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Medical Tourism in Croatia - Presentation for "Medical Care Beyond Borders" conference in Istanbul (10-11 February, 2011). Medical Tourism in Croatia and Social media marketing (case study).
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---Learn Tips and Tactics to Make Your Social Media Programs Run More Effectively.
--Learn About New Social Media Sites That Your Business Can Employ This Year To Engage Wit h Customers
--Get A Glimpse of The Future- What Is Next In The World Of Social Media
Medical Tourism in Croatia - Presentation for "Medical Care Beyond Borders" conference in Istanbul (10-11 February, 2011). Medical Tourism in Croatia and Social media marketing (case study).
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By the end of the series you will choose a platform to go “all-in”. Have a plan of action and tools you need for success.
Who Should Attend:
• Small Business Owners
• Start Ups
• Those just getting started with Social Media
• Those interested in understanding how social media works
Class Three: How to Grow Your Business with Pinterest & Instagram
In this class discover how Pinterest and Instagram work, success stories from other businesses who are winning it, and tools to save you time and money. Connecting the dots from social media to sales
Get your worksheets here: http://bloggerithm.com/blog/grow-business-with-pinterest-and-instragram/
Part 3 - Social Media Strategies 201 at Seattle's School of Visual Conceptssocial3i
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The presentation was created for those that attended the Dunn County Economic Development Corporation's workshop on social media. It is simply not enough to have a presence on social media channels; you need to deliver relevant content to your fans that engages them, encourages them to connect with you, and ultimately take action.In this workshop, participants learned 1) Which social channels marketers should focus on in the future; 2) New social media content features; 3) Which social media strategies are most effective; 4) The best ways to engage your audience with social media; 5) How to measure the return on your social media investment; 6) The best social management tools; and 7) How much time you should invest with social media activities.
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2012 07 ijl2012_eddie-prentice_seminar_social
1. Social Media Marketing
Tools of the trade - DOs & DON’Ts
IJL Seminar – 3 September, 2012
Eddie Prentice – Digital Marketer
2. Social Media Agenda
• Social Media – What’s the point?
• Social Media Facts
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Pinterest
• Instagram
• Conclusions
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
3. Social Media What’s the Point?
Grow customer engagement and build
brand loyalty
• Personalise your brand
• Enable customers to identify with your
brand
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4. • Product reviews
• Price comparison sites
• Social networking sites
Social media: Shoppers no longer act
independently
We live in a connected world
6. Social Media UK Statistics
• 31.5 million Facebook users in UK (over
50% of UK population)
• 97% students use Facebook
• Facebook accounts for 16% of all time
spent online in the UK
• 45% students use Twitter
• 25% of consumers have a Twitter
account
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
7. Social Media Brand Engagement By Age
Source: Fishburn Hedges, via Econsultancy, May 2012
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8. Social Media Marketers Increase Commitment
Marketers are dedicating more time to managing social media
Source: EML Wildfire, via Econsultancy, May 2012
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9. Social Media Greater Customer Engagement
Marketers are reporting increased benefits
from the use of social media
% improvement:
Source: EML Wildfire, via Econsultancy, May 2012
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11. Facebook The Business Case
• It’s not expensive. Setting up a page is cheap. A lot of the apps are free.
• It’s viral. You can connect to a huge user base.
• It’s “sticky”. The number one site for time spent online (bigger than Google)
• You need to keep up with your competitors. Retain your share of voice.
• Instant feedback.
• Communication. Keep fans informed about the latest promotions and events.
• Build brand loyalty. Regular incentives and promotions.
• Increase sales. Shopping is a very social experience. Drive people to your site
• Increase engagement. Connect with some of the most highly-engaged
consumers on the web.
• Increase brand awareness. Facebook is the ideal platform to share content.
• Insight. The Facebook Insights option - who is engaging with your content?
• It’s a window into mobile world. Mobile access has exploded.
• Fast customer support. No need for telephone calls or time-consuming
complaint forms.
• An evolving stream of revenue. Many businesses are exploring f-commerce.
Source: Econsultancy Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
12. Facebook Fans Top 20
Source: eDigitalResearch Aug 2012 Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
13. Facebook Timeline
• On 30th March 2012, Facebook switched all existing brand
pages to its new ‘Timeline’ format
• Replaced the Wall with a more visually appealing format.
• The timeline update represents a significant change for
brands and marketers using Facebook as part of their
social media strategy.
• In the past, the emphasis for Facebook marketers was on
custom apps and landing pages, which could easily be set
as the default landing page for any or all visitors.
• The new Timeline format means that pages are now
limited to a maximum of 12 apps.
• You can still direct visitors to these, but only via a
dedicated URL.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
14. Facebook Two Main Images
2. Profile Picture
1. Cover Photo
1. Cover Photo Chose a unique, custom image which represents your brand
2. Profile Picture Clear identifiable image that is recognisably your brand such as
your logo. It will be used across Facebook as a thumbnail image.
15. Facebook Apps
Apps
- Up to 12 apps allowed.
- The first four are always visible, so place your most important content here.
- Other apps can be accessed using the drop-down button at the right of the
page (3 further Apps for Links Facebook page).
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
16. Facebook Timeline
- You can extend your timeline to cover your entire history
- Page managers can add ‘Milestones’, depicting significant events
- Assign any date to pieces of content you upload, and adding pictures, video and text
from the past
- The purpose is to present your brand identity clearly to new visitors
17. Facebook Best Practice
• Try and post every day – don’t forget weekends. This
is an active time for many Facebook users
• Focus on engagement, not sales – ask questions, offer
tips, share interesting content links, respond to
questions
• You can sell but get the balance right e.g. 5 posts, one
sales message and 4 helpful content posts (80/20
rule)
• Have calls to action – tell them to like, comment,
watch (and why).
• Make it entertaining or fun
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
18. Attract Customers on Facebook
1. Get More Fans
• The more people who ‘like’ your page, the bigger your reach across
their network of friends. All your fans have hundreds of friends who
can see who they interact with.
2. Turn Fans In To Leads
• Having fans doesn’t get you sales. Turn these fans in to email
addresses.
3. Turn Leads In To Sales
• Email is generally has the highest sales conversion rate of all
sources of website traffic.
Likes Email addresses Customers
26. Facebook Engagement Tips
• Shorter posts (less than 80 characters) get higher engagement
rates than posts longer posts.
• Brands that posted (or scheduled posts) outside of business hours
showed engagement rates.
• Engagement rates tend to be higher on Thursdays and Fridays
compared with other days of the week.
• Engagement rates 18 percent below average on Saturdays.
• Fans are more likely to engage with “events” and “winning” than
with “contests” and “promotions.”
• Posts that end with a question result in higher engagement rates
than those that don’t.
• Avoid the question “Why?” - “Where?”, “When?”, “Would?” and
“Should?”, result in higher engagement.
Source: Facebook Blog
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
27. Facebook Summary Engage Your Audience
1. Use a striking cover photo. Your cover photo should be a
clear high quality image that represents your brand.
2. Use a clear, easily identifiable profile picture. This is the
image that will appear across Facebook as a thumbnail
image, so brands generally use the company logo.
3. Prioritise your most important content. The first four are
always visible at the top of the page, so make sure you
place your most important and engaging content here.
4. Post interesting and engaging content in the timeline. It’s
a chance to show off your brand’s history, so dig out
some interesting photos and shout about your
achievements.
5. Customise the layout to feature your most engaging
content. This is a great way to prominently display
images and video content on your site.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
31. Brands Followed For Offers, Discounts & Updates
Why do you follow brands on Twitter?
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Source: Toluna Quick Surveys / Econsultancy
32. 66% Say Twitter is Useful
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Source: Toluna Quick Surveys / Econsultancy
33. Twitter Followers Top 20
Source: eDigitalResearch Aug 2012
Harrods & Selfridges in
top 5 yet not in top 20
on Facebook.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
34. 7 Twitter Commandments
1. Do not use DM autoresponders (automatically send a message to new
followers). They come across as robotic and spammy.
2. Do not beg for retweets - asking "pls RT" makes you look desperate.
3. Do not tweet in bunches – it’s annoying.
4. Do not oversell. This is 'social' media. Providing value with your tweets
will do more than a hard sell.
5. Do not overfollow. Only follow people who you find interesting.
6. Do not sell out. Tweeting marketing messages for compensation sends
the message that you're easily bought and sold.
7. Think before you Tweet. No off-the-cuff comments you may regret. No
retweets of stories you aren’t sure are true.
Ref: www.econsultancy.com
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
35. Twitter How Can You Benefit?
• Greater engagement with your existing customers.
• Build brand awareness among your potential
customers.
• Drive traffic to your site.
• Gain customer insight and intelligence.
• Improve customer service levels
• Increase in loyalty and customer lifetime value.
• Higher search engine rankings for brand terms.
• Customer recommendations, positive ratings and
reviews.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
36. Twitter How to attract Followers
• Start Following. Follow brands/people who are interesting
and relevant for your business.
• Be interesting. Give people a reason to follow you.
• Be useful. Add links and resources that your followers will
value.
• Engage. Listen. Read tweets. Reply. Make conversation.
• Don’t rant. If you have an issue with another Twitter user,
take it offline.
• Posting pictures. Use photo-sharing tools such as Instagram.
• Connect with non followers. Retweet. Reply with
@twittername.
• Add users to Lists. They’ll see you’re following their tweets,
enabling you to engage with people who are not following
you yet.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
37. Twitter Best Practice
• Avoid spammers. Don’t follow everyone who follows
you. Just follow if it’s right for your business.
• Don’t follow too many people. It’s not a numbers
game and makes you look desperate.
• Don’t over-tweet. Give followers time to breathe and
you won’t be seen as a spammer bur don’t allow to
much time between tweets either.
• Don’t be too commercial. Get the balance right. 80/20
rule.
• Be personal. You can go off message occasionally for
comments on matters of general or topical interest
(Usain Bolt OK but David Cameron not OK).
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
38. Negative Tweets
It’s how you respond that matters
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
UK tweets about brands are
more likely to be negative as they
are positive
39. Twitter Responding to Negative Comments
How do deal with the negatives?
• Respond quickly
• Apologize / empathize
• Make it easy to communicate (move it public
to private - DM, Email, Phone)
• Be human – no corporate speak
• Put things right – whatever it takes
• Offer an incentive to buy again
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
42. Instagram Brand Uptake
Luxury brands are leading the charge on Instagram.
Burberry, Tiffany & Co., Hermès, Gucci, and Armani use
Instagram's visual format to drive product engagement
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Source: Simply Measured
43. ASOS on Instagram
- Posts images of latest ranges and behind the scenes views
- Asks followers to post images of themselves sporting a
particular look
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44. Selfridges on Instagram
- Posts images of products and displays from its stores
- Asks questions about its followers fashion preferences
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46. Burberry on Instagram
- Originally showcased products but now photos around London
- Using Instagram to positioning Burberry as a cosmopolitan, British brand
- Also, featured behind the scenes look at launch of new range, presented
as an invitation i.e. building network with exclusive content
- Now over 500,000 followers
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
47. Pinterest – The Virtual Pinboard
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48.
49. Pinterest Kate Spade
Kate Spade re-pins and likes others content.
79,364 followers – has become a reference point
for trends and styles, doing things “colourfully”
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50. Pinterest John Lewis
• Features a wealth of John Lewis products – why not just visit website?
• Misses the point of Pinterest – identification with the brand, not product promotion
• Result: just 486 followers
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51. Pinterest Fears & Khan
Antiques/design gallery – not a big brand like John Lewis yet more followers and many
more “Likes”
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52. Pinterest Ikea
If you are going to show your own products, make sure you
provide links back to your website.
Ikea’s “True Blue” Pinboard is very eye catching, showcases their
products with great images but then no link to website!
This space can
be used for a
website link
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
53. Pinterest Links of London
“Regularly liking and pinning other users’ images gains extra exposure for your brand
account and is invaluable for building a bigger following.” – Econsultancy, July 2012
Links of London: “0 Likes”
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54. Pinterest 9 Tips for Marketers
1. Don’t just blow your own trumpet - completely misses the point of social media.
2. Let others contribute - allow other users to pin content to some of your boards.
They will share the board with others. Be selective to avoid spammers.
3. Update your boards on a regular basis – to keep customers engaged you have to
give them new content on a regular basis.
4. Use eye-catching images (or don’t bother) – large, hi-res, colourful. You want to
inspire others.
5. Add links to your images - when you do pin your own product make sure to link
back to your e-commerce site.
6. Be wary of copyright infringement - If in doubt don’t pin it. Credit images – you
are unlikely to get sued if you send traffic to the copyright owner
7. Don’t include prices or logos – these images won’t get repinned. Just link back to
your website.
8. Make pins and pinboards searchable - use keywords in the descriptions so users
can find them when searching the site.
9. Add a Pinterest share tab to your website
Ref: www.econsultancy.com
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55. Google+ Followers Top 20
Source: eDigitalResearch Aug 2012
Below the top four,
followers drop off
considerably.
Suggests brands not
convinced by
Google+ and not
putting much effort
in.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
57. Ratings & Reviews No Longer an Option
The views of your peers carry greater weight than the message of the brand
58. User Generated Content
• User reviews drive sales – builds trust &
provides reassurance
• If you don’t provide them on your site,
your customer will look elsewhere for
them and may not come back.
62. What is a Blog?
• A highly personalised, publicly accessible, web
presence
• Used to express opinions, feelings and passions
• Bloggers share links and integrate media (videos,
photos, podcasts) into their content
• They are updated frequently (daily or weekly)
• Intrinsically conversational and often solicit
comments or call out to their readers for input
63. Why Blog?
Blogs are attractive to search engines & consumers:
• Frequent updates. Search engines are known to
give preference to sites which have frequently
updated content.
• Quality content. Good content attracts readers,
incoming links and provides text for search engines
to index.
• Link building. Due to the highly interlinked nature
of the blogging community, blogs can quickly attract
quality incoming links, another important search
engine ranking factor.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
64. What to write about
• Don’t focus only on your products
• Address your industry customers’ needs / interests
• Write about general trends in jewellery
• Write about who’s wearing your jewellery
• Find ways to make your jewellery newsworthy
• Don’t just blindly promote your products
Ask the question: “will people find this interesting
and want to share with their friends and colleagues?”
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
65. How to blog for eCommerce
Set up your blog on your own domain
Ensure that your blog is located at:
http://blog.yourshop.com or
http://www.yourshop.com/blog
Not
http://yourshop.wordpress.com or
http://yourshop.blogspot.com
Hosting your blog on your own domain will improve
your site’s ability to get found by search engines.
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
68. Internet “Splinternet”
• Explosion of devices and networks has
turned the internet in to the “splinternet”
• New fragmented reality
• More complex to deliver a consistent
customer experience
Make a plan: How? What? Who? Where?
Eddie.Prentice@btconnect.com
Ref: Forrester Research, Inc.
70. IJL Seminar – 3 September, 2012
Eddie Prentice – Digital Marketer
Email: eddie.prentice@btconnect.com
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