social media channel management: key principles and tools
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Slides used in Workshop 3, 'Mastering Social Media Executive Programme' focusing on Content MarketingTRANSCRIPT
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Mastering Social Media Workshop 3
Implementation: Key Principles and Tools
Dr. Jim Hamill Alan StevensonVincent Hamillwww.energise2-0.com
Sept., 2012
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Rethinking Marketing
Unlearn marketing
New ‘mindset’ required
Stop telling people how good we are
A shift from Outbound Marketing to Inbound/Content Based Marketing
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Inbound v. Outbound Marketing
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Old Marketing (Outbound)
• Propaganda marketing – this is how great our product/service is, now buy it
• Interruption marketing – direct mail, advertising • One way shouting AT customers
• Short term sales/campaign driven
• Channels – Print Ads; TV/Radio Ads; Cold Calling; eMail Blasts; Online Advertising; Web Sites that talk AT you
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Reality Check
• Declining effectiveness of traditional approaches to sales and marketing – does anyone listen any more? • Power shift – we are no longer passive recipients of sales messages• Social Media – a revolution in online customer behaviour and expectations• Generation C• Information overload and attention deficit• Need for new approaches/ new ‘mindsets’
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Inbound Marketing
• Content is King! - But content is only ‘great’ if it adds value to the customer so….
• Customer is King! Adopt a customer led approach• Produce great content that is ‘Customer Led’; Authentic;
Compelling; Entertaining; Surprising; Valuable; Interesting• Establish your company as a ‘thought leader’ – a ‘trusted
resource’• Produce great content and your customers will come to you.
Produce really great content and they will share it• Key channels are…………………..
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Inbound/Content Marketing
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Inbound/Content Marketing
• Overall objective is to ignite or elevate your business through great content
• Sell without selling
• Build a quality online network – a quality customer base through high value content and engagement
• Great content drives conversation. Conversation drives engagement. Engagement drives sales
• Great, customer led, content is a Competitive Advantage
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The Elevation Principle
Great Content + Other People – MarketingMessages =Growth
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Great Content Ignites Your Business
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The Power of Words
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The End of Business as Usual
‘Winners’ will be those organisations who fully utilise the interactive power of Web 2.0 technology for
engaging with and energising customer and network relationships
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Key Content Marketing Questions
• What are your Content Marketing goals?
• Who is your audience? Who are you?
• What is your ‘call to action’?
• What type of content do you need to produce?
• When and how are you going to produce it?
• Where will it be published?
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Make Music Not Noise
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Tools
• Social Media Listening Tools– Free to expensive: Topsy; Social Mention; Google Reader;
Hyperalerts
• Social Media Management Tools – Hootsuite; Tweetdeck; SproutSocial; Bufferapp; Tweepi; Xobni; Rapportive
• Social Media Performance Measurement Tools– Individual Channels– Overall ‘Buzz’ (Social Media Listening Tools)
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Individual Channels
• Twitter – Twtrland; TwitterCounter; Tweetstats
• Facebook – Facebook Insights; SocialBakers; SimplyMeasured (was export.ly); AllFacebookStats; SocialDon
• Linkedin Stats
• Web Site - Google Analytics
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Overall ‘Buzz’
• Social Media Listening Tools
• Topsy
• Social Mention
• Kred
• Klout
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What road are we on?