social media strategies for publishers
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Social Media Success: Inspire Your Audience, Build Your Business.
@KateVolman KateVolman.com
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Why You Should Leverage Social Media
• Different platforms, same business principles.
• Build stronger relationships with current and potential customers.
• No longer have to tell people how good we are, our clients/customers/followers gladly do it for us.
• No other medium allows you to target as specifically.
• Opens additional revenue opportunities.
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We get to…
• Create new business models. • Invent new revenue streams. • Build stronger partnerships with
other businesses.
Jason Zook
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Gary Vaynerchuck, Entrepreneur
• $3M to 60M in five years. • Investor in Facebook, Twitter,
Tumbler, Burchbox
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Big Brands
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Tell a Great StoryBuild an Audience
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How Are You Building Your Audience?
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Who is Your Audience?
• Who are your subscribers?
• Who are your potential partners?
• What do they love?
• Where do they spend time?
• Targeted advertising.
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Social Platforms
• Where is your audience spending time?
• Create different strategy for each platform.
• Repurpose content.
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• 1.4 billion monthly active Facebook users.
• 71% of internet users are on Facebook.
• 56% of internet users ages 65 and older use Facebook.
• 76% female & 66% male
Source: Pew Research Center
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• 350 million users.
• 28% of online adults are LinkedIn users.
• Popular among college graduates, those in higher-income households and the employed.
• It is the only platform where those ages 30-64 are more likely to be users than those ages 18-29.
Source: Pew Research Center
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• 23% of online adults currently use Twitter.
• Particularly popular among those under 50 and the college-educated.
• Compared with late 2013, the service has seen significant increases among a number of demographic groups: men, whites, those ages 65 and older, those who live in households with an annual household income of $50,000 or more, college graduates, and urbanites.
Source: Pew Research Center
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YouTube• Audience, reaching 81.2 percent of
Internet users in the U.S., according to comScore data.
• 30 hours of video uploaded per minute.
• In March, YouTube drew 31.8 million users aged 18 to 24 who spent an average of 10 hours, 15 minutes on the site. And19.4 million visitors 65 and older who spent an average of 3 hours, 54 minutes using the video-streaming service.
Source: Digiday
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Source: Sprout Social
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Reach Your Audience Through Advertising
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Facebook Advertising
• Targeted page likes
• Boosted posts to fans or targeted audience
• Custom audience ads to email list
• Sweepstakes
• Retargeting
• Promote events
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Use Facebook Tabs
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Twitter Advertising
• Sponsor tweets.
• Targeted follow ads (demographics, interests, etc.)
• App install ads - Target audience to download your app.
• Tailored Audience (custom audience)
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LinkedIn Advertising
• B2B Targeting industries and professionals.
• Great for finding advertisers by running ads.
• Expanding audience.
• To grow distribution, send people to your subscription page.
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How to Find Advertisers
• Join the conversation in Twitter to specific industries.
• Twitter.com/Search
• Use LeadForensics.com - tell what companies are coming to your website. Get sales people on it.
• Use YesMail.com - shows who read your emails.
• Join LinkedIn industry groups.
• Run FB ads to potential advertisers.
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How are you using your content to engage your audience?
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Content & Posting Strategies
• Published on mobile optimized website.
• Leverage all content. Repurposing content that isn’t yet on the web. Then post and/or advertise on social media.
• Use amazing visuals.
• Use Hootsuite to schedule posts
• Use hashtags (up to 11 per post is ideal)
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What Brands/Businesses Do You Follow?
• How are you different?
• What value are you providing?
• What kind of customer experience are you creating?
• Are you creating and sharing content that people will miss if you stop posting?
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• Over 6M Fans on FB • 200 posts/day • 1.3M on Twitter • Engaged fans on
Twitter through a chick flick
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Create Shareable Content
Share Real Time Happenings
• Time covered Hurricane Sandy using Instagram photos
• Follower numbers increase by 12,000 in 48 hours.
• By handing over the reigns to five photographers, Time was able to deliver as-its-happening pictures to their readers instantly.
Source: Unbound Media
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Create Shareable Content
• Mix of inspirational quotes, photos of new health food products, and shots of people exercising.
• Editor-in-Chief says, “Our staff is living the brand and is personally aligned with it.”
• Kalehoff said that Natural Health’s Instagram success is largely a by product of the magazine’s rethinking of how social media fits in with its overall editorial strategy. Rather than assign Instagram to a single social media editor, Natural Health made it the job of its entire editorial staff, which collectively adds photos from their own lives. She said that that this adds a level of authenticity to the product.
Inspiring, Real
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Video Content
The Economist currently produces two to three videos a week, and everything gets posted to its own website, Facebook, and YouTube.
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Video Content
Highlight events and happenings in the area
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Create Shareable Content
What’s Trending
• Use popular hashtags in a fun way. #OOTD
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Need Help Coming Up with Ideas?
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SocialStorming Sessions
• Leverage your current subscribers & advertisers. • Invite them to join the conversation about strategy.
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Dusty Sorg and Michael Jedrzejewski
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What Will My Audience Respond To?
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Listen & Respond
• Your followers are not just a number.
• Comment on posts and keep the conversation going.
• Quality vs. Quantity.
• Be human.
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Measure Results
• Number of subscriptions sold.
• Use bit.ly to track performance of each link (shortens url).
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How to Monetize Your Social Media Efforts
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Monetization Strategies
• Bigger your audience the better your opportunity.
• Sell boosted posts on FB page.
• Convert readers into email subscribers. (email list building strategy) - your email list should be making you $$.
• Selling sponsored tweets.
• Advertisers sponsors sweepstakes.
• Advertisers sponsors for YouTube show/channel.
• Use apps.
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• Three digital-only plans
• Web & Smartphones: $3.75/week
• Web & Tablets: $5/week
• All Digital Platforms: $8.75/week
• Readers can read up to 10 articles per month for free.
• Partnering with third-party companies to help market their content.
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Social Media Tools • Social Mention
• Monitors over 100 social networking sites • hootsuite.com
• Schedule posts • buffer.com
• Schedule posts & tracking• Skitch
• Editing images & screenshots • canva.com
• Creating images• Animoto
• creating videos
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MazDigital.com
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Feeling Inspired? What Are Your Ideas?
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