“Social Media is Like Teen Sex”
“Social Media is Like Teen Sex”
 Everyone wants to do it.
 Nobody Knows how.
 When it’s finally done there
 is
 surprise that it’s not better
-Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist
Social Media
everyone is doing it
     by Jess Sloss and friends
me.
• jess sloss, b.ba marketing
• work - www.farmdigital.com
• editor - www.SocialSquared.com
• twitter: @thattallguy
• fb: Jess Sloss
• email: jess@farmdigital.com
Let’s dig in.
• What is Social Media?
• What’s Changed?
• Common Fears
• Who’s doing it great / not so great
• Where is the value?
• Cool tools
What?
Conversations and actions between people
 supported by very accessible online tools.
Social Media is like (a)
• cocktail party
• 1950’s Small Town
• Dating
So what’s changed?
Distribution has
          changed

• Traditional Media: Master ->Consumer
• Social Media: Peer to Peer
Access has changed
How has this impacted
   your industry?

• Consumers are more empowered
• Are more educated (?)
• Have more options than ever
by: Will Lion
Everyone is a Reporter

• Social Networks make connections more
  visible
• Anyone in your organization may be put on
  the front line.
Common Fears

• Privacy and Control
• Is my target market online?
• Is it a waste of time?
Privacy and Control
Who knows the “F” word?
There is no control,
 only participation.
If Not you
 If Not you
  Then Who?
   Then Who?
Quick Tips
• Reserve your name (personal and
  brand)
• Learn privacy tools (most have
  them)
• Understand that control is not the
  goal
Is my target market online?
Twitter
 Data
Facebook
Data
Time Consuming?
     yes, but it’s free
and there are tools to help
Not just for marketing
• Knowledge curation
• HR and recruiting
• Customer Retention
• Crowd sourcing and Feedback
• Building a personal network
• Research
Opportunities
• Build Thought Leadership and Trust
• Grow an Audience
• Personal impact
• Add value to current customers
• Sell your product or Service
Who’s Doing it?
duds.
• dell hell ( just google it )
• comcast
• motrin moms
• dominoes pizza ( gross )
• japadog?
stars.
• www. freshbooks.com
• www. garyvaynerchuck.com
• www. sethgodin.typepad.com
• www.gapingvoid.com
• threadless.com
What about
B2B Businesses?
Inbound Marketing

• generate traffic
• promote action exchange value for contact
  info
• follow up
Hubspot.com


• inbound marketing software. Coined the
  term inbound marketing
• Lead the inbound marketing community
Cisco
Forrester Research
Quick Tips

• It’s not about the tools, it’s about the
  engagement.
Quick Tips

• Dialogue vs Broadcast
• Open conversations
Quick Tips


• People not Companies
• Transparent, inclusive, authentic
• Personality
tools: more detail
Listening Posts
•What are people saying about you, your
brand, your industry?

•Who are the influencers?
•Where are they?
how to listen

• www.search.twitter.com and search
  something
• www.google.com/alerts
• www.socialmention.com
• www.google.com
• Analytics
twitter.
• communications platform
• 140 character limit
• opportunity to connect and share with
  like people
• real time, all the time
• best cocktail party
quick tips.
• set up your profile completely
• add value (connect, share, help,
  encourage)
• actively search and add people
• cocktail party
• personality is good
Handy Tools

• Hootsuite or Tweetdeck Dashboards
• www.SproutSocial.com
• www.timely.is
facebook.
• build connections / friends first
• share links
• social ads
• groups/pages/profiles
Businesses should be
    set up as a page.

• Limited customization, but recommended
• Share news / Reward Customers / Get
  Testimonials / Ask Questions
• Engage as a page
blogs.
• personal world wide platform
• participatory
• great for seo
• build a following
• wordpress.com / tumblr.com /
  posterous.com
linked in.
• connect with colleagues and friends
• share your resume
• find jobs / recruit
• rocks for prospecting!
• discussions / groups
• getting more social every release
social bookmarks.
• stumbleupon
• digg.com, reddit.com, mixx, sphinn
• del.icio.us
“the doing”
  Content Creation
       Sharing
Presence Management
  Follower Building
Content Creation
but content can spark
     conversation
Types of content?

• What types of content do you engage
with professionally online?
•Personally?
Where do I find
        content?
• Search
• Subscribe - google.com/reader
• Follow people who share great content
• Create your own
connect.
• the blogosphere
• subscriptions
• commenting
• personal outreach
• blogsearch.google.com
Presence Management
                       fresh is key
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/19-presence-management-chores-you-could-
                            do-every-day/
Measurement
Engagement
Actions, RT, Links, Mentions


Influence
authority, who’s linking, bookmarks, book
deals ;)
Structure
a plan for sanity and success
Structure

• Listening Posts - Real time listening
• Home Base - The place you own online
• Embassies - Interaction and engagement
• Passports - Less active, but there.
Listening Posts
•What are people saying about you, your
brand, your industry?

•Who are the influencers?
•Where are they?
how to listen

• www.search.twitter.com and search
  something
• www.google.com/alerts
• www.hootsuite.com
• www.google.com
• Analytics
Home
Your flag in the ground

•blog (wordpress, typepad.com)
•life-stream (tumblr.com , posterous)
•social network profile (linkedin, fb)
Embassies
“Microsites on social networks
where you are actively engaged. Just
like a country does business in
embassies located in other countries,
you will fully engage in conversations
in your embassies on other
networks.”
via John Dale http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/07/using-a-.html
Passports
Profiles that allow you to participate
in conversations that your listening
posts pick up, however irregular it is.
other networks
• yelp.ca
• google local search
• meetup.com
• upcoming.org
• foursquare.com
in Closing


• Remarkable is key
?’s

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