Module 8 Flashcards
Benefits of Social Media
– Interact with customers especially with Brand evangelists & influencers
– Potential to go viral
– In some categories can account for 25% of web traffic
– Can be used for advertising-e.g., FB promoted posts
– Feedback loop
– Learn more about your audience’s likes, dislikes, behavior– sentiment analytics
– It has made niche targeting a lot easier
Downside of Social Media
Creates expectations-of fresh & unique content
Very time consuming-expensive in terms of labor & time
Conversations cannot be controlled
Negative reviews/comments may be pervasive-requires monitoring
In many categories more top of the funnel, awareness and organic social media often not good for conversion/sales
The biggest downside of social media
It Takes Time
Monitor (15 min/day) Target (20 min/day) Engage (30 min/day) Publish (3-5 hours/week) Build Community (5-10 hours/wk)
Why Social Media?
It’s where the people are and spend their time:
• FB has over 2 Billion monthly active users; over 2 billion posts are liked and commented on per day; on average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day
• YouTube: 40 hours of video footage is uploaded to the site every minute.
- Can be low cost and the best way to reach certain niche demographics- mountain bike aficionados
- Some if it can help SEO: blogs, videos, comments and reviews more helpful. Does help with recently discovered activity, traffic to your site, number visitors does help so can aide indirectly. Many social media set as do not follow links or set to private
Most popular social networks worldwide, ranked by number of active users
Facebook YT WhatsApp FB Messenger WeChat Instagram Tumblr
Opinion leaders
Social media=Networks= for some categories there will be like minded people connected to each other
Social Media: figure out in your category, breakdown of Heavy vs Light content creators to
passive followers-90-9-1 rule
Ratings & Reviews
90% of consumers online trust recommendations from people they know; 70% trust opinions posted online by unknown users.
Nielsen’s Global Online Consumer Survey
Social media best for awareness –conversion not clear
- Social media is better at creating awareness & interest (reinforces) and maybe desire but weaker on conversion
- Search & email are better in converting customers
- Attribution with social media is difficult since top of the funnel
Strategic uses of social media
Advertising and awareness Insights and Research Sales and Lead Generation Community Management Support and Customer Service Reputation Management SEO Communication and Outreach
Social media strategy considerations
- Use a compensatory model to see based on web analytics data traffic to website, conversions
- Determine budget (time and funds required) to achieve some traffic and engagement goals
- Measure the impact in some quantifiable way- improve reviews, ratings, SEO, etc.
Social Media objectives should be in line with overall business strategy.
Prioritize based on best payback
What is the objective and by when?
How will you measure success? Shares, traffic to website, etc.
Understand the landscape- what do your customer use? maybe its not Twitter but YouTube (cars)
Organic Challenges with Social Media
- Understand that most of your posts, tweets, videos etc. will NOT be seen by your followers on their feeds/their own social media page.
- However, they will be seen by those who visit your FB, Instagram page- - so one factor in favor of doing organic
- Why are so few being seen? SM platforms claim user experience, clutter issues but also an economic incentive- advertising
Organic Reach in Facebook
- FB uses an algorithm – Edgerank- to determine if a post appears in a fans NewsFeed
- FB claims they use 100,000 individual weights in that algorithm -measures affinity/closeness
- Also looks at a person’s settings
- Bottom line: from 16% back in 2012 to less than 2% and maybe even less…
Step 1: For your target market identify User Persona variables
Step 1b: Identify which platforms they are on….
Examples consumer market: Age ranges Gender Educational level Ethnicities Household income Hobbies Urban vs rural Media consumption- websites, Klout, TV show magazines, etc. Behavioral- affinity markets (e.g., home and gardening), not easy for non PPC social media selection Any other variable which a social media platform captures and reports
Step 1b: ….and how much time they spend on them.
Keep in mind that in these charts– only a few variables such as age or gender are shown-you need to dig into details using sources like Pew, Nielsen, eMarketer, etc.