July 23, 2012

Help needed!! The @CaroNytra Project - get 1000 follower before #London2012

It is time again for some social media experiment and how timely relevant occasions can push the reach of one person (or brand). Some days ago I read this tweed of Carolin Nytra (http://twitter.com/caronytra), Germany's 100m hurdles European indoor champion, celebrating the 700th follower on Twitter and formulating the goal of getting 1000 follower (>40% more reach) before she finally travels to London in August for her competition.

So we have a challenge, acquire 250 new follower besides the organic growth by building a buzz and create viral effects. So far the theory - but without budget (come on guys, this is a private activity ;)), we need to create interesting content or generate hyper interest in person (or brand).

Let's see what we have:

So what is the competition? 
Pretty tense, because all athletes were pushed by the IOC to abandon their sponsored websites and move to twitter and Facebook to broadcast their experiences. Besides the athletes we have various official feeds by the IOC and national associations + the news sources placing almost every reporter as separate channel.

We need a strategy that needs to be heard within that loud noice of Olympics to attract new followers ...

What options do we have?
  1. Product-Approach: pushing valuable assets out there! Caro is attractive and a woman. We could target man with beauty shots.
    Chance? Medium: attractive female have the same advantages and the value is not unique enough (sorry Caro, this is NOT personal!! :-P)
  2. Gamification: Catch new followers with prizes, e.g. promise new followers to win something from and regarding Caro if they are the 1000th follower or that all 1000 followers get smth. when it is done before the due date.
    Chance? High: people would multiply the content to reach the goal. Issue: to find the right content or prize.
  3. Diversification: let Caro talk and discuss about hot topics that are relevant but not competition related. This could by funny or serious regarding trending topics (e.g. London logo or Doping)
    Chance? Medium: to hit the nerv of the crowd the time frame of 2 weeks might be too small. Interesting topics needs to be identified first - high workload for all parties.
  4. Kutcher-Moore-Campaign-Approach: Challenge between Caro & Sebastian. Building two teams that battle against each other. The winner takes it all and needs to pay during (or at the end) of the Olympics.
    Chance? High: even so the story would be of short effect we could reach the 1000-mark easier. Issue: Caro & Sebastian needs to play the story for some days during their warm-up for London.
Ok, guys - which one should we take? Any Suggestion?
Caro - which road do you wanna take? ;)

2 comments:

  1. Schöne Aktion, die ich gerne unterstütze. Aber mir erschließt es sich nicht, warum alles auf englisch geschrieben ist. Es geht um deutsche Athleten, die in Deutschland folllower (sorry for the anglicism) suchen. Welche Engländer interessieren sich dafür?
    Mir würde Deutsch viel besser gefallen.
    @skoony

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