The document discusses various topics related to social media usage in the insurance industry. It notes that baby boomer social media usage has risen 20% in the last year. It also discusses the growth of smartphones and their projected sales numbers. Additionally, it outlines six threats facing the insurance industry, including a soft market, regulatory changes, and the rise of data demands. The rest of the document provides advice on effectively using social media for insurance companies, including both offensive and defensive strategies.
2. Baby Boomer use rose 20% in last year
now stands at 32%
Majority of U. S. adults use social
networks
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3. THE GROWTH OF MOBILE
Smartphone sales outstrips laptop and desktop
sales in 2010
Projected smartphone sales in 2016 1.5 billion
units
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4. SIX THREATS FACING THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY
SOFT MARKET/WEAK ECONOMY
REGULATORY CHANGES
THE VIRTUAL CONSUMER
CARRIER/PRODUCER RELATIONS
DATA/ERM DEMANDS
TECH AS A GAME CHANGER
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9. THEY WANT TO BE FOUND !
ADD TO THE PURELY TRANSACTIONAL
RELATIONSHIP, MAKE IT DEEPER
TOP-OF MIND VISIBILITY
JUST-IN-TIME ACCESSIBILITY
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18. On Offense
Promote your brand
Generate leads
Strengthen customer relationships
Build communities around customer needs
Develop advocates
Tell the insurance story
Listen, learn and engage
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19. It Does Not Mean:
Just setting up a Facebook page
Treating social media as just another corporate
mouthpiece
Buttonholing social media in the marketing
department it must be an enterprise function
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20. It Does Mean:
Listening, not lecturing
Creating your own demand
Building communities around core competencies
Encouraging social sharing
Using data effectively
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21. On Defense
Defend your brand
Know how to respond to criticism and turn it
your advantage
Build legal protections
Create risk management plan
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22. It Does Not Mean:
Blocking all employee access
Tuning out the complainers
Waiting for the first compliance violation to
take action
Putting it on the backburner until business
improves
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23. It Does Mean:
Creating a strategy and plan for formal
participation
Educating and guiding users
Establishing usage guidelines and enforcing them
Managing your social media profile
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25. Social Media Is Not Just About
Communications
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26. Its Also About the Data
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27. Entering the era of Web 3.0
Using the data effectively and safely
Monitoring with blinders
More than checking your own sites
Use two or more services and variety of metrics
Know what your competitors, producers and
buyers are doing
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28. Regulatory Red Flags
Insurance departments now monitoring social
media activity
Concerned about absence of research protocols
Advertising
Testimonials and Endorsements
Consumer Privacy
Record Retention
Agent Monitoring (or lack of it)
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30. Case law is evolving
Many areas of law affected: employment,
contracts, intellectual property, privacy, data
security
# 1 concern online terms and conditions
Four must-haves: policy, guidelines,
monitoring, training
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31. The Cost/Benefit Equation
Use existing staff to start not just a twenty-
something in a cubicle
Create support system
Phased-in implementation
Use roadmap to avoid missteps
Recalibrate marketing investment
Minimize compliance, litigation costs
Measuring performance
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32. Whats New in 2012
Specify ROI (soft and hard)
Growing regulatory scrutiny
Commercial lines apps acceleration
Widespread carrier-agent cooperation
Mobile Internet explosion (content and apps)
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