4. Agenda
• Background to the Connecting Devon and Somerset and Get up
to Speed;
• Social Media Platforms for Business;
• Engagement Ladder: Listen, Share, Content & Community
Building;
• Reputation Management & Thought Leadership
• Crisis Management
• Focus on Twitter and LinkedIn.
5. Connecting Devon and Somerset
• A ground breaking partnership encompassing 6 LA areas to
deliver improved and superfast broadband to rural areas;
• Improved broadband (>2mbps) to every business and
community across Devon and Somerset by 2016;
• Faster broadband (>24mbps) to at least 90% of the area by
2016.
Without this project 700,000 residents and 26,000 businesses,
with a combined turnover of £9 billion, have no certainty of
receiving improved or superfast broadband from a commercial
rollout
8. How do I know when superfast is coming?
www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk/where-when/
9. What is Get up to speed?
• Fully funded business and community support alongside roll-out
of superfast broadband
• Helping to ensure we all make the most out of the superfast
broadband
Delivered by Cosmic Peninsula Consortium
10. What are we doing?
• Free sessions
• Showcase new technologies
• Hands-on Workshops – tablets, smart phones, internet
beginners
• Gadget shows
• Seminars
• Briefings
• Taster sessions
• Signposting to other services
12. What can you do to help?
• Host a session in work, in your community, in your
Association?
• Support the message
– Become a champion
– Distribute leaflets in your area
– Distribute leaflets from work
Any other ideas?
26. Listening
Use Social media as a highly effective listening device
• Colleagues/staff
• Journalists
• Peers
• Competitors
• Influencers
27.
28. Listen in on Hashtag Conversations
Industry Specific
#Manufacturing
#3DPrinting
#Engineering
Geographic Specific
#Plymouth
#Exeter
Media Specific
#JournoRequest
#PRRequest
Campaign Specific
#BetterForIt
39. Rise of the Internet Star
Research and use Influencers
40.
41. Internet stars are everyday people…
• Influencer marketing can be loosely defined as a form of
marketing that identifies and targets individuals with influence
over potential buyers. In the past, brands may have focused on
popular bloggers and celebrities but today there is a new wave
of “everyday” consumers that can have just as large an impact.
42. Influencer in LinkedIn?
• Follow influencer
• Connect with influencer
• Look for groups they are active in
• Join those groups
• Comment and add value
43.
44. Klout Expertise
Want to make better decisions and create better trust
when deciding who to follow?
Do you want to engage with the right influencers on social
media?
45. Meformers vs Informers
Researchers at Rutgers University
found that only 20% of us are
informers on social media, while the
other 80% are meformers.
Informers had more 2x followers of
meformers.
Sharing information is better for your
follower count than sharing about
yourself.
49. What is content marketing?
• Images
• Archived content
• Infographics
• Video
• Blogs
• Explainers
• Web pages
• PDF downloadable content
• Content for Syndication
• Podcasts
50. Adapted from ‘Media Cloverleaf’ by Richard Edelman
‘Content first' strategy
‘Tradigital’
E-news
Forums
Digital
magazines
Traditional
Media
Press
Social
networks
Facebook
Twitter YouTube
LinkedIn
Website
Responsive design
Mobile enabled
Owned
Content
Video, blogs,
Editorial,
photos
COPE
Create
Once
Post
Everywhere
54. WordSwag
‘Brands that stand out have a strong, consistent visual identity’
• Ensure you have consistent branding, font, colours, style, filters
and tone
55. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXNfDO-hGF0
More video please
• Video first?
• Product descriptions, visualisations
• Expert analysis, talks
• Case studies, testimonials
• 1 in 3 Millennials watch online
material and virtually no
broadcast TV
• Becoming significant in Search
Results
• Pre sales – research
• Post sales - support
56. Customer Support
Creating video content for
customer retention & staff
engagement and training:
Sony Xperia have created a
YouTube channel of all their
support and advice guides.
61. Audit your Real Estate
• Audit your reputation
– First Name Surname (if unique)
– First name Surname, Location
– First name, surname, Business
– Business name
• Develop more content
– Include more web pages about you
– Upload more photos, title your name
– Blog about you and your business
– Include history of the business
65. Use Content to Align your Brand
• Improve brand penetration
– New age, audience
– Different audience
• Help them to understand your story…
66. Mulberry
• Mulberry – ‘hand crafted in Britain’ brand
• Commissioned a series of focusses on similar brands
• Wedgewood
• Aston Martin
• Mackintosh
• Saying – ‘we are like these brands’ #mulberryteacup
67.
68.
69. Rise of the Humans
• Ability to humanise your brand
• This will be the single-most important factor in social
media success in 2015
73. Responding to Negative Feedback
• What to do with online criticism
• Acknowledge – thank them, apologise
• Investigate – have all the facts and policies to hand
• Respond – address specific points include the
investigation, include any action points
74. • Write it all up in Word first
• Keep your tone even and professional
• Respect their right to complain
• Don’t attack the person
• Only respond to the issues – not the sub-plots
• Have your crisis plan ready
75. Types of Criticism
• Problems : Someone has an issue with your product or service
and has laid out exactly what went wrong.
• Criticism : Even more helpful is when the comment comes with
a suggestion attached. Many customers — including some of
your most loyal — will use social media to suggest ways in which
you can improve your product or service.
• Attack : While the attack itself may not be merited, the issue
that catalyzed it does have merit in this type of negative
feedback.
• Trolling : The difference between trolling and an attack are that
trolls have no valid reason for being angry at you
76.
77. You probably should not respond if…
• You are angry
• You want to point out your opponent’s flaws
• Your critic is nasty
82. Using You Tube to respond – Case Study
• Taco Bell - a rumor spread online
questioning whether the fast food
chain used real beef in its products.
“You don’t want people to even be
questioning if you’re using beef in
your tacos.”
• Taco Bell president immediately
went to YouTube with his response.
• They also contacted their over 7
million fans on Facebook and ~150k
Twitter followers.
• As Dorie said, they already had an
army of people who were favorably
inclined toward Taco Bell. “They
were able to quickly reach them and
dispel rumors.”
84. What is Twitter?
83% of
businesses would
recommend
Twitter to other
small or medium
sized businesses.
Discover what is
happening all over
the Globe right
now, share
information and
connect with
others.
284 million
monthly active
users and 500
million tweets
sent every day.
85. Getting started……..
• Choose a username – Keep it short; easy to spell and reflects
your business
• Choose a good profile picture – your avatar. Get rid of the egg!
• Write a short profile about you/your business – keep it short
and interesting and use keywords
86. What is a Tweet?
A Tweet is a message containing 140 characters or
less. It can include text, photos, links or videos.
89. Who to follow?
• Journalists – local and national;
• Local organisations and business relevant to your own;
• Charities;
• Retailers;
• Colleagues & Clients;
• Local Councillors;
• Events and attractions.
93. What to do and what not to on Twitter
• If someone retweets you or mentions you, acknowledge this;
• Always show your personality, let people appreciate the human
behind the brand;
• Use Twitter as a tool to direct people to your blog; your shop;
your website;
• Tell your followers about motivations, inspirations , interests,
local events, news stories and attractions;
• 80% of your tweets should be interactions with others; 20%
about your business.
94. What to do and not to do on Twitter
• Try not to Tweet too much; around three times a day is a good
benchmark;
• Do not get into arguments or debates on Twitter. If you have an
unhappy client or customer, respond and apologise online but
take the conversation offline;
• Don’t get upset if you aren’t followed back, or if you get
unfollowed. It may be that your content isn’t relevant at that
time……….
• Concentrate in the people who are following you, give then
what they want to hear
95. Twitter Activities
• Create your account – make sure you choose a good handle and
your bio has keywords;
• Follow at least 10 other users;
• Start to Create your lists;
• Send your first tweet; use at least one handle and one #
105. Be Active and Promote
Be active
Your profile is more likely to be viewed when you are
actively updating and participating. Make sure you use all
the tools available to keep your profile up to date and use
the status bar to provide comment on interesting industry
news.
Promote!
Use LinkedIn to become an active member of the online
community relevant to your industry. Participate in group
discussions, review white papers and look to network via
these methods. This will help you stand out and increase
your credibility.
106. Top Tips for LinkedIn
1. Start your Own Group
They are thriving hubs of information, discussion and brand
engagement. You can develop authority, trust and exposure
across a network of thousands of interested connections.
107. Top tips for LinkedIn
• 2. Endorse your connections’ top skills
By endorsing your connections, you can highlight their top skills
and expertise to their own network. You lend invaluable social
proof to their claims, and in turn, boost the likelihood of receiving
a similar endorsement.
• 3. Connect with people using a message
When connecting to new people, many users stick with the
default ‘I’d like to add you to my LinkedIn network’ message. This
can actually dissuade users from connecting with you, because of
how impersonal it seems. If you know a connection, prove it with
your message. Reference past work you’ve done together, or
highlight a specific group discussion you were both involved in.
108. Top tips for LinkedIn
• 6. Tag connections in relevant posts
In the same way that you can tag relevant people on Google Plus,
Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn allows you to mention your
connections in posts. If you think a specific connection could
benefit from your latest share, tag them with the ‘@’ symbol, and
immediately boost the exposure of your content.
7. Add real value with your feedback and comments
To help you get the most out of these groups, it’s a great idea to
spend some time learning the best way to engage with your new
audience.
109. Learning into Action
Please take a moment to identify three actions you
are going to implement following todays workshop:
Action By when
1.
2.
3.
To kick things off get learners to introduce themselves;
Write up expectations on a flip chart; explain which will/will not be met.
LA = Local Authorities
Update March 2015: More than 100,000 homes and businesses in the two counties now have access to fibre broadband as a result of the CDS
Almost 90% of those can access speeds in excess of 24mbps
Engineers have installed more than 78,000 km of underground optical fibres
456 new fibre broadband cabinets are now ‘live’
A further 224 fibre cabinets have been installed and are waiting for final works to be completed
Facebook has reached 1.49 billion active users monthly. Surprisingly, approximately 82.8% of the daily active users are outside the USA and Canada. Furthermore, statistics have shown that every day 798 million of Facebook users are accessing this site from their mobile phones. As for the average age groups using this platform, the numbers show that 29% of the users are between 25 and 34 years old. The next age group is represented, of course, by the users aging from 16 to 24 years (25%)
There are 936 million daily active users on average;
Instagram has changed to a must have
300 million monthly active users; 60 million photos posted daily – 1.6 billion likes every single day;
#DevonHour #PlymouthHour
A # is a way of getting involved in a wider conversation. A # can be any word or phase, which cannot include punctuation that starts with the #. This word or phase can be used to communicate with others while taking about the same subject – TV as an example.
If you are searching this # you find tweeters all over the world tweeting about that subject. It is a very powerful tool.
Case Study
Use search and advanced search
Many ways – you sharing stuff;
You share they share; good content that others will share ideally influencers……
1,784,296 subscribers on YouTube
6.6 m subscribers
How do you find influencers?
Become a storyteller
Make it visual, engaging, emotional
What is Canva? – Canva allows you to create social media graphics, design presentations, cover pictures and more. You can use the images, and templates that they have or you can upload your own.
We wrote about Canva back in January 2015 you might want to read about it there – Canva the free design tool
Canva are now rolling out – Canva for work, a paid version – which will have more options – such as re-sizing your created images, which you cannot to do on the free version and much more – which I am excited to try.
Our bespoke Spring Summer 2014 London Fashion Week show invitations contained a miniature teacup and saucer created by iconic English lifestyle brand Wedgwood. The ‘dolls house’ teacups were based on famous Wedgwood Jasperware, invented by Josiah Wedgwood in 1775.
innovative show invitation
What to do if you are victim to a
This type of feedback is negative in the sense that it paints your business in a poor light, but it can be helpful in exposing real problems that need to be dealt with.
While this type of feedback may point out your flaws, and is thus negative, it can be extremely helpful to receive.
Essentially, you or your company did something wrong, and someone is angry. Usually TWO or more things have happened to them
.Also in this category are spammers, who will use a negative comment about your product or service (whether true or not) to promote a competing service.
What’s horrid is the amount of anger behind a critical review
Greendale farm have their own fishery. They put this up on the tweet – but it went national, and got death threats and stuff as it was a protected species. Thresher shark. October 2013. What they did was shut down their social media channel. Instead of we had no idea and rea REALLY sorry. By not responding to bad things it looks like you don’t care
Their response? To close down all their accounts.
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Twitter enables us an insight into a huge world that we wouldn’t otherwise be able to access. We can communicate with others throughout the globe. We can reach so many people about out business. It breaks down barriers and allows you to connect with everyone and anyone. It doesn’t take long to tweet, RT or interact any you can do it wherever you are!
Launched in 2006; 80% of tweets are sent from a mobile phone.
The power that Twitter has to reach your potential customers and increase awareness for your business is enormous.
Every account begins with an @. To tag (or include) someone else in your tweet you use @ and they will get notified that you have mentioned them and you can start a conversation. It is useful to note that if you use the @ at the beginning of the tweet, that tweet can only be seen by both yours and the recipients followers. This means is more private, but cannot be seen by a wider audience.
If you are tweeting as a marketing tool, then use the @ in the middle of the text, or add a simple full stop before you tweet.
By following a user, this means that every tweet they send will appear in your newsfeed.
RT – stands for retweet. A retweet is when you copy someone else's tweet to your followers. You can directly RT the tweet, ot you can add some of your own comments.
Favourite – Clicking on the star. Favouriting a tweet is an acknowledgment that you are grateful for a tweet that you have been mentioned in, but it also serves as a bookmark, enabling you to find that tweet later on with ease.
Navigate to Linkedin.com: You will need to create a profile with your name, surname, email address and password
Can connect with your FB account.
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LinkedIn keeps good track of your profile completeness. It is in your best interest to complete your profile. Include past and current work history, a summary, skills you’ve learned, etc
Post a professional image of you in your profile
One place a photo is helpful in getting noticed is LinkedIn. It adds to your credibility and makes your profile look professional. But remember to only use a professional image. This is defined as a head and shoulders portrait of you.
Complete your current title and summary
Your title should be genuine. Your summary should be a short, concise two or three paragraphs that should answer 3 basic questions- who are you, what do you do, and who do you do it for? Within your summary use keywords that will help you get found in LinkedIn search for example if you are a marketing professional, use keywords such as social media marketing, public relations etc.
Complete your past experiences and specialisations
Specialisations should answer the question – what makes you unique from everyone else in your line of work?
Join relevant groups
Primarily LinkedIn is known for its groups. Groups can be private or public. Find the ones that you are interested in to network, share experiences and in which you can learn and give your opinions
Pulse is an award-winning application that makes it easy to consume business news on mobile phones and tablets. Pulse has been named to the Apple's App Store Hall of Fame, chosen as an Android Editor's Choice app, selected as one of TIME's top 50 iPhone apps, and honored with the Apple Design Award.
The ultimate LinkedIn marketing strategy is also the simplest – start your own group. LinkedIn groups are thriving hubs of information, discussion and brand engagement. They bring together thousands of industry-relevant users, and make it possible to demonstrate the value of your business in an honest and beneficial way. Whilst maintaining a thriving network isn’t always easy, doing so will have massive ramifications for your business – developing authority, trust and exposure across a network of thousands of interested connections
Effective LinkedIn marketing is all about adding value to other users’ experiences. The quickest and simplest way to achieve this is through LinkedIn’s Skills section
It’s crucial that you only recommend people that you’ve previously engaged with. If you begin endorsing people for skills that they might not have, you begin to devalue the entire Skills system.