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Essential Social MediaFor Business

Doug Allen

[email protected]

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Agenda

• What’s the point?

• Which Social Media Environments are essential?

• Social Media Monitoring Tools

• Another Way to Think About Social Media

• Prioritizing Your Social Media Effort

• Social Media Policies

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What’s the Point?

• Generating interest in your products and services

• Improving/spreading your brand

• Advertising

• SEO

• Customer Support

• Selling!

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Getting to know each other

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Which Social Media Environments are essential?

• Facebook

• Twitter

• LinkedIn

• Pinterest

• Google+

• YouTube

• Instagram

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Why Not…

• Vine

• SnapChat

• Flickr

• Foursquare

• Yelp

• Tumblr

• Spotify

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Keep an Eye on

• www.weheartit.com

• www.days.am

• www.medium.com

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FACEBOOK• AVERAGE USER HAS AROUND 140 FRIENDS AND LOGS IN 5X

DAILY

• NO OTHER SOCIAL NETWORK COMES CLOSE TO GETTING YOU

EYEBALLS

• IN SOME CASES, IT’S MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR WEBSITE

• YOUR COMPETITORS ARE THERE

• HELP WITH SEO

• FACEBOOK ADS

• GREAT ANALYTICS

• NOT A PROFILE (FOR PEOPLE), IT’S A PAGE (FOR BUSINESSES)

• ONE MILLION WEB PAGES ARE ACCESSED USING THE “LOGIN

WITH FACEBOOK” FEATURE

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WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/PAGES/CREATE

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GETTING STARTED

• BRAND SLOGAN

• DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCT, COMPANY,

ORGANIZATION OR CAUSE

• COOL COVER PHOTO (WIDE)

• SOME SQUARE PROFILE PHOTOS (LOGO OR BUILDING OR

PRODUCT OR HUMAN)

• CONTENT FOR POSTING

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THE OTHER CHEEKS OF FACEBOOK

• ADVERTISING

• INDUSTRY-LEADING AD TARGETING

• A NEW AD NETWORK THAT SELLS ADS ON OTHER PLATFORMS

AND APPS

• COMMUNITIES

• GROUPS facebook.com/about/groups

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Twitter

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There are now over 600 million registered

users with 285 million monthly active users

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• Twitter is SOCIAL, not PROMOTIONAL

• Apply a continuous improvement process to track,

study and improve your tweets

• Check that URL’s destination and think twice about

tweeting if it’s not mobile-formatted

• Study the competitor’s Tweets

TWITTER TIPS

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TWITTER TIPS

• Encourage customer tweeting for events, products

and services

• Participate in a Twitter Chat

• 30-50% more of your tweets should have pictures

• You probably should not have anything doing

automated tweets

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THINK OF YOUR AUDIENCE

• When someone tells you how often to tweet

• And answer questions they have (whether they

ask you or someone else)

• When you create your Twitter profile page and

avatar

• When you’ve been drinking and are deciding

whether or not to tweet

• And see who they’re following – any competitors?

• Would they appreciate a “thank you” when they

tweet about you?

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• When using hashtags

• And think if they need one more tweet or retweet

about some over-shared news

• When composing a tweet

• When thinking you HAVE to use all 140 characters

THINK OF YOUR AUDIENCE

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www.hootsuite.com

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HOOTSUITE VS. TWEETDECK

HOOTSUITE

• Free and $10pm Pro

• Brower-based

• Harder to learn

• Pro: upload bulk tweets in

advance

• Fast browser perform

• Regulars + FB Brand

pages and others

• Multiple Account support

TWEETDECK

• Free Only

• Browser and apps

• Easier to learn

• Schedule tweets in

advance

• Adobe Air on Desktop

• For Twitter

management

• Single account support

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DON’T JUST TWEET

•Advertising on Twitter

• Follow Stripe – their technology that will allow

“in-tweet purchasing”

• Twitter Cards – incorporate page content into

tweets

• Twitter Analytics

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https://dev.twitter.com/cards

Add meta tags to your page

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The respected, business-oriented social network

Company Pages and Employee Pages

Analytics and Page Insights

LinkedIn Advertising

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The WHOLE of your Company through the SUM of LinkedIn parts

Offer LinkedIn training for employees How to create/improve your profile

Who should you connect with?

Participation in groups

Provide guidelines to employees for their profiles

Encourage transparency (open privacy controls)

Create a great company page Use GRAPHICS – they’ll stand out

Participate in and Create some Groups

Publish Articles regularly Great place to send blog posts

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www.linkedin.com/company/add/show

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The best organized photo gallery in social media

Feedback on your pictures (“likes” and re-pins)

People can follow your “boards”

Your pics on their board can drive viewers to your board

Bias toward home, arts, style and food

Can drive referral traffic to your website

Vertical pictures work best

Tastemakers set trends

Your images in other media can be pinned to a board

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2014 IKEA Catalog

The Big Game

Valentine’s Day

Color of the Year!

IKEA Fan Faves

Living Rooms

Bedrooms

Bathrooms and Kitchens

Dining and Eating

Children

Hallway and Storage

Home Workspaces

Small Space Living

Accessories Matter

Special Collections

Stockholm

Smart Solutions

DIY with IKEA

Weddings

IKEA in the Media

Swedish Roots

People and Planet

St. Patrick’s Day

Easter

Mother’s Day, Father’s Day

Outdoor

Red, White and Blue

Back to College

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business.pinterest.com

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Added PIN-IT button to their site

In 3 months: 50,000 recipies “pinned”

139 million Pinterest “impressions”

Reached out to the AllRecipies AllStars

Taught them about Pinterest

Encourage this influential group to pin

More traffic to the website

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• Follow HSN on Pinterest

• Create a board on your

account

• Pin 2 from HSN’s St. Jude

board

• Pin 8 holiday images

• Tag pins with #HSN and

#stjude

• Submit

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GOOGLE+

It’s not Facebook for Google

Google+ is from the same company that owns… YouTube, AdWords and Google Search

Circles allow you to target messages to however you want to define your audience New customers, premium customers, partners, supporters, etc.

Hangouts offer easy-to-use video calling or broadcasting

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WHO CARES ABOUT GOOGLE+

1 billion with Google+ enabled accounts

359 million monthly active users

Google+ is growing at 33% per annum.

The 45 to 54 year old bracket increased its usage on Google+ by 56% since 2012

Predominantly Male (63%)

Primarily US

A Tech-savvy audience

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https://plus.google.com/pages/create

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GOOGLE+ TIPSGet your content out there This is not an experiment, its real

Full profile, description of your business, pictures, etc.

Categorize your circles Categories of customers Influencers

Long-time vs. new

Partners

Stake-holders

Participate in communities

Put a +1 button on your website

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YouTube

Channels for your business

Training videos

Product “how to” and tutorials

Customer Testimonials

Employee Testimonials

Product introductions

Consider a “spokesmodel” for your channel

YouTube Ads

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Or just create your ad…

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Or just create your ad…

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http://business.instagram.com/blog/

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business.instagram.com/blog/

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LET’S TALK ABOUT SOMEONE

…behind their back

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"Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples

love Hudson and our inn, your friends and families may

not. If you have booked the inn for a wedding or other

type of event ... and given us a deposit of any kind ...

there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your

deposit for every negative review ... placed on any

Internet site by anyone in your party."

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Putting it all together

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

• 15% of companies say 25%+ of customer service inquiries are initiated over social channels (35% say less than 5% do).

• 27% say it takes them less than an hour to respond to questions/issues on social channels.

• 4% say their company has been integrating “social” into customer support for more than 4 years.

• 52% say Facebook is the most effective social channel for customer service.

• Twitter follows at 25%, then LinkedIn at 8%.

• Owned communities are most effective for 7%.

• HootSuite use among respondents tripled year-over-year and is on the way to becoming the most cited monitoring tool.

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SMM TOOLS (FREE!)

•Social Mention

•How Sociable

•Topsy

•CircleCount

•Knowem

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topsy.com/analytics

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smo.knowem.com

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Another Way to Think

About social media

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Attributes

• Persistence

• Shareability

• Likability

• Mobile consumable

• Requires attention or focus

• Speed of consumption

• Notification vs. presentation

• Half-life and expiration dates

• Request, invite or follow

• Galleries and collections

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Write

• About your industry

• Comment everywhere

• About your company

• About someone• You, an employee or a customer

• Recipes, formulas, processes and how to’s

• Short and sweet and tweet

• Long and thoughtful and include pictures and video

• Your website blog

• Other blogs and forums

• Post to Facebook

• Post to LinkedIn

• Post to Google+

• Tweet the link

• Content for the newsletter

Stories

Announcements

Important information

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Photograph

• Your customers

• Customer problems, frustrations

• Customer solutions

• Your products

• Screenshots

• Your employees

• Your partners

• Drawings, Charts and InfoGraphs

• Post to Facebook

• Tweet them

• Instagram them

• Put them on your Pinterest Board

• Content for the newsletter

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Video Record

• Your customers

• Customer problems, frustrations

• Customer solutions

• Your products

• Training and how to

• Your employees

• Your partners

• Animations

• Slideshows from photos

• Post to YouTube

• Post to Facebook

• Post to Google+

• Tweet it

• Best 15s to Instagram

• Best 6s to Vine

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Audio Record

• Training and how to

• Industry thoughts and trends

• Company updates

• Your website RSS feed

• iTunes

• SoundCloud

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Stuff you need to be good at…

• Writing compelling headlines (so people will click)

• Amazing Photography

• Picking photographs that support the story

• Videography

• Video Ads• Facebook recently joined YouTube in supporting video

ads

• Composing content (ads too!) for Mobile screens

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…speaking of mobile e-mail

• 450-600 pixels wide

• 24pt headers and 14-16pt body text

• Don’t write so much – nobody has time

• Use buttons instead of links

• Add white space

• Subject: 60 characters or less

• Create and TEST

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Where Do You Find Content?

• Ask your suppliers and other partners for stories, images and information. Let them know you’re going to share with your social media audience.

• Once a month publish a customer story

• Once a month publish an employee story

• Your Industry has interesting things going on

• Talk to your customers• There are frustrating things in their life that your

products or services make better.

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Product for Children

• Raising a Gifted Child

• Great trips with kids

• Food/eating with children

• Exercise for kids/Sports for kids

• Green living children

• Kids and money

• Health care/healthy living with kids

• Playtime activities

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Great trips with kids10 best cities for family vacations

Teach your kids about the state they live in

Doing Disney the Right Way

Exercise for

kids/Sports for kidsDaily physical recommendations for children

How much exercise do they need?

Fitness my boost kid’s brainpower

Helping your child prevent dehydration

Strengthening Children’s Bones – what

counts?

Kids and moneyHow young is too young to

learn about money?

Using an allowance as an

effective teaching tool

Can you teach children about

investing?

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The Big Rules

• It absolutely has to be of interest to the intended audience

• You have to completely authentic

• There are no formulas for frequency of posting

• Create three templates for images • Vertical – Pinterst

• Square – Instagram

• Horizontal – Facebook, Twitter, others

• Try to get the same “handle” everywhere

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Prioritizing Your Efforts

With Social Media

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Create a Business Facebook Page Informative Profile about your business

Post articles with words and pictures about your business, industry trends, customer stories, new products

Promote your page to get some fans

Create a Twitter Account Encourage tweeting about your business, products and services

Monitor what people are saying about you and RESPOND

Create a Blog on Your Website Tweet and post your articles that have lots of great pictures and

are relevant, compelling information for your audience.

https://www.facebook.com/help/morelikes

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Facebook Monitor with Page Insights and see what’s relevant

Consider Advertising on Facebook

Twitter Think carefully about your audience and then begin tweeting

words and pictures (see above).

Create a Google+ account Create a good profile and upload some content

Create CIRCLES for customers

Begin to share some specific content with CIRCLES and make some public

Create a LinkedIn Policy for employees Training session on LinkedIn Policies

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Facebook Create an offer

Twitter Twitter CARDS for your website

Host a Twitter Chat

Twitter Analytics

Create a Business Pinterest Account Have an internal contest to get pictures and find photogs

Promote with “follow us” on the website and through other social media

Create a YouTube Channel Hire professional videographers for specific projects

Create “how to” and promotional videos

Get Customer (and Employee) Testimonials

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Social Media Monitoring Tools Consider paid SMM Services

Google Analytics to track ads back to Website goals

Create an Instagram photo contest around an event User Instagram at your charity function

Run Ads on Instagram

Start placing video on all social media that accepts it

YouTube YouTube Advertising

Create multiple channels for different content

Implement “Rich Pins” in Pinterest

Create a Podcast series

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http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/corp-comm/dell-social-media

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Questions?