Expand your social media strategy and create conversations Beyond Blogging

Stella De Zotti Australian Businesswomen’s Network

Suzi Dafnis Australian Businesswomen’s Network

Anne Bartlett-Bragg Headshift

Agenda How to listen to conversations? How to engage with existing social networks? How to create an online niche community ?

What is your market saying about you? about your product? “ Listening”

What is your market saying about you? about your product? “ Listening”

How to “Listen” What do you already know about your customers? Where are your customers (target market) "hanging out"? Fish where the fish are! What are they talking about? What are they sharing?

How to “Listen” Build a radar - not simply Google analytics / click throughs "Listen" to understand "Listen" to determine how and where to engage - OR NOT!

How to engage with existing social networks How do you expand your reach and influence in existing social networks? Based on the knowledge gained from listening.. you now have a stack of information about where, when and with who - your customers/target audience are interacting with... Now you have to decide how you'd like to contribute and participate in these conversations. NB: Remember - this is a conversation - it's not a direct selling opportunity!

Why start a new community, if there's already existing ones? Only creates dilution ... What's involved in your own community? Cost = design + build + time + ongoing costs How to create an online niche community

Ongoing Cost = community management eg. a small community requires 25 - 50% FT role What does a community manager do? It depends but.. roles such as: * content writer/editor * design action-oriented activities * moderate member contributions * aggregate information from external sites - perhaps make commentary * make connections - facilitate and integrate * ensure distribution to other existing places * monitor & respond to the radar How to create an online niche community

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Finding Sales a Tough Sell?

Regardless of the day-to-day role you play in your business, at the end of the day,

Sales is what determines if you succeed or fail. To build a strong business, you need to build sales.

29 April – 10.30am AEST