Photographer and Marketer Frederick Van Johnson's slide deck on how to best focus your social media efforts. Delivered at OpenCamp 2010 in Addison, Texas.
10. What is Social Media?
Facebook
Facebook - Over 500 million active users
250 million users log in every single day
700 BILLION minutes per month are spent on Facebook
11. What is Social Media?
Twitter
Over 75 million users visit Twitter.com per day
Over 50 million Tweets sent per day
Growing 1,400 % Yearly
12. Know Your Audience/Goals...
✤ What are your goals?
✤ End goal shapes the message
✤ Customers or Comrades?
✤ Customers? - Transparency
donʼt be a phony
✤ Comrades? - Share pertinent
information... youʼre NOT a
company
14. How to Grow Your Audience
✤ Create & automate your email list
✤ Run Twitter promotions
✤ Create a Facebook Page
✤ Blog, Blog, Blog!
✤ Podcast
✤ YouTube - ScreenCasts
✤ AUTOMATE IT ALL!
15. Automate Your Email
AWeber, MailChimp, etc..
Email Autoresponders, and Newsletter
Build a schedule... automate that puppy, and walk away!
19. How to Create Your OWN Twitter
Pandemic.. in 5 Easy Steps...
1.Contacted David duChemin, got eBook library code
(http://www.craftandvision.com)
2.Set up affiliate agreement through eJunkie.com
3.Embedded the bit.ly shortened affiliate link in a blog post, users
MUST be following to enter!
4.Tweet said “Iʼve entered to win an ENTIRE photo book library from
@ThisWeekinPhoto [blog post link] - Pls RT!”
5.Everyone who clicks on the link is “cookied” and TWiP gets a
percentage of each ebook sale
20. Infection Results...
Objective: Grow followers, increase web
traffic, generate sales
1.Re-tweets to date: 195
2.New visitors per day (to a single page): 500
3.New followers (in 6 days): 700
4.Sales: In progress—promotion ends next week