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Social Media for Business
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INTRODUCTION
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• What is social media?• Why social media for business?• How to get started with social media• Picking the right tools• The No’s in social media, mistakes to avoid• Interactive session – Q&As
Session Agenda
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WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
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“Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction,
created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques”
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“Media that is created to be shared freely, globally”
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You aren’t a stranger to social media
• In the past people met, gathered to share their passions and collaborate.
• Gatherings, conferences, meetings.• Social Media is an extension of basic
communication, not very different from what you do everyday.
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WHY SOCIAL MEDIA?
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There are TV Ads, Magazines, Radio which can get you impact, quicker.
So Why Social Media?
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Can you afford NOT to?
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“We're entering an era of radical change for marketers. Faith in advertising and the
institutions that pay for it is waning, while faith in individuals is on the rise. Peers trust peers”
- Chris Anderson, The Long Tail
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87% trust a friend’s recommendation over critics review
- Marketing Sherpa
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3 times more likely to trust peer opinions over advertisement for
purchasing decision- Jupiter Research
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1 word of mouth recommendation has impact of 100 TV ads!
- bzzagent.com
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Aspects of social media
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One message BEFORE social media
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One message AFTER social media
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Your competition is on social media!
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Statistics don’t lie
Twitter, another new entrant has displaced MSN!
The Internet world is now dominated by Social Media websites!
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HOW TO GET STARTED
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• Don’t focus too much on the tools. • Important to have a robust social media
strategy for your business.
Plan well
Total campaign time
1. 2.
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Public RelationsSocial media platforms present a completely new opportunity to instantly deliver messages to millions of people. The impact on
public relations is simply ground shaking.
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Customer SupportWhere traditionally customer support has been viewed as a cost center, smart brands are starting to use social networks to help offload their support costs on to a community of super users.
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Market ResearchHaving access to tens of millions of consumers who are openly
talking about their rational and emotional needs is a newly discovered goldmine for market research.
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New Product DevelopmentSome companies have started to leverage a public pool of
collective brainpower to help their business identify innovative new market opportunities, and even assist with development of
new product concepts.
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Hiring & RecruitmentSocial media is a good and very cost effective source to recruit
the right talent for your business. Find referrals, references and recommendations.
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PromotionsSome of the most successful promotions have employed the
power of the network itself to create a fan base that didn't exist prior to the promotion.
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SalesThis newly born ability to sell is starting to catch on and more
and more retailers are beginning to reap the benefits of enhancing their curb appeal inside the social shopping mall.
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PICKING THE RIGHT TOOLS
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Facebook is a social network that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and co-workers. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
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• Facebook is the 2nd most visited/trafficked website in the world.
• More than 500 million active users• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in
any given day• Average user has 130 friends• People spend over 700 billion minutes per
month on Facebook
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1,500,000 local businesses are active on FacebookCreating more than 5,300,000,000 fans!
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What can businesses do on Facebook?
Brand Fan Pages • A Facebook Page is a public profile that enables you to share
your business and products with Facebook users. • Pages are similar to personal profiles and brands accumulate
fans instead of friends. • Within pages you have the option of posting and collecting
content, importing Twitter and blog feeds, collecting user reviews, and hosting discussions.
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What can businesses do on Facebook?
Applications• An application is a platform for developers which provides a
framework to build tools which Facebook users can add to their profile.
• Applications range from chat to games to mobile.
Connect/Share Facebook • Connect and Facebook Share are additions to your brand’s
existing web site or blog which allow you to integrate their Facebook presence with other online media.
• Facebook Connect is an open identifier which allows users to take their Facebook profile with them when they shop, comment, or browse on other web sites.
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What can businesses do on Facebook?
Advertising • Facebook offers banner advertising which can target age, gender,
location, relationship status and interest, or music and lifestyle interests.
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Twitter is a microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.
It is the simplest form of blog. But in simplicity there is often great power.
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• More than 200 million registered users.• New users signing up at the rate of 300,000 per
day.• 190 million unique visitors come to the site every
month.• Over 50 million “tweets” are sent in a day.• 37% of active Twitter users use their phone to tweet.• Around 600 million search queries per day.
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1 Good Tweet is equivalent to 10,000 impressions!You now have a virtual PR and marketing team that works for free
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What can businesses do on Twitter?
• Branding, promotions.• News, Events• Monitoring, Competitive tracking.• Innovation, Research• Networking• Search engine optimization.• Put out vacancies, job postings .• Relationships• Customer Service
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LinkedIn is a social networking website geared towards companies and industry professionals looking to make new business contacts or keep in touch with previous co-workers, affiliates, and clients.
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• LinkedIn has over 65 million members worldwide. This means an increase of around 1 million members month-on-month since August last year.
• India is currently the fastest-growing country to use LinkedIn, with around 3m total users.
• Of all social networking websites, LinkedIn has the most financially affluent audience.
• 75% of users on LinkedIn have a college degree. High index of graduates and post graduates.
• Over 70% are 35 years and above.
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What can businesses do with LinkedIn?
• Make professional connections, find business opportunities.
• Is replacing the resume.• Reference checks.• Great place to find referrals.• Post jobs.• Through LinkedIn Answers, users can get their
questions answered through the community.
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What can businesses do with LinkedIn?
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What can businesses do with LinkedIn?
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YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos.
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• People are watching 2 billion videos a day on YouTube.
• Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
• 52% of users visit YouTube atleast once a week.• An average user spends 15 minutes a day on
YouTube.• Streams 7 times more video per month than its
nearest competitor.
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What can businesses do with Youtube?
• Training and support.• Marketing and brand enhancement.• New employee orientation.• Product overviews, demonstration.• Customer testimonial, customer success
stories.
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What can businesses do with Youtube?
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THE NO’S IN SOCIAL MEDIA
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No hard selling (educate first)
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Don’t lie, don’t pretend. Be transparent.
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Don’t get caught up in the race for followers. Forge a strong community with the existing ones
instead and the numbers will follow.
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Don’t fight your customers and expect to win
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Don’t lose sight of your objective
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