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Developing your social media plan Kathryn Bullock, 9 February 2011

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How to put a social media plan together for your business with video highlights. Presentation given at Travel Technology Show, 9 Feb 2011 Presentation is tailored for travel companies but key messages for any size of business.

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Developing your social media plan

Kathryn Bullock, 9 February 2011

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Thank you for visiting

Please listen to this seminar on how

to build your social media plan

and let us know how we can help.

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1. Where are we now?

2. Where do we want to be?

3. How do we get there?

4. How do we measure success?    

4 key questions

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1. Where are we now?

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1. Are you ready for 2 way conversations?• It permeates “how” not “what” you do

• It has to fit with everything else‐ not about building buzz or pushing product

• It’s how you support “word of mouth marketing”with your key advocates as well as customers

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1. Listen first• Google Alerts• Social Monitoring Tools• Customer Research‐ Surveys & Polls

How are your customers using social media?

What are they saying?

Photo credit: niclindhvia flickr

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1. People trust reviews more

Source: The Economist A special report on Social Networking Jan 28, 2010

Do you know whatcustomers sayabout you on Trip Advisor, Review Centre, Holiday Truths, Holidays Uncovered…?

You should

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3. Social Media

1. Social media is powerful

Source: Colin Lewis

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2. Where do we want to be?

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2. Need for clear objectives

“Build awareness and shared enthusiasm for events at our properties”“Improve guest intention 

to return by 5% overall year on year”

“Improve quality of our reviews on 3rd party sites by 10%”

“Support guest and staff recognition programmes”

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2. Integrating "Social"

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2. Integrating "Social"• Integrate with each touch point‐ Customer Services

‐ Other marketing activity eg TV or online

‐ Switchboard

‐ Build awareness with staff in resort

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Integrated social and TV campaign

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• Avoid “dead community” syndrome• Plan at least 2 months ahead• Ask fans what they want to read about• Involve people across your business especially those at the “customer coalface”

• First timer guides

2. Content planning is key

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2. Real conversations matter• You will learn a lot if you ask the right questions – not just “which” but “why”.

Engagement, not numbers of fans

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3. How do we get there?

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3. You need them to “like” first

You need a compellingwelcome page

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3. Clear call to action

• Build a YouTube channel to track your viewers

• Remember to tag all content inc. videos

• Appoint “Customer Champions”

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3. Use video for first timers

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3. Video can make life easier

There’s plenty of demand

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3. Use video for recruitment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXjNnWFcS4c

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3. Empower your fans

Invite them to: ‐ post photo/videos‐ run discussion groups‐ get creative.

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3. Fans will engage

Fans like to see what is most popular

Make it easy for them

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3. Building engagement

Nielsen did researchwith Facebookto demonstrate impact on‐ purchase intention‐ brand awareness

Be ahead of thelearning curve

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3. Learn from other sectors 

Facebook ecommerce site on Best Buy

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3. Who’s doing first travel search?

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3. Plan for the next wave

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• Who’s going to do posts and how frequently?

• What happens when its positive, bad?

• Who needs to know?

• How quickly are we going to respond versus normal response times?

• When do we not respond?

• When do we escalate?

3. Roadmap everything

Source: Flickr chucknado

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3. Staff Guidelines• Do

• Project team 

• Experiment

• Ask lots of questions

• Be as honest as you can

• Appoint Community Manager

• Find Board Sponsor

• Don’t

• Rush in to answer every post

• Use corporate speak

• Treat it like a sales channel

• Neglect your site 

• Expect customer service to answer posts without training

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3. Leverage each channel

• Phase the roll out slowly and optimise regularly

• Ensure links between Tweets, Linkedin, Facebook and YouTube to optimise content

Key Question

“How can each of these channels best improve our customer brand experience”

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3. Working with your influencers

If you are a business travel companyreach into the rightcommunities of Self employed and Startups

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• Using social media monitoring tools to spot opportunities in Twitter and in  online communities

• Set up your keywords for your market and include competitor terms

• Run reports to track level of sentiment about your brand

3. Building engagement

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4. How do we measure success?

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4. Developing your dashboardFacebook• % post engagement • Track most engaging content

• % active fans• Profile of active fans• Month on month changes

• % Response rates

Twitter• Use tracking toolsTweetdeck, Hootsuite

• No of retweets

YouTube• Subscribers• Profile of viewers• Comments

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• Trip Advisor & other 3rd party site scores

• Create tiny links to track revenues per post

• Track all ‐ click throughs from email & to website‐ impact on call centre volumes 

• Include in “How did you hear about us?”

4. Key Metrics

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5. Summary

• Listen first

• Clear measurable objectives

• Integrate “Social” into your business

• Real conversations matter

• Work with your influencers

• It’s all about engagement first …………… revenues come next.

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5. Social Media is more than Facebook

Source: Gillian Pritchett

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“Thank you for reading. Questions?”

Kathryn Bullock, Director, Face Marketing

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