2. Social Media: describes the online technologies and practices that people use to
share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other
BROADCASTING INTERACTION
What makes marketing social?
3. Is Social Community = Social Media?
• A community: Shared Interests
• Social community is just one of the tools for making
broadcasting social
Again : It is all about creating interaction:
• Blogs, wikis, event planning & promotion, wikepdia,
multimedia sharing, forum, panels…
4. How to Implement SocialMedia
• Build target community
• Create individual connections
• Create engagement >> Like
• Use feedback >> Listen
• Solve their problems
• Show credentials /quality through discussions
• Participate in industry groups as well as your client
• Pose questions to create involvement
• Create thought-leadership
• Real power in viral marketing >> SEO & traffic
5. But Even More Important:
Everyone related to your business is a soldier of your brand,
make sure they fight the right battle
6. Time Consuming, So What Does It Bring?
• Increaseyour visibility
• Improveyour connectability
• Improveyour Google PageRank
• Enhance your search engineresults
• Company reference checks
• Increaserelevancypotential hiring
• Measure health of a company
• Measure health of an industry
• Track startups
• Ask for advice and solve problems
11. Tip 4: Tell Them Who Youare and What Your are Doing
12. Tip 5: Free Publicity
• Social media is not the only media that is for free!
• No just about you
• Don’t sell
• Reaction on current events
• Be pro-active
13. Tip 6: Manage Your Time
You are not a media company, focus on your operations!
Max 1 hour a day
14. Last But NOT Least : Set a Market Budget!
• % of run rate, depends on:
- Industry, size, growth stage
- Startup 10% / Maturity 2-3%
• Budget allocation
- Developing brand
- Cost promotion
• Track return on investment
• Revise your budget frequently
17. This document was prepared by Eva Hukshorn. Several people and organizations have
inspired her to write this presentation, amongst which are, but not limited to the Founders of
EFactor, ABN AMRO/RBS, University of Groningen, Institute for Management Accountants,
Paul Grant Founder of the Funding Game
Thank You!