Digital Space Consulting is a digital agency that provides social media strategy, content creation, and analytics services. They help brands connect with customers and empower them through research and engagement. The document provides tips on building a social media strategy, including listening to conversations, becoming active on key platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, sharing valuable content, and measuring results. It emphasizes starting simply by optimizing profiles, engaging with others, and staying connected to industry conversations.
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1. Digital Space Consulting
THE “HOW TO” BUILD YOUR SOCIAL STRATEGY
Tips | Tricks | Platforms | Tactics
“We are the CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc.”
2. Who We Are
• Digital agency with over 10 years experience in content, creative, communications,
and analytics
• Passionate about the tools, platforms, and technology used to connect and engage
consumers
• Focused on empowering brands and customers by enabling them to research, relate
and engage with each other
• Entrenched in execution and creating a blueprint from here to there
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3. What We Do
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Digital Communication Initiatives
Technology Components
Analytics & Reporting
SOCIAL MEDIA ECOMMERCEDIGITAL
MESSAGING
WEB CONTENT
MANAGEMENT
ECOMMERCE EMAIL /
MARKETING
SOCIAL
COMMUNITIES
SOCIAL
PROFILING
WEBSITE
WIDGETS
VIDEO SEO/SEM
WEB
ANALYTICS
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGY +
PLANNING
INTERNET
MARKETING
5. The problem you’re trying to solve
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YOUR FIRST MISTAKE
Assuming people are rational
YOUR THIRD MISTAKE
Assuming that once someone knows things the way you know them,
they will choose what you choose
YOUR SECOND MISTAKE
Assuming people are eager to change
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6. Why social media should be a part of
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your strategy
1. Gain visibility
Unlimited access to professionals, organizations, prospects, and customers in
your target market
2. Provide transparency
Being open and honest allows you to connect with others on common ground
3. Helps you ‘get to give’
Ask for help only after offering help to others the majority of the time
4. Allow ‘nobodies’ to become ‘somebodies’
Create and cultivate your personal brand
7. of small business
marketers plan to increase
their use of social media
this year.
of small business
Marketers spend at least
10 minutes on social
media marketing per day.
Of small business
marketers spend an hour
or more on social media
marketing per day.
Social Media marketing isn’t a fad
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More and more small businesses are leveraging the power of social
9. Let’s start with some videos
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Social
Media 2013
Marketing Fundamentals
Don’t Change
10. What happens every 60 seconds on the
internet
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• 695,000 FACEBOOK STATUS
UPDATES
• 1,500 BLOG POSTS
• 100+ NEW LINKEDIN ACCOUNTS
• 694,455 GOOGLE SEARCHES
• 98,000 TWEETS
• 13,000 IPHONE APPS
DOWNLOADED
“Marketing today is about creating brand value by helping customers, not
creating documents and blue pens with your logo on them.”
11. The New Reality…
If companies don’t know you’re out there, you never get the OPPORTUNITY to
be considered The Customer is in CONTROL.
Your company, product, service, brand, reputation, etc. is now a
search result…
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12. Why social matters
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1. Build relationships
• Support network
• Lead generation
2. Raise visibility
• Increased awareness of you and your services
3. Demonstrate expertise
• Opportunities to show thought leadership
4. Go public
• Come out from behind the curtain
• Find your voice/niche/point of view
Share
links
Amplify
others
Give tips
Be a
resource
Show
expertise
Blog
Blog
comments
Social Networking
LinkedIn
13. The “How To” Social Media for Business
Hello World…
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14. What do I need to do first?
• Become a student of each platform
• Engage and start conversations
• Make sure that your profile is updated / keyword focused
• Share content (articles, videos, webinars, events, etc.)
• Center profiles on who you are, what you’re about, and
how you help
• Create a home online (social home)
• Keep the personal personal and business strictly business
Go ahead, ask the question - What’s the ROI of social media???
Create profiles – engage
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42%
havegeneratedcustomers
throughFacebook
48%
havegeneratedcustomersthroughTwitter
57%
ofbusinesseshavegeneratedcustomers
throughLinkedIn
CUSTOMER ACQUISITION
15. Can you show me a couple of examples?
• Be findable – What happens when someone Google’s your name?
• Offer help and answer questions
• Share useful content (Articles, Blogs)
• Become a student of each platform
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17. But, Where Do I Get Started
People are using the Internet to talk about your brand, products,
competitors, customers, and clients – are you listening?
Want to know what people are saying about you on Twitter? Facebook? Blogs? Forums? No problem.
WHERE TO LISTEN
• Google Alerts
• LinkedIn
• Alltop.com
• Search.Twitter.com
• FollowerWonk.com
• HelpAReporter.com (HARO)
• Feedly
• Socialmention.com
• Topsy.com
WHERE TO SHARE
• Blogs
• Forums
• Twitter – hashtags / twitter talks
• Facebook – status comments / groups
• Linkedin – Groups
• Quora
• Review sites – Amazon / YouTube / Yelp
• Yahoo Answers
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18. 3 easy ways you can leverage social
media
And get started
- Market intelligence
- Understand your customers and competitors
- Track keyword mentions for your products services1- Identify opportunity
- Listen for keywords
- Identify influencers
- Find prospects who are trying to find you
2- Build thought leadership
- Become an expert in your niche
- Grow your tribe / create authority3
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19. So how do you make the most of your
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social media marketing efforts?
ADD VALUE
Share content that your audience will find helpful, informative, or entertaining
20. Curate | Build | Manage | Measure
Get content
• Google Alerts
• AllTop.com
• SocialMention.com
• Feedly
• Mention
Build a team
• Crowdspring.com
• eLance.com
• Contently.com
Manage your message
• Hootsuite.com
• Buffer
Track
• Who are you writing for?
• What is the purpose?
• What is the call to action?
• What are you measuring?
The key is to make yourself visible on the Internet – through your website, by blogging, and via value based use
of social media.
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Measure
• Twitter followers / @ Mentions
• Linkedin Followers
• LinkedIn connections / profile views
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21. • What you will be able to do
• Schedule tweets/Facebook/LinkedIn posts automatically
• Manage multiple social profiles
• http://hootsuite.com/help
Simplest Place To Start?
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26. Starter Matrix – What You Need
Content Sources Profiles Marketing Tools Simple One
Pager
What Else You Need
Google Alerts LinkedIn Google Trends About.me Gmail account
LinkedIn Twitter Google AdWords Magnt.com Pocket
Alltop Facebook SavePublishing.com Tumblr.com Twitter Feed
Feedly Pinterest Followerwonk.com Buffer
SocialMention.com Instagram Fanpage Karma HootSuite
Newsle Quora LinkedIn Maps Unroll.me
Stumbleupon Google+ Mention Mapp Elance.com /Odesk.com
Mention About.me Manage Flitter
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27. Starter Matrix – What You Need
Collaboration Tools Content Tools Google Tools (Chrome
Extension)
Who I Read
Storyboardthat.com Contently.com Rapportive Copyblogger / New Rainmaker
Trello.com WriterAccess.com Boomerang Seth Godin / Start-up School
HipChat.com TextBroker.com Moz.com / White Board Friday
Basecamp Chris Brogan
Dropbox Social Media Examiner
Mashable
Social Media Today
Gary Vaynerchuck
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28. 8 Point Guide to Bootstrap Your Personal Brand
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Where to start
• Stop planning and start doing
• Position yourself against the brand leader
• Be freakishly persistent (comment, re-tweet, ask a question)
• Associate with winners (customers/employees/vendors/peers)
• Do favors for free (read comments)
• Be a connector to establish a strong peer group / Be a great resource
• Partner with bigger people (get a sense of what’s important)
• Get a duck
• Build your team
• Invest in tools that either save you time, make you money, or make you look smart
• Perfection is the enemy of good
• Replicate, scale, iterate, repeat
Final thought
Follow on Twitter/LinkedIn: Find out their interests, the kinds of things they share, and most
importantly, the content gets the most traction from their audiences.
29. Create social profiles
Optimize your
profiles to let
customers,
partners, and
vendors find you
Become a student of
social platforms
Establish a social
home
Engage and start
answering questions
Include keywords that are relevant to your type
of business
Write profiles about who
you are, what you do, and
how you can help
Follow your metrics
• Who are you writing for?
• What is the purpose?
• What is the call to action?
• What are you measuring?
Have a game plan
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Stay connected to the
conversation
Don’t be upset with the results you didn’t get
from the work you didn’t do
30. Where We Connect
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Member since 2010
Current Speaker for Pubcon
2013 Speaker
Board Member since 2013
Member since 2010
32. How to Contact Us
DigitalSpaceConsulting.com
James@digitalspaceconsulting.com
Linkedin.com/in/Jloomstein
Twitter.com/jloomstein
Slideshare.net/jloomstein/presentations
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