Social Media Marketing Lecture 1 Course Overview

Welcome! Contact info: IesegSMM.wordpress.com – Web: Coursaris.comCoursaris.com – – Facebook: Dr.C.CoursarisDr.C.Coursaris – Twitter: – Skype:Ccoursaris Social Media Marketing: The Instructor

Assistant Professor: – Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media – Usability / Accessibility Research and Consulting Research: Twitter, Facebook, Mobile Advertising, Online Political Marketing, Aesthetics & Usability Teaching: MarComs, HCI & UXD, I.T. P.M. … Study Abroad in Japan: 3 weeks, 3 Uni’s, 8 Co’s, 10 cities, 4 cuisine styles, baseball, sumo, karaoke … Service learning: courses have real clients ($225K/term)

Welcome! … Why are you in this class?! Study concentration & level What experience you have with SMM What you would like to get out of this course Social Media Marketing: The Course

Welcome! … Why are you in this class?! – Hopefully because: The ‘Why’ is more important than the ‘How’ In % of all companies are planning to incorporate social media into their marketing and PR plans 90% of agencies will use Facebook in future campaigns TV is the top medium (?), followed by digital – 60% of agencies less focused on print than last year – ~60% of agencies feel print cannot be saved – PR in 2009  2010: +3% – PR in 2010  2014: +30% (or 7.5% per annum) Social Media Marketing: The Course

Course Format – Social Media Marketing Strategy – Practical training of various SM & Marketing vehicles Blogging Twitter Facebook Pages & Facebook Ads LinkedIn & LinkedIn Ads – Campaign Management tactics Bit.ly Klout – Software: Tweetdeck & Hootsuite, Jing, Dropbox

Social Media Marketing: The Course Course Grading – 20% Attendance (4% per full day) – 20% Homework – 40 % Project (5% for each item below) Blog, Twitter, FB Page, LinkedIn Profile&Groups Facebook ads (x2), LinkedIn ads (x2) Bit.ly Analytics, Klout Influence Report – 20% Presentation 5’ Jing video of campaign: all SM, all ads, analytics, impact

Let’s get started! Create a business you’re going to promote: – Product/Service Category, Target audience, Brand Benefits, Brand Name, Location/Operations – Blog (fake) – Twitter (fake) – Facebook (Page, fake) – LinkedIn (real profile) – Bit.ly & Klout.com (register & link accounts) Social Media Marketing: The Course

Needed Tools – Demonstration – screencasting-tools-video-tutorials/ screencasting-tools-video-tutorials/ Photoshop (or any photo-editing software) – Splashup: Free, polished interface, tools & palettes modeled after Photoshop (e.g. layers) Splashup – Picnik: Most popular web-based photo editor; integrated with Flickr Picnik

Your Grade & the Final Project

Needed items Create Gmail address to use in course Download Jing TechSmith.com/JingTechSmith.com/Jing Create Dropbox account bit.ly/DropboxPromo Create Facebook ads facebook.com/ads/createfacebook.com/ads/create Create LinkedIn ads linkedin.com/ads

Project Requirements 5 minute Jing video showing your blog, Twitter, LinkedIn Profile & Ads, Facebook Page & Ads, and Bit.ly & Klout analytics. Detailed requirements for each medium provided on the next 12 slides

Project Requirements Blog: – 2 posts (150 words each) – 2 comments (50 words each) – Links (with images) to Facebook Page & LinkedIn – Allow for sharing of comments – Required widgets: Twitter, Tags, Blogroll/Links, Pages – Optional widgets (at least 2 from): Calendar, Search, Polls, Blog Stats, Box.net, Akismet, Top Rated, or others) – Report analytics of your blog (e.g. comments)

Project Requirements Blog – Topics relevant to class discussion, syllabus, readings – Each post should link to relevant resources online – Evaluated on quality of engagement, fit with themes of course, clarity of expression, cultivation of community through regular activity – Each blog post must include “IESEGSMM” tag

Example Blog

Project Requirements Create a Twitter account – Complete Profile – Follow your classmates (by finding them on my IESEG- SMM list) – Create 2 public & 1 private lists – Add at least 3 tweeps in each list (e.g. IESEG, MKTG, Competition) – Tweet about your new Twitter account with #IESEGsmm and your own registered hashtag included

Project Requirements Twitter: – 24 tweets (all with #IESEGsmm): 8 Original content 8 RTs 8 Mentions – 3 shortened URLs (Bit.ly) to Facebook Page, LinkedIn Profile Blog

Example Twitter

Project Requirements LinkedIn – 100% Complete Profile – Joined Group “IESEG Social Media Marketing” – Tweet 1x after above steps with #in in tweet (to post on LinkedIn status) – Discussion: Total of 2 answers/questions – 2 Ads

Example LinkedIn Profile

Example LinkedIn Discussions

Example LinkedIn Ads

Project Requirements Facebook – Create a Profile – Create a Page – Invite ‘friends’, Post on wall, Create Event & Promote, Track & Update) – Create 2 Ads (Create photo(s) and text)

Example Facebook Page

Example Facebook Ads

Project Requirements Analytics – Report your Klout score Speak to your recommendation to increase Klout – Report your Bit.ly Analytics Shorten at least 5 URLs (e.g. FB, TWI, In, Blog, article) Analyze effective reach Speak to your recommendations to increase clicks

Example Bit.ly analytics

Example Klout analytics

Tonight’s Homework – Create all An account for your business A Wordpress blog for your business (link it to above ) A Twitter account for your business (link it to above ) A Facebook Page for your business A LinkedIn account, join the course group (IESEG Social Media Marketing) (with your real /make real profile) A Bit.ly account and connect it to your Twitter (in Tweetdeck) (link it to above ) A Klout account & link it to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn Download TweetDeck & register with HootSuite

Tuesday night homework Twitter Add your Twitter & Facebook Page to TweetDeck & HootSuite Photos Retrieve and create 3 photos to use in your ads; dimensions: – 110 px wide x 80 px tall; aspect ratio of 4:3 or 16:9. < 5MB Prepare text to accompany each ad (rem: 1-2 benefits) Download Jing: Create Dropbox.com account and share folder with