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Basic tools to grow your small business using a blog and Social networks.

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“We Speak Your Language” Retained Executive Search RPO Leadership Consulting

Using Social Media to Market

Your Small Business

Dan Ryan

February 1, 2011

“We Speak Your Language”

Where do we begin?

“We Speak Your Language”

What are your goals for today?

“We Speak Your Language”

Beginning steps

• Web presence

– Website

– Blog (incorporate with website)

• Social networks

– Connect to web and blog

• Content

– Conversation, not selling

• SEO (search engine optimization)

– Tagging

– keywords

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Marketing your

business

• A core message

– Who are we? What do we do/offer?

• A good brand image and logo

• A website or blog

– Connectivity to Social Networks

• Exposure

– Pushing content through Blog into

networks is one method

“We Speak Your Language”

Example

• Ryan Search & Consulting

– Retained Executive Search

– Leadership Consulting

– Recruitment Process Outsourcing

• “We Speak Your Language”

• Website with blog integrated

• Multiple marketing channels

“We Speak Your Language”

Strategy

Blog

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Facebook

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Blogs

• Several popular platforms

– WordPress

– Blogger

• More “findable” than web

sites

• More credible than some

networks

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Wordpress.com

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For the Best Blogging Results,

do these things:

1. Original and unique title

2. Use some of key words in title in blog body

3. Use same key words in tags

Title-Body-Tags

“We Speak Your Language”

Your blog

• Let’s pause and work on setting up your

blog

• I’ll walk around and help you as needed

• We will take 15 minutes to work on this

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Blogging guidelines

• How often?

• What to say?

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Facebook

Facebook

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Next Steps

• Now that we have set

up our Facebook

pages, let’s insert our

blog into the page

• We will take about 15

minutes to work on this

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Setting up Twitter

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Inserting Blog into

Twitter

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Tying Twitter to LinkedIn

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Next Steps

• Let’s pause for a moment and tie our

Twitter account into LinkedIn

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Tying things together

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Using “press this”

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Accomplishments

Blog

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Facebook

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Moving forward

• Blog

– Feed content at least once per week

• Facebook

– Build your network

• Twitter

– Build your network

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Dan Ryan Principal

615 202 0883 cell

615 656 3535 office

Dan@Ryansc.net

Thank You!

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