Social Media Small Business Shashi Bellamkonda

Social Media & Small Business Shashi Bellamkonda Social Media Swami Network Solutions

Your Next Thanksgiving – Sure Success Photo Courtesy:http://flickr.com/photos/cobalt/305045222/ When your friends or Relatives who are Small Business Owners ask you for advice you will be glad you came to this presentation

Small Business = Already Savvy Socialites

Understand word of mouth

Want to try new methods of communications

Too much to do and so little time

3 point program Photo: courtesy: http://flickr.com/photos/metrojp/92038203/ LISTEN PARTICIPATE Photo Courtesy: http://flickr.com/photos/redcarpet/50339009/ CONTRIBUTE Photo Courtesy: http://flickr.com/photos/presta/129832836/

Conversation Goes on 24/7/365 Americanized Chinese food with Indian ingredients. There is a demand for that kind of food, but it's not my cup of tea. – Chow Hound The people behind the counter know very little about the cuisine. – foodopedia.blogspot.com Masala Wok was a great experience and we truly felt like we were eating back in India after many years. - local.yahoo.com Then place is very neat , food very good. Portions are good and you can take left overs away. – eatcurry.blogspot.com

Find out who is talking about you

Googling your own name is no longer about vanity

What are your customers saying about you?

What’s the competition is doing

Listening Tools

Google Alerts

Technorati

Twitter keyword tracking

Tweetscan

Radian6

Buzzlogic

Update from audience : Peter Corbett : BuzzMonitor

Participate

Blogs

Comment and answer

Forums/Community Boards

Online Chats

Answer Question

Linkedin / Yahoo Answers

People are already conversing - Samples

. I invented the automatic toilet seat which you can view at www.thebottomsup.biz . I have been trying to raise start-up money for the last 12 months. I understand my product is quirky & somewhat comical, but there is also a huge addressable market here.

I WELCOME ANY SUGGESTIONS on the next step to take in order to DELIVER THIS CONCEPT to the marketplace.

http://forums.wsj.com/viewtopic.php?t=657&sid=d614079222c55a80653d6a3ca55e68b2

I have been training for years now, and one of the most memorable 'mantras' that I have ever been enlightened with, by a man called Nick Short who trained trainers, was this: "Don't Train - EnterTrain" Tom Millar Linkedin Answer about presentations “ Happy to hear that I wasn’t able to be of assistance!” – http://www.linkedintelligence.com/funny-linkedin-followup /

Contribute

Tell your story

Make videos of your expertise

Talk about your employees

Share exciting events/news

Rohit Bhargava’s book “ Personality Not included” UAT formula UNIQUE AUTHENTIC TALKABLE

Contribution Tools

Blogs

Social Networks

Press Release

Social Bookmarking

Multimedia

Doc Sharing

MicroBlogging (Twitter)

Social Networks

Facebook

Make your pages

Post to your wall

Add links to profile

Post on network

Myspace

LinkedIn

Update your profile

Answer questions

Press Release

Your story can now be headline news

Use free press release services

Pr.com

PRlog.com

i-newswire.com

Prleap.com

24-7pressrelease.com

Blogs

If you’re blogging and no one is reading you, are you really even blogging?” – Guy Kawasaki

Only 5 percent of businesses with fewer than 100 employees have blogs – Amex survey quoted in Ny Times

A blog is part of a long-term customer evangelism strategy..- Ben Mcconell “Church of the Customer Blog

Blogging can indeed be helpful to small businesses and is often an inexpensive way to do certain things like sharing news about your company, reinforcing your brand , communicating with clients or customers , identifying yourself with a certain community or showing your expertise. -Marci Alboher in NY Times Blog

Multi media