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Social Media for StartupsA Primer

Presented at NWEN

Andy Boyer / Alonso ChehadeJan 29, 2013

Download: http://bit.ly/NWEN2013_0129

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About Andy Boyer / Social3i

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About Alonso Chehade

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Today’s Discussion

Intros and getting to know each other

Getting Started With Social• Passive • Active

Inspirational Ideas

Building a Strategy or Framework

2 Case studies – Relaborate and Pillar Properties

Channel Tactics – 3 stars and 5 tips from Alonso

Q+A All through the preso.

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Where You Can Find Social3i

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Who We’ve Worked With

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What we do for fun

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Your Startup Personal Branding and Networking Through Social MediaWhy is it important?How can I get started?

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Why Social Media is Important for Your Personal Brand

Network and Engage with Customers and Partners Deepen Relationships Own your Brand

Sharing of news and information from partners and customers

Collect real insight and understanding of partner needs and wishes

Determine what Google finds

Proactively work to become someone thought leaders want to engage with

Identification of trendsetters and thought leaders

Conversations with the right people in the right places about product ideas and deficiencies

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“Worldwide, 86% of companies have a presence on Facebook and Twitter….

“…Meanwhile just over half use YouTube and LinkedIn and only slightly more than a third

have a presence on Pinterest and/or Google+”

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Using social media boosts website traffic:

- Companies gain a 185% lift in Web traffic after achieving 1,000 Facebook likes

- Businesses with 51 to 100 Twitter followers generate 106% more traffic than those with 25 or fewer followers.”

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What Do Customers Want?

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“Social media users are willing to pay a 21% premium for brands that deliver great

service through social media”

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“Facebook grew 18% in 2012 and accounted for more than half of all social content.”

“There are one billion posts per day made on Facebook. The average user spends nearly 7 hours per month on the social networking site, and one out of every five pageviews on the Internet is on…Facebook.”

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The Day that News Changed

• 3:26 pm photo was posted to Janis Krum’s (@jkrums) twitter profile

• New York Times broke the news at 3:48 pm and didn’t post to the front page until 4:00 pm

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The moment that defined Twitter for the mainstream

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Why Do We Need to Understand Social Media

Industry Shift in Marketing Spend

• 46% Decline in Tradeshow spending• 44% of Direct Mail never opened• 90% of marketers now use social networks in their marketing efforts. • Social media and blogs reach 80% of all U.S. Internet users. 91% of experienced social marketers see improved

website traffic due to social media and 79% are generating more quality leads.

B2B Users and Customers Shifting to Social Vehicles

• US Internet users spend 3x more time on social networks than email, and 6x more than on portals• 61% of U.S. Marketers use Social Media for Lead Gen• 63% of companies who are using social media say it has INCREASED EFFECTIVENESS of other marketing efforts• LinkedIn drives the most leads to B2B sites, according to Leadforce Source: HubSpot

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A Complete Social Media Process

Listen • Use Social Media Monitoring tools to track the conversations around a brand and the industry as a whole. Identify key industry influencers and brand advocates.

Plan • Establish 30-60 day editorial calendars to drive conversations and lead consumers through a planned story arc. Then we develop syndication strategies to get the content maximum exposure.

Develop • Write short and long form content in multiple channels that engages customers and encourages sharing.

Review • Analyze key metrics such as Virality, Engagement and Reach to determine the success of our messaging strategies.

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Passive Social MediaHow do I get started?

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Logo Spotting

Facebook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Wordpress

Blogger Wikipedia Foursquare Tumblr Flickr

Pinterest Instagram Angry BirdsMySpace Farmville

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Check Yourself

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Listening via Google Alerts

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LinkedIn

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LinkedIn -

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Quora Conversations Quora users ask industry

specific questions. Business

professionals have the

opportunity to step in and

answer inquiries to

serve as “the voice” of their

industry.

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Email Tools (Rapportive)

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Using Twitter Tools to Listen (Followerwonk)

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More Twitter Tools

Hootsuite (Alonso will cover)

Tweet Deck

TwitCleaner

Twilert

100 more

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An Active Social Media PlanPutting The Pieces Together

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Inspiration to Get Your Mind Going

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No Social Plan = Disaster Waiting to Happen…

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Social media has become a defacto customer service channel

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Involve Your Community in Decision Making

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Involve Your Community in Decision Making

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Convert into sales

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Use Channels to Communicate to your base

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Using Social Channels to Show What You Do

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Choose a channel that maps you your audience

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Don’t forget the little things

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Use email to enforce / enhance social channels

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Follow (and copy) leaders

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Why Should I blog? It’s Hard.

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Help others help you

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Building the Plan: The Philosophies

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What’s your story?

You have more to talk about than you realize• Conferences• Product Releases• Speaking Engagements• Promotions / Hires• Partner News• Customer Success

Stories

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Be Realistic

So many channels, so little time.

Where to focus your time and efforts?

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Set Your Goals

Maximizing an ad campaign by extending the content to channels not covered by paid media

Crowdsourcing information to improve programs and services

Searching for external opportunities to service customer related issues,

Product / Service

Development

Customer Support

Outbound PR / Advertising

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Setting Your Expectations

Ignore

Interest

Interact

Integrate

Influence

Develop marketing and business plans without benefit of any data or insights generated on the social web about you or competitors

Basic benchmarking, auditing and listening to conversation about your brand, customers & products

Enagaging with fans, followers, press, analysts and critics

Melding social into your overall marketing program

The Long Term Goal: Giving customers a say in developing, supporting and evangelizing your brand

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Understand Your Audience

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Identify Key Customers

Brand Broad Message

Potential Customers

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Identify Key Customers

BrandNarrow, TargetedMessage

Potential Customers

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Building the Plan: The Tactics

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Building Channels Step 1:Set up a dedicated email address

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Step 2: Why are we here?

• Who are we reaching?• What do we want them to do?• Which parts of the company can we involve?• How much trust have we earned so far?• What do these people like to do?• What tools do we have at our disposal?• How much time do we have to dedicate to this effort?• What kind of budget do we have to work with?• What does our existing marketing calendar look like?

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Step 3: Get a consistent name

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Step 4: Have the right free tracking tools

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Step 5: Determine your effort level

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Step 6: Set up an Editorial CalendarEditorial Calendar

Date Offline

EventSales Calls Aggregated

Content on Web Site

Blog Facebook (In addition to

general discussion)

Twitter (In addition to replies and discussion)

YouTube Foursquare

Sun 7/10 Mon 7/11 Tues 7/12 Wed 7/13 Thurs 7/14 Fri 7/15 Sat 7/16 Sun 7/17 Mon 7/18 Tues 7/19 Wed 7/20 Thurs 7/21 Fri 7/22 Sat 7/23 Sun 7/24 Mon 7/25 Tues 7/26 Wed 7/27 Thurs 7/28

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Step 7: Find your audience

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Also: Build in some lead gen

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Building the Plan: The Relaborate Story

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Building the Plan: The Pillar Properties Story

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Diving Deep into ChannelsAlonso Chehade

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Top 5 Social Media Sites

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Channel Overviews 3 Stats & 5 Tips

Facebook Twitter

LinkedIn YouTube

Google+

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FACEBOOK

Over 1 billion active users

Source: Facebook Inc.

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FACEBOOK

62% of B2C companies acquired new customers from it.Source: HubSpot’s Marketing Fact vs. Marketing Fantasy eBook

41% of B2B companies acquired new customers from it.Source: HubSpot’s Marketing Fact vs. Marketing Fantasy eBook

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FACEBOOK

Profiles Vs. Pages

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FACEBOOK

Types of Interactions

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FACEBOOK

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FACEBOOK

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FACEBOOK

post once every two days

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FACEBOOK

keep updates brief

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FACEBOOK

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FACEBOOK

ask questions

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FACEBOOK

Tell your friends

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TWITTER

Over 200 million active users

Source: Wikipedia

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TWITTER

39% of B2B companies acquired new customers from it.Source: HubSpot’s Marketing Fact vs. Marketing Fantasy eBook

67% of users more likely to buy/recommend a brand they follow.

Source: Survey by Chadwick Martin Bailey

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TWITTER

Types of Interactions

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TWITTER

Tweet often but with breaks

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TWITTER

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TWITTER

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TWITTER

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TWITTER

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TWITTER

is a link economy

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LINKEDIN

160 million active users

Source: wikipedia

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LINKEDIN

Profiles Vs. Company Pages

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LINKEDIN

Tell your company’s

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LINKEDIN

Share job openings

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LINKEDIN

Highlight your products & services

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LINKEDIN

Types of Interactions

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LINKEDIN

LinkedIn Groups

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YOUTUBE

Over 800 millionunique visitors/month

Source: wikipedia

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YOUTUBE

Types of Interactions

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GOOGLE+

235 million active users

Source: Wikipedia

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GOOGLE+

Profile Vs Pages

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TOOLS

Handy tools

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HootSuite

Monitor, Schedule, Collaborate

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Rapportive

Always be connecting

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followerwonk

Smart Twitter Search

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Google Alerts

Decent keyword mention alerts

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TOPSY

URL social search

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TweetReach.com

Tweet Analytics past 8 days

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THANK YOU

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