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Top 10 Social Media Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
1. Top Ten Social Media
Mistakes to Avoid
Greg Cooper
Front of Mind Coaching
B2B Marketing Coach, Social Media Trainer, LinkedIn Specialist
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2. Social Media Safety Announcement
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3. “Social media is like teen sex
Everyone wants to do it. No one
actually knows how. When
finally done, there is surprise it’s
not better.”
Avinash Kaushik
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4. Mistake #1
“It doesn’t apply to my business”
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6. Time spent on line by UK citizens (289 minutes per day)
Source: McKinsey Report 2013
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7. UK Social Media Use
• 57% of population use social media every day
• In Europe UK is #2 on Facebook and Twitter
• The average consumer consults 10.4 sources
when making a purchase decision
• 60% of the B2B purchase journey is undertaken
without engaging a sales rep
• 66% of B2B decision makers say they use
LinkedIn when identifying suppliers
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8. Who is on social media?
Your employees
Your customers
Your competitors
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10. Decide what you want to achieve
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What are your business objectives for social media?
Who is your target audience?
What are their social media habits?
Which social media channels will you focus on?
Who will be overall responsible and who will contribute
What resources will be needed
How will integrate social media into the marketing plan?
How will you measure success?
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11. Mistake #3
Treating social media as just
another sales channel
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14. Basic principles
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Find your audience
Develop and deliver relevant content
Get to know your audience
Add value to the relationship
Invite participation
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15. Mistake #4
Putting the wrong person in charge
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16. Being under 25 is not a social media qualification
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17. Mistake #5
Focusing on quantity not quality
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32. Turning the negative into positive
• Monitor the business’s online reputation
• Anticipate negative comments and plan
possible responses
• Find ways to make it a positive
experience for the customer
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37. If you don’t know what’s working
how do you know what to do more
of?
List of monitoring tools
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38. Mistake #10
Failing to engage staff and
customers as social ambassadors
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39. It’s a connected world
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40. Employee and customer networks an untapped opportunity?
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44. Case Study Links
Jamie Oliver food foundation
Maersk Line
Hewlett Packard
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45. • Social media is no longer in its infancy
• Focus now on measuring and finding what
works and doing more of that
• Social media is a very important part of the
overall marketing blend
• We need to engage employees and customers
• Be part of the conversation
• We are all learning
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46. Bath dates for diary
LinkedIn Master Class November 27th
Social Media for Non-Marketers Jan 22nd
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47. Thank you
Greg Cooper
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@gregcoopers
@linkedincoachuk
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Editor's Notes
52% of adults access the internet by mobile. Social media has taken over from TV as the opium of the masses!
You might like likes but likes don’t pay the bills.
You might like likes but likes don’t pay the bills.
You might like likes but likes don’t pay the bills.
If you don’t monitor you know what to do more of?
If you don’t monitor what’s working how do you know what to do more of?