Social Media Landscape Guide

Here’s a great guide for marketers from CMO.com on the value of various social media properties, from Facebook to YouTube to Digg and beyond, which media outlets will net the most bang for the buck in terms of customer communication, brand exposure, traffic, and SEO? This is a useful tool for any marketer when thinking about which social media engines to engage with, also get a PDF of the guide here.

The 4T: (Twitter Top Ten Tips)

 

  1. Keep it short and tweet. Leave space for a RT and commentary
  2. Link it. Always include a link if you can
  3. Neat it. Keep it interesting with links, news, funny things likely to get retweeted
  4. Hash your tweet. Use hashtags, more people will find your tweets increasing the chance for a RT
  5. Simply ask. Ask for a retweet, if there’s something you want to share with many people ask them to retweet. (Add “please RT” to the message)
  6. Timing is of the Tweet. Think about what time messages are sent, what is the best time for your audience to receive your message?
  7. Keep it fresh. Add new info, don’t rehash the old
  8. Vanity doesn’t RT. Don’t talk about yourself showcase partners or customers
  9. Use the mavens. RT influencers, they will often do the same for you
  10. Say thanks. Send immediate thanks after they retweet you

 Additional services to try:

  • PleaseRT.me
  • Tweetmeme (a BizSpark co.) – allows you to RT and track it

 

A few good links on ReTweeting:

http://twittertips.org/how-to-get-more-people-to-retweet-you-on-twitter.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/twitter-iterations.html

http://mashable.com/2009/07/02/how-to-get-retweeted/

http://www.hubspot.com/archive/science-of-retweets

The World’s Most Valuable Brands

Ever wonder who is the best at digital engagement? What aspects of digital and social media marketing do the top brands in the world use? I had an interesting website sent my way recently: www.engagementdb.com The Engagement Database collects and ranks the top companies brand engagement level based on their social media presence such as social networking sites, video, images, audio sharing, collaborative tools, blogs, and micro blogs.

top brands
The rankings are determined by looking at engagement holistically with a collection of depth and breadth engagement methods such as how deeply involved different departments of the organization and how executives are involved in digital channels.  The result is a visual graph showing companies with high vs low engagement and single vs multiple channels. You can also drill into each company to get additional details on the types of digital media they are using. This would seem to serve very useful for small or mid-sized businesses to take a look at what digital aspects the big players like Starbucks, Microsoft, and Nike are engaged in.

You can also add your own company to the mix by filling out a survey and see how you stack up against the mega brands. You can also grab the online PDF of the top 99 brands here