Social Media Presentation

1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Social Media (but were afraid to ask) Brian Wallace, President, NowSourcing, Inc.

2. Overview • What is Social Media? • Know Your Way Around • Dispelling Myths • Planning Your Social Media Strategy • How Do You Measure Success? • Reputation Management • Q&A

3. What is Social Media Marketing? “Social Media Marketing (SMM) combines the goals of internet marketing with social media sites…[through]…viral marketing to build idea or brand awareness, increase visibility, and possibly sell a product or service...” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_marketing

4. Social Media Marketing Cycle Initial Buzz/Conversation Authority Links Google Rankings Continue the conversation

5. Ok, but What Actually is it? • Aggregation • Blogging Conversation • Bookmarking Conversion • Microblogging Google Ranking • Social News Links • Social Networking

6. • What is Social Media? • Know Your Way Around • Dispelling Myths • Planning Your Social Media Strategy • How Do You Measure Success? • Reputation Management • Q&A

7. It’s a Jungle Out There…

8. Blogs Really Matter

9. Blogs are Growing

10. …and People Read Blogs

11. Twitter • Followers • Data Mining • Customer Service • Breaking News • Good old chat • High user adoption, even when service is down

12. RSS • Grab Headlines • Feed Readers • Share • 2nd Inbox?

14. Dispelling Myths Myth #1: Social Media = adding site widgets. Reality: You need to rework your site.

15. Dispelling Myths Myth #2: Isn’t social media just for “kids” ? Reality: Nope, social media is for all.

16. Dispelling Myths Myth #3: I’m a small business, does social media really apply to me? Reality: It was made for you.

18. Planning Your Social Media Strategy • Set your goals • Establish team responsibilities • Find the “influencers” • Listen to the good, the bad, and the ugly • Join the conversation • Listen some more • Measure against goals

19. Everything You Know is Wrong • Front page for hated stories?

20. Everything You Know is Wrong • Success or failure?

22. How to Measure Success • New industry, lots of debate • Traditional ROI need not apply • Conversations • Links • Authority • Google Links • CPM models • Response Time • Sales • PR

23. • What is Social Media? • Know Your Way Around • Dispelling Myths • Planning Your Social Media Strategy • How do you measure success? • Reputation Management • Q&A

24. Reputation Management • Proactive = raw, unvarnished opinion • Reactive = PR nightmare Danger! Danger!

25. Do it Yourself / Not Doing it Hurts “Dell Support” • 450+ searches/day • 24k+ in January 2007 Oh my!

26. • What is Social Media? • Know Your Way Around • Dispelling Myths • Planning Your Social Media Strategy • How do you measure success? • Reputation Management • Q&A

27. Questions?

28. Contact Brian Wallace bwallace@nowsourcing.com 502.442.7914 nowsourcing.com/blog twitter.com/nowsourcing

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