Plan expansion of digital brand community management into new segments or markets deliberately.
Designing Strategies for Managing Digital Brand Communities
Turn digital brand community management from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
Course Overview
Attribution in digital brand community management is imperfect; that is not a reason to stop measuring it. Discounting solves a problem in community management today and creates a larger one next quarter. The programme converts the practice within marketing and commercial practice from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what digital brand community management has actually achieved. Participants test their assumptions about this area of marketing and commercial practice against scenarios designed to break weak ones. Organisations that document community management properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. What blocks progress on digital brand community management is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The programme works equally well for those formalising community management for the first time and those improving an existing approach. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the practice within marketing and commercial practice that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build the reporting on community management that supports a spending decision.
Diagnose whether a problem in digital brand community management is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Set acceptance criteria for community management before work begins rather than after.
Handle objections in digital brand community management without conceding position immediately.
Test creative and messaging on community management before committing budget.
Plan the handover of digital brand community management so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Who Should Attend
Team leaders and supervisors who put digital brand community management into practice day to day.
Business development managers pursuing opportunities in community management.
Sales managers leading teams that deliver digital brand community management.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over community management.
Founders and owner-managers running digital brand community management personally.
Digital marketing specialists executing community management.
Course Modules
Digital brand community management: measurement, attribution and honest reporting
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Measuring digital brand community management when attribution is imperfect
- Describe the buyer for digital brand community management specifically enough to name who is excluded.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether community management is improving.
- Map the handovers in digital brand community management between functions and secure them.
- Record what was learned when community management did not go as planned.
Session 2Pricing community management on value rather than cost
- Define the handover point between marketing and sales in digital brand community management.
- Script the three most common objections in community management and the responses.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in digital brand community management.
- Set the discount authority for community management and require justification.
Community management: channels, content and creative
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Qualifying out of community management early and without guilt
- Write the positioning claim for digital brand community management and test whether a competitor could say it too.
- Estimate the resource community management requires to run as designed.
- Review whether digital brand community management is aligned with the objectives of the commercial team.
- Rehearse the briefing on community management that would follow an incident.
Session 2Where the buyer actually decides on community management
- Select channels for digital brand community management based on evidence, then cut the rest.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of community management before proposing changes.
- Map the decision journey for digital brand community management and mark where the choice is actually made.
- Build the internal briefing that explains community management to those affected.
Community management: qualification and pipeline discipline
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making community management work when resources are constrained
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when digital brand community management underperforms.
- Build the competence framework that supports community management.
- Choose the next segment for digital brand community management and state why it is next.
- Build the content that answers the buyer's real question about community management.
Session 2Handling the objection to digital brand community management that ends most conversations
- Identify the data already collected that bears on digital brand community management.
- Measure lifetime value from community management, not just first purchase.
- Define qualification criteria that disqualify quickly in digital brand community management.
- Design the retention action triggered when a customer of community management goes quiet.
Community management: the customer journey and decision points
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for community management, and to whom
- Compare cost of acquisition against value in digital brand community management.
- Set out the decisions in community management that require sign-off and by whom.
- Build the report on digital brand community management that answers whether to spend more or less.
- Test creative for community management at small scale before full commitment.
Session 2Testing community management before relying on it
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about digital brand community management.
- Agree the attribution model for community management and state its known limits.
- Set escalation thresholds for digital brand community management that work out of hours.
- Draft the minimum viable go-to-market plan for community management.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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