When you decide that you need to "do social" for your product, brand or company, are you sure you know what that means. Consider these five factors when launching your social campaign.
4. What’s this thing we call “social”?
Audience
Who are these people and where
are they? What are their interests?
Content
Relevant, interesting and
visually appealing.
Community
Don’t yell. Discuss.
Cross purpose
Cross purpose
Half-life
Life of a post and know
when to repost.
7. How do we find out who we’re talking too?
Ask the client
Often the client knows.
Sometimes we need to
verify with the next steps.
Audience Data
Look to Facebook,
Mailchimp and Google
Analytics
Synergy Audiences
Turn to Google
Analytics to find similar
interests.
8. Audience data: Ask the client
Ask the client
Often the client knows.
Sometimes we need to
verify with the next steps.
Who do they talk to?
Who is on their email list?
Who do they want to sell to?
16. good content is Emotional
Communal
Interesting
Timely or timeless
Honest
Provocative
17. Number + trigger word + adjective + keyword + promise
Source: Nathalie Nahai, MozCon 2014
18. 13 unbelievable ways you can fry a small egg with a sock
Number + trigger word + adjective + keyword + promise
Useful resource: https://sumome.com/stories/power-words
21. Upworthy has eight rules for writing headlines
You HAVE to write out 25 headlines for every piece of content.
You WILL write some really stinky headlines.
Once you start getting desperate you start thinking outside the box.
So you HAVE TO WRITE 25 HEADLINES.
#24 will suck. Then #25 will be a gift from the headlines gods and will make you a legend.
Accept that not every headline will be perfect.
Then write 25 headlines
With practice, you’ll be writing 25 in 15 minutes. Only then do you have permission to lower your limit.
26. Social Content Guidelines
Write in Google Docs so you can spell check.
Print your work and proof read it with a pen.
You will find more ways to improve this way.
Never link to third party content from a social profile without good reason.
Repurpose content and publish it on the client website
when you find something that is valuable.
When using stock images, use images with people. In the perfect world, the subject of
the photo will be making “eye contact” with the call to action.
If posting links, make sure you use trackable links.
Google UTM tags are ideal and long URLs can be hidden with bit.ly links.
Test your content
29. Be active
There are people behind the profile pictures
Create Serendipity
Background reading: http://bit.ly/create-serendipity
Familiar names and faces create trust
34. Probably not
Facebook
1.79 billion users
Average daily use:
21 minutes
Twitter Reddit
317 million users
Average daily use:
16 minutes
243 million users
Average visit lasts
13 minutes
Instagram
600 million users
Average daily use:
21 minutes
37. What’s this thing we call “social”?
Audience
Know who you are talking to by
using the data available to you.
Content
Create unique and
emotive original content.
Community
Be a team player. Give and
take. Become memorable.
Cross purpose
Never use a piece of content
once forget about it.
Half-life
Put in the effort so your
content doesn’t get lost.