This document provides guidance on building an effective social media campaign in 3 sentences or less:
It discusses key factors to consider when creating a social media campaign, such as goals, audience, channels, content strategy, and measurement. Effective campaigns focus on realistic expectations, testing and iteration. The presentation emphasizes listening to audiences and providing engaging, shareable content like photos at optimal times in order to influence audiences.
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FranCamp 2012 "Building the Perfect Social Media Campaign"
3. Agenda
Data
Perfect
Social Media
Campaign
Discussion
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4. 3 Truths
People really don¡¯t want brands
being overly promotional in their
social media channels or do they?
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5. 3 Truths
People really don¡¯t want brands being
overly promotional in their social media
channels¡or do they?!
Social Media channels need to generate
revenue so they aren¡¯t going to make it
easy for brands to be promotional without
spending money.
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7. 3 Truths
People really don¡¯t want brands being overly
promotional in their social media channels
Social Media channels need to generate revenue so
they aren¡¯t going to make it easy for brands to be
promotional without spending money.
There is no such thing as a perfect Social Media
Campaign
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9. Facts
60% of users have not
followed or liked a ?Only 1% engage with brand pages
brand
78% of those who like
brands, friend fewer ?Only 16% expect companies to use social media to
than 10 brand pages interact with them
39% don¡¯t think their ? Most fans come to a branded page just once to like you or sign-up
¡°like¡± is an opt-in for ? 1/3 of those who friend brands subsequently drop the friendship
marketing messages and the brand
60% are annoyed by
brand communication
on Facebook
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14. Emerging Clues
Photographs
generate the
most
engagement
? Posts before Noon get 65%
more likes, comments and re-
Earlier the posts than those after noon
better ? For mobile, after 7pm is
prime time
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15. Day of the Shorter is
week matters better
Friday is the <240 characters
biggest day for re- with a photo
posts and mobile prompt the most
comments engagement
Posts with links
Saturday draws drive likes and
the most shares reposts at a much
higher rate
Wednesday is the
big engagement
day for QSRs and
CPG brands
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16. Punctuation reduces
engagement Word choice affects
readership and
? Avoid frequent use of question interaction
marks and exclamation points
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17. The average Facebook post
has a shelf life of 3.2 hours
The average Twitter post =
2.8 hours
The average YouTube post
= 7 hours
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18. Background & Goals
Only 3-7% of
fans see any
Only 2% chance
given status
of viral pass-
update posted
along
to a brand
page
Brands with a
million fans or
more generally
see 1.1% of
fans clicking or
sharing
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We are:ZorsZeesSuppliersWe want:Consumer Engagement/Customer Service/SalesFranchise Prospects
A. 6 in 10 users don¡¯t follow or like any brands on any social networks.¨C Insites Consulting 78.6% don¡¯t like any brands on Facebook.¨C Econsultancy75% don¡¯t follow any brands on Twitter. Of those users who do follow brands, 64% only follow between one and four.¨C Constant Contact78% of consumers who ¡°Like¡± brands on Facebook said they ¡°Like¡± fewer than ten brands.¨C Constant Contact 57.8% of US Facebook users had not mentioned a single brand in their status updates as of October 2011. 61.3% of Twitter users saying they have not tweeted about a brand.¨C eMarketerOnly 16% expect companies to use social media to interact with them. 46% of kids, ages 12 to 17, told Forrester in a recent survey that they don¡¯t expect companies to have a presence using social tools.¨C Forrester25% disagree that Likes mean that they are fans or advocates of the brand. Only 42% of consumers agreed that marketers could interpret a Like as such.¡ª Exact Target1% of fans of the biggest brands on Facebook engage with the brands on the site.¨C Ehrenberg-Bass Institute71% of consumers report being more selective about ¡°liking¡± a company on Facebook than they were last year.¨CExact TargetC. 39% of Facebook users do not interpret their own ¡°likes¡± of a company to equate to permission for that company to deliver marketing messages to the news feed.¨C Exact Target81% of consumers have either ¡°unliked¡± or removed a company¡¯s posts from their Facebook news feed.¨C Exact Target58% of respondents indicated that they liked or followed brands in order to receive special news and deals.¨C Insight Strategy GroupOver 50% of people feel overwhelmed by brand messages on social media. 75% of people think one or two Facebook messages a day is too much to receive from a brand.¨C Content & Motion D. 60% find it annoying when brands communicate with them via Facebook or Twitter.¨C Insight Strategy Group64% said they hate when they are targeted via their social network profiles.¨C Insight Strategy Group58% find marketing via social media to be invasive.¨C Insight Strategy GroupStarbucks: Nearly 30 million likesRed Bull: Nearly 28 million likesCoca-Cola Over 41 million likes $2 billion in profit last quarterApple: Over 6 million likes - Millions of fans of their productsDelta Airlines 307,059 likes Delta Assist ¨C 50,015 Twitter Followers Delta serves over 160 million customers per year.PeptoBismol 295,000 likes & 2,435 Twitter FollowersAfter that all interactions take place on THEIR wallWhere attention is grantedAccess to their friends is providedA recent study on social media conducted by Relevation Research found that 52 percent of US online consumers, 16 years+ have liked, followed or subscribed to a company/brand via social networking. But close to a third of these later turn around and dump the companies/brands with which they initially forged a relationship. After distancing themselves from the brand on social media, many report they then view the brand more negatively, shop/visit it less often and wind up spending less. Males are quicker to make the break than females and to regard the brand more negatively after the break.
HumanCareful No promotion w/o benefitPost stuff that will go viralDon¡¯t forget Google+
Content
Be HumanKnow What You WantListen & Respond ¡°Social Listening¡±Be Visual
1. It¡¯s not just about you (retweetetc) Interesting2. Exclusive & Inside (Nascar ¨C Brad K (65,000 Feb 28th ¨C over 200,000 that night)3. Create a conversation4. Act & React5. Consumer generated storiesDon¡¯t create noise. Stay focusedSharable
90% of life is just showing up - Woody Allen90% of social media is just showing up and being there ¨C Scott Monty