social media and pr: clickz live 2014
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Social Media and PR
AGENDA
What Hasn’t Changed?
What Has?
3 New Strategies
o Corporate PR + Personal Brands
o Content
o Connections
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AGENDA
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Public relations is a strategic COMMUNICATION PROCESS that builds mutually beneficial RELATIONSHIPS between organizations and their publics.
COMMUNICATION Attention & Mind Share
PROCESSContent is the Medium
RELATIONSHIPSPeople
PR...
WHAT HASN’T CHANGED
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NEWS DEPENDENCY
WALLS...
WHAT HAS?
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The ability to garner broad scale influence is no longer a function of fame, fortune or media.
3 degrees of separation has been pretty much eliminated.
ACCELERATION OF CONNECTIONS
INFLUENCE
We’re NO LONGER DEPENDENT on major news outlets for information.
Corporate PR...
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WHAT HAS?
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• Companies serve as a nexus of explicit and implicit relationships among individuals.
• PR no longer operates exclusively in the BLACK BOX of executive and corporate level exposure.
• PR exposure exists through every level of the organization’s relationships, both implicit and explicit, internal and external.
THEORY OF A FIRM….
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WHAT HAS?
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Corporate PR + Personal Brands...
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WHAT HAS?
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3 STRATEGIES
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PERSONAL BRANDING
CONTENT
ACCELERATION CONNECTIONS
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3 STRATEGIES
PERSONAL BRANDS = CORPORATE PRCompanies should provide the foundation for social growth with the implicit contract of corporate promotion.
Step 1: Explain the benefit to employeesStep 2: Ask for volunteers, and a commitmentStep 3: Provide the foundation to build their social presenceStep 4: Grow their social profile and external visibility
BUILD THEIR PRESENCE FROM THE GROUND UP
STRATEGY #1: LEVERAGE PERSONAL BRANDS
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1. PERSONAL BRANDING…
GREASE THE WHEELS for internal journalists
BE AUTHENTIC, BUT… • Use editorial resources• Craft content to match interests• Be interested in things that people
are interested in
The perfect is the enemy of the good..
TAKE RISKsTESTTRANSPARENCY
2. CONTENT...
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STRATEGY #2: CONTENT
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DOCUMENT EVERYTHINGHey, that would make a great blog post!
INTEGRATION Share, syndicate, email, automation, PPC, SEO
REPURPOSEWhitepapers, videos, articles: 1=2 or 4 or 400….• BIG = small BUT.. small=BIG
Maximize...
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STRATEGY #2: CONTENT
SECONDARY 1
SECONDARY 2
SECONDARY 3
SECONDARY 4
PRIMARY ASSET
WHITEPAPERS = Articles, blogs, infographics etc.
1 Whitepaper1 Infographic3 Blog Posts
5 CONTENT ASSETS
Example…
STRATEGY #2: MAXIMIZE CONTENT
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914 % TRAFFIC INCREASE YoY
SHARE, CONNECT AND ENGAGE• Retweet good content from experts• Meet experts at in person• Establish a real connection and ask
for them to share yours - Follow their lead
CONNECT with journalists
CONNECT with content gate keepers & experts
UTILIZE LinkedIn, Twitter, FacebookG+, Email, Phone etc.
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3. Connections...
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STRATEGY #3: ESTABLISH CONNECTIONS
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TOOLS• Followerwonk• Hootsuite• Klout• Twitterfeed• Trello
TACTICS• Connect on Social • Retweet, favorite and repost content from experts• Email Journalists and Experts• Interviews, shared stories, columns, guest posts, quotes,
webinars
TEMPLATESFathomDelivers.com/ClickZLive
How…
STRATEGY #3: ESTABLISH CONNECTIONS
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THANK YOU
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