2. Intro - Bryan and Lincoln
- ThingsFloridiansLike.com
- “All Things Florida”
- 760k pageviews in the last 11 months
- Social Stats
- 195k Twitter followers
- 223k Facebook likes
- 1.4k Instagram, 4.5k+ Snapchat followers
- Monthly Reach
- Twitter: 5-8M, Facebook: 10-30M
3. Overview
- Current trends/the state of social
- The “Social Media Mindset”
- Tips and advice for building your social
audiences and driving traffic to your
blogs/websites
5. Facebook - 1.14B daily users
- Older demographics ⇒ fastest growing
- “Instant Video” recently released
- Organic reach is at all time lows
- Only 7% of a Page’s fans see each post
(Facebook, 2015)
- Facebook LIVE ⇒ latest and greatest
The State of Social
Sources: newsroom.fb.com | pewinternet.org
6. The State of Social
Twitter - 313M monthly users
- User growth is stagnant
- Stock is down 50% since IPO in 2013
- Focus on younger demographics
- Big move to Periscope, live streaming
- Pros: instant and timely in a continued
stream
Sources: twitter.com | Yahoo Finance
7. The State of Social
Snapchat - 58M daily users
- $20 BILLION valuation
- Facebook - $350 billion
- Twitter IPO - $18 billion
- 50% growth in one year
- 60% of users are 13-24, “Gen-Z”
- “Memories” to anchor in lasting users
Sources: techcrunch.com || money.cnn.com | bbc.com | techcrunch.com | wersm.com
8. The State of Social
Instagram - 300M daily users
- Owned by Facebook
- 95 million photos/videos daily
- “Instagram Stories” recently released
- Huge community of promo/shoutouts
- Great medium to push products
- Instagram business profile “contact form”
Sources: instagram.com
10. “Understand your audience?”
- Online typing style
- Use of emojis, abbreviations, slang, lingo, etc.
- Types of content shared
- Reasons for using the platform
- Younger typically use it for news and humor, older
demos typically use it for community
- Understand audience humor and voice
- Find your strong platforms
11. Social Media Mindset
- CONSISTENCY IS KING
- Automation tools - Hootsuite, Buffer
- Web presence as a brand/company
- Start small, focus
- Social provides viral traffic potential
- SEO strategy very saturated as of 2016
- Data with a side of analytics, please
12. Sources: kissmetrics.com | facebook.com | twitter.com | hubspot.com
Social Media Mindset
- Visuals are your best friend
- Relevant images = 94% more views
- Average human attention span is 8.25 seconds
- The human brain processes images 60 times quicker
than words
- 1B daily FB video views since June
- Tweets + photos = 313% more engagement
- Colored visuals ⇒ 80% more willing to
read content
13. - Plan investments in video content!!
- 74% of 2017 web traffic = video
- Facebook LIVE, Periscope ⇒ huge growth
- Snapchat, Instagram Stories, 360 Degree video
- FB algorithm takes video into account
- 85% of video watched without sound
- Add captions to your videos
- Small % of your audience will see content
- Mobile, mobile, mobile
Social Media Mindset
Sources: hubspot.com | newsroom.fb.com | newsroom.fb.com | bufferapp.com
16. Best Practices and Tips
- Post more media content than links
- Media has more organic reach
- Don’t use blog headlines as post text
- Consistent formatting
- Verbage, punctuation, photo watermarks
- Post content that encourages engagement
- Use CTAs to direct users
- Create content around events/holidays
17. The Olympics were a gold mine
for good content, also a
screenshot from our Twitter
18. Ran a Twitter poll, then posted
the results to Facebook to
engage our audience
19. Best Practices and Tips
- No more clickbait titles!
- Penalized by FB algorithm
- Use images as CTAs on Instagram
- Include web links in bio
- Don’t reinvent the wheel
- Cross-promote content
- Repost your top performing links
- Utilize analytics to identify hard-hitters
Sources: thebloghelp.com
21. Best Practices and Tips
- Effective post text styles
- Questions
- Fill in the blanks
- Challenge statements
- A/B test headlines and ad placement
- Don’t neglect emojis
- Connect with influencers
25. Best Practices and Tips
- Facebook Groups - very underutilized
- Build them or find them
- Use your Snap code to grow followers
- Directly reply/engage your followers
- Great sources of content
- Adopt automation and scheduling tools
- Post every day!