atlanta wordpress sites as social media hubs
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Using a WordPress Site as the Hub of Your Social Media Marketing. Presented by @ed_peterson to the Atlanta WordPress Users Group on October 21, 2010. Thanks to Hubspot and Dan Zarrella!TRANSCRIPT
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Using WordPress as the Using WordPress as the HubHub
of Your Social Media of Your Social Media MarketingMarketing
@ed_petersonOctober 20, 2010
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A Lesson from RetailA Lesson from Retail
View the world customer-back, not
channel-forward
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Your Digital Market FrontYour Digital Market Front
Your web site is the embodiment of you, your business and your employees
Primal corporate marketing› Character › Culture› Tone
Fog the mirror!
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Content = AuthorityContent = Authority
Your Market Front vs. a marketing campaign
Cover the basics and do it well Local businesses act local! Value always trumps frequency Opportunity to communicate inside the
organization
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HubSpot.com/cartoons
Never Date an Outbound Marketer!Never Date an Outbound Marketer!
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Hubspot Sales FunnelHubspot Sales Funnel
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Hubspot VEPA Model Hubspot VEPA Model
Valuable Action Oriented Easy to Use Prominent
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Conversion Forms and Conversion Forms and Database MarketingDatabase Marketing
Prominent, positive, and clean Multiple forms on your home page Measure and experiment Maintain your association with email
marketing tools Treat contact information and business
intelligence as sacred
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Wisdom from Dan ZarrellaWisdom from Dan ZarrellaDon’t get the Second EmailDon’t get the Second Email
We all have that second email – junk account to give to companies
Real people get the real address Leverage rewards and incentives
offered via email
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Dan and Ed’s List of Don’ts Dan and Ed’s List of Don’ts
Don’t use the word submit! Don’t have Age as an entry field Limit or eliminate drop down menus
from your conversion forms Don’t over do affiliate links! Don’t misalign your messaging between
different social media channels Don’t hustle on Facebook!
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The Leverage of SharingThe Leverage of Sharing
Make all content from your blog easy to share
All posts must have some sharing utility like AddThis, ShareThis
Social book marking drives traffic! StumbleUpon, Delicious , etc.
Be smart about your cross posting. Don’t be the all Tweets on LinkedIn guy!
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The Facebook Like ButtonThe Facebook Like Button
A one line survey on your content
By volume, the single greatest point of access to the Open Graph
Grab code to add your site and/or your posts
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VideoVideo
Use YouTube! Teach, don’t preach Video is a great tool to set the tone for
your site Tag all videos with your target
keywords and appropriate description. Include a site or landing page link in the
description field.
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Go Mobile!Go Mobile!
Install WPtouch! Basic version is free. Developers version with more features available ($29).
If you are involved in ecommerence look at a full site conversion, but understand what you are getting into