how to use presentation platforms to increase website traffic

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Tammy Hawk-Bridges

How to Use Presentation Platforms to Increase Website Traffic

Hi there I’m Tammy!Ready to learn about

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Hi there! My name is Tammy Hawk-Bridges. I provide marketing training and education for entrepreneurs.

I hope you’ll visit my website Perfect Marketing Equation - www.perfectmarketingequation.com and also follow me on Twitter @THawkBridges.

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Let’s face it, coming up with a social media strategy is overwhelming.

There’s so many moving parts, you probably don’t know how to use it or more importantly why to use it.


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First, let’s talk about what a social media strategy should be about

– it’s about growing your followers AND driving traffic to your website.


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Waiting to rank organically can be tough these days – which is why social media platforms are genius!

They allow us to take control of our website traffic and drive it as much as we want to.


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By growing your followers and then sharing links to your website on your Facebook page for example.

You can get immediate traffic!


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You shouldn’t let coming up with a social media strategy overwhelm you, so let me give you a boost with the right mindset.


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Instead of thinking about what social media is, consider what it means to your business model.

Not every platform makes sense for every business.


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I love using platforms like SlideShareto increase website traffic!

I also love these types of platforms because they make sense for every business model.


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Using Presentation Platforms to Increase Website Traffic


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3 reasons why I LOVE presentation platforms:

1. They increase website traffic.

2. They’re a great way to get a little more bang out of my blog post. (Content I’ve already written.)

3. It helps me gage my audience and find out what they’re most interested in. I can go back and see what presentations were more popular and that helps me to choose things to write about.


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Take your blog post and turn it into a presentation using PowerPoint or Keynote!

Now, with just a little more effort, you’ve totally repurposed your content and you’re reaching a whole other medium!


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Which Presentation Platforms to Use?


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There are lots of presentation sites out there – more seem to be popping up everyday.

My strategy is to keep it simple. I have 3 platforms that I upload presentations to which works well.


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SlideShare


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SlideShare has changed a little bit over the last year for the good!

The service, which has over 60 million users, is now FREE.

I get quite a bit of website traffic from SlideShare.


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A HUGE plus about SlideShare – if you don’t have a presentation software you can set one up right there.

Then you just download it to your desktop and upload it to another presentation platform.


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authorStream


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authorStream is probably my favorite presentation sharing website, it’s not as large as SlideShare (yet) which brings its advantages.

The owners of the platform are really hands on and help promote the content of premium users. It’s also easier for your content to stand out.


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If a large amount of people watch, share or download your presentation then your content can get chosen as featured and will be shown on the front page of the website as top content.

My content has been chosen often, as a result I’ve gained a lot website traffic from it.


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Side note: It’s always interesting to me to see what people respond to the most, sometimes I write content I think is a home run, but then I publish and hear crickets.

Yet, other content that I don’t feel is my best work gets a ton of traffic. This is why we need to listen to our audience tell us what we should write about.


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PowerShow


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Truthfully, I haven’t been using this site for very long but I like the ease of uploading so I will continue to use it to see if I can get some traction from it.

It’s growing and there’s gossip of new features on the horizon so I’ll stay with it for a while.


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How to Make Presentations that Increase Website Traffic

with Ease


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You’re probably looking at this thinking, “Hey, this sounds great but it looks like a lot of work!”


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Everything worthwhile takes a little work!

But like anything else when it comes to planning out a marketing strategy once you get the platforms and a process set up it really is rather effortless.


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We have a presentation template that we use for Perfect Marketing Equation and the only thing that gets changed out is the title and the main content pages. So it really is pretty easy.

If you’ll look at my content across all the three channels you see that my presentations all look alike.


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There are two reasons why I keep my templates consistent:


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ONE: Nobody cares, so don’t kill yourself creating dazzling presentations that have words flying left and right.

The content just needs to be good it doesn’t have to be fancy. Also, keep in mind most views come from a mobile device so it needs to be simplified to give the viewer the best experience.


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TWO: It’s great for branding, when people see my stuff they recognize it.

It’s more important to me to be memorable than overly fancy.


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If you see several of my presentations you’ll notice that the last few pages are always the same.

This is a great way to ask people to follow you, share links to your social media and/or downloads you have available. These pages are stationary so they never have to be touched until they’re updated.


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When you upload your presentations you’ll see an option to allow people to download them.

I always get asked if I allow my presentations to be downloaded and the very quick answer is of course I do!


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We create content to educate and share, if you’re going to put it out there you may as well let people download it.

I think it’s awesome when my content gets downloaded! As a writer, I consider it a great compliment!


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If You’re Going to Use Presentations to Increase

Website Traffic You’ll Need Keywords


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What’s great about presentations is they can come up easier in organic results but for that to happen when setting up your profiles you’ll need to have a very consistent keyword structure in your marketing strategy.

Each platform will ask you for keywords to classify your presentation slides.


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The keywords need to be based on criteria of searchers, not what you think the keywords are.


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Here are two free tools you can go to for keyword research:

1.Keyword Spy2.The Google Keyword Planner

http://www.keywordspy.com

https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner


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I want to share two great resources for further learning on choosing a keyword strategy, it really is a worthwhile education that will pay dividends:


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ONE: Brian Dean of Backlinko – How to Rank for Any Keyword

TWO: Cyrus Shepard of The Moz Blog –How to Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint

http://backlinko.com/how-to-rank-for-any-keyword

http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank


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I hope you’ll get started using presentations as way to increase

website traffic and compliment your marketing strategy!


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If you enjoyed this presentation you can visit

my blog and read the entire post:

How to Use Presentation Platforms to

Increase Website Traffic

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