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Social Media Strategy for Travel Insurance Company
The document outlines a social media strategy for a travel insurance company. It discusses objectives of increasing brand awareness and traffic through social media. It recommends key influencers to follow on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs. Guidelines are provided for producing and posting engaging content regularly across different platforms. Tools are suggested for monitoring engagement and measuring ROI through metrics like sales correlations and brand perceptions. The overall aim is to translate social media activity into tangible returns for the business.
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- 1. Social Media Strategy Travel Insurance Company By Rebecca Hesilrige Becky.hesilrige@gmail.com @beckyhesilrige Linkedin.com/in/rebeccahesilrige
- 2. Contents •Objectives and Audience • Team and Resources • Content Guideline Example • Social Media Platforms • Key Influencer Suggestions • Producing, Posting, Sharing • Promote and Build Network • Suggested Tools • Translate Activity into ROI
- 3. Objectives & Audience •Increase brand awareness through SM • Increase site traffic through SM • Increase conversions through SM • New audience – create interest and increase knowledge travel insurance services • Captured audience– further engage, interact and remind of services
- 4. Team and resources •Decide how many resources you want to put into social media • Encourage staff to get involved – tweet/post stories of interest • Integrate customer service into the SM plan • Publish content guidelines for staff to follow • Use employees as well as and the public as a resource – communicate with the public through social media to gather opinions, suggestions and service ideas
- 5. Content Guidelines Example Betransparent • If various people use the company SM, always identify yourself. • If you contribute a personal blog website that covers the company’s business, make clear that your opinions are your own the companies. Be respectful • Expression of opinions is encouraged, however don’t resort to personal attacks, harassment, or discrimination in the process. Be yourself • The public value personality and individual interests, including those that fall outside of your primary work responsibilities. Let that personality shine in your online content! Be smart • Some company projects, lessons learned, and success stories are fine to share; others aren’t. Don’t reveal company secrets or proprietary information, and make sure you have permission from your clients and partners before mentioning them by name. • Your words and statements online are a reflection of the company. Use your best judgment when deciding whether content is appropriate to publish.
- 6. Social Media Platforms SuggestedPlatforms: • Facebook • Twitter • YouTube/Vimeo • Flickr/Pinterest • Blogs • Stumbleupon, Reddit & other social bookmarking sites
- 7. Key Influencer Suggestions Twitter • @lonelyplanet Facebook • @tripadvisor • Lonely Planet • Trip Advisor • @Frommers • Frommers • @coqui2008 • Hotel Chatter • @travelrants • Fodors • @soultravelers3 • @wendyperrin • @elliottng • @EverywhereTrip • @ClaudeBenard • @catherinemack • @wildjunket Follow key influencers through social media to expand brand awareness & to gain positive reputation
- 8. Producing, Posting &Sharing Do not automatically link up your Facebook & Twitter accounts. It is generally accepted that you can tweet more than you can post on Facebook, so tailor your content & the amount you publish based on this. • Twitter – Average 6 times a day (mix of content and advertisement) • Facebook – Average 4 (mix of content and advertisement, with emphasis on photo and video posts) • YouTube – Post videos whenever possible. Interact on YouTube once a week – playlist, comments, favourites • Blog – Aim for once a week, depending on relevant news (Emphasis on photo and video posts)
- 9. Promote & BuildNetwork • It is very important to include links to micro sites/main sites within social media where possible. • Advertise/retweet/mention micro sites/main sites within social media where possible. • Promote services from micro sites/main sites occasionally • Post content from blogs & YouTube through other social media platforms • Plan content around fundraising activity – keep in touch with fundraisers to post relevant and up to date content
- 10. Suggested Tools Hootsuite/Tweetdeck • MonitorTwitter & Facebook • Schedule Tweets Sprout Social • Reporting tool Klout • Measures your impact through social media Rockmelt Browser • Monitor & contribute to social media within your browser Listorious • Find relevant people to follow on Twitter Tweet Karma • Delete accounts who are not following you back/haven’t posted in a long time
- 11. Translating Activity IntoROI Decide what ROI you want to achieve: • Increase in brand equity, fidelity & loyalty • Improved brand perception • Efficiencies in customer satisfaction/service • Increased sales • Cost effective customer insights and research • Efficiencies in PR • Efficiencies in advertising product & service launches
- 12. Translating Activity IntoROI For example Compare: Normal sales, current sales and social media activity
- 13. Translating Activity IntoROI Once you have measurements in place you need to look for correlations between data
- 14. Thanks For Reading! Feelfree to get in touch if you have any questions or need any advice Becky.hesilrige@gmail.com @beckyhesilrige Linkedin.com/in/rebeccahesilrige