August 9 - 12, 2010
Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

Social Media and Mobile Commerce Summit

Aug 12th

 

Leveraging User Generated Content To Increase Traffic & Boost Conversion
  • Exploring the use of social media for monitoring the voice of the customer and for directly enhancing the customer experience
  • Harnessing social media and customer reviews to improve product search and merchandising capabilities
  • Monitoring, motivating, and engaging your customers within communities – both internal and external
  • Examining ways to monetize your presence across social media outlets
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
  • Utilizing user generated content to personalize customer touch points and increase conversion rates
Panel Discussion: Leveraging Social Media To Build Content, Increase SEO Rankings And Create Enhanced User Experiences
  • Researching social behavior of your customer groups to communicate with your customers effectively on your site
  • Increasing natural rankings by speaking in your customer’s "language"
    • Understanding how to leverage user generated content to increase natural search placement
  • Participating in the social sites to drive more traffic and links to your site
    • Increasing conversions as a result of viral marketing influence
  • Encouraging consumers to talk about your site or link to your site from social media sites
  • Adding links to your page to increase link popularity with search engines
  • Adding book marking and social packaging buttons to make it easier for consumers to create links back to your site
  • Continually monitoring customer feedback through social sites to improve site functionality and customer service
Utilizing Social Media To Create A Partnership With Your Customers
  • Realizing that social media is more than just listening to customer feedback online
  • Treating each engaged customer like a shareholder who has a seat at the table and a voice for innovation
  • Taking customer insights and turning them into improved products and services
  • Hitting the streets – building an online AND offline community
  • Harnessing customer intelligence more efficiently to build your priority roadmap and create business value
Building An Online Community And Driving Measurable Results
  • Examining how to build online communities and motivate social influencers
  • Leveraging customer feedback and social community features such as customer reviews, discussions, blogs and other forms of engagement to build a successful online community
  • Clique-Sourcing: getting the “right” crowd and customer to your site
    • Using micro blogs as a tool to community source and reach a very targeted audience
    • Creating custom audiences through social targeting efforts
  • Creating a plan for reaching the triple bottom line impact of social commerce
    • Revenue & traffic
    • Consumer insights & support
    • Brand loyalty
Panel Discussion: Identifying A Practical Way To Monetize Social Media
  • Building a roadmap to your vision as a key first step
    • Focusing on the end-state
  • Examining how to set up your site structure
  • Utilizing blogs to increase the buzz for your site and link build for your SEO strategy simultaneously
    • Doing everything you can to drive traffic
  • Creating a strategy for enhancing your presence on social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
  • 5 keys to keeping the customer engaged
Utilizing Social Networking To Create A Brand New Type Of Shopping Experience On Your Site
  • Fully understanding how social media sites are shifting the way that consumers interact with the web
  • Finding ways to make your website more interactive, offering a real-time immersive shopping experience
  • Increasing product views and interactions on your site to drive revenues and repeat visitors
    • Giving your customers more reasons to be on your site
  • Encouraging and facilitating peer-to-peer marketing on your site
M-Commerce
M-Commerce
Panel Discussion: M-Commerce Trends & Best Practices Revealed
  • Looking at the numbers: analyzing the growth of m-commerce consumers over the past 12 months
  • Understanding how consumers are engaged in the m-commerce space
    • How many are browsing versus buying?
  • Examining the ways that mobile can support in-store purchases and add to the overall marketing experience
  • Integrating text messaging into your marketing plan
  • Measuring the relevance and profitability of mobile traffic
Panel Discussion: Best Practices For Mobile Site Design And Navigation
  • Examining how to create a mobile site design that leverages the benefits that m-commerce offers
  • Looking at the infrastructure implications of mobile initiatives
    • Creating a mobile application for the iPhone
      • Building features and functionality that deserve real estate on a mobile desktop
    • Creating a mobile site
  • Assessing the paid and natural search implications of your site options
  • Balancing your brand image with the ease and simplicity of search, navigation and conversion on your mobile site
  • Looking at the current leading strategies for mobile site navigation
    • What works best for your industry?
  • Monetizing mobile in 2010
Assessing How Mobile Commerce Will Impact Consumer Behavior
  • Creating the infrastructure necessary to provide your customers with a mobile shopping experience
  • Understanding the impact that mobile will have on your overall business strategy
  • Ensuring that you are providing your full retail experience from a handheld device
  • Utilizing mobile devices to build customer loyalty and increase revenues