos of his management team at Concurrent Studios discuss the aspects of a successful and well-received influencer/creator marketing campaign.
It’s no secret that influencers and creators are serious about protecting the image and reputation of their own brands. William will help you navigate the waters of keeping content brand-focused while maintaining the identity of the creator. He’ll also explain his own process of brainstorming and producing campaigns for his brand sponsors.
David Seelos, Concurrent’s Director of Brand Partnerships, dives into the best ways to contact a creator, successfully negotiate a sponsorship agreement, and maintain a good relationship between creators and brands. He’ll also explain how to ensure a deal is mutually beneficial to all parties, and provide tips for ensuring campaign renewals.
1:30 pm–2:10 pm
This session will cover how Zoe Rodriguez, CEO of ZBody Fitness Inc., managed to boost her sales and maximize ROI through Instagram influencer marketing. She worked with several micro-influencers in the fitness industry who told authentic stories to promote her fitness programs and ebooks. This authentic storytelling coming from relevant Instagram influencers resulted in an impressive 3.5X increase in ROI. In this session, I will share a breakdown of the steps taken to achieve this.
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