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Toby & I in Grade 1 – Dollarmite account. 50c per week. Invest 50c (content), bank Account (bank of content), chores (extra effort) buy some lollies (withdraw) , pay interest (social + email)! I’ve been doing email + social for 6 years. LESSONS. OPPORTUNITY. GOOD NEWS. Now is best time to me marketing your business. BEST TIME to market: WEB TOOLS (free or nominal) : opportunity to build a huge asset + advantage of the millions on competitors on the web. 1-2-3 warm the brain up.
Best stat – 14% vs 78%. Best form of marketing...? WOM + Referral. Social + Email is WOM on STEROIDS. Friend recommends a restaurant. Social media is a bit like coming to EMSA – STRANGERS ACQUAINTENCES FRIENDS CUSOTOMERS f
DRAW OB WHITEBOARD Who’s on Twitter...? Everyone else can tune out for 30 secs. Not offended if you look at your phone. Only if you’re tweeting. I’ll be checking my phone during the videos for tweets. And i know where your sitting if anyone saying anything nasty about!
Uses Social Media? Success with Social Media? Move country? EBOOK – WINE BOOK or TICKET ..? Pass bucket & add your card. STAND UP: Who has email, website? Facebook? Blogs? YouTube? Twitter? LinkedIn? Google +? MySpace? QR codes? Scissors, paper rock.
Wasting time, say something wrong, get fired, get sued, negative comments. SPAM laws, CC database and deluge of abuse WORSE YET: Named and shamed by a blogger FAVE: One-click unsubscribe.
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Jeff Jarvis, Computer warranty. Shocking customer service. Blogged + 253 comments. No response.
Dell Hell. Press started writing. #1 on google for DELL. Share price dropped. Then they realised. (email + word of mouth… pre-facebook + twitter) Michael Dell came back, $1.5m to resurrect problem. Corporate Blog + Idea Storm. Spoke on panel with @RichardatDELL Now DELL are leading the way!
LISTENING to customers now. 5 years ago: Twitter & Facebook didn’t exist, so faster now. RICHARD @ DELL now leading the way.
How much would you pay for a tool to prevent that happening to you? Free. Social Media monitoring tool? LINK on landing page!
Done properly can have a positive effect IF you know & follow the rules.
Social media is like one big cocktail party. Meeting new people, hanging out with people we like. LISTEN, ASK, NEVER SHOUT. KNOW LIKE & TRUST. Trust your friends.
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43 RTs 20,000 + followers 40x our 500 followers 25% of the tickets sold were from twitter.
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BLANK OUT SCREEN. Many of you received our 1 st EDM. Toby & I in business 12 months & we wrote to everyone we knew. Written in, double, triple, quadruple checked the spelling, HIT SEND. Sit back, breath a sign of relief & wait for the email to arrive in Inbox --- DEAR ADAM. To all 700 people. Good for the 3 Adams but terrible for everyone else! Best performing social media. Everyone has an email. Most have website.
Single Greatest Business Asset. National Publications, book deal & interactions with 100s of 1000s of small business owners. Significant Search Engine traffic, EVEN NONE TRUE, would still do it. Instrinscally rewarding. Makes better THINKER, WRITER, SPEAKER, SALESPERSON, and FOCUSED on LEARNING...
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Not SOCIAL bc POPULAR It’s SOCIAL because it BUILDS RELATIONSHIPS via GOOD CONTENT NOT CONTENT about you CONTENT That solves people’s problems Not WEB MARKETING on a whim It’s about a WEB STRATEGY that positions you as the only choice to do business with.
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