Sue Anstiss January 2011 Step into Social Media
Quick bit about you... Your experience of social media? What you’d like from today?
First newspaper published Computer 1970 1752 1916 1930’s 2011 TV Radio
The old communication model  was a   monologue.
3000 The average person is exposed to advertising messages/day
The new communication model is a   dialogue.
 
 
 
 
Social media... People using tools (like blogs and video)   & sites  (like Facebook and Flickr) to share content  and have conversations online.
How can Social Media be used? Generating sales leads Product development Customer support Internal knowledge Market & customer feedback Rapid sharing Executive leadership & visibility Branding It’s not just marketing…
Why should we care
BECAUSE 2/3 OF THE GLOBAL INTERNET POPULATION VISIT SOCIAL NETWORKS   Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009  Photo by sinulog 2006 at Flickr
BECAUSE VISITING SOCIAL SITES IS NOW THE 4 th  MOST POPULAR ONLINE ACTIVITY – AHEAD OF PERSONAL EMAIL Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
but does  Social Media  work?
Selectives Mavens Butterflies Wallflowers Engagement dbase July 2009 – Top100 Brands Wetpaint & Allimeter
Engagement correlates with performance
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fastest ever growing  online viral video campaign 6.7 million views after 24 hours 23 million  views after 36 hours Isaiah Mustafa replied to  186  online comments and questions Sales increased by  107%
 
 
 
But how do we get started?
10 Keys to  Social Media  success
1. Experiment with social media Experiment  personally  before professionally Try a  variety  of social media tools Be  yourself , make some  friends , and  share
2. Have a strategy
Photo by Utne.com HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY.
 
 
3. Listen
 
Find where your  audience  is participating and indentify the  influencers Read industry blogs Google your company  name & your competition Use free tools  that can help you listen
 
 
Avoid   puffery   Avoid  evasion  and  lying Admit your mistakes  right away
 
 
5. Give generously
Don’t be afraid  to share Make your content easy  to share Think like a  contributor  & not a  marketer
Relinquish control
Don't  shout Don't  broadcast Don’t  brag Speak like yourself  Personify your brand
Don’t try to delete  or remove criticism  Listen  to your detractors Admit  your shortcomings Work openly  towards an  explanation  and  solution
Don’t wait until you have a campaign  to launch - start planning and listening now Build relationships  so they’re ready when you need them
Get   buy in from  the organisation Convince senior team  that social media is relevant to you ‘ Divide and conquer’  within  your team Recruit  more help if needed
10. Measure results
www.google.com/analytics
Free analytics to measure success
Facebook offers unique analytics Standard Reporting Standard Impression, Clicks, Video Plays Facebook Enhanced Reporting Engagement report Lexicon measures ‘buzz’ and sentiment on Facebook Page report Pulse Data reports the interests of your fans
Paid for analysis Level 3 Level 1 Level 2
 
 
Questions so far
Social Networks News & Bookmarking Blogs Microblogging Video Sharing Photo Sharing Message boards Wikis Virtual Reality Social Gaming Podcasts RSS feeds
 
57%  have joined  a social  network
 
 
600 million  users 100+ million  mobile WORLDWIDE
Over  24 million  users 11+ million  daily UK STATS
 
Your  homepage  on Facebook Messages, photos, videos, events  Interact with users Fans  see your page updates in  newsfeed
Facebook ads give you the ability to advertise directly to  specific demographic groups
Location Age Sex Keywords (appear in your users profile) Education Workplace Relationship status Relationship interests Languages
Make you website more social  by integrating with Facebook
Add the ‘like button’ to your  website and emails
Events Wall Info Photos Shop News Polls Reviews
Create a  page   to promote your brand Attract  more fans with a contest  Encourage a  discussion  and  participate  frequently  Share  and add value for your fans Have a clear  plan for content
Create a page and  fail to maintain  it Use  hard sell  approach & talk too much about yourself Censor  comments Spam  fans with too frequent messages  Believe  that ‘if you build it they will come’
Over 55 million members  In over 200 countries around the world  A new member joins LinkedIn every second
 
 
 
 
83%  have watched video clips
 
Using video for business 10 great ideas!
 
Showcase events Meet people Behind the scenes shots Competitions Reveal new products Encourage customers to share
 
4,000,000,000 The number of photos archived on Flickr.com
 
 
200,000,000   blogs
 
Transparent Relevant Be active Engage in dialogue Lots of links
S ource: Universal McCann Comparative Study on Social Media Trends April 2008 73%  of active online users have read a blog
Personal broadcast system Marketing, public relations and customer service  Give your  brand   a voice  within the community Share  timely information Personify  your brand
1,105%  year on year growth
tools
 
Who I follow…
 
Find and  share useful content Pose  questions  and  reply  to others Keep it fun  - put a friendly face on your brand Use a photo  and keep your bio complete & updated Know what people are saying  about your brand
DON’T… Sound like a press release – you’re in a social space Spam  with constant links to your website Post useless information  – who cares what you had for lunch Worry  that you don’t have many followers… it takes time Follow  thousands of people just to get more followers
 
Share locations Reward attendance Leave  recommendations Link to other people
 
 
Branded geo-location services
 
 
The future…?
 
Some things to do
IF YOUR PRODUCT IS RUBBISH,  SOCIAL MEDIA WON’T FIX IT. Photo by arlen at Flickr.com
HOWEVER, IF YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS RUBBISH, SOCIAL MEDIA CAN HELP
IF YOUR COMPANY’S WORD OF MOUTH IS RUBBISH, SOCIAL MEDIA CAN HELP
NEVER FORGET  THE  BASIC RULES
#1 Set Objectives
#2 Listen
#3 Relinquish control
#4 engage
#5 measure
“ Marketing”
“ Advertising”
“ Public Relations”
“ Social Media Marketing”
Testing the Methodology
“ White Christmas”
Some reading material...
 
 
 
Sue Anstiss  01628 630363 [email_address] @sueanstiss    http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sueanstiss www.promotepr.com  Grateful thanks for help with my slides to: http://bonafidemarketinggenius.com

Step into Social Media February 2011

Editor's Notes

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  • #4 Thanks Well Katie has talked about how you get the most from communicating with staff and members within the club and I am going to look at how you can make the most of the tools now available to reach members when they are not in the club. One of the things that operators have talked about for many years is trying to extend clubs outside the physical walls of a club to create more of a community. The incredible growth in social media in recent years means there are now incredible opportunities for clubs to engage with their members on a regular basis creating Valuable relationships that will ultimately create long term memberships. With so many hundreds of social networking applications now available its simply a matter of your choosing how you want to communicate with your members. In this part of the session I am going to explore how you might use Web 2.0 and the area of social networking to communicate with your members and potential members. Clearly, in the 30 minutes I have left it would not be possible to examine the massive range of tools that exist, but what I plan to do is to highlight why you should be using social networking if you’re not already, give you some tips for getting started and some golden rules to follow to ensure you get the most from this opportunity. November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #5 To understand the context for social media you need to understand that there has been a big change in the way businesses market themselves. Many of you may have just seen Seth Godin’s presentation. He coined the phrase ‘interruption marketing’ for the way in which in the past companies have tried to reach their customers by interrupting what they are watching or listening to and blasting a message at them. The way in which companies will communicate with their customers in the coming years has completely changed. Now longer will it be a matter of ‘pushing’ information out to people. It’s now a matter of ‘pulling’ them to you. And you do this by sharing information. November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #6 Research shows that on average person is subject to some 3,000 essentially random pitches per day. Two-thirds of people surveyed said they feel “constantly bombarded” by ads, and 59% said the ads they see have little or no relevance to them.” November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #7 You share and create relationship and dialogue with your customers November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #14 Listen – find the tools that work for you (technorati, GoogleBlogSearch, Google Alerts, BlogPulse, etc.) * Determine where your customers participate, listen, read, and speak with them on their terms * Assign a community manager or multiple managers and start commenting, reading, writing, sharing, and participating November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #21 There are a whole range of tools available to clubs to help maximise this opportunity. November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #27 The fact that EasyJet has a Facebook page probably isn’t surprising but earlier this year the company took things one step further and developed a system that allows customers to make a purchase without leaving the site. They can complete the entire transaction on Facebook. This is the future. So, while we are all still busy spending our marketing budgets on updating our websites, we need to ask the question – how long will this investment be of relevance? Should we at least be investigating opportunities to develop better functionality on our Facebook pages?
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  • #37 Listen – find the tools that work for you (technorati, GoogleBlogSearch, Google Alerts, BlogPulse, etc.) * Determine where your customers participate, listen, read, and speak with them on their terms * Assign a community manager or multiple managers and start commenting, reading, writing, sharing, and participating November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #38 Find the tools that work for you (technorati, GoogleBlogSearch, Google Alerts, BlogPulse, etc.) * Determine where your customers participate, listen, read, and speak with them on their terms * Assign a community manager or multiple managers and start commenting, reading, writing, sharing, and participating November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #40 Powerful tools like ‘Twitter Search’ mean you can simply November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #45 The key is to share a lot and when you think you have then share some more. That might be on your site or on Facebook etc November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #47 Forget control. This is about enabling conversations, facilitating connections & “engagement” and eventually, if you lay the foundation well, you’ll have the ability to INFLUENCE. But never to control. November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #59 Listen – find the tools that work for you (technorati, GoogleBlogSearch, Google Alerts, BlogPulse, etc.) * Determine where your customers participate, listen, read, and speak with them on their terms * Assign a community manager or multiple managers and start commenting, reading, writing, sharing, and participating November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #62 And 57% have joined a social network. Hope you like my Facebook photo! Now one out of every eleven minutes spent online worldwide is spent on an online community or social network. In the UK, this figure is one out of every six minutes spent online. For instance, Nielsen's latest research notes that a whopping forty-seven per cent of people who are online in the UK now use Facebook.  Furthermore, the report notes that, if recent trends were to continue, "by mid-June 2009 there would be as many 35-49 year olds on Facebook as 18-34 year olds." November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #65 When 18-24 year old Brits were asked how they would spend 15 minutes of free time, 45% claimed they would check out their favourite social networks… Facebook says that 28 million pieces of content are uploaded every month And 18 million users update their profile at least once a day There are issues around control here. How do you stop people from coming into a group and being negative about your club? Again, it’s a case of letting go and understanding that you can’t control what everyone says. How many of your have networks on LinkedIn for your members? Eg of the IOD. November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #66 When 18-24 year old Brits were asked how they would spend 15 minutes of free time, 45% claimed they would check out their favourite social networks… Facebook says that 28 million pieces of content are uploaded every month And 18 million users update their profile at least once a day There are issues around control here. How do you stop people from coming into a group and being negative about your club? Again, it’s a case of letting go and understanding that you can’t control what everyone says. How many of your have networks on LinkedIn for your members? Eg of the IOD. November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #73 It’s clear to see the opportunity.
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  • #76 And 57% have joined a social network. Hope you like my Facebook photo! Now one out of every eleven minutes spent online worldwide is spent on an online community or social network. In the UK, this figure is one out of every six minutes spent online. For instance, Nielsen's latest research notes that a whopping forty-seven per cent of people who are online in the UK now use Facebook.  Furthermore, the report notes that, if recent trends were to continue, "by mid-June 2009 there would be as many 35-49 year olds on Facebook as 18-34 year olds." November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #77 And 57% have joined a social network. Hope you like my Facebook photo! Now one out of every eleven minutes spent online worldwide is spent on an online community or social network. In the UK, this figure is one out of every six minutes spent online. For instance, Nielsen's latest research notes that a whopping forty-seven per cent of people who are online in the UK now use Facebook.  Furthermore, the report notes that, if recent trends were to continue, "by mid-June 2009 there would be as many 35-49 year olds on Facebook as 18-34 year olds." November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #78 And 57% have joined a social network. Hope you like my Facebook photo! Now one out of every eleven minutes spent online worldwide is spent on an online community or social network. In the UK, this figure is one out of every six minutes spent online. For instance, Nielsen's latest research notes that a whopping forty-seven per cent of people who are online in the UK now use Facebook.  Furthermore, the report notes that, if recent trends were to continue, "by mid-June 2009 there would be as many 35-49 year olds on Facebook as 18-34 year olds." November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #81 83% of those using the internet have watched video clips November 2010 Step into Social Media
  • #83 And 57% have joined a social network. Hope you like my Facebook photo! Now one out of every eleven minutes spent online worldwide is spent on an online community or social network. In the UK, this figure is one out of every six minutes spent online. For instance, Nielsen's latest research notes that a whopping forty-seven per cent of people who are online in the UK now use Facebook.  Furthermore, the report notes that, if recent trends were to continue, "by mid-June 2009 there would be as many 35-49 year olds on Facebook as 18-34 year olds." November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #87 Creating a Flickr group for your staff and members is a great way to create a community that shares photography at your club. Create a group in Flickr and November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #90 There are currently over 200 million blogs in existence. In the US and the UK around 25% of the population using the internet have blogs, in Asia it’s much higher – in xxx the number is over 70% November 2010 Step into Social Media
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  • #128 Over the pond they are already there. The budget chain in Australia ‘Fit n Fast’ is already offering the option to buy memberships online. Great news. If anybody knows of any brands in our sector doing this then please let me know. I’d love to include more examples of this and chat about how it is working out.
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