How Sam's Club Uses Social Listening to Serve Member Desires

Apr 16, 2021

Sabrina Callahan and Mark Quine from Sam’s Club join Social Pros in part five of the five-part Social Pros Deep Dive series into Sam’s Club.

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Full Episode Details

The Sam’s Club Deep Dive is a new five-part series that explores how social media teams run their day-to-day operations over several episodes instead of just one. Social Pros interviewed several Sam’s Club social team members to learn the secrets of their success.

Other than direct feedback or surveys, nothing quite captures the opinion of customers like social media can.

Social media can provide a window into the minds of customers. It can help brands understand where they’re going right or wrong and what customers really want. That’s why Sam’s Club takes social listening so seriously.

In this episode of the Social Pros Deep Dive into Sam’s Club, Social Pros speaks again with Sabrina Callahan, Senior Director of Brand and Social Marketing, and Mark Quine, Director of Social and Brand Media.

They discuss the importance of social listening and how Sam’s Club responds to social opinion so quickly and effectively. Mark then discusses Sam’s Club’s approach to paid social and which strategies work best for the club.

All five episodes are out now, so get ready to binge!

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In This Episode:

• 6:06 – Sam’s Club’s philosophy around social listening
• 8:18 – Why Sam’s Club has a member insights team
• 10:37 – How Sam’s Club measures and tracks customer sentiment on social
• 11:55 – How the social team translates its metrics for other departments
• 16:06 – How Sam’s Club introduced ‘Hero Hours’ during the pandemic after social posts went viral
• 21:47 – How Sam’s Club distinguishes between signal vs. noise
• 25:37 – Which channels Sam’s Club values the most for its insights
• 29:03 – The role of paid social in Sam’s Club
• 29:52 – How Sam’s Club measures the success of paid social
• 31:21 – How Mark tries to establish real causation and correlation in paid social
• 32:10 – How the social team keeps things consistent by working closely with the digital marketing teams
• 36:59 – Sam’s Club’s methods and strategies around boosting social posts
• 38:27 – Mark’s thoughts on which creative ad formats perform best for Sam’s Club
• 44:26 – Mark’s number one tip for becoming a social pro

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