SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING PLAN
Table of Contents
Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 2
Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3
Brief Overview……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4
Observing Social Media Presence……………………………………………………………………………………… 5
Competitive Analysis………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6
Goal Strategies……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 9
Determining Strategies…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10
Recognizing the Objective Market…………………………………………………………………………………… 10
Actualizing Stage instruments…………………………………………………………………………………………. 11
Facebook……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 11
Twitter…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12
LinkedIn………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13
YouTube………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13
Instagram……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 13
Swarm and Foursquare……………………………………………………………………………………………. 14
Content Advancement in Yellow taxi Chicago………………………………………………………………….. 14
Content Creation Strategies for Yellow Taxi Chicago…………………………………………………. 15
Role Assignment in Yellow Cab Chicago………………………………………………………………….. 15
Monitoring Tools for Yellow Cab Chicago………………………………………………………………………. 16
Return on Investment of Yellow Cab Chicago………………………………………………………………….. 17
References……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 18
Executive Summary
The social media marketing plan is specifically designed for adoption by Yellow Cab Chicago, a taxi company based in Chicago, Illinois.
The primary goals of this social media marketing plan will be:
- Increase its awareness among the young working generation.
- Increase the traffic into the cab company and thus increasing the chances of having new customers.
- Increase customer satisfaction. This satisfaction comes about when the customer knows that he or she will get a personalized response after commenting on a post on the company’s social media platforms.
- Generating and implementing new product ideas.
- Driving recommendations via word of mouth to the target market.
Therefore, the ultimate goal of this Social Media Marketing Plan is to increase customer check-in, engagement, and retention among the affluent working class. The plan is developed following a careful examination of the company’s contemporary.
Brief Overview
These young working generations rarely use these cabs to and from work. It thus represents a niche in the market that has not yet been discovered by the company. As we all know, social media can influence, engage, and also observe this market section. These actions can help attract and retain the young working-class market as Yellow cabs esteemed customers. It is in the combination of the Yellow cabs, the vast number of cabs, and their unique and safe cab services. I addition to this, many young working generations, work within the municipality of Chicago in Illinois. The Yellow Cabs are also based within the municipality. It defines their proximity to the target market.
The social media marketing plan can be used as a competitive advantage by Yellow Cab Chicago over others in the following ways:
- Advertising and marketing also can put Yellow Cab Chicago a notch higher than other cab services in Chicago. Adverts appearing on other media platforms will tempt the readers to click on them, and there will be a redirect to the company’s social media platforms. It will increase traffic to social media pages.
- Engaging customers via social media will also be an advantage to the company.
Observing Social Media Presence
Here, we are going to discuss the five key metrics that can be used to measure the social media market brand health. These metrics are :
- Sentiment Analysis
- Reach: at alludes to the number of extraordinary individuals who have seen a post content.
- Company posts
- Feedback: Each time somebody taps the like catch on a Facebook post, it is deliberate as a response.
- Average response time.
| Metrics | Sentiment Analysis | Reach | Company Posts | Feedback | Average Response Time |
| Facebook page
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Positive-25%
Neutral-12% Negative-63% |
Approximately one hundred people per day. | Five posts on the last five years | Two to three comments per post, one to two likes. | Response time is one year |
| Twitter Account | Positive- 25%
Neutral- 50% Negative- 25% |
Approximately fifty followers | Five posts on the last five years | One or no comment per post.
One or no like in each post Two to three retweets per post. |
Response time is one year. |
Competitive Analysis
We will use SWOT criteria to determine the competitive analysis of the yellow Cab Chicago Company.
| Strengths
Facebook is an exuberant stage for the yellow taxi Chicago along these lines being an enthusiastic property The staff is excited about working with Facebook as they react to grievances from customers. |
Weaknesses
Yellow Cab Chicago has a constrained portrayal via web-based networking media. It is not spoken to in the majority of the web-based life pages. The Yellow taxis Chicago twitter and Facebook accounts are inconsistent. The present online life situation does not fulfill the necessities of the young common laborer’s age. In the yellow cab Chicago, the management has been much reluctant to commit itself towards Social media marketing. The staff seems not experienced in working with social media pages such as YouTube and Linked In. |
| Opportunities
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Linked In have the highest number of the target audience. These young working generations tend to be spectators on these social media platforms. The cabs in the Yellow cab company are many. The well of working young generation is a strong emerging market on all social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and YouTube. The target market(young working generation) has many unmet needs from the social media complaints that they air, and this could thus act as a backbone to the perspiration of Yellow Cab Chicago. |
Threats
The number of followers on twitter is one million followers comparing to 151 followers for the Yellow cab Chicago. In Facebook, Uber has got 22 million page likes compared to 400-page likes for Yellow cab Chicago. On Instagram and YouTube, Yellow can Chicago has no accounts while Uber has got 1.3 million followers and 390 thousand subscribers, respectively. There are no available monitoring tools that track and measure the progress across social media platforms. The management has been reluctant to deploy aggressive measures towards the SMM campaign due to risks and costs in practice.
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Goal
With the analysis, we have done and the reconnaissance we have already had, we can now come up with the goal strategies of our Social media marketing plan. Yellow cab Chicago can attract new young working generation with a more comprehensive social media marketing plan.
Below are some of the goals in social media marketing that can help achieve the plan
- Search Engine Optimization(SEO). The target here is to reach in 10 search appearances every day for one month.
- Gain 1000 page likes on Facebook in the next one month.
- Promoting advocacy. Here the goal is to achieve 5 mentions in a week for 30 days.
Strategies
Yellow Cab Chicago should seek an exceptionally forceful arrangement of procedures for its SMM crusade. Such an extensive methodology is not without dangers since it speaks to a sizeable interest in faculty and is time expending and costly.
Yellow Cab Chicago Company’s far-reaching online networking include:
- Listening to the social network to find out where the Yellow Cab is cited, who is debating it, and what draws the brand in consumers, as well as what is said about the brand of the contenders.
- Interacting with customers on Facebook and Twitter, where
the attention is often on these youthful working years.
- It can be inferred by going around as a patron and not an over-advertiser.
- Engaging with YouTube viral brand recordings and pictures to push the mouth
expression (recommendations) suggesting the warm, cordial atmosphere of the administration is given.
- Influencing the target showcase with recordings from Youtube with the idea chiefs from the taxi business enrolling them to help shape opinions about the organization administrations to advance Yellow taxi organization backing to the social web.
A firm may know the profile of its intended interest group; however, it cannot know the conduct, premiums, and tastes of the objective market. They might be radical about being treated here and there. Yellow Taxi Chicago has a broad scope of market fragments extending from schoolers to elderly individuals. In our case, we will be focusing on the youth working generation.
Platform Tools
Every social media platform requires one of a kind and tweaked strategies.
Facebook is the most well-known site supporting up to 900 million visits for a month. It is appropriate for associating with potential clients and existing customers.
Steps
- Create a Facebook page lets say a fan page.
- Allow individuals to become fans and follow the page.
- Customize the page to reflect the Yellow taxi Chicago style and the qualities.
- The page ought to refresh with Content pertinent and drawing in for Facebook clients.
- The page ought to be refreshed at any rate three days.
- Promotions likewise have a crucial influence on the advancement of a brand. Coupon codes and limited-time occasions will draw in the objective market.
It is the second generally mainstream after Facebook with more than 310 guests in a single month. With twitter, it is conceivable to arrive at a mass of individuals with a short exact message making the site an incredible showcasing stage.
The accompanying strategies will be sought after to take the most extreme advantage of this stage for fortifying the brand among the intended interest group.
- Respond to questions and remarks
- Average of 10 to15 tweets day by day.
- Use abbreviated connects to share intriguing articles and recordings.
- Retweet others tweets to expand the probability of sharing of our Substance.
- Cross advance Facebook offers, coupons, advancements, and occasions. Incorporate connects to Twitter organization account on every single outbound correspondence, for example, limited time materials and email marks.
LinkedIn is likewise famous, drawing in up to 255 million unique guests in a month. It likewise has eighty-one percent in business to business discussions.
Strategies to draw in more clients,
- all drivers and staff should finish their profiles up to 100% and streamline with the proper watchwords.
- The driver profiles ought to contain the connections to the organization profiles in every single social medium stage. The drivers and staff ought to take part in industry gatherings to build up validity. All the staff ought to likewise request proposals to build up believability.
YouTube
YouTube is the biggest video stage, with more than one billion clients around the world.
The strategies to use here in the interest of the organization:
- Comments ought to be answered every day.
- Post one video for every day.
- Video length ought to be two minutes long.
- The company logo ought to likewise be remembered for all recordings.
- Cross marketing utilizing Facebook and Twitter to draw in more rush hour gridlock.
On the other hand, is the most mainstream picture offering a site to more than 300 million month to month clients. Engaging clients with photographs of the business, which can customize the organization in manners, no other web-based life can coordinate.
The strategic activities that can be applied in this are:
- Reply to the remarks when they show up—day by day.
- Upload organization pictures and entertaining recordings, including the organization day by day.
- Cross promoting with other internet-based life stages to pull in rush hour gridlock.
- Be tenacious when transferring pictures and subtitles to them.
Content Development in Yellow Cab Chicago
- Developing Content: this is a careful checkout of the Substance required in every one of the online networking pages. Additionally, finding the Substance that fulfills client needs.
- Managing Content: this deals with counter checking the Substance before posting it on the online life pages. It will guarantee that there will be no predisposition in the Substance posted, and it remains on the theme the network needs.
- Cross-usage Content: to use existing Substance, it will be adjusted to each sort of stage for legitimate cross-use
Monitoring Tools for Yellow Cab Chicago
| Social Media Goals | Key Performance Index |
| Search Engine Optimization | Google Analytics |
| 1000 likes on Facebook in 1 month
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Number of fans
Demographics of followers Page actions |
| Five mentions in a week for 30 days
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Advocate influence
Advocacy Impact |
The genuine Key Performance Indicators that one can gauge will fluctuate by online networking stage, however naturally incorporate the accompanying:
- Clicks
- Preferences
- Offers
- Remarks
- Profile Visits