Bringing your social media strategy to life

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Bringing Your Social Media Strategy to Life Presenter: Michele Martinez Wingate, social media manager, American Family Insurance This presentation was delivered at MadSkillz 2013 on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Michele will discuss the organization’s overall brand strategy and how the social media strategy supports that brand. She’ll focus on how owned, earned and paid media all work together to support social media efforts with (1) strong content that connects fans to the brand, (2) social causes, (3) assessing and testing new social media channels, and (4) handling negative customer feedback.

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Bringing your social media strategy to life Michele Wingate, social media manager

@michelewingate

@michelewingate

Why use social media?

Recruitment, stewardship

Relationship building

Storytelling

Transparency

Get feedback

Cost effective

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Extend your reach

Source: M+R and NTEN

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Increase donations

Source: MDG Advertising

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GivingTuesday.org

@michelewingate

What do you need for a successful social media program?

A plan linking social media to mission and programs.

Selected social media platforms.

Organizational commitment to social media.

Skills to do it. Willingness to listen, learn and adapt. Measurement and evaluation plan. Ability to take small successes and build on

success.

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Your social media goals

Humanize your brand.

Increase awareness.

Generate engagement.

Drive action.

What else?

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We protect dreams

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Our social media strategy

We’re a branded house.

Messaging: Celebrating, inspiring and protecting dreams.

Lead with owned, grow with paid.

Mobile-optimized in all efforts.

Continue leading the way.

Building and maintaining long-term relationships with

customers and prospects engaging them with the brand.

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Strong stories spur action

Source: Waggener Edstrom

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Strong stories spur action

Source: Waggener Edstrom

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Celebrate

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Celebrate

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Protect

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Protect

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Inspire

PTAT

1048

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Be relevant

PTAT

2,034

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#fighthunger

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People connected with the story

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Twitter influencers shared our story

Impressions:

302,011

Impressions:

1,605,703

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Customer email

900,000 sent

22% open rate

+9,000 new likes

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Social media community responded

Love. Proud. First-class. Wonderful. Thank you.

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Highest. Engagement. Ever.

53% engagement

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#30daysofthanks

59% engagement

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Tw it t e r

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Who do I follow?

Volunteers

Donors Local leaders

Local media

Other non-profits

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What do I tweet?

Source: Mark

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What do I tweet?

Add your voice to larger conversations.

Find + organize relevant content.

Find people to follow.

Start conversations.

#donate

#volunteer

#madison

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Got any Twitter best practices?

Have conversations.

Respond to @ mentions.

Follow back.

Tweet regularly.

Provide value through thought leadership.

Use publishing tools to simplify your life.

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Got any Twitter best practices?

Auto DM.

Cross-post to other social networks.

Protect your tweets.

Automate everything.

Ignore negative feedback.

Buy followers.

@michelewingate

Favorite tools: Hootsuite

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Favorite tools: Twitter lists

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Thank you!

Michele Wingate

mwingate@amfam.com

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