The potential ways you can use social media to benefit your business are limitless. Even the NSW State Government has discovered the value of social media and experimented by holding NSW’s first ever parliamentary Twitter debate on Wednesday 16 June 2010. Although not that successful, the Government’s Twitter debate showed that trial and error is needed to achieve a social media strategy that works for you.
When it comes to sourcing ideas for social media tactics look at case studies of businesses that have successfully executed innovative social media strategies. The Honeytech Blog has an article listing the 10 Best Social Media Case Studies.
1. Coca Cola
Coco-Cola social media case study is one of the best examples available out there. The company was also named by Slate’s The Big Money as the brand “making the best use of Facebook,” and their well-publicized Expedition 206 campaign is billed as the company’s largest social media project ever. Coco-Cola has used several ways such as blogging, sharing photos/videos, tweets, social media apps to promote their brand and achieves huge success.
2. X-Men
During the movie release of the X-Men-3, “Last Stand”, it used the social networking site to promote itself. It added that all the users who will add the X-Men profile as a peer can use certain exclusive functionality. As a result of this media plan, almost 3 million members of the myspace.com community added X-Men as peer in just 1 month. The movie got a huge opening and it became the fourth-biggest movie in box office history.
3. British Airways
The airways launched the program Open skies. This program used social media and community marketing to promote itself. It created a corporate blog to influence the globe trotters. Managing Director Dale Moss even shared a blog with the common people so that they get to know about OpenSkies development. Then he discussed about the meal service and showed people the cabin classes.
4. Dell
Dell is usually known for its cost-effective methods that it uses and so it jumped in social media to reach people. Back in December, Dell reported that offers from its Dell Outlet Twitter account has booked more than $3 million in revenue attributable to its Twitter posts. It might sound like a small percentage for a company that books $16B in revenue annually–but a nice number however, especially in a dreary economy.
5. SAP
This third largest software company in the world faced a challenge in the year 2002. It wanted to become a platform company using NetWeaver. The company had to open its platform and allow the other developers to use the platform in order to solve their business problems. The company had to interact with several developers across the globe. As a result of which, the company gained global collaboration and adoption of new SAP products increased.
6. SeaWorld
The main aim of the Journey to Atlantis social media program was to develop contact with the coaster community and bring about alertness regarding Journey to Atlantis. Influential people said that social media will give a chance for SeaWorld to make inroads. So, 22 coaster enthusiast blogs and forums were recognized during its beginning period.
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