16. EXAMPLE What I thought I tweeted… “ @Rod_Phillips $1 off 6 pack of Race Rocks Amber Ale for first 50 to reply or RT” What I actually tweeted…. “ @Rod_Phillips $1 6 pack of Race Rocks Amber Ale for first 50 to reply or RT”
17. What I actually tweeted…. “ @Rod_Phillips $1 6 pack of Race Rocks Amber Ale for first 50 to reply or RT” Was seen by over 2,000 people Offer completed in 15 minutes
Do I look like I’m on Twitter? I thought that it was the newest designer drug…. Doug went on to explain the basic premise of Social Media
Everyone is an individual and if you are really going to meet their expectations you need to really listen to you customers. Traditional media doesn’t allow you to listen
Faced with a choice Ruin any credibility I was looking to establish and reneg on the offer Honour the offer at an unplanned cost of $550
Advocates for our business Advocates for our messages Advocates multiply the impact on the market signficantly more than an ad because
Ideas going viral is the same as products sell best when
We starting offering Tweet Deals Then a Facebook page. Shortly thereafter a Wordpress blog inbedded in our website, Then Foursquare, Gowalla, YouTube, Vimeo etc.
I spend anywhere from 6-10 hours per week on Social Media. Pre 2009 I would spend 8-10 hours per week developing and proofing ads and copy. This is down signficantly from the start as I was completely fascinated by it… fly on a wall in a thousand conversations. Whittled down because we have a strategic approach. After many trials and errors we have found a schedule the works for us. We have no less than two blogs per week. We have no fewer than 5 Facebook posts per day We have no fewer than 5 Tweets per day Goal – produce at least 3 videos per week.
I spend anywhere from 6-10 hours per week on Social Media. This is down signficantly from the start as I was completely fascinated by it… fly on a wall in a thousand conversations. Whittled down because we have a strategic approach. After many trials and errors we have found a schedule the works for us. We have no less than two blogs per week. We have no fewer than 5 Facebook posts per day We have no fewer than 5 Tweets per day Goal – produce at least 3 videos per week.
We now spend far more on staff training, tastings, store environment, in-store signage. We now have the ability to eliminate all external branding from our stores. We have have the ability to spend our money on developing our flavour.
Still a lot of work to do but we now have the tools to focus on our flavour
Set specific goals in terms of speed, reach and ripple. Once your brand is established on its most fundamental message, the messages can grow and diversify from there.