3. Key
Learnings
Key elements of a social media strategy
Learn how to improve your social media
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Social Media Management and Risk
30. Engage with
customers
“Communicate changes to
benefits and highlight advice”
“Interacting with the public”
“Continual increase in client
contact via Facebook and
Twitter”
39. Exercise
Review the customer service function of Irish Rail’s
Twitter Profile (@IrishRail)
• How are they using social media as a customer
relations tool?
• How do they engage with people?
46. Key Audit Areas
Assess current performance:
• Size of Social Media Audiences
• Review of Content and Engagement (Still
Broadcasting…?)
47. Key Audit Areas
Key Question:
Is social media supporting your current business
objectives?
48. Key Audit Areas
Analyse data:
Google Analytics - Traffic to website
Facebook Insights – Community growth, Engagement,
popular content (Q. what did you learn from popular
content?)
57. Send out
information
Improve
Customer
Services
Be seen to be
using it!
Promote
brand
awareness
Boost Sales
Social Media
Objectives
Boost
donations
Improve
media
relations
Reach
younger
audiences
Create
dialogue with
customers
Lead
generation
Source staff
/ recruit
74. Used for:
Mainly Organisations and B2C
Promoting Brand
Reaching a defined demographic
Engaging via interesting content
Customer Insights and Relations
76. Used for:
Brands, Individuals, B2B
Live events
Promoting news
Offers
Real-time chat with stakeholders
Customer Insights and Relations
78. Used for:
B2B and HR (Mainly)
Networking and Lead Generation
Thought-leader content and engagement
Recruitment
Not sales and offers!
82. Blog: A ‘web log’ – a regular online diary about a topic,
hobby, interest.
Blogs are set up by individuals who are passionate about
their subject matter. They encourage and respond to
comments from other people.
85. Exercise:
Review the Facebook Page for:
Content and
Engagement
• Greater Manchester Police
www.facebook.com/GtrManchesterPolice
• MAC Belfast www.facebook.com/theMACBelfast
Q. What do they use social media for?
Q. What types of content do they post?
Q. How do people engage with the content ?
110. Win over senior Mgt
– need to educate
and get them to use
social
112. Where things go wrong…
The best strategy is useless if:
• The business aren’t genuinely
behind it
• There isn’t cross departmental buy in
• Results focus is purely “conversions, metrics and sales”
• “Social Media” is seen as an “add on”
• It doesn’t form part of the everyday way of working
Source: Econsultancy, 2012