asha convention - social media strategies for horse professionals
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Smart Social Media Strategies for Horse Professionals
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Chad Mendell
• EquestrianProfessional.com
• Equestrian Social Media Boot Camp
• Equiseen
• ESMA Judge 2012, 2014
Past:
The Horse – Executive Editor
[email protected]: @ChadMendell
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Game Plan
• Why social media for horse businesses
• Quick rundown of the biggies
• Essential Principles for Success
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Why Social Media?
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• At any given time, only 3% of the people in your market are ready to make a purchase or use your services.
• What about the other 97%?
- How do you stay in front of them?
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Why It Works
• Inexpensive – Knowledge Based not $
• Word of Mouth Based - Highly trusted and 78% of business comes directly from or influenced by WOM
• Visual - Lets you utilize images and video
• Informal Content Works – and horse professionals are close to the action!
• Mobile – You can market using your mobile phone
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The Serious Six
• Facebook• Twitter• LinkedIn• YouTube• Pinterest• Google+
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• Personal Profiles• Business/Fan Pages• Groups• Wall posts• Live chat, photos,
videos, links, e-mail
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LOGO/URL
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Pages vs. News Feed
• 96% of users don’t return to your page
• You are 40-150x more likely to reach your fans in their newsfeed than your page
• 27% of all time on Facebook is spent looking at the newsfeed
• Only 16% of your fans will see your posts
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EdgeRank
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• Twitter is an instant messaging and micro-blogging platform that enables people to communicate to their friends, followers and the universe using 140 characters or less
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“Twitter is like a Text Message with a BCC: To The World”
Photo Credit: ydhsu
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Hash Tags & Trending
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Twitter Tools
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• A business oriented social networking site that allows registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business.
Connections, Groups, Discussions, Job Search, Answers & News
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Groups on LinkedIn
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YouTube
• A video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos that is also social
• Subscribers, Friends, Comments
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YouTube and Search
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YouTube and Search
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YouTube and Search
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Share Your Circles
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Google+ & Search
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Google +1 Button
Websites that have Google’s +1 button installed generated 3.5 times more traffic from Google+ than websites that don’t have the button installed.
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• A virtual pin board where users share images and videos by sharing links from their own or other people’s websites and/or from their own computers and social media channels like Flicker and YouTube.
• A post is called a “Pin” and posting is referred to as “pinning”
• “Pinners” then have the option to like, comment or re-pin” and can also follow other Pinners or specific Boards from other Pinners
• The majority of Pinners are content curators – 80% of all pins are repins
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Which should you use?
• Each of the social media platforms have different strengths and applications.
• Which platforms and strategies you should use, depends on the type of business you have and your specific goals.
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Where are your customers? Go to Them.
By didgital
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Customer Pyramid
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What to Posts?
• Frequently asked questions• Behind the scenes • Events• Current news• Your Customers (in a good way)• Ask questions and solicit input• Aggregate
It’s not about hard selling.
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Next Steps
• Start with one or two platforms– Goals?– Customers?
• Set time limits• Get to know Photoshop/editing software• Test, Measure, Repeat• Be social
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It’s Not Free
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
- Stephen Covey
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Questions?