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Decoding Digital
Week Eight: Tying it all together
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About the Decoding Digital program
• The program aims to help small and medium Victorian businesses develop the digital skills and foundations to ensure future profitability and success
• We want to make you aware of:
– The major trends facing Victorian businesses now and in the future
– The most important digital and ICT considerations for your business
– Why it is important and why it matters for you
• To help you on your journey we will be providing you with:
– Simple explanations of digital technologies available
– Easy steps and takeaways to get you started
– Case studies and examples of other Victorian businesses
– Interactive webinars, Google Hangout Q&A sessions and ongoing social media interaction
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How to engage with us by webinar
Today is our last webinar: ask us about ANYTHING we’ve covered (or haven’t) during the program while you can!
• Chat box
• Polls
– We will be answering questions during the session on Twitter. Contact us directly at @Symphony3Think and/or use the hashtag #DigitalVic
• LinkedIn:
• au.linkedin.com/in/fergalcoleman/
• au.linkedin.com/in/ryanplaylesmith
• au.linkedin.com/in/sohalkhatwani
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Webinar Schedule
Week One: Digital Leadership (May 7)
Week Two: Building the right digital foundations (May 14)
Week Three: Understanding your customer (May 21)
Week Four: How to generate brand awareness and position your products and
services evaluation (May 28)
Week Five: Ecommerce – making it easy for your customers to buy online (June 4)
Week Six: How to support your customers online (June 11)
Week Seven: How to engage your customers and create loyal advocates (June 18)
Week Eight: Tying it all together – Developing your digital strategy(June 25)
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Today’s Session: Tying it all together
• Week on week review
• Field questions as we go
• Look at Google Analytics
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What now?
Before any business can implement technology, it needs a strong digital plan.
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Revisiting the diagnostic
Digital Diagnostic: http://decodingdigital.symphony3.com/
• Resit the diagnostic
• Compare to your original results (email [email protected] if you have deleted your results email)
• See how far you’ve come!
• You cannot make all of your improvements in eight weeks – keep working away after Decoding Digital.
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Digital Leadership
• In week 1 we asked you where you fit on the matrix. How about now?
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What are your customer going to want in the future?
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Our Journey
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You need to measure: Google Analytics
• Some Google Analytics tips
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Week 1: Digital Leadership
• Digital leadership is important!
• It’s affecting every industry, and it’s happening quickly
• Digital trends
– Crowdsourcing
– Sharing economy
– Cloud
– Data
– 3D Printing
– Social
– Mobile
– Multi-screening
Resources:
• SWOT Analysis Worksheet
• Business Model Canvas
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Week 2: Building the right digital foundations
• Policies and guidelines
• Cloud technology
• Your website as a business platform
• Skills and knowledge
• Mobile
• Changing business models
Resources:
• Digital Foundation Audit
• Social Media Guidelines poster
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Week 3: Understanding your customer
• Customer personas – the importance of really understanding your customer
• Introduction to the customer journey
– Unaware to aware
– Evaluation
– Purchase
– Implement / Install
– Support
– Advocate
• Advocacy and review platforms
• Multi-screening
Resources:
• Customer persona worksheet
• Customer journey worksheet
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Week 4: Online product awareness & evaluation
• How to make customers aware of our products and services
– SEO
– Social media
– Other listings
– Advertising
• How to help customers evaluate your offering
– Best practice web design and product information
– Communicating solutions
– Usability
• Content
– Importance of content
– Content best practice
Resources:
• Content SEO best practice guide
• Content plan template
• Google SEO starter guide
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Week 5: Get customers to buy online
• The importance of selling online
• eCommerce trends
• Selling online for services
• Simple eCommerce solutions
• Maximising value from images and product info
• Perceived customer risk
• Case study: The Ark
• Selling with social media
Resources:
• Social media communication types infographic
• Competitor analysis template
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Week 6: Support customers online
• Customers’ online support expectations
• The importance of providing great online customer service
• Support tools
– Live chat
– Zendesk
– Listening posts
– Social media
– YouTube & video
• Self-service
• LinkedIn workshop
Resources:
• Social media response guide
• Tips and tricks for LinkedIn
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Week 7: Creating loyal advocates online
• Grow your brand audience
• Using social media and customer service to create online advocates
• Importance of image and video content
• Review of social media tools
• Case study: Round She Goes
• Using hashtags and Twitter
• Facebook Insights and content
• Co-creation and voting platforms
Resources:
• Uservoice voting platform example
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What now?
Before any business can implement technology, it needs a strong digital vision.
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What now?
Step 1: Prioritise areas for improvement with the Digital Diagnostic. Document these on your one page plan with realistic timeframes.
Step 2: Assess any skill, knowledge or infrastructure deficiencies - how will you address these? (Freelancing? New staff? Purchase new software? Training?)
Step 3: Assess your business model structure, process and policy. Make sure the right structures are in place for new technologies.
Step 4: Implement new technologies (after training and testing).
Step 5: Measure, measure, measure. Use data and analytics to refine your methods.
Step 6: Refine and improve your implementations.
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Google Analytics – use it!
How do we measure our performance along the customer journey?
• Unaware/aware
• Evaluation
• Purchase
• Implement/install
• Support
• Loyal Advocate
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Business Victoria Resources
• http://www.business.vic.gov.au/marketing-sales-and-online/online-business-and-technology
• http://www.business.vic.gov.au/marketing-sales-and-online/online-business-and-technology/setting-up-an-online-presence