you've successfully attracted a twitter following, now what?
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There comes a point for a brand on Twitter that you have to figure out how to scale what you were doing successfully for a small following to a quickly growing audience.TRANSCRIPT
You’ve Successfully Attracted a Twitter
Following
Now What?Now What?@VictoriaHarres
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Where are the
followers?
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“The Twitter account is starting to get a following, Mitch. A few clients, a
journalist and a couple of PR people.”
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We need a plan!
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Personality has replaced the brand logo.
Personality has replaced the brand logo.
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The Many Hats of a Brand Twitterer
• Publisher• Editor• Copywriter• Customer
Service Rep• Community
Manager• Promoter• Marketer
• Crisis Communicator
• PR• IR• CSR• Sales• Teacher• Humble
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Scaling For a Growing Audience Scaling For a Growing Audience
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PRMKG
SALES
PRMKG
SALES
CONVERSATION
SOCIAL MEDIA
YOUR INDUSTRY
@REPLIES & RETWEETS
Editorial GuidelinesEditorial Guidelines
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Self Promotion
< 10 %
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Building a Twitter TeamBuilding a Twitter Team
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Sharing ResponsibilitiesSharing Responsibilities
* Who is the twitter voice/lead?
* Who monitors for @replies and when?
* Who responds and when?
* Who schedules promotional tweets?
* Who contributes what to the total content?
* Who makes the final call?
* What are the tools?
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The Toolsoneforty.com/PRNewswire/pr-toolkit
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Elements of a Team StrategyElements of a Team Strategy
Guidelines for team members*
Engagement plan*
Team schedule*
Content strategy*
Assignments
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Content Strategy
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Crisis Plan
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A welcome customer tweet and the challenging road that got us there…
A welcome customer tweet and the challenging road that got us there…
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Connecting The Dots Within The Organization
PRODUCTS
HR
CUSTOMERSERVICE
SALES
EXECUTIVESUITE
MARKETING
PR
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Connecting The Dots Within The Organization
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The Internal Rolodex
* Who are your key contacts in each department or division?
* Who can make the really big decisions?* Who holds the passwords?* Who in senior management will pick up a
phone and call a client when needed?...after hours?
* Who are your champions in the boardroom?
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@Audience_w2e THANKS for your time
today. #yourock!
Victoria Harres@PRNewswire
Many thanks to Alfred Hitchcock and Universal Pictures for filming one of my favorite movies, The Birds and for many of the images in this presentation.