Presentation for the 2014 Associated Builders & Contractors Presidents Conference. Discusses landscape of social media and strategies and best practices for driving growth and achieving target outcomes.
2. Agenda
• Social Media & Digital Landscape
• Strategies for Leveraging Social Media
• Measuring Success
• Tools You Can Use
3. Current Statistics
• Facebook
– 829MM Daily Users
• 654MM Mobile Users
– 57% of US Adults
• Half have more than 200 friends
• Twitter
– 255MM Monthly Users
• 52.7MM US Users
– 16% of US Adults
– 208 Average Followers
• LinkedIn
– 300MM Users
• 100MM US Users
– 40% Check LinkedIn Daily
• Google+
– 300MM Monthly Users
– 23% of GenXers visit/month
– 19% of Baby Boomers
visit/month
– 44% of US 18-29 year-olds
have an account
• Pinterest
– 80% Women
– 20% of US Internet-Using
Women
– 5% of US Internet-Using Men
• Instagram
– 7.3MM Daily Users
– 20% of US Internet-Using
Women
– 15% of US Internet-Using Men
4. Digital Landscape
• Social Media
Channels
– Facebook
– Twitter
– LinkedIn
– Pinterest
– Instagram
– Foursquare / Swarm
– Google+
– Vine
– Snapchat
• Email
• Blogging
• Contextual Ads
• Social Media Ads
• Banner Ads
• Native Ads
5. Social Media Assessment
• POST Method
–People
–Objectives
–Strategies
–Technologies
• Who do we want to
reach?
• How often do we want to
reach them?
• What do we hope to
accomplish?
• Which channels are
appropriate?
• Who will manage it?
• What resources will we
need?
• What tools will we need?
Source: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
13. Prerequisites
Must Have
Decent Website
Regularly Publishing
Content
Blog
White Papers
Events
Existing Supporters
Nice To Have
Analytics /
Tracking
Social Media 101
Liking, Commenting, Sharing content posted on specific social channel
Ad-Hoc, user decides when to engage
Generally restricted to specific social channel
Limited viral amplification
Pro-Active, users are asked to share content
Drives viral amplification of specific content
Content is promoted across multiple social channels
Corporate Facebook Page
Corporate Twitter Account
LinkedIn Company Page
Something to Manage Them
Hootsuite, Seesmic, TweetDeck
Resources Allocated to Publish Content Regularly and monitor conversations
Manually Identify Influencers (>5000 connections)
Listen to Conversations
Manual Outreach
Manually Engage
Few Hundred People Reach Hundreds of Thousands
Mobilize Existing Supporters
Systematize Outreach
Engage at Scale
Tens of Thousands Reach Millions
Employees incented with gift cards / paid vacation
Partners benefit from content to share
Customers get discounts on service
Supporters can get gift cards
Marketed via email announcing program
People opt-in to participate
Company Blogs Regularly – 2x per week
Every Blog Post email goes out asking opt-in group to share
Monitor sharing (Hash Tags, Social Monitoring Tool, Etc.)
Recognize Supporters Appropriately