Prepared for the the Get Influence Social media Manager Training sessions, this is a short entry level guide to using social media monitoring in business. For explanations of the slides or the examples please contact Smoking Gun PR.
2. Topic guide
What is monitoring?
How to monitor
What to listen for
Business examples
3. What is monitoring?
Ability to listen to conversations / track
buzz - specific words/businesses/products/
people
Measure sentiment / engagement around
content
Assist in measurement & evaluation
4.
5. Who will own social
media monitoring?
Sales
Customer service
Marketing
PR/comms team
7. Fresh Networks tested 9 of the
best paid monitoring tools...
www.freshnetworks.com/blog/2010/06/social-media-monitoring-review-download-the-final-report/
8. What’s right for you?
Depends on your resource -
fiscal and human
Channels you want to drill into
How much data can you
handle??
Ease of use/reporting
10. Panda Liquorice
help ‘launch’ Cherry flavour - 2 audiences
drive product trial
raise awareness of product health benefits
continue the ‘Love Licorice Day’ that Panda owns
build a presence on social media
11. Next steps - social
media specific
platform ID - audience characteristics v
objectives
listening to target groups - insights, topics,
themes
finding key influencers
creating relevant content - spikes of activity at
the right times
12. Campaign overview
social media monitoring
www.landoflicorice.co.uk
Panel of experts - advice
+ media opps
+comps
+ links to their sites
www.10minutetips.co.uk
13. What did we do?
blogger outreach - mummy, foodie goodie bags for Good
Housekeeping events
rewarded brand advocacy -
freebies Calendar hooks - easter, veggie
week, Love Licorice Day, Britain’s
Created content: Next Top Model
Red Panda adoptions / Chester Competitions:
Zoo
iPod comp - picture led
Video - vox pops / playing National media holiday
Twitter ‘I love licorice’ call to
highly targeted sampling/ action - 150 samples
placement built database - newsletter &
surveys
Rosemary Conley trip
Dos Hermanos News stories
Britain’s next top model
food swaps -
Hendersons
14.
15. Other business uses
Bio-strath = crowd sourcing product trialists
Games developer = crisis management
@lloydsTSBOnline = reputation
management
@btcare = customer service
@brother_uk = sales
16. Summary
Accept that you’ve lost the ability to
control every company message so
monitoring is essential
One size does not not fit all
Share the load
Don’t be afraid to experiment
17. Contact:
Rick Guttridge
0161 839 1986
Smoking Gun PR Blog
hello@smokinggunpr.co.uk
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Ultimately company decision\nSome CEO’s monitor!\n
Don’t forget the human resource cost!\n
Tested 9 of the leading social media monitoring tools for their ability to find influencers for the topic of baby food.\n \n \n \n Search ran for 1 month across all tools\n
plethora of information = overload\n
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Who likes licorice?\n Who’s heard of Panda Licorice?\n Who’s never tried it?\n