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Overview!
ANALYSIS!
LANE DOUGLAS
Principal, Social Media Solutions
ldouglas@market-bridge.com!
@lanedouglas!
• Lead for Social Media analytics and solutions at MarketBridge
• Architect for SQ Index, patent-pending social media scoring
index.
• Lead consultant / social media strategist for Mexico Tourism
Board in 2011-2012
• Co-founder Ataway Exchange digital marketing conference
• Social media consultant for top brand destinations and
properties in Las Vegas, Orlando, Boston
• 15 years online marketing experience
linkedin.com/in/lanedouglas!
EMAIL!
TWITTER!
LINKEDIN!
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How Social Media
Influences Travel
Word of mouth and recommendations
from friend still drive the game
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63%
Recommenda=ons
by
friends/family
the
number
one
factor
inspiring
travel
decisions
87%
Use
Facebook
for
inspira=on
when
considering
travel
plans
and
des=na=ons
68%
Use
a
mobile
device
to
share
experience
with
friends
while
on
vaca=on
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The Starting Line
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• Have an account!
• Have at least 25
Likes!
• Know how to access
admin section!
• Can change timeline
banner and profile
pic!
• Can locate Facebook
Insights!
• Have an account!
• Know how to “tweet” !
• Know how to follow
another person on
Twitter!
• Understand what a
#hashtag is!
• Have a Google
account (Gmail,
Gdrive, YouTube)!
• Can upload a video!
• May or may not
understand what a
YouTube “Channel”
is!
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Invest in
Social Ad
Placement!
Growth
For
Facebook
As
Factor
of
Ad
Spend
September
2011
–
June
2013
6,385
Likes
Sep.
1,
2011
942,775
Likes
May
31,
2013
• Target specific
demographics
and audiences!
• Easily
outsourced
and managed!
• Grow social
community !
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Think
“Service”…
not “Social”!
• Understand that
social media is
the medium, not
the strategy!
• Provide
answers and
follow up!
• Search Twitter
for brands you
represent with
the hashtag
#SUX or #FAIL!
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“It’s #SeaTurtle season in #PalmBeach. Eggs can hatch
as early as May with the majority hatching July thru
October.”!
!
May 30 4:14 PM!
Content Marketing!
!
“a marketing technique of creating and distributing relevant content to attract,
acquire and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the
objective of driving profitable customer action.”!
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February 2013 Edition!
NEW:
Kickstart
your
Social
Business.
Read
hTp:
ow.ly/hUITM
or
talk
with
@geoff_deweaver
@PeachyNews
by
@Richard
L.
Rhodes
13K
Followers
For the month of February, IBM absolutely dominated when it
came to getting it’s Twitter username (@IBM) and hashtag
(#ibm) mentioned by other Twitter users and influencers. When
we broke this down into an over-time volume trend, we noticed it
was due to three very clear spikes as opposed to sustained
volume. The reason was that IBM utilized their Twitter channel
as a means of advertising a content piece on their e-Magazine
portal called “Click.” On three separate days, they pushed the
content on how to jump start your social business and received
a significant amount of mentions and retweets as other users
helped to push this content out to their extended following.!
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EMC
1240
TW
VMWare
7661
TW
CA
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TW
IBM
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TW
HP
283
TW
BMC
1026
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of
TwiNer
Men'ons
for
IBM
February
2013
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Acquire a
Listening
Service!
Determine whether there is any significant volume
around a brand or topic.!
!
Find significant trends or patterns as to when and
why the conversation volume peaks and drops.!
!
Discover sentiment around defined topics and
determine overall consumer opinion.!
!
Isolate key influential websites or individuals that
more actively promote the brand than others.!
!
Determine the “share” of overall volume a brand
has against competitors or the larger industry.!
!
Identify ways to strategically engage industry-
related conversations as a content marketing
strategy. !
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Tag Cloud for
Word Frequency!
The Color Scheme!
Words that are larger and red and orange are
the words occurring most frequently.!
What’s Being Said?!
The tag cloud locates words that get used in
relationship to the search keywords and then
visually displays their frequency of
occurrence.!
High Frequency! Low Frequency!
The TIME of the year is a discussion as
people inquire on social networks what
people are doing for fitness given how cold
it is outside.!
!
Questions revolve around budgeting TIME
so that exercise can truly happen with a
hectic schedule.!
!
Other conversations and discussions talk
about it “being TIME” to get moving now
that New Year’s resolutions are most likely
to be broken in mid-to-late January. !
Time is a significant discussion
factor in the social space
around fitness!
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Invest in a
Publishing
Platform!
4!
• Build customized
sections of
Facebook !
• Run contests and
sweepstakes!
• Auto-schedule your
posts across all
platforms!
• Convert social
“Likes” to “Leads”!
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Growing the Social
Community Base
Social Ads and incentive programs
contributed to overall growth
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8,660 Likes!
Dec 1, 2012!
23,518 Likes!
Mar 1, 2013!
Before initiating any heavy social marketing, it was imperative
that we grow the social base so that any results would be easily
measured and have a greater impact. Social ads were invested
in through Adapt.ly. Cost per fan was well below $0.50/fan.!
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Social Contests to
Collect Emails
A sweepstakes was built around
“romance” to collect email addresses
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The client partnered with a hotel who provided the
sweeps package in exchange for the email database
that would be acquired. Contest clues were posted
on Facebook with links to the sweeps portal which
resided on the website. Entrants provided name and
email address to enter. Over 25,000 entries (8,000
uniques).!