Strategies to Engage in Social Media - Will Scott- Search Influence

Will Scott
DigitiZING – Birmingham AL June 27, 2012
@w2scott
© Search Influence, LLC 2012

The most important thing in
business is sincerity…
If you can fake that, you’ve got it
made.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepies/

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http://www.searchinfluence.com/2010/11/have-you-measured-it/

About Me
Will Scott
• Working Online since 1994
• Promoting Sites since 2000
Search Influence
• 45 Full-Time employees
• > 40 Contract writers
• Largest Online Marketing Firm on Gulf Coast
• Nationally recognized in Local Search & Social
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What’s Coming
Your Social / Media Opportunities
– Blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter
Finding PLU
– Your people, online
Engagement
– Getting the word out
Measurement
– You’ve built it, they’ve come
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BUILDING TRUST

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A little data to whet your appetite.

Setting The Stage

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Where do you fish?

Where the Fish Are!

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Nielsen Social Media Report, Q3 2011 http://bit.ly/naqGb8

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Importance of Social Engagement
Social Net w ork Searchers

I m port ance of Local Business inf orm at ion of f ered on
Social Net w ork ing Sit es

Local Search Usage Study:
15miles / comScore, Inc
Q3E.
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Social Customers are Buyers
Post Search Act ivit y

Social net w orkers and Mobile users are m or e lik ely t o m ak e a purchase vs.
gener al sear chers

67% 70%
55%

Local Search Usage Study:
15miles / comScore, Inc
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Use of Social Networking Sites for Local Search

Use of Social Networking Sites for local business searches has increased 67% since 2010.
Facebook proves to be the Social Networking Site most frequently used to find local
business information.

Overall Use of Social Networking Sites to
Search for Local Business
(Primary and Secondary Source)

* Response Added in 2011 @w2scott

Consumer Review Submission
Social network local business users are heavily engaged in social aspects of local
business search through profound usage of and contribution to consumer reviews sites.

Use of Consumer Submit Consumer Number of Reviews Submitted in
Ratings and Reviews Reviews Past 30 Days

55%
76%

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US Local Search:
Mobile Vs. Desktop

 In 2015, mobile local search volume will surpass desktop search for the first
time
 By 2016, we expect mobile local search to exceed local desktop search by
27.5 billion queries
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SMBs Considering Social Media Activities
(Next 12 Months)

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Staking your claim

Why You Want a Blog

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Blogging – The Data

Source: HubSpot, http://bit.ly/fTFsKg

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Also: 97% more links and 434% more
indexed pages
Source: HubSpot, http://bit.ly/4evTc

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Your Blog – Home Base
Why Should you Blog?
• Educate, Inform, Answer Questions

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Your Blog
• Show Human Side

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Your Blog
• Show Human Side
• Build Relevant Content

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Your Blog
• Show Human Side
• Build Relevant Content
Why Not Blog?
• Nothing to Say
• No Time
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Are You Down with OPB?
• What about other people’s blogs?
– Bloggers need content
– Search out PLU (with an audience)

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Twitter

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Keys to Twitter Engagement
Following
• Identify, follow and interact with local Tweeps
Presence
• Twitter stream moves fast – active messaging
and repetition help
Interaction
• Be in the conversation & promote local
tweeps
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presence-management-chores-you-could-do-every-day/

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Finding The Fish: Twitter

Twitter Advanced Search
http://twitter.com/search-advanced

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Nearby Tweets
nearbytweets.com

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Chirp City
chirpcity.com

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LocaFollow
locafollow.com

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Following Tools – Data

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Who has time for this?
• Give to get
– What do you have to offer?
– Who are you following? What do they have to
say? Why don’t you share?
– You don’t have to be online all the time.
• Can you plan ahead?
– Brainstorm, what could you share?
– Do you know of upcoming events?
Think local!
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Presence – Dealing with
ADTD
• ADTD = Attention Deficit Twitter Disorder
• Your followers aren’t all online right now
• Tweet early, tweet often
• Repeat often when pushing promo / offer
• Be conversational
• It’s a “Social” media (or as I say re: SEO,
some of the best link-building is done offline)
• Highlight smart / witty / informative tweeps
• Do like your mama tol’ ya, don’t be ugly
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Give the people what they want

Yelp (and other review sites)

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Yelp, Not Just for The Left Coast
• Yelp Powers Siri
– Voice search is coming to a phone near you
– Yelp rankings correlate to Siri results
• Apple Maps
– Details unknown – Yelp integration likely

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The 800 pound gorilla gets (maybe) social

Google+ (Local)

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Where the fish are.

Facebook

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Finding People Like You

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Demographic Targeting
• Directly advertise to your core audience based
on profile information

• No organic competition
– Unlike Search Engine Advertising, there is not organic
results to compete with

• Eliminates ad blindness due to oversaturation
– Ads from different industries are often show together
• (Example: marketing, musician fan page, and restaurants)

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Connections
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EdgeRank Explained
Facebook visibility is driven by EdgeRank,
FB’s internal algorithm:
– Affinity – demonstrated “like”
– Edge Weight – depth of connection
– Recency – Self-explanatory
– Media Types – Images, Videos, Polls, etc. get
more weight
More fans are better and if they interact,
better still.
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What’s an Edge?

http://www.icoachmath.com/math_dictionary/Edge.html
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What’s a Face?

http://www.icoachmath.com/math_dictionary/Face.html
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Campaign Reach: 83498
Frequency: 1.3
Social Reach: 173
Connections (Fans): 650
Clicks: 670
CTR: 0.602%

Cost Per Fan: $0.17

7 Days in January

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Content
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http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/13603/the-25-funniest-autocorrects-of-dyacs-first-year/

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Conversions
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“Excuse me while I whip this out”. Bart, Blazing Saddles 1974

HOW DO YOU MEASURE IT

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The Challenge of (none)

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The Challenge of (none):
URL Shorteners
• TinyURL.com
– http://tinyurl.com/ - the original
• bit.ly
– http://bit.ly/
• budurl
– http://budurl.com/
• Ow.ly
– http://ow.ly/ - built into Hootsuite
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Web Forms – Input

 Clear call to action
 Hidden fields trap:
 Referrer data
 URL String for social

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©2011, aimClear® © Search Influence, LLC 2012

Web Forms – Output

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Proving It

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Then It Changes
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http://gigaom.com/2012/02/21/facebook-is-set-to-release-a-new-premium-ads-product/
http://www.acquisio.com/social/3-essential-tactics-to-optimize-organic-facebook-posts-for-page-post-ads/

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Thank You!
Will Scott
•searchinfluence.com/blog
•wscott@searchinfluence.com
•twitter.com/w2scott

Data Courtesy of:
– Neilsen
– comScore / 15 Miles
– BIA/Kelsey

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