4. Social Media in Ireland
Facebook:
53% of all Irish internet users use Facebook (Ipsos MRBI
May 2012)
70% of the total online population of Ireland are on
Facebook
53% log in daily
Average Irish Facebook user‟s age: 30.5
85% of those aged 15 – 24 years use Facebook, and
two thirds of those use it every day. (Ipsos MRBI)
29% of those aged 55 – 64 years use Facebook, and
35% of those check their account daily. (Ipsos MRBI)
5. Social Media in Ireland
Twitter:
15% of Irish people have a Twitter account
217,845 of those are active – sending at least one tweet in
June 2011
Twitter reaches 8.4% of Ireland's online audience
* Avg no. of visits is 20 / month
* Avg time on site is 13 minutes
6. Social Media in Ireland
LinkedIn:
• 13% of Irish people are on LinkedIn
• In % terms LinkedIn is growing at almost three times the rate of
Facebook
• LinkedIn is the 7th most popular website in Ireland
• The average LinkedIn user is aged between 35 and 44,
employed, living in Dublin and AB social class.
Source – blog.neworld.com
8. Benefits of Social Media
Targeted
You can do it yourself, the main cost is time and
effort.
You can engage directly with your customers
and build a community
Free market research
Timeliness – you can respond with offers quickly
and in realtime
10. How To Use Social Media
Know your audience
Pick the right channels
Do a few things really well
11. Key to Engaging Audiences
Good Content is King!
What is “Content”
Is your content:
– Original, entertaining or useful?
– Shareable?
– Desirable
– Relevant to your target market
– In keeping with your brand values
– Note: Ensure your spelling & grammar is accurate. We
need to practise what we preach
12. How to Source Images
The best option is always to create your own
Creative Commons
Resources:
– Compfight
– Flickr
– Google Images
– Other resources
How to attribute ownership
13. How to Source Video
YouTube
Vimeo
Google Search
15. What do they want to hear?
Not what do you want to tell them
Don‟t plan your social media with a list of
the information you want to share.
– Social media is 2-way Conversation, not a
broadcast opportunity
Plan your social media strategy with your
USER‟s NEEDS
16. What do you want them to do?
Make sure you know what you want your
users to do on your social media channel:
– Review / Register / Book / Return?
Then what do they want to do?
– Contact you?
– Watch / See / Get excited about what you do?
– Recommend you to others?
17. Social Media Success Stories
National Examples:
Meteor Ireland
Mick‟s Garage
Gregan‟s Castle (Facebook and Twitter)
Dublin Zoo (Facebook and Twitter)
Tourism Ireland
Spin 1038
19. Migrating Facebook Personal
Account to Business Page
Log into your Personal Account you are
using for the business.
Click
https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.p
hp?migrate
Add the information correctly into the
Boxes.
Confirm the migration.
20. Facebook Page Content Plan
How often should you post?
– At least daily
Focus on engagement:
– Ask questions
– Post tips, links to articles
– Funny photos and videos
– Don‟t oversell or undersell (80/20 rule)
21. Facebook Edgerank
Facebook‟s algorithm to determine which
content any given user sees in his News
Feed
The more often your followers comment,
click, like and tag content the sharper your
„edges‟ and the more likely your content
will display in their news feeds.
22. Facebook Pages
What to add to your Facebook page?
Rich multimedia content: videos, photos,
audio
Status updates
Events
Interact with other relevant Facebook
pages.
23. How to Build Your Fanbase
Status Tagging: You can tag other
Business pages on Facebook by putting
@ before the name.
24. How to Build Your Fanbase
Add your Facebook page link to your email
signature and newsletters
Create a fans only contest on your blog /
newsletter
Use QR codes to bring visitors to your
Facebook page (create using Kaywa etc)
25. How to Build Your Fanbase
Embed your social
media channels on
your website
Offer exclusive
Facebook only
content / promotions:
Facebook Friday etc
26. How to Build Your Fanbase
Take lots of pictures
at events and
encourage your
fans to do the same
Invite fans to tag
themselves in
photos
27. How to Build Your Fanbase
Use your networks
online and offline:
tell them to like your
page.
Take advantage of
video (very easy
with iPhone / Flip or
more professional
solutions)
28. How to Build Your Fanbase
Add social media
sharing options to
your blog
Competitions which
comply with
Facebook
promotional
guidelines
29. Facebook Competitions
How to run competitions:
You can‟t run competitions on
your wall
Competitions must be run
through an application e.g.
Wildfire / Offerpop ($5 per
campaign + .99c per day)
You can‟t ask followers to enter
a competition by liking,
commenting or mentioning you.
34. Facebook Places
Control your
business profile
Check out your
Facebook place
either using the
Facebook application
for iPhone / Android
or from
touch.facebook.com
35. How do I claim my Facebook
Place?
Search for your business name via the Facebook
Search bar. If a place for your business already
exists, click on it.
If a place for your business does not yet exist,
you‟ll need to visit the business's physical location
with your mobile phone and create a place for it.
Once you find your business's place, click the link
at the bottom left of that says "Is this your
business?" You will be directed to a claiming flow
to claim via mobile or documentation.
36. Facebook Ads
Title – Up to 25 characters
Text – 135 characters
Add image (110px * 80px)
Very targeted and economical
Set your daily budget and schedule
Create compelling action
37. What should you do next?
Go to Facebook.com/search and find your
competitors or good Facebook pages you
should monitor for ideas / inspiration.
If you can‟t find your competitor‟s
Facebook pages, check their websites for
the link.
– How often are they posting?
– Do they have a welcome tab?
– What else are they doing?
38. Top 7 Business Uses
of Twitter
1. Updating content on your own website, or other social
platforms like facebook/linkedin/foursquare
2. Gather/cluster your customers & fans/advocates around you
via #hashtags
3. Conduct free, ongoing, market research, through search
terms and follower questions/surveys
4. Hear what people are saying about you via search and then
join the conversation
5. Organically communicate and solidify your brand values or
your organisations “voice”
6. Take control of your message
7. As a customer service tool
39. 1. Updating Content
You can embed twitter into your own main
site in a number of ways
– Through the twitter widget
– With a good web designer
You can send tweets to facebook using
“selective tweets” #fb
You can send tweets to linkedin using #in
Or use a twitter client like TweetDeck
40. #hashtags
Provide a better filter for search
Allow for easier monitoring
Are very promotable, on and offline
Can be analysed
Perfect fit for short term events, but can
continue to cluster fans post event
Allow customers to tag you in a tweet
41. Market Research
Once you have a good base of followers
twitter, or any social network, is a great way to
push out surveys like polldaddy
Use search to eavesdrop on what people are
saying about you
Throw out questions
Use specific shortlinks to gather info with bit.ly
42. Twitter: Dialogue v‟s Monologue
Golden Rule of any online engagement? Conversations are two-way,
this is especially true of twitter
• Resist the broadcast only approach
• Time your tweets (use an auto scheduler like Tweet Deck for regular info tweets)
Think of twitter as a “virtual front desk” for your business
It should be;
• Welcoming
• Informal
• Social
• Informative
Transmitting info about you and gathering info about your customers
• Interactive
43. Uses of LinkedIn
1. Networking
• After every meeting add new contacts to your linkedin
• Use in-mails for occasional correspondence
2. Recommendations
• Regularly request recommendations from appropriate contacts
3. Groups & Discussions
• Display your area of expertise through answering questions
4. Events
• Post/recommend events to your network
5. Regular Updates
• Post useful links or business updates to your personal profile
and/or company profile.
• Consider linking to twitter or your blog
• Remember updates will filter through to weekly emails
44. Pinterest
Pinboard-style social photo sharing
website
Allows users to create and manage
theme-based image collections such as
events, interests, hobbies, and more.
45. Instagram
Instagram is a free photo sharing program
Facebook bought it for $1bn
Snap a photo on your iPhone or Android,
add a quirky filter, and share it across
Instagram's internal network or Facebook,
Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare.
46. Next Steps
Look your organisation up on the following:
• Google Maps http://maps.google.com
• Twitter search via twitter.com
• TripAdvisor http://www.tripadvisor.ie
• Flickr http://www.flickr.com
• YouTube http://www.youtube.com
• Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com
• Foursquare http://www.foursquare.com
• Google alerts
47. Useful Tools to Save You Time
How to manage your social media
channels:
– Hootsuite
– TweetDeck
48. Managing Your Social Media
• If you react to every email/alert it can be
overwhelming
• Consider setting aside 10-20mins daily at a
set time each day, maybe before or after
lunch, or first thing when you get in, or over
coffee at 11am, when you can check your
social media presences
• If you aim to do this daily, you will succeed at
least 3 days a week
• If you are a consummate user of social media in a
personal capacity you might prefer to continuously
monitor – do what works for you
Clock by alancleaver_2000 under Creative Commons on Flickr
49. How to Manage Your Social Media
in 10 Minutes Per Day
Fish where the fish are – focus on the channels
where your audience is
Hootsuite / Tweetdeck demo
2 Minutes: Scan your Google alerts for
interesting content / news
3 Minutes: Post some content on your Facebook
page / ignite discussion / monitor Insights
2 Minutes: Update your LinkedIn status / group
discussions
3 Minutes: Check your Twitter keyword
searches (your brand / location / industry /
competitors)
Clock by alancleaver_2000 under Creative Commons on Flickr
50. Campaign Planning Summary
1. Don‟t use digital for the sake of digital
2. Use the strengths of the medium to your
advantage
3. Make sure you deliver on expectations
4. Track and measure
5. Continuous testing
6. Enjoy
51. DIY Social Media
Pair Up
Open all social media channels in your
browser
– Facebook
– Twitter
– LinkedIn
– Present a problem you‟re having: pose that to
your partner
Multiple Accounts on Twitter make it difficult to collect definitive user numbers, the use of third party clients (tweet deck, hoot suite) also makes it difficult to count visitors to twitter.com.Important to note that many more people “see” twitter than have accounts as the feed is often imported to other websites
Linked in Company profiles, option to follow a company, business network
Socil Media works best for Social businesses, and Tourism is inherently a “social” business. It is built on relationships, between provider and custome, between customers nd between providers. Good tourism in Ireland excels on the basis of good stories, good reccomendations, a sense of visitors accessing “the real ireland” all of which can be communicated via social media channels
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General principle of social media isTop 3Two way conversationCan’t be on there and not listen.Radisson Galway Web AwardsBulmer's Pear
Practical: what is it that you want the user to doDo an audit of your existing channelsPractically show them to how to do a Google Alert: how to listen to the conversation.
EdgeRank determines how many people will see a link or content item you‟ve shared on your Facebook Page in their News Feed. As a business, you want to maximize the reach of your content. When a post is shared on Facebook, it is seen by the algorithm as an “object.” Interactions with the post such as a Like, share, comment, tag, etc. create what Facebook calls an “edge.” The more edges an object has, the more likely it will be displayed in a users News Feed. EdgeRank looks at frequency of posts, relevance (number of friends clicking, liking, and commenting), plus the users history of clicking and messaging within Facebook. EdgeRank means that it is important to do little things like having a Facebook Likebutton on your website. It also means that you want your fans to interact withcontent you share on your Page, so ask questions, post interesting articles from third-party websites or create games/competitions for fans.
Facebook Insights provides Facebook Page owners with metrics around their content. By understanding and analyzing trends within user growth and demographics, consumption of content, and creation of content, Page owners are better equipped to improve their business with Facebook.
Facebook Places are locations in the real world that users can now "check into" from their mobile devices, much like Foursquare or Gowalla. Each location has a Places page, a stream of updates aggregated from what users post to their profiles, and a "People Here Now" section where users can see who they know who might be there.
This is outside of using Twitter as a marketing channel for promotions and offers, Followers as focus groups – usually the preserve of large brands but something you can do effectively on a micro budget with twitterCSM - e.g Vodafone/Dublin Bus
If you want to test an idea, or get an evaluation on an offer/new strand to your businesshttp://polldaddy.com -sligo company
Linked in Company profiles, option to follow a company, business networkMention LinkedIn mobile app (iphone/android)Launch http://www.linkedin.com
SMART goals: what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to find conversations that could help drive traffic to your website? Increase your brand awareness? Generate leads?
SMART goals: what are you trying to accomplish? Do you want to find conversations that could help drive traffic to your website? Increase your brand awareness? Generate leads?
3. If people expect you to answer questions in a timely manner make sure that you do that, or if you set up a booking expectation make sure you facilitate that.4. Track and measure can be as simple as checking the number of followers you have – it’s a crude measurement but it’s better than none.