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4 Key S's Social Media Success
1. The 4 Key S’s to Social Media
Success
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2. SocialB
Social media & online marketing experts
- social media training courses/webinars
- Inhouse social media training
- social media consultancy
- search engine optimisation
(being found on Google, etc)
- Pay per click
Social media council
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3. What will you leave with
today?
The four key areas to build social media success
Tips on using social media as part of your every
day business
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4. There are about
2.1 billion
active social media
accounts in the world
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5. How it relates to business
Businesses can – and do – use social media. For every major
business function of every organisation, there is an equivalent
social media function:
Research=Listening to the conversations people have
with each other to understand their wants and needs
Marketing=Talking in the conversations people have
with each other to spread messages about your company
and products
Sales=Energising customers to sell you by finding your
most enthusiastic customers/employees and
supercharging them online
Support=Supporting customers to support each other
by setting up tools that help them do this
Development=Embracing customers to work with each
other by integrating them into the way your business works
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6. The 4 key S’s to social media
success
Strategy
Social
SEO (keywords)
Search
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8. Social Media Strategy
Without a plan you plan to …
What does success look like?
How has your business become
successful? With a plan/strategy by
any chance??
Q1 “What do we want to
achieve with our social media
activity?”
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9. Social Media Strategy
Your overall objectives will inform what you do in social
media in terms of:
Who you want to connect with
What content you share
How you interact with people
How often you need to interact with people
How you want to influence people to act
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10. Social Media Calendar
Things to talk about
April
Half term activities
Easter
May
Topic 1
May Bank Holiday
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Blog
Twitter
LinkedI
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Faceboo
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Pinterest
YouTube
In social media, it’s key to
Do Something Every Day!
When you create a new blog post, tweet about it!
When you attend an event/show/networking, follow up with someone you met
by connecting with them on Twitter. Read any interesting blog articles? See a
good video on YouTube? Post it on Twitter!
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11. Measure, Measure, Measure!
Google analytics
Hootsuite/Tweetdeck
Sproutsocial
Tweetreach
Socialmention
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12. Good old Excel
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Weekly per
platform
Monthly on one
tab
Create graphs
14. Two-way
communication The key feature that differentiates social
media from traditional media is its facility for
two-way dialogue
This brings with it a number of important
advantages:
More powerful engagement
Improved recall
Active involvement
Participative for both parties
Make this principle core to a
social media strategy
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18. SEO
Search engine optimisation
Search engines index websites & social media platforms
Google, Yahoo, Bing have to decide what answers to give
people
SEO = having the right keywords that people search on
More on this in relation to social media later
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19. Where to go keyword digging?
Use Google Keyword Planner
Use the search engines and their predictive text
If you pay for advertising on Google adwords note these down
Use your Google Analytics data (keyword source)
Google Insights Trend tool http://www.google.com/insights/search/
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21. Google Keyword
Planner
Note down longer keywords i.e. ‘how to trade stocks’ – great tip
later!
Think like a client! Ask friends / colleagues what they would type in
What locations do you cover? City, county, regions, UK wide, global
Set up an excel sheet with keywords/keyphrases so they can be used
across all your online areas (social media, website, etc.)
Review every two to three months if you get the chance
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22. SEO friendly Twitter
The Bio also contains relevant
keywords
The locations they cover
What they sell
What to expect
Some personality
Where to find them
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29. Great Social Media Tools for Search
Hootsuite/Tweet Deck/Sproutsocial
Use to set up streams to target your audience
Use for lists – great way of staying in touch with people (Twitter)
Scheduling – but don’t get in that trap apart from blog posts etc
Measuring – all have a stats section
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31. Search - Twitter keyword examples
Searching for the right keywords
By setting up a search for London and hostels this type of
information will be ready for you respond to key targeting but
potential great results!
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32. Next steps…
If you feel you need some further help with your online
marketing presence, SocialB offer:
•Social media management
•SEO and PPC services
•Website builds
Come and have a chat
or call 01223 258000
or email info@socialb.co.uk or amy@socialb.co.uk
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33. Stay in touch!
+44 (0)1223 258000
info@socialb.co.uk
www.socialb.co.uk
@SocialBuk
@amyjht
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34. Thank you for attending The 4
Key S’s to Social Media Success
@SocialBuk @amyjht
Editor's Notes
We provide Social media training and online marketing consultancy throughout the UK – we have some Very special offers on our courses so please visit our stand for FREE things like Social media template and FREE SEO review of your website plus some very special offers on our courses
My background, worked in marketing & PR 10 years plus
Worked on website projects and always hindered by technical babble & lack of understanding – so through ‘learning on the job’ and working in a live environment gained a full understand.
SocialB are social media and online marketing experts providing social media training around the UK and inhouse, marketing and consultancy. clients local and also large national and global brands. Provide strategy, training and implementation on all levels of SEO and SM Muller, Boots, Dunelm, Emirates, Gatwick Heathrow, Manchester College, O2,
Worked with a lot of local farm shops etc
My background, worked in marketing & PR 10 years plus
Worked on website projects and always hindered by technical babble & lack of understanding – so through ‘learning on the job’ and working in a live environment gained a full understand.
SocialB are social media and online marketing experts providing social media training around the UK and in-house, marketing and consultancy. clients local and also large national and global brands. Provide strategy, training and implementation on all levels of SEO and SM Muller, Boots, Dunelm, Emirates, Gatwick Heathrow, Manchester College, O2,
So many businesses say everyone is on social media
When you create a social media strategy, your actions are more deliberate and have purpose and your connections clearly understand what you have to offer
Bear in mind success is down to measurement and identifying in the first place:-
E.g.. PR coverage
Support function in your business
Business grow in XXX sector
Online sales
Social media is not a quick win – it’s a long term strategy that can have long term successful results – it takes time, and although free there is resource involved – with a strategy your CEO will feel a lot more comfortable in what you are doing online
Many brands and agencies will kick off social media activity without a clear vision of what they hope to achieve (77% of all Facebook pages have less than 1,000 fans, limiting impact)
This typically generates mediocre results (at best), which people then really struggle to attach any worthwhile meaning to, as they had no real benchmark for success in the first instance
Will sit alongside your overall marketing strategy – should reflect what is going on offline – e.g. Muller the yogi bear advert – their Facebook page reflected this
The key feature that differentiates social media from traditional media is its facility for two-way dialogue
This brings with it a number of important advantages:
More powerful engagement
Improved recall
Active involvement
Participative for both parties
Make this principle core to a social media campaign
Develop online objectives that are SMART:
Specific – objectives should specify what they want to achieve
Measurable – you should be able to measure whether you are meeting the objectives or not
Achievable - are the objectives you set, achievable and attainable?
Realistic – can you realistically achieve the objectives with the resources you have?
Timely – when do you want to achieve the set objectives?
Example of objectives could be:
Increase traffic to your website
Plan ahead but also look what is being talked about on social media – if there is a link there then use it – however, don’t jump on all trends – if there is no link then you are not targeting
Other examples – british tomato week – etc themes and get interest
3 month plan – if something works do it again if it doesn’t change it.
You don’t always know what will grab people – some stuff you think that will doesn’t and other things that you think might not do – measure!
Think within your industry, new products, etc but also the wider picture – relevant Olympics, stuff on Tv, in the news. E.g. Top gear Christmas special
You might think this is blue chip company thinking however – your organization more than their organization needs to measure as resources, budget and time are all very precious!
Dunelm measure and target their audience – engage with female audience – Facebook check ins mostly men – without measuring how would they know that?
Go back to what does success look like? – PR coverage, reduced staff in your call centre? less negative sentiment
I see so many businesses think ‘ great we can get loads of business from social media lets sell, sell, sell!
Within max of 3 months they have normally given up and stopped using social media all together
Socialsprout £5 a month, hootesuite £3 a month https://sproutsocial.com/reports/group/216266/1334620800/1337299199
Three month plan with a calendar!
You might think this is blue chip company thinking however – your organization more than their organization needs to measure as resources, budget and time are all very precious!
I see so many businesses think ‘ great we can get loads of business from social media lets sell, sell, sell!
Within max of 3 months they have normally given up and stopped using social media all together
Google analytics – will tell you where people come from – if you look at it you get it – measure visitors, where they come from etc. – if social media is working you can see from the source plus if you use codes on Facebook and twitter
Socialsprout £5 a month, hootesuite £3 a month https://sproutsocial.com/reports/group/216266/1334620800/1337299199
Three month plan with a calendar!
You might think this is blue chip company thinking however – your organisation more than their organisation needs to measure as resources, budget and time are all very precious!
I see so many businesses think ‘ great we can get loads of business from social media lets sell, sell, sell!
Within max of 3 months they have normally given up and stopped using social media all together
Google analytics – will tell you where people come from – if you look at it you get it – measure visitors, where they come from etc – if social media is working you can see from the source plus if you use codes on facebook and twitter
Why should people follow you, like you chat with you?
You can use feeds for news but it has a VERY limiting impact! – its about engaging in conversation – virtual networking etc.
Create a larger sales team
Brand ambassadors
You never always know who people are & who they know!
Why should people follow you, like you chat with you?
I see so many estate agents just pushing out their latest property details – be whoop! We are now getting a lot of interest from Estate agents and letting agents and running a lot of in-house courses for them to give them the edge
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search,[1] news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.
75 languages
11.5 billion web pages
Around a billion websites
Not forgetting the Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn info
If we look at this room today – to find out about you I have to ask questions and you give me answers
Search engines are indexing and researching 24/7 365 days a week! They are NOT looking at what your website looks like – it can look as pretty as a picture but not get any traffic – don’t get me wrong a website needs to look good – but it need to look good once you have found the people to look at it!
The key to SEO is knowing the words / phrases people type in to then know what to use on your own website – these are called keywords/key phrases and I will come on to these first.
First I want to look at some live examples so you can see what search engines look at
Do you know what you are keywords are for your business?
If so you really need to find out
Its not words or phases that you think people might be typing In to search engines but keywords / phrases you know people are searching on
I’ve had many a person say oh we at the top of search engines for XXXX a quick bit of research tells me if that is a key terms people are searching on.
Keywords play a real part in social media so ask your website company, you can do the research yourself (if you know how) or contact a company that can do the work for you (any good SEO company) can do this for you.
When/ if you have keywords use them across the board – from Facebook to YouTube
Search engines index websites Inc. blogs, Facebook etc.
Google, Yahoo, Bing have to decide what answers to give people
SEO = having the right keywords that people search on
Holds a wealth of information on what people search on each month
Can give you a great deal of information on what keywords you need to use
Think about property, house, home, - what desirable things you have and what people are looking for when they are searching – i.e. sea view
Props for sale by sea – medium – 27K
Houses with land – low – 823K
E.G Top gear Christmas special
Searching property finder richmond upon thames
This was for a hostel in shoreditch.
We asked them who their target audience was – young backpackers, usually foodies, both meat eaters & vegans
SEO research was done and a few thousand people did searches on ‘vegan food in shoreditch’ – ideal blog post!
We noticed #NationalVegetarianWeek was approaching so wrote this post to coincide. Currently ranking 2nd on the 1st page of Google, this has risen from 10th
Use Hootesuite/Tweetdeck – you can post across Twitter, Facebook, linked in
Look for keywords/opportunities
Target locations
Target existing customers
Promote all your social media on your website blog, flyers, shop window
Stats section – great to see what gets clicked on and what doesn’t
What I have shared with you today is quite a lot of information – please don’t panic and think well we don’t have time for this, its going to take a full time person. Put the very basic practice in place with perhaps a twitter account of maybe linkedin to start with. Get this working well then perhaps get others on board in your organisation.
We provide Social media training and online marketing consultancy throughout the UK – we have some Very special offers on our courses so please visit our stand for FREE things like Social media template and FREE SEO review of your website plus some very special offers on our courses