ASHA Convention - Social Media Strategies for Horse Professionals
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- 1. Smart Social Media Strategies for Horse Professionals
- 2. Chad Mendell • EquestrianProfessional.com • Equestrian Social Media Boot Camp • Equiseen • ESMA Judge 2012, 2014 Past: The Horse – Executive Editor chad@questrianprof.com Twitter: @ChadMendell
- 3. Game Plan • Why social media for horse businesses • Quick rundown of the biggies • Essential Principles for Success
- 6. • At any given time, only 3% of the people in your market are ready to make a purchase or use your services. • What about the other 97%? - How do you stay in front of them?
- 7. Why It Works • Inexpensive – Knowledge Based not $ • Word of Mouth Based - Highly trusted and 78% of business comes directly from or influenced by WOM • Visual - Lets you utilize images and video • Informal Content Works – and horse professionals are close to the action! • Mobile – You can market using your mobile phone
- 9. Facebook • • • • • Personal Profiles Business/Fan Pages Groups Wall posts Live chat, photos, videos, links, e-mail
- 10. Facebook
- 11. Facebook
- 12. Facebook
- 13. Facebook
- 15. Pages vs. News Feed • 96% of users don’t return to your page • You are 40-150x more likely to reach your fans in their newsfeed than your page • 27% of all time on Facebook is spent looking at the newsfeed • Only 16% of your fans will see your posts
- 16. EdgeRank
- 17. Facebook
- 19. Facebook
- 20. Twitter • Twitter is an instant messaging and micro-blogging platform that enables people to communicate to their friends, followers and the universe using 140 characters or less
- 21. “Twitter is like a Text Message with a BCC: To The World” Photo Credit: ydhsu
- 22. Twitter
- 23. Twitter
- 24. Hash Tags & Trending
- 25. Twitter Tools
- 26. * LinkedIn • A business oriented social networking site that allows registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. Connections, Groups, Discussions, Job Search, Answers & News
- 27. LinkedIn
- 28. LinkedIn
- 30. YouTube • A video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos that is also social • Subscribers, Friends, Comments
- 36. Google+ & Search
- 37. Google +1 Button Websites that have Google’s +1 button installed generated 3.5 times more traffic from Google+ than websites that don’t have the button installed.
- 38. • A virtual pin board where users share images and videos by sharing links from their own or other people’s websites and/or from their own computers and social media channels like Flicker and YouTube. • A post is called a “Pin” and posting is referred to as “pinning” • “Pinners” then have the option to like, comment or re-pin” and can also follow other Pinners or specific Boards from other Pinners • The majority of Pinners are content curators – 80% of all pins are repins
- 41. Which should you use? • Each of the social media platforms have different strengths and applications. • Which platforms and strategies you should use, depends on the type of business you have and your specific goals.
- 42. Where are your customers? Go to Them. By didgital
- 43. Customer Pyramid
- 44. What to Posts? Frequently asked questions • Behind the scenes • Events • Current news • Your Customers (in a good way) • Ask questions and solicit input • Aggregate • It’s not about hard selling.
- 45. Next Steps • Start with one or two platforms – Goals? – Customers? Set time limits • Get to know Photoshop/editing software • Test, Measure, Repeat • Be social •
- 46. It’s Not Free “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” - Stephen Covey
- 47. Questions?