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- 2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Creating Your Online Profile
• Facebook Marketing
• Promoting Products & Services on
Twitter
• LinkedIn for Marketers
• Online Reputation Management
• Blogging
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- 3. What is Social Media Marketing?
Engagement with online communities to generate exposure, opportunity
and sales. The number-one advantage is generating exposure for the
business, followed by increasing traffic and building new business
partnerships.
Social media is peer-to-peer conversations:
• Blogging Platforms
• Video sharing
• Podcasting
• Commenting systems
• Discussion groups
• Microblogging
• Content syndication
• Social networks
• Sharing features
• how video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhPgUcjGQAw
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- 4. Recognize any of these sites?
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- 5. Social Media - A Statistical Overview
• 0,000,000 – videos on YouTube
7 • 33,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by
1 • 75,000,000 – number of people around
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• 00,000,000 – videos viewed per day
1 Technorati since 2002 the world using Facebook
• 12,486,327 – number of views for most
1 • 46,000,000 – number of people globally who
3 • 4,500,000 – monthly unique visitors
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viewed video on YouTube read blogs • .8% - average monthly growth rate of
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• 3 hours – amount of video uploaded each
1 • 00,000 – average number of blog posts in a
9 monthly unique visitors over the past year
minute 24 hour period • ,600,000,000 – number of minutes global
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• 6.57 – average age of video up-loader
2 • 7% - percentage of active Internet users who
7 users in aggregate spend on Facebook
read blogs daily
• ,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date
1 • 36,000,000 – number of visitors attracted
2 • 6,000,000 – number of members in
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• ,100,000 – number of US people reached on
4 annually in 2008 MySpace US
Twitter each month • 3,000,000 unique monthly visitors
3 • .8% - monthly growth rate in US
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• 5% - month over month growth rate for Twitter
5 • 6% - Digg’s front page controlled by top 100
5 • 66 minutes – avearge number of minutes
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• 3% - percentage of Twitter users that are male
6 users a user in US spends on MySpace each
• 6,925 – number of diggs for the most popular
3 month
story in the last year • ,000,000,000 – number of images loaded
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onto the MySpace site
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- 6. Social Media On Your Site
User Enhanced User Generated Social
Content Content Networking
Forming connections
Rating, recommending, Blogging, uploading
with
annotating content photos, videos, etc.
other users
90% of companies feel online customer engagement
“important” or “essential”.
78% of Marketers are targeting Social Media, Social
Networking and Web 2.0 companies
72% of consumers use social media to research a company's
reputation for customer care before making a purchase.
63% of consumers indicate they are more likely to purchase from
a site if it has product ratings and reviews.
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- 7. Your Online Profile
• Where do you start?
• Personal vs. Business
• Where do you draw the line?
• Transparency
• ideo http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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v=6a_KF7TYKVc&feature=fvsr
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- 8. Where do you start?
Getting started
• Identify clear objectives
• Find the right web professionals
• Keep projects small, simple and bite size
• Get hands-on and learn how to use social media
• Experiment and fail fast
• Leverage the web in accelerating learning's
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- 9. Where do you start?
Listen, get involved, communicate & participate.
• Increase customer base.
• Generate leads.
• Drive sales.
• Build awareness.
• Make money from your content.
• Establish thought leadership.
• Educate customers.
• Customer-source part of your product development.
• Reach new channels of customers.
• Improve internal communication.
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- 10. Facebook
• Where do you start?
• Personal page, authentic, transparency
• 43% Male 57% Female
• 35 – 44 year olds = 20% / 45 – 54 year olds = 24 %
• Group vs Fan Page
• Share, post, announce in groups, email, social ads
• Example: Adventure Travel Group / Oprah
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- 11. Twitter
• Where do you start?
• Basics, choosing handle, bio, @replies, DM
• Tweetdeck, Twellow, Co Tweet
• Give more than thou receive
• Be undeniably genuine
• Thank (nearly) every @replies
• Example: Halloween
• ideo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
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- 12. LinkedIn
• Where do you start?
• Profile, 100% complete
• Recommendations
• Get involved, Q & A
• Post expertise, questions, events
• Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pXWrHN0elg
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- 13. Blogging
• There are over 100MM blogs in the world
• Blogs have become a natural source for information and creating 1-to-1
relationships
• Great tool for storytelling and sharing
• Commenting, linkbacks, RSS and SEO
• Microblogging has emerged as one of the most popular ways of sharing
what’s going on
• Twitter has over 50MM users world wide
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- 14. Social Media – Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet
users to store, organize, search, and manage
bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with
the help of metadata.
• In a social bookmarking system, users
save links to web pages that they want to
remember and/or share.
• These bookmarks are usually public, and
can be saved privately, shared only with
specified people or groups, shared only
inside certain networks, or another
combination of public and private domains.
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- 15. Social Media – Twitter & Facebook
Show video -
http://
www.youtube.com
/watch?
v=jGbLWQYJ6iM
&feature=fvst
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- 16. Social Media – Campaign Samples
• Video optimization
• Social networking management
• Increased web traffic equates to:
• Reaching a broader audience
• Building a larger community to market to
• Ultimately increased event attendance
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- 17. Social Media – Campaign Samples
• Online Brand Management
• Social networking set-up, training, measuring
• Deployed client’s brand via Twitter
• Built up followers based on demographics
• Communicated to followers
• Generated raving fans equated to new order generation
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- 18. Boosting Conversion Rates
• Percentage of
unique visitors
who take a
desired action
• Boosting sales
through small
incremental
changes
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- 19. Conversion Optimization – The Funnel
Marketing Sherpa, Inc.
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- 20. Metrics & Tracking
• Testing and tracking ad performance
• Analyzing traffic patterns and click-through
rates
• Conversion rates
• Cost per sale
• ROI
FREE
http://www.google.com/analytics/
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- 21. BONUS SLIDE
BONUS SLIDE: How to win during a down market?
• 2009 10% of all US ad dollars will go online
• Internet is 20% of overall media consumption in the US
• US advertisers invest only 7.5% of their budget online
Tremendous potential for marketplace growth
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- 22. Thank You
Melani Gordon
Founder
619-894-0384
melani@gWaveConsulting.com
Twitter.com/melgordon
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