BUSINESS CONFERENCE & GALA
DINNER
4TH - 5TH FEBRUARY 2014
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Social Media
Channel Management

Dr. Jim Hamill
jim.hamill@energise2-0.com
www.energise2-0.com
www.twitter.com/drjimhamill
Agenda
• The Social Media Revolution – recap on opportunities
and threats; business benefits

• ‘Not as time consuming as you think’ - Social Media
Management Tools
• A brief note on Inbound/Content Marketing
• Social Media Channel Management ‘Best Practice’
• Progress made by TGI and support available
• Questions
• Available for 1-to-1 chat after the session
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A conversation
not a broadcast
presentation

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Let’s start with a
few questions?

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Social Media: The State of Play
Where are you with
social media?

What progress have you made
since last year’s conference?
Where are you going?
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What Road Are You On?

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Any specific questions you
would like addressed?

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The Social
Media Revolution

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Video from Last Year's Conference

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More Recent Stats (UK)

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Opportunities and Threats
Opportunities
•Increased sales
•More cost effective marketing and promotion
•Build a quality online network of high value, high growth
potential customers - the foundation of sustained growth
Threats
•Gen C – constantly connected, empowered customers
•Digital Darwinism……………….

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Digital Darwinism
When technology and society evolve faster
than our ability to adapt

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Digital Darwinism

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What do the following products/
organisations have in common?

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In Common?

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Who Will Be Next?

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MOOCs

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The Future of Education

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Spot the Dinosaur 

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The Future of Higher Education?

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For the times they are a-changin’

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Digital Darwinism

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Digital Natives (2005)

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Social Media Management Tools
‘Not as time
consuming as you think’

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Social Media Management Tools
Useful tools for effective Social Media Management
•Feedly and Pocket - for Social Media Listening
•Buffer - for scheduling posts
•Hootsuite – for managing channels
•Wordpress – for blogging
•Mention - for brand sentiment analysis
•Social Report - for social media performance measurement
•Yammer - for internal social business

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Feedly

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Pocket

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Buffer

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Hootsuite

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Wordpress

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Wordpress

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Wordpress Stats

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Mention

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Mention

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Social Report

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Social Report

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Yammer

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A Brief Overview of
Inbound/Content Marketing
Rethinking Marketing & PR
• Unlearn marketing
• New ‘mindset’ required
• Stop telling people how good we are. Prove it.
• A shift from Outbound Marketing to Inbound/Content Based
Marketing

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Inbound v. Outbound

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Old Marketing (Outbound)
• Propaganda marketing – this is how great our product/service
is, now buy it
• Interruption marketing –
direct mail, advertising
• One way shouting AT customers
• Short term sales/campaign driven
• Channels – Print Ads: TV/Radio Ads; Cold Calling; eMail Blasts;
Online Advertising; Web Sites that talk AT you
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Reality Check
Customers are no longer passive sheep

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Inbound/Content Marketing
• Content is King! – But content is only ‘great’ if it adds value to
the customer so….
• Customer is King! Adopt a customer led approach
• Produce great content that is ‘Customer Led’; Authentic;
Compelling; Entertaining; Surprising; Valuable; Interesting
• Establish your company as a ‘thought leader’ – a ‘trusted
resource’
• Produce great content and your customer will come to you.
Produce really great content and they will share it
• Key channels are ……………..

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Inbound/Content Marketing

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Inbound/Content Marketing
• Overall objective is to ignite or elevate your business through
great content
• Sell without selling
• Build a quality online network – a quality customer base
through high value content and engagement
• Great content drives conversation. Conversation drives
engagement. Engagement drives sales
• Great, customer led content is a Competitive Advantage
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The Elevation Principle
Great Content +
Other People –
Marketing
Messages =
Growth

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Great Content Ignites Your Business

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Create Music Not Noise

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The Importance of Key Influencers

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Social Media Channel Management:
Best Practice Advice
For each Social Media Channel, follow
accepted ‘best practice’ in effective
Channel Management
Channel Success Factors
• Always align with core business objectives
• Agree priority channels
• An integrated and coordinated approach should be adopted
to ensure consistency of brand message, content tone, theme
etc across all channels.
• Once priority channels have been agreed, ‘Action Plans’
should be developed for each priority channel covering the
following……….
Channel Action Plans
• Channel objectives and business benefits
• Channel KPIs and targets
• Key success factors – the 4Cs – Customers; Content;
Conversations; Conversion
• Channel Actions - Set-up tasks and Content Plan
– Channel Set Up Issues - Page Set Up; Profile; Design; Basic
Layout; Terminology; Features/Functions; Integration options
– Content Plan - Frequency of updates; Tone/Theme; Topics; Post
Types (update, video, image); Own/Other Peoples Content
(OPC); Sources of Inspiration; Participation in other native
places; Response Policy; Organisation, Resources and People

• Channel management tools to be used
A Note on Performance
Measurement and Business Impact
Performance Measurement
To ensure that the Social Media Strategy delivers high ROI,
performance measurement should be undertaken at three main
levels:
•Individual social media channels
•Overall ‘buzz’
•Business Impact

A wide range of tools exist for measuring Social Media
Performance and Business Impact
OK – so what’s stopping you
from moving forward?
Questions/Discussion
TGI Golf
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Advice and support available
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Thank You

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