3. THE BRIEF
What Medina Apartment Hotels were looking for:
• A way to start in Social Media that was cost effective and would lead to long
term engagement
• Increase brand awareness Medina’s target audience in the leisure sector
• Measureable success
4. BEFORE WE BEGIN
Understand theroleof Social Mediain your organisation.
Social Mediaisamarketing function, however traditional
marketing principlescannot beapplied.
What weknow:
•Treat it likeany Strategy, start with your end goal in mind
•Content isKing
•Creativity isKey
5. A New Community
Identify an audience
Find their platform
Start initiative
MumSpace
• 4,412 total fans
• 2,500 monthly active users
• 1,000+ interactions each month
• 400 page views every day
6. THE IDEA
“MumSpace”
A fun, honest and fun community that lets Mums share tips and funny
stories.
MumSpace is a place to share, purge, rant and chat
www.facebook.com/MumSpace
7. THE GAME PLAN
Now weneed to:
1. Set expectations
2. Branding
3. Current
4. Relevant
5. Engaging
6. Sustainable
7. Authentic
8. Participate
9. EnablePeer to Peer Conversations
10. Advocacy (theholy grail)
8. THE CAMPAIGN - TACTICS
• Social Media Facebook used to start the conversation with mums
• Media Announcement Releases to travel industry, trade and consumer titles
• Promotions & Deals Launched through MumSpace, leading consumer
magazines, websites and blogs
• Partnership PR Work with Luckiest Productions for tour and promotion
partnership
•Facebook Advertising Build your audience
19. RESULTS: Business Growth, Development + Profit
• Increased traffic to the Medina website,13% of page views now come through
Facebook
• Direct hotel reservations
• Over 25 pieces of press coverage in consumer and trade press
• Medina has an engaged audience for all future activity