social media summer school
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Digital Communications Plan Development Workshop
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Table of Contents
• Overview• Elements of a Digital Communications Plan• Scheduling the Steps• Executing the Campaign
Do it!
Why Integrate Social Media?
• Brands that are the most engaged in social media saw their revenue grow during 2008 by 18 percent while the least engaged brands saw losses of negative 6 percent.
http://www.engagementdb.com/downloads/ENGAGEMENTdb_Report_2009.pdf
Why Integrate Social Media?
• Critical to SEO (search engine optimization – the art of making Web pages attractive to search engines).
• Serves as a tool for internal collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Allows direct conversation and relationship building with your community.
• Serves as a platform for thought leadership.• Provides instant feedback.• Builds relationships.
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Tools and Tactics for Success:
PublishConnect Listen Engage
Home Base
Elements of Your Plan
• Identify Brand• Determine
Parameters• Define Goals• Develop
Infrastructure• Connect
• Listen• Publish• Engage• Evaluate
Do it!
Pair up!
Identify Your Brand• Who are you? • What business are you in? • What people do you serve? • What are the special needs of the people you
serve? • With whom are you competing? • What makes you different from those
competitors? • What’s the benefit? What unique benefit does a
client derive from your service?
Identify Your Brand
1What is the ONE THING that you can address with authority?
Define Parameters• Who will manage the community?• Who will contribute?• What are the rules of engagement?
Define SMART Goals
• Specific• Measurable• Actionable• Realistically high• Time-bound
Do it!
Connect• Find people like you• Read lots of content• Learn who makes up your network
Focus Efforts on a Few
The “Big Three”
Do it!
Connect: Three Steps
1. Upload contacts to Facebook and LinkedIn profiles
2. Add Twitter to LinkedIn to see what contacts are Twitter users
3. Do research on Tweepz to discover additional contacts to follow on Twitter
Listen
• What are your customers saying about you?
• How do you KNOW?• How can you answer
customers’ questions before you’re even asked?
Listen• The quickest way to monitor content on the
Web is to use a feed reader.
Tools for Listening
Do it!
Engage -- Twitter
Engage• Reward fans• Be helpful• Connect your
network• Endorse others• Produce frequent,
quality content• Create meaningful,
long-lasting relationships
Do it!
Publish“Neither a press release nor a full-page ad in The New York Times will boost your search engine ratings as much as a regularly updated blog. The shortest, cheapest, fastest and easiest route to a prominent Google ranking is to blog often.”
— Robert Scoble and Shel Israel “Naked Conversations”
Develop Infrastructure
• Web site• Blog• Both?
Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors
Read more: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5014/Study-Shows-Small-Businesses-That-Blog-Get-55-More-Website-Visitors.aspx#ixzz1AfnFlYi0
Evaluate and Celebrate Success
• Define Goals
• Measure Progress
• Celebrate Success
https://www.google.com/analytics
Thank You
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