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Social Media Marketing:
For you and your advertisers
Halifax, NS May 11, 2012
Shannon Kinney
The Giveaway:
Free consultation on how to generate revenue with
Free consultation on how to generate revenue with
social media for your market!
Advertiser Needs
• Print is recognized as a brand builder and important
part of marketing mix, but is farther away from sale
in many cases
• Ability to generate leads/calls/walk-ins and
measure resultsmeasure results
• Flexibility in contracts, billing, packages
• Multi-media approach and solutions
• Consultative selling – help me understand all of my
options and create custom solutions for me
In this climate,
every business
is re-thinking all of their budgets,
and they will never return to the and they will never return to the
way they once were.
Where Should We Be?
• You need to aggressively review our operations in
all departments to seek efficiencies, new ideas,
and best practices (and likely already have been)
• Online revenue should be growing to be larger
percentage of overall revenue, less reliance on percentage of overall revenue, less reliance on
print only
• Creating new products on our own or through
partnerships to grow audience and revenue
The question for businesses
used to be:
how do your customers find you?how do your customers find you?
Now is:
where do your
current and future customers current and future customers
find what they need?
Facebook• Do I need to use it? YES! If
you advertisers are
responsible for marketing
your business, absolutely.
• Do my clients’ businesses
need to be there now? Yes.
There are no ifs, ands, or There are no ifs, ands, or
buts. Regardless of your
business, you need to be
represented here. We can
help!
• Top benefit: You stay top of
mind with people as they
browse – you’re part of the
conversation
Facebook: Statistics
• More than 50% of active users log in each day
• 125 billion friend connections
• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
• 2.7 billion posts are “liked” or commented on each day
• 2.7 billion posts are “liked” or commented on each day
• 250 million photos are shared each day
• 1 million business page “likes” are happening each day – and that is shared with all of their friends
Source: Facebook
Do Facebook - WELL
• Professionally designed page
• Thoughtful content strategy that incorporates
the personal touch, sales and marketing, and
outbound marketing strategyoutbound marketing strategy
• Listen and respond, stimulate conversation
• Utilize the new feature of outbound
commenting as your page
• WOW your fans!
• Do I need to use it? It is
powerful but not for
everyone
• Do my clients’ businesses
need to be there now?
Depends on their Depends on their
business. If you create
and write a lot of
content, Twitter is a
fantastic tool. It works
extremely well for
searching, listening and
communicating quickly
with your customers
LinkedIn• Do I need to use it? If you
would benefit from
sharing your background,
establishing your
expertise, and showing
who you are connected
to professionally, yes.to professionally, yes.
• Do my clients’ businesses
need to be there now?
It’s much more important
for companies interested
in hiring, and/or
conducting b2b business,
but can be a very
powerful tool for
establishing expertise as
well
Foursquare• Do I need to use it? If you
enjoy showing businesses
that you frequent them, and
if you’re just a wee bit
competitive, it is a fun tool to
use. Great for deals or
visiting new areas
• Do my client’s businesses • Do my client’s businesses
need to be there now? If
their business is retail,
hospitality oriented, a
restaurant or bar, we highly
recommend leveraging
Foursquare. It is a powerful
tool to offer deals, recognize
your best customers, and
monitor what customers are
saying about you on the
Web.
Google+ (G+)
• Do I need to use it? If you
enjoy Facebook for the
social aspect, or Twitter
for the opportunity to see
the news and content you
should be reading, you’ll should be reading, you’ll
enjoy G+
• Do my clients’ businesses
need to be there now? If
they have the time yes
due to it’s close tie with
search results
Emerging mobile
activities
•Location based services•Quick Response (QR) codes & barcodes•Comparison Shopping•Comparison Shopping•Mobile Coupons•Push Notifications
28% of smartphoneowners have used their phone at least once to check in
Source: ExactTarget
So what?
What does this mean to your
newspapers? To small – medium newspapers? To small – medium
businesses?
We help businesses
play the game by the new rules.
AND, save them time. AND, save them time.
Can you?
Should you?
The agency model:Solution based selling
Is a MUSTIs a MUST
And unlike larger newspapers,Many of you already do it!
Why Agency?
• Serving local businesses is core to your mission
and role in your community
• Maintaining the relationship as the trusted
advisor and partner is critical to your long term
successsuccess
• Filling the advertiser need and guiding them
through the process will solidify your position
• Solution-based selling builds trust
• Can ultimately sell more print
Revenue opportunities• Sell social media services, reputation
management
• Added distribution of listings via social media
(Washington Post Twitter channels)
• Sponsored posts and tweets?• Sponsored posts and tweets?
Solution ComponentsCore Offering
• Online marketing strategy
development
• Social Media channel
enhancement and ongoing
management
Optional
• Video optimization, distribution,
marketing
• Photography
• Mobile marketing solutions (sites,
promotions)
• PRmanagement
• Reputation Management
and SEO
• Email marketing
• Blog posting management
• PR
• SEO / SEM
• Agency level service (media
planning, etc)
• Event promotion (flyers, etc)
• Print ad design
• Web site & landing page
development
We offer
•Agency model: evaluation and plan development
• Agency: outsource it to us, we will fulfill what you
sell
• Small business services
• Social media strategy, planning, channel design
• Staff training on social media and effective usage
• Webinars and resources
• Channel management
Action items – what to do now1. Consider your sales methods, are you
solution selling or space selling?
2. Are your advertisers confused by the online marketing landscape and options?
3. Could you gain market share by offering social solutions?social solutions?
4. Do you have the resources to lead the charge? Build or buy?
5. If you aren’t sure what to do OR you don’t have resources – we can help!
The Giveaway:
Free consultation on how to generate revenue with
Free consultation on how to generate revenue with
social media for your market!
Shannon Kinney, Dream Local
207-354-7073
Thank you! You survived!
Questions?
207-354-7073
www.dreamlocal.comTwitter: @shannonkin
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