The Social Experience. Grow your personal brand, engage with your audience and stand out from the crowd!

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THE SOCIAL
EXPERIENCE.
GROW YOUR PERSONAL
BRAND, ENGAGE WITH
YOUR AUDIENCE AND
STAND OUT FROM THE
CROWD.
Gina Lednyak
Founder & Managing Director
L&A Social Media

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L&A SOCIAL MEDIA

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HOW CAN LEVERAGING SOCIAL MEDIA HELP YOU?
?
Grumpy Cat owner, Tabatha, has made $100 million
since grumpy cats became a social media sensation!

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HOW CAN LEVERAGING SOCIAL MEDIA HELP YOU?
• Build a personal brand & stand out from the crowd
• Put yourself out there - opportunities will ﬁnd you!
• Be known as an expert and a person of inﬂuence
• Work on better, more exciting and sought after projects
• Make more money!
• Pay it forward and spread your knowledge & expertise
• Control your own destiny, be the person you want to be and
create a community and career you absolutely love

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Social Media
Fundamentals -
digital trends and
time spent online.

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WE ARE CONNECTED
There are now more devices
connected to the internet,
than there are people on  
the planet.
On average, Australians
check their smartphone
150 times per day.
56% of Facebook users
check it daily, 12% check  
it hourly.

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…AND WE’RE ONLY AT THE BEGINNING!

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HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS TODAY
On average it takes 7-11 touch points to build trust with a person,
business or brand.

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WHERE DO WE USE SOCIAL MEDIA?
Lounge Bed Study
Kitchen Bathroom Toilet
66% 44% 36%
21% 7% 6%
6% of Australian social media users
assess social while using the toilet!

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How to use social
media to build your
personal brand.

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7 STEPS TO HAVING A SUPERSTAR PROFILE
There are 7 key steps to creating a personal brand
successfully through social media.
“Plan your work for
today and every day,
then work your plan.”
Margaret Thatcher
…aka stick to it!

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STEP 1 - STRATEGY & EVALUATION
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”
• The ﬁrst step is to create your strategy. Decide what you would like your personal
brand to achieve for you and what you would like to be known for.
• Evaluate who your target audience is and then get crystal clear on who they are
and what they are interested in. Think laterally.
• Decide what success looks like for you and then set monthly, quarterly and yearly
KPI’s and goals for your social media activity.
• Sit down each month and analyse whether you are achieving your social media goals,
and whether your social media goals are helping you achieve your offline goals!

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STEP 2 - CHOOSE YOUR SOCIAL NETWORKS
• Decide what social networks can best help you achieve your goals.
• It is better to do 1 or 2 networks well, than do 3-5 networks poorly. Social
media is about the quality and attention to detail within each network, and
the connectivity to your community.
• Choose the networks where your audience already is, research this
beforehand. Country, age and other demographic information will
inﬂuence this.
• Some networks are more time consuming than others, evaluate the time
you can commit before you begin.
• Choose the networks you will feel the most comfortable with publishing
content on, content is visual, verbal, long-form, short-form, video and
more. Each network responds best to a different content mix.

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STEP 2 - CHOOSE YOUR SOCIAL NETWORKS
13.8 million Australians on Facebook, business and personal pages and groups; powerful but
personal.
2.8 million Australians; powerful for thought leadership and proﬁle but time consuming.
350,000 Australians, Pinterest is great for promoting visuals, fashion, design and more.
4 million Australians on Instagram, great for building a personal and business brand, highly visual.
Only 60,000 Australians are on g+, though the network is good for SEO.
3.3 million Australian users, incredible for building a strong brand and for publishing.

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STEP 3 - CREATE ENGAGING CONTENT
• Decide on the kind of content you would like to publish - it can be purely
business, personal, opinions and more.
• Create unique content that is targeted to your audience and shows your
personality. Don’t create generic content. Be different and be personal;
people will connect with you on a deeper level.
• Plan your content in advance - always pre-plan larger chunks of content
like blog posts, articles and videos. You can still be spontaneous but plan
out enough content to avoid prolonged periods of digital silence!
• Whatever you do, aim to add value, remember there is always someone
listening and you never know how you can help them or what you can
teach.
• Create content you love and feel passionately about, this will get noticed
more than anything else. Don’t sell directly, instead be relevant and add
value.

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STEP 3 - CONTENT & ENGAGEMENT
Content comes in all shapes and sizes!

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STEP 4 - LOOK AMAZING!
• Get a professional head shot. You will use this time and time again.
• There should be a visual consistency between all of your social networks,
your business and your website. Each network can have it’s own aesthetic
and photo while keeping consistency in mind.
• Your profile picture must look amazing on mobile and desktop! Always go
for something bold and something that looks great small. Close up photos
look best.
• The design used on your networks should make it clear who you are and
what you do, and show your unique value proposition. Don’t forget you get
a cover photo!
• Make sure your profile information is filled out accurately, especially on
LinkedIn, and if possible try to have recommendations on your LinkedIn.

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STEP 4 - LOOK AMAZING! -EXAMPLES

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STEP 5 - POSTING & ENGAGEMENT
• Keep your social networks updated! LinkedIn at least once a week,
Twitter at least 3-5 times a week, Instagram at least 3-5 times a week
and if you are blogging aim to post once a week.
• Experiment with posting at different times of day and have a clear
understanding of what time of day your community is active online. As
your audience may be all over the world, ﬁnding the most engaged time to
post is crucial. 8pm tends to be the most engaged time online.
• Respond back to each person who engages with you on any of your
networks through a comment or message.
• Proactively engage in conversations with people - this will grow your
proﬁle and create new connections.

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STEP 6 - GROW YOUR CONNECTIONS
• The best way to grow your connections and inﬂuencer is through
consistent publishing.
• When you are just starting out make sure you ﬁrst connect with everyone
that you know in real life, whether they are a business connection or
friends and family.
• Create engaging content - the more your followers like your content, the
more they will share it and engage with it, increasing your visibility and
growing your connections.
• If you are using social media for business utilise advertising on Facebook,
Twitter and LinkedIn. Facebook advertising is highly targeted making it
very effective.

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STEP 7 - TRACK RESULTS & MEASURE SUCCESS
• Ensure you are sticking to the goals and KPI’s you set in step 1.
• Track your online progress weekly, this could be as simple as tracking how
often you posted and what opportunities/results happened.
• Each month run a mini strategy session with yourself and evaluate the
previous month and what you would like to achieve in the coming month -
personal proﬁle is very much linked to your goals.
• Every quarter sit down and do a bigger picture evaluation and evaluate if
you are happy with the direction your proﬁle is growing in and if it is
helping you achieve your offline goals. After this, go back to step 1!
• Celebrate success! Richard Branson started following you? Celebrate.
Business lead came through? Celebrate. You hit 500 followers on
Twitter? Celebrate!

THANK YOU
landasocial.com
Gina Lednyak
@ginalednyak
gina@landasocial.com

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