Retail & CPG

How Amway Transformed Its Social Enterprise and Boosted Campaign Revenue by 500%

Built on the Hootsuite Enterprise platform, the Amway Social Cloud integrates Hootsuite for social media management, Brandwatch for social listening, and ZeroFOX for social risk mitigation. In less than a year, the platform was successfully deployed across all global markets active on the supported social media networks, allowing Amway to centralize the tactical execution of its social media activities.

Amway now uses Hootsuite to manage more than 200 social media accounts—representing all Amway-owned and supported social properties—for global and local visibility and management. This includes publishing, scheduling, content curation, community engagement, team collaboration, and more.

Together with the social listening and risk management capabilities powered by Brandwatch and ZeroFOX, the Amway Social Cloud has enabled the company to manage its global brand on social, launch a successful social selling program for its influencers and advocates, and attribute the performance of its social tactics and campaigns in driving business results—both company-wide and at the level of individual ABOs.

Amway’s top priority for its next major campaign was to create a social-first experience—both for the company’s existing digital-native ABOs and to attract new ABOs to the business.

Working closely with Hootsuite’s professional services team and industry experts, the team drafted new standards and a global training curriculum to guide ABOs in posting on social media, taking into account the range of abilities and willingness to use social media.

With multiple regions and languages to support, content for the Amway Digital Lab training platform needed to be both globally relevant and easy to modify for local market requirements. With expert help from Hootsuite, the team developed in-person and video-based training consisting of 40 videos, job aids, and quizzes, all specifically designed to make it easy for regional teams to localize videos and other materials as needed.

Rolling out training and services across regions also helped the team identify additional opportunities to drive successful adoption. A pilot program in Russia gamified the curriculum, creating a track for ABOs to allow them to move from level to level with rewards upon completion—and when the program completed, an impressive 96% of ABOs remained active on the platform.

To track the success of the campaign, Amway needed the ability to attribute business results to social media activity—both overall and at the level of individual ABOs.

The team knew that social would be an effective tool to inspire purchases, with potential customers receiving personalized recommendations from like-minded peers on social channels. But tracking the last step to purchase—when customers leave social networks to convert on websites—was a challenge Amway needed to overcome, especially with each ABO selling products from an individual, personalized retail website.

Using Adobe Analytics integrated with Hootsuite Advanced Analytics, Amway brought together website conversion data and social post data to create a complete picture of each ABO’s performance on social.

This integrated data enabled ABOs to review the performance of their social content and modify their strategy based on the results they were seeing. It also allowed Amway to directly link social selling and advocacy to top-line revenue growth—to the point where the company specifically attributed its sales growth increase to social selling in its annual report.

As Amway worked to enable its global distributor base on social media, it also increased investment in compliance technology.

Powered by Brandwatch, Amway’s global social listening platform monitors active queries and channels across 30 supported languages for brand mentions and other relevant activity. With integrated security and compliance solutions from ZeroFOX, Amway is able to ensure that its brand, executives, and social media presence remain protected from malicious activity.

The listening platform monitors all key brands and requests takedowns of social content and accounts that are either non-compliant with Amway’s social guidelines or are impersonating accounts.

With a highly successful campaign rolled out, a global community of passionate influencers, and a social technology platform that strikes an ideal balance between enablement and performance management, Amway’s enterprise transformation proves that it’s never too late to discover—and redefine—what’s possible to achieve on social.

Working with smart technology partners, Amway has developed social training and enablement materials that can be easily localized to suit the needs of its global distributors. And with the right measurement in place, the company is well positioned to learn, iterate, and compound its successes.