Five Principles for Amazing Cause Marketing that Makes a Difference

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Cause Marketing Best Practices: Five Guidelines for Social Media Campaigns

Photo credit: Photo by Adrian Ruiz, LifeHouseDesign http://ow.ly/2UMdF

• Popular tactics• Strategy underpinning• Five Principles• When it goes wrong

Kami Huyse, @kamichat

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Kami HuysePartner, Zoetica

kami@zoeticamedia.com@kamichat

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When a company applies its resources to advance social change in a way that contributes to business results while also significantly benefitting the cause

The Double Bottom Line (2bl)Effective Generosity

1. LIKE Drives2. Reveal Tabs3. Contests4. Outsourced Giving5. Comment Campaigns6. Pledges7. Micro Donations

Some Popular Tactics

Strategy is the Key

Ingredients ofGreat Cause Marketing

SocialImpact

Corp.Mission

StakeholderEngagement

Not All Contests Are Created Equal

LIKES are a Start Not An End

Being Social Works Better in a Community

Social Happens in Real Life (IRL)

The Word on the Street…Integration

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Five Principles

1Not all contests are created equal

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$245K+1.8M

$10M $6M $20M $1M

Contest Mania

Non-Profit Capacity Corporate ReputationLeaderboard Well-defined proceduresShorter timeframes Third-party oversightSpreading incentives You cut, they chooseEveryone wins (not only $) Align with valuesSupport systems Measure social impactKeep it simple Police GamingEasy calls to action Address tech issuesClear expectations Legalese and English rulesObvious benefits Defined objectives

Cynicism on the Rise

2“LIKES” are a Start,Not An End

Facebook “LIKE” Drive

275K “LIKES - $101K in toys - 180 nonprofits

Goes Beyond the “LIKE”

3Being Social Works Better in a Community

Campaigns Require Community

Start small grow BIG

Beth Kanter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/2296887265/

http://ow.ly/57i8d

Inspiration: The 93 Dollar Club

http://www.facebook.com/93dollarclub

• XBOX premium content purchase• $10 (full cost) to Save the Children • Up to $100,000. • 10,000 units of VIP game packs sold within two

weeks, plus additional units sold.

Experiements

4Social Happens in Real Life (IRL)

#G4NP

Google’s Portal for Nonprofits #Google4np

GMC Gives Mark Horvath a Vehicle at SOBCon

5The Word on the Street…Integration

Marketing and PR CSR Team

Product Developmen

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Management Partners

A Mindful Change

Iteration of a Core Idea

An Amazing Event1 2

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A Clear Objective

A Strong Nonprofit Partner

Facebook Call to Action

Progress Gauge

Lack of Integration

Revenue

Groupon Traffic

When It Goes Wrong• Artificial• Unfair• Complex• Disconnected• Inappropriate• Fatiguing• Execution

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Kami HuysePartner, Zoetica

kami@zoeticamedia.com@kamichat