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Use of Facebook for SMEs. Andrew Greenyer Director, Raise the Roof Marketing. Wikis. Photo sharing. Micro blogging. Podcasts. Video sharing. Blogs. Virtual worlds. Technologies or Channels. Social networks. Facebook. Facebook has over 1bn users
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Use of Facebook for SMEs Andrew GreenyerDirector, Raise the Roof Marketing
Wikis Photo sharing Micro blogging Podcasts Video sharing Blogs Virtual worlds Technologies or Channels Social networks
Facebook • Facebook has over 1bn users • Facebook is a social network that allows you to connect with friends and family through request only • Users can share photos, status updates, videos, links • For Business: • Share breaking news • Share content from other platforms • Ask Questions • Provide Customer Service
Encourage Interaction • Asking questions that your fans can not resist answering • Post trivia, quizzes and games • Create a poll • Regular events that fans can engage with
Testing your Ads • Split Test – one item at a time • Copy • Image • Offer • Evaluate your click through rate – stop adverts with too low CTR
Knock-Off Wood Stats • Facebook: (Under “Knock-off Wood”): 116,000+ fans • Twitter: 2550 followers • YouTube: 30 videos • Highlights: • Ana White’s blog draws nearly three million unique page views every month. • 90-95% of her Facebook content comes from fans, and she leaves it all public. • Pinterest is the #1 referring site to her blog, bringing 6000 unique visitors a day. • In year two, the blog began bringing in enough advertising revenue to support her family.
Things for you to considerTake 10 mins to write your thoughts down • Is Facebook right for your organisation • If Yes, what do you have to do? • Set up page – what do you need? • Post status updates – what, when and how? • Should you create an Advert(s) – what, who and how?
Use of Twitter for SMEs Andrew GreenyerDirector, Raise the Roof Marketing
Twitter • Twitter is a condensed version of Facebook status updates • Updates up to 140 characters in length • A good way of relaying breaking news • 500 million tweets per day • Let followers know about upcoming events / launches / share useful content
6 Tips for Improving Twitter Link Click Through Rate • Write tweets between 120 and 130 characters • Place links about 25% of the way through • Chose the right words and phrases • Use action words • Experiment with the paper.li system • Tweet on the weekends Analysis undertaken by Hubspot – based on 200,000 tweets with links
Things for you to considerTake 10 mins to write your thoughts down • Is Twitter right for your organisation • If Yes, what do you have to do? • Set up account – what do you need? • Post status updates – what, when and how? • Link back to website – what content? • How will you attract more followers?
Use of Youtube (video) for SMEs Andrew GreenyerDirector, Raise the Roof Marketing
Youtube • Upload and share videos – professional and non-professional content • 800m users per month • 4bn hours of video watched per month • 72 hours of video uploaded each minute • For Business: • Create product demonstrations • Case Studies • Interviews