Best practices for leveraging Instagram as a PR tool.
When viewed through a PR lens, Instagram becomes more than just a place for sharing selfies and “food porn.” How can PR pros leverage the platform to build brands and reach new audiences? Learn how to use Instagram to drive meaningful, measurable PR outcomes – proving a photo really is worth more than a thousand words.
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about Geben:
• based in Columbus, OH
• small by design: 15 people
• fresh approach to PR
• integrate traditional/digital
• creativity that gets results
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goals:
• extend online community
• Convey event experience
to non-local supporters
• 250 followers in week one
• Triple network by race day
• Increase participants’ race
day photos
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Instagram launch:
• RunFest “correspondents”
• Pre-event promotion
• Live photos at the event
• Interaction between
accounts
• Result: @cbusmarathon
had 300 followers within
one week of launching
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pre-race:
• behind-the-scenes
• marathon news and
race/course updates
• inspiration
• blog posts
• training tips
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Instagram ambassadors:
• countdown to race day
• ambassadors share weekly
training photos for
@cbusmarathon to regram
and share on the blog
• Prompts: Where do you
run? How do you feel?
What are you wearing?
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race day:
• photo, video and scenes
from around the course
• heavy interaction with
people tagging
#cbusmarathon
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outcomes:
• 300 followers by July 8 (one
week after first photo)
• 988 followers on race day
• 1,000+ photos posted on
and immediately following
race day, a 42% increase
over the previous year
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goals:
• increase donations from
online communities
• engage a corporate
sponsor
• tap into local online
influencers’ networks
• expand NCH’s local online
footprint
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campaign launch:
• “favorite things”
• pre-seed Instagram
influencers with campaign
materials and images
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outcomes:
• 400+ photos posted on
Instagram, resulting in a
$5,000 donation to
Nationwide Kids from
Simple Bath Ohio
• #NCHfavorites hashtag
reached 242,000 people
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increase engagement
higher engagement on
photos with hashtags
higher engagement on
photos that are geotagged
12%
76%
Sources: Simply Measured, Sprout Social
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Disrupt the status quo.
Build awareness.
Acquire customers.
Excel in the social world.
Increase sales.
Innovate best practices.
Heather Whaling • @prTini
heather@gebencomm.com
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