These are the slides from my guest lecture at the Tippie Full-time MBA Marketing Academy session on December 1, 2011. Contact Lydia Fine at lydia-fine@uiowa.edu with questions or clarifications. Please cite Lydia Fine, University of Iowa as your source if you reuse any of this material.
Measures of Dispersion and Variability: Range, QD, AD and SD
Tippie MBA Marketing Academy Guest Lecture
1. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Your Host: Lydia Fine, Adjunct Lecturer Social Media Marketing (also MBA Recruiter Extraordinaire)
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3. SOCIAL MEDIA: WHAT IS IT? You think you know, but you have no idea. (Okay, that’s an exaggeration.)
4. 40 YEARS AGO WE WERE FAIRLY RESTRICTED BY THE MEDIA WE COULD CONSUME TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, records
5. TODAY, THE MEDIA WE HAVE AT OUR DISPOSAL IS COMMONPLACE AND EVERYWHERE Internet, mobile phones, blogs, text messaging, apps
6. “… an umbrella term that defines various activities that integrate technology, Social Interaction, and the construction of words and pictures.” Wikipedia Social media is…
8. RUPERT MURDOCH DISAGREES “ To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media… Technology is shifting power away from … the publishers, the establishment … Now it’s the people who are taking control.” Rupert Murdoch, Wired Magazine, July 2006
39. Tweets/Second Records 8,000 6,000 4,000 TPS Japanese New Year Packers win Super Bowl Japanese tsunami Osama bin Laden killed Barca over Man U in Champions League Final Mavs over Heat, NBA Finals Gm 6 2011 BET Awards Japan over US in WWC final JAN FEB MAR MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST Beyonce’s pregnancy 8868 Tweets per Second (Yes, you should be worried about America.) Paraguay over Brazil in Copa America
69. How to answer intelligently (when it comes to social media, at least)
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73. “ So, you’re a new MBA grad… you’ll know all about this. Should we be doing social media marketing?”
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Notes de l'éditeur
You can spot good SMM already, as a user of SM. But what you don’t know is what makes it good.
2006 – Fake blog written by a PR firm posing as customers traveling the country 2007 – Online community for teens, populated by fake profiles talking about Walmart clothing 2008 – Back to school campaign trying to encourage students to buy at WM, instead drew over 200 critical comments
It’s not about the company any more. It’s about the CUSTOMER. Social media is the world’s largest cocktail party, where anyone can listen to others talking and join the conversation w/ anyone about the topic of their choice. At both parties you’ll find a mix of likeable and not-so likeable people. People who won’t stop talking aobut themselves and others who are great listeners and are interested in what you’re discussing. Some great storytellers, others who bore you to death. WHO DO YOU WANT TO SEE AGAIN AND/OR DO BUSINESS WITH? The salesman who talks incessantly about how great his company/products are, or the person who listens to the problems you face, has an open discussion w/ you, or even makes you laugh?
10k followers
Be real. Customers’ b.s. detector is finely honed. Be who you are, be yourself, and own up to what you’re best at. Don’t fake it! Don’t try to be someone else just to be more popular. You can only pretend for so long. Be authentic, be yourself. There is only one YOU in the world so rock it, baby! Have personality, be funny, be different, be interesting. I constantly see people who keep changing their “voice”, their social media strategy. If you do your homework and listen first you should have a pretty good idea of where you fit in and what is your message. Don’t confuse your community by constantly shifting gear. Just because something worked for another guy doesn’t mean it will work for you. BE HUMAN . Companies can be afraid of SMM because they’re afraid of making a mistake. In fact, making small errors here and there (AND ACKNOWLEDGING THEM) is useful because it makes you seem human, you make mistakes and then laugh at them.
Start a conversation. Conversations are DIALOGUE, not monologue. Initiate conversations. That means asking good questions. Talk about interesting topics to your audience. Introduce people to each other.
Keith Urbahn, Chief of Staff at the office of Donald Rumsfeld (not the country singer). One full hour before the formal announcement of Bin Laden’s death, Urbahn posted his speculation on the topic of the upcoming emergency presidential address.
Beyonce’s pregnancy, 8,846 TPS. Goodness.
The example from our pop quiz – a funeral home in Las Vegas using Facebook. 189 people had checked in. It didn’t say whether they had checked out.
The example from our pop quiz – a funeral home in Las Vegas using Facebook. 189 people had checked in. It didn’t say whether they had checked out.
Listen, don’t talk. And don’t just listen – HEAR. Focus on giving, not taking, and you’ll reap the rewards. And RESPOND.
We’re human, and we like stories. A lot. Great stories have conflict or a challenge somewhere in them, and resolution.
Remember the stat from last week’s video? 90% of people trust peer reviews, while only 15% trust advertisements.
Be likeable . It’s all about the customer , not the brand. They’ll ignore you if you’re uninteresting or talk only about yourself. Be yourself . The customer will see through you in a second if you aren’t. Be human . Don’t be a faceless entity. Laugh at your mistakes. Start and always participate in two-way conversations . News travels superfast . Bad and good. You can’t be everywhere and do everything; choose a few things and do them well . Listen twice as much as you talk. Be a great storyteller . A referral is worth more and is much more likely to convert to a purchase.
Siri = you can only respond to questions/posts by the company, you can’t post there. Basically this is a very young platform. We aren’t sure what this will turn into yet, or if it will even
Know your purpose on any platform before joining Researching competitors: Are they making it work?