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Developing a Social Media Plan for Your Business Kevin Burke Agile Internet Marketing www.agileinternetmarketing.com New England Business Expo October 28, 2010 www.agileinternetmarketing.co m

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Developing a Social Media Plan for Your Business

Kevin BurkeAgile Internet Marketing

www.agileinternetmarketing.comNew England Business Expo

October 28, 2010

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Agile Internet Marketing –Kevin Burke

• President – Agile Internet Marketing

• Helping small and medium sized businesses grow via the Internet

• We provide Search Engine marketing, Optimization, Link Building, PPC, Social media and Press Release services

• Active in Internet Marketing for over twelve years

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Social media definition

• The premise of social media marketing and PR is engaging the consumer in conversation in a way that provides mutual benefit.

• From:Marketing Sherpa• 2009 Social Media and PR Benchmark Guide

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What is Social Media?

1. Public Relations

2. Customer Service

3. Loyalty Building

4. Collaboration

5. Networking

6. Customer Acquisition

7. Content Distribution

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Develop a Plan

• Identify what you are trying to accomplish: Objectives

• Identify your options

• Create a plan

• Build a system for measuring

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What are the options?

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Linkedin

• YouTube

• Slideshare

• Blogs

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Not Your Kids Facebook• 1) The 35-54 year old demographic is growing fastest

• 276.4% growth rate

• 2) The 55+ demographic is the second fastest• 194.3% growth rate

• 3) The 25-34 year old demographic doubles every 6 months

• 4) There are more females (55.7%) than males (42.2%) on Facebook • 2.2% are of unknown gender.

• 5) College crowd 18-24 year olds remains largest • at 40.8% • down from 53.8% six months ago.

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Face the Facts

• Is Facebook right for you?• Largely consumer driven• Not an “engineering/purchasing” destination• More activity than Google• Insure your presence

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Create Your FB Page

• Identify your objectives

• Brand awareness

• New client acquisition

• Client loyalty

• Who will view your page?

• What do you want your page to say about you?

• How will you engage your audience

• Incentives, contests, promotions, relevant technical content

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Promote Page?

• Join Groups – New feature• Offer discounts• Add SM icons to email signature• Add icons to website “Join us on Facebook”• Email marketing • Old school – mailings – cards – handouts

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Promote on Signature

Kevin BurkePresidentAgile Internet MarketingPhone: 508-625-0150Cell: 508-320-2625www.agileinternetmarketing.comMy blog: www.agileinternetmarketing.com/blogFollow me on: Linkedin and Twitter

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• Who uses Linkedin & Why?

• Business professionals • LinkedIn promotes:

• business intelligence

• business development

• creation of business relationships

• conversation• networking

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Your Linkedin Profile

• Create your account

• Build your online profile - Completely

• Summarize your expertise

• Build your community

• Request Recommendations

• Give Recommendations

• Integrate blog

• Upload presentations

• Join and engage in relevant groups

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Join Groups –Contribute

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Group Discussions

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Group Updates

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Group Sales Spam (Splam)

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LinkedIn Network Updates

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Basic LinkedIn is Free - $ Upgrades

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Twitter is a free social networking and

micro-blogging service that enables its users to

send and read other users' updates known as

tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to

140 characters, displayed on the user's profile

page and delivered to other users who have

subscribed to them

(known as followers).

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1

„What has your attention?“

(„What are you doing?“)

• Monitoring & Customer Service

• Market research• Emotional bond

B2C, B2E, E2E

Business Uses

Personal

2

„What‘s the latest news (about that

company)?“

• PR / Corporate communications

• Demonstrate expertise by sharing knowledge

Business Uses

Informational

3

„What are you missing?“

Promotional

Business Uses

• Channel for new form of promotion

• Organise / Promote Events

4

„Fresh bread just out of oven now“

Automatic

• Data Push and Automated Interaction with Customers / Customer Systems

Business Uses

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Search for Information

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Measure Activity via bit.ly

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Twitter Resources & Tools

www.tweetdeck.com

www.hootsuite.com

www.seeismic.com

http://twitter.grader.com/

www.hashtags.org

www.wefollow.com

http://business.twitter.com/twitter101

bit.ly

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Blogging

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How to Distribute Your BlogEmail Campaign

Twitter

Facebook

Other Blogs

Social Bookmarking Sites

LinkedIn

Other (links)…

Blog Posts

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Multiple benefits

• Freshness of Content for Search Engines• Push content out to your network• Increase website visitors• Valuable assistance - education• Establish your authority• Assist existing customer base

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GEO Location Social Media

• If Twitter is “what are you doing now” then Geolocation is “what are you doing next….where are you going and where are you now”

• FourSquare and others adding geo capabilities• Yelp is adding GEO as well• Be more concerned with Google Places and

Reviews

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Where do I begin?

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Develop a Status Report

• Where are you now?– Any presence on major SM sites?– Status of present website?– Do we have or can we develop quality content?

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Overall Strategy

• Before anything…look at your overall Internet Strategy to see where SM should fit– State and importance of website– Optimization– efforts– PPC– Local search– Email marketing– Social Media? Time-budget-expectations– SM should be a PART of strategy

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Who are we trying to reach?

• Where are your customers and prospects– Spa – Facebook?– Plastic Molder – Linked In

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What is the message?

• Are we pushing specials and discounts?• Offering valuable advise and expertise?• Engineering assistance?• Establishing ourselves as an authority?• Branding?

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Prospecting?

• Do we want to “prospect” – Linked In?• Market intelligence– What are your competitors doing and saying?– What are YOUR customers saying?– Do we want to use SM for our own research?

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Manpower Assessment

• Who is going to do all this work?– Who is the SM champion?– One person or multiple– Who controls the “message”– Who monitors activity– Who determines success?

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Planning

• Establish Identity across all platforms• Concentrate on where your customers are• Use all online and offline avenues to promote– Website– Email signatures– Email marketing– All print materials– Business cards

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Planning

• Content is still king• Join Groups– LI and Facebook and Twitter– Join in, converse, monitor, determine if group is

relevant and active

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Planning

• Tweet a little – get comfortable – listen• Get Conversant• Define Objectives - Measure and Adjust– Web Analytics– Facebook fans?– LinkedIn follower?– New customers – Customer retention?– Brand recognition

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Remember social media is

Social.

Engage, share, support and then promote.