Social media usage in investor relations. Rethink is a must
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To Rethink is a Must
2. “In the old days, someone might have a bad customer
experience and tell 10 people. But now, with the rise
of blogs, MySpace and Facebook, that person might
be able to tell 10,000 people. This totally changes the
10 000 people
dynamic, and importance, of customer experience.”
Bruce Temkin, vp/principal analyst at Forrester Research
Source: Forrester “The Customer Experience Index 2007”, http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,43877,00.html,
Brandweek, http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003677228
6. Source: BBC News The Editors Blog, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/02/journalists_and_pr.html
7. • Social Media Release
Press release • Google News
• The own web sphere
• Cantos
Presentation • Seeking Alpha / Yahoo Finance
A new • The own web sphere
CEO • Hoover & Google Finance
CEO Bio • Wikipedia
• The own web sphere
• Flickr
Pictures &
• You Tube
Videos
• The own web sphere
32. Five-step process
1. Conduct keyword research so you
know what people are looking for
2. Edit press releases to include search
terms
3. Have special hyperlinks on hand, and
use them wisely
4. Distribute via wire service that is
crawled by news search engines
5. Test a variety of press releases
• During the period February 2004 to
April 2005, Southwest Airlines was
2005
able to directly track more than $2.5
million in online ticket sales to
optimized press releases
Source: Southwest, http://www.southwest.com/about_swa/press/prindex.html, PRWeb, http://www.prweb.com
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Q&A
Q: Can we get the presentation?
A: Yes, it is available at Slideshare, www.slideshare.net/peter.einarsson
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