* How to identify & incorporate the most effective options into your marketing plan
* Targeting niche markets
* Ways to use social networks e.g. blogs, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook
* Getting the most out of using social networks
7. What can we use Social Media for?
Social media allows you to:
• Share things you’ve done
• Share media e.g. video, image, audio
• Interact with customers, journalists, industry peers, related or
complimentary businesses
• Gain valuable customer feedback
• Build links
• Drive traffic
8. Video Sharing Example – YouTube
YouTube is the largest video sharing website in
the world.
YouTube allows you to:
• Create a branded account
• Upload unlimited videos
• Reduce bandwidth
• Receive comments and ratings
• Advertise
• Optimise titles, descriptions and
Keywords
This helps the video list in
Universal Search
9. Photo Sharing Example – Flickr
Flickr is a large photo sharing website.
Flickr allows you to tag photos, set titles and
descriptions. Flickr images usually appear in
Google Image Search and are often used by
bloggers as a place to find images.
You can also find other peoples images on
Flickr.
10. Micro-blogging Example – Twitter
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform which
allows users to communicate with each other.
Twitter is great for:
• Monitoring your online presence
• Responding to queries and building relationships
• Promoting an event
•Targeting people with certain interests
http://www.tweetdeck.com/
11. Social Networking Example – Facebook
Facebook is a social networking website which
allows users to become friends with each
other, communicate and share media.
Facebook is good for :
• Building an online presence
• Great distribution method
• Engage with your customers
• Build a network
12. Social Bookmarking Example –
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon allows users to share web pages
with each other. Users can review and vote up
or down different websites and comment on
other peoples reviews. StumbleUpon can
create a conversation about your site without
you knowing and can also drive high levels of
traffic to a web page/website.
15. Nestle’s Social Media Disaster:
• 1.2 Million Negative YouTube Videos
•The news became a trending topic on Twitter, with
mentions every 15 seconds
•Negative comments on the Nestle Facebook page
visible to 95,000 fans
• The Wall Street Journal picked up on the story and
published to the mass media
16. Etiquette
Social media has certain etiquette you should
adhere to:
• Don’t astroturf
• Don’t lie
• Add something if it is
• In response to feedback
• Useful
• Interesting
• Funny