2. Overview
• Introduction to the 3 accredited Chambers of Commerce’s who use the
same social platforms as DCCI
• Engagement audit of how the Chambers use Twitter and Facebook
• Common themes
• Recommendations for best practice in industry
• Overall conclusions
3. Things to find out…
• What are Chambers trying to achieve through social media marketing?
• Has the Chambers social footprint grown in the last year in comparison to 5 years ago?
• Who is our target audience and why?
• How good are other chambers and our chamber in targeting customers through social media?
• Which social media tools are used by the other chambers and our Chamber?
• How good other chambers and our Chamber are in building positive influence amongst customers?
• How good are other chambers and our chamber in leveraging the various social media tools?
• How good are other chambers and our chamber in engaging with the target audience?
• How good are other chambers and our chamber in amplifying (sharing) messages?
• What are best practices we can come up with from our social media audit?
• How are we going to implement these best practices?
4. London Chamber Of Commerce
Facebook page likes = 2082
Twitter followers = 9195 LinkedIn members = 3882
6th April 2016
• The capital's largest independent networking and business support organisation
• Representing the interests of thousands of companies to key business stakeholders
and influencers across all business sectors
• Connect thousands of business people every year and offer their members a wide
range of practical and professional services
• Host over 200 B2B events each year, provides member-to-member marketing
opportunities, unlimited access to legal and HR advice, access to our exclusive central
London meeting space and the opportunity to be part of an extensive international
trade mission programme
5. Norfolk Chamber Of Commerce
Facebook page likes = 902
Twitter followers = 6821 LinkedIn members = 2718
Company Vision
• Embraces and represents the County’s business community - from start-up
businesses, small and medium enterprises, and on to global brands
• Provide networking opportunities, share knowledge, offer business services
• Signpost to business opportunities and inspire innovative thinking to enable companies
to do better business.
• Their voice is your voice, amplifying your voice through established connections
6th April 2016
6. Manchester Chamber Of Commerce
Facebook page likes = 988
Twitter followers = 19400 LinkedIn members = 7116
Company Vision
• Provide first-class business support to companies of all shapes and sizes, through a
range of sector-based membership services and networking opportunities
• Help connect members to the networks and information they need to grow through
targeted industry events
• Help create the best workforce through their skills and development programme
• Aim to provide invaluable links between business and training providers to deliver
training which meets employer’s needs.
• Be the voice of business for its members
6th April 2016
7. Dorset Chamber Of Commerce
Facebook page likes = 590
Twitter followers = 4239 LinkedIn members = 1467
Company Vision
• Be a leading business support organization
• Develop knowledge and skills
• Deliver high quality services
• Enhance the value of membership
• Promote a dynamic Dorset
• Develop International Trade
• Championing Dorset Business
• Develop effective business networks
• Engage and understand the views of business
• Inform, engage and influence decision makers
• Work with partners and stakeholders in supporting business i.e. town chambers,
schools, colleges
• Maximise funding support opportunities for Dorset
6th April 2016
9. Twitter average engagement score
Engagement Score
LCCI
Manchester
Norfolk
DCCI
Chamber Engagement Score
LCCI 3.7
Manchester 5.9
Norfolk 5
DCCI 2.5
The higher the score, the more engaged the audience
Manchester Chamber represent the highest engagement level
DCCI represent the lowest engagement level
In terms of best practice DCCI could take on some of the
practices Manchester and Norfolk chamber adopt as they are
the two highest scorers
13. Common Themes
Welcoming new members
Event Updates
Policy updates
Live video tweeting at
events
Live photo tweeting
at events
Pushing surveys
Tagging influencers
Using relevant
hashtags
Promoting internal
comms i.e. newsletters
Funding
opportunities
Manchester and Norfolk
leading on TwitterFormal tone
14. Best practices
• Implement a daily strategy
• Make sure strategy mirrors company objectives
• Leading business support organisation, networking, supporting members etc
• Live event tweeting
• Photos and videos
• Use of relevant hashtags
• i.e. #YoungChamber #DCCI #JoinYourChamber
• Tag influencers in as many tweets possible
• Engage with influencers who post about us
• i.e. at events or members who thank us for a great event
• Piggyback off our influencers
• Make tweets member relevant
• Welcoming new members
• Members news releases
• Member adverts
• On the lead up to events implement a pre, during and post communications campaign
• Tweet about the policies we are supporting i.e. bridging the gap between school leavers and the workplace,
international trade, QES, business leaders forum
• Use a formal tone approach
• Good use of imagery- real life images
16. Facebook average engagement score
Engagement Score
LCCI
Manchester
Norfolk
DCCI
Chamber Engagement Score
LCCI 5.6
Manchester 1
Norfolk 1.3
DCCI 5.3
LCCI represents the highest engagement score, 5.6 with DCCI
coming second, 5.3. This figure is not a true reflection of how
engaging each chamber actually is because there hasn’t been a
higher enough number of posts to analyse.
Facebook is used on an ad hoc basis.
In terms of best practice we should take on board some of the
‘topics’ which have received high engagement rates.
19. Common Themes
Event updates
Photos from events and
visits
Description for
posts aren’t
engaging enough
Not enough content
on posts
Lack of engagement in
terms of shares,
comments, replies
Only engagement
are likes and the
occasional share
No daily strategy in place
Personal posts about members
tend to gain higher engagement
No sense of continuity with tone
across all Chambers
DCCI and LCCI
leading on
Facebook
20. Best practices
• Implement a daily strategy
• Make sure strategy mirrors company objectives
• Leading business support organisation, networking, supporting
• Make posts personal about members
• Do not mix sense of tone (either formal or informal)
• Make content member related, about members, show we care about members
• Include real life imagery
• Include photos from events and member visits
• Make our followers feel as if we are real human beings
• post staff photos in the office/ at events, videos
• Tag companies in posts
• Videos of members
• Tag location of events
• Make content in posts more engaging to get a higher reply rate
• Ask questions
• Ask for views
21. Overall conclusions
• Twitter is used more efficiently by all Chambers
• Facebook is used on an adhoc basis
• In order for high engagement levels and successful social media marketing there must
be a daily strategy in place
• It is important to include influencers so your message can spread to other networks
• It is important to produce good quality content which makes the audience want to
engage such as asking questions
• Posts and tweets about members are more engaging than policy based ones as they
have a personal connection
• Twitter is used as a ‘call to action’ where members advertise their news, advertise
services, Chambers advertise events
• Facebook is more of an information page – Chambers use it to post about events they
have held, events that are coming up
• Use of imagery and video is important – these gain higher engagement rates
• The key to success is to plan and strategize your social media marketing around your
company objectives
From looking at the topics you can see Manchester chamber have a clear strategy in place. They have similar themes for each day ‘survey, advert, policy, news release, newsletter’. These themes represent their company vision.
Norfolk Chamber have a strategy in place but are more ad hoc with their posting. In one week Manchester Chamber posted 146 posts whereas Norfolk posted 38.
Manchester Chamber have 10k followers and have over 5000 members which is one of the reasons they have a higher engagement rate.
DCCI and LCCI do not have much of a strategy in place, 2 or more days of the week not posting about anything.
Manchester have a large number of stakeholders tweeting for them on a weekly basis. Business people attending events, stakeholders they are working, they encourage this by tagging them in their own posts as influencers first.
DCCI do not actively tag many influencers, we do not have many stakeholder tweeting for us probably due to no strategy and posting on an ad hoc and ‘when we need to’ basis.
Look at examples from top 2 engagers
Good examples from Manchester chamber – all member focused whether it is policy based, event based, welcoming new members, live video captures at events, promoting member adverts by retweeting,
Formal tone
No influencers tagged
Links missing
DCCI no variation in content
Tagging influencers i.e @britishchambers @customised @BBC Norfolk @PhillipGMCC
Themes involving members and building relationship with members tend to get higher engagement i.e. policy based tweets aren’t as engaging as ‘thank you @.... For attending our event’.
We can see from Manchester's daily strategy implemented (topics talked about each day) they received a higher engagement rate than any other chamber (5.9). Similarly Norfolk received an engagement rate of 5 and also showed a robust strategy in place too. This suggests we should implement a daily strategy in order to gain higher engagement levels on Twitter and in to be more engaging. The issue we have internally is resources.
Tagging influencers i.e @britishchambers @customised @BBC Norfolk @PhillipGMCC
Tweets involving members and building relationship with members tend to get higher engagement i.e. policy based tweets aren’t as engaging as ‘thank you @.... For attending our event’.
Building a communications campaign on Twitter on the lead up to events and during the event will increase engagement, increase bookings and make the members feel more valued as we will be adding that personal connection.
As a whole Chambers do not use Facebook as efficiently as they use Twitter. All 4 chambers post under 10 posts a week with Manchester leading with 8 posts a week during the week 8th March- 15th March, in comparison to the lowest posters Norfolk and London Chamber who only posted 3 times. DCCI’s Facebook audit was conducted for the week 1st March – 8th March because nothing had been posted from 8th March onwards so no data could be collected from the 8th March – 15th March.
There doesn’t seem to be much of a daily strategy in place for any Chambers. The strategy in place is very ad hoc. You can see from the topics posted each Chamber varies what they post about. The engagement level in general is pretty low due to the low number of posts (zero comments, shares, replies, likes influencers tagged). However when posts are done i.e. DCCI 1st march posted photos from an event, this gained 7 likes showing people do like to engage when the post is about them. Posts on policies do not receive as high number of engagemnt i.e. LCCI 10th march received 4 likes. There is a lack of engagement in terms of comments, shares, replies. Only engagement seems to be likes with the occasional share. This suggests there needs to be better, more engaging content posted on Facebook so higher levels of engagement can be received. DCCI and LCCI are leading on the engagement, however we can see this isn’t a reflection on whether they are engaging well as there aren’t many posts for customers to engage with. There needs to be more effort in implementing a daily strategy on Facebook which offers engaging content.
No visitor posts on timeline- no adverts – no clogging with adverts – purely used to communicate internal information
Content published on 7th march for DCCI is engaging, descriptive but could still be more enticing to begin with.
Content published on 3rd March from DCCI is personal and engaging, friendly tone.
Tone on Facebook is a mix of formal and informal…. Need to clarify what tone we are going to use and stick to it
Tone from LCCI is more formal
Good use of imagery – real life images = more engaging
Not much member news or exciting news on there apart from pushing events
No new member welcomes
Better use of imagery needed for transform your business workshop and description needs to be more engaging
The type of content posted is good but the actual content itself isn’t engaging enough. Content needs to ask questions i.e. ‘who is here at our networking event today?’
Norkolk chamber post 8th march – short description no engaging content ‘who has been affected by the roadworks?’
Greater Manchester post – no description about what the brief is
No sense of connection with the follower – no images of real people or videos etc
Tagging influencers i.e @britishchambers @customised @BBC Norfolk @PhillipGMCC
Themes involving members and building relationship with members tend to get higher engagement i.e. policy based tweets aren’t as engaging as ‘thank you @.... For attending our event’.