7. Social Demographics
Where Should You Spend Your Time?
What’sinitforyou?
Pinnacle
Joel Wolfgang
@joel_wolfgang
Social Media Consultant
November 9, 2010
43. Facebook Techniques
How to Utilize Facebook for Business
What’sinitforyou?
Pinnacle
Joel Wolfgang
@joel_wolfgang
Social Media Consultant
November 9, 2010
51. Facebook Strategy
Develop a Facebook Page for your business
Develop a Posting Strategy
Engage on a Regular basis
“Like” Community Pages
52. LinkedIn Techniques
How to Utilize LinkedIn for Business
What’sinitforyou?
Pinnacle
Joel Wolfgang
@joel_wolfgang
Social Media Consultant
November 9, 2010
61. Blogging II
Why Blogging is a Great Idea for
Every Business
What’sinitforyou?
Pinnacle
Joel Wolfgang
@joel_wolfgang
Social Media Consultant
November 9, 2010
71. Geo-Location
• Foursquare
– Earn points and badges
– Check-in style
– Share location on
twitter/Facebook
• Gowalla
– Earn points and badges
– Check-in style
– Share media on
twitter/Facebook
• Facebook Places
– Check-in Style
– Share location on
Foursquare/Gowalla
• Google Latitude
– Tracking Style
– Shows position of your GPS
device on a map.
Social Media Strategy should always be growing.
Expanse of Social Media Site involvement
Extensive connections across SM sites and your website
Conversations about you and your brand across social environments
The problem isn't how do we get it to grow; but how can we grow in the right direction.
It’s a marathon not a sprint
The Process that companies are viewed by people through Social Media
Presence - How large or a Presence do you have in Social Media?
Trusted Resource -Do people trust you as a quality resource?
Authority - Will people share what you have to say with others?
Relationship - How often do you wow your followers with a personal connection?
Presence
Evaluate your current presence
Do you have a website?
What Social Media sites are you currently on?
How frequently are you involved with those sites?
What features on those sites do you use the most?
What features do you use infrequently?
Are there sites you think you should be involved in but aren't? Or don't know how?
Trusted Resource
Develop an information sharing strategy
What information do you offer?
How often will you share information?
General tips
Make producing quality content your highest priority.
90/10 rule
What information do you share?
Is it timely, relevant?
Is it worth a person's time?
Authority
Do they share you?
Do you get Retweeted on Twitter?
Do people suggest your Facebook page to friends?
Does someone write a blog article about you or an event that you put on?
Relationship
Reach out to people.
Engage
Do more than just connect your blog feed to Social sites
Don't work more in any one medium than another
Interact
When appropriate respond and ask questions of people.
If it get personal or into detail take the conversation to personal communication
DM on twitter
Email
Phone
Listen
Check your sites often and especially throughout the day.
Leaving things unchecked could be disastrous
Facebook
56% - Women
44% - Men
Twitter
55% - Women
45% - Men
LinkedIn
45% - Women
55% - Men
MySpace
51% - Women
49% - Men
Social Media Growth Rates
Pew Research
18-29 – 13%
30-49 – 27%
50-64 – 88%
65+ – 100%
A website or part of a website.
They're known for being incredibly flexible
Time relevant information is able to be shared in an easy scalable format
Makes it easy to update your website
Many people get a website, but don't update it or update it frequently.
If you don't update people don't want to visit frequently
We'll talk later about how this effect search engines
Blogs are an excellent way to keep your website up to date simply and fresh for readers
You can easily share information
This makes it easier for you to let people read your sites through email, or a blog reader
It also makes it easier to sign your blog up to different services
Put your posts as notes on Facebook
Auto-publish them to Twitter
There are several parts to a blog
Pages
Posts
Plug-ins
Why blog?
Blogging creates authenticity
It shows your business in a new light
It helps your customers better understand your business
It can also show how to better use your products
Blogging can create better search opportunities.
Started at Harvard in 2004
Put the college experience on the Internet
Primarily geared towards college students
It was 18 months after it opened that it opened to everyone
EdgeRank
Is the algorithm that Facebook uses to float information to the top of your screen
Facebook Main Page
Facebook Profile Page
Profiles
Everyone gets one profile
If you happen to get more than one profile and Facebook finds out about it they will drop both of them.
Private in nature
You must share a connection between two parties
New Facebook Groups
Are designed to be connections between several individuals around a topic or common connection.
These have been completely revamped recently
New group chat
Email notification
Email Posting
Documents
Many features disappear after 250 group members
Friendship Page
Shows you the connection links between two individuals
Facebook Community Pages
These are intended to be hubs to see communication.
You can suggest a Wikipedia page
You can suggest an official Facebook page
Facebook Pages are the main technique used for businesses
Post regularly on the wall
Whole point is to ignite conversations
Connect your blog to the page so new posts show up as a link
I would not recommend connecting your twitter to the page
Its possible, but I wouldn’t
If you post frequently people will not want to read your posts on Facebook, and might "unlike"
Your posts might not float to the top as well
Spend time on your profile picture
Consider using all the space for your profile picture
And Make sure that you have something to crop to for your square picture
Custom
Have a custom tabs as the first page makes a new visitor your page 50% more likely to click the "Like" button
Having something that asks a person to click the "Like" button also adds an additional 25% likelihood of clicking the "Like" button.
Engage in conversations
Make sure to check back in on your Facebook page for comments at least daily.
Strategy
Develop a Facebook page
Consider adding a custom tab (Ryan will talk about this soon)
Develop a posting strategy
What types of things will you post here?
How often will you post?
Engage on a very regular basis
"Like" community pages so that you will see when some talks about your business across Facebook
Suggest a Wikipedia article for your community pages
Suggest your Official Facebook page for your community page
History
Developed in 2002 opened to the public in 2003 as a professional social network.
It has 80,000,000 members
Half are in the US
How the site works
It is probably the most true social networking site on the web
It allows you to see how people are connected to you.
It will even allow you to pay an extra fee to see more levels of connections
The idea being that people could share their networks online.
So if you needed a lawyer and I knew one you could search for a local lawyer and see the one's I know.
It took what we do everyday in business and put it online.
LinkedIn Profile
Every individual who signs up receives a profile page and is encouraged to fill it out.
Profile pages looks like a resume
Allows you to connect a blog, twitter account to the page.
Company Profiles
Each company has the ability to create a maintain a company profile.
People can Follow your company on LinkedIn and get specific updates
As a measure of standing you want people to follow your company profile on LinkedIn
It will notify them with news about you company.
Product and service release s and such.
The first person the make the profile is the executer of the company profile.
They must add you for you to make edits to the page.
Possible to get around this, but it is a lengthy process.
You can show open jobs
You can now show Products and Services
LinkedIn Groups
Thousands of groups exist on LinkedIn
With just about as many topics.
You could easily join one and follow the topics and conversations through email or any other way you wish.
These are great ways to develop relationships among people in your field.
You will have competitors in there, but if you are focused on the soft sell and are building relationships you'll fare much better.
If a group doesn't exist in your field or you would like to create a group on a more specific topic you can do that as well.
This is nice because you can once per week you have the ability to send out a message to all the people in the group.
Again soft sells only people will flee very fast if they smell an agenda
You could showcase some topics that are going on to increase participation
You could invite people to an event that you'll be attending that's related to the group topic
LinkedIn Answers
People have the ability to ask questions on LinkedIn - it's really a great place to find answer from professionals.
Users who ask questions can select the best answers.
The user whose answer is selected gets listed as having 1 Best answered question
This is a great way to improve your professional and business's reputation.
Strategy
Develop a Facebook page
Consider adding a custom tab (Ryan will talk about this soon)
Develop a posting strategy
What types of things will you post here?
How often will you post?
Engage on a very regular basis
"Like" community pages so that you will see when some talks about your business across Facebook
Suggest a Wikipedia article for your community pages
Suggest your Official Facebook page for your community page
History
Developed in 2002 opened to the public in 2003 as a professional social network.
It has 80,000,000 members
Half are in the US
How the site works
It is probably the most true social networking site on the web
It allows you to see how people are connected to you.
It will even allow you to pay an extra fee to see more levels of connections
The idea being that people could share their networks online.
So if you needed a lawyer and I knew one you could search for a local lawyer and see the one's I know.
It took what we do everyday in business and put it online.
ach post is unique and its own page and therefore can be indexed by search engines.
Long-tail Keywords
Long-Tail Keywords
They aren't long keywords or key phrases, but when you look at a graph of your search hits from most searched for terms to least searched for terms the smaller ones you'll find a Long-Tail in the graph.
If you develop a strategy to attack keywords that people are looking for you can become an authority on greater search terms
If a post gets two search hits per month and you have a 1000 blog posts you now have 2,000 extra hits per month.
Eventually the pages that get a few hits in total bring in more traffic than your main couple of pages
Consistent addition of content
Websites are not brochures or posters
Many sites sit and don't change
Search engines will rank you lower if you site stays stagnate for long periods of time
A blogging strategy allows your site to stay fresh and current
Consistent writing can create consistent readers
Many consistent readers can create a community.
Consistent readers count you as an authority.
Consistent readers will share your content.
Engage with commenters
Be ready to answer questions
Respond to negative comments appropriately
Don't be afraid to add to a conversation that's happening
Develop a blogging strategy
Who will post?
How often will you post?
Who is in charge of editing?
Design a blog
Keep it similar to your current webpage
Put in on your webpage
i.e. www.example.com/blog
This is better for SEO
Stay consistent
Develop a plan for vacations and holidays
Get a head by a couple of weeks
Early 1960s from National Science Foundation / Military Research
1991 – World Wide Web project made the internet we know today a reality
Web 1.0 – Online Brochures
Static Simple websites
Blinking Text
Web 2.0 – coined phrase in 1999 User-Centered Content
Backend Integration
Content Syndication
Web 3.0 – Lots of different ideas, but the one that seems most plausible is to layer the web across physical space
Layar
Geo-Location services simply share your location on the internet.
FourSquare
Allows you to share your location with friends
Strategy
Usually when you claim your business you'll be able to add things like your webpage, twitter, blog account
Great for SEO if you have links going back to your site.
Some will even let you put your logo on it.
Offer specials
It might just give you a competitive edge
Early 1960s from National Science Foundation / Military Research
1991 – World Wide Web project made the internet we know today a reality
Web 1.0 – Online Brochures
Static Simple websites
Blinking Text
Web 2.0 – coined phrase in 1999 User-Centered Content
Backend Integration
Content Syndication
Web 3.0 – Lots of different ideas, but the one that seems most plausible is to layer the web across physical space
Strategy
Develop a Facebook page
Consider adding a custom tab (Ryan will talk about this soon)
Develop a posting strategy
What types of things will you post here?
How often will you post?
Engage on a very regular basis
"Like" community pages so that you will see when some talks about your business across Facebook
Suggest a Wikipedia article for your community pages
Suggest your Official Facebook page for your community page
Strategy
Develop a Facebook page
Consider adding a custom tab (Ryan will talk about this soon)
Develop a posting strategy
What types of things will you post here?
How often will you post?
Engage on a very regular basis
"Like" community pages so that you will see when some talks about your business across Facebook
Suggest a Wikipedia article for your community pages
Suggest your Official Facebook page for your community page
Design a blog
Keep it similar to your current webpage
Put in on your webpage
i.e. www.example.com/blog
This is better for SEO
Stay consistent
Develop a plan for vacations and holidays
Get a head by a couple of weeks
Strategy
Usually when you claim your business you'll be able to add things like your webpage, twitter, blog account
Great for SEO if you have links going back to your site.
Some will even let you put your logo on it.
Offer specials
It might just give you a competitive edge