1. 5 key distinctions
to guide your
social media efforts
16 May 2013
Toronto Board of Trade
2. 5 key distinctions
• Tactics vs. Strategy
• Paid vs. Owned vs. Earned Media
• Creating vs. Curating Content
• Personal vs. Professional Brand
• Giving vs. Getting
3. Social media without a strategy
is like having a map and
compass but no destination.
4.
5. People don’t buy what you do,
they buy why you do it.
~ Simon Sinek
Why
How
What
6. 5 key distinctions
• Tactics vs. Strategy
• Paid vs. Owned vs. Earned Media
• Creating vs. Curating Content
• Personal vs. Professional Brand
• Giving vs. Getting
10. The long tail
• Content drives traffic
• Traffic accumulates over time
• Head equals long tail
3 days 3 years
11. 5 key distinctions
• Tactics vs. Strategy
• Paid vs. Owned vs. Earned Media
• Creating vs. Curating Content
• Personal vs. Professional Brand
• Giving vs. Getting
12. We are all publishers
• We have new competitors –!the financial
media are competing with us for the
attention of our market.
• We must adapt our marketing – mass
media strategies produce diminishing
returns.
• We must become creators and curators of
GREAT content.
13. Samples of great content
marketing in financial services
Amex OPEN Forum
Sun Life’s Brighter Life
14. • Discover, add context and
share
• Be a reporter
• Create signal among the
noise in a crowded
information landscape
Curate remarkable content
to build your brand
15. 5 key distinctions
• Tactics vs. Strategy
• Paid vs. Owned vs. Earned Media
• Creating vs. Curating Content
• Personal vs. Professional Brand
• Giving vs. Getting
17. Personal brand is what
people say about you
when you leave the room.
– Jeff Bezos, Founder, Amazon.com
In other words, what you tell people
about your brand matters less than
what they tell each other.
18. 5 key distinctions
• Tactics vs. Strategy
• Paid vs. Owned vs. Earned Media
• Creating vs. Curating Content
• Personal vs. Professional Brand
• Giving vs. Getting
20. Social media ROI
• Must take a long-term view
• Measure returns in terms of reputation,
brand, retention, share of wallet AND new
business
• Focus on what you’re GIVING to social, not
only what you’re GETTING out of it
21. The 5 key distinctions...
• Tactics vs. Strategy
• Paid vs. Owned vs. Earned Media
• Creation vs. Curation Content
• Personal vs. Professional Brand
• Giving vs. Getting
22. ...are tied to
5 key take-aways
• Develop your strategy
• Build social capital
• Create and curate remarkable content
• Weave personality into your brand
• Focus on giving, not just getting
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