2. Overview
• Introduction to each of the key platforms
• Case studies and examples of platforms being
used
• Live demonstration of each platform
• Review
• Q & A
11. • Internet users spend 9.9 percent of their time perusing
Facebook compared to 9.6 for Google Sites (YouTube,
Gmail, Search, Etc..)
• In 2009 Facebook accounted for less than five percent of
overall time spent online in the U.S., and today it
accounts for 10 percent
12. Facebook Behavioural Figures
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month posting,
sharing, Liking, commenting, poking, playing games, and
interacting
• The average user is connected to 80 community/Business pages,
groups and events and creates 90 pieces of content (social
objects) each month
• More than 30 billion social objects (web links, news stories, blog
posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) are shared each month.
• 150 million people access Facebook Mobile actively and they’re
twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
13. Facebook Stats (Sheryl Sandberg)
• Everyday 15M people friend each other
• Every day 50M pages are liked by fans
• Any given day possible reach 250M people globally – US 60M
(twice Audience American Idol)
• Ads with friends name – (Friend Endorsed Ad)
– 68% more people likely to remember Ad
– Ads – 100% more people likely to remember Ad message
– Ads – 300% more likely to purchase
• Nike Ad – Write the Future
– 2.5 Billion Impressions 1 day - 3M Liked Nike Football
– 3 minute video played 6.4 million
– 169 Million organic impressions (Friends telling Friends)
– 38% remembered the Ad – 52% unaided brand recall
14. Affect of Likes
• 43% of Facebook users surveyed said they Like, or are
fans of, at least one brand.
• 34% of Facebook users say they Like brands in order to
stay informed about company activities
• 33% say they Like brands to get updates on future
products
• But - Facebook users who Like at least one brand, only
17% say they’re more likely to buy after Liking that
brand on Facebook.
(Foresee Research 2010)
15. Top Brands Facebook
• 1. Starbucks – 16 million
• 2. Coca-Cola – 15 million
• 3. Oreo – 12 million
• 4. Skittles – 11.5 million
• 5. Red Bull – 10.2 million
• 6. Victoria’s Secret – 8.4 million
• 7. Disney – 8.3 million
• 8. Converse All Star – 7.3 million
• 9. iTunes – 7 million
• 10. Windows Live Messenger – 6.8 million
16. Top 15 Facebook Countries by Users
• 1. US– 125,881,220
• 2. UK – 26,543,600
• 3. Indonesia – 25,912,960
• 4. Turkey – 22,552,540
• 5. France – 18,942,220
• 6. Italy – 16,647,260
• 7. Canada – 15,497,900
8. Philippines – 15,284,460
9. Mexico – 12,978,440
10. Spain – 10,612,820
11. India – 10,547,240
12. Argentina – 10,452,040
13. Columbia – 10,226,920
14. Germany – 9,948,700
15. Australia – 9,151,280
Ireland – 1,700,000
27. Twitter
• Excellent B2B and B2C networking tool
• Great potential for building relationships
– Directly with customers
– Good examples Beaut.ie, Blacknight.ie, kogibbq
• Good listening tool
– What is being said about you and most importantly are you hearing
it?
• Easy to engage with customers
– Reach out to them and resolve issues and improve service to them
– Opportunity to convey a personal dimension rather than marketing
speak
• Has become mainstream over 2009/2010
– 1400% growth over past 12 months
36. Blogging
• Effective way of building community and improving SEO
• Common Blogging Platforms
– WordPress, Type Pad, Bloggers, Blogspot
• Excellent way of engaging with readers
– Inform followers what is of interest to you
• Can use an informal style
– Show human face of organisation
• Participate in wider conversations
– Leave comments, interact, generate interest, etc..
• Search Engines
– Love regularly updated content
• Now MNCs are encouraging employees to Blog and engage
with social media
– IBM, Dell, Intel and Cisco
39. Blogging Tips
• Connect to your most important keywords.
– Important for Search Engine Optimisation
• Grow the number of influential referral sites.
– Critical to get authoritative inbound links to your site
• Don’t forget the outbound links.
– Be generous with links to other blogs and websites and others will return the favor
and build your traffic for you.
• Understand the location of your audience.
– Comparing the geographical distribution of your blog to your company’s website
should give you a sense of whether your blog is hitting with the same areas of the
world as your website. It could also reveal potential new areas of focus for your
salespeople.
• Measure endurance.
– Measure return visitor and length of time spent on site
40. Blogging Tips cont.
• Find and nurture your VIPs.
– Make sure you respond to key people – thos who subsribe and comment
• Use Twitter for blog PR.
– If Twitter isn’t one of your highest-ranking referral sites, you’re not using it
properly.
• Use URL shorteners to gauge subject interest.
– UseURL shortener like bit.ly within a Tweet, you can track how many people click
on the content link you offer in your tweets.
• Build cross-referencing across social media tools.
– No social media tool is an island. All tools should cross-reference each other – don’t
necessarily re-publish the same content on each platform
• Embed and measure calls to action. If we can get people to a landing page, we should.
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46. Video Sites
• Very useful marketing tool
– Old Spice, Tippex, Blendtec etc..
– User-generated content
• Run competitions for customers to build content (see Pat The
Baker example)
• Best Job in the World etc..
• Extending digital footprint and brand-building
purposes
– Create engaging content, tag videos with keywords and
distribute on a wide network
– Post all content and video blogs on your website and
distribute on free video sharing sites