Sujata Ramnarayan applies his strategic and research skills to share how you can attain successful social media results when you start with a strategy rather than selecting tactics.

1. Build a Social Media Strategy
Not Tactics
By Sujata Ramnarayan, Ph.D.
Managing Principal, SMStrat
Author of Marketing in a World of Digital Sharing
sujata@smstrat.com
@mktgnugget
March 30, 2013
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2. Agenda
• The State of Social
• How to Build a Strategy not Tactics
• How Social Media fits into your overall mix
• Is it appropriate for you and to what
extent?
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3. What does being social mean?
• Communicating
• Sharing
• Community
• Connecting with people you did not know
before
• Connecting with people you already know
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4. Whats different today
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5. Pure Web To Community Based
Web
One to many and pull centered Multi-way dialog centered
One to many one way Web
communication Web
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6. Many Choices
Website
Blogs
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7. Demographics/Psychographics
Google+™ 3
myspace 8
LinkedIn® 17
Twitter 21
Pinterest 89
Tumblr 89
Facebook 405
0 100 200 300 400 500
Average Minutes Per Visitor Per Month
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8. Building a
Strategy
Not Tactics
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9. Successful social engagement is
rooted in business objectives, not
in a desire to be on Twitter or on
a micro-site
- Larry Weber, Everywhere
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10. Start with Objectives
• Build an audience
• Maintain brand presence
• Build awareness
• Customer Engagement
• Customer Pulse
• Lead generation
• Idea generation
• Sale
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11. The Real Asset
• Audience
• Permission to Speak
• Many choices
• Choose based on target market and
resources
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12. Currency of Social Networks
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13. Listen
Frequency of Social Media Mention of Each Brand
1500
Minutes on 1000 1440
Average 500
6 12
0
Chobani® Dannon® Yoplait®
Brand
Source:http://www.smstrat.com/
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14. Analyze what you hear
• How do you compare with competition?
• Who is blogging about you?
• Who are the most active micro-bloggers?
• Negative versus Positive Sentiment
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15. Strategize, Speak, Engage
• Great product
• Delectable photos on Facebook that are
easy to like
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16. Build a Social Media Experience
• Engaging bloggers on
nutrition, fitness
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17. Map Metrics to Business
Objectives
Social media intelligence around
customer conversations, whether they
are yours or your competitors can
provide a wealth of information
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18. Social Media Intelligence
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19. Comments on Product
• 87 Reviews with an average 1 star rating
 Worst product since thalidomide
 Nice idea, terrible execution
 MESSY, will never buy again
 BAD, BAD, BAD
 HORRIBLE
 Do not buy or use this product
 Broke within five minutes
 Do not buy
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20. Feed Analytics Results Back
Into Strategy
Improve performance
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21. How Social Fits
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22. Word of Mouth
• What we see today is a multi-tiered form
of “word of mouse” in which transparency
is important, customer voice is stronger
and marketers need to be subtle while
providing something of value to get
permission to speak to their prospects and
customers
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23. Word of Mouse
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24. Social is
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25. How does it fit?
• Email vs social
• Search vs Social
• Blogging – Content Creation
• Demographics
• Benefits and Disadvantages
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26. Tradeoffs
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27. Google on Social Networks
14
12
10
Google+
8
Facebook
6 Twitter
4 LinkedIn
2
0
Google
Number of followers on each network in millions as of
March, 2013
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28. Be where your audience is
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29. Quantity versus Quality
• Proliferation in Quantity over Quality
• Difficulty in separating quality within
quantity
• Reliance on Brand
• Customer voice is stronger
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30. Thank you!
Sujata Ramnarayan, Ph.D.
Managing Principal, SMStrat
Marketing Strategy/Research Consulting
Author of Marketing in a World of Digital Sharing
sujata@smstrat.com
@mktgnugget
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