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This presentation gives you a brief overview of how you can use social media for a private, independent, grammer, or state, comprehensive school
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Online Social Media
Chris Middletonwww.eskimosoup.co.ukwww.socialmediamarketingforschools.co.uk
This is NOT traditional marketing or online advertising
This is
Pull Marketing
Dialogue between audience and school
Creating loyal communities of customers
Reach target markets
no longer
susceptible to traditional methods
Information is being searched for in different ways:•We expect honest and transparent information (no spin)
•We expect to comment and add to content
•We expect to read comments, reviews and ratings
•We expect to subscribe to information
We expect to use the internet differently now
SOCIAL MEDIA IS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT DEFINES THE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES THAT INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS, PICTURES, VIDEOS AND AUDIO
“Social mediais people having
conversations online.”
These online conversations are only possible due to recently available web tools
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100m Videos 2nd largest search engine
79% have watched
video content online
Universal McCann: Power to the People Social Media Tracker, Wave 4http://www.slideshare.net/Olivier.mermet/universal-mc-cann-wave4
70% have uploaded photos
Universal McCann: Power to the People Social Media Tracker, Wave 4http://www.slideshare.net/Olivier.mermet/universal-mc-cann-wave4
Social Bookmarks
200,000,000 blogs
Wiki = Quick in Hawaiian
Studies show it is as accurate if not more than Britannica
Almost 13m Articles
WiKis
Jan 2010
18m accounts registered
64% have joined a social network
Micro-blogging
1 out of 300 website click throughs come from twitter
We don’t always find information using Google
Reputation Aggregator
Monitor and Subscribe
25% of search results for the worlds top 20 largest
brands are links from user generated content
June 8, 2009 article from Marketing Vox and Nielsen BuzzMetrics SES Magazine entitled:Turning Blogs and user-Generated Content Into Search Engine Results, Chris Aarons, Andru Edwards and Xavier Lanier
Who influences whom?
Will the school site continue to be the first visit after they search Google or Bing?Will it be the school site they trust for ‘real’ information
The attraction of social media
People trust “a person like me” more than authority figures or marketing messages from business and media
Seeking ongoing dialogue, not a one way advertisement
Trust, Transparency, openness, honesty
We are seeing a communication shift
The shift is from one way communication
Dialogue between audience and school
Dialogue between the audiences
Compare this too…
The traditional broadcast marketing and advertising approach, which is designed to interrupt your day
The average person is exposed to
3000advertising messages per day
Email Blasts
Telesales
Printed ads
Direct mail
TV
Radio
ONLY 14%
OF PEOPLE TRUST
ADVERTISEMENTS
More and more customers are
blocking traditional marketing,
psychologically and with the help
of technology
70%
OF PEOPLE TRUST THE
RECOMMENDATIONS OF
OTHER CONSUMERS
70% Vs 14%
Blogs
The product is right
The price is right
But who am I buying from?
70% trusts bloggers’ opinions on products and services
36% of people think more positively
about a company that has a blog
The stage before committing to buy
The customers perspective
Ask Questions, Listen and Contribute
Parents
Teachers
Students
Alumni
In a two year period 2006-2008 internet users have dramatically increased their familiarity and usage with social media
The Future
• Subscribers to RSS feeds From 10% to 40%
• Users creating an online network profileFrom 25% to 64%
• Watched video clips onlineFrom 30% to 79%
Tomorrows consumers are today’s digital natives
The digital native
By the time today’s 10 year olds are 15, they will already have some ingrained preferences to certain brands because of that companies online marketing
Thank youwww.socialmediamarketingforschools.co.uk
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