social media for business ifsa march 2013. considering your options
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Social Media for Business
IFSA March 2013
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Considering Your Options
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Why Bother?
i.e. does social interaction lead to sales?
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People Buy from People (they like)
• Build relationships• Encourage personal staff accounts• Offer solutions through interaction• Provide support and advice• Be an expert• Get familiar• Ask questions• Listen, listen, listen
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• Comfortable enough to ask for advice• Advice and solution offered• Booking made!
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The Highs and Lows of Being Social
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• Communication• Personality• Sharing• Tell your stories• Positive WOM• UGC
Benefits
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Feedback
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• Feedback – not always good?• Consistency• Putting the right personality in charge• Protecting your brand online• Customer service – 24/7?• Weekends off
Challenges
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Tweet in haste, repent when you are getting slammed online!
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Bad PRSome of you may
remember this after the Olympics – tweet sent from the Twitter account of a Dublin restaurant
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Mind your Manners!• Users are quick to be critical and accuse• They feel safe and fairly anonymous• Cyber bullying is an issue and greater
education and understanding should be promoted by all
• It can be damaging to people and businesses in the short term – but keep it in perspective!
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Online PR Opportunities
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Tweet your Order
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Brand Reputation
• Act quickly• Get advice if necessary• Advise staff on what is happening• Issue a well thought out statement• Respond in as many forums as possible• New material replaces old so produce fresh
content
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What to Avoid
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• Spam• Lack of response to
messages• Communicating too
often with too many messages together
• Pushing products• Posting cheesy images• Information that’s
useless
• Brands saying that they know what you want..they don’t.
• Censorship of negative feedback
• Poor engagement strategies
• Bad grammar• Corporate speak
Quick Survey What Users Don’t Want
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Homework!• Do your research• Make a plan (set targets and deadlines)• Get other people involved• Make it easy to stay on top of communication• Know the etiquette (get some training!)• Take it one step at a time!
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Thank you!