5. What does it mean to “do” social media?
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6. Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing is a combination of…
• Community Management
• Content Development
• Strategy and Campaign Development
• Advertising
• Research and Analytics
7. What’s the point?
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What are the goals of social media marketing?
9. Social Media Marketing
Awareness
• Be considered
• Create “buzz”
• Can be hard to measure
• Everyone claims they’re okay with this…. But then asks,
“What’s the ROI”
10. Social Media Marketing
Loyalty
• Reaffirm a choice
• Post-purchase, post-sign up
• “Get people to subscribe to your thinking”
• Long-term nature of social
11. Social Media Marketing
Sales
• What most businesses want
• Easy to prove with E-commerce, harder with brick-and-mortar
• Rely on coupons, promotions
12. Social Media Marketing
Customer Service
• Dedicated teams, dedicated accounts
• Would you ignore a phone call?
• Communication (and complaints) are evolving
• Create a process
13. Social Media Marketing
Insights
• Social Listening, Social Monitoring, Trend Forecasting
• Tools like Radian6, Sysomos, Sprout, etc.
• … or Google Alerts
• “The Pinterest Effect”
• How many of you are selling pumpkin-flavored coffee
this year?
14. The networks.
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Which ones should we use? What is the ‘next best thing’?
19. Social Media Marketing
Facebook
• Largest social network – in terms of users and
businesses
• 1 billion active users
• Trending older
• Other networks often follow it’s functionality (header
images, advertising model, newsfeed algorithm)
20. Social Media Marketing
Twitter
• 200+ million users
• Started as a text messaging service for bike delivery
• 140 characters
• It’s language paves the way
22. Social Media Marketing
What kind of content works best on Facebook and
Twitter?
• Links out to websites – recent changes to FB’s
algorithm support this
• Photos still popular
• Direct CTAs
• Memes/Humor can go viral
• Tagging partners, brands, other organizations
23. Social Media Marketing
What kind of content works best on Facebook and
Twitter? (cont.)
• Videos auto-play on Facebook now
• Twitter still dominates for live event coverage and
breaking news
24. Social Media Marketing
What else is FB and Twitter known for?
• Facebook Insights rivals most paid services
• ‘Trending’ topics is a great tool
• Advertising options
• Frequency - Facebook you can post less often; Twitter
is more disposable
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Instagram
• Younger audience – “Most important” network
• Expanded into video, Hyperlapse
• Content often lifestyle, aspirational
• “Link in profile”
• Less viral nature
• Hashtags rule
27. Social Media Marketing
Snapchat
• Younger, highly active users
• The vanishing message has paved the way for other
apps like Secret, Whisper
• ‘Stories’ have made it ad-friendly
• Requires a playful, friendly, humorous tone
• Still requires a lot of cross promotion
28. Social Media Marketing
Pinterest
• Female, older… and wealthier
• Visual bookmarking, ‘virtual cork board’
• Images link back to more content on a website
• Food and drink is most popular category
• Viral nature, more so than Instagram and Snapchat
• Still plagued by legal issues
30. Social Media Marketing
YouTube
• 72 hours uploaded every minute
• Being used more and more as a video player
• Cross promotion
• Channel trailers
• CTA overlays, end slates
• Connection with Google+ makes it a strong SEO player
31. Social Media Marketing
Vine
• New kid on the block
• 6-second video format paved the way for Instagram
video
• Five vines tweeted every second (reliance on cross
promotion?)
• Younger demo (18-20, female)
• Humor, creativity play well
33. Swarm
• Formerly known as ‘Foursquare’
• Location-based check ins
• Success requires adoption
• Privacy concerns
• Will push-notification offers live on Swarm (the check-in)
or Foursquare (the discovery)?
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34. Social Media Marketing
Foursquare, Yelp
• Reviews, Discovery
• Opportunity for users to become ‘elites’ or ‘experts’
• Yelp benefits from community management
• Lots of competition in the review world – TripAdvisor,
forums, ‘word of mouse’
• Of note: In 2013, Foursquare was 60% Male
35. Social Media Marketing
NextDoor
• Hyperlocal, neighborhood-based
• 1 in 4 U.S. neighborhoods
• Verification process to join
• Less narcissism, selfies
• More like a forum
• “Not for commercial use”
38. Social Media Marketing
What’s the difference?
• SEM, also known as ‘PPC’ or pay-per-click
• Google Adwords, Bing Ads
• Ad served based on keywords searched
• Success usually measured in clicks, CTR
39. Social Media Marketing
What’s the difference?
• Social Advertising is available on networks like
Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Pinterest…
• Ads served based on interests, employment, etc.
• Less like an ad, and more like content
• Often higher cost, but targeting is more focused
• What’s success? Click, like, RT, share….