Social Media Marketing A Review

Bell Bajao Social Media: Review & AnalysisTaking stock of where we are and how to move forwardDate: 28th Apr 2010There are two parts to this presentationPart II Bell Bajao site traffic analysis, Market study, Comparison with successful Social Media campaign, Big questions going ahead.

Slides 18 to 23Part I Social Media Marketing Strategy with ___- Take stock and plan next steps: (Based upon contract signed by Breakthrough and _____) Slides 4 to 16PART ITwitterTool to be set up for collaborative tweeting as a team Twitter home page to be redesigned as per the BellBajao site Twitter followers to be added (no bots and any user who dont follow back will be deleted) this will be a regular task and we can only think of numbers like 5,000 followers in one month we dont have a limitation of adding larger numbers but we risk being banned on twitter if it perceives the account as spam at the same time, if the team engages in one-on-one conversation and regular tweets then the account looks human and we can add more followers (say like 10,000 in the first month) keeping in mind the limitation of adding users based on certain keywords, in India only, no robots, no non-active users; I think 10,000 will be a great achievement and will prove beneficialCurrent follower count 1548Following count 1882An increase of approximately 400 followers since March10CoTweet was done Home page was redesigned Cl.1 of the contract Twitter marketing

TwitterFew basic questions:

Q. By social media market standards, Is this a good progress? Need research articles in support.Q. Is there any record kept of how many we followed each day / month, how many followed us back and how many we unfollowed.Q. Any record on how many followers we got directly, ie people who followed us first?Q. Any record on in how many days are we unfollowing them?Q. 10,000 by end of March referred to follower count or followee count?How much we achieved? On an average 13 followers per day over the last 3 monthsQ. What is the basis of filtering and un-following?

An impromptu look at the Bell Bajao twitter time line at the time of creating this presentation shows that we are following all kinds of profiles, including tech, non tech, marketing, finance, bots, non bots, national, international.

In a meeting with _____ it was decided that we will only follow India based tweets and to begin with it was advised to follow all profiles which the Indian celebrities follow, like Shashi Tharoor, SRK etc Was this done? An update is needed.

Q. On what other basis are we following people? Can the back end of this twitter tool be shared so that we can monitor the basis?

Filtering and un-following:

If follow back is the only basis then the concern is that:- Bots sometime auto follow back - Even if the profile is not a bot, but say an Insurance company or credit card company from Africa and they follow us back, we still dont want to follow such profile.

Q. So then how do we check these and filter them out?

Follower followee balance and relationship Important to have balance between how many we follow and who follows us. To keep in mind the profiles of people we follow. We dont want to follow irrelevant tweeps. As can be seen in the pic a genuine conversation (@Chandnim) gets buried in the timeline of irrelevant tweeps. We have been engaged in one on one conversation at regular basis but find it difficult to pitch in other peoples conversation.

Big Q for Breakthrough:

What is more important Numbers or quality followers?

To do list:

Need to unfollow all international, marketing bots at the earliest so that timeline is clean. Need to think of at least 2-3 new Twitter campaigns and a marketing strategy. Examples of twitter campaigns:Twitter based contest with lucrative prizesTwitter viralsCreate Hashtag push people to use it again offer prizes To encourage some of our celebrity friends who are on twitter to ask their followers to follow Bell bajao. We have Boman, Shantanu, on twitter.

How to increase twitter follower count?A more aggressive campaign is required, merely hoping if we follow others they will follow us back will not work. NEXT STEPS Q. What kind of conversation has got us most RTs and @replies so far? Answer is simple, whenever the content is interesting:

The post related to Hijab once the link was posted there was a lot of conversation around it. Clearly this was not because of any marketing strategy but because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Two times when we did live tweets Anganwadi event and Mangalore video van

When we asked a question rather than gave information (Abu Dhabi story)RETROSPECTWhat worked? What didnt?We need more ideas: Beg, Borrow, Steal, CreateSome relevant articles: This links lists 6 successful twitter campaigns we will see these were dedicated campaigns with micro-sites and other applications. http://engagingsocialmedia.com/advertising/twitter-campaigns/

Another campaign that had the backing of actor Ashton Kutcher behind its success.http://social-media-optimization.com/2009/12/examples-of-successful-twitter-and-facebook-campaigns/

This article talks about how many followers does an organization actually need? http://social-media-optimization.com/2010/04/the-sweet-spot-in-twitter-followers/

Tips for a successful twitter campaignhttp://www.optify.net/social-media/7-keys-to-a-successful-twitter-campaign/

Video provided by BellBajao will be uploaded on multiple video sharing sites (major ones only up to 40) along with description and keywords and we will also provide a statistical report at the end of the month keeping in mind the time limitation, we will add a total of max 30 videos your team has to support one-on-one conversations on youtube we will also promote the video channel (youtube) or individual videos on the site through Facebook marketing campaign ($100 value)Cl.2 of the contract Video UploadsYet to startWe need a clear plan on this as we have many videos with us now ready How many sites? How many videos A list of the sites?What is the methodology of upload? Manuaul upload one by one or by the use of certain application where simultaneous upload will take place?3. Commenting on other major blogs we will help create a RSS reader for various topics which relate to domestic violence or at least have a similar targeted audience we will pick up each such group of blogs on a daily basis and comment on them and the team has to support this as gradually they need to do this on their own these comments will bring users (particularly blog owners) back to the site and will act as link backs which is helpful for SEO target of 200 comments in the month ofMarch.Cl.3 of the contract - CommentsComments were made by _____ in approximately 35-40 blogs as per information obtained from Mayank via email dt. 28-Apr-10In Addition SEO has been done by ____ on over 200 blog postsPublishing guest articles on other major blogs the team has to provide us with highly researched articles on domestic violence which we will get published on some major blogs which are around the similar related topics thus we will drive the traffic of that site towards our site target of releasing 8 such articles in the month of March. Cl.4 of the contract Guest ArticlesThis one is pending because of lack of deliverable from Breakthrough side. We have at our end published one article on Jaago Re site.Photo and Blogger competition will be active apart from that we intend to create more competitions like creating an ad film on domestic violence we will talk help of other prominent bloggers to promote all these competitions by getting them to write an article on their blogs then we will also do facebook marketing campaigns on this ($100 value)Cl.5 of the contractTarget of adding more rss and newsletter subscribers we will make subscribing more intuitive and ImpulsiveCl.5 of the contractTake a Pledge badge has to be created and we will get numerous blogs (in India) to display the badge on their site.Cl.5 of the contractHave we used this? How are we going to use it? Can it be used during Mumbai Video Van?Yet to startQuestionsAny other strategy to increase twitter count? Ideas for Twitter campaignWe want to start the $200 Facebook ad campaign Can we at least 50% of it during the Mumbai Video Van (4th May to 18th May)? The Mumbai Video van What additional activities can we do twitter / blog contests any other suggestions?Live tweeting of Video Van with hashtag #videovan need to be hosted on our site and some contest around that need to be set up.We have the champion voices ready to be uploaded on multiple sites, when will this process begin?PART IIOverall Blog traffic1st Feb to 28th Apr10Quick Numbers: Total 10,197 visits27.55% Direct Traffic26.91% Referring Site45.53% Search EnginesTraffic through Search EnginesTop 3 search engine Google, Yahoo, BingTop 3 Key words Bell Bajao, Domestic Violence Act, Domestic Violence. All search key words are related to our cause (DV). At no.19 enters the first key words which are related to a recent blog post. The word is Hijab Hijab related post was written on 18th March Highest single day traffic 18th March Highest single twitter activity (RT and @replies) 18th March

Social media traffic is a combination of quality content and good SEO the traffic on 18th March is a proof of that. What worked, what didnt?Traffic from referring sitesTop 3 referring site: Facebook, Twitter,Breakthrough.tvActivities have been done by both Breakthrough and Rajat & team on Twitter and FacebookBreakthrough - created quality contentEngaged in one on one conversation on Twitter posted links of latest blog post on facebook and engaged in conversations

_____ & teamRedesigned Twitter page Set up co tweet, twitter toolTweeted on behalf of BT set up link between facebook and twitterSocial media traffic is a combination of quality content and good SEO This is clearly reflected from above. It is not possible to judge exactly which action got traffic. It is the combination and persistent efforts that works.What worked, what didnt?A list of case studies presented by Social Media consultancy - India SocialBell Bajao - Pratham Books Fast Track watchesClear Trip Mitsubishi CediaDr. Mani Children Heart FoundationWWF - Earth HourViacom 18 - Sony Erricson MTV Roadies Comparative study of the Indian Social Media Market Winners of the social media challenge contest amongst these cases1st Pratham Books2nd Fast Track watches3rd Clear Trip

Short Term Projects Category

1st Mitsubishi Cedia2nd Dr. Mani Children Heart Foundation3rd WWF - Earth Hour

http://www.indiasocial.in/case-challenge-winners/Fast Track watches - A major component of success for fan page was use of Facebook social ads - a paid feature. In addition Fast track has billboards, tv ads all through the year to get traffic to their main home page http://www.indiasocial.in/case-studies/fastrack/ Clear Trip - company offering airlines/railways ticketing service, cannot be compared with Bell Bajao.Mitsubishi Cedia - the prize announced was a basket of gadgets including laptops, cellphones and a cash prize of 10 lakks.WWF - Earth Hour - Paid online ad campaign on the Google site and its network sites.http://www.indiasocial.in/case-studies/wwfindia-earthhour/Viacom 18 - Sony Erricson MTV Roadies - Brand MTV is alone to create traffic. Taking a look at the resources used in some of these campaigns specially the winnersCONCLUSIONSuccess at Social Media campaign mostly depends upon a combination of various efforts - there are no direct cause and effect

The medium itself being in a nascent stage most strategies are created on an experimental basis.

Numbers increase by leaps and bounds only when we create a very aggressive external campaign with Extra ordinary corporate brand support Celebrity support Spend huge amount of money on offline marketing by TV, Radio, Newspaper, Billboards For eg. Aircels Save Tiger Campaign, Tata Teas Jaago Re, Fast Track, Cleartrip, Mitsubishi Cedia and more

Quality content is and personalized conversations is indispensable for a long term stability and sustainibility.

Even when the numbers jump by thousands they eventually fizzle outCont:SOME BASIC QUESTIONSHow will we judge the success and failure of our campaign?

What is our Bench Mark?

Who are our competitors?

Who should we compare ourselves with? Indian or International / corporate or non corporate

What is our target: How many hits per month? How many twitter followers per month? How many facebook fans?What kind of activities should our followers be engaged in?

Lastly, do we need a social media marketing strategy or a digital media agency?