Most of today’s content strategies involve publishing hundred of bits of content per month across social networks, without any cohesive story or narrative behind the content. These random pieces of information tell a story to your fans and customers, whether intended or not.
Are you telling the right brand story?
This hands-on session will help you:
· Identify the genre or type of story that you want to tell
· Develop a monthly story arc in your content calendar
· Create compelling, interesting characters your customers will want to engage
· Invite your customers to be in your story
· Frame your story within the Facebook Timeline layout
3. About @CarriBugbee
• Join @PeggyOlson’s creative team (new
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marketing strategist & speaker;
advertising/PR pro
• Social TV columnist/analyst & editorial
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TheSocialMediaMonthly.com
• Contributing author: ―The Big Book of
Social Media Case
Studies, Stories, Perspectives”
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4. About @MarkWilliams
• Director of Social Strategy & Content
Programming, LiveWorld
• Theater Actor, Director and Producer
• ―Forest Gump‖ of social media
• BA in History, MFA in Theater
• Travel in 6 continents, 50 states Client history includes:
• Kraft
• facebook.com/mark.williams2 Foods, HBO, MINI, QVC, S
print, TJX, a major sports
league and…
• mark@liveworld.com • #1 retailer in the world
• #1 CPG
• #1 Travel & Financial
Services
• #1 and #2 Pharmaceutical
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5. Workshop Agenda
• Introduction (15 min.)
• What is Social Storytelling and Who Is Doing It? (30 min.)
• Break (10 min.)
• Developing A Storytelling Framework/worksheets (35
min.)
• Freightliner video (5 min.)
• Break (10 min.)
• Audience Participation – Lightening Round! (35min.)
• Social Samba (5 min.)
• Wrap up (5 min.)
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6. Workshop Agreements
1. Be Kind FrieNDA
1. The Timekeeper Rules
1. You Know When The Break Is FIVE
2. Have Fun and Participate
3. The Timekeeper Rules
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12. Storytelling has always been at
the core of smart marketing
―It's not called the
Wheel. It's called a
Carousel. It lets us
travel the way a
child travels.
Around and
around, and back
home again... to a
place where we
know we are
loved.‖
- Don Draper
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14. This is the Next Wave
Social storytelling:
• Includes customer stories as part of the brand
story
• Conveys brand attributes in a more memorable
context
• Entertains customers and keeps them interested
• Teaches and educates in a fun, non-preachy way
• Inspires customers to spread the word about you
• Builds fans and advocates
• Maybe even goes vir… (the marketing tactic that
must not be named!) #storytell #sxsw
15. Share What We See
Offer A Path
Inspire Your Next Step
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17. Case Study: Old Spice
with special guest Dean McBeth
Formerly senior digital strategist at Wieden+Kennedy
Now SVP of digital strategy and content at Ketchum Digital
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18. Old Spice guy started in a ―super
bowl‖ commercial (actually just on the
Web)
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23. Top 10 Tips for Social Storytelling
1. Customer comments/actions will guide good story
ideas
• What are customers are doing/saying now? Expand on
that.
• Even negative comments can inspire ideas.
2. Social stories are often non-linear
• You may have to work hard to maintain a consistent thread
and story arc; people in social spaces are ADHD.
• People will pop in and out; look for ways to pull them back
in.
3. Stories should be both structured and
improvisational
• Create a plan, but know some of it will change.
• Pay attention to what people like and do more of that.
• Respond in the moment to create surprise and delight. #sxsw
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24. Top 10 Tips for Social Storytelling
4. Use each social media platform to its best advantage
• Create stand-alone platform experiences that are
enhanced by cross-platform participation.
• Need team members who really know your platforms—
technical and community expertise.
5. Give people something to do—and reward them
• Build in incremental payoffs along the way.
• People want to know how hard they’re going to work and
what they’ll get for their time.
6. Highly visual
• Tell your story in pictures as well as words.
• You can even tell a story with just pictures (or video).
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25. Top 10 Tips for Social Storytelling
7. Focus on share-ability
• Create moments that’ll make people want to spread your
content.
• Incorporate the right tools to do this (obvious and easy to
use).
8. Use data to personalize the experience
• Track what people like and what they say.
• Gather social data via authentication tools and apps.
9. Track your biggest fans—pay it forward & give back
• They’ll help seed your content & be your champions.
• They might also be your test group.
10. No storytelling talent on your team? Get outside
help—and develop internal team (may take awhile)
• Hire experienced writers/storytellers for project work.
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27. Other fans thought it was a ―real‖
campaign
“…now it looks like the show's
marketing team has stepped up the
game again by really jumping into
the social media space.”
34. Elements of a Story
(check out pages 4-8 in the handout)
Resolution
&
Denouement
Time Limits | Rising
Action
Initiating Action |
O b s t a c l e s
Characters | POV | Objectives
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35. Three Ridiculously Easy Ways
To Improve Your Brand Story NOW
• Change Your Perspective: It’s About
Customers, Not You
• Weave a Theme into your Messages to Create an
Arc
• Incorporate Fan Responses to Advance the Story
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36. Five Elements To Telling Any
Story
1. A Character We Identify With
2. Context For The Story
• Place – literal, channel/medium (text, images,
video)
• Time
• Relationship With Another Character
3. A Challenge To Overcome
4. A Story Arc with an Ending
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37. Why Do People Participate In Social Netw
• To Express Themselves
• To Connect With or Make Friend
• To Gain Attention
• To Gain Status
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39. Let’s Break It Down
1. Who Is The Character We Identify With?
2. What Is The Context For The Story?
• Place -
• Time -
• Relationship With Another Character –
3. What Challenge To Overcome?
4. Is There A Story Arc with an Ending?
5. Is It A Social Story?
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41. Platform strengths & usage opps
(online)
1. Facebook
A. Big audience potential
B. Multi-media—video, photos, interactive apps
C. Offline component—events, check-ins, deals
D. Threaded conversations
E. Robust advertising platform
F. Real people with mostly symmetrical relationships
2. Twitter
A. Discovery—people can find like-minded people and topics of
interest
B. Tagged conversations—hashtags make it easy to find/track
info
C. Trends—organic and paid
D. Brevity
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E. Becoming multimedia (nascent with video, aka Vine)
42. Platform strengths & usage opps
(online)
3. Pinterest
A. Visual
B. Heavily skewed female (fashion, beauty, weddings, gifts)
C. Aspirations, interests and hobbies
D. Topic-based
E. Self-branded identities
4. Location-based apps (FourSquare, etc.)
A. Geo-targeted campaigns/activities
B. Distribution to other social channels
C. Mapping
D. Augmented reality (with third-party add ons)
E. Tips and reviews
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43. Platform strengths & usage opps
(online)
5. Instagram
A. Creative and playful
B. Highly mobile
C. Time and place (easy to track)
6. LinkedIn
A. B2B focus
B. Other ideas?
7. YouTube (and other video sites)
8. Blogs (on domain)
9. Owned communities
10. Branded mobile apps
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44. Case Study: Freightliner
with special guest Tom Bennett
Formerly sr. strategist at The New Group
Now strategy consultant with XPLANE
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58. Deep Engagement:
• 9.98 min / visit
• 2.82 visits / unique
• 32% referral traffic
• 7,171,626 in-story comments
2012 Emmy Nominee
Productive Customers Interactive Television
Programming
SocialSamba Inc.
The Leader in Social Storytelling
www.socialsamba.com
Aaron Williams
Co-Founder, CEO
p: 408-337-2622
e: aaron@socialsamba.com
59. Three Things To Remember
1. It’s an EVOLUTION, not a revolution
2. Give people something to do and reward
them.
3. Plan to adapt: listen, respond and react.
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Notes de l'éditeur
Time Allotted – 1 minuteOffer a common definition, and take a look at 4 examples of storytelling in different stages of evolution.Where are you now? Stages of Evolution matrixThe Building Blocks of Telling a Social Marketing StoryOne of our Favorite ExamplesWorkbook review – we will NOT use every Worksheet in Here TodayThe Fun Part – Lightening Crowdsourced Storytelling Brainstorm. 5 minutes MAX per person, as many as we can get in
Time Allotted: 1 minuteBe Kind FrieNDA – if you are so inclined, feel free to tweet out GOOD examples, but please do not call out brands by name if we use them as a “could be better” example.The TimeKeeper rules. We won’t intentionally be rude, but we did a run thru of this and discovered that there’s a lot to cover and 2.5 hours really isn’t that long to get thru it all. So we need to keep things moving.Questions are encouraged, but if they get too far off the topic, we will cut the discussion off. You can always grab me for a beer later on and share the rest of your thoughts. I love this kind of stuff and am happy to continue the conversation.If you need a bio-break before the break, take one. The break is scheduled at 90 minutes, or about the length of a movie.Have fun! This is a creative process. This can’t be as hands-on as we would have liked, but you’ll get out of it what you put into it.Say hi to Dawn – she’s the timekeeper. Grab me after the workshop or in email if you’d like.
Up to 4 minutes allotted to define Storytelling, and Why/Make a Case for it.
Class Goals (3 minutes)1. We want to share what we see. This is not a proof of concept – we’re here to try to convince you with a lot of data and science on WHY this is next evolutionary step. Social marketing will evolve this way whether you believe it will or not. Why is a fascinating question and we’re happy to discuss it with anyone after the workshop, but we have a lot of material to get thru, so we’re going to limit discussion or questions that go down that path.Goal 1: We’re here to share with you our experience, and some case studies of brands who are already going down this path.2. We’re also here to provide the tools to move your brand or clients down this path. You will notice a workbook at every chair. That’s yours to keep and you can fill it out while you’re here, or take it back to work and use it with your team. We know it’s not PC to print things out these days – but we did this for a reason. Consider using this workbook to be a transmedia experience. You are also free to improve upon the worksheets you see there, disregard or change them completely. We’re not saying that this is THE method to get you going down the storytelling – it’s A method. These are open source, so improve on them as you will, and share them when you can.3. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. We hope the workshop gets you thinking creatively and strategically, and helps you take the first 10 steps or so down the storytelling path.
Time Allotted: 20 minutes
Can’t join the community without a VIN, Profile is in your MINI’s identity, not yoursOwner is an extension of the car – you track your car’s birth, manufacturing, shipping. The car goes on trips and logs miles, not youApple adapters, high performance engine, convertible, twin rear doors – all come out of community suggestionsNYC Artists, stories are around non-car experiences based on the type of people who buy MINI’s. (quirky, eclectic, smart)Even ads are customer centric – more about the person who buys a MINI, not features of the car. (will even highlight their flaws and promote them as a strength)