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Social Media
Marketing
Elgin, Texas
September 19, 2013
Photo: ePublicist on Flickr
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http://sarahtpage.com/elgin/
Social Media Don’ts
• Don’t be something you’re
not
• Don’t experiment with the
company logo
• Don’t think you have to be
on every social media
channel
• Don’t tell, show
• Don’t feed Facebook to
Twitter (or vice versa)
• Be authentic
• Try new things with
personal accounts first
• Start slow and be selective
• Use images whenever
possible
• Know your audience and
post accordingly
Remember:
Social media
is not
an island.
Photo: lisbokt
Website Marketing
Your website
should be
the hub of
your online
marketing
Social Media Brings Users To You!
Integrate Social with Web
From this …
Integrate Social with Web
… to this.
Facebook 201
Facebook Stats
• Over 1.1 billion active users
• Average user is connected to 40 pages
• Smartphone mobile users check Facebook an
average of 13.8 times a day
• 751 million users access Facebook from a mobile
device
• Average number of connections between local
business pages and users is 2 billion
• Average number of weekly local business page
views is 645 million
• Average number of weekly comments on local
business pages is 13 million
Source: IDC; expandedramblings.com
Manage Page
Settings
Grow Your
Fanbase
Find Helpful
Resources
Admin Panel
Understanding Insights
Understanding Insights
Understanding Insights
Understanding Insights
Facebook Offers
• Affordable and great
for brand awareness
• Spent $3.70 and
drove over $200 in
business
• 102 offers claimed/5
redeemed
• Redemption rate on
this offer was low
• Ask your community
to share!
Source: Doe’s Eat Place
Facebook Offers
Source: Doe’s Eat Place
Facebook Boosted Posts
Facebook Boosted Posts
Source: Visit Bloomington
Facebook Boosted Posts
Source: Visit Bloomington
Facebook Boosted Posts
Source: Visit Bloomington
Facebook Advertising
Facebook Advertising
Facebook Advertising
Facebook Advertising
Facebook Advertising
Content Is King
Visual Content Is Ruler of the World
• Videos shared 12x more
than links and text posts
combined
• Photos are liked 2x more
than text updates
• Instagram is the 2nd most
popular app (globally)
behind Facebook
• Pinterest generates more
referral traffic than
Google+, LinkedIn, and
YouTube combined
Sources: HubSpot; Marketing Land
Visit Fargo-Moorhead
Visual Content Integration
Source: Fargo-Moorhead CVB
Visit Fargo-Moorhead
Visual Content - Pinterest
Source: Fargo-Moorhead CVB
Visit Fargo-Moorhead
Visual Content - YouTube
Source: Fargo-Moorhead CVB
Visit Fargo-Moorhead
Visual Content - Instagram
Source: Fargo-Moorhead CVB
Twitter 201
Twitter Stats
• 500 million users
• 60% of active users use their mobile phone to
tweet
• Average number of followers per Twitter user is
208
• Twitter engagement rates for brands are 17%
higher on Saturdays and Sundays
Source: Linchpin SEO; expandedramblings.com
http://business.twitter.com
http://ads.twitter.com
Twitter Targeting
Promoted Tweets
Promotion Budget
Promoted Tweets
Promoted Accounts
Promotion Analytics
Promoted
Tweets
Dashboard
Follower
Growth
Chart
Claiming Your Yelp Place
• Step 1: Search for your business
– If your business is not listed, click Add a Business
• Step 2: Click “Work here? Unlock this business page”
• Step 3: Create a business account using a neutral email
address
• Step 4: Phone authentication process
• Step 5: Fill out profile information
• Great video tutorial in Yelp Support for Business Owners
Source: Fargo-Moorhead CVB
Respond to Reviews
Show Customers You Care
• 80% of Pinterest users are women
• Users spend an average of 1 hour, 17 minutes on the site
• Pinterest referrals spend 70% more $$ than referrals from
non-social channels
• 43% of Pinterest users prefer to associate with a brand vs
only 24% on Facebook Source: http://socialfresh.com
Photo: droob on Flickr
You May Have Seen This
But Have You Seen This?
Drive
sales to
your
website!
Pinterest for Business
See what’s been pinned from
your website or blog!
http://pinterest.com/source/AddYourURL.Here
• More than 40
million photos are
uploaded every
day
• 90 million monthly
active users
• 8500 likes per
second
• 1000 comments
per second
Source: Social Fresh
Photo: WindKoh on Flickr
Apply Instagram Filters
From this … … to this!
7 TIPS:
Instagram for Business
1. Show Your Products
2. Introduce Your Employees
3. Feature Your Customers
4. Show What Your Products Can Do
5. Use #Hashtags
6. Show How It’s Made
7. Have Fun!
What Do You Want To Try?
Can I Help?
Call Me!
Photo: .Spartography on Flickr
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Sarah T. Page Consulting, LLC
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Social Media Marketing

Editor's Notes

  1. Social media works best when it is a component of an integrated marketing strategy, inclusive of advertising, public relations, etc. It should be a part of your marketing plans, not an island unto itself.
  2. If Facebook is the primary place to find information about your business, the customer is then competing with everything else going on.Why am I here again?1. Hello! Friends I haven’t talked to in a long time.2. Ooh! A notification! I wonder what that is …3. And then there’s branding. You can only brand yourself to the extent that Facebook (or any other social media site) will let you.
  3. Use social media to extend your network. Think of your social media sites as outposts of information, but you should keep the good stuff on your website. Your website and your blog (if you have one) are the only pieces of online real estate that you truly own. Your branding, your content, your calls to action – those are all yours.
  4. The restaurant doesn't typically do a brisk lunch business.  Note that the paid reach was only 526.  The majority of the views came from viral views - aka shares.  Over 7k total views.  Also note that it was only shared 11 times, so asking for the share is important. There were also 10 new likes on the page during the offer.  I attribute this to the offer and shares.
  5. Handout:Ways to Use Twitter
  6. Yelp was founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics.Yelp had an average of approximately 86 million monthly unique visitors in Q4 2012.Yelpers have written over 36 million local reviews.Every business owner (or manager) can setup a free account to post photos and message her customers.Yelp makes money by selling ads to local businesses - you'll see these clearly labeled "Yelp Ads" around the site.
  7. Just like you would pin something you want to remember on a bulletin board, Pinterest lets you do the same thing to images you find on the web. Create your own virtual bulletin boards for the things you love – like recipes, places you want to visit, ideas for your home, and more. Once something is pinned, it can be “liked”, “shared” on Facebook, tweeted on Twitter, repinned, and commented on by your followers.
  8. Aesthetic Design Construction from right here in Bastrop is a great example of a small business that is using Pinterest effectively. They appeal to Pinterest’saspirational nature by showing us what we can do with our new homes once we’re living in them. The photography is beautiful. And they’ve taken something that’s typically considered “manly” (construction) and made it be more appealing to Pinterest’s predominantly feminine audience.
  9. This is from a Board that Lost Pines Toyota created called “Welcome to the Family”. It’s genius really. Anytime you can feature your happy customers in a photo that is shareable, that’s a win. People love to see themselves in pictures, and it shows other potential customers what kind of treatment they will receive as customers.
  10. Business.pinterest.com
  11. Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and your blog too – it's so easy. It's photo sharing, reinvented.
  12. Even better if you can do it in new, interesting, or artistic ways.
  13. Tell us who you are. We are more likely to do business with people we like.
  14. It’s kind of like the Amazon.com method. When they show you recommendations for what other people have bought? If ALL these other people like you, then maybe I should like you too.
  15. Why should I buy this product? What can it do for me? How will it make my life easier or better?
  16. Hashtags are searchable. It’s a way to curate information (or photos, in this case) to make it easy to find. I can search Instagram for other photos with the same hashtag. I can also search them on Twitter where the photos are shared with a whole different audience.
  17. People love going behind the scenes. It makes us feel like insiders. In the know. The more we know, the easier it is for us to buy.
  18. Show your personality. Let loose a little. As I said earlier, we’re more likely to buy from people we like. Help us like you!