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GMs New Social Media Marketing Agency Is Staffing Up

It looks GM is putting some weight behind their Social Media Marketing.

Big Fuel, the New York-based agency that handles all of General Motors’ social media marketing, is opening a Detroit office to service the account and is on a hiring binge. Avi Savar, the CEO and founder of Big Fuel (pictured), said he has about 15 people on the ground in Detroit right now and is looking to double that number by March. The agency has another 80 people in New York and handles other clients including McDonald’s, Neutrogena and Colgate-Palmolive’s Wisp toothbrush. Savar said he hopes to have a staff of more than 200 by the end of 2011.

Big Fuel was brought on about three months ago. Previously, the agency had been gearing up to work with Hyundai, but when Hyundai’s lead marketer Joel Ewanick moved over to GM (after a short stint at Nissan), Ewanick persuaded Big Fuel to come over. The agency hasn’t executed any campaigns on behalf of GM yet, but Savar said a few are set to launch in January. This includes one for the Chevrolet Cruze called “Cruze-arati” that gives Cruzes to people who have big followings on social media.

GM’s social media marketing had previously been handled in house by, among others, Chris Barger and Mary Henige. The two were behind a program back in March in which eight teams of drivers/bloggers attended South By Southwest on GM’s behalf. GM’s social media marketing, however, has often been overshadowed by rival Ford, whose Scott Monty has more than 48,000 followers on Twitter. Ford also made a splash this summer when it introduced the Ford Explorer on Facebook and, in November, began circulating videos featuring celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Bret Michaels responding to consumers’ questions about the model.

via: Mashable

Social Media Success: 5 Lessons From In-House Corporate Teams

While implementing a successful social media campaign is something to celebrate, longer term, policy-based programs (which may not garner as much immediate publicity) can be even more rewarding.

Here we are highlighting five companies that have enjoyed long term success with their own social media teams and taking a look at some of the measurable returns they have seen as the results of their programs.

Key personnel from within the five companies below (in alphabetical order) have commented on their teams’ successes to offer you an insight into their various processes. Meanwhile, please be sure to let us know in the comments about any other companies that you feel should be recognized for having strong in-house social media teams.

Via: Mashable

Dell Has Some Interesting Twitter Sales Numbers

It looks like Dell is having great success with their @DellOutlet account.

Dell continues to be one of the more visible corporate behemoths actively using social media, and today they’re out with new numbers to demonstrate some of the success they are having.The company tells us that they’ve now generated a total of $6.5 million in revenue from their Twitter presence, where they have nearly 1.5 million followers on their @DellOutlet account (and 3 million “connections” across all social sites).

Via: Mashable

Calculate the ROI of Your Social Media Campaign

Here is an interesting article about calculating the Return On Investment of your Social Media Campaign.

First the bad news: If you’re going to calculate the ROI of your social media campaign, you’re going to have to know math. That may come as a disappointment to people who thought social media was only about accumulating Twitter followers or monitoring Facebook “Likes,” but it’s true. The future of social media is about math, metrics and monetization.

The problem is that most companies aren’t doing an effective job of measuring the value of their social media campaigns. In fact, a recent survey by Econsultancy found that 47% of the companies it surveyed said they were “not able to measure” their campaigns and that “the jury is still out” on the value gained from their social media investment.

If you’re one of the people who isn’t measuring your social media campaigns on an ROI basis, you’re setting yourself up for failure. Here are some tips, advice, and a little bit of simple math to get you on the right path to ROI success.

Via: Mashable

Dealer Impact Systems Adds Automatic Human Voice Over Capabilities

Dealer Impact Systems Adds Automatic Human Voice Over Capabilities

Dealer Impact Systems (DI), a leading provider of digital marketing and reach solutions, is once again raising the bar for automotive dealers seeking to elevate their online inventory presence across the Internet. The company today launched their AHVO or “Automatic Human Voice Over” application, the latest addition to the company’s comprehensive suite of video and digital reach products developed exclusively for auto dealers.

DI customers can add AHVO to their current digital marketing solution with a single phone call-no onsite or system upgrades are required. Once enabled, the AHVO application automatically pulls nightly inventory information from the dealer’s videos and generates vehicle-specific descriptive commentary from an existing bank of thousands of pre-recorded voice clips. The AHVO application then auto-creates a complete human voiceover clip for the video, including detailed vehicle information, as well as geographical and dealership information.  The human voice clips not only enhance customer experience, they also boost search engine results rankings.

Voice Clips Automatically Generated

“Even with recent improvements in text-to-speech technology, studies show that consumers recognize and prefer a real human voice to computer generated speech,” said Brian Cox, president and founder of Dealer Impact Systems. ” That’s why we took the time and resources necessary to ensure that our voice bank is extremely comprehensive.”

DI has long been committed to helping automotive dealerships promote their inventory listings across the digital landscape as quickly and seamlessly as possible. “AHVO significantly shortens the time it takes to get a vehicle that’s sitting on the lot into the dealership’s Internet marketing promotions in a powerful way,” said Cox.

DI customers can add the AHVO enhancement to their current digital marketing system for $150 per video license per month. There is no set up fee.

How 7 Startups Are Building Their Online Communities

Great post about online communities and how manage/grow them.

Community management is anything but a science. But, more and more startups are figuring out early on that defining what “community” means to their business, and then working to incorporate and respond to that community is an essential element in their growth and the maturation of their products.

What follows is an in-depth look at how seven startups at various stages of development are approaching community management. For some, the in-house Community Manager is a must. For others, it’s a bit of an all-hands-on-deck approach. Regardless of technique, you’ll find that each of these startups uses a combination of support software and social media tools to ensure that even if the customer isn’t always right, the customer is always heard.

A few themes resonate throughout these examples: make users happy, listen to everything, incorporate community feedback into product development when appropriate, and stop fretting over the trolls. These may all sound like simple truths, but it’s the continual practice and adherence to these purist community ideals that make them complex.

1. Pandora: Measure Success One Interaction at a Time
2. Shwowp: Make Your Users Happy
3. Seesmic: The Community Manages You
4. Disqus: Feedback is Never Lost
5. Posterous: Community Starts at the Top
6. Klout: Respond to Each and Every Request
7. Curate.us: Celebrate the Community

Via: Mashable