3. Opportunities and Challenges of Social Media
Retail Brand use of Social Media Across the
Business
Social Media and Wider Digital Marketing
Management of Social Media
Key
Learnings
6. “Online technologies and practices that
people use to share opinions, insights,
experiences, and perspectives with each
other. They include sites such as LinkedIn,
Facebook and Twitter .”
96. Organisational Structure
• What tends to happen:
- Owned by Marketing/ a “Bright Spark”
- Has a Board level sponsor
• What should happen:
- Adopted business wide
- Integrated with all communications
• It’s a cultural change for most
• It’s not easy and can’t be forced
Source: Econsultancy, 2012
97. Where things go wrong…
The best strategy is useless if:
• The business aren’t genuinely
behind it
• There isn’t cross departmental buy in
• Results focus is purely “conversions, metrics and sales”
• “Social Media” is seen as an “add on”
• It doesn’t form part of the everyday way of working
Source: Econsultancy, 2012
Notas del editor
Explain what I do and services
How you appear online now plays a major part in career prospects Recruiters and potential employers are now assessing people’s online profiles as part of the screening process Example: I just recruited a new account executive via Linked In. Recruitment Professionals: perhaps social media to screen candidates online
Explain what I do and services
What happens when someone types in your name into Google – are you hard to find OrMaybe you are missing from linkedin or not using it properly
We all have a number of professional areas that we are really interested in. You should think about the areas you care about and comment on them. Build up your authority on issues and market yourself online!