This document outlines a presentation on developing a social media strategy for sustained business growth. It discusses evaluating the social media landscape and one's readiness to engage on social platforms. Key aspects of a strategy include objectives, performance metrics, customer segments, and action plans for priority channels. The strategy should be supported by organizational structures, resources, and performance measurement. Developing a strategy with these elements can help businesses better leverage social media for improved knowledge, customer engagement, and business results.

1. Social Media for Sustained Business Growth Dr Jim Hamill – jim.hamill@energise2-0.com Alan Stevenson – alan.stevenson@energise2-0.com Vincent Hamill – hamillvincent@energise2-0.com www.energise2-0.com

2. A conversation not a broadcast presentation

3. Agenda Questions? Videos Key things to remember about SM ‘Getting There’…. Even more questions…. RFC Social Media Strategy

4. Questions About Social Media?

5. Two Videos The Social Media Revolution The Advertiser/Customer Break-Up Ask yourself – So What? Implications for my business? Implications for RFC?

6. Social Media Revolution

7. Advertising – Customer Breakup

8. Key Things to Remember About Social Media

9. Key Things to Remember It’s social A key feature is online democracy – with content being provided by the network for the network – represents a fundamental and revolutionary change in online behaviour, expectations and the online customer experience. The end of the ‘read only’ internet Conversations are taking place relevant to your business Power shift Social media empowers customers, empowers the network. Recognizing this shift is the cornerstone of future success Declining effectiveness of traditional approaches Does anyone listen to sales/brand messages anymore?

10. Do You Listen? Source: The Future of Advertising, APA, 17/02/09 as published on Slideshare (www.slideshare.com)

11. Do You Listen?

12. The Customer Manifesto

13. What is Social Media? NOT a broadcast medium. Its about listening to and engaging with customers, partners, your community, your tribe This is something we are not very good at doing. We prefer telling people how good we are

14. The Customer Manifesto We are not sales suspects, prospects or leads We do not want to be converted We are people. We are your customers and we are King! Social media empowers us. We control the Information Age. Welcome to our world, not yours

15. The Customer Manifesto Don’t treat us like passive sheep waiting to be driven to your web site or blog Use social media to deliver exceptional Customer Experiences That way, we will become brand advocates and ‘spread the word’ for you Our network will listen more to us than you

16. Key Things to Remember Pull v push Consumers/users decide what information they wish to access New ‘mindsets’ are required Marketing as a conversation with your customers/network– dialogue not broadcasting But this is something that most of us are not very good at doing. We prefer ‘telling’ people SM ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ ‘Winners’ will be those organisations who fully utilise the interactive power of Web 2.0 technology for engaging with and energising customer and network relationships

17. Key Things to Remember New performance measures Business success depends on the quality of your customer base; the strength of the relationship you have with quality customers; and your ability to leverage that relationship In a social media era, business success depends on the Quality of your network Relationship strength Ability to leverage Social media monitoring/performance management tools The need for new business/marketing models

19. Interaction – actions they take – read, post, comment, reviews, recommendations

20. Intimacy – affection or aversion to the brand ; community sentiments, opinions expressed etc

21. Influence – advocacy, viral forwards, referrals and recommendations, social bookmarking

22. Insight – customer insight

23. Impact– business impactSocial Media Monitoring Tools –Audit, Assess, Impact

24. The ‘6Is’ Approach 19

25. Key Things to Remember The need for new business/marketing models Traditional approach: Product development – Differentiate – Market and Promote - Sell New model based on: Communities, networks, openness, peering, sharing, collaboration, customer empowerment, ‘think and act’ globally Engage and energise ‘Create the Buzz’

26. Definition of stupidity?

27. State-of-Play What progress is being made?

28. Social Media: The State of Play Where are we? Where are we going?

29. Progress Being Made Interest and enthusiasm among tourism businesses is growing rapidly - channels are being set up Fall into three main groups in terms of progress made Progressive Adopters Cautious/ Experimental Adopters Non Adopters

31. ‘Getting There’ Get More Involved Google Alerts, Twitter, Social Media Monitoring Tools Learn more Develop a strategy Implement Monitor

32. Social Media Development Cycle

33. SM Development Cycle

34. Each Step is being covered in detail on our blog at www.energise2-0.com

35. External Analysis: Evaluate Your Social Media Landscape Internal Analysis: Evaluate Your ‘Readiness to Engage’ Develop Your Social Media Strategy and Action Plans for ‘Getting There’ Evaluate Your Social Media Performance and ROI Organization, People and Resource Issues

36. The Key Questions to Address

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38. Evaluate Your Social Media Landscape Monitor and evaluate the social media landscape for your business Help decide the best generic strategy to follow in terms of the number of channels used and your depth of engagement in each channel Key questions to address include……..

39. Evaluate Your Social Media Landscape What impact is social media having on your industry, how important has it become? How are your customers using social media? What impact is it having on customer behaviour? What online conversations are taking place relevant to your business; who is saying what about your brand/ industry where online and what sentiments are being expressed? How should you respond? What are the key features and characteristics of social media that you need to understand Based on the above, what social media applications are most relevant to your business and how deep does your level of engagement need to be? Use Social Media Monitoring Tools………

40. Monitoring the Conversations Use Social Media Monitoring Tools to monitor online conversations relevant to your brand – also for measuring the ‘buzz’ about your brand No or low cost tools such as Google Alerts, Yahoo Pipes, Social Mention, Topsy, IceRocket, Blogscope, Blogpulse and ViralHeat More expensive and sophisticated tools such as Radian6, Alterian SM2, Sysomos Heartbeat and InfegySocialRadar

41. Social Media Monitoring Tools

42. Internal Audit and ‘Readiness to Engage’ Your Internal Social Media Audit evaluates progress made, benchmarked against agreed criteria. Key questions to address include: What progress have we already made in social media? What channels do we already use? What is our current level of engagement with each channel? What positive business benefits have we derived from our social media activities? Where are the main areas for future improvement? Benchmark existing progress against the opportunities presented by your Social Media Landscape; against industry ‘Best Practice’; agreed performance measures and targets The ‘Strategic Gap’ (i.e. the ‘Gap’ between where you are and where you should be) provides a very strong basis for future social media strategy development

43. Internal Audit and ‘Readiness to Engage’ Supporting the Internal Audit of progress made, you should also undertake an evaluation of your organisation’s ‘Readiness to Engage’, evaluating your social media strengths and weaknesses, the main barriers and obstacles to be overcome

44. Social Media Strategy and Action Plans

45. Social Media Strategy and Action Plans Use a simplified Balanced Scorecard approach to social media strategy development and implementation Will ensure that your future social media actions and initiatives are fully aligned with and supportive of agreed business goals; that KPIs are agreed for evaluating on-going social media performance, business impact and ROI; and that all key success factors are considered, including organization, people and resource aspects

47. Targets

48. Key performance indicators (KPIs)

49. Customer segments

50. The key social media actions and initiatives required for ‘getting there’

51. Organisational, people and resource issuesEnsure that your social media strategy is fully aligned with and supportive of your overall strategic goals and objectives with clear targets and ROI criteria

52. Key Questions to Address What is the overall social media vision for your organisation? What are the key objectives and targets to be achieved from social media? Are these fully aligned with and supportive of your overall business goals and objectives? Who are your customers? Where do you find them ‘hanging out’ on social media? How can you best engage with them? What are the main Social Media Actions and Initiatives you need to take – short, medium and longer term? What generic social media strategy should you follow (number of channels used/ depth of engagement in each channel)?

53. Key Questions to Address For each priority Social Media Channel, what are your core objectives for that channel; what KPIs will be used for measuring on-going channel performance; what are your targets for each KPI; what key tasks are needed to achieve these targets? Do we have the right organisational ‘culture’ and ‘mindset’ for Social Media? ‘Be social before doing social! Is the right organisational and decision-making structure in place? Has agreement been reached on resource allocation? Who will be responsible for your social media activities? What balance has been agreed between internal and external roles and responsibilities?

54. Key Questions to Address Who is the Social Media Champion? Do you have agreed Social Media Policies and Guidelines in place covering ‘Proper Use’, ‘Content Management’, ‘Customer Response Times/Quality’ and ‘Legal’ aspects?

55. Social Media Strategy Map

56. Potential Business Benefits of Social Media

57. Business Benefits Market Knowledge Customer Insight and Understanding Customer Interaction Enhanced Customer Experience Business Intelligence Reputation Management

58. Business Benefits Improved Sales and Marketing Identify and network with high value, high growth prospects Product Development and R&D e.g. engage and co-create Internal cost savings Improved Operations and Internal Processes Increased ROI

59. Potential Business Benefits 5 main areas: Market/Customer Knowledge & Insight Engagement & Reputation Management Enhanced Customer Experience and Loyalty Sales/Marketing Effectiveness, Efficiency and ROI Operations/ Internal Processes (open source and hosted apps)

60. ‘Be Customer Led’

61. Be Customer Led Who are our customers, community, tribe? Where do they hang out in social media? How can we best engage with and energise them?

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63. Action Plans Key issues in implementing your social media strategy Channel Action Plans Performance Measurement

64. Channel Action Plans Once your Social Media Strategy has been agreed, brief Action Plans should be developed for each priority SM channel Cascade the Balanced Scorecard approach to each priority channel e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc But not ‘Paralysis by Analysis’ The Action Plan for each channel should include a clear statement of…..

65. Channel Action Plans Vision Channel Objectives KPIs and Targets Customers Key Channel Actions and Initiatives for ‘getting there Organisation, resource and people issues Tools and applications Performance measurement Do’s and Don’t’s

66. Performance Measurement To ensure that your Social Media activities deliver high ROI, it is important to monitor, measure and evaluate your social media performance on an on-going basis. Key questions to address: What social media performance measures and KPIs should be used – both in terms of the overall ‘buzz’ created and measures for individual channels? What tools/software will be used to assist performance measurement? What reports will be produced, for who and how frequently?

67. Performance Measurement Should be undertaken at three main levels: Individual social media channels Overall ‘buzz’ Business Impact Using the 6Is approach

68. Organization, Resource and People Issues Organization, resource and people issues sit at the bottom of your SM Balanced Scorecard NOT because they are the least important issues to address. In fact, the exact opposite is true. The success of your social media strategy is very much dependent upon appropriate decisions being made in the areas listed below:

69. Organization, Resource and People Issues Do we have the right organisational ‘culture’ and ‘mindset’ for Social Media? ‘Be social before doing social!’ Is the right organisational and decision-making structure in place? Has agreement been reached on resource allocation? Who will be responsible for your social media activities? Do you have agreed Social Media Policies and Guidelines in place covering ‘Proper Use’, ‘Content Management’, ‘Customer Response Times/Quality’ and ‘Legal’ aspects?

70. What is Social Media? New ‘mindsets’ are required to be successful in social media ‘BE SOCIAL BEFORE DOING SOCIAL’

71. In Summary……..’Social Media Planning Pays’

72. Bob Dylan Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And don’t criticise What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin‘ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’

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74. About Energise 2-0 Provide an integrated range of social media services for building sustained business growth and profitability, delivered to the very highest international standards and fully customised for your business

75. Mastering Social Media Programme

76. RFC Social Media Strategy

77. Objectives Information, communications, news Fan engagement/dialogue Marketing efficiency and effectiveness Global reach …………………..

78. Three Main Initiatives Facebook Linkedin Twitter

79. Facebook

80. 30,518 ‘likes’ since 11th July

81. Insights

82. Demographics

83. Views/Interaction

84. Linkedin

85. Twitter – coming soon