Frameworks for 
Social Media Strategy 
Chris Snider | Drake University
Jab, Jab, Jab, 
Right Hook 
• Jab - Lightweight pieces of 
content that benefit your 
followers by making them 
laugh, snicker, ponder, play a 
game, feel appreciated or 
escape. 
• Right hook - Calls to action 
that benefit your business. 
SOURCE: Jab, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Vaynerchuk
Native Content 
• Content that looks and feels like any other content that 
appears on a platform for which it was created. 
• It is not cheesy, and it’s not obvious. 
• It has “cool” factor. 
• It hits your emotional center so hard you want to share 
it with someone else. 
SOURCE: Jab, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Vaynerchuk
P-O-S-T method 
• P - People (who are we trying to reach) 
• O - Objectives (what do we want to happen) 
• S - Strategy (how will we make it happen) 
• T - Technology (what tech should we use) 
SOURCE: Groundswell by Li and Bernoff
E-CCCC 
Approach for engaging customers 
• Educational/Informative: Educate people about your 
product/service/market to make them more informed 
buyers. 
• Customer service: Monitor what’s being said and 
respond. 
SOURCE: http://geeklesstech.com/social-media-marketing-strategies-for-engaging-customers/
E-CCCC 
• Community: Create an area to talk about your product. 
• Curator: Help people find great content. 
• Collaborator: Get your customers involved to be a part 
of your social efforts. 
SOURCE: http://geeklesstech.com/social-media-marketing-strategies-for-engaging-customers/
Dan Zarrella’s 
Hierarchy of contagiousness 
The decision-making process that happens before someone 
shares an idea: 
1. Exposed to the content 
2. Aware of the content 
3. Motivated by something in order to share 
At each step, we can increase the number of people. 
SOURCE: danzarrella.com
BLUE OCEANS 
• Blue Ocean Strategy suggests that an organization 
should create new demand in an uncontested market 
space, or a “Blue Ocean,” rather than compete head-to-head 
with other suppliers in an existing industry.
THird Wave Framework
Third Wave Framework 
GOALS 
• Business Objectives: What goals does the company 
want to achieve with the help of social media? What 
business metrics are the benchmarks for the strategy’s 
success?
Third Wave Framework 
STRATEGY 
• People: Who do we want to talk with? What is there to 
know about them? About the interests, their goals, their 
lives, their behavior, etc.? 
• Content: What do we want to talk about? What are the 
topics and ideas? What is the added value that we want to 
provide on the social web? 
• Platforms: Where do we want to talk with them? Which 
platforms are the best for the people we want to reach and 
the content we want to talk about?
Third Wave Framework 
SETUP 
• Monitoring, Analytics, Reporting: How can we listen 
to what people are saying about us and the topic 
relevant to us? How do we measure what our strategy 
achieves? How do we gain insight and improve our 
approach? 
• Internal Organization: Who is in charge of the strategy 
inside the company? What roles and teams need to be 
designated? What processes need to be in place? What 
vendors need to be brought in?

Social Media Frameworks 2014

  • 1.
    Frameworks for SocialMedia Strategy Chris Snider | Drake University
  • 2.
    Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook • Jab - Lightweight pieces of content that benefit your followers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated or escape. • Right hook - Calls to action that benefit your business. SOURCE: Jab, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Vaynerchuk
  • 3.
    Native Content •Content that looks and feels like any other content that appears on a platform for which it was created. • It is not cheesy, and it’s not obvious. • It has “cool” factor. • It hits your emotional center so hard you want to share it with someone else. SOURCE: Jab, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Vaynerchuk
  • 4.
    P-O-S-T method •P - People (who are we trying to reach) • O - Objectives (what do we want to happen) • S - Strategy (how will we make it happen) • T - Technology (what tech should we use) SOURCE: Groundswell by Li and Bernoff
  • 5.
    E-CCCC Approach forengaging customers • Educational/Informative: Educate people about your product/service/market to make them more informed buyers. • Customer service: Monitor what’s being said and respond. SOURCE: http://geeklesstech.com/social-media-marketing-strategies-for-engaging-customers/
  • 6.
    E-CCCC • Community:Create an area to talk about your product. • Curator: Help people find great content. • Collaborator: Get your customers involved to be a part of your social efforts. SOURCE: http://geeklesstech.com/social-media-marketing-strategies-for-engaging-customers/
  • 7.
    Dan Zarrella’s Hierarchyof contagiousness The decision-making process that happens before someone shares an idea: 1. Exposed to the content 2. Aware of the content 3. Motivated by something in order to share At each step, we can increase the number of people. SOURCE: danzarrella.com
  • 8.
    BLUE OCEANS •Blue Ocean Strategy suggests that an organization should create new demand in an uncontested market space, or a “Blue Ocean,” rather than compete head-to-head with other suppliers in an existing industry.
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  • 10.
    Third Wave Framework GOALS • Business Objectives: What goals does the company want to achieve with the help of social media? What business metrics are the benchmarks for the strategy’s success?
  • 11.
    Third Wave Framework STRATEGY • People: Who do we want to talk with? What is there to know about them? About the interests, their goals, their lives, their behavior, etc.? • Content: What do we want to talk about? What are the topics and ideas? What is the added value that we want to provide on the social web? • Platforms: Where do we want to talk with them? Which platforms are the best for the people we want to reach and the content we want to talk about?
  • 12.
    Third Wave Framework SETUP • Monitoring, Analytics, Reporting: How can we listen to what people are saying about us and the topic relevant to us? How do we measure what our strategy achieves? How do we gain insight and improve our approach? • Internal Organization: Who is in charge of the strategy inside the company? What roles and teams need to be designated? What processes need to be in place? What vendors need to be brought in?