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Ghostwriting for Social Media – Why You Need an Agency

ghost + writing = yeah, that was too easy.

ghost + writing = yeah, that was too easy.

If you have ever used a public relations agency, you probably got press releases and a press kit out of the experience.  Based on what the agency learned about your company, the staff was able to draft documents that reflected your mission and your vision.  The agency knew enough about you to write on your behalf using your “voice.”

That brings us to social media.  A complaint we hear so often from prospects and our own clients is, “I just don’t have interest or time to write blog posts or update Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest etc. etc.” – the list goes on.

Bingo.  The same smart ghostwriting that went into your corporate press materials is available to keep your brand in front of the million of eyeballs on the web.  Once an agency knows your  philosophy, which is the first step in getting to know a client, they will easily be able to translate those corporate messages into more humanized posts and interactions for social media. We represent a brand by telling its story in pithy educational blog posts, 140 character tweets and photos and videos on Facebook that make followers want to come back for more.

Our goal is to spend about six months setting up channels while learning about your audience and its habits. We’ll develop strategies, identify your ambassadors and influencers and set your team up for success. At that point it is often smart for a client to hire someone in house to keep the momentum going. We’ll prepare them for the ever-changing road map of social media so they can drive results home.

-Susan, TGPR

Cheat Sheet – Social Media Image Sizes

Thank you LunaMetrics for the ultimate, complete, final cheat sheet for social media image sizes. See below…but is it “final?” Certainly don’t want to jinx that, but it will probably be hours before FB modifies their layout and image specs. :) -Dan, TGPRsocial-media-sizing-cheat-sheet

TGPR Launches YooHoo & Friends Social Promo

We’ve launched a social promotion for our client Aurora’s best selling brand, YooHoo & Friends. For the first time ever, fans of the best selling toy line (over 22 million sold) have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to help design the next special edition YooHoo. Hosted on the official YooHoo & Friends Facebook page, the contest asks contestants to download a predesigned template of line art. Then, either by drawing or using a computer program (e.g.: Photoshop) contestants design their entries for consideration in an all new YooHoo dinosaur line to hit shelves in April 2013. Bonus: the winning design will be made into a special edition YooHoo to debut at Toy Fair 2013. To enter, please visit the official Facebook page at http://facebook.com/yoohoofanpage.

Here are examples of just a few of the entries so far:

If you are interested in running a social promotion, we can help. They are great for crowd sourcing, increasing viral reach and exposure, collecting user information and most importantly — they are fun and entertaining for your fans.

Our social promo platform runs on Facebook, your website or as a standalone website for example and we can host photo, video, audio, text or mixed entries (which can be judged or voted on by other users). For more information, contact me at dan at tellemgrodypr dot com or give us a call at 310-313-3444.

-Dan, TGPR

Dear Bands: Don’t Share This Graphic

This graphic is spreading around Facebook clearly demonstrating who “gets” Facebook, and who does not. As of writing this post, the graphic has over 1,100 likes and 3,100 shares. I ask each and every one of you — what is it that you expect Facebook to do for you or your band besides giving you a platform to reach new audiences?

I’ve got news for you, musicians. Your page’s updates aren’t being restricted and have never reached 100% of your audience. Same with Twitter and a single tweet. Your band is competing with a stream of hundreds of updates from other pages and friends. Fact is, the only people restricting and messing up what you do is you.

What bands have to remember — as fans, we have the choice to subscribe to frequent updates or put you on lists so we don’t miss. We also have the choice to visit pages when we want. What are you doing to get us to your page or put you on our interest lists? What is your internal marketing strategy and what are we getting on Facebook that we can’t get anywhere else?

With the way a lot of bands approach social media, Facebook might be doing us a favor. And if you still think we need to see each and every update, I hear there is a great new feature on FB that let’s you do just that.

-Dan, TGPR

New Facebook Feature: Promoted Posts

Who’s ready for the next Facebook feature to start popping up on the post your about to publish? Some of the pages we admin are getting the new message:

Introducing promoted posts…I’m scared. Not because this is a bad idea, but because marketers will find a way to abuse this feature and p!ss off its user base.

Let’s not forget that Facebook is a community. The site is designed to show each individual user what Facebook thinks will be most appealing to them. If you don’t engage with pages you like, you’re probably not going to see what they post.

What if a page that you liked in passing, but don’t really engage with, started shoving content down your throat? Content with no filter on quality – that you see only because the company paid enough $$$ to make sure you see it?

Yucky. Or maybe the better term is one I just observed on the license plate of a car passing by, “Doodies.”

$20 may expand the reach of your single post from 25% to 50% to 95% percent, but if the content is garbage, you’re just going to throw your money away.

Want to see improved reach/exposure and engagement? Be smart…be patient…be creative…have a strategy in place and know your audience.

-Dan, TGPR