Here's a presentation on Social Media that I recently made to the Knoxville Small Business Marketing Meet-up. It touches on what social media is and how to use it for business.
4. SOCIAL MEDIA AND BUSINESS
MARKETING
Outbound Marketing
• Telemarketing
• Trade shows
• Direct Mail
• Email blasts
• Print ads
• TV/Radio ads
5. SOCIAL MEDIA AND BUSINESS
MARKETING
Inbound Marketing
• SEO / SEM
• Blogging
• Social Media
• RSS
• Free tools/trials
• Viral videos
6. SOCIAL MEDIA IS INBOUND
MARKETING
• Social Media helps with SEO
• Social Media promotes your blog
• Social Media is Permission Centric
• The conversation has already started...
7. SOCIAL MEDIA = COCKTAIL PARTY
• Become a real member of the community
• Add value to the community
• ask and answer questions
• More effective than live cocktail parties
• no boundaries of time or space
• other people can listen in easily
10. MARKETING TIPS FOR SOCIAL
MEDIA PUBLISHING
• Publish: “Everything you have, anywhere you can”
• Monitor what others publish - promote it
• Empower your customers to publish
13. MARKETING TIPS FOR SOCIAL
MEDIA SHARING
• Monitor what’s being shared about you
• Find where your audience hangs out
• Promote your content and other content
• Produce content your audience will love
16. MARKETING TIPS FOR SOCIAL
MEDIA NETWORKING
• Make friends
• find your existing connections
• network through groups
• add to your email signature, blog articles, bio or profile...
• Be helpful
• answer questions
• share interesting content
• make connections
17. TOP SITES FOR BUSINESS
YOU should be engaging with your customers here!
25. #1 VIDEO SITE ON THE WEB
YouTube is the number one video site on the Internet – with 67.5 million unique users
in the U.S., according to Nielsen NetRatings.
■ The site also is the 6th largest Internet destination overall, Nielsen determined.
■ The #2 Search Engine behind Google.
29. A real-time information network
powered by people all around the world
that lets you share and discover what’s
happening right now in 140 characters
or less.
31. Flickr - almost certainly the
best online photo management and
sharing application in the world
- has two main goals:
1. To help people make their content available to the people who matter to them.
2. To enable new ways of organizing photos and video.