Why Your Social Networking is Not Working
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Lisa Trosien's social media presentation, made to the National Apartment Association's Student Housing Conference, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Why Your Social Networking is Not Working
- 1. Why Your Social Networking is Not Working Presented by Lisa Trosien
- 2. Disclaimer! • A third party was hired to research the properties and companies shown in this presentation.
- 3. Disclaimer! • No property’s or company’s identity will be obscured, covered, hidden, changed or altered. • You put it out there…it’s public…so it might be up here.
- 4. College students spend more time on the Internet than any other media 33% spend more than 10 hours a week online 19.6% spend more than 20 hours a week online So why is our industry’s social media interaction so weak??
- 5. –50.6% surf the web while watching TV. –43.5% are online while listening to terrestrial/satellite radio. –Instant messaging is the most popular online activity with both male (62.3%) and female (57.2%) college students.
- 10. Social media can't succeed without a genuine focus on your customers. Social media is about listening, engaging, and responding to your customers. If you are not truly focused on your customer, you will not succeed -- period. -imediaconnection.com
- 17. Important Tip: Always have your exterior links open in a separate browser window!
- 18. Does this page violate TOS?
- 19. Takeaways: •Use integration •Make sure integrated site is live •Open integrated site in separate browser window •Create strong integrated content
- 20. Is there a class divide online? Research suggests yes.
- 21. People in more affluent demographics are 25 percent more likely to be found friending on Facebook, while the less affluent are 37 percent more likely to connect on MySpace.
- 22. 400+ million users 2nd most trafficked site 1st most trafficked social site 50%+ outside of college Average user: 55 minutes a day MultihousingWorld September 2008 “Online Communities” 22 Source: http://www.facebook.com
- 29. MySpace users tend to be "in middle-class, blue-collar neighborhoods,“ Mike Mancini, Vice President, Data Product Management, Nielsen
- 35. Takeaways: •Don’t simply ‘broadcast’ •Fan pages that are of interest to your residents •Work it…don’t let it just sit there •Don’t violate TOS
- 44. Takeaways: •Don’t simply ‘broadcast’ •Build your follower base with relevant follows •Work it…don’t let it just sit there •Send out high value Tweets •Customize your background
- 45. Blogging
- 47. Place Properties Blog Syndicated to their property pages RSS feed to their Facebook pages
- 50. Takeaways: •Make your content engaging •Allow comments •Hire students to blog for you •Remember, blogging helps SEO
- 53. Responding to the Rating Sites
- 55. Please, don’t write your own reviews
- 61. Takeaways: •Read your reviews •Don’t take it personally •Respond professionally •Set up your accounts •Ask for the review
- 65. Takeaways: •Set up your account •Set up ‘albums’ of events and more •Tags are very important •Use your photos and videos!
- 66. Final thoughts
- 68. Top Sites by Gender • Men 1. Facebook 2. ESPN 3. YouTube 4. Google 5. Collegehumor 6. Yahoo 7. Weather 8. Break 9. Digg 10. Wikipedia
- 69. Top Sites by Gender Women 1. Facebook 2. YouTube 3. Google 4. Perez Hilton 5. CNN 6. MySpace 7. Yahoo 8. School’s site 9. AOL 10. PostSecret
- 70. Virtually Untapped Social Market
- 72. • Website: www.ApartmentExpert.com Email: Lisa@ApartmentExpert.com Twitter: @LisaTrosien Linkedin.com/LisaTrosien Blog:ApartmentMarketingBlog.com