What can we say when the consumer isn't just listening? (Canberra edition)

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Breakfast Seminar Series Event Presentation. Based on recent work into the content of conversations on Twitter and other social media platforms, Dr Stephen Dann presents a way of seeing what has been said, what you can say, and how to answer the social media writer’s block of “but what do I talk about?”.

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Alumni Breakfast SeminarCollege of Business and Economics presents

Dr Stephen Dann

@stephendann

Stephen.dann@anu.edu.au

What can we say when the consumer isn't just listening?

Social Media and the Marketing Conversation

Isn’t just listening

Not isn’t listening

The rules of Engagement

You do not become a

Social Media Expert Guru.

Rule 1: No #SMEG

SMEGAwareness

Ribbon

Follower counts are irrelevant

Rule 2: Followers count

Don’t say viral. Or sticky. Don’t even think “authentically viral and sticky”

Rule 3: Never plan the organic

Now, about that social media…

http://www.intersectionconsulting.com/blog/?p=797

Content Planning / Objectives

• Where? (ft who and why)

• What? (ft when and how)

• Now what? (Who answers back)

Where? Content planning and social media objectives

Speaking of…

http://www.mr-mojo-risin.net/2011/07/03/free-social-media-icons-revisited/

Ever had the feeling you missed a

spot?

What to say…Content planning and social media objectives

Focusing on Twitter

Based on prior research…

• Content– 12,000+ manually coded tweets

• Context– Sporting events– QLD disasters (h/t @qpsmedia)– Conferences and events– Personal timelines

Spam

Conversational

News Events

Status

Phatic

Pass Along

@repliesaction, query, referral and response.

Talking with the customer

target

sport, transport, weather and natural disasters

Telling the story

target

announcements, #hashtagged events, headlines

Telling the story

target

target

automated endorsements, secondary social media, and user generated content

Share and share-alike

target

Endorsement and retweet

Share and share-alike

Anatomy of a Retweet

• Quick calculation

Original Tweet minus RT_yourusername

Primary RT: username + 3, Secondary RT: double username +6

After that, the RT dominates the message

target

Activity, location, mechanical, personal, physical, temporal and work

"What are you doing?"

target

broadcasts, fourth wall, greetings and unclassifiable

Simply existing in text

How?

Hootsuite: Automation and Scheduling

Now what?

Who’s talking back?

The Social Message Mantra

Why this message?

Why at this time?

Why should it come from me?

What response should I expect?

target

Spam

Conversational

News Events

Status

Phatic

Pass Along

Questions?

@stephendann

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