This document provides an overview of advanced social media and tech trends. It discusses the growing importance of social media and how consumer engagement and brand reputation can be positively impacted. Key social platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, and Google+ are examined in terms of best practices. Emerging trends like responsive web design, location-based social networks, augmented reality, and the growing importance of mobile are also covered. The document aims to educate on current social media strategies and tools that can be leveraged across organizations.
4. 52 percent of a brand‟s reputation can be
attributed to how social it is online, according
to global executives in a recent study.
Source: Weber Shandwick &
Forbes Insights 2011 Flickr: Creative Commons Mavis
5. On Average, Facebook
fans spend an extra
$72 on products & are
41% more likely to
recommend products
vs. non-fans.
Source: Knowledge Networks Flickr: Creative Commons Owenbrown
6. The mobile PC category is poised to
soar from 347 million units in 2012 to
more than 809 million by 2017 Touch Computing
Photo: agbeat.com, Source: NPD DisplaySearch
7. More than 955
million monthly
active users &
more than 543
million mobile
monthly active
users as of June
20, 2012.
Source: Facebook, Photo: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
8. Social Media Is Becoming More Influential At Each
Phase Of The Connected World
10. Consumers are Engaged in
Social Commerce on Facebook
Facebook Users in US
1 Billion
Shared Product
35 Million (1 out of 4)
25%
Asked for Recommendation
19% 26 Million (1 out of 5)
16%
Driven to Purchase
22 Million (1 out of 6)
Source: Social Commerce IQ
14. Product Development Marketing Online Presence
• Lead Generation
• Feedback • Message Reach • Ratings & Reviews
• Early Warning • Brand Reputation • Communities
• New Product Ideation • Rich Media • Customer Stories
• Influence
Sales Customer Service HR/Legal
• Leads & Referrals • Listening • Recruitment
• Collaboration • Retention • Overall Counsel
• Thought Leadership • Outreach
A tool to be leveraged
across the fabric of the
company: different
functions, uses and values Organization
20. Social media signals show an Google Search
extremely high correlation &
Ranking Factors
associate with good rankings
in Google.
21. • Followers/Likes/Check-ins/Google+/Shares
• Mentions
• Frequency
• Topic/Relevancy
• Reputation/Authority/Influence Social Signal
• Engagement (Klout) Ranking Factors
• Length of time online
22. • Increases sharing & site traffic
• Boots visitor engagement
• Gives user a personal
experience
Share/Follow Icons
26. Social Signals
• Optimize all of your social profiles
• Google is indexing Facebook comments so use the
Facebook Comment Plug-In to power your blog
comments
• Google Authorship Tool to ad value, personality &
increase CTR
• Automate minimally
• Associate with people that will share your message
• Have a keyword focus (without stuffing)
Social Signals Tips
40. Brands can feature a
promotion on their
page, allow users to
claim it and have the
coupon sent directly to
the user‟s email or
mobile device.
Offer Post
43. Page Post Story (Your „Likes‟) &
Page Likes Page Post Like (Friends of fans who have
(Friends of your fans) liked your posts)
Amplify your organic content and Sponsored Story Ads
positive fan behavior.
Source: BlitzMetrics.com
44. Click-through rates are in the
range of 3%-10% and CPC is
between 1 cent and 10 cents.
Sponsored Results
Source: BlitzMetrics.com
58. How It Works
Rally together some of the industry‟s top
pinners and trendsetters to collaborate on
photos and pins that will be an inspiration
to your followers.
Engage Your Fans
Encourage your fans to follow your Pinning
Party board and have them repin 10 of
their favorite images to their own board
titled the same as your board. Ask them to
add a link to your Pinterest board in a
comment on your blog.
Pinning Party
70. Photo Sharing
• Pinterest is the fastest growing site ever
• Pinterest delivers more referral traffic than Twitter &
Google+
• Great product shots
• Phonto app to add branding
• Submit photos, voting, caption contests
• Regular engagement with audience
• Create a Pinterest board for your blog posts
• Use hashtags
• PinAlerts, Pinreach, Pinpuff, Pinerly, Repinly
Photo Sharing Tips
77. Video
• Keep it concise (2 min or less)
• How-To videos, testimonials, answer top questions,
product videos
• Create playlists
• Create community
• Optimize: titles, descriptions, keywords, tags
• YouTube Analytics (demographics, audience retention,
traffic sources, playback locations)
• Link to AdSense for monetization
Video Tips
82. “Upcycling is the
process of converting
waste materials or
useless products into
new materials or
products of better
quality or a higher
environmental value.”
~ Wikipedia
Upcycling
Photo: http://www.alittletipsy.com
84. Blogging/Microblogging
• Blogger outreach
• Make tweet less than 120 characters for the RT
• Use hashtags
• Use @Replies
• Include URL in the first 25% of the tweet to get more RT‟s
• Bring old content back to life
• Link blogger profiles to Google+ profiles
• Wefollow.com – top tags and people
• Twellow – top Twitter users by city
• Tweriod – gives you the best times to tweet
• Pitchengine.com – create better content to share via social
networks, search engines and mobile devices
• Bitly/Tinyurl – Shorten & track URLs
Blogging/Microblogging
Tips
89. Google+
• Social Signals are the new links. Add the +1 button to
your site
• Create your Plus page, link to your site
• Add important people to circles
• Optimize your Circle names
• Create how-to content
• Recycle existing content
• Connect your HOA to your YouTube Account
• Tag people & other brands
• Use hashtags
Google+ Tips
91. The Process of designing and
developing websites that are able
to react to user’s actions and
detect the medium where the site
is currently being watched in order
to provide the best experience
possible to the user in terms of Responsive Web Design
navigability and readability.
Photo: webdesignshock.com
92. There are 6 Billion
mobile subscribers
worldwide & over
1.2 Billion people
accessing the web
from their mobile
devices.
Facebook Mobile
Source: Digitalbuzzblog.com
93. Google earns
2.5 Billion in
mobile ad
revenue
annually.
Facebook Mobile
Source: Digitalbuzzblog.com
99. Mobile
• Prepare your websites & optimize for
search & social
• Keep mobile in mind
• Experiment with QR codes & Augmented
Reality
• Mobile loyalty programs
• Engage consumers
• Run contests Mobile Recap
Paid Media: Involves purchasing media which is important and needed in key periods to drive more engagement. Owned media: Is where a brand controls the media channel like a website or social media channel. This makes you more portable. Earned Media: "Earned media" is an old PR term that essentially meant getting your brand into free media rather than having to pay for it through advertising. However, this has really evolved to more of permanent word- of –mouth that is being created through social media. There is no money being exchanged but it isn't free. You are paying in time.
Social media signals show extremely high correlation and associate with good rankings in Google. The correlation coefficient is displayed on the x-axis. Greater values along the x-axis (e.g. Facebook Shares) have a positive correlation (the more, the better) while lower values (Title Character Length) have a negative correlation. Therefore, we can say that the largest correlation occurs between Facebook Shares and the lowest between the Position of Title Keywords.
A study found that Google + 1’s had a significant result of 0.41 which allows us to assume that the quantity of +1s has the strongest correlation of any of the metrics analyzed
Increase sharing and site trafficBoost visitor engagementGive users a personal experience
You have to start paying for content and find a way to make yourself an authority, to make a rockstar out of one of your writers, or suck it up and hire someone who already is a rockstar and get them to write for your site. In today’s Web economy, the actual writer matters for ranking and it matters for links. It comes down to great content and relationships. Just like in the offline world. With a verified email: If you have an email address on the same domain as your content, you can go to plus.google.com/authorship to verify it. Using the form on that page will add your email address to the Work section of your profile, which by default is viewable only by your circles. You can keep your email private if you wish. It will also add a public link to the domain of the email address to the Contributor to section of your profile.Without a verified email: If can’t verify an email address on the same domain (say if you’re a contributor to the Huffington Post but don’t have a Huffington Post email address) you can still link your content to your Google+. In these circumstances, you’ll want to do it from your Author page on that site. Just link to your Google+ page in the bio area and Google will be able to pick that up. You can do it directly from the content, itself, but you don’t have to. You’ll also want to add the rel=me tag.
People make decisions based on the trust of their friends. Facebook has created a social layer that exposes those relationships that have always been there, between people's real friends. Because those relationships are visible, think of all these dots with lines connecting them. This created an advertising system that sits on top of that and allows you to inject your content. Now let's say your content is testimonials, specials, videos, whatever kinds of content might be interesting. Identify who your best customers are; not people who could be customers, but people who already love you. Amplify what you already have that's great. That's what Facebook is; it's a word of mouth amplifier.
Amplify your organic content and positive fan behavior via Sponsored Stories. Beating Google 3:1, highly relevant content and you enlists friend’s recommendations.
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Create a pinboard that features the bestphotos and video footage of the annualevent you host to help you generate buzzand promote the next one. You can create a “Behind TheScenes” board that features a lot of picturesfrom events that we have hosted.
For its 2013 catalog teaser, IKEA has unveiled that they will be adopting augmented reality in their future catalogs to add a layer of information and interactivity through mobile. When the page is scanned, it will bring up extra content, like customization options or pictures of the furniture in use.
The Starbucksaugmented reality campaign “Cup Magic app” allowed you to send and receive virtual Valentine messages.
Released Valentine’s Day-themed cups that contain virtual experiences that can be unlocked through the use of a smart phone.