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Social Media Marketing for Small
BusinessBusiness
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Why Use A Dashboard?
• Time is Valuable for a Small Business
• You Have a Team to Coordinate• You Have a Team to Coordinate
• You need to Organize!
• Set up Searches
• Monitor your Competitors
How MarketMeSuite Users Do It
• Reply Campaigns to Geo-Target
• Dotted Content and Signatures• Dotted Content and Signatures
• Branding for Added Exposure
• Scheduling to Save Time
• RSS posting and giving author credit
Geo-Targeting
Branding and Facebook Signatures
You can change the link under the Post to go back to YOUR website
Save Time With RSS
Make sure to give credit to blog authors!
Do’s and Don’ts of SM Marketing
• Do Geo-Target
• Do Be Organic
• DON’T spam
• DON’T be afraid to unfollow
• Do always be present
• Do Monitor Your Competitors
• Do Use Social Media for CRM
• Do use OneForty, Constant Contact and MarketMeSuite as resources ;)
Engagement Rules
How Email and Social Media Work Hand-in-Hand to Grow Business
Introduction
Josh Mendelsohn
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Social Media
Constant Contact
Email: jmendelsohn@constantcontact.com
Blog: http://blogs.constantcontact.com/Blog: http://blogs.constantcontact.com/
@mendelj2
linkedin.com/in/joshsmendelsohn
� Brand pays to leverage a channel
� Examples:
Paid Media
� A Channel controlled by the brand
� Examples:
Owned Media
� The customer becomes the channel
� Examples:
Earned Media
The Roles of Media Have Changed
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� Examples: TV Commercial
Newspaper Ad
Sponsorships
Display AdsGroupOn(s)
� Examples: Website
Blog
Email List
Facebook PageTwitter Account
� Examples: Forward
Like
ReTweet
Check-inStumble
Catalyst to create awareness & feed
Owned Media
Assets to engage, build relationships &
spark WoM
Listen, Respond & Engage to encourage
continued advocacy
Levels of Influence
Influence
12Copyright © 2011 Constant Contact, Inc.
Paid Media
QuotesOwnedMedia
EarnedMedia
The Importance of Permission
Why is this valuable?
� Permission = Consent
� Permission = Intent
Permission Marketing is centered around obtaining customer consent to receive information
13Copyright © 2011 Constant Contact, Inc.
� Permission = Anticipation
•Forms of Permission
� Opt-in with email address
� Facebook Like
� Twitter Follow
� LinkedIn Connection
Engagement Increases Sales and Referrals
Likelihood to Buy
51% 68%68%
ExactTarget, "Subscribers, Fans and Followers: The Collaborative Future." September 8, 2010
Likelihood to Recommend
53% 64%69%
Email & Social Media = Engagement
Both are forms of Permission Marketing
Both facilitate Relationship Building
Your audience wants choices
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They work best when Integrated into a complete Engagement Strategy
The Inbox vs. The NewsFeed
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The NewsFeed Black Hole
The Inbox vs. The NewsFeed
Email is still the best way to get your message heard
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The Inbox vs. The NewsFeed
Social Media is the best way to get your message spread
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Email & Social Media Work Hand-in-Hand
Email Lights the Fire
Social Fans the Flames
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ESP’s Need to Provide Small Organizations with the tools to succeed
Tools to Expand your reach:
• Simple Share
• Share Button
• Social Share Bar
• Share Your Event
• Blog to Email Block
• Insert Video
Tools to Grow your following:
• Follow Me Buttons
• Facebook Sign Up Form (JMML)
• Follow Me Email Templates
Tools to Monitor success:
• Social Stats
• NutshellMail
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• Insert Video
Small Business,
Social Business.starting with Twitter
1. Why?
Laura “@Pistachio” Fitton
CEO/Founder – oneforty
Co-author – Twitter for Dummies
1. Why?
2. How?
3. What NOT to do.
4. Find the right tools.
5. Keep it all together.
“by consistently touching
a tribe of people with
generosity and insight,
she’s earned the right to
lead”
-Seth Godin, Tribes
Small Business,
Social Business. starting with Twitter
1. WHY?
Why Consumers Follow Brands
• Updates on future products (#1: 38%)
• Stay informed about company activities
• Fun/entertainment
• Exclusive content
• Learn more about the company
• Discounts and promotions
• Updates on upcoming sales
• Samples/coupons
CoTweet ExactTarget 2010
• Show others my support for the company
• Share ideas/provide feedback (#10: 20%)
“Just for PR & Marketing, right?”
• Marketing
• Advertising
• PR/word of mouth
• Social CRM
• Brand Monitoring
• SEO & Traffic
• Promote events
• Create & share • Social CRM
• Sales
• Contests & offers
• News & trends
• Customer Service
• Create & share content
• Build community
• Earn social capital
• Networking
“Everything email touches…”
• Decentralized teams
• Employee support
• Mentoring
• Problem-solving
• Events backchannel
• Research
• Collaboration
• Innovation • Problem-solving
• Purely social
• Knowledge management
• Sourcing solutions
• Innovation
• Recruiting
• Best practices
• Project status
Small Business,
Social Business. starting with Twitter
2. HOW?
Listen.
Learn.
Care.Care.
Serve.
Listen.
SMM Surveyhttp://bit.ly/bestsmmtools
SMM Survey
Learn.• Act on what you’re hearing
• Shine a light on others’ ideas
• Innovate
• Measure and notice what’s working
• Apologize when you screw up
• Encourage your team to explore and take risks
• Try new stuff. Repeat.
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Care.Your Mother Taught You How To Tweet
1. Dress nicely
– Background & avatarBackground & avatar
2. Introduce yourself
– Complete profile, link on your site
3. Be a good conversationalist
– Listen. Respond. Be relevant. Be useful.
Manage Customer Relationships
• Get involved where customers already are
• Build relationships and keep in touch throughout the Customer Lifecycle
Care.
• Build relationships and keep in touch throughout the Customer Lifecycle
-- save searches, track deals, manage contacts & projects
• TIP: Try a Social CRM tool with manydifferent integrations
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Serve.Create great content• Twitter streams, Facebook pages, blogs, ebooks,
white papers & webinars
• Cover things your prospective customer cares • Cover things your prospective customer cares about and needs to know.
• Tool tip: Try Disqus for blog comments: – encourage social sharing
– engage prospects
– organize email addresses
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Serve.Curate great content
• Be a one-stop-shop for everything customers need
• “Do what you do best and link to the rest!” -@jeffjarvis
• Resist “NIH” (not invented here) don’t try to generate • Resist “NIH” (not invented here) don’t try to generate
all the content yourself
http://14t.me/curatecontent
Small Business,
Social Business. starting with Twitter
3. What NOT to do.
We Need More Followers!Clickthrus?
Fans?
Friends? Friends?
Traffic?
Klout?
Influentials?
SOMETHINGS? Right? Don’t we? Hello?
You Need Business Objectives.
Then, measure what you’re actually
trying to do.
We Need Social Campaigns!
not so much.not so much.
Invest in Social literacy.
The ROI is Unproven!
++
The ROI is THERE
• Track conversions from social
media
• Build and track relationships
and leads
• Track converstions with in-
page analytics
• Retain customers and create
fans
• Save costs - customer support,
lead generation
Small Business,
Social Business. starting with Twitter
4. Find the right tools
Learn More…
Learn More…
Toolkits…
Small Business,
Social Business. starting with Twitter
5. Keep it all together
http://bit.ly/socbasebeta
Everything in one place. Any tool. Any workflow.
BENEFITS
SocialBase.
• Brings order and expertise immediately
• Customizable and programmable
• Expert training wheels for social
projects
• Brings scale and collaboration from
one desktop
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