Using Social Media at Religious Events & Conferences

SOCIAL MEDIA
And Creating a more Engaging Conference
Experience

by Pat Padley
@ppadley
www.PatrickPadley.com

TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
• Educate and provide perspective.

• Help you understand how your digital marketing
efforts can help enhance your conference
experience–before, during and after.

• Provide you with specific ideas, actionable tips and
techniques, that you can go do.

@ppadley
www.patrickpadley.com

PAT PADLEY
• Social Media & Web Strategist at Digital Evolution Group

• Leads/executed/advised social media engagement efforts
for Rockport, Lee Jeans, Timberland, Hallmark and
Bushnell.

• An AAFKC council member (KC Ad Club) and on the board
of SQPN.com – a non-profit Christian media network.

ABOUT DEG

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WHY DIGITAL?
• By 2016, advertisers will spend as much on interactive
marketing as they do on television advertising today.

• Marketing investment in
search, display, email, mobile, and social media will
near $77 billion and represent 35% of all advertising.

- Forrester US Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2011 to 2016

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"Your website isn't a
destination. Get over
yourself."

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58% CHECK EMAIL FIRST

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YOUTUBE IS #2
• YouTube is now the second most used search
engine in the world.
- Comscore 2010 report

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800+ MILLION …active users on Facebook.

• More than 50% of its active users log on to
Facebook every day.

• The average user has 130 friends.

• More than 360 million active users access
Facebook through their mobile devices.
www.facebook.com/press

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250 MILLION …tweets per day.

• Every day, the world writes the equivalent of a 10
million-page book in Tweets or 8,163 copies of Leo
Tolstoy‟s War and Peace.

http://blog.twitter.com

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YOUR WEBSITE isn’t a destination.

• It is not enough.

• A website is one component of a larger online
strategy.

• You must have “outposts” for discovery.

• All roads should lead back to your website(s).

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Is social media the
answer?

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SOCIAL MEDIA isn’t replacing anything.

• Social is not a strategy.

• It‟s one part of the spectrum of digital
communication.

• It should be “with” not “instead of”.

• Can extend and facilitate and …but it does not
replace.

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DIGITAL STRATEGY you need one.
All the digital channels should support each other:
• Website
• Email
• Search
• Social (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
• Mobile

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STRATEGY What do you want to accomplish?

• Lead with objectives, not the technology.

• Business outcomes?
– website traffic
– awareness
– increase in conference registrations
– sales/online commerce
– retention
– thought-leadership / innovation

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A Case Study

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25,000+ Youth
5,000+ Adults

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People come, enjoy the
conference, and leave.

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OBJECTIVE A Better Conference Experience

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STRATEGY Sustained Engagement Efforts

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PREPARE Before the Conference

• Created a home base.
• Shareable content
– Outreach program
– Conference goers = content producers
• Awareness efforts
– Social Pages & dedicated content
– Video Contest
• Acquisition (email & mobile)

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DEEPEN During the Conference

• Pushed live updates through mobile
– Exclusives (prizes, experiences, etc.)

• Made good use of the #NCYC Twitter hashtag

• Created a local advocacy team
– Flash mob

• Included the folks at home with streaming
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SUSTAIN After the Conference

• This is the hardest part.

• Stay in the newsfeed with relevant content
– Prep for next NCYC

• Make it easy to share stories & connect

• Re-engage with dedicated email campaigns

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KEY LEARNINGS
• Start planning early.
– What are your objectives

• Know your audience.

• Make all content relevant & easy to share.
– Ex. “How to get around at Sundance”

• You can‟t rely solely on one specific channel.

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Social + Integrated
Digital Strategy = the
Right Mix

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EMAIL
• Integrate email + social media to increase
customization and relevancy (e.g. Facebook email
sign-up forms).

• Email ROI in 2011 will be $40.56. Email is
expected to drive $63.1 billion in sales in 2011.
(DMA, 2011)

• Compare to telemarketing with 4.41%, catalogs
with 3.95% and direct mail with 3.65% (DMA‟s
Response Rate Report, 2009)
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EMAIL TACTICS
• “Value Add”
– objective, educational information

• 1-click sign-up field on every page of your website.

• Prominent „Share with a Friend‟ buttons.

• Optimize email for mobile.

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EMAIL TACTICS
Paid
Facebook Search
Sign-Up Copy
Sweepstakes Email
or Promotions Append

Online Co- Lead
Registration Generation

Post-
Event
purchase
Collection
acquisition

Refine Email
Call
website List Centers
Collection
Growth
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SEARCH
• Pay Per Click

• Search Engine Optimization
– PPC vs. SEO (“pay” vs. “pray”)

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Paid Listings

Organic Search

FACEBOOK TACTICS
• The average Facebook page reaches less than 8%
of their fans daily.

• Most fans interact with your page in the “feed”

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FACEBOOK TACTICS
Facebook
Engagement
Facebook ADS Intranet / Out
Collect of Office

Dedicated
Sweepstakes or
Promotions Email
Campaigns

Traditional
Ecommerce
Media URL References
references

Facebook
“Give to Get” Event
Contesting “Like” Sign-Ups
Growth

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FACEBOOK TACTICS
• Take advantage of your profile photo.
– 180px wide by 540px high

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FACEBOOK TACTICS
• Using the @ symbol
to tag people, events or
other Facebook
pages.

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FACEBOOK TACTICS

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4:1 RULE
It‟s not about you.

“If you build it, they won‟t come.”

Follow the 4:1 Rule

For every ONE social object (piece of content) that is
about you, there needs to be FOUR social objects that are:

• informative
• inspirational
• entertaining
• engaging
• re(marketable)
• promote others

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TWITTER
“No one reads all your Tweets. Get over
yourself.”

– Twitter is like gigantic gushing stream or river of many things…

– Your followers will not see everything you post. The more you
Tweet, your chance of being “noticed” in the huge river of Tweets
increases.

– @replies are the “email” of Twitter

– Time of day DOES matter.

– Use scheduling tools if you can.
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TWITTER
• Stop talking about yourself.

• Link your author names and Twitter handles

• Search for and use conference/local #hashtags

• Respond to check-ins

• Share the love >> ReTweet

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LOCATION

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YOUTUBE
• YouTube mobile streaming has over 200 million hits/videos
uploaded daily

• Use video as a gateway, provide additional information not
in the video.
– “For more information…”
– “Behind the scenes”
– Teasers, “What‟s your favorite part?”
– Link them somewhere!

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YOUTUBE
• Within the description
of each video on YouTube
place links back to
your website for more
Details.

• Use tags

• YouTube =
authoritative link-back

WHY MOBILE
• The number of US consumers using mobile devices
to access the web grew to more than 116 million
since 2009.

• 68% of Americans text message – across all
demographics

- CTIA

WHY MOBILE
• Mobile devices are accessible to consumers of all
income levels ($30 mobile phone vs. $1500 laptop)

• Smart phones make the Web available
everywhere, and anytime

• Think “mobile first”

• Mobile is location-aware almost 100% of the time

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MOBILE
• Mobile apps vs. Mobile Web

HOW TO GET IT DONE
• Use internal resources

• Utilize outside resources for guidance, education &
thought leadership
– Teaching you how to fish

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FIND THE RIGHT MIX

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DIGITAL STRATEGY & why you need one.

Questions?
Pat Padley
padleyp@digitalev.com
@ppadley
www.PatrickPadley.com

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