{"id":38532,"date":"2015-10-12T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/?p=38532"},"modified":"2015-12-16T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:22:39","slug":"social-and-mobile-pr-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bruceclay.com\/blog\/social-and-mobile-pr-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Social and Mobile PR Secrets – Pubcon Liveblog"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you want press for your business? Yes, please! This “Social and Mobile PR Secrets” session from SMX East will help you use social media in traditional and new ways to reach and influence the media. New opportunities to be covered by today\u2019s speakers include making sure your content is mobile-friendly and targeting the media through paid Facebook promotions.<\/p>\n Moderator:<\/strong>\u00a0Melanie Mitchell\u00a0(@melaniemitchell<\/a>)<\/p>\n Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n How to get press? That\u2019s the big question for all of us. He\u2019s getting emails and messages asking him, as a writer for Forbes, if he would please write about their company. He asks why should he? You have to be amazing or tell a great story. Here are some questions to ask yourself:<\/p>\n Generally, people care because they have a problem that needs to be solved. Before you start approaching potential writers, go back to the basics. What does the company do, what problem does it solve, who are you solving it for, and how can you present the context to the audience and illustrate the solution?<\/p>\n When you answer those questions, look at the publications you\u2019re targeting and then research that publication to see what is the most popular content there. Fit your story into that format.<\/p>\n When they write about you, promote the heck out of it. Writers are trying to get their content to have tons of views and shares. If someone takes the time to write about your company, take that third-party endorsement and share that with your current audience. You might grow a new audience. Use Outbrain to promote it. Make it a promoted tweet.<\/p>\n How do you meet press and get started with outreach? <\/strong><\/p>\n Your email inbox is constantly full of spam. Spam is from someone you don\u2019t know about something you don\u2019t care about. If you get to know someone and what they like, then your subject line\/title can be one line about something they like and care about.<\/p>\n Newlands introduced the concept of public relations. There\u2019s overlap with social, mobile and visual and opportunity to reach your customers and prospects. It\u2019s critical to have this as part of your strategy.<\/p>\n The 2015 trends for journalists using social:<\/p>\n Mobile devices are the preferred method of reading. Even though you may be crafting something from a laptop or desktop, your reader is probably reading it from their mobile device.<\/p>\n Buyer says 78 percent of Facebook users access the content from their mobile phones at least once a month. Think mobile first! Social advertising is predicted to grow to $35.98 billion by 2017. Journalists are trying to grow their own following \u2014 can you share their content? They\u2019ll notice you and think to look at you as a source.<\/p>\n Time online is more common on mobile than desktop.<\/p>\n Mobile PR strategies for you to implement:<\/strong><\/p>\n How can you optimize social for mobile?<\/strong><\/p>\n Instagram Video \u2013 use Instagram to tell your brand story.<\/span><\/p>\n Get organic exposure you\u2019re looking for:<\/p>\n When you’re optimizing mobile PR content, here’s a list of tips to think about:<\/p>\n Get to the point very quickly. Look at things like load time and high-res visual quality.<\/p>\n Use the mobile apps that your audience uses. Giving equal weight to everything will cause you to burn out, so focus.<\/p>\n Mobile apps for PR storytelling:<\/strong><\/p>\n Optimizing a local business for Yelp:<\/strong><\/p>\n Make sure you\u2019re watching your reputation as it evolves on social media.<\/p>\n Do a mobile PR audit on social media by going through your assets to see if you\u2019re optimized. Check out new channels and see if they make sense for your brand. For example, Facebook just launched Mentions, which is currently only available for verified celebrities.<\/p>\n For measurement, consider your KPIs<\/strong>:<\/p>\n What does success look like?<\/p>\n Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n Little tweaks can make a huge difference. Continue to evolve, create benchmarks, monitor and adjust. In three months things may be different, so stay on top of the trends.<\/p>\n This is all new material and he\u2019s excited to share it with us. There will be a download of an import into Facebook Power Editor. He\u2019s going to talk about targeting media roles and influencers.<\/p>\n \u201cRooting\u201d \u2014 a new vernacular he hopes we\u2019ll become familiar with by the end of this.<\/p>\n Know what you call “branding” if you’re talking to media people? Public relations.<\/p>\n This applies to all channels with psychographic targeting. Google, Blue Kai, Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n When you\u2019re fishing for journalists, what you pitch has to be more than good, it has to be stunning. Ask yourself, does anybody care about this or is it an inside joke?<\/p>\n There are a couple ways to approach it (all psychographic targeting). Deciding how to slice up humanity requires you just go for it and say \u201cthis thing mostly does it for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Persona rooting tactic #1: Job titles. <\/strong><\/p>\n More Demographics > Work > Job Titles<\/p>\n Examples include \u201cjournalist,\u201d \u201ccorrespondent,\u201d and \u201ctumblr.\u201d<\/p>\n Next, segment the job titles bucket (the root) by interest and income.<\/p>\n Look for clarifiers in the interest bucket that signal they\u2019re a do-er (like \u201cwriter\u201d).<\/p>\n Persona rooting tactic #2: Behavior<\/strong><\/p>\n He loves rooting things in the behavior bucket because it\u2019s intent-based. When you root persona in the behavior bucket, there\u2019s often money and stuff they like to do.<\/p>\n Little Blue Book explains sources, uses and targeting slices, excluding Facebook, Google, Twitter.<\/p>\n Persona rooting tactic #3: Bloggers as the interest root <\/strong><\/p>\n If you take business marketing as the behavior on top of the blogger interest root, you\u2019re focusing your target.<\/p>\n Add industry, such as \u201carts, entertainment, sports and media,\u201d if that\u2019s your target.<\/p>\n You can get \u201ccreepy\u201d next. How about starting from bloggers as interest and sports and media as industry and then add all the sports teams as employers. Now you\u2019ve really targeted a group.<\/p>\n You can find the top 50 newspapers in America in the employer bucket.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s all the people who blog for the New York Times:<\/p>\n As you drive people into the system, cookie them for retargeting or remarketing. It\u2019s your job to keep following them and run search campaigns for them and save them as lists.<\/p>\n Want to subscribe to the Super Secret Psychographic Social Distribution Weekly Tip Sheet? Get one of these pieces of targeting every week. Email Marty at aimclear.com.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the CSV Power Editor download: http:\/\/www.aimclearblog.com\/downloads\/seoktoberfest.zip<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Murray Newlands: How to Meet the Press<\/h2>\n
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Lisa Buyer: Social\/Mobile PR \u2013 The Hook-Up<\/h2>\n
Opportunity of Mobile Public Relations<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Marty Weintraub: Today\u2019s Rad Facebook Audience Targeting Hacks<\/h2>\n
Targeting Media Influencers<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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