Social Media: New, Fresh Out-of-the-Box Ideas

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Everybody knows that they have to be on social media and have been hearing that for years. You're already on the big three of social media (Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter), but what else is there to do? This seminar will cover the following topics to answer that question: * Designing your social strategy * Changes in social networks that have changed the way users interact with their services (for example, Facebook's Timeline) * Other services you need to be on (YouTube, Google+ and Pinterest) * Mobile social media * Tips and tactics to get the most out of your time

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BlueZooCreative.com

collin@bluezoocreative.com

Twitter.com/ccondray

9/26/2012

Who we are – Collin Condray 17 years experience in

web development

Retail data analysis for multi-billion dollar companies (3M and Tyson)

Social media marketing

Agency experience with Collective Bias and Saatchi X

Who we are – Eric Huber 25 years as a graphic

designer for both small businesses and Fortune 500 companies

Marketing, advertising, and graphic design for small businesses

Award winning designer

Instructor for the New Design School

Our Team

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Please Ask Questions!

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This presentation might

already be obsolete!

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Social Media Strategy Steps 1. Listen-What are your

goals?

2. People-What are your customers ready for?

3. Objectives-What are your goals?

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Social Media Strategy Steps 4. Strategy-What change do

you want your customers to make?

5. Technology- What social media tools should you use?

6. Measure-More than just the number of new followers

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Organizing for Social Media Home Base –central place

you want to interact with people.

Outposts –where you have a presence and participate and promote yourself.

Passports – where you have profile and are listening but direct people to your Outposts and Home Base

10 Source: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/a-simple-presence-framework/

Pick Your Home Base

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Ideally Use Self Hosted Website Full control over look and

interaction

Select a content management system (CMS) that includes a blog

Major social network could also be a candidate depending on your audience

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Outposts Guide to Home Base LinkedIn is the office

Facebook is the home

Twitter is Happy Hour

Google+ Is….?

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Passports for Listening and Participation

WordPress.com

Tumblr

Yahoo

StumbleUpon

Google/Alerts/YouTube

Yelp

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Complete Profiles Fully Make sure your target

keywords are in your profile

Link back to one place, your “home base” that has all the detail about you

Be real Use a picture

Talk about your personal life…a little

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Make It Easy To Share Include a Facebook Connect

link, Call-to-Action buttons, Share Functions, or a button that invites people to do business with you in a prominent place on your blog.

Certain plugins can create all of these in one place.

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Post Consistently Post at least weekly, daily is

preferred.

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Don’t Over Post The more posts per day,

the less engagement – when a brand posts twice a day, those posts only receive 57% of the likes and 78% of the comments per post.

18 Source: http://tracksocial.com/blog/2012/06/optimizing-facebook-engagement-part-2-how-frequently-to-post/

Don’t Know What To Say? Find something

interesting, link to it on your site and comment on it. It could be as simple as adding “This is a great article because ____.”

Ask people in the industry what they’d like to know and create content around that.

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Weapons of Choice – Text and Photos

Easiest to do

Search engines like text.

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Weapons of Choice - Video The technology is in in your

hands: many cell phones do HD level video that looks good on YouTube

Imperfections makes it real as well

Lots of video services but start with YouTube

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Weapons of Choice - Audio Twit.tv

Founded by Leo Laporte, radio/TV host.

Started off with one show, grew to many.

Various ways to have remote participants.

Video added later.

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Make Connections Exploit Strength of Weak

Ties

Tell everyone what you’re building

Don’t be afraid to introduce yourself to strangers

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---- Strong Ties

---- Weak Ties

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Facebook Page - Images New Images

Sizes

Cover Photos (815x315)

Show off your brand here

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Facebook Page - Images Profile Image (180x180)

Use the same image across social media networks to ensure brand identity

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Facebook Pages Pinned Posts

Stays at the top for a week

Rotate this often

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Facebook Pages Highlighted Posts

Expands post across both columns

Draws extra attention to a single post

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Facebook-EdgeRank EdgeRank determines where

your posts show up in the Facebook News Feed

Listed under Top Stories option

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Facebook-EdgeRank Affinity – relationship with

object (is this person a friend or did they just Like something)

Weight-type of post (images have the highest weight)

Time Decay-decreases as content ages

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∑ Affinity X

Weight X

Time Decay

Twitter New Twitter profiles

Header photos similar to Facebook profile

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Twitter API change

More restrictive to non-Twitter developers

Move more interaction to their site or to their applications like TweetDeck

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Twitter Promoted Accounts

Build followers

Look for people with similar interests and recommends you in the “Who to Follow” section

As little as $0.30 per follower

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Twitter Promoted Tweets

Like more traditional online ads

Generated from your existing Tweets

Pay Per Click model

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LinkedIn Company Pages Large image at the top of

the corporate LinkedIn page

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LinkedIn Company Pages Share status updates and job

opportunities

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LinkedIn Targeted Updates Send to specific segments

based on:

Company Size

Industry

Function

Seniority

Geography

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Google+ Pages

Feeds into Search, Maps, and all other Google properties

Link with your Home Base

Use circles to segment messages

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Google+ +1 Google’s version of a

Facebook Like

Websites using Google’s +1 button get 3.5X the Google+ visits.

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Google+ Internal Tools Private Sharing-limited to

those in your organization

Google Hangout now with Google Docs

Share only to those circles that you want

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YouTube Go short or go long

Lots of options for uploading

Doesn’t necessarily have to be of the top quality

Take advantage of the size of the community there

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YouTube Examples

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Pinterest

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Pinterest has grown quickly

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High Percentage of Women on Pinterest

104%

-24%

Women

Men

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High Percentage of Women on Pinterest

80%

20%

Women

Men

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How It Works Pin in the unit

Organized by Pinboards

Websites can get in on the act using a Pin button

Members can repin other members’ content

User vs. pinboard followers

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Why It’s Important Driving traffic

Especially to visual products

Social sharing

Can post to Facebook and Twitter when pinning an item

Best for visual subjects such as physical products

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Pinboards for Non-Visual Subjects Your culture

Featured photos from blog articles

Infographics and data

Book and eBook covers

Happy customers or the effects of your work

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Mobile Social Media The Facts

Half of cellphones are smart phones

91% of mobile internet access is for social activities, versus just 79% on desktops

Over 1/3 of Facebook's users access Facebook Mobile; 50% of Twitter's users use Twitter Mobile.

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Social Media on Mobile Social, local, and mobile

(“SoLoMo”)

Check in to receive a reward

Social sharing after the check in

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Reasons for Higher Mobile Social Media Engagement

60% of people say their smartphone is always with them

Immediate

Action

Intimate

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Mobile Actions Make sure your home base is

visible on mobile

Encourage sharing

Feed the habit of visiting your properties on mobile

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BlueZooCreative.com

collin@bluezoocreative.com

Twitter.com/ccondray

9/26/2012

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