Social Image Sharing for BrightonSEO 2015

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Flare and Pivot for Social Image Sharing Erica McGillivray

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Flare and Pivot !for Social Image

Sharing!Erica McGillivray

Erica McGillivray @emcgillivray

Senior Community Manager at Moz

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.” — Allen Ginsberg!

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Five Basic Design Principles!

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High contrast

Clean

Branded

Bold

Unity

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Five Psychological Triggers for Sharing!

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Match copy with images

Challenge audiences

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Take risks

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Establish credibility

Make human connections

Working with the Team!

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“Higher, further, faster...more.” !

— Kelly Sue DeConnick!

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<3 Designers!

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Get them excited

Quickly pivot

Quickly pivot

Simple and customized templates, aka easy image and text swaps

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Simple and customized templates, aka easy image and text swaps

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A few technologies to help

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A few technologies to help

<3 Developers!

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Explain your business case

Implement Open Graph tags

Implement Open Graph tags

Implement Open Graph tags

Implement Open Graph tags

Implement Twitter cards

Implement Twitter cards

Build sharing into culture

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All the infofor sharing!

Prioritize Repeatable and Evergreen Projects!

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Missteps Happen!

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Can’t click play button

Clone club

Mix it up!

Be on time!

Learn, Improve, !and Get Results!

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Rival IQ top content (90 days)!

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17 posts15 posts

Average of 468.95% lift per blog post promoted on Twitter

Google Analytics traffic data!

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Thank You!!

Erica McGillivray @emcgillivray

Senior Community Manager at Moz

Resources!²  Beginner’s Guide to Social Media

http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-social-media²  Ideal Image Sizes for Your Social Media Posts

https://blog.bufferapp.com/ideal-image-sizes-social-media-posts

²  Must-Have Social Media Tags for Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and More http://moz.com/blog/meta-data-templates-123

²  Working on Complex Marketing Teams http://bit.ly/1Hzv6Tm

²  Pablo https://buffer.com/pablo²  Canva https://www.canva.com/