Social MediaCOUNCIL

Do you lead social media at your organization and find that any of these statements apply to you?

• “I wish I had access to research and benchmarking to see how my organization’s social media program compares to others.”

• “Social media platforms change all the time. I would like to hear directly from platform experts about product updates and brand best practices.”

• “ There are so many tools and vendors out there, and I don’t have the time or resources to try them all. I’d love to get honest advice from other professionals in my position.”

• “My team needs training to keep up with the constant changes in the industry, but I don’t have the travel budget to meet their needs.”

What if you had a concierge service ready to cater to all your questions and networking needs?

Or if your team had unlimited access to on-demand virtual social media training featuring proven strategies and best practices from industry leaders? Or a concierge service ready to cater to all your questions and networking needs?

Welcome to Ragan’s Social Media Council— an exclusive, invitation-only membership organization for social media professionals and their teams.

• Subscription for 2 team members to Ragan’s Commu-nicators Roundtable: Highlights include access to monthly facilitated discussions with mid-level peers on communications topics along with an online forum. See https://www.ragan.com/communicators-roundtable/ for full details.

• 15% off all Ragan awards, events and other offerings for your entire team

• Concierge Desk for your entire team to access: Need the latest research on a topic? Our staff will find it and deliver it to your inbox. Need an introduction to another social media leader? We’ll connect you and facilitate the conversation.

Plus, these optional benefits for Council members only:• One Planning Committee Seat for Ragan’s annual Social

Media Conference at Disney World• A Certificate from Ragan Training for completing at

least 5 online training sessions• An editorial profile of a team member published on

Ragan.com or PR Daily.com

• 4 passes to Ragan conferences per year (virtual or in-person): Use these free registrations for yourself or transfer them to anyone on your team. In an average year, there are over a dozen conferences, including our nationally renowned social media conferences. Our live events are hosted at Walt Disney World, LinkedIn, Facebook and Amazon, etc. Bonus: After using your free registrations, you’ll receive 50% off the registration price of any addi tional events.

• 12 social media/digital webinars per year for your entire team: These 90-minute webinars feature the hottest topics, trends and case studies.

• Quarterly social media research reports for your entire team: Timely, relevant and crucial data for you and your team written by Ragan’s research and editorial team.

• Unlimited access to Ragan Training online learning portal for your entire team: The most exten sive on-demand distance learning video training portal. See ragantraining.com for full details.

What are the benefits of membership?

Why join us?• Unlimited access to resources for your whole team. You’ll be able to share access to on-demand

training, research and content with your whole department.

• Ragan’s brand power. We’ve been around for more than 50 years and have relationships with Fortune 1000 organizations, social platforms and social media industry leaders. We’ll use that proven expertise and network to help you.

• It’s all about social, but not only. With your unlimited access to the RaganTraining distance learning portal, you can learn new skills that will help you connect the dots between social media, internal communications, PR, executive communications and digital marketing.

Cost of Social Media Council membership

Small Team (Team of 3)

Large Team (Team of 10)

Four free passes to Ragan conferences

Quarterly social media research reports for your entire team

Unlimited access to Ragan Training

Subscription for 2 team members to Ragan’s Communicators Roundtable

An editorial profile of a team member published on Ragan.com or PR Daily.com

Total cost a la carte

Timely, relevant and crucial data for you and your team written by Ragan’s research and editorial team.

Provide each member of your team with more than 600 hours of on-demand communications training.

Showcase your team member and organization to the entire communications community.

$ 4,000 $ 4,000

$ 2,376 $ 2,376

$ 27,025 $ 61,206

Savings

$ 9,995 $ 9,995

$ 17,030 $ 51,211

Available with the membership

Use these free registrations yourself or transfer them to your team members. After you use your four free passes, enjoy 50% off the price of any additional events.

Highlights include access to monthly facilitated discussions with mid-level peers on communications topics along with an online forum. Access to exclusive content and a Ragan Insider Membership.

Available with the membership

12 social media/digital webinars per year for your entire team $ 10,764 $ 35,880

These 90-minute webinars feature the hottest topics, trends and case studies.

VALUE COMPARISONSocial MediaCOUNCIL

$ 6,000 $ 6,000

$ 3,885 $ 12,950

Access to the Council Councierge Service A quick turnaround service to help your team obtain best practice guides, tools and information.

One Planning Committee Seat for Ragan’s annual Social Media Conference at Disney World

A phenominal opportunity to participate in crafting a premier event while ensuring that the content you want covered has an outlet.

A Certificate from Ragan Training for completing at least 5 online training sessions

Certificate of completion available upon request via the Concierge desk

Available with the membership

Available with the membership

Available with the membership

Available with the membership

Available with the membership

Available with the membership

For over 50 years, Ragan has been the most trusted source of training, networking and problem-solving for communicators.

The Social Media Council bring together all the resources that Ragan brings to the industry—plus access to peers.

Annual dues per company: $9,995

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