Social Media in Latin America:
Opportunities and Risks
Business Case for Using Social Media to Fulfill Your Mission
Feb. 12, 2015
Eric Schwartzman
Agenda
•  Social Media Usage in
Latin America and the
Caribbean
•  How Latin American
SMEs and Financial
Institutions are Using
Social Media
•  Business Case for
Social Media
Las PYME de
América Latina
¿cómo usan las
redes sociales para
sus negocios?
Latin America is Social
Source: ComScore
Latin America is Social
Source: http://www.thesparkgroup.com/
Patterns of Use: Latin America & Caribbean
Source: http://www.tendenciasdigitales.com /
Top Social Caribbean Countries
Source: getCONNECTiD
Methodology of Our Study
Sources:
•  Blogs
•  Facebook
•  Forums
•  Images
•  Mainstream News
•  MySpace
•  Twitter
•  Videos
Regions:
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Saint Kitts
Saint Martin
Uruguay
Languages:
English
Portuguese
Spanish
Period:
Last 90 Days
Posts:
2,836
Contains Also Contains Does Not Contain
finanças das pmes angel investor Ebloa
financiamento para empreendedores bridge loan Gaza
financiamento para o empreendedorismo capital de giro Ukraine
financiamento para startups capital de trabajo
finanzas para las empresas pequeñas y medianas cuasicapital
fondo de inversiones para una empresa pequeña dinero
fondos para empezar empréstimo
fondos para los empresarios financiamento
fund entrepreneurs financiamiento
funding for entrepreneurs inversion
funding for start up investimento
fundo de investimento para pequenas empresas investimento de capital
fundo para empreendedores linea de crédito
fundos para startups linha de crédito
growth of small and medium enterprises loan
pequena empresa participação societária
pequeña empresa pitch
pequena y média empresa préstamo
pyme private placement
small and medium enterprise development recursos financeiros
small business investment fund recursos financieros
small medium enterprise development seed funding
SME finance series A round
SME financing series A round
sources for finance for sme series B round
start up funds sustainability
women entrepreneur sustainable
By Media Type
By Country
By Media Type, by Country
By Language
Discussions about SME Finance in LAC
by Topic: Last 90 Days
Clients on Twitter
http://bit.ly/IIC-client-tweets
Twitter Literacy Among Clients is Low
Relevant Tweets
1 2
3
Consumer Marketing Tweets
4 5
6
Hashtag Campaign
Clients on Linkedin
Experience
3 to 5 years 153
6 to 10 years 165
10+ years 81
Experience
3 to 5 years 22
6 to 10 years 29
10+ years 33
Experience
3 to 5 years 15
6 to 10 years 23
10+ years 16
More Clients on Linkedin
Experience
3 to 5 years 7,686
6 to 10 years 12,847
10+ years 16,001
Experience
3 to 5 years 620
6 to 10 years 1,238
10+ years 1,256
Experience
3 to 5 years 43
6 to 10 years 41
10+ years 43
Linkedin Groups
Linkedin Blogs
Linkedin Sync with Email
Environment & Clean Energy are 1st and 2nd (Sept. 2014)
Agriculture and Education & Leadership are 3rd and 4th (Sept 2104)
Education & Leadership!
Top 4 Topics by Language
Education & Leadership!
Strategic Recommendations
Twitter is not a
digital strategy.
Risks
• Reputation Damage
• IP/Data Breaches
• Lost Productivity
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
~ Warren Buffett
Opportunities
• Generate New
Business Leads
• Drive Customer
Activity
• Lower Costs &
Increase Efficiency
• Thought Leadership
Homeland
Embassy
Embassy
Embassy
Embassy
167M
48M 57M
166M
Business Case for Social Media
Digital Business Communications
Edgework
Leadership
Staff
Public
Every Staff Member as Spokesperson
Experts
Peers
Personnel
The Boss
Social Media Training
Business Development as PR
Money in Motion
Next Steps
1.  Social media training for staff
2.  Digital strategy:
•  website overhaul
•  enhancing LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
•  cleaning up Youtube and Vimeo
•  blog production
3.  Target clients and increase engagement on all
channels
4.  Share our posts and follow us
Questions
Eric Schwartzman
(424) 272 / 1270

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