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Social Media as a Cost-Effective Marketing Tool: for MGC Hayles
1. MGC Hayles Social Media Presentation
by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Using social media
as a
cost effective marketing tool
2. MGC Hayles Social Media Presentation
by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Social Media
• What is this new media?
• Do I need to use it?
3. MGC Hayles Social Media Presentation
by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Look at this video . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUCfFcchw1w
4. MGC Hayles Social Media Presentation
by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Social Media
• Changing the way businesses build
relationships online
• It is easier than ever to target customers
– create a community around your brand
– converse online
– allowing customers to build a relationship with the
brand
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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• 5,000 people aged over 18 across Europe were
asked the most important source they consider
when making a purchase
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Source people consider before a
purchase
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Survey with 50 of the UK’s top
advertisers
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Benefits and opportunities
• See what people are talking about
• Develop new products/services
• Communicate
• Promote
• Highlight qualification benefits
• An early warning system
• Up to date and transparent
• Develop partnerships
• Not a direct selling tool
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Web updates and readers
• Specific RSS feeds from websites
• StumbleUpon
• Yahoo news
– Track news related to your industry
• Google news
– Instant updates of news mentioning your keywords
• Copernic
– Track changes on a site
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Public relations and social media
• Companies developing strategies to benefit
• Respond to or correct a rumour
– Provide accurate information
• Integral to your PR activity
– Journalists monitor
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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How to maximise social media
opportunities
• Develop a social media plan
• Branding
• Content
• Management
– Roles and responsibilities
– Training needs
• Planning
• Monitor
• Social Media tools
• Risk Management
• Employee guidelines
• Negative comments
• Legal Implications
• Link building activity
• Implementing the plan
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Develop a Social Media Plan
• Provide direction
• Confirm
• Sustained relationships
• Increase online credibility
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Social Media Success
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Branding
• Who do you want to be?
• Make your brand corporate
• Add real value:
– Be consistent
– Report any violations
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Content
• Basics of PR must be core
– Use words that make sense
• Beware of cultural issues
• Be sure of your facts
• Be real
• Keep it interesting and compelling
– Not just word format
• Demonstrate your credibility
– Not how great you are
• Only re-Tweet from a credible source
• Integrate messages seamlessly across all media
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Plugged in
• If you talk about an idea early, you will get
more exposure because the threads of
conversation stem from what YOU said.
- if you’re late, you will get lost in the noise.
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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When developing content….
• Keep comments interesting
• Make people smile have fun
• Be transparent and be honest
• Be genuine
• Be judicious
• Write what you know
• Create some excitement
• Monitor the news
– Adapt a story, refresh and
expand
• Remember perception is reality
• Be consistent
• It’s a conversation
• Question – are you adding value?
• Check your content and consider it fully
before posting – don’t post in haste!
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Be proactive, not just reactive.
• Be relevant
• “Know me, like me, follow me”
– Social media guru Penny Power
• Work at developing and maintaining
relationships
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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How should you manage social
media?
• Training needs?
• Who will implement?
• Set up systems
• 30-60 minutes per day on social media.
- monitoring trends/conversations
- writing micro blogs/blogs
- distributing press releases online
- responding to conversations
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Planning
• Plan ahead
• SMART objectives
• Agree the roles and responsibilities
• Develop scenarios
- Establish set of template answers
• Monitor the objectives
• Agree tools
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Monitoring and social media
tools
• Listen and react
– In real time
– What is “trending”
• Align with communications monitoring and
evaluation
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Tools
• Hootsuite or Tweetdeck - Dashboards
– Several sites open at once
– Comments posted simultaneously
– Use on PC, phones or tablets
– Schedule posts
• Other organising tools
– Pageflakes, netvibes, Cotweet, Knowem.com
– Del.icio.us, Digg
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Subscribe to social media
analytics
• See what is being “talked” about
• Free service
– In time you may benefit from one of the paid
services.
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Advertising
• Adwords
– Build up a pattern of behaviour and key words
• Not just Google
– Other search engines
– Ad.ly – pay per click campaign for Twitter
– Banner adverts and links on specific sites
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Followers
• Acknowledge followers
• Don’t be fooled by numbers
• Klout and Peerindex measure influence users
have
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Management
• Be prepared
– Remember public domain, Comments will remain
• Build a social media crisis plan
– Develop scenarios and responses
– Combine with traditional PR
• Training and processes
– Facts
– Re-Tweet from credible individuals
• Employee guidelines
– Confidentiality, mass email distribution, Freedom of
Information Act.
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Negative comments or
constructive criticism
• Don’t take it personally
• Reply within 24 hours
– Beware of emotions
• Inform anyone who needs to know
• Supply information which might address the
issue
• Don’t delete criticisms
• Remember its in the public domain
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Legal implications
• What is the legal position?
- currently there is no such thing as “social
media law”
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Implementing the social media
plan
• Develop a regular blog on your website
– Submit to blogging sites
– Tweet links
• Send to PR distribution sites
• Visit knowem.com
– Protect your name
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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LinkedIn
• Recruitment companies
• B2B Companies
– Build network
– Use database
– Source suppliers
– Generate customers
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Facebook
• Set up a corporate Facebook page
• Follow any events and news
• Post any events you are organising
• Communicate using the media
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Examples - Facebook
• Steel Master Buildings
– Regularly updated – keeping momentum and
familiarity
– Lots of media – photos, videos
– Interaction
– Free stuff – quote calculator, newsletter,
resource centre
http://www.facebook.com/SteelMasterBuildings
• Alton Towers
– Lots of media – photos, videos etc
– Interaction – questions, competitions etc
– Routine – getting fans used to activities on
particular days
http://www.facebook.com/altontowersresort
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Twitter
• Set up a corporate twitter page
• Set up tool on your phone, pc, tablet
• Monitor trends, post responses
• Develop people to follow
• Engage with your followers
• Post information about news
• Links to free and interesting information
• Post any events you are organising
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Example - Twitter
• Innocent Smoothies
– Regularly updated – every
couple of hours
– Lighthearted and fun
– Asking questions
– Sharing interesting stuff
– Interaction, replying to tweets
https://twitter.com/#!/innocentdrinks
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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You Tube
• Set up a corporate You Tube account
• Develop material
• Slides or videos
• Relevant to your target audience
• Demonstrate yourself as the expert
• Put material on other slide sharing sites
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Example – YouTube
• Old Spice
– Fun, innovative videos
– Responses to people online – gains
interest
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=d1JxgdWDzdQ&feature=BFa&list=PL484F058C3
EAF7FA6&lf=plpp_video
– Involving people in campaigns, asking
opinions, gaining votes etc
– Regular campaigns, keeping things
different
http://www.youtube.com/user/OldSpice
• Total video views reached 40,000,000 in a
week
• Since the campaign launched, sales are up
27%; in the first three months up 55%
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Examples – similarities
• Strong branding – making your brand recognisable and
consistent across all networks.
• Regularity – regularly updating your networks gives people a
reason to check them often.
• Interaction – people like to know a brand may respond to
their conversation, makes them feel valued.
– Also invite them to interact between themselves – competitions and
opinion polls invite and provoke discussion – user generated content
• Fun – don’t take things too seriously, ask questions, play
games, have competitions, relax your ‘corporate voice’ a little.
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Link building activity
• Be proactive
• Develop other social sites over time
• Develop a blog on your website
• Register with sites that journalists follow
• Link social media to website
– and wider communication activities
• Increase the audience
• Seek out influencers
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Return on investment
• Invest in social media
– Maximise the opportunities
– Minimise the risks
• Not easy to quantify specific value
• Aspects to assess its value . .
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Monitor to assess value
• Increase in number of visitors to the website
• Increase in online publications
• Increase in number of comments
• New approaches from journalists for stories
• Increase in followers and database
• Increase in enquiries
• Decrease in other marketing communications spend
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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‘Five Don’ts’
1. Don’t just talk – listen, interact
2. Don’t be boring – share interesting images, videos, content
(can be industry relevant or not – provokes interaction)
3. Don’t be sporadic - barraging people with content, then
ignoring it for weeks or months at a time.
4. Don’t talk like a robot – this is a chance to promote the
‘human’ aspect of your company which people can relate to
and interact with
5. Don’t assume they will come to you – be proactive, find
people in your industry and communicate with them
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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In conclusion
• Consider the range, reach and purpose
• Confirm strategy and tactics
• Share out duties
• Train the team
• Monitor and engage
• Start to build advocates
• Social Media is a cost effective marketing tool
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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In conclusion
• Remember, social media is dynamic, and
today’s Twitter may be tomorrows forgotten
website
• “Don’t assume that what works today will work
tomorrow”
– Tom Austin at Gartner.
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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In conclusion
Use the
SHARE
approach
in your
Social Media
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by Ann Goodwin
Chartered Marketer, FCIM, DipMwww.winmarketing.co.uk
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Thank you
Ann Goodwin, Jo Goodwin
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