Regional Arts & Culture Council Social Media Presentation
1. Putting the Pieces Together
How to use Social Media
to Promote your Art or Event
2. Who is Colleen Wright?
• Digital Marketing Instructor for Five Years through Search Engine
Academy Northwest
• Online Marketer Since 1997
• Graduate of Portland State University
– Marketing
– Advertising Management
• Digital Marketing Consultant that has increased revenue for many
businesses small and large over the years
• Business Advisor for the Small Business Development Center at PCC
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3. Who are you?
• Name
• Medium in which you work
• What you hope to get out of today's presentation
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21. Creating a Social Media Plan
If you enter into
social media marketing without a plan,
You Will Fail.
Period.
http://outspokenmedia.com/social-media/social-media-planning/
23. Creating a Social Media Plan
Understand your audience:
1.Who is your audience?
• What does your audience need?
(Describe their needs NOT what you offer)
• What are your customer’s pain points?
(List all of your customer’s pain points)
1.What emotions are evoked by their big pain?
• What do you do?
(How do you solve your customer’s problems?)
1.Who are your competitors?
2.What differentiates your work from the competition?
24. Creating a Social Media Plan
Once you have researched your audience and the
competition, the next step is to:
Create your online brand!
then
Secure your online brand!
25. Creating a Social Media Plan
Secure your online brand
http://knowem.com/
32. Social Media Marketing
Understand your customers;
hang out where they hang out.
Are they on:
Why follow your customers?
You want to know what your customers want and
place yourself ahead of the competition
33. Measuring Success
Determine how you will measure your success
Blog comments ?
Conversations ?
Links ?
Twitter talk ?
Better brand recognition ?
34. Measuring Success
Facebook
Insights
Measures:
1. Likes
2. Reach
3. Talking About This
4. Check-ins
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