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Creating a Social Media Strategy for your Business

Created by Standing Partnership

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Table of Contents

• Overview of the Social Media Landscape• Before You Begin• Elements of a Digital Communications Plan• The Six Ways to Use Social Media to Promote your

Brand and your Business• Scheduling the Steps• Executing the Campaign

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Why Integrate Social Media?

• Brands that are the most engaged in social media saw their revenue grow during 2008 by 18 percent while the least engaged brands saw losses of negative 6 percent.

http://www.engagementdb.com/downloads/ENGAGEMENTdb_Report_2009.pdf

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Why Integrate Social Media?

• Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors

Read more: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5014/Study-Shows-Small-Businesses-That-Blog-Get-55-More-Website-Visitors.aspx#ixzz130WiTXtQ

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Why Integrate Social Media?

• Search engine optimization• Enhanced awareness• Collaboration and knowledge sharing• Direct conversation• Thought leadership• Instant feedback• Relationships

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Social Media Continuum of Tools

PublishConnect Listen Engage

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Focus Efforts on a Few

The “Big Three”

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Before You Begin

• Identify Brand• Determine Parameters• Define Goals

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Identify Your Brand

• Who are you? • What business are you in? • What people do you serve? • What are the special needs of the people you serve? • With whom are you competing? • What makes you different from those competitors? • What’s the benefit? What unique benefit does a client

derive from your service?

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Identify Your Brand: Ingredient, Endorser or Destination?

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Identify Your Brand

1What is the ONE THING that you can address with authority?

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Define Parameters

• Who will manage the community?• Who will contribute?• What are the rules of engagement?

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Define S.M.A.R.T. Goals

• Specific• Measurable• Actionable• Realistically high• Time-bound

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The Six Ways to Use Social Media

1. Create and Maintain Infrastructure

2. Listen

3. Publish

4. Connect

5. Engage

6. Evaluate

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ONE: Develop Infrastructure

• Web site• Blog• Both?

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Home Base

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TWO: Listen

• What are your customers saying about you?

• How do you KNOW?• How can you answer customers’

questions before you’re even asked?

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TWO: Listen

• The quickest way to monitor content on the Web is to use a feed reader.

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TWO: Listen -- Tools

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THREE: Publish

• “Neither a press release nor a full-page ad in The New York Times will boost your search engine ratings as much as a regularly updated blog. The shortest, cheapest, fastest and easiest route to a prominent Google ranking is to blog often.”

— Robert Scoble and Shel Israel

“Naked Conversations”

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“If you’re going to make a sex tape, get your hair done, smile to the camera, because nothing like that ever stays private, so you might as well look good.”

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Connect

• Find people like you• Read lots of content• Learn who makes

up your network

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FOUR: Connect -- Facebook

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FOUR: Connect -- Twitter

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Twitter – understand your Klout

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FIVE: Engage

• Reward fans• Be helpful• Connect your network• Endorse others• Produce frequent,

quality content• Create meaningful,

long-lasting relationships

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SIX: Evaluate and Celebrate Success

• Define Goals

• Measure Progress

• Celebrate Success

https://www.google.com/analytics

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The Six Ways to Use Social Media

1. Create and Maintain Infrastructure

2. Listen

3. Publish

4. Connect

5. Engage

6. Evaluate

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Thank You

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