Viral Marketing : Viral Mechanisms and Seeding Strategies presentation I gave at Blueglass Florida 2010. Discussed the importance of baking in mechanisms into your content to help it spread and the power of a big seed strategy.
4 tips for improving your online newsroom by @prezlyPrezly
When a global brand like Coca-Cola’s decides to ditch the press release and build a newsroom and digital magazine, you know there’s a sea change afoot. At the center of this new brand journalism: the online newsroom. A media hub for all your stories, videos, images, and other content you create to engage with your audiences.
Here are 4 simple yet critical tips to improve your online newsroom.
You’ve created a social media strategy, you’ve determined how to measure your success, and you’ve written your first tweet. Now what? Libby Hall of Flint Interactive gives examples of interactive content that enchants your customers, contests and promotions to grow your fan base, and using listening and measurement tools to build on what works and modify what doesn’t. Question? Conact @FlintGroup
Amplification is about catching bigger waves
What blogs do you read?
Most corporate blogs are • Boring • Bland • Safe What kind of blogs do you read? • Opinionated • Surprising • Have a point of view • Teach you something
What is Content Marketing?
How important is content marketing? Content wins for most effective strategy; but it’s also the hardest to implement
Amplification = content x channel
What is Amplification?
Example: Catching the wave in 2013 Original post: 2011
What is Amplification?
Section Two: Research
Start with People
People first The first question you need to ask is: “who do I want to reach?” Section Two Every good product, website, campaign, and piece of writing starts with people in mind.
How do you choose your audience?
Technique #2: draw a venn diagram
Our target audience is: __________________
Finding pain
Section Two When you understand your audience’s pain you’ll be able to better define their problem.
Example: pjrvs.com
Focus on their needs
Observe people in their habitat
Where do people hang out?
Research examples: where would you find managers?
What are you looking for? BIG problems trends pain points frustrations
Observing trends
Yesterday I saw this tweet:
He’s tweeting about this site: The Grid
He’s not happy about it
A lot of other designers don’t like it either
I go to Designer News:
Where have I seen this before?
What’s the trend we’re observing? Designers are feeling threatened.
This takes time. Collect and organize your research.
Sample research I’m using an app called keeeb.com to track trends.
Listen
Focus on your audience’s biggest problems
Organize your research • Record your findings • Organize them into groupings • Identify a big pain / issue / topic you could focus on You grow an audience by targeting a topic people care about!
Section Three: Writing & Promotion 3
Write for your audience
Writing viral content is hard.
Great, shareable content…
Why do people share content?
Types of content
Amplify your content
Which train are you going to hitch your content to? Your own small network Someone else’s big network
Effects of amplification
Two types of amplifiers: 1
How do you build relationships with influencers?
How do you earn the right to on online communities? Add value Hacker News Designer News Product Hunt
Target the right networks
Coordinate your efforts
Example 1: Groovehq
Coordinate your launch
The game plan
A note on Hacker News, Designer News, Product Hunt, Reddit…
It typically takes about 20-30 minutes for a story to slip off the "New Submissions" page. That's your window to get enough votes to appear on the front page.
The algorithm on News Sites favours new content
Can you game the system?
Timing is important
4 tips for improving your online newsroom by @prezlyPrezly
When a global brand like Coca-Cola’s decides to ditch the press release and build a newsroom and digital magazine, you know there’s a sea change afoot. At the center of this new brand journalism: the online newsroom. A media hub for all your stories, videos, images, and other content you create to engage with your audiences.
Here are 4 simple yet critical tips to improve your online newsroom.
You’ve created a social media strategy, you’ve determined how to measure your success, and you’ve written your first tweet. Now what? Libby Hall of Flint Interactive gives examples of interactive content that enchants your customers, contests and promotions to grow your fan base, and using listening and measurement tools to build on what works and modify what doesn’t. Question? Conact @FlintGroup
Amplification is about catching bigger waves
What blogs do you read?
Most corporate blogs are • Boring • Bland • Safe What kind of blogs do you read? • Opinionated • Surprising • Have a point of view • Teach you something
What is Content Marketing?
How important is content marketing? Content wins for most effective strategy; but it’s also the hardest to implement
Amplification = content x channel
What is Amplification?
Example: Catching the wave in 2013 Original post: 2011
What is Amplification?
Section Two: Research
Start with People
People first The first question you need to ask is: “who do I want to reach?” Section Two Every good product, website, campaign, and piece of writing starts with people in mind.
How do you choose your audience?
Technique #2: draw a venn diagram
Our target audience is: __________________
Finding pain
Section Two When you understand your audience’s pain you’ll be able to better define their problem.
Example: pjrvs.com
Focus on their needs
Observe people in their habitat
Where do people hang out?
Research examples: where would you find managers?
What are you looking for? BIG problems trends pain points frustrations
Observing trends
Yesterday I saw this tweet:
He’s tweeting about this site: The Grid
He’s not happy about it
A lot of other designers don’t like it either
I go to Designer News:
Where have I seen this before?
What’s the trend we’re observing? Designers are feeling threatened.
This takes time. Collect and organize your research.
Sample research I’m using an app called keeeb.com to track trends.
Listen
Focus on your audience’s biggest problems
Organize your research • Record your findings • Organize them into groupings • Identify a big pain / issue / topic you could focus on You grow an audience by targeting a topic people care about!
Section Three: Writing & Promotion 3
Write for your audience
Writing viral content is hard.
Great, shareable content…
Why do people share content?
Types of content
Amplify your content
Which train are you going to hitch your content to? Your own small network Someone else’s big network
Effects of amplification
Two types of amplifiers: 1
How do you build relationships with influencers?
How do you earn the right to on online communities? Add value Hacker News Designer News Product Hunt
Target the right networks
Coordinate your efforts
Example 1: Groovehq
Coordinate your launch
The game plan
A note on Hacker News, Designer News, Product Hunt, Reddit…
It typically takes about 20-30 minutes for a story to slip off the "New Submissions" page. That's your window to get enough votes to appear on the front page.
The algorithm on News Sites favours new content
Can you game the system?
Timing is important
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Getting Strategic With Social Media: Approach, Integration and MeasurementJordan Viator Slabaugh
Many organizations are considering social media as a part of their marketing mix and looking for how to strategically approach this new area for their nonprofit’s needs. This presentation discusses how to define the right strategy for your organization, integrate with other marketing efforts, measure social media for ROI and shares examples of nonprofit social media campaigns.
A talk given to the Xerox Women's Alliance on social networking. Where do you start? How do you build a positive online brand? How do you be human without getting personal?
First in a series of free online Webinars on Social Media presented in partnership by The Wall Street Journal Asia, GoToWebinar and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. Video version here: http://www.vimeo.com/6959190
Join our next event! Next session announced on our blog: www.asiadigitalmap.com or email thomas.crampton@ogilvy.com
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We break down what is wrong with Content Marketing and how to fix it. Don’t repeat the same mistakes Interruption Marketing made. Adopt a Consumer First Marketing approach to dramatically change your Content Marketing results for the better.
These slides that describe the content of the paper: Hinz, Oliver / Skiera, Bernd / Barrot, Christian / Becker, Jan (2011), "An Empirical Comparison of Seeding Strategies for Viral Marketing", Journal of Marketing, 75 (November), 55-71.
Seeding strategies have strong influences on the success of viral marketing campaigns, but previous studies using computer simulations and analytical models have produced conflicting recommendations about the optimal seeding strategy. This study compares four seeding strategies in two complementary small-scale field experiments, as well as in one real-life viral marketing campaign involving more than 200,000 customers of a mobile phone service provider. The empirical results show that the best seeding strategies can be up to eight times more successful than other seeding strategies. Seeding to well-connected people is the most successful approach because these attractive seeding points are more likely to participate in viral marketing campaigns. This finding contradicts a common assumption in other studies. Well-connected people also actively use their greater reach but do not have more influence on their peers than do less well-connected people.
Negeninfotech is a Professional Web Design Company in India offers affordable Web designing and Website Development in India,search engine optimization,E-commerce web designing India.
Getting Strategic With Social Media: Approach, Integration and MeasurementJordan Viator Slabaugh
Many organizations are considering social media as a part of their marketing mix and looking for how to strategically approach this new area for their nonprofit’s needs. This presentation discusses how to define the right strategy for your organization, integrate with other marketing efforts, measure social media for ROI and shares examples of nonprofit social media campaigns.
A talk given to the Xerox Women's Alliance on social networking. Where do you start? How do you build a positive online brand? How do you be human without getting personal?
First in a series of free online Webinars on Social Media presented in partnership by The Wall Street Journal Asia, GoToWebinar and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. Video version here: http://www.vimeo.com/6959190
Join our next event! Next session announced on our blog: www.asiadigitalmap.com or email thomas.crampton@ogilvy.com
The Most Misunderstood “Buzzword” of All Time: Content MarketingGhergich & Co.
We break down what is wrong with Content Marketing and how to fix it. Don’t repeat the same mistakes Interruption Marketing made. Adopt a Consumer First Marketing approach to dramatically change your Content Marketing results for the better.
These slides that describe the content of the paper: Hinz, Oliver / Skiera, Bernd / Barrot, Christian / Becker, Jan (2011), "An Empirical Comparison of Seeding Strategies for Viral Marketing", Journal of Marketing, 75 (November), 55-71.
Seeding strategies have strong influences on the success of viral marketing campaigns, but previous studies using computer simulations and analytical models have produced conflicting recommendations about the optimal seeding strategy. This study compares four seeding strategies in two complementary small-scale field experiments, as well as in one real-life viral marketing campaign involving more than 200,000 customers of a mobile phone service provider. The empirical results show that the best seeding strategies can be up to eight times more successful than other seeding strategies. Seeding to well-connected people is the most successful approach because these attractive seeding points are more likely to participate in viral marketing campaigns. This finding contradicts a common assumption in other studies. Well-connected people also actively use their greater reach but do not have more influence on their peers than do less well-connected people.
Viral Marketing Strategies, Graphing Social Patterns East Presented by Jeff R...Jeff Ragovin
This workshop will provide an overview of marketing and advertising solutions for popular social networks; including Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and others. Attendees will learn how to create social advertising campaigns, create branded groups, drive brand awareness using social apps & widgets, and reach consumer audiences on social networks & widget platforms.
The first thing about content seeding is to select a title for the content which would appeal to the target audience. The second is the initial group the content would be posted into (in this case a specialist group within LinkedIn).
Content seeding in the right content in the right places is a process which takes comparatively little time, but can dramatically expand the audience for a particular piece of content.
How to make a online photography brand . Cyber marketing tactics and internet usage for promoting your brand. Strategies to form a online brand leading to conclusion
Marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increase in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses.
The Science behind Viral Marketing is a look at the key factors that drive growth in viral marketing. (Hint, the most important factor is not the one everyone expects.) It also looks at what is needed to get virality to work, and how to create and optimize viral marketing campaigns or viral products.
One part of the presntation shows the key formulae behind viral marketing.
Suitable for marketers or for product designers.
Presented by Daniel Burstein, Rebecca Strally, and Diana Sindicich of MECLABS.
This content was originally developed for Dr. Goel's Social Media Class (Graduate level) at the University of North Florida. Learn how to use data to leverage your social media presence using a tested methodology and strategy.
Create a sensation in social marketing. Learn how to maximize the new Facebook Timeline pages, interact with Twitter, use YouTube, make a mark with mobile marketing and more.
Consumer reliance on technology and addiction to social media have changed the way we search, share, and shop. Traditional push marketing and has fallen to the wayside as we become more and more selective about the types of information we consume. In this ever-changing environment, traditional public relations cannot stand alone. While public relations is essential in shaping messaging and establishing relationships, professionals must leverage social media tools and search marketing best practices to ensure that their message is heard.
As partner and head of public relations at 451 Marketing, Tom Lee will offer his unique insight on the importance of fully integrated campaigns in this free webinar. Using examples and case studies, Tom will teach attendees how to connect with customers by controlling how, when, and where their key demographics view their messages and, ultimately, perceive their brand.
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How to determine your key performance indicators and what you need to measure to determine success
How to find this data in Google Analytics
How to interpret the data and adjust your marketing strategies accordingly
Email Marketing strategies and techniques
Guest Speaker: Dan Marshall from ListRocket
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He currently serves as President of Vandenberg Media, makers of ListRocket, an Email Service Provider that collects, analyzes, organizes and archives millions of marketing messages, providing intelligence and analytics to the marketing community.
Dan brings over 25 years of business experience in Sales, Marketing and Technology. He has consulted numerous startups in business development and marketing.
It’s no longer enough to just “post a few times a day.”
Recent changes in social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter provide you with new ways to help your business stay competitive.
Take your social media to the next level and review these slides, which cover advanced topics like:
- How to pinpoint and retarget the right people with custom audiences
- How to structure social ads and track the effectiveness of your campaigns
- How to use audience demographics to bring new visitors to your website
…and everything you need to know to make your social media program a success.
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2. What is Viral Marketing?
When your audience markets for you.
3. Not All Viral Campaigns Turn Into Viruses
• Viral marketing doesn’t have to be 400,000 visits in
3 days
• 30,000 visits over 12 months spread across multiple
campaigns and launches that in turn creates success
over time.
6. The Real Truth Of Viral Marketing Components
Content
Mechanisms
Seed
7. Types Of Viral Mechanisms
• Forwarding to a friend
• Links in widgets
• “Free” – Give it all away for a short time.
• Affiliate Programs
• FB Likes
• Twitter Retweets
• Automatic Address book importing
• Competitions With Leaderboards
• Login With Facebook
14. Viral Seeding Techniques
Initial Seeding By Marketers
• Press Release
• Blogger and Community Outreach
• PPC
– Facebook engagement ads
– Sponsored Tweets
– Google Adwords, Bing Adcenter
• Banner Media Buys
• Emails and status updates
• Word of Mouth
• Frontpaging Digg, Frontpaging Reddit, Tumblr Reblogs
2nd Level Seeding Done By The Audience
• Emailing a list
• Personal and Family relationships
• Twitter Status update
• Facebook Status update
• Blog post
16. Factors For Success
• Viruses only spread when they are easy to
transmit
• Ensure inviting users is core to the product, app
or website
• Remind users to keep coming back
• Use existing networks instead of creating new
ones
• Apply low barrier to entry’s early on in the funnel
• Develop a Formula and stick with it
17. Successful Viral Marketing Environment
Success!
Make Content Travel Far With Seeding Techniques
Multiple Seeds
Make Content Travel On Its Own With Baked in Viral Mechanisms
Content Viral Mechanisms
18. Further Reading
• One of the original primers on Viral marketing from 2000.
http://bit.ly/dr-wilson-viral
• Read more about the viral loop here
http://bit.ly/viral-loop
• Crowd Sourced Viral Loop examples
http://productplanner.com/
• How To Make Your Application Viral
http://bit.ly/app-viral
-seeding is when you take your content and plant in the wild for users to find, consume and share and when your audience reciprocates
-A mechanism could be one of two things
-something to facilitate easy sharing of your content (example = a fb like button)
-something that would cause you to be enticed to share (example = affiliate marketing b/c they have a reason to share to make money)
-mention content will not be talked about and the seeding and mechanisms are important and what I am talking about.
-Award users for Forwarding to a friend
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trying to artificially recreate a virus
“most effective way to go viral in a big way is to do it in many small ways – a “big seed” strategy where you push your content out to a lot of different places to raise your chances of several unrelated people passing it on.”
Duncan Watts – Yahoo Labs Principal Research Scientist
Email, website, application, graphic, software download.
Short and simple applies better no where else. (Hotmail – “Get your private, free email at http://hotmail.com”
Mint.com does this well when it sends an email out reminding users to login since its been a long time.
Apply low barrier to entry’s early on in the funnel before asking to share, that way the user feels more obligated since they already took an action.