Afternoon Keynote
Brian Solis
The End of Business of
@briansolis BrianSolis.com
Jim Farmley – Global CMO
Talking about the Ford Escape
Ford Escape 2012
has the ability to open hatch with a sensor, i.e. you are carrying a bag of groceries and your hands are tied up.
Next opportunity – driving is a social experience, most people have navigation, you can tell where most people are going. find out where friends are going, or find where most of your friends go in a certain city, making the driving piece social, smart design, all the features in the car, remix.
Fiesta movement taught them alot
Ford Focus
Ford wants to have the same vehicle
Focus Rally – Amazing Race producers
6 teams compete for money, promote the Focus before it came out.
Escape Routes – is a new way to
Teams of two people
people apply, social graph, twist, you can play discover new features
social ask to help them win
each team will have a blogger embedded with the team
final challenge will take place in super high profile media outlets where the winning team will be revealed
Do you have a social graph
one will be open for America to pick!
You can be a part of it if you have your social graph
ask for help from your communities
QR codes are to experience the new Escape, activate one of the QR codes at BlogWorld, as it moves from here to LA Auto Show.
Executives used to drive non-Ford cars, not the oval blue, the company itself was not in love with the blue oval.
Ford is One Company
Engineers should be coming in with innovations daily, for consumers
Active Park Assist
Sync
Is this the smartest design in the category
Companies are not trusted.
customers trust other customers, other people.
56% trust, customers are skeptical
Customers have a voice, through social media, scalable,
hungry for reality
People are hungry for the real thing, authenticity
going to market with a different paradigm, let the customer own the brand
be willing to give up the brand
Learning in the
Companies want people to speak like real people
Derek Cuzik – Ford Engineer
What makes Ford Engineers different? One engineer lost a child,
the crash system has to be designed like a child.
FordStory.com – a way to tell the story of the people who work at Ford.
1200 stories posted
40% generated
Speak like your customers, if you want to give up the brand
Territory in Australia, best selling
Jess, went on a trip to visit 236 of her facebook friends
236 friends on one tank
Ken Block – DG shoes, Hired from Mazda
rented a warehouse in France
He drove stunts from
Fiesta
15k on a video
42 million
average 7 minutes
produce stories and experiences
car is the enabler
cars are social
Ford Fiesta movement = listening was so important
=
Create a Shareable Experience
Doug the Puppet –
Ford Focus
Engaging Content
– Listen and Act
absolutely companies can listen and act
ExplorerLive – facebook
7 reveals on facebook,
not revealed at a show, it was revealed online!
HD Flipcams, answers on facebook
Mustang Mayhem
Crowdsource
Here’s the press release on the James Farley keynote:
Fastest growing group on Facebook is women in their 50’s
Customers are done with the fluff
Democratize technology
Sync – $200 because Ford wanted as many people to have it.
The company being true to itself
Filled with a bunch real people.
Next step is the dealer
People are the focus, not the car, it is about the people
How to bring the voices of the customers to the dealers
Ford dealers are old, many for many many years, sponsoring little league , they know the
Drive one for your school
test drives at schools
give $5 to the school
700 test drives in a rural community
connect the cashier, who hears all the complaints.
listening post for dealership
Retail Experience!
Setting expectations
Word clouds of social marketing strategies
Flexibility and dexterity, how do you really tune in to the customers.
Being responsive! that is key!
Scott Mony –
Alan – calls the customer
Start at the top
Executive blogger?
gaping void
Occupy movement, everyone is a change agent.
bringing sales, service, dealers, marketing
Clegs
Jim lost two children.
Ford, .tv, .me
Stikam
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