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Created for the Consortium for Entrepreneurial Education Learn the 4 Steps to Social Media Success Learn from examples from Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Pinterest and Blogs Learn from case study about how Microsoft used Pinterest to launch a new product Additional resouces included: Social Media Planning Guide, Create your social media guidelines forms, blog content ideas and more.TRANSCRIPT
Your Social Media Guide Toby Bloomberg - @tobydiva CMG, Director of Social Media Integration 2012
Modern Marketing On A Budget
4 Steps To Social Media Success
4 Steps To Social Media Success
1. Customers
4 Steps To Social Media Success
2. Content
4 Steps To Social Media Success
3. Care
4 Steps To Social Media Success
4. Communicate
People like to do business with people they like.
“People-based relationships and performance will continue to be
the most important formula for success.” Lorraine Tribe, Quest Personnel
Source: Forrester Research
Then
Source: Forrester Research
Now
Social Media/Networks: -Facebook
Content Sharing work
Research
Share
Conversation
Educate
Emotional Connection
Entertain
Relevant
Teacher
PTA
Social Media/Network: Twitter
Content Professional
opportunity
Share
Conversation
Twitter: Principal
Twitter: During Class
Students can ask questions as you teach
Students can answer each other’s questions when they
arise
Classrooms can collaborate by giving each other advice
on different topics: test prep advice, grammar tips, etc…
Students can summarize larger pieces of text in 140
characters or less
Classrooms can share rules for specific subjects
Students can ask questions/answer questions from
students in other rooms, schools, states, etc…
Students can use it as a publicly written Think Aloud
Teachers can invite community members and parents to
view a window into your classroom during a specific time
From twitter4teachers
Thinking Aloud
Social Media/Networks: LinkedIn
Content Member
question
Share
Conversation
What’s A Blog?
An online journal which produces fame
without wealth for pajama-clad scribes,
known as bloggers, who write so well
they don’t need editors and survive by
eating ramen noodles and Tang
powder from a spoon. Heard if from Scrappleface
blog
Social Media/Networks: Blog
Content Thought
leadership
through
social networking
crowd sourcing
Share Conversation
Blog: Classroom Teacher + Students
Blogs: Principals & School BusDrivers
Social Media/Networks: Pinterest
Content: Pins
Share
Conversation
Bio Boards
Benefits
• Personal branding
•Thought leadership
• Subject matter expert
• Look behind the resume
• Highlight what’s
important
Pinteres t Case
Microsoft Product Launch Contest
“Since we had such great artists that designed amazing art on our
mice, Pinterest proved to be a great vehicle to promote this initiative.” BJ O’Hare, Microsoft
Pinterest Contest: Product Design Launch
Microsoft – Case Study
Why Pinterest • New mouse designs expressive and appeal to people
looking for ways to personalize their everyday life.
• Use Microsoft designer mouse pins to “decorate” boards
Goals • Generate awareness of the new colors and artist designs
through engagement with an audience
• Increase followers of Microsoft boards
• Generate repins
Awareness
•Microsoft social networks: Facebook, Twitter,
blogs, TechTuesday tweet chat (#winchat/@windows)
Pinterest Contest: Product Design Launch
Microsoft – Case Study
Engagement Tactic
• Added new images every few are
fresh pins for people to use
Research Analysis
• Designs vs color images
pinned
• Rerepinning the contest pin
• Pin & board descriptors
• Group of images vs single
item images
• Product images vs lifestyle
images.
From Diva Marketing Interview with BJO’Hare
http://bit.ly/1rXcHGZ
Before You Begin To Pin 1. How can you leverage and integrate social visual
communications to support your brand story?
• Goals
• Brand values
• Brand promise
5. What is Success?
• What are your metrics?
6. How will you manage social visual challenges?
• What to pin e.g. images & sites
• What not to pin e.g. images & sites
• Watermarks
• Key words
7. How will you create awareness?
Return On Social Media Define success – based on goals and objectives • ROI/revenue
• ROO/return on objectives
• ROE/return on engagement
• Such as: Reinforce branding Improve customer service/product support Lead generation/new business opportunities Loyalty marketing Customer feedback Search engine rankings Sharing internal knowledge Executive leadership Increased awareness Media attention Learnings
Objectives
Goals
Identify target audience
Who
Where are they online?
What are they doing?
How do they want to engage with the (people of) brand
Determine tactics
Listen to digital conversations
How will social media tactics integrate into current and future initiatives?
Determine metrics for success
Quantitative: Web analytics, followers, friends, likes, shares,
Go Behind The Numbers New Value: longevity of digital, halo effect of influencers,
Determine awareness program
Social Media Planning Guide
1:00p
Social Media
Platform
Who will you friend,
follow, connect, etc.*
Personal Sharing
Scale of 1-5
Blog
Podcast
Video
Google+
*Colleagues, clients, friends, vendors, media, etc.
** Scale of 1-5 where 1 means no personal sharing, 5 means a lot.
Getting Started: On Your Terms
Top 11 Blog Post Ideas
1. Instructional - How to do
2. Informational – Passing along information
3. Top List – a la David Letterman’s
4. Profiles – Highlight employees
5. Interviews – Customers, parents, students
6. Inspirational - Success stories
7. Book Reviews
8. Survey/ polls
9. Resources
10. Video - Incorporate videos into a text
4 Steps To Social Media Success
1. Customers 2. Content
3. Care 4. Communicate
Without leaps of imagination or
dreaming, we lose the excitement of
possibilities. Gloria Steinem
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