Dutch Customs & Online presence

by Karin Burger Communication = the message received, NOT the message send!

Said does not mean heard heard does not mean understood understood does not mean agreed on agreed on does not mean doing so

Dutch Customs & Online presence 3 8-6-2016 Adding value is the magic word these days; every organisation needs to find a way to create more enduring, valuable relations with their customers and stakeholders

Kennismaken met Rijksbreed 4 8-6-2016 Taking people Merge into serious the crowd Service & communication Modern

It fits to needs 2.0

Medium suits Possibility of citizens and monitoring businesses and measuring At the right time Service oriented Close to Identifable targetgroup Relevance Different expectations from the crowd Different approach in communications

Channel strategy and target oriented approach: Making integral use of online possibilities

Online community - Online community - Facebook

 More than just webcare…  Content is king, engagement is queen  Importance of community management  It is not about sending and receiving anymore, but about listening/understanding and interaction  Always, always answer!

Online community - Online community - Twitter

 Up to date information/topics  Bigger focus on actual ‘care’  Monitoring by keywords  Twitter is developing, becoming more corporate Online community - Twitter

Best practice  Top 10 best Webcare replies of 2015 (voted by Meltwater)  Targetted by keywords ‘border’ ‘holiday’ ‘bringing along’  Online influencer Kakhiel, 138,831 followers  More important: contribution to online corporate image  It showed the power of “social influencers” Douane NL, our own YOUTUBE channel Youtube Douane

 We have our own Youtube-channel  Corporate video’s & video content from social channels  Crossconversion (FB, Twitter, YouTube) Where are we now? 19 8-6-2016 Webcare team

Team set up 16 tweeps 3 editors 1 coordinator Work fields Tax Administration Benefits Customs Supported by Data pooling Campaign managers Communication advisors Press officers Spokes persons

Webcare team dashboard

8-6-2016 Travellers Travellers

 Content focused on FAQ’s  Short topics/ nice overview  Integration  Share buttons  App promotion  Appealing images Internetbuyers Internetbuyers

 Content is based on external research (webscraping, what are they talking about?)  Virtual assistant (98% accurate)  FAQ synchronised at each last search  Learning capability of VA

In progress for better and improved version Relevant online ‘location’ Relevant online ‘location’

 Cooperation express courierpartners  Widget Virtual assistant at external websites  Content still in control

Work in progress: not available yet Compliance Buzz increase

Downloads of apps Channel optimalisation

Increase of knowledge level Online conversations

Awareness In sight of target groups What do we want to achieve? Lessons learned Part 1 Virtual and Snapchat ( younger augmented reality target groups) is are the next thing, great for but not for us yet Storytelling!

The combination of Video is super Facebook with important for now is powerfull

31 Lessons learned Part 2 We are moving from Seek out social text- to image influencers, make oriented media: them your adapt your content ambassadors strategy! React to their posts, 60 % image, 40 % create social tekst, and engagement via counting…….. their network

Kennismaken met Rijksbreed 32 8-6-2016 And the result will be:

explosive growth of organic reach and engagement

Thus: higher compliance rate and a better reputation

Kennismaken met Rijksbreed 33 8-6-2016 Tomorrow we will…

 Moving along with crowd  Extend our online services for businesses  More strategic usage: integral online implementation for enforcement and trade facilitations

Tips and tricks…

 Start and adjust along the way  Trial and error  Human to human  Ongoing proces

Where to find us… www.facebook.com/douane www.twitter.com/douane www.douane.nl/internetaankopen www.douane.nl/reizigers And: Linkedin. Youtube. Instagram.

App ‘Douane Reizen’ (available for iOS/Android)

(Note: all in dutch)