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#socialmedia #workshop!
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Great
#socialmedia #workshop
with @one2create!
@HarrisDharris
you blow my mind!
.@One2create great
#socialmedia #workshop!
@HarrisDharris
you blow my mind!
Mix of talking and interactive elements
about platforms
24 hour news cycle
hash tags
Personas - Interactive session
Helping people create their personas
Split into groups to discuss content that could work
Q&A session
Content Planners
Final Q&A
Social Media
If you aren’t on social media you should be
How Many people here are using social media for business?
Businesses are shifting more and more spend towards social channels
Not every platform is right for every business
Make sure you personal accounts give the right impression. If not, lock them down / secure them!
Include a Twitter or Facebook feed on your website
About LinkedIn: - B2B
Launched in 2003
Used for professional networking
Personal and business pages
500 million members (prev quarter 467 million)
Demographics
- 21% of users under the age of 35
- 79% male users, 21% female users
Benefits of LinkedIn:
Professional social platform
won’t find much swearing or too much inappropriate humour
Encourages thought/discussion via updates and groups within your industry
Connect with clients/prospects
Ability to get testimonials and recommendations
Establish yourselves as industry leaders and raise your credibility
use for recruitment
How many have personal accounts?
How many have business pages?
Why build a company page?
• Brand reach
• Establish as thought leaders/experts
• Generate sales
• Customer service
Maximising LinkedIn Personal:
Share relevant interesting updates (more on content later)
Business updates
Industry news
Like, comment and share others posts
Endorse others
Recommend others
Join/follow and share links to relevant groups and interact
post content with links back you your website/blog
Maximising Company Page
Share relevant interesting updates:
• On company homepage type in update
• Add link or image
• Choose audience
Followers
demographics within followers (ie age, location, etc)
• Share
• To delete, hover over and click delete
• Review post’s impressions, clicks, interactions, engagement (drop down)
• Comment on own post
• Pin posts to top (if important)
About Facebook - B2C
Launched in 2004
Used for social and business
Personal and business pages
2 billion up from 1.94 billion users 3 months ago
Demographics
UK Demographic – 49% male users, 51% female
26% of users aged between 25-34 (UK)
Benefits of Facebook
Softer social media platform (B2C) – which is why it doesn’t work so well for One2create – we aim for businesses rather than individuals
Direct route to customer/prospects
Targeted advertising – eg. jewellers selling wedding rings – females who are engaged.
Platform with the most users
How many have personal accounts?
How many have a company page?
PERSONAL PROFILE
You need to have one to create a company page
Dummy account vs. personal account
legitimate email address
Follow the easy set up steps
COMPANY PAGE
Why build a company page?
Brand reach
Establish as thought leaders/experts
Customer service
Advertising
Generate sales
Requirements for having a company page:
• No requirement for number of likes/connections
• You can ‘Like’ and interact with users as a company
Business likes don’t show up in number of likes
MAXIMISING FACEBOOK
Build audience and interact
Like Pages to fill timeline and interact
however, doing this doesn’t count towards ‘likes’ for your business
Like/Comment on other Pages’ posts
Advertise/cross pollinate via other social channels, marketing materials, email signature
Run Competitions
business page likes
comments
engagements
Rich Media Posts
Videos
Infographics
Funny Images
Facebook Live
About Twitter - B2B/B2C
• Launched 2006
• Used for social and business
• Micro-blogging site
• 328 million - up from 317 million users
(1.3 billion registered users (not active)
NB Instagram has 600 million users up from 500 million in June 2016
Demographics
- Over 65% of users are under 34
- Over 80% access Twitter from their mobile device
- 29% check their Feed multiple times during the day
- Relatively even, 49% male users, 51% female users
Benefits of Twitter:
• Fast paced social platform
• High levels of interaction using hashtags
• Access to connect with all levels of users
• Advertising
How many have personal accounts?
How many have company accounts?
PERSONAL PROFILE
You don’t need one to set up a company page
• But it’s good to have a personal one to share company updates with your followers and promote yourself – people buy from people
• Follow the easy set up steps
COMPANY ACCOUNT
Why build a company accounts?
• Brand reach
• Establish as thought leaders/experts
• Customer service
• Generate sales
Requirements for having a company account:
• No requirement for number of followers/connections
• You can interact with users with a company account
MAXIMISING TWITTER
Find and follow users
By Twitter handles
By keywords
By hashtags
Search relevant hashtags
Tweet interesting, relevant content
Use relevant terminology
@
When you @ someone the only people who see the message are people that follow you and the person you’re @-ing
e.g. “@hantschamber great social media training today!”
To ensure everyone sees your tweets simply start your message with lead in text or a full stop
E.g. “Thanks @hantschamber, great social media training” or “.@hantschamber great social media training today!”
# - is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It is used to categorise messages, and make it easy to find.
RT
DM
#FF
#hampshirehour
Likes (used to be favourite)
Best tweets will appear slightly larger
Pinned tweets for important info
@One2create great
#socialmedia #workshop.
@HarrisDharris
you blow my mind!
About Instagram B2B/B2C
• Launched 2010
• Used for social and business
• Image and video sharing platform
• 700 million users (up from 600 million users 3 months ago
Demographics
Rapidly growing platform
Younger platform
Benefits of instagram:
Fastest growing social platform ever
easier to get better engagement
use lots of hashtags for increased reached
you can post as often as you like without fear of pissing people off
High levels of interaction using hashtags
Use varied content
related apps for video and imagery
Access to connect with all levels of users
Advertising via facebook or solo
How many have personal accounts?
How many have company accounts?
PERSONAL PROFILE
You don't need one to set up a company page
• Follow the easy set up steps
COMPANY ACCOUNT
Why build a company accounts?
• Brand reach
• Establish as thought leaders/experts
• Customer service
• Generate sales
Requirements for having a company account:
• No requirement for number of followers/connections
• You can interact with users with a company account
You must link to your business Facebook account to verify yourself as a business
MAXIMISING Instagram
Find and follow users
By Twitter handles
By keywords
By hashtags
Search relevant hashtags
Post interesting, relevant content regularly
minimum of 3 times per week
Business account gives analytics of best time to post based on your profile
# - is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It is used to categorise messages, and make it easy to find.
Like (heart)
Comment
Send (not share) to your followers only
repost image and tag them in for improved reach
ie after an event to thank them for attending
TIME CHECK - SHOULD BE 11:30
Don’t create content and then decide on an outcome
Think of an outcome and then create content around it
More business page likes, more website visits, etc
80/20 rule - discuss
We all live in a 24 hour news culture
Our customers are used to getting what they want, when they want it
They have also got a lot less time to listen to you
Become part of the 24 hour news cycle
Talk about what matters to your audience right now
Show them why you should matter to them too
Think like a journalist
Create content that is part of the news cycle
Follow the news and think about your readers
Sports Events are great 24 hour news cycle opportunities
Capitalise on social sentiment to get you message out to a larger audience
A hash tag in front of a word help people to find things in search
Avoid making new hash tags for the wrong reasons
Check hash tags before you use them.
wet wednesday
Hashtags originated on Twitter but not a Twitter function.
A broken plane landed in the Hudson River in early 2009
A Twitter posted with #flight1549.
Somebody else posted with #flight1549 and so on.
For info on the situation, you could do a search on "#flight1549".
Great use of a Hashtag
Snickers - You’re not you when you’re hungry
Happy Friday RIP prince!
BA shared an advert from Virgin
Oscars blunder from Total Beauty !!
Boston Journalist!
Seoul Secret “White Makes you Win” campaign to promote skin lightening cosmetics!
“Only one rainbow matters this pride. Give the rainbow, taste the rainbow”
Nivea Facebook controversial advert for their deodorant
*** White is Purity! ***
Additional caption - 'Keep it clean, keep it bright. Don't let anything ruin it.'
poster was shared by extremist right-wing groups.
Another group commented: 'Nivea has chosen our side and the most like comments are glorious'.
Nivea had to issue an apology
Superbowl 2013
15,000 retweets
Twitter following increased by about 8,000.
20,000 likes on Facebook.
From 2,000 Instagram followers pre-game to 36,000
Super Bowl ad-spurred seven-week contest for the best part of the Oreo
More than 16,000 pictures submitted by consumers as votes for “Cookie” or “Creme,”
#everybodysready
Simply Be
Dove
The Protein world guys are at it again!
Within hours people were complaining via social media
Ad agency responded
'The strap line is a deliberate play on the traditional notion of "thinking big".
'The model is a fit, healthy and strong female and we’re proud she is fronting this campaign.
“Think Small,” refers to the size of the bottle.’
89th Oscars in 2017
La La Land the winner !!! —- oops
should have been Moonlight
Time Check - should be 11:45
TIME CHECK - SHOULD BE 12 Noon
Talk about personas and why they are important
Gender
Location
Age Bracket
interests
Budgets
sign-off -?
etc
Where do you get this
ask your sales people who their perfect sales meeting is with
Look and Google Analytics to see the demographics of website visitors with conversions
Social Media demographic
discuss some persona types
general stereotypical interest etc (MD)
industry specific knowledge from clients
use 02c personas
What gender percentage do you believe your target demographic to fall into?
male female
What key locations would your target demographic be in?
Southampton, hampshire, south of UK
Please list 5 job titles that your target demographics may have
MD, Sales Director
Age Bracket
45-55 years old
Size of Company
20 - 50 employees
Main Interests
TV/film, travel
Hobbies
Golf, cooking, cars
Other factors
educated to degree level, etc
TIME CHECK - SHOULD BE 12:10
hand out persona forms and get people to fill them in (10 minutes)
TIME CHECK SHOULD BE 12:20
Split into groups to discuss content for personas - 15 minutes
FTSE
SME
SMALL
B2C
if time ask if any personas in the room agree with the content - 10 minute
TIME CHECK - SHOULD BE 12:40
Content Planner - business card to get the rest of the content planner 12 months for electronic version
80/20 split
fill in soft content first
add in targeted business content
hand out content planners