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SOCIAL

MEDIA
MARKETING
MODULE 13
What are social media?

A Commonly thought of as digital technology.

Offer a way for marketers to communicate one on


B one with the consumers and measure the weight of
those interactions.
Social network
Microblogs
Media sharing sites

Social media - any tool or services that uses


the internet to facilitate conversation.
Social commerce - subset of e commerce that
involves the interaction and user contribution of
social online media to assist online buying and
selling products or service.

Crowd sourcing - using consumers to develop


and market products.
Creating and Leveraging a
Social Media Campaign
Owned Media - set of communication channels/outlets
that an entity (organization/individual) has complete
control over.
Earned Media - is publicity or exposure gained from
methods other than paid advertising.
Paid Media - refers to external marketing efforts that
involve a paid placement.
1. Implement an effective listening system.
2. Develop a list of objectives that reflects how
social media dynamically communicate with
customers and build relationship.

Social Media Monitoring - The use of tools to listen


to millions of conversations on the web to
determine what is being said about a particular
brand, issues, people or product, and to discover
opportunities.
Social Media Metrics — are measurable data
points that are used to assess the performance
and effectiveness of social media marketing
efforts.
Types of Social Media
Metrics
Engagement
— Likes, Comments, Share, Retweets, CTR
Awareness
— Impression & Reach
Conversion
— Conversion Rate: metric that measures the
percentage of users who take a desired action on a
website or landing page.
— Click-Through Rate: the percentage of
users who click on the call-to-action link you
have in your social media post
— Bounce Rate: the percentage of page
visitors who click in your social media post
but then leave the landing page without
taking an action.
Social Media KPIs — are specific, measurable goals
or targets that a business sets for its social media
marketing activities.

How to measure and evaluate the benefits of social


media?

Choose the right social media metrics and key


performance indicators (KPIs)
Social Behaviour of
Consumers
To effectively leverage social media,
marketers must understand who uses social
media and how they use it. If a brand's
target market does not use social media
campaign might not be useful.
A new category is emerging called
There are six categories of "conversationalist," who post status
social media users: updates on social networking sites or
1. Creators microblogs.
2. Critics Common Social behaviors of
3. Collectors consumers:
4. Joiners Conformity
5. Spectators Social proof
6. In active Word of mouth
Group influence
Brand loyalty
Social Media Tools: Consumer and
Corporate Generated Content
A marketer has many tools to implement a social media campaign.
However, new tools emerge daily so these resources will change
rapidly. Some of the strongest social media platform are blogs,
microblogs, social networks, media creation and sharing sites, social
news sites, location-based social networking sites, and virtual world
and online gaming.
Blog a publicly web page that functions as an interactive journal,
whereby readers can post comments of the author’s entries.
- regularly updated websites that provide insight into a certain topic
Example: Microsoft work and life
Types of Blogs
Corporate blogs
- blogs that are sponsored by a company or one of its brands
and maintained by one or more of the company’s employees
Noncorporate blogs
- an independent blog that are not associated with the
marketing efforts of any particular company or brands
Microblogs
- blogs with strict post length limits
Social networking sites
- websites that allow individuals to connect or network with
friends, peer, and business associates.
Media sharing sites
- websites that allow users to upload and distribute
multimedia content like videos and photos.
Example: Social networking sites and Media sharing sites
Social news sites
- websites that allow users to decide which content is promotes
on given website by voting that content up or down.

Example: Reddit
Location-based social networking sites
- websites that combine the fun social networking
with the utility of location-based GPS technology.

Example: Grindr
Review sites
- websites that allow consumers to post, read, rate, and
comment on opinions regarding all kinds of products and
services.

Example: Amazon
SOCIAL MEDIA and MOBILE
TECHNOLOGY
Mobile platform are standardized
Fewer consumers are concerned about privacy and
pricing policies
Advertising can be done in real time
Mobile marketing is measurable
In store notification technology such as Apple's iBeacon
can send promotional messages based on real-time
interactions with costumers
There is a higher response rate than with traditional
advertising
THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLAN
A social media plan helps a business in determining its target
audience, the social networks to join, and the type of content to create
and publish. It is a key part of your overall marketing plan. Choosing a
standard for measuring the success of your social marketing efforts.
Your social media strategy is your overall plan for creating, posting, and
engaging with social media content. It includes your social content
guidelines, social media marketing campaigns, creative strategies, and
communication strategy, all of which promote your business as well as
your brand.
Six Stages in Creating an Effective Social Media
Plan
Listening
Setting social media objectives
Defining strategies
Identifying the target audience
Selecting the appropriate tools and platforms
Implementing and monitoring the strategy
Thank you
for Listening!

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