Post on 14-Aug-2015
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WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT
• Manage the media & influencers
• Build brand and sales
• Create advocates
• Profile-building
• Reputation management
• Crisis communications
• Executive coaching
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TWITTER AND THE FTSE100
We started tracking the FTSE 100 in April 2013
18 months of data and our second annual report – battenhall.net/ftse100
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KEY STATS • Companies have improved their use of Twitter for corporate
communications, customer service, consumer activation and recruitment across the board
• More verified Twitter accounts, higher following, and fewer inactive and unclaimed brands
• However, 63% of companies are between awful and average
• Top performers: Burberry, ITV, Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s
• Worst performers: GlencoreXstrata, Prudential, BHP Billiton and CRH
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SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCERS • The role of social media influencers in
audience & stakeholder engagement
• Influencers now have as large and influential audience as the media or as you and your brand
• Building and protecting reputations is all about social influencer engagement
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GETTING FIT FOR SOCIAL MEDIA Applying social media to PR & communications: what you should do next:
1. Audit your audience
2. New rules of engagement
3. Track conversations on social
4. Experiment in messaging and mobile
5. Innovate 1:9:90
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INNOVATION WITH 1:9:90 • Spend 90% of your time in social media on
your ‘big bets’ ie internal social networks, Facebook and Twitter
• Spend 9% of your time on innovations
• 1% of time should focus on ‘moon shots’ – the work that pushes boundaries and turns heads
• The impact of Generation Z: the Screenagers
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GENERATION Z: SCREENAGERS “teen social media use dictates future trends across all demographics”
Piper Jaffray, state of the internet 2014