Domino’s Pizza recently experimented with soliciting and posting customer feedback in the most public of spaces: a giant billboard in Times Square, NYC.
The aim of this digital marketing campaign: To get feedback from customers so the company can improve its pizza and delivery service, and to support the company’s “Oh Yes We Did” campaign.
The plan: Dominos invested in a 125-foot-wide billboard in Times Square, and broadcast customer comments from the Domino’s Tracker online. Customers could submit comments and photos, and were notified via email if their feedback was posted on the billboard. The first comments were posted on July 25, and the last day shown on the tracker website was August 25.
While the feedback wasn’t shown in realtime – comments were generally posted 10-12 hours after delivery – customers were able to see their submissions go up (thanks to the email notifications) if their comment was chosen for display.
The billboard was also featured in a Domino’s Pizza TV commercial, showing two real NY-area Domino’s managers reacting to the billboard on a busy night.
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The results of this display of transparency:
- the customer messages were seen by 500,000 passers-by
- 80% of feedback on the billboard was positive, according to Domino’s spokesman Chris Brandon
- 20% of feedback was “constructive”
- customers feel that they are being heard, and that the brand is responding to their needs
Gene Galindo, marketing director of 53 Dominos locations, told SmartBlog on Restaurants that “social media gives us a chance to make things right” and the campaign makes it clear that “Domino’s is extremely transparent.”
The company is no stranger to digital and social media efforts, with a national Domino’s Facebook page with over 3.6 million fans, along with Facebook and Twitter pages for many of the individual franchises. There is also a special deals website, Domino’s Pizza Giveaways, which offers coupons, specials, and freebies to a target audience.
