ifbc 2015: what do you do after you hit publish?
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What to do AFTER you hit “Publish”
How To Promote Your Blog on Social Media
International Food Bloggers Conference#IFBC
September 19, 2015
About Us
Rebecca Coleman @rebeccacoleman
@rebeccacoleman
Lorraine Goldberg @voraciousgirl
@voraciousgirl
What We’ll Cover
• Building & Mastering Editorial Calendar• Facebook Marketing• Twitter • Pinterest • Instagram • Video Marketing: YouTube, Vine, Instagram, and
Meerkat/Periscope.
Building An Editorial Calendar
• Seasons• Key Trends• Holidays• Food Holidays• Events• Everyday Cooking
Promotion ChecklistCreate a checklist to go through every time you publish a new blog post
• Facebook • Twitter• Pinterest • Instagram• G+
For each blog post determine how many assets you have and how often you plan to promote the blog post. If you have your calendar established for the year or season, you can build your promotion calendar in advance for the post.
Optimizing Social Editorial Calendar
New ContentPlan in advance or layer in new posts.
Existing ContentUse tagging or a
content management system to identify existing content to
promote.
Content Swaps If you participate in a
blog share.
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Facebook Photo Posts
Photo SharingEye-candy. Inspiration. Storytelling.
Add Blog Logo/Photo Attribution
Small/tasteful placement to give your image/blog
credit. Things can go viral, you want it to be attributed to you.
Always LINKAdd a link to the blog
post! Always.
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Facebook Link Style Posts
Update or Change Photo
You can use a different photo. Best
size: 1200x600.
Change HeadlinePlay w/headlines. Test
messaging. This is good for promoting
several times.
Update DescriptionWhen the link style post is shared this is
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Facebook Videos
TeasersShort videos that
tease what’s to come.
Tips & TricksGreat way to show a simple tip/trick/hack. People LOVE Hacks.
Drive EngagementFacebook Algorithm likes video. Good for driving likes, shares and comments with
your fans.
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• If you don’t already, try to have the same @handle for Insta and Twitter
• Curate content to supplement your own• Use tools like Hootsuite or Buffer• Inspirational quotes (Pablo, Picmonkey,
Brainyquote)• Hashtags (popular or grow-your-own??)• Tweet evergreen content
Food On Pinterest
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Image Credit: Pinterest Blog
Stages Of Interests
Understand Your Category on Pinterest
According to Pinterest, people’s interest around food falls into four categories:
• Everyday Dishes• Entertaining• Aspirational Ideas• Eye Candy
Make sure the content you pin reflects the multiple categories people are interested in and engage with.
Hint: they are more likely to click on the everyday, but repin the aspirational or eye candy.
Identify the category that resonates best with your audience and do that well.
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Make Your Content Pinnable
Make it easy for pinners to share
your content
Add Pin it button to your site
(especially mobile), content and online
marketing
Content should be optimized for mobile (image, description)
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Image Credit: Pinterest Blog
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Reuse, Recycle, Reshare
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Reuse good content! No need to recreate. Especially if it did well.
Put content on multiple boards, it’s likely they have different followers so your content reaches a wider audience. Be strategic about how and when you reshare.
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Longtail Social• The content that is in Pinterest is
there basically forever, always can be discovered- make sure the image and copy reflect that
• Pin evergreen content: no promos or contests
• Make sure your content is a good mix of the now, later and past.
• Pin a variety of content• Write copy specifically for
Pinterest- make descriptions useful and inspiring
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Pinning Tips
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• Add a description: give people a reason to repin. Tips, rave reviews (my kids loved it), gluten-free or something special about the recipe.
• Include Recipe title in description.
• Vertical images can drive more repins.
• ALWAYS link to recipe via image not description
• Text overlays:• Use titles
Instagram• Currently one of the fastest growing social
networks, full of #foodporn• Connect with other foodies, observe,
comment and like (Insta is very karmic)• Challenge: no clickable links, so more about
building community than traffic per se• The better the photo…. Get a good camera,
learn photography skills; composition, lighting
• Hashtag, hashtag, hashtag!
Video• Moving pictures are your friend! • Vine (6 seconds—tweetable)• Instagram (15 seconds)• YouTube (4 B hits/day)– Can you demo something? Also
embeddable on your blog• Live-streaming: Periscope, Meerkat,
Blab
Q & A