The Art & Science of Building a Great Community - Jen Sable Lopez

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By Jennifer Sable LopezDirector of Community at Moz

@jennita

The Art & Science of

Building a Great Community

Community.The Latest Buzzword?

Why Should I Care AboutBuilding a

Community?

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They’re Searching for You

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And Not Just on Google

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They’re Your Customers

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They Review You

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They Share Your Stuff

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/chex-muddy-buddies/

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Psst… They LINK to You

http://mz.cm/184s3pi

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They Tell Their Friends About You

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They Stick Around When You Fail

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They Make Marketing Easier

COMMUNITY

Ok, Let’s Start Building!

1. What do you Want to Achieve?

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Start With the Organization’s Goals

http://moz.com/rand/vision-based-framework/

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Start With the Organization’s Goals

http://moz.com/rand/vision-based-framework/

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How Can Community Help Reach The Goal?

Increase community engagement on Google+

by 10%Publish 3 blog

posts per week

Increase newsletter signups by 25%

Reach an average of 10 comments per post

Create plan for on-site community engagement

Increase community engagement on Facebook by

17%.

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Let’s Pick One

Increase community engagement on Google+

by 10%

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Why is it Important?Increase community engagement on Google+ by 10%.

Increased engagement leads to greater knowledge of inbound marketing in the greater community and reaches a broader marketing audience.

Goal

Why?

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How Will You Take Action?How will we increase these numbers?

Post non-Moz content 3x per week

Hang outs!!

Open ended marketing questions

Think about SEO value when publishing G+ posts

Great reference: http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/google-plus-seo

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Talk About These Goals with Everyone

2. Make it Someone’s Job

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Internal or External

http://mz.cm/1hepCBM

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Empower Them to Reach Their Goals

http://socialfresh.com/community-manager-report-2012/

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Give Them the Means to Take Action

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Make it a *Thing* in Your Organization

http://mz.cm/1c4MdNp

3. Find the People for

Your Community+ What They Care

About

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Find what people are saying about themselves

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Followerwonk

By hovering over a name, you get more info about the person’s engagement, how often they tweet with URLs, as well as their retweets. This is an excellent way to see if they’re someone who just spits out content, or actually engages with their followers.

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Followerwonk

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Twitter Search

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Google+ Search

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Google+ Ripples

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Pinterest

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Pinterest – What do specific people pin?

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Rapportive

Jackpot baby!

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Quora

What types of questions do they ask/answer?

4. Do All The Things

Whew. Now… Engage!

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Be a Part of the Community

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Transparency Works Best

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Take it Offline

https://vine.co/v/bP2UI5BJlK0

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You’ll Need to be Consistent

SEOmoz TwitterMay 2009

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Because, Consistency is Key

Moz TwitterOctober 2013

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In All Channels

Blog started in 2004.By August 2005, Rand alone already had 518 Blog posts.

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Buffer

Schedule tweets + Review Analytics

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Create a Content Roundup

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Promoting Them = Promoting You

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Talk About What *They* Care About

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And What *They* Love

5. Measure All The Things

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What Are Your KPIs?

Increase community engagement on Google+

by 10%

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Capture Numbers Weekly

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How Does This Change Month over Month?Google + Engagement

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Know How Individual Posts Do

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TrueSocialMetrics

What content gets the

best engagement?

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On Facebook – Using Insights

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In May 2013… We weren’t paying

attention

We were posting more links…

But our photos had better engagement!

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How about today?

Well, we post more photos!

Plus we started adding just text posts

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And Twitter?

What gets retweeted?

Content w/ the most reach

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Well hello, Google+

Why Care About the Negatives?

Followerwonk

Spammers or real people?

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Facebook Unlikes?What happened here?

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Too many posts?

6. Test All The Things

Such as…

What’s the best time of day to

_____?

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Send a Tweet?

Tweet #1Tweet #2

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When are you active?

Tweet #1

Tweet #2

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You can also use Twitter Analytics

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Post to Facebook?

“The average number of your fans who saw any posts on Facebook by day of the week.”

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A wee bit more helpful?

Notice a trend?

Try PageLever Now

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Or SimplyMeasured

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Publish a Blog Post?

Publishing time 2-3am Pacific

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Test a Different Time

Publishing time ~Midnight Pacific

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When do you get the most clicks?

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http://blog.bufferapp.com/best-time-to-tweet-post-to-facebook-send-emails-publish-blogposts

A Good Place to Start

Set your goalsMake Community a

priority Know your people

Be human and careTest + Measure

Building Community

A bit of Science, a lot of Art.

Jennifer Sable Lopez Director of Community at Moz

@jennitajen@moz.com

Thank You

Free/Freemium Tools MentionedBitly https://bitly.com/

Buffer https://bufferapp.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/insights/FollowerWonk https://followerwonk.com/Simply Measured http://simplymeasured.com/TrueSocialMetrics http://www.truesocialmetrics.com/Twitter https://ads.twitter.com/

Paid Tools MentionedSocialEngage

http://www.exacttarget.com/products/social-media-marketingSproutSocial http://sproutsocial.com/

Unified (aka PageLever) http://www.unifiedsocial.com/platform/insights/

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