1. 1. EPIC WIN (not fail) canitbesaturdaynow.com
2. 2. What is an EPIC Win on Social media? Best and worst social media campaigns for ideas and inspiration in your online marketing
3. 3. Is it clever photography?
4. 4. Or a viral internet meme like Nyan cat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4
5. 5. Or this BBC show? Most Interesting http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012f6pl
6. 6. Its great ideas that encourage discussion, sharing or contribution on social media Such as this
7. 7. #MakeMyPersona
8. 8. HubSpot - marketing software - provide tools and info Narrow target audience - Marketers LI message links through to
9. 9. Buyer Personas landing page. Personas are a way of looking at your audience as manageable identities. Can be hard - Hubspot created tool to make it easy
10. 10. I answered questions and received bespoke persona profile. Follow-up call from Brian in sales a few days later
11. 11. Asked Hubspot to tell me more
12. 12. Surpassed goal to generate leads within first week - Sales had more meaningful conversations than if the lead had requested a software demo. Channel breakdown: Email: 23%, Direct: 20%, Blog: 18%, Linkedin: 13%, Referral: 6%, Twitter: 3.5%
13. 13. #TheDress
14. 14. What colour is #TheDress
15. 15. Image posted on Tumblr first. Buzzfeed picked up story 3 hours later
16. 16. When Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber get involved - You know its a hit Graph from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31659395
17. 17. Lego gets involved https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/571301337696210944
18. 18. Salvation army responds quickly changing theme to domestic abuse http://www.people.com/article/salvation-army-the-dress-domestic-violence-psa
19. 19. The article set the internet alight, and has now been viewed more than 24 million times. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31659395 Amazing traffic!
20. 20. Settle argument its Black and Blue. http://www.romanoriginals.co.uk/invt/70931?Colour=Royal-Blue
21. 21. How to be more deaf Aware Gloucestershire Deaf Association (GDA). Help deaf and hard of hearing people to live independently and without fear
22. 22. I found the video funny, compelled to share @GlosDeaf 1400 followers
23. 23. Series of 5 videos: 1st: 3,840 views, 2nd: 1000+, 3rd-5th: 400 Dave the Signer was the most popular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKs_gAuzsvE
24. 24. Reg James Asked Gemma, GDAs Social Media manager about campaign - Reg, profoundly deaf - James is a BSL interpreter - Video funded through Lloyds TSB grant - Promoted via Twitter, 700 RT, 200 mentions - Website users up 25% - Side effect was they were invited to present at deaf awareness groups
25. 25. Astute Graphics Survey
26. 26. AG make a series of amazing plugins for Illustrator They use friendly language and have a creative but very professional audience Social media, great initial response but Immediate tail off
27. 27. Clever update 2 days later. Not begging again but showing how others have already filled out the survey
28. 28. Brilliant email as survey emails often dull Email blast to audience of 40,000 with slower tail off that social media 865 total responses in a week, a 2% conversion rate which is great!
29. 29. 805 Million Names Campaign from World Food Program Features Zlatan Ibrahimovich, footballer
30. 30. he has tatoos of people fighting hunger daily A captivating and important message http://cdn.wfp.org/2015/805millionnames/
31. 31. Sharp ramp up with long tail and some bumps. This shows some longevity in the campaign
32. 32. Loctite POSITIVE FEELINGS 12 DANCE MIX In contrast to 805 Million names video is this
33. 33. Mixed feelings - It grabs attention but not emotion Do you like it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKe7j9tSwW4
34. 34. Mixed feelings - It grabs attention but not emotion Do you like it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKe7j9tSwW4
35. 35. EPIC FAIL
36. 36. #McDstories Tag positive stories about McDonalds Realise that not everybody will follow the script
37. 37. Dressing up Fail Oops, how did that get on there?
38. 38. 2013 - Horseman scandal Posted to 47,000 followers - viral on Twitter Apparently scheduled before scandal news broke - Oops
39. 39. Sam Smith - Popular artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaMq2nn5ac0
40. 40. Posted after his concert in Nashville http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30576919
41. 41. 4 Hours later he posted this message to Instagram and Twitter Fans not impressed
42. 42. . Speaking of epic fails - Lets have our own caption competition ;)
43. 43. Be Sociable 3 things I recommend for an EPIC Win
44. 44. Help others first Get noticed by helping other people or organisations with similar audience to you
45. 45. Be yourself Be honest, open and true to your business values
46. 46. Create and share interesting stuff Create content people want to share
47. 47. Follow me on Twitter for marketing ideas and inspiration @BenKinnaird Visit my company ratherinventive.com or download this amazing book :) https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/be-sociable/id920153675