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Harnessing Social Media to Generate Buzz

Harnessing Social Media to Generate Buzz. Presented by Sandeep Junnarkar Associate Professor CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Sustainable Tourism Lab, Pawtucket, RI May 20, 2009. Buzz, the old fashioned way. Buy ad space Broadcast info in one direction.

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Harnessing Social Media to Generate Buzz

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  1. Harnessing Social Media to Generate Buzz Presented by Sandeep Junnarkar Associate Professor CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Sustainable Tourism Lab, Pawtucket, RI May 20, 2009

  2. Buzz, the old fashioned way • Buy ad space • Broadcast info in one direction

  3. What's all the fuss with Social Media Optimization (SMO)? • Wisdom of the crowds • Voting system • Forming valuable connections • Generating peer-to-peer interest • Unlimited reach • Embedded spokespeople • Persons of great influence

  4. Is it for real? • Examples of Social Media Marketing • Procter & Gamble's Capessa • Phillips-Van Heusen’s Arrow • BMW • Aqua Dulce

  5. SMO advertising exploding • $300 million in 2006 • $900 million in 2007 • $2.5 billion by 2011 • Source: eMarketer

  6. Goals of Social Media • Connecting & Bonding • Sharing content • Gathering content • Voting on content

  7. Connecting & Bonding • MySpace • Facebook • Friendster • Blogs

  8. Creating content • Blogs • Wikis • YouTube • Twitter • Mashups

  9. Gathering content • Blogs • Wikis • Podcasts • Flicker.com • iTunes • RSS

  10. Sharing Content • Blogs • Del.icio.us • Digg • Email this • Tagging • Reddit • StumbleUpon • RSS

  11. Flocking for real? • 60 million active users on Facebook • 300 millions MySpace accounts • 112 million blogs, according to blog tracker Technorati

  12. What's the gain? • Digital word-of-mouth advertising • Long-term conversation with customer • In-depth feedback from smaller, but dedicated group • New product or service ideas

  13. Any pain? • Overwhelming for some customers • Social networking fatigue • Powerful big mouths • Loss of control of message

  14. Understanding Online culture • Yes, you could lose control • Conversation will occur without you • Join in • People will form their own opinion

  15. Setting up shop • Multi-prong approach • Easy: Use on page tools like Digg, Email This, Redditt, StumbleUpon • Harder: Create great content

  16. What is "great content?" • Keep the “sell” out of it • Observe Web etiquette • Localize • Target a niche

  17. Five rules of SMO 1. Increase your linkability 2. Make tagging and bookmarking easy 3. Reward inbound links 4. Help your content travel 5. Encourage the mashup Source: Rohit Bhargava's Influential Marketing Blog

  18. Benefits for travel industry • Tourists share their favorite experiences, restaurants, hotels, hikes • Entries about Blackstone Valley are linked to national travel sites and forums • Feedback helps you improve your services

  19. Summary and Conclusion • Conversation is occurring • Join in • Offline ads to push people online • Have to live up to the buzz

  20. Questions?

  21. From free to ouch! • Tools are available for free • Consultants charge $3,000 to $15,000 a month for smaller companies • Fortune 500 SMO campaigns reach into the millions.

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