1. Social Media –
Fun and Games or
Powerful Business Tool?
-Tom Snyder,
President and CEO Trivera Interactive
2. The Good Old Days
Life for businesses/brands was easier
Old marketing rules applied to allow you to
maintain some control of your brand
Well-established rules for:
Traditional Media (Radio, TV, Print)
Direct Mail
Trade Shows
Email marketing
Web
3. Today?
Life for businesses much harder:
Markets are more fragmented
Exponentially greater number of media choices
New marketing rules apply:
You have totally lost control of your brand
because of...
4. Web2.0, or Social Media
Has transformed people from
content consumers into content creators
Is rooted in conversations between
authors, people, and peers
Switches control of your brand message from a top
down to a bottom up and a side-to-side model
Whether you like it, understand it or use it yourself,
your business/brand is already participating in it!
5. Web2.0
Bad News:
Social Media has transferred the control of your brand
from you to the marketplace like never before
Good News:
Social media provides you with a powerful opportunity
to communicate and transact
with the marketplace like never before
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7. Web2.0 Facts
•Social networking is now more popular than email.
66.8% of Internet users have used social networks,
while only 65.1% have used email.
•Facebook has grown from 100 million to 200 million users
in the last year.
•YouTube will serve 75 billion video streams to 375 million
unique visitors in 2009.
•Twitter has 18 million unique monthly visitors. At this
rate, it will have nearly 100 million visitors at the same
time next year. 43% of “actives” say they can’t live
without it!
11. It’s all just fun and games
until someone...
…figures out to use it
to make money!
12. “Who cares what I had for
breakfast?”
Kellogg’s, Post, Quaker Oats, Kashi
Folgers, Maxwell House, Starbucks
Carnation, International Delight
Krups, Bunn, Mr. Coffee
McDonald’s, Denny’s, Perkins, IHOP
13. “Tactics without strategy is
the noise before defeat…
Strategy without tactics is
the slowest route to victory.”
-Sun Tzu
14. •Set your Goals
•Identify your Target
•Choose your Tools
•Craft your Voice
•Define your Roles
•Commit to Consistency
•Measure and Improve Success
Elements of a Successful Strategy:
16. • Gather Followers/Fans – Follow and Invite
• Be Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind…
• Avoid Religious, Profane or Political Controversy
• Re-Tweet, Refer and Recommend
• Focus on your Story, not features, advantages
or benefits
• Be Real, Be Transparent and Have Fun!
Position
26. Brands on Twitter
Cars
•Chevrolet
•Ford
•General Motors
•Honda
Travel
•Jet Blue
•Southwest Airlines
•Luxor Las Vegas
•Carnival Cruise Lines
•Hertz
•Marriott Hotels & Resorts
Finance
•Wachovia
•H&R Block
•Intuit
Entertainment
•The Travel Channel
•Comcast
•Marvel Entertainment
•DIRECTV
•PopCap
•TV Guide
•Oprah
Retail
•Best Buy
•Blinds.com
•The Home Depot
•American Apparel
•Rubbermaid
•Whole Foods
•Zappos.com
Sports Teams
•Chicago Bulls
•Detroit Pistons
•Portland Trail Blazers
•San Diego Chargers
Food and Beverage
•Starbucks
•Burger King
•Dunkin’ Donuts
•Popeyes Chicken
More Big Brands
•Dell
•EMC
•Kodak
•Network Solutions
27.
28. Brands on Facebook
Acura
Acuvue
Airplay
Apple
AT&T
Avon
Bank of America
Big Rock Brewery
Bigelow Tea
BMW
Bon Appétit
Borax
Coca-Cola
Crest
Delta Air Lines:
Electronic Arts
EMC
Ernst & Young
Fandango
Ford
Forrester Research
Gourmet Magazine
H&R Block
HSBC.
Ikea
Intel
Intuit
JCPenney
Jeep
Jobster
Johnson & Johnson
KFC
Kodak
Kraft
Kryptonite
Lucky Magazine
Mayo Clinic
McDonald’s
Microsoft
Miller Brewing
Molson
National Geographic
Nokia
Paramount Pictures
Pizza Hut
PUMA
Reebok Rubbermaid
Samsung
Silk Soy Milk
Skittles
StubHub
Taco Bell
Target
Timberland
Victoria's Secret
Visa
Wal-Mart
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34. • Don’t totally give up on Old Media
• Make sure you’re doing your Web1.0 right
• Strategy First, Then Tactics
• Give them something to Tweet about
• You don’t have to know it all, or do it all!
Final Thoughts
36. Tom Snyder
President and CEO
tom@trivera.com
@triveraguy on Twitter
262-250-9400
Trivera Interactive
W177 N9856 Rivercrest Dr
Germantown, WI 53022
Editor's Notes
Easy to be overwhelmed. But strategy is important. That’s what we do first. But in our short time, I can give you an understanding of some of the advice and guidelines we give our clients once we’ve decided which Social Media tools to use.
Here’s how I position my combination personal/corporate brand on Twitter and link to my blog (driving traffic to my site)
Not all just about Tweeting and Gathering Followers. Here’s how a multitude of Companies are using Social Media.
Nothing like an unanticipated, caring representative. Belling “nobody at Home Depot cares about me.” Wrong!
All other things being equal, people do business with people they like. Examples: Blinds.com, and Me.
Trickiest of the tactics. In social media, you need to earn the right to use it to market. SM has Spammers. Don’t be one.
All help in participating in the conversations, building brand and brand loyalty. Also help in SEO. Also are low cost, but do require a time investment.
All help in participating in the conversations, building brand and brand loyalty. Also help in SEO. Also are low cost, but do require a time investment.
All help in participating in the conversations, building brand and brand loyalty. Also help in SEO. Also are low cost, but do require a time investment.
All help in participating in the conversations, building brand and brand loyalty. Also help in SEO. Also are low cost, but do require a time investment.
All help in participating in the conversations, building brand and brand loyalty. Also help in SEO. Also are low cost, but do require a time investment.
All help in participating in the conversations, building brand and brand loyalty. Also help in SEO. Also are low cost, but do require a time investment.
Where does the money get spent. We can create a strategy, make recommendations, take care of the techncial and design components, train your SM team to execute the tactics for what many businesses spend in a month on Print. And if you’re short of time, we can execute your tactics for you for a year on what some spend in a month for Radio and TV.
Social media will continue to grow. The economy will recover. Get it right now, and you’ll ride wave that will pay off in spades with a headstart over the skeptics and larger share of the bigger market.