Social Media Strategy Best Practice Guide
Part of our Social Media Best Practice Guide bundle, this report aims to identify best practice approaches, techniques, measurement considerations, challenges and opportunities for creating your social media strategy.
It contains actionable, real-world insight with detailed explanations to help you start and improve your performance on social media platforms.
Throughout the report, we bring you examples of how companies are using social media in different ways, as well as insights from companies interviewed specifically for this guide.
For more details on the main features of social media platforms and the most pressing considerations for marketers looking to generate the most value from social media, read the complementary Social Media Platforms Overview and the Paid Social Media Advertising report.
Methodology
The methodology involved two main phases:
- Phase 1: Desk research to identify relevant issues, examples and models.
- Phase 2: A series of in-depth interviews with a range of senior digital and non-digital marketers, communications leads and social media strategists.
Lead author
The lead author for our social media best practice guides is Michelle Goodall, an experienced consultant. She has more than 17 years’ B2C and B2B experience client and agency-side, providing digital transformation and social media strategy advice and support.
She has worked with a wide range of clients, including London2012, BBC, Direct Line Group, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Barclays Bank, Coca Cola, Unilever, US Embassy, and many others.
Michelle is a trainer and consultant for Econsultancy and can generally be found curating things that smart people write / make / do and getting to grips with Peach and other peripheral / transformative / game-changing technologies for her clients.
Contributors
The author and Econsultancy wish to extend sincere thanks to the following respected professionals who have contributed to the report:
- Richard Bagnall – CEO, PRIME Research UK & SVP PRIME Research Europe
- Alison Traboulsi – Social Media Editor, Direct Line Group
- Kerry Taylor – EVP, MTV International. Chief Marketing Officer, Viacom UK at Viacom
- Guy Stephens – Social Customer Care Consultant, IBM
- Stephen Waddington – Partner and Chief Engagement Officer, Ketchum
- Ros Lawler – Digital Director, Tate
- Mark Frankel – Social Media Editor, BBC News
- Helen Wood – Planning Director, H&K Strategies
- Sophie Mindell – Content & Publishing Strategist, H&K Strategies
- Matt Owen – Founder, Atomise Marketing
- Alison Spray – Director of Data and Insights, H&K Strategies (AMEC Board Member)
- Jeff Semones – Managing Partner, Head of Social Media, MediaCom
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