2. INTRODUCTION
“No profession stands to influence social media
more than public relations.”
Paul Gillin, The New Influencers, A Marketers Guide to the New
Social Media

3. INTRODUCTION
o Social media defined 20:00
o 10 keys to social media success 30:00
o Social media tools 20:00
o 3 take away messages 2:00
o Q&A 3:00

4. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
Social media is a
conversation online.
Look who’s talking:
o your customers
o your donors
o your volunteers
o your employees
o your investors
o your critics
o your fans
o your competition....
o anyone who has internet
access and an opinion.

5. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
The conversation is not:
o controlled
o organized
o “on message”
The conversation is:
o organic
o complex
o speaks in a human voice
Social media is not a
strategy or a tactic –
it‟s simply a channel.

6. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
o Social Networks
o News & Bookmarking
o Blogs
o Microblogging
o Video Sharing
o Photo Sharing
o Message boards
o Wikis
o Virtual Reality
o Social Gaming
o Related:
o Podcasts
o Real Simple Syndication (RSS)

7. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
The power to define and control a brand
is shifting from corporations and institutions
to individuals and communities.

8. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
“It is about putting the „public‟ back in Public Relations
and realizing that focusing on important markets and
influencers will have a far greater impact than trying
to reach the masses with any one message or tool.”
Brian Solis, The Social Media Manifesto

9. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
Word of Mouth is the Future of
Marketing
Marketers can effectively use social media by
influencing the conversation.
One way to do this is by delivering
great customer service experiences.

10. CASE STUDY
o Zappos, an online shoe
retailer, makes customer service
central with a focus on “making
personal and emotional
connections.”
o Divert marketing budget to
customer service (they outsource
marketing to their customers; they
don‟t outsource their call centre)
o Use Twitter to promote their
brand
o Website displays any public tweets
mentioning of their brand
o CEO has over 400,000 followers
o 430 employees on Twitter
o $1billion in sales last year and
their expanding into new product

11. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
o 91% say consumer reviews are the #1 aid to buying
decisions - JC Williams Group
o 87% trust a friend’s recommendation over critic‟s
review - Marketing Sherpa
o 3 times more likely to trust peer opinions over
advertising for purchasing decisions - Jupiter Research
o 1 word-of-mouth conversation has impact of
200 TV ads - BuzzAgent
* Slide courtesy of Digital Influence Group

12. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
Social media sites are the fastest-growing category on the
web, doubling their traffic over the last year.
o 73% of active online users have read a blog
o 45% have started their own blog
o 57% have joined a social network
o 55% have uploaded photos
o 83% have watched video clips
Universal McCann’s Comparative Study on Social Media
Trends, April 2008. 17,000 respondents from 29 countries, *using
internet at least every other day

13. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
o 40% of Canadian internet users have visited a
community or social networking site
o 22% of Canadians over 60
o 50% of Internet users under 30
o 25% of users 25-29 do so daily
o 43% English speaking Canadians and
24% of French speaking Canadians visit these sites
Canada Online, The Internet, Media and Emerging Technologoes

14. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
• Younger users (under
45) and women use
these sites for
socializing
• Older users use these
sites to obtain and share
information
• Youth (12-17) use these
sites for entertainment

15. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED

16. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED

17. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
Social media can help you
in all stages of
marketing, self-
promotion, public
relations, and customer
service:
o research
o strategic planning
o implementation
o evaluation

18. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
o Learn what people are saying about you
o Create buzz for events & campaigns
o Increase brand exposure
o Identify and recruit influencers to spread your message
o Find new opportunities and customers
o Support your products and services
o Improve your search engine visibility
o Gain competitive intelligence
o Get your message out fast
o Retain clients by establishing a personal relationship
o Be an industry leader – not a follower

19. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
"What's the ROI for putting on your
pants every morning? But it's still
important to your business."
Scott Monty, Digital Communications Manager at Ford

20. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
Reach Engagement & Influence
o Website visits / views o Sentiment of reviews
o volume of reviews and comments
and comments o Brand affinity
o Incoming links o Commenter
authority/influence
Action & Insight o Time spent
o Sales inquiries o Favourites / Friends / Fans
o New business o Viral forwards
o Customer satisfaction o Number of downloads
and loyalty
o Marketing efficiency
Source: The Digital Influence Group, Measuring the Influence of Social Media

21. SOCIAL MEDIA DEFINED
Resources required for
social media may include:
o Strategic consultation
o Training
o Creating content
o Integrating tools
o Distributing content
o Relationship management
o Measuring value

22. KEYS TO SUCCESS
10 KEYS
TO SOCIAL MEDIA
SUCCESS

23. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Experiment personally
before professionally
o Try a variety of social
media tools
o Be yourself, make some
friends, and share

24. KEYS TO SUCCESS
1. Discovery 2. Strategy
(people, competition, an (opportunities, objective
d search engines) s)
3. Skills 4. Execution
(identify internal (tools, integration, polici
resources and gaps) es, and process)
5. Maintenance
(monitor and adapt)
Source: 5 Phases of Social Media Marketing
http://socialcomputingjournal.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=789

25. CASE STUDY
o YouTube
o MySpace
o Facebook
o Twitter
o EHarmony
o “Digits” (their own online
community)
o Virtual communities –
Second Life
Source:
http://www.podtech.net/home/5209/h-
block-social-media-programs-success

26. CASE STUDY
Leveraged core goals
across all networks:
1.Reinforce their brand as
tax experts
2.Deliver on advocacy
positioning of the brand
3.Present the brand as being
innovative
o Through “unexpected and
meaningful interactions
with consumers”

27. CASE STUDY
o Be community
appropriate
and relevant
(interacting on Second
Life is different than
YouTube)
o It’s not free -
Human capital increased
as media buys decreased
– Ask yourself if this is
successful how do you
scale it?

28. CASE STUDY
1. Brand Perception
o Evaluated brand metrics
through a brand tracking
study
2. Engagement
o 600,000 YouTube views
o 1 million unique visits to
their community site
3. Word of Mouth
o Increased online mentions
in blogs, forums, and other
social media

29. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Find where your
audience is participating
and indentify the
influencers
o Read industry blogs
(including comments)
o Google your company
name & your competition
o Find tools that can help
you listen

30. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Tap into the wisdom of the
crowd to access a wider
talent pool and gain customer
insight
o Companies that use crowd
sourcing include:
o Starbucks (MyStarbucks)
o Dell (Ideastorm)
o DuPont
o Netflix
o Wikipedia
o iStockphoto.com
o Threadless.com
o Mechanical Turk (Amazon)

31. KEYS TO SUCCESS
Amelia Arlington

32. KEYS TO SUCCESS
56 unanimous responses in under 4 minutes from YouBeMom.com

33. CASE STUDY
o Chevy contest asks
people to create a
winning commercial for
the Tahoe SUV
o Website gives people
online tools to make their
own commercials
including the ability to
customize text

34. CASE STUDY
o Users subvert contest
with ads slamming the
Tahoe brand
o Chevy eventually removes
the website displaying
videos critical of their
product
o Many parodies still exist
online (number one search
result for “Chevy Tahoe”
on Youtube)

35. CASE STUDY
Lessons learned:
o Be careful when you ask
for …. user generated
content can‟t be controlled
o If you‟re going to ask
people their opinions be
prepared to have a
conversation

36. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Avoid puffery
(people will ignore it)
o Avoid evasion and lying
(people won’t ignore it)
o Companies have watched
their biggest screw-up's
rise to the top 10 of a
Google search
o Admit your mistakes
right away

37. CASE STUDY
o Belkin employee busted
offering payment for fake
positive product
reviews
o Belkin president claims
it‟s an isolated incident
o Influential tech blogs
expose a larger cover up
and name more
employees involved

38. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Don’t be afraid to share.
Corporations, like
people, need to share
information to get the
value out of social media
o Make your content easy
to share
o Incorporate tools that
promote sharing:
o Share This, RSS
feeds, Email a friend

39. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Don't shout. Don't
broadcast. Don‟t brag.
o Speak like yourself – not
a corporate marketing
shill or press secretary
o Personify your brand –
give people something
they can relate to.

40. CASE STUDY

41. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Think like a
contributor, not a
marketer
o Consider what is relevant
to the community before
contributing
o Don’t promote your
product on every post
o Win friends by promoting
other people’s content if
it interests you

42. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Don’t try to delete or
remove criticism (it will
just make it worse)
o Listen to your detractors
o Admit your shortcomings
o Work openly towards an
explanation and
legitimate solution

43. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o Don’t wait until you
have a campaign to
launch - start planning
and listening now
o Build relationships so
they‟re ready when you
need them

44. KEYS TO SUCCESS
o You need buy in from
everyone in the
organization
o Convince your CEO that
social media is relevant to
your organization
o Get your communications
team together, discuss
the options, then divide
and conquer

45. KEYS TO SUCCESS
1. Experiment with social media
2. Make a plan
3. Listen
4. Be transparent & honest
5. Share your content
6. Be personal and act like a
person
7. Contribute in a meaningful
way
8. See criticism as an
opportunity
9. Be proactive
10. Accept you can‟t do it all
yourself

46. THE TOOLS
SOCIAL MEDIA
TOOLS

47. THE TOOLS
o Social Networks
o News & Bookmarking
o Blogs
o Microblogging
o Video Sharing
o Photo Sharing
o Message boards
o Wikis
o Virtual Reality
o Social Gaming
o Related:
o Podcasts
o Real Simple Syndication (RSS)
o Social Media Press Release

48. THE TOOLS
o People and organizations
connect and interact
with friends, colleagues
and fans.
o Popular social networks
include Facebook and
MySpace, Linkedin, beb
o, and Ning.
o There are niche social
networks for just about
everything.

49. THE TOOLS
o create online profiles
o share photos, video, and
audio, links
o send private message and
instant message
o learn more about people and
organizations
o Follow brands, celebrities, and
gain your own fans

50. THE TOOLS
o Contains profiles of Fortune
500 executives and leading
entrepreneurs
o average individual salary
on LinkedIn is $109,000
o On LinkedIn your can:
o Post a profile and resume
o Connect with colleagues
o Share professional
recommendations
o Find jobs
o Forums to demonstrate
expertise and find answers

51. THE TOOLS
o Fastest growing social
network in Canada and
the world
(200 million members)
o Powerful tools to engage
and understand your
audience:
o Brand pages
o Custom applications
o Targeted advertising
o Audience insights/metrics
o Opinion polls

52. THE TOOLS
o Your brand‟s homepage
on Facebook.
o Allow you to post
photos, videos, events
and other messages.
o Users interact with you by
o Becoming fans
o Commenting on your posts
o Participating in discussions
o Post photos to your page
o Fans see your page
updates in their
newsfeed

53. THE TOOLS
o Facebook ads give you
the ability to advertise
directly to specific
demographic groups
o This is unlike paid
search, the most popular
form of online
advertising, which only
lets you to bid on
keywords the user is
searching for right now

54. THE TOOLS
o Location
o Age
o Sex
o Keywords (appear in your
users profile)
o Education
o Workplace
o Relationship status
o Relationship interests
o Languages

55. THE TOOLS

56. THE TOOLS
What you need:
o Ad message
(title and body)
o Image
(make it compelling)
o Destination URL
(where you want the ad to
take people)
o Social actions (optional)

57. THE TOOLS
o Social actions show
related stories about a
user‟s friends alongside
your ad.
o People can vote whether
they like or dislike your
ad.

58. THE TOOLS
o Very affordable and easy
to control your budget
o You can specify a daily
budget
o Schedule specific dates
for your ad to run
o Pay for clicks (CPC) or
impressions (CPM)

59. THE TOOLS
o Facebook Insights
provides information
about your ad campaign:
o Track ad performance
with real-time reporting
o Gain demographic and
psychographic insights
about people that view or
take action on your ad
o Use this information to
identify how you can
improve your campaign
to maximize your results

60. THE TOOLS
o Identify clear goals for
your ad
o Know who you‟re trying
to reach
o Ensure ad headline, copy
and image is relevant
o Experiment to get it right
o Monitor your campaign
and adjust
o Know when to quit

61. THE TOOLS
o Applications are
entertainment and
productivity tools that run
within facebook
o Give users a unique ways
to interact with your brand
by developing your own
applications, or add
existing applications, to
your page
o When fans use your
applications social stories
are created that appear in
their friends news feed and
link back to your page

62. THE TOOLS

63. THE TOOLS
Add social capabilities to
your website by
integrating with
Facebook:
o Users log in to your
website with their facebook
identity
o You can access their
profile information to
learn more about them and
deliver targeted content
o Publish information back to
their friends‟ streams on
Facebook to bring their
friend to your website

64. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o establish a presence on the o create a page and fail to
social networks your maintain it
customers and colleagues use
o try a hard sell approach
o create a page to promote your
brand o censor comments
o point your fans to your o spam your fans/friends with
company blog or contest frequent private messages –
you‟ll drive them away
o encourage a discussion and
participate frequently o post false information
o explore targeted advertising
opportunities

65. THE TOOLS
o A blog is a website with
regular entries of
commentary or news
o Blogs serve to establish
your company as
transparent, relevant, ac
tive, and expert.

66. THE TOOLS
o engage in dialogue with your
customers
o improve your search engine
visibility
o promote product launches
and events
o gain expert status by
providing useful tips

67. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o post on a regular schedule o write press releases – be real
about why something is
o encourage conversation by exciting
asking questions
o let complaints go unanswered
o respond to people that
comment on your posts o make users register to
comment – they won‟t bother
o use a few bloggers from your
company for more viewpoints o delete fair but critical
comments

68. THE TOOLS
o Microblogs are blogs
limited to a sentence or
two (about 140 characters)
o People use microblogging
to promote
themselves, share content
and follow
friends, celebrities and
brands
o Companies use it for
marketing, public relations
and customer service by
giving their brand a voice
within the community

69. THE TOOLS
Twitter can help you:
o share timely information
o promote useful content
including
resources, contests, deals, etc.
(not just your own)
o personify your brand
o connect with your customers
and develop leads
o build credibility and influence
o listen to consumer buzz
o research competitors
o network and learn from
experts in your field

70. CASE STUDY
o Churches useTwitter to:
o Ask questions
o Share insights
o Highlight content
o Hype events
o Trinity Church uses Twitter
to tell Passion of Christ
o Westwinds Church
experiments with Twitter
during services
o Distracting or Enriching?

71. CASE STUDY
o September 08: Twitter founder
Biz Stone tweets about
Charity: Water, which builds
wells in Ethiopia.
o Charity: Water asks people
with September birthdays to
accept online donations in lieu
of gifts and raised
$4500, enough to build a well
o The "social media birthday"
was born; asking for donations
from online friends to celebrate
your birthday

72. CASE STUDY
o January 09: Tweets begin
promoting the First Annual
Twestival (a Twitter Festival) in
support of Charity: Water:
o 202 real-life meetups
across the globe, hosted by
volunteers
o $250,000 USD raised at
these events
o 55 wells are planned
across Africa & India

73. CASE STUDY
o April 09: The first "well that
Twitter built" is dug
o April 09: Actor Hugh
"Wolverine" Jackman
challenges Twitter to tell him, in
140 characters or less, what
charity he should support
o Convinced by Twitter, Jackman
announces his $50,000 gift to
Charity: Water on Ryan
Seacrest's radio
show, providing huge exposure
for the charity

74. CASE STUDY
o Social media campaign
expands:
o Staff post Twitter updates delivering
the results of donations
o Website hosts videos of drilling
progress made in Africa
o A driller tweets live from Central
African Republic
o Hundreds of videos uploaded to
YouTube by charity and supporters
http://www.youtube.com/user/charity
water
o Facebook Causes page with over
$61,000 donated

75. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o find and share useful content o sound like a press release –
you‟re in a social space
o pose questions and reply to
others o spam with constant links to
your company website, either
o keep it fun - put a friendly face in tweets or private messages
on your brand
o post useless information –
o promote do people really care what you
sales, deals, news, updates, a had for lunch?
nd build buzz for big releases
or events
o know what people are saying
about your brand

76. THE TOOLS
o Video sharing sites let
you upload videos and
share them with people.
o They‟re a perfect
repository for video
blogs, taped
seminars, witty Power
Points, commercials, ho
w-to’s and a behind-the-
scene look at your
organization.

77. THE TOOLS
o helps you gain exposure and
direct traffic back to your
website
o sparks interest without a
hard-sell
o videos can be low-fi and
cheap to produce -
immediacy and content is more
important than quality.
o videos can be a place to
showcase your leadership in
a field, and spread customer
testimonials

78. CASE STUDY
o Blendtec was a faceless
B2B/B2C blender
manufacturer that couldn’t
afford a traditional
marketing campaign
o Published low-cost videos of
CEO blending everything
from iPhones, hockey pucks
to the financial bailout
o Launched the website
WillitBlend.com and a
YouTube channel
http://www.youtube.com/blendtec

79. CASE STUDY
o Videos went viral generating
“millions of dollars in brand
recognition”
o Channel Views: 3,469,098
o Subscribers: 183,949
o Online Blendtec blender
sales increased 500%
o The videos have made over
$50,000 in ad revenue
turning the marketing
department into a profit
centre

80. CASE STUDY
Lessons learned:
o Be entertaining and keep it
relevant to your brand (the
videos promote the durability
of their blenders without an
overt sales pitch)
o Experiment – the idea might
not have worked, but what
could they lose?

81. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o be informative, useful, or o just upload infomercials
entertaining
o be afraid to experiment until
o create a summary and you find a formula that works.
detailed description
o pull down other people’s
o post video replies to others videos showcasing your
product for copyright
o allow commenting and infringement
participate in the conversation
o make your video longer than it
o save bandwidth costs on your needs to be – keep it concise
website by hosting videos on and entertaining
YouTube

82. THE TOOLS
o Social bookmarking sites
allow users to
save, share, organize, c
omment on and search
webpage bookmarks.
o Community votes on
your submissions so they
either rise to the top or
drop to the bottom.

83. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o link to relevant articles about o spam by consistently
news in your field bookmarking your own
(not just your own content) material
o make friends with other o cheat by tagging your
bookmarkers in a legitimate bookmarks with irrelevant
way. popular keywords
o respect the terms of service o open multiple accounts and
o (reddit allows self- vote for yourself – you‟ll be
promotion, digg does not) exposed

84. THE TOOLS
o Photo sharing sites give
you a place to upload
and organize your
photos
o You can invite friends to
check out your photos
and people can find your
photos by searching for
the keywords (tags) you
apply to your photos.

85. THE TOOLS
o detail the launch of a new
product, from initial sketches
to the launch party
o promote special
events, charitable
campaigns, and awards
ceremonies
o provide an inside look at your
organization, making it appear
glamorous, busy, fun, or
innovative

86. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o tag your photos with relevant o stuff linked keywords into
keywords your photo descriptions or
comments
o use your web site address or
brand name as your Flickr o plaster your URL all over the
screen name photos you upload
o upload quality photos of your o discourage people from
products/services, and things using your photos (as long
related to your business as they provide attribution such
as a link back to your website)
o link prominently from your web
site to your Flickr photostream

87. THE TOOLS
o An Internet forum, or
message board, is a
bulletin board system in
the form of a discussion
site
o conversation takes place
between registered
members who post
topics (threads) and
make public comments
(posts) on those threads

88. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o keep the message board active o build it and expect people to
by regularly participating in start participating without
the conversation encouragement and seeding
o collect minimal information o forget to moderate -
during registration spammers and trolls will drive
users away
o keep focus and attract users by
clearly identifying your o censor or allow militant
community purpose and moderators to take too much
target audience control over the conversation.
You want to encourage open
o promote popular discussions discussion, not stifle it.
throughout your website

89. THE TOOLS
o A wiki is a website that
allows visitors to easily
add, remove, and edit
content – this makes
them great collaboration
tools
o Wikipedia, for example, is
an encyclopedia is written
collaboratively by
volunteers from all around
the world; anyone can
edit it

90. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o find references to your o rely on social reference
organization and have websites to be accurate
inaccuracies updated
o spam or overtly advertising –
o read the terms of use to it could get you banned
ensure you are allowed to
edit an entry about you o use it for Search Engine
Optimization (Wikipedia
o research competition prevents search engines from
following links)
o use wikis to collaborate with
your team o Don‟t sabotage competitor‟s
entries about competitors
(You could get caught)

91. THE TOOLS
o Internet-based 3D virtual
worlds like Second Life
reimagine our world with all its
potential for commerce and
branding
o people interact through
characters called avatars
o residents explore, meet other
residents, socialize, participa
te in individual and group
activities, and create and
trade items and services with
one another

92. THE TOOLS
o hold media conferences in
Second Life to generate buzz
(World Bank reports in world)
o create and sell branded
products accompanied by
coupons and advertising for
real-world stores
o purchase land, build
stores, and open for business
o publish streams of audio or
video on people‟s properties

93. THE TOOLS
Do Don’t
o Use it to generate publicity o just try to recreate your real-
publicity for real world world brand experience –
activities leverage the possibilities of the
o find experts to imagine and virtual world since fantasy is
manage your brand presence what brought people are there.
in this virtual world, or do
thorough research – it‟s o be afraid to site this one out.
complicated! If your audience isn‟t there and
o be inventive – for you don‟t have a vision to
example, when someone create a meaningful
drinks your product, you may experience don‟t bother.
create a script that makes
people dance, turn into a cute
animal, or speak only in song
for 30 seconds.

94. THE TOOLS
o A podcast is a series of audio
or video files which is
distributed by syndicated
download to your computer, for
use on an MP3 player or
computer.
o Podcasts can be simple
recordings of
conversations, presentations
, or interviews
o They‟re a chance to provide
build an audience around
your brand or message.

95. THE TOOLS
Do’s Dont’s
o come up with a format o worry about length
(form, topic, and duration)
o invest in a lot of equipment –
o prepare don’t script (or you‟ll simple tools and software are
sound stiff) all you need to get going
o use a good microphone (but o leave too much time
no need to over produce) between podcasts – it could
prevent you from building an
o promote your podcast on audience
your website and podcast
directories

96. THE TOOLS
o RSS is a way for content
publishers to make blog
entries, news
headlines, events, podc
asts and other content
available to subscribers.
o an effective way to
distribute your content
and lead users back to
your website

97. THE TOOLS

98. THE TOOLS
Don’t Don’t
o offer RSS feeds for your o spam your subscribers by
website‟s including excessive advertising
blog, news, events, and in your RSS feed
podcasts
o go overboard – limit RSS feeds
o subscribe to RSS feeds to content frequently updated
relevant to your industry or
interests o freak out when a splogger
hijacks your content – this
o include a title and description could actually help your search
only so subscribers need to engine rank
visit your site for the full story
o track your subscribers

99. THE TOOLS

100. 5 TAKE AWAY MESSAGES
3 TAKE AWAY
MESSAGES

101. 3 TAKE AWAY MESSAGES
1. Word of Mouth peer-to-
peer discussions are
more influential than
the mass media
2. Participate by enabling
and feeding the
conversation
(follow the 10 keys to
success)
3. Be transparent &
honest

103. REFERENCES
o PR 2.0 o Groundswell Blog
BrianSolis.com blogs.forrester.com/groundswell
o Social Media Today o Chris Brogan
socialmediatoday.com chrisbrogan.com
o Social Media Trader o Micropersuasion
socialmediatrader.com micropersuasion.com
o Web Strategy by Jeremiah o Six Pixels of Separation
web-strategist.com/blog twistimage.com/blog
o Online Marketing Blog o PR Squared
toprankblog.com pr-squared.com

104. INSPIRATION & CREDITS
o Social media Is.... o Groundswell Blog
slideshare.net/leewhite/social blogs.forrester.com/groundsw
-media-is ell/2007/12/the-post-
method.html
o What the F**K is social
media o Shannon Paul's Blog
slideshare.net/mzkagan/what veryofficialblog.com
-the-fk-social-media
o Measuring the influence of
o The Social Media Manifesto social media
briansolis.com/2007/06/future slideshare.net/DigitalInfluenc
-of-communications- e/business-impact-of-social-
manifesto-for.html media

105. THE MYTHS
SOCIAL MEDIA
MYTHS

106. THE MYTHS
“Social media is just a fad
– it will go away.”

107. THE MYTHS
“Social media is
inexpensive.”

108. THE MYTHS
“If we put our content online
we‟re just giving our
expertise away for free!”

109. THE MYTHS
“We can’t measure
social media results.”

110. THE MYTHS
“Social media might work for
certain industries and business models
but it won’t work for us.”

111. THE MYTHS
“Tell the programmers to setup that
social media thing….and get them to
make it viral while they‟re at it!”

112. THE MYTHS
“YouTube is that site for funny
cat videos – you‟ll cheapen
our brand by putting
our video on there!”

113. THE MYTHS
“I‟ve started a Facebook page so I‟ve
got social media covered!”

114. THE MYTHS
“If we just delete all negative comments
no one will see them.”

115. THE MYTHS
“No seriously, I
don’t think
anyone will notice if we
delete those negative comments.”

116. THE MYTHS
“If we build it they will come.”

117. THE MYTHS
“Social media is for kids.”

118. THE MYTHS
“We have to figure this all out before
we start using social media.”

119. THE MYTHS
“Social Media is hard.”

120. THE MYTHS
“Social Media is easy.”