Your small business' social media strategy - PowerPoint presentation
1.
2. What is this Social Media thing
all about?
• Traditional marketing
It‟s not… • Nor classic advertising
• neither just a Facebook profile
• An integration of messages with
It is technologies, images, video, audio…
• Conversations that are joined by
more and more people every day
Social Interactions Consumer driven
Listening
Engagement
3. Conversations are easy and very usual…
Why then Social Media is this hard?
Too many
channels
Very
little
Thousands of
time More and
more people
conversations
joining
4. Why Social Media works?
Human being is social
We love telling others, sharing contents, ideas
We tend to like what our friends like
LIKE
And will want to share it with
other friends
Multiple interactions are just a matter of time
5. What conversations and Social Networks
to join?.... What channels to use?
Each company should have its own social
media campaign
6.
7. Key objectives and strategy
Keeping customers
Increase website traffic and engaged with content and
keep customers returning linking to your website
Giving them the chance to
discover, engage and share
Drive sales and encourage How? content around your SMB
social recommendations
Bringing your SMB closer to
customers
Raise awareness around
your SMB‟s website and Rewarding customer loyalty
products with promotions
8. How can we drive loyalty within the target
audience?
News/updates
activity
News/updates Promotions
activity
Launch
Promotions
The key is on an „always on‟ strategy where continuous
engagement through regular content, promotions and
conversation will drive interest and loyalty.
9. Are other similar businesses
on Social Media yet?
Active Twitter
brand Page
Mobile
application
Active
Facebook
Fan page
10. Blog and
Forum
Active Twitter
brand page
Active
Facebook
Fan page
Social Media will give your SMB the opportunity
to reach all these online markets
11. Who is your truly Where is your
Potential Audience? Potential Audience?
57% Female
Twitter
65% 25-44 years old
64% Some college
YouTube
education
But we can‟t
High incomes* forget about
Facebook
HIM
Blogs
Or about
HER
Photo Sharing applications
* Google Ad Planner data * Social Mention data
Your Small Business will join these online conversations
with its own personality and tone of voice
12. Content strategy
Before entering social media, it‟s important to define what the voice of
your Small Business will be and what content and messaging we want
to relay to the audience. All this can be simplified in 3 key themes or
content pillars (these are just an example)
Creativity Inspiration High quality
The capacity of Related to the
creating something previous Both, Creativity and
new and valuable or content, your Inspiration will be
an unique idea. As community will improved with a
artists or art look forward to high quality feel to
lovers, most of the some inspiration, a be spread through
community will sudden creative
require this the campaign.
burst that could let artworkme is high
sentiment coming them show up their
from artworkme artistic genius quality itself
13. Social activation
Once we‟ve defined the content to communicate, we have to determine
how to communicate it and where, according to our previous research.
The campaign will be focused on two different pillars
A. Your community
Social Networks
B. Amplification
Influencer Blogs & Advocates
They will help us out to spread the word, so their role and value for us is
crucial. As opposed to Your Community, there will be no brand control over
the post‟s content though
14. Your community
Spread the word
Your SMB just joined Social Media!
Every time a campaign is launched, it can be cross promoted
through all channels (old and new)
Your SMB Website / Blog
Customer Own social
Newsletters Promotions platforms
Top 3 Blogs
Social & PPC Ads promotional
posts
15. Your community
Spread the word
Your SMB Among
Newsletters
Web / Blog channels
Blog post released for Restricted use. Cross social
every campaign we Newsletters are promotions among
launch needed and we‟ll use platforms is essential.
them but we can‟t let
Button / link to that What happens on
fans think it is spam.
campaign, to allow Facebook will be
Only 2-3 newsletters
readers to easily tweeted and pictures
in 6 months.
participate shared on Instagram.
Top 3 Key
Social & PPC Ads
Influencer Blogs
Perfect way to
.
advertise your fan • For biggest campaigns
page and website we‟ll try to agree 2 or 3
paid guest posts on the
You‟ll only pay for
most influencer blogs and
every potential fan
also work with advocates.
and customer actually
clicking on the advert.
16. Amplification
Influential blogger strategy
All bloggers, either professionals or amateurs, often write about brands. Their opinion
is heard by quite a lot. Their increasing online influence makes a good relationship
with them decisive for brand marketers.
Blog outreach currently is really important for brand exposure.
• Once a month, a KI blogger will review an
Reviews artworkme product. Post will be also launched
on Facebook and Twitter
Blog • An offline event with KI bloggers will
ostensibly increase the possibility to succeed
event
• One event with 10 bloggers by the end of the
current social media campaign
19. Measuring progress
Having metrics to guide you and measure progress against is very important for
success. Measuring how many people are visiting your site is the most common way to
know if your social media campaign is working, but that‟s only one portion of the
metrics pie
Visitors: how
many + How often What
Website where are they visit browsers they Mobile reporting
they coming your website use
from
Tracking
Tracking
Follower + comments, mentions
Engagement brand
fans growth and “people talking
sentiment
about it”
Tracking the
Tracking social media Tacking traffic coming from every
potential
R.O.I. ROI via Google activity of your social media
future
Analytics campaign
customers
A complete custom report after every social
action
20. Social Media is not unidirectional. It‟s not
advertising
Social Media works, but it‟s not for free. Your SMB
will have to be ready for the time of your CM, social
ads, promotions, vouchers or contest prizes
Bear
in mind Social Media must be coherent with website and
brand. Coordination between your SMB and your
online marketing consultant
Social Media is a matter of TIME. Time to keep
everything updated and time to wait for results
If you follow the rules, you‟ll see satisfying
results coming from your social media activity
Notas do Editor
A Social Media campaign is really hard to manage and require a lot of time, including weekends and bank holidays. That is why most of the companies choose hiring a Community Manager or a Social Media Agency, and spend their time on the business itself
Similar campaigns around the World have worked very successfully. It is proved Social Media drives sales and eventually impacts on R.O.I. Please, have the budget with you while explaining, as artwork me will be able to choose what activity to develop and what doesn’t, depending on the budget they want to plan for Social Media. *** IMPORTANT: The more promotions and activities, the more chances to bigger success
**** IMPORTANT: The secret of Social Media is that it’s not about you, your product or your story. It’s about creating value for the communities that happen to include you. If you want to make a positive impact, forget about what you can get from Social Media and start thinking about what you can contribute. The more value you create for the community, the more value they’ll create for you.
Make the website social is very important for success. That means we’ll have to add all ways to access from the website to all platforms.Email Newsletters are the most traditional way to promote actions in Social Media, although this must be done taking into account we are not sending through spam. Emails will only contain the information about Artwork.me new social activity, as long as it’s relevant for existing customers. Pay Per Click Facebook Ads: As not many people know about this ad system, I’ll get ready an Ad strategy once Artwork.me agree the whole strategy. You can see those ads up on the right on your personal profile. Ads are designed to reach a real huge amount of people, specially because of the “your… friend liked this” that is incorporated at the bottom of the ad. Price is quite low as you get a 40% discount if linking to your Facebook Fan Page (between 0.10 and 0.20 $ per click) and Artwork.me will be able to set a maximum budget a day (£5, for example). My advice is keeping it at least for 4 months.We’ll finally try to agree 2 or 3 guest posts on the best and most influencers photo / art blogs. Please, take into account this is a paid advertising. Profits from this action can be really huge.
“KI” means “Key Influencer”: +5000 unique visitors (UK), +500 fans on Facebook, +100 followers on TwitterPlease, notice that Artwork.me won’t have any control over bloggers, that means we have to put much more attention on a daily relationship with them.
Once we know who our target is and have well defined our content, then will launch the campaign, starting with Twitter and Instagram. Promotions will follow the creation – through Emailed Newsletters + Socializing Artwork me websites. After two months we’ll be ready to launch Facebook, once we have a few followers on the other two Social Networks. Promotions will follow - Emailed newsletter + Socializing own website + among platforms + Paid guest posts on top blogs + Starting Facebook PPC adsBy the fourth month of the campaign, we’ll organize the Event for Bloggers: “Live Art”. Previously, the route must have been chosen and owner must be ready for what bloggers will probably ask. Promotions will follow - Socializing own website + among platforms Along the whole campaign, we’ll be dealing with better bloggers one product review per month, to be RT and shared on Facebook. That will give Artwork.me much more public exposure.
To measure R.O.I we’ll have to add a question to the online purchase application: Where did you hear about us? : Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, website, photo blog, other.It’s very important to take into account that Social Media Marketing does not offer immediate results. It’s a way to engage customers, that is: when some of the fans / followers think about printing a picture with Canvas system, he/she will immediately think of Artwork MeIt’s proven that brands get the best result one year after the launch of social media campaigns, if they are consistent and don’t give up.
They have to be convinced the investment on Social Media is really worth it. It’s not as high as conventional or traditional advertising and gets much better results. If they don’t get in Social Media at this stage, they’ll could start missing more and more customers, and eventually disappear on the online cloud. Mark Zukherberg, Facebook foundator, said he won’t give up until every company, every small business is on Social MediaEvery day new trends come up. Brands have to play under the marketing rules if they want to keep growing, specially now that S.E.O is changing due to new algorithms on Google Search.