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Welcome. Social Media Basics. Who:. @ thesocialchicks. Three social chicks with a passion for engagement, collaboration and building relationships online and off. What We’ll Cover. High-leve l look at social media context, principles, strategy, and tools for business.
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Welcome Social Media Basics
Who: @thesocialchicks Three social chicks with a passionfor engagement, collaboration and building relationships online and off.
What We’ll Cover • High-level look at social media context, principles, strategy, and tools for business
Welcome to the Revolution Here’s a little context
Building a Trusted Brand • Relationship/community-building • Offering service or value • Networking • Sharing information (giving & getting) • Marketing and promotion • Sales branding!
Principles of Social Media • Its social: a conversation • A polite conversation: etiquettes and norms • Content is King BUT… • Engagement is Queen (and she rules)
It’s Good to Share We love to LIKE
Get Strategic. Get Connected. Choose your tools based on your strategy
The Tools Twitter & Facebook
About Facebook • Almost everyone is on Facebook! • 800 million + daily active users on average • Fastest growing age demographic is 50+ • Averageuser has 130 friends and likes 80 pages • 56% say that they are more likely to recommend a brand after becoming a Page fan • Each week3.5 + billion pieces of content are shared
Distinctions: Profiles & Pages • Profile = personal profile • Where you connect with your friends & family • Can limit access to your Profile • You must have a Profile to create a Page • Page = business presence • Where biz connects with clients, colleagues, industry • Fully searchable, fully public Chick Tip: Page is where you add VALUE
Building an Online Community • A group of people who like your page, follow your updates and interact with you and others on your page via posts and comments. Your ‘tribe’. • They are there to learn from you, but also to connect with others who have the same passion or interests.
Twitter The power of the tiny tweet
About Twitter • Like telephone but 200M x more powerful • 140 characters • Fastest growing demographic is 35-45 year olds • 100 million + users • 34% of marketers have generated leads • 55% access the platform via mobile
Building the Twitter Community Be Strategic – info in, info out • Clients and Staff • Suppliers • Community organizations • Industry, Competitors • Influencers • Local and global
Ways to Use Remember, everything you say reflects your brand! • Things of value to your followers/prospective followers • Support community events & happenings • Support your favourite sports teams
About Linked-In • Is the world's largest and best business networking database • Currently has over 130M members world-wide • Average member is 43 years old and earns $107K per year
Extreme Networking • Used to identify people and organizations to: • sell to • ally with • Hire or recruit • refer and network with • Add value to as a professional • All business (it is social but not social)
Aspects of Linked In • Personal Profile and Resume • Business Page • Private or Public Discussion Groups that business can manage
Very Pinteresting • 3rd most popular social network in the U.S. in terms of traffic. • 10.4 million users. • Shoppers referred by Pinterest are 10% more likely to make a purchase than visitors who arrive from other social networks • They’ll also spend 10% more on average.
Website & Blog Creating the hub
The Website as the Online Hub • Real estate you own in the eco-system • Social integration builds SEO • Build relevancy and brand value through blog: • Shares, commenting, conversation • Expert content: positioning • Consistency, regularity, creativity • Guest bloggers - resources
Take-aways • Use Social Media strategically: it’s powerful. • Have a plan • Understand the culture & respect norms • Choose tools based on the type of conversations, influencers for your business and your resources • Keep it real • Engage!