This document presents a social media strategy for Gemtree Vineyards. It begins with background on the company and its current lack of a social media strategy. The objectives are to increase social engagement and effectiveness. Key terms are defined and risks/opportunities discussed. A literature review covers best practices and case studies. Recommendations include developing a consistent strategy aligned with goals, identifying risks and solutions, and setting a social media policy. The conclusion reiterates the need for an evaluation plan.

1. Developing Social Media strategy
for Gemtree Vineyards
Alex CHEUNG N6748627
Cheung ZHAO N4758145

2. Agenda
 Company background
 Current situation
 Issue
 Objective
 Definition of key terms
 Risk and opportunity
 Literature review
 Case study
 Recommendation
 conclusion

3. Company Background
 Established in 1980 in Adelaide McLaren Vale
 Bought their first vineyard on Tatachilla Road, in the heart
of McLaren Vale
 After a few years, the family bought another vineyard
can named it Gemtree
 Today Gemtree owns 330 acres of prime vineyards

4. Current Situation

5. Issues
 No knowledge in managing social media channels
 Everything is being broadcasted in an “Ad-Hoc” basis
 Contents are not align with company’s direction.

6. 72% of businesses do not have
clear defined social media strategy

7. Objectives
 Present a well-structured social media strategy to
Gemtree
 Increase social media interaction and engagement
 Increase effectiveness of social media efforts

8. Definition of Social Media
 Interacting
 Engaging
 Sharing
 Personal

9. Impact on social media
 Word-of-mouth marketing strategy
 Influencing public behavior

10. Social media strategy development
 consistent customer experiences
 Reliable content creation
 Data governance
 Regulatory compliance

11. Opportunities
 Brand recognition
 Free
 Targeted
 Customer service improvements
 influence

12. Risks
 Managing Reputation
 Security Issues
 Misuse of social media

13. Literature review
 Journal article:
Benefits and Risks of Social Media Use in the Workplace
 Developing social-networking policy
 Limits personal usage
 Be selective
 Be complete and professional
 Avoid being too personal

14. Literature review
 Journal article:
Social media, risk and policies for associations
 Social media policy
 Focusing on what should employees do

15. Literature review
 Journal article:
The benefits of social media marketing
 Recognizing the target social media platform

16. Women aged
25 - 34

18. Literature review
 Journal article:
Social media best practices from an early adopter
 Recognizing the target
 What content should be put on the social media?
 Content that people are interested and willing to discuss
 use social media to listen to the customers

19. Case study – Coconut bliss

20. Case study – Coconut bliss
 Increase the visibility
 Work on various social media platform
 Interact with customers
 Photo and video sharing through social network

21. Recommendation
 1. Develop a social media strategy consistent with the
organizational goals and objectives
 2. Identifying the major risk and its solutions
 3. identifying the social media platform that majority of
customers are using
 4. Setting social media policy
 5. Conducting evaluation plan

22. Conclusion

23. References
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24. References
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25. References
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26. References
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27. Thank you