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Digital Branding
with WordPress for You & Your Business
by:
Reiko Beach
TRB Design, Inc.
The Toolbox, Inc.

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Me

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• What is digital branding
• You and your business
• WordPress plugins & tips
• Overview of some Social Media
Tools & how to use them effectively

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What is Digital Branding
• “Using digital media to create, build, manage
• and revitalize the relationships between a
• brand and its audiences.”
http://www.2bornot2b.ca/Branding-Dictionary.html

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the way we communicate
the way we see the world
the way we live
Digital
Technology
has changed:

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You and your business
What are some of ways you differentiate between you
and your business on and off line?

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Both you and your brand are
important.
Great Digital
Branding takes
both into account.
In this age of product
abundance, it’s more
important than ever to
have a strong brand
to differentiate your
company, product or
service.

8.
Create an on line strategy

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Your WordPress Website
• Is it easy to find you across platforms?

10.
Your WordPress Website
• Themes that include social
media buttons
• Use Plug-ins, here are a
couple:
✦ Social Media Badge Widget
✦ Floating Social Media Links
✦ Floating Social Media Icons

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Your WordPress Website
• Wibiya
– http://wibiya.conduit.com

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Your WordPress Website
• Is it easy to share your content?
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/

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Your WordPress Website
• Plugins that do that - Just a very few:
– Share Buttons by AddToAny
– Sharaholic
– Socialize (Jon Bishop)

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Your WordPress Website
• Is it mobile/responsive

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Your WordPress Website
• Responsive theme
• Some Mobile Plugins:
• WP Touch
• WP Mobile Detector

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Content Creation
As technology has
evolved, Google (and
other search engines)
are using advanced
formulas that determine
how frequently you post
and update your website
http://socialmediatoday.com/nicolebeachum/1338806/blogging-more-important-today-ever

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Content Creation
• Your Blog
– There is no better way to add relevant content
to your website on a regular basis than to
utilize a blog.
http://problogservice.com/2010/05/31/which-blog-hosting-strategy-has-higher-seo-results/

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Your WordPress Website
Use post categories to sort your content.

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Your WordPress Website
• Use post categories on pages
Add a custom field to your page
Turn it on by going to screen options

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Your WordPress Website
• Use post categories on pages
Add a custom field to your page
Turn it on by going to screen options

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Your WordPress Website
• In Custom Fields under Name:
query_args

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Your WordPress Website
• In Custom Fields under Value:
cat=1,2,3 (category ID #)

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Your WordPress Website
• Find category ID #:
Go to Posts>>categories click on name

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Your WordPress Website
• Find category ID #:
It will display in the browser bar
In this case it is category 3

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Content Creation
• SEO Plugins
• WordPress SEO by Yoast
• All-in-One-SEO

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Content Creation
• Broadcast your post plugin
• Social

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Where else do you create your content?

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Content Creation
• Share content
• Find friends
• Connect
• Establish
relationships
• Comment
Basic Characteristics of
Social Networking sites

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Some General SM Guidelines
• The Internet is a Communications Tool, Not a
Broadcast Tool.
• Treat each network separately
• Focus on creating valuable conversation topics –
inspire valuable ideas
• Invest in relationships
• Be Authentic
• Stay consistent on your
• messaging
• branding

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Where else can you create your content?
• Share presentations that you have
• Create slideshows of your portfolio
• Share publicly or privately
• Embed slideshows on your website/blog
• Great place to search for information

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Content Creation
• Where else can you create your content?
Instagram – Owned by FaceBook is a way to
share your life/business with friends/clients
customers through a series of pictures (and
now videos).
• 100 million users
• Posting forty million photos a day
Vine – Owned by Twitter - is a
way to share through short 6
second videos – 13 million users
Vine videos are being
posted to Twitter at
the rate of 9 per
second, up from 5 per
second two months
ago.*
*According to a study by video tech firm Unruly

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Content Creation
• According to Nielsen, YouTube
reaches more US adults ages
18-34 than any cable network.
• 900 million users
• YouTube mobile gets 600
million views every day
• #2 for search
http://www.viralblog.com/research-cases/youtube-statistics/

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Content Creation
• Where else can you create your content?
Photo sharing sites:
http://www.viralblog.com/research-cases/youtube-statistics/

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Where do you create your content?
Take your content
from these sites and
insert them into your
website/blog post

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Where do you Promote your content?

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Promotion
• Moms are 61
percent more likely to visit
Pinterest than the average
American.
• 25 million users
• 81 percent of U.S. online
consumers trust
information and advice
from Pinterest
http://www.digiday.com/brands/15-stats-retailers-should-know-about-pinterest/

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Promotion
http://www.digiday.com/brands/15-stats-retailers-should-know-about-pinterest/
Tips:
• Add boards about
• Your business
• Good business books
• Topics about your
business
• Your interests

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Promotion
Google+ has passed
Twitter and is now the
second-biggest social
platform worldwide with
343 million active users.
Connected to all your
Google products
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/05/06/21-awesome-social-media-facts-figures-and-statistics-for-2013/

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Promotion
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/05/06/21-awesome-social-media-facts-figures-and-statistics-for-2013/
Tips:
• Create circles with
people in your
business
• Associations
• Local networkers
• Create a business
profile
• Google local-claim
your business

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Promotion
Twitter’s active usage grew
by 40 percent in 2012 to
288 million users.
140 characters
Micro-blogging
Good Resource: http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/

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Promotion
Tips:
• Use your background
image to say something
about you
• Edit your profile – say
something about you
• Find people in your
occupation to follow
• Utilize search and 3rd
party tools like
tweetdeck or hootsuite
• Use # “hashtags”

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Promotion
• Over 225 million users
• Largest professional network
• 2 new members per second
• 2.9 million company pages
• 2.1 million groups
Good Resource: http://linkedintelligence.com/can-linkedin-really-increase-your-sales/

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Promotion
Tips:
• Edit your profile – say something
about you
• Find people in you occupation to
follow
• Find groups to join
• Do recommendations
• Changed websites to “other”
• Do updates

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Promotion
Profile
Groups
Pages
Personal use, friends, family, can have business
connections, can categorize – group your friends.
You can have up to 5000 friends, and “like” up to
500 pages.
Has “members” used for people with a common
interest, can be kept closed, limit members. Can
message members
Can only be created by a representative of the
organization, business, celebrity or band . Are
entirely open and searchable. Can add applications
and custom tabs.
http://socialmediatoday.com/node/1454711

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Promotion
Tips:
• A business cannot be a
Profile – it violates FB
rules.
• Have goals
• Who is your target?
• Cover image should
“talk”
• Post regularly

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How to use the tools
1. Create content-
embed on
blog/website
2. Promote it
3. Refer back to
your website

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Digital Branding
• Good digital branding consists of
consistent messaging across all platforms
• Utilizes the 3 areas of website – content
creation and promote
• Be consistent with updates and posting to
your site and social networks
• Make it easy for people to share your
content

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Remember even if you aren’t talking
about yourself, someone else might
be…

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Use alerts to know when you are
being talked about
en.mention.net
talkwalker.com/en

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Questions?
» Twitter: @Reikob and
@TechDayCamp
» Linkedin: ReikoBeach
» Reiko@thetoolboxinc.com
» phone: 781.987.1655
TRBDesigns.com TheToolboxInc.com
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