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Mastering Social Media
Workshop 3
Implementation and Performance
Measurement (Facebook)
Alan Stevenson
Dr Jim Hamill
Vincent Hamill
www.energise2-0.com
January, 2012
2. Focus
Key issues in implementing your
social media strategy
– Channel Action Plans
– Performance Measurement
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3. Channel Action Plans
• Once your Social Media Strategy has been agreed, brief Action
Plans should be developed for each priority SM channel
• Cascade the Balanced Scorecard approach to each priority
channel e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc
• But not ‘Paralysis by Analysis’
• The Action Plan for each channel should include a clear
statement of…..
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4. Channel Action Plans
• Vision
• Channel Objectives
• KPIs and Targets
• Customers
• Key Channel Actions and Initiatives for ‘getting there
• Organisation, resource and people issues
• Tools and applications
• Performance measurement
• Do’s and Don’t’s
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5. Key Questions to Address
Channel Vision and Objectives
• What is your overall vision for this channel?
• What are the main objectives to be achieved? Are these
closely aligned with and supportive of your core business
objectives? (Link back to your SM Strategy Document)
• What KPIs will you use for measuring on-going channel
performance? What are your targets for each KPI?
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6. Key Questions to Address
Channel Actions
• The Basics – for each channel, are you happy with - Page
Set Up, Profile, Design, Basic Layout, Terminology,
Features/Functions, Integration
• Key Success Factors – the ‘4Cs’ approach
– Customers
– Content
– Conversations
– Conversion
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7. Key Questions to Address
Tools and Applications
• What tools and apps should I use for this channel
Organisation, People and Resource Aspects
• Do we have the right organisational ‘culture’ and
‘mindset’ for this channel to succeed? How will the
channel be managed and resourced? Policies and
Guidelines?
Performance Measurement
• How should we measure channel performance and
business impact?
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8. Agenda
• Action Plans for Successful Channel Development
– Twitter
– Facebook
– Linkedin (Guest Speaker – Paul Mcomish)
– Blogging (briefly)
• ‘Stop and Reflect’ Exercises/ Channel Templates
• Same principles apply across all channels – ‘Be social
before doing social’
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12. Facebook – what is it?
• Facebook www.facebook.com is a social network service
and website launched in February 2004
• Facebook allows users to do the following:
– create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests,
contact information, and other personal information.
– communicate with friends and other users through
private or public messages and a chat feature.
– Join, “like” or run common interest groups or pages
(organized by business or brand)
– advertise across the platform
Source: Wikipedia and The Authors
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15. Stop & Reflect
Facebook Exercise 1
Vision and Strategy
What do you want to use it for?
What business benefits do you hope to derive?
How will Facebook help you achieve your core business
objectives?
What KPIs will you use for measuring on-going channel
performance? What are your targets for each KPI?
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23. Facebook Pages -Key Features
• Individuals can ‘Like’ pages, this action appears on the
News Feed of their friends. Individuals can post, like (a
post), comment, and share.
• FB Pages send status updates that appear in a likers’
homepage; FB Pages can post, like, comment and share*.
• FB Pages access in-house analytics, Facebook Insights
and can have multiple administrators
• FB Pages are free and are unlimited in terms of likers.
They can control the landing page a user first sees.
• FB Pages have SEO benefits - featuring high in search
results for your brand or product.
Source: The Authors and Mokomarketing.com on Scrbd ENERGISE2-0.COM
24. Facebook Pages
• Your Facebook Page should be fully aligned with and
supportive of your core marcoms objectives and with
other marcoms channels
• It should deliver real business benefits and ROI –
information, awareness, engagement, accountability,
feedback, listen, actionable insights, key
customer/partner/stakeholder relationships
• Adopt a ‘customer led’ approach
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25. Getting Started
• Go to Facebook. Click on the “Create a Page"
• Choose a category. Choose between: “local business or
place”, “company, organisation or institution”, “brand or
product”, “artist, band or public figure”, “entertainment”,
“cause or community”. Choose a sub-category. And complete
business details.
• Link to a Facebook Account. Update your Page across:
Category/ page name; Image; Photo Showcase; Default Filter;
Admin View; Settings; Basic Information; and Permissions
• Suggest your Page to others
• See if your contacts are on Facebook. After you fill out basic
info, you'll be prompted to look for contacts in your Gmail,
Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail or AOL accounts
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26. Features and Functions
• Posts
• Comments
• Likes
• FBML Pages and Landing Pages
• Main Navigation
• Suggest to a Friend
• Adverts
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27. Features and Functions
Photo
Logo Showcase
Post or
Status
Update
Comment
Main
Navigation
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34. Facebook + Websites / Blogs
• Like buttons (update Facebook profile when clicked)
• Activity button (show what friends are doing on the site)
• Add Comments (add comments to any web page)
• Recommendations (suggestions for web pages)
• Like box (view Facebook Page stream from website)
• Website Login / Registration authentication through Facebook
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35. Facebook and Twitter
• Publish Tweets on Facebook
• Publish Facebook Status Updates on Twitter
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36. Stop & Reflect Facebook Exercise 2
Make sure you understand the following terms:
– Layout: Profile, Page, Wall, News Feed, Account
Settings, Search
– Design – profile images - can be customised
– Like (Page)
– Post
– Like (Post)
– Comment
– Share
– FBML / Integration
– Applications
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37. Key Success Factors
The 4Cs of Building a
Successful Facebook Channel
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38. The 4Cs Framework
• Customers
– engage with the right ‘customers’ and build your
community
• Content
– be ‘customer led’ and add value
• Conversations
– Facebook is not a broadcast channel. It is marketing as
a ‘conversation’
• Conversions
– the ‘call-to-action’; core business objectives
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39. Stop & Reflect Facebook Exercise 3
Facebook Exercise 3
Who are your customers – who do you
wish to engage with on Facebook?
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40. Building Your Community
• Use ‘Friend Finder’/ ‘People You May Know’ to send
friend request to five people
• Use the search facility to join/‘like’ three relevant
groups/pages
• Explore the potential Return on Investment from
Facebook Advertising
• Invite friends by email using ‘Invite Friends’
• ‘Suggest to Friends’
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41. Building Your Community
• Embed Facebook widget/link on your web site/blog
• Invite your email/ezine subscribers
• Add social media profiles to your email signature file
• The potential for running an incentivised Facebook
Advert
• Add page link/badge to your profile page
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42. Building Your Community
• Actively participate in relevant groups/pages – tagging
your post
• Offline marketing of your Facebook Page
• Think about the best way of creating a viral campaign
• Once you reach 25 ‘likers’, register your own unique
address – www.facebook.com/username
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43. Content
• Frequency – how often to post or update
• Topic – 5 key topics focusing on key customer groups
• Type (update, video, image) – mix it up, photos and
videos can be more engaging
• Own/Other Peoples Content (OPC) – look for other
content to share
• Tone/theme – friendly, informal, warm, welcoming,
advisory, facilitative, authoritative
• Sources of Inspiration – have some examples of your
ideal page
• Participation in other groups/ pages – comment and
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44. Conversations
• Engage in other relevant FB pages/groups
• Look for opportunities to stimulate a discussion and
encourage user generated content on your own Page
• Encourage shares, likes and comments
• Create a Response Policy for FB (perhaps a wider
initiative across all channels)
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45. Engagement
• For status updates, try ending with a question.
• Add your own comments as needed to get the ball
rolling.
• Come back and reply often to your fans’ comments
• Agree an appropriate Response Policy
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46. Stop & Reflect Facebook Exercise 4
Evaluate your current
Content/Conversation approach?
Make recommendations for improvement
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47. Conversion
• Look for opportunities to make a sale, generate an
enquiry, create a referral
• Be subtle
• Facebook is not a sales channel
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49. Managing Facebook
• Third-Party Software can make managing one or more
Facebook Pages easy. Choose one of the following
applications and become familiar with it, using it to carry
out some of the common actions – Post, Delete Post,
Like, Comment, and so on. Try the same application on
your desktop and your mobile phone
– Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com
– TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com
– MediaFeedia http://mediafeedia.com
– HyperAlerts http://www.hyperalerts.no
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54. Performance Measurement
• It is critical to measure the performance of your
Facebook activities
• This can be done in two ways – ‘lag’ and ‘lead’ measures
• ‘Lag’ measures are your ultimate ‘business’ objectives
e.g. feedback, insights, service awareness, accountability,
marcoms effectiveness and efficiency, ROI etc
• ‘Lead’ measures are the main ‘drivers’ that help to
achieve your core objectives
• These could include....
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55. Performance Measurement
• Involvement – the number and quality of people involved
in Facebook
• Interaction – the number of comments and likes
• Intimacy – the affection or aversion to Jacobite Cruises
on Facebook
• Influence – recommendation in terms of shares on
Facebook
• Insight – actionable insight on the Facebook Page
• Impact – sales recorded on GA, enquiries
There are a number of tools available for monitoring your
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56. Facebook Insights
• New insights include a statistic called “Talking About this”
• http://searchengineland.com/demystifying-facebooks-people-
are-talking-about-this-metric-96104
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59. Stop & Reflect Facebook Exercise 6
Use one or more of the following tools to monitor
the performance of a Facebook Page of your own
choice
• Facebook Insights http://www.facebook.com
• Social Baker http://www.socialbakers.com
• Hootsuite http://hootsuite.com
• Export.ly http://export.ly
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60. Stop & Reflect Facebook Exercise 7
Organisation, People and Resource Aspects
Do you have the right organisational ‘culture’ and ‘mindset’ for
this channel to succeed? How will the channel be managed and
resourced? Policies and Guidelines?
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62. Do’s and Don’t’s
• Don’t Get Too Personal
– On a Facebook Page you are representing a company or
brand - keep the conversations warm but professional
• Don’t Overpost
– Always try to create valuable, engaging posts. Make music
not noise
• Don’t Under-Post
– Your customers are there for an engaging experience,
don’t neglect your Page or the needs of your network!
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63. Do’s and Don’t’s
• Do look for opportunities to engage
– Always look for opportunities to widen out the
conversation – be a good facilitator
• Do - be attentive
– Respond as quickly as possible – within hours not days.
• Do let people know you exist
– Don’t be afraid to promote your Page offline and online
• Do engage on other Pages
– Where your customers hang out
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Fans on a Facebook page can post photos, videos, links, discuss topics on the discussion board and comment on the Page wall – all depending on the settings outlined by the Page administrator/owner.Pages send status updates that appear in a fans’ Homepage. Friends can then Comment or ‘Like’ a status update that they find entertaining – which means increased engagement for the Page.When individuals ‘Like’ a Facebook Page the action appears in the news stream and Highlights section of the Homepage of the friends of the fanPages take advantage of Facebook’s in-house analytics engine, Facebook Insights. Facebook Pages can also have multiple administrators, meaning that the responsibility for uploading, moderating and updating content can be shared between several individuals. It is important to point out that any actions taken from your Facebook account as a Page administrator on your Page will show the Page’s name as the actor and not your personal name. Therefore Pages have the ability to comment on their own posted item or status update using the identity of the Page and not the Page administrator.Additional benefits of Facebook Pages are that they cost nothing to set up and there are no monthly fees for maintaining a Facebook Page. Pages can also become fans of other Pages, thus helping Pages affiliate themselves with other brands in a product line or public figures. Pages also have SEO benefits because they show up very high in search results for your brand or product. One is also able to control the default landing page tab when a user visits your Facebook Page.No limit to the number of fans of a Facebook Page
(a) A variety of Like buttons, potentially on each page of the website which will update Facebook Profile of website visitor when clicked. If the site is not going to be content rich this is less useful. If however, there is some killer content on the website that we would like to provide a viral effect, this could be relevant. For example, a Deals page or some such thing. (b) Activity button can show what friends are doing on the site (from the site). This is again more useful for information rich sites where there may be 1200 people and 10 friends that visit or have visited the site which influence how you navigate. (c) Can add a Comments element to any web page which updates a Facebook Profile. Feels less relevant for a site that isn't information intensive or blog style. (d) Recommendations - personalised suggestions for pages on your site they might like. Again geared towards heavy content sites.(e) Like box - like page and view stream directly from website. This is the sort of thing that could tie the website more closely to the FB presence. It is an embeddable Facebook Page. Perhaps more relevant for the Blog, if possible.(f) Other functions are around sites that have Sign ups or Registrations, again less relevant.- Login button- Registration - using FB for authenticationSource: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins
A. Publish Tweets on FacebookHere is the most popular Twitter Facebook Application. Use the Twitter for Facebook app to:* find and follow your Facebook friends who tweet* post your tweets to your Facebook profile or Facebook page* encourage your Facebook friends to follow you on Twitter http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2231777543#!/apps/application.php?id=2231777543&v=infoOr be more selective in terms of which tweets are updateshttp://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter/B. Publish Facebook Status Updates on TwitterChoose which pages and which status updateshttp://www.facebook.com/twitter/
Facebook Insights gives you key metrics such as the number of fans added per day, number of fans lost per day, unique views, page views, total fans, number of wall posts, photo views, video plays, audio plays, number of reviews and total interactions metrics. Facebook Insights is designed to tracks the effects of your Page promotion campaigns and does an adequate job.