Social Media Strategy For Businesses

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Social media strategy for small to medium sized businesses b2b and b2c. Business goals, customer needs, marketing plan, publishing plan, metrics and ROI guidance.

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SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY

Listen | Learn | Launch

Inner Circle

Communities

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What is Social Media Anyway?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).

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What is Social Media Anyway?

Web 2.0Web 1.0 - What Can Happen

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What is Social Media Anyway?

Web 2.0Web 1.0

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What is Social Media Anyway?

Web 2.0Web 1.0 - What Can Happen

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1) Social Ecosystem Map Where are

your customers

gathering to have

conversations?

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1. LISTEN

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1. Listen

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2. LEARN

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2. Learn: What do your customers need?

What customer types exist? What are they looking for? Where do they go? How do they like to interact? How much time do they have? How willing are they to share openly? Do they want exposure? Do they want to shape the industry or influence

the next generation?

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Your Social Media Launch Plan1. Business Goals2. Customer Needs3. Engagement Plan4. Success Metrics

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Business Goal

Boil it down to one sentence that gets to the core

Increase Brand Awareness , Personalize Your Brand Collaborate with Customers , Gain Insight , Co-create

Products Decrease Cost of Customer Service Optimize Site, Better Search Results, More Traffic Establish Yourself as a Thought Leader, Educate

Customers Increase Sales

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Customer Needs

What customer types exist? What are they looking for? Where do they go? How do they like to interact? How much time do they have? How willing are they to share openly? Do they want exposure? Do they want to shape the industry or influence

the next generation?

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Engagement Plan

What will you publish? Where will you publish? How often will you publish?

Balance (content, events, 1:1, outreach)

Integrate with traditional channels

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Success Metrics

# fans, # followers, # friends

# of comments # of participants on thread # posts # of embeds # back links # page loads # downloads

Response time Issues resolved Depth of thread Traffic increase to site Diggs Stumbles Subscriptions

Build an ROI set based on your dimensions of value. Include a mix of qualitative and quantitative.

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Your Social Media Launch Plan1. Business Goals2. Customer Needs3. Engagement Plan4. Success Metrics

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Takeaways

Listen first Be respectful, human, considerate and

passionate What is in it for your customer? If nothing,

don’t bother. Community before commerce It is a cocktail party not a lecture Tolerate criticism Encourage personalities People congregate around relevance and

value

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Do you feel socially fatigued?Bring it back to the basicsListen | Learn | Launch

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1. LISTEN

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2. LEARN

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Lauren DeLongwww.InnerCircleCommunities.com

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