Brand Building through Instagram Social Experience Andy Wise, BCIT - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Brand Building through Instagram Social Experience Andy Wise, BCIT - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Brand Building through Instagram Social Experience Andy Wise, BCIT Teacher, Hempfield High School and Harrisburg Area Community College Buzz Words Entrepreneurship Branding Data Analysis Community Connections
Buzz Words
- Entrepreneurship
- Branding
- Data Analysis
- Community Connections
- Teamwork
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Student Choice
- Real-World Connections
- Digital
- Critical Thinking
- Student Voice
- Technology
- Creativity
- Inquiry-based Learning
- Conflict Resolution
- Cross Curricular
- Citizenship
Purpose & Objectives
- Share Hempfield HS & BU Experience with
Instagram in the BCIT Setting
– Explain the Origin – Explain the Process
- Explore Other Ideas
- Brainstorm
The Origin 3+ years of Development
- Fall 2016--High School Internship Request
- Spring 2017
– High School Students Internship Client 1-Jays Crabshack
- Started with All Social Media—Became good at Instagram
– Teacher Learning
- Summer 2017—College Internship
- Spring 2018
– High School Internship
- Poor Job, Not a risk taker—needed step by step direction
– Spring 2017 Intern works with a new client-Courtgrabbers
- Summer 2018
– Digital Media “Simulation” Discussion – Responded with Project we are using today – 3rd Client Approaches us about handling their social media
- Fall 2018
– Started Project
- Spring 2019
– BU Intro to Business Honors Pilot – Interns Working with 5 Companies
- 4 Positive and 1 Negative-Reality
- Summer 2019—Dedicated students took the reins scaling back frequency
- Fall 2019
– Continue to Build "Brands"-Public thinks are an operating social media business – Inquiry and Discussion of possible new Internship Opportunities
- Spring 2020
– Second round for BU Intro to Business Honors – Profiles were managed via students during remote education during COVID-19
- Unique hurdle—but executed well
- Project is dynamic and able to be executed in any setting!
Internship Accounts
Jays Crabshack @jayscrabshcakocnj Court Grabbers @courtgrabbers
**Each of these started with under 300 Followers and limited Engagement
Testimonial
I wanted to take a moment to thank you for all of your work that you put in for your internship in the spring. I cannot thank you enough for all of your work. Although I did not have an
- pportunity to meet with you personally it was awesome to catch up with you on the phone
from time to time. I wanted to reach out and let you know how much I appreciate what you did for Jay’s Crabshack. Your content was incredibly engaging and you were attentive to every aspect of social media with regard to the business. I hope that your experience was applicable to your studies and you were able to learn from the
- experience. I know that Mr. Wise and I were able to learn a great deal from each of you and
the initiatives that you took on. Mr. Wise always told me how impressed he was with everything that he saw and he was always intentional in checking in on your behalf to see if anyone mentioned the social media or if I needed anything else to be included. You took a huge burden off of the restaurant staff and myself personally by handling absolutely every angle of social media communications off site. Your efforts helped the restaurant increase sales across the board this summer by over 10%. I personally feel that your work gave customers the “nudge” they needed to come in and enjoy a meal at the
- restaurant. Everything you took on had a purpose, was well executed, and helped in the
- verall marketing efforts. (and thanks for always sharing your metrics).
James “Jay” Graham Owner Jay’s Crabshack
Inspiration
Our Pages
@lancasterdaily @bestoflanc
BU Intro to Business Collaboration
@bloominbloomsburg Students selected the name 2-3 students responsible for 2 different weeks throughout the semester During the summer "Meet the people behind the page" Shocked by our number of followers
Big Idea
- Create a Social Media Hub for your geographic
area
- Use what students already know (Instagram)
to build a profile and someday generate money
How Can You Get There?
- Step by Step Outline in this Presentation
- Don’t be scared if you don’t know Instagram
– Let the kids talk, explain and explore—This is their space – Listen to the students and gain knowledge
- Your Business Knowledge and their Instagram
knowledge can make your project take off!
Week 1-Introduction to Students
Social Media presence - be a hub Use what you know (Instagram), to find a way to make some money @IloveOCNJ is expert on Ocean City, NJ travel and opportunities We are becoming the experts of Lancaster County
- pull up @ILoveOCNJ, @bestoflanc, @lancasterdaily, @bloominbloomsburg on screen
- Show posts, followers, following
- Hashtag to communicate with us, tag us and then we’re able to use pics
Starts slowly Suggested Categories -colleges, markets, farms, athletics, high schools Talks about the process - 1 post each day, within topic helps 1 blog post per week (2 paragraphs) 1 story with minimum of 3 segments We are building a brand!
Creating Your Account
- Brainstorm
– Vision – Name
- Verify Gmail and Instagram Availability
- Create a Gmail Account
- Create an Instagram
– Best used on a phone or tablet
- Can be seen on a web browser but not as functional
- Design a Logo
- Header/Bio
- Blog
Week 2-Gearing Up
- Choose and upload a logo
- Write Header/Bio
- Choose blog platform
– We used Blogger because it ties in with Gmail
- Under Apps in the Gmail Suite
- Assign Pairs of Students
- Brainstorm or Develop 15 categories of content
(for a class of 30)--Fall of 2019 we went away from this
- 2020 Class was not restricted to categories
– Only a max of two food posts per week (didn’t want to be a food blog)
- Assign weeks
– See provided Metrics/Logistics sheet later in the presentation
- Claim Categories or topics for the weeks of content
- Pairs find 7 days of content and gather content
- Teacher Note—Much of the content they gather will be from other
Profiles
Week 3-Go Live!
- Make First Post!
- Have students follow Your Account
– @BestofLanc, @Lancasterdaily, @bloomingbloomsburg, @….
- Begin our blog, sharpen the image - look at OCNJ
blog or our class blogs for ideas
- Discussion - who should we follow?
- Brainstorm content for future weeks
- Compose blog for this week
Week 4 and Beyond
- Discuss metrics
- Assign/discuss next topic
- Constructive discussion
- what was good/what could be better
– challenge of being 1st group in your school to take this on.
Change Profile to “Business” Instead of “Personal” and choose type of Profile you want to be.
Metrics
- Spreadsheet
– Keeps true metrics of growth/decrease each week
Follow Tips
- Instagram rules – June 2019 Changed
– You can follow up to 7500 users total – You can follow approximately 200 per day – Our Students are trying to figure out a way to follow other accounts more efficiently – Keep a log of who you follow so you know who to unfollow and check back in with if Private users are followed
- Follow Only Public Accounts-Not Private
Accounts
– "Requested" Click Again and Don't Follow – "Following" OK
- This is beneficial when unfollowing users.
- How many should we “follow” before we
“unfollow” to avoid having 100 followers while we are following 7,500?
Unfollow Assist-Several Application
- The one we have been using (Captivate) is no
longer working as of June 2020
– Students or Teacher Can Investigate New Apps
Other Ideas and Class Discussion
- Discuss 2 things we are doing well, 2 things we
can improve
- “Hide” Content that is not performing well
– Keep higher performing content on screen for new adopters to see
- “Like” others content
– every student chooses 5 of the followers - go out and “Like” their last 20 posts. 30 x 5 = 150 users that we interact with... 150 x 20 = 3000 interactions! (Hope to get some love in return)
1-4 UNSATISFACTORY 5-7 SATISFACTORY 8-10 EXEMPLARY Photos/ Images Not Completed Students had 1 4
- images. Pictures do not
represent our profile or not made at the appropriate time. Students had a minimum
- f 4 images that
represent our profile are not completely representative of our
- mission. Not all images
are relevant or high quality or not made at the appropriate time. Students had included a minimum
- f 4 images in their
- project. Images are
representative of our profile and are HIGH QUALITY! And made at the appropriate time. **Post should be made between 3p.m. and 6 p.m. EST** This is when our metrics show our users are most active Caption & Hashtags Not Completed Students created inappropriate comments or hashtags. Students had added some captions, and some hashtags. Students had included a full and clear caption and a minimum of two hashtags for each image on their page. Included #lancasterpa and #best flanc or #lancasterdaily on ALL Posts Interaction- Direct Messages- Comments Not Completed Students had limited interactions with users. Direct Messages and/or Comments Ignored Students had interactions with other users and those who interacted with our page. Responded to some Direct Messages and Comments. Students had complete interactions with other users and those who interacted with our page. Responded to ALL Direct Messages and Comments. Blog Post Not Completed Blog post contains inappropriate content, not relevant content, or not made at the appropriate time. Students had created a blog post that is lacking in content or falls short
- f two paragraphs or not
made at the appropriate time. Students had created a unique and creative blog post and had selected an appropriate and creative content. And made at the appropriate time. **Blog Post DUE By Friday at 2:50 of Each Posting Week** Grammar/ Spelling/ Layout on all elements 11 or more errors and/or Students did not maintain accurate 5-10 errors and/or Students did not maintain accurate "Instagram" layout. 4 or less grammar and spelling errors. Students layout may be a little
- ff.
No punctuation or grammar and spelling
- errors. Students had
maintained original "Instagram" layout.
What’s Next?
- Student Generated Ideas
– Stickers – T-Shirts
- On Demand Ordering-No Inventory on Hand
- Teacher Generated Ideas
– Generate Revenue for Ads/Sponsorships…eventually! – Branch out to other Social Media Platforms
- For us
– Breakdown area to “smaller” towns within our School District and have smaller class groups (from those towns) manage those accounts.
Ways to Reach Out-Email
I hope summer is off to a great start at The Jiggershop! I was wondering if your Jiggershop would like a little Instagram pub from the account that our Marketing class runs, www.instagram.com/bestoflanc . During the summer, I run the account with a couple of our best students and we share ideas of things to do / places to go with our audience of 8,000+ mostly local-based followers. If you’re up for this could you...
- send me 3 -4 pictures that you would like me to use
- let me know if you’d prefer that I post about your shop on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday of
this week
- If you want to try a crazy digital promotion, I could include a “50 cents off your order if you
show us this post when you order your Jiggershop treats” (of course that would lower your sales by 50 cents each time, but it would also tell both of us how many people came in as a result of the post). I’ll be running a series of posts about hiking at Governor Dick and I thought this would be a great way to cap off the series. Have a great day!
Ways to Reach out-Direct Message
AS YOUR PROFILE GROWS PEOPLE START TO REACH OUT TO YOU TO GAIN EXPOSURE FOR THEIR BUSINESSES
Conclusion
This projects helps develop REAL Classroom and Business
- Discussion. As students move
through weeks natural business discussions occur during class.
Things to Consider
- BU Showed Faces Behind the Page
- Hempfield Kept Anonymous—Like the idea of users
thinking we were "more credible"
- Are there local companies that your students could work
with for Internships?
- Our way is not the only way to do this project.
- Feel free to adapt in any way and make it fit your classroom
- Another idea is a Food page for your area
- Is there anything that we could do to improve the project?
Contact Information
- Email:
– andy_wise@hempfieldsd.org
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