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Take Your Business to the Next Level with Social Media
Amanda O’Brien | Hall Internet Marketing
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Introduction• Amanda O’Brien, VP of Marketing at Hall Internet Marketing• This presentation will be available online after the conference.
You will receive an email for the Summit session website approximately 1-2 weeks after Summit.
• Follow Sage on Twitter: @Sage_Summit– Use the official Summit hashtag: #SageSummit
• Follow me on Twitter: @hall_web and @amanda_pants
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HI!
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How popular is social media?• 3.5 billion pieces of content
shared on Facebook each week
• 96% of 18-35 year olds are on a social network
• 78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
• 30 million tweets per day• If Facebook was a country, it
would be the third largest country in the world
http://engaugemedia.com/the-numbers-dont-lie/
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Businesses are using social media to connect with people…
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisparticulargreg/362937046/
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But is it moving their bottom line?
or
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Social Media is more about building relationships
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Not an advertising platform
Social Media is about building relationshipsPhoto credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleen-lane/4989879947/
Crafted
One way
Set it and forget it
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Each person is personalizing their internet experience
Social Media is about building relationshipsPhoto credit: http://blog.franciscocosta.com/2010-with-a-tin-foil-hat.html/
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Start with a plan
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Social Media Goals• Decide what success is
– More inbound traffic– Website conversions– More mentions– Better search rankings– Establish yourself as an expert
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you may never get there.”
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Social Media Plan• Create measurable goals and a plan to get there
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Social Media Strategy• How are you going to get from where you are to your goals
– What will you measure along the way?– How much time are you going to set aside?– What tools are you going to use?
Rank higher for a search term
Where are you now for that term?
Site optimized for that term? Need inbound traffic
LinkedIn Answers, search twitter, answer and refer
Blog posts on topicMentions, RTs, Inbound trafficWhere am I now?
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Stand out from the crowd
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Vanilla doesn’t move the ticker
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Stand out from the crowd
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What makes you different from your competition?
• How can you use that to your advantage– Location– Methodologies– Customer Service– Products– Speed– Your network– Cost– Experience
What do your most loyal customers say?Photo credit: http://cheezburger.com/View/3495816192/
Stand out from the crowd
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Start with one thing (or two) and do it well– When you are ready, move on to the next– The most important platform is the ones your customers are on
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Optimize social media efforts – smarter and more efficiently
Stand out from the crowdPhoto credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skinnyde/12980283/
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Determine what is working• What is bringing traffic to your site?• What times of day are working?• What can you automate?
Stand out from the crowd
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Mix up your content• Space your posts out over time• Mix up the types of content• Ask questions, request feedback
Stand out from the crowd
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Think before you post• Know your keywords• Think about the newsfeed, not your wall or page
Stand out from the crowd
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Target the right people• Build on current relationships• Identify pain points of your customers• Update geographically
Stand out from the crowd
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I want to go viral!
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Create content for your website• More of what is ‘working’ less of what isn’t• Say the same thing but differently• Reuse content you already have• Analytics
– Referring traffic– Content views
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Drive traffic to your website
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Social Media keeps changing• Terms and conditions• What is hot
Drive traffic to your website
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Regularly post content on your site, use social media to get them there
Drive traffic to your website
• Blog posts• eBooks• Webinars• PDFs
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Create landing pages and goals for them• Pages that encourage a conversion
Drive traffic to your website
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Get people on your property– Get them to convert on your website– See their activity
Drive traffic to your website
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Strengthen Relationships with customers & potential buyers• Interact and share content from other people• Tailor your message to specific target markets• Test Facebook advertising to see how many of the people you
are trying to reach are on Facebook
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Website visitors into customers• Website conversion• How to Best Manage and Grow Your Website for Lead
Generation with Jenika July 12 at 10:00am.• Give them an action to take• Content for different users
– Researchers– Current customers– Purchasers
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To do now: Reorganize your social media efforts• Build out your business Facebook page, like other pages, use
as a news aggregator and participate as your company– Using a personal page? Create lists
• Clean up your Twitter account with a service like manageflitter – less about numbers and more about who
• Lay out the welcome mat on your website and set up goal conversions in analytics
• Figure out where you want to be and set expectations!
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What is next?• Mobile• Personalized internet experiences• Social Media backlash?• Google+
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Summary• You need to have a plan in place to reach your goals• Work social media into your companies culture• Word of mouth marketing with new tools• Measure your results as you go• Stick with what works• Find a social media travel agent
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Contact Information• Presenter Contact Information:
– Amanda O’Brien– Hall Internet Marketing– [email protected]– @amanda_pants
• Follow Sage on Twitter: @Sage_Summit– Use the official Summit hashtag: #SageSummit
• Thank you for your participation.