Digital Marketing for Non-Profits: Social Media Best Practices and Tips is a robust workshop designed to help non-profits understand core marketing concepts through social media. Originally presented in partnership with the Johnstown, PA Chamber of Commerce, this presentation includes best practices, examples of non-profits effectively using social media to build brand awareness, and tools for how to manage social media content creation
Digital Marketing for Non-Profits: Social Media Best Practices and Tips
1. Digital Marketing for Non-Profits
Social Media Best Practices and Tips
by Meg Hogan, founder, Stunning Strategy
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2. Hi, I’m Meg Hogan
• Social media strategist and founder of Stunning
Strategy
• 8+ years of marketing experience
• Clients include tech start-ups, e-commerce sites, an
artist and several non-profits
• Temple University alumna and University of
Pittsburgh MBA
• Proud Pitbull mom
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3. Agenda
• Social Media Marketing
• Background information
• Strategy and Implementation – Tips and Tools
• Real Life Example
Break
• Magic numbers and actions
• Best practices for the most popular social media networks
• Ways to Grow Followers and Engagement
• Facebook
• Current state
• Tips for using Facebook for Business
Break
• Demonstration
• 2018 Content Calendar
• Batching Content
5. The First
Rule of
Social Media
Marketing
It’s always
changing.
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6. The Second
Rule of
Social Media
Marketing
It’s
always
changing.
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7. What Social
Media Can Do
▪ Generate leads
▪ Build a community
▪ Increase brand awareness
▪ Engage existing audience
▪ Attract new audiences
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8. What Social
Media Can’t
Do
▪ Drive 100% of traffic to
your website
▪ Only operate on organic
posting
▪ Serve as a megaphone to
get your message out
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10. Exposure
Discovery
Consideration
Engagement
or donation
SEO: link building, keyword targeting
Content: Blog posts, videos, social media posts
Social media engagement and advertising
Press coverage
Influencers
Cross-promotion from partnerships with other companies or publishers
Print materials
Conferences or tradeshows Shared social media post or
page
Your website
Landing pages with non-gated
content and/or email optin
Emails
Retargeted social media and display ads
How to get target audience to be aware of your brand
Inbound Marketing: Where Social Media Fits
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11. Questions to
Ask When
Using Social
Media for
Business
What social media channels does my
target audience use?
What business objectives does my
social media marketing support?
How does my social media marketing
work with the rest of my marketing
efforts?
How do others in my industry use
social media – and what works/does
work for them for engagement?
What’s my budget for social media
advertising and what’s my goal?
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13. Step 1:
Create a
Strategy
Key points to include in your
social media strategy:
Channels you’re using and why
Business objectives the social
media supports
Baseline engagement and
followers
Industry/competitive research
Goals
Core paid campaigns
60% of the most effective B2C marketers have a documented
content strategy
- Content Marketing Institute
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14. Step 2:
Identify
Tools to
Generate/
Schedule
Content
Recommended Tools:
Feedly
Google Alerts
Industry Newsletters
Twitter
Canva
Hootsuite or Buffer
Hundreds of social media tools exist outside of the native platforms.
Keep a running list of your favorite and go-to tools. This makes it easy for you
to find them and when you’re onboarding a new hire, agency or intern.
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15. Sample
Use Name Website
Find Hashtags Rite Tag https://ritetag.com/
Find Hashtags Trends Map http://trendsmap.com/
Find Hashtags What the Trend http://whatthetrend.com/
Find Hashtags Hashtagify http://hashtagify.me/
Identify Influencers Klout https://klout.com/
Identify Influencers BuzzSumo http://buzzsumo.com/
Identify Influencers Moz https://moz.com/followerwonk/
Identify Influencers Twello https://www.twellow.com/splash/
Find 3rd-party news/content Feedly http://feedly.com/
Manage Twitter Followers Manage Flitter https://manageflitter.com/
Email newsletter service Charley https://charley.io/
Email newsletter service Mail Chimp http://mailchimp.com/
Social media automation Hootsuite https://hootsuite.com/
Social media automation -
Pinterest Tailwind https://www.tailwindapp.com/dashboard/publisher/queue/posts/drafts
Royalty Free Images Zoommy http://zoommyapp.com/?ref=producthunt
Royalty Free Images Pixabay https://pixabay.com/
Royalty Free Images Pexels https://www.pexels.com/
Basic graphic design Adobe Spark https://spark.adobe.com
Basic graphic design Canva https://www.canva.com/
Press Release Distribution PR.com
Press Release Distribution PRLog.org
Press Release Distribution pr-inside.com
Press Release Distribution onlineprnews.com
Press Release Distribution pressreleaseping.com
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16. Step 3:
Get
Organized
Find or create templates for:
Quarterly or annual calendar
Daily posts
Outreach tracking – PR and/or
influencer
Hashtag research
Top performing posts
Bottom performing posts
Reporting
Excel and Google Sheets are excellent tools because of the ability
to count characters.
Word or Google Docs can work, too.
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17. Month Event
May
5/14 – Mother’s Day; 5/29– Memorial Day
June
6/18 – Father’s Day; 6/21 – First day of summer
July
7/4 – 4th of July
August
September
9/4 – Labor Day; 9/22 – First day of fall
October
10/9 – Columbus Day; 10/31 - Halloween
November
11/11 – Veterans Day; 11/23 – Thanksgiving
December
12/13 – First day of Hanukkah; 12/21 – First day of winter; 12/25 –
Christmas; 12/31 – New Year’s Eve
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Sample
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18. Day
of
week Date Channel Charac. Content Photo?
Link to SS
Website/C
ontent?
Sat. 4/8
LinkedIn 170
Excellent write-up from about the disconnect between sales and marketing, how
tech can fix that, and what businesses stand to lose if they don't.
http://ow.ly/8rYe30apAFk
Twitter 111
Excellent write-up from @ValaAfshar about the disconnect between sales and
#marketing. http://ow.ly/8rYe30apAFk
Twitter 83
#Socialmedia is essential for all #businesses. Here's why.
http://ow.ly/Q3g830apAKJ
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office-hero-
7065.jpg Y
Google+ 83
#Socialmedia is essential for all #businesses. Here's why.
http://ow.ly/Q3g830apAKJ
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office-hero-
7065.jpg Y
Sun. 4/9
Twitter 98
#Marketing #news: What's the biggest problem with #data-driven marketing?
http://ow.ly/q4Pa30apANJ
Twitter 55Quantifying a happy #customer. http://ow.ly/dkZc30apAOF
Twitter 95
"On #SocialMedia And IRL, The #Customer Is First," via @WomenatForbes.
http://ow.ly/rxOt30apAPI
Twitter 118
Organic #Facebook reach is down for businesses. Way down. Here's how to adjust
your approach. http://ow.ly/NhS930apAQL
Google+ 95
"On #SocialMedia And IRL, The #Customer Is First," via @WomenatForbes.
http://ow.ly/rxOt30apAPI
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Sample
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19. Step 4:
Create a
Schedule
Items to Include in Your
Schedule:
Content creation
Outreach – PR and/or
influencer
Engagement
Reporting
Industry research
Planning to generate and monitor your social media content saves you time.
It also allows your brand to be present and active on social media when your
followers are – and allows you to assume your other responsibilities at the same
time.
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20. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
1. Content
upload/schedul
ing
2. Social media
content
creation
(weekly):
Facebook,
Twitter,
Pinterest,
Instagram
3. Engagement
1. Influencer
or
partnership
outreach OR
press pitch
2. Engagement
1. Engagement
2. Industry
research
1. Engagement 1. Reporting –
what’s working?
What’s not?
Native
platforms and
Google Analytics
2. Engagement
6-8 hours 1-2 hours 1-2 hours 1 hour 2-3 hours
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Sample
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21. Step 5:
Refine
Keep track of what content your
audience is responding to – and what
they’re not.
Which social media post gained
the highest engagement – clicking,
sharing, liking or ♥ing? The lowest?
Which channel referred the most
traffic to your website or blog? The
least?
Did one 3rd party source
outperform the others in
engagement?
Adjust your content to reflect what your customers – and potential
customers – want.
Over time you’ll identify trends and topics for your social media and larger
content marketing strategy.
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38. EngagementFollowers
▪ Strategic following/unfollowing of
other accounts
▪ Valuable content resulting in
organic sharing
▪ Using organic hashtags
▪ Tagging other pages/accounts
▪ Sharing content from other
pages/accounts
▪ Participating in discussions
▪ Paid
▪ Respond to everything
▪ Using organic hashtags
▪ Sharing content from
other pages/accounts
▪ Refining sources, themes,
topics of your content
based on web and social
media data
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41. Facebook
Facts:
• 79% of people online in
the US have a
Facebook account
• Facebook page reviews
show in Google search
results
• Organic reach of posts:
~2-4% (depending on
number of followers,
type of content)
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42. Facebook Don’tsFacebook Dos
▪ Post consistently
▪ Post a variety of content
▪ Document your social media
strategy
▪ Find a way to engage your
followers
▪ Stay committed to using social
media the way it’s designed
▪ Boost posts that perform well
organically
▪ A/B test your advertising
▪ Target your advertising
▪ Don’t only promote your
own business
▪ Don’t forget to check your
social media
▪ Don’t go silent
▪ Don’t post in all caps.
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43. Optimize your
organization’s
Facebook Page
Fill out or set-up these portions of your
Facebook page so it’s easy for your
customers or leads to navigate:
Contact information
Help/Auto-response
Hours of operation
Category
Reviews
About
Profile image
Header image
Your Facebook page should act as a secondary homepage for your
organization. Make sure it is consistent with your website.
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44. Recap
1. Ask yourself why you’re
using each channel and
how it helps you reach
your customer
2. Follow best practices and
monitor what type of
content your audience
responds to best
3. Plan for engagement and
growth
4. Optimize your Facebook
page
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