Making Social Media Make Money - Shashi Bellamkonda

Making Social Media Make Money

Shashi BellamkondaSocial Media Swami

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Is anyone making Money in Social Media ?

Barack Obama Raised $250 Million

Source: Barack Obama Social Media Lessons For Small Business http://barack20.com/ Brent Leary and Dave Bullock

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Formula for success in Social media

Connections =Visitors = traffic

Traffic = community

Community = buyers/donors

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Conversation in the Social Media is like talking to

friends

Content - Unique, Authentic & Talkable

Transform yourself Niche Ninja

Educate your audience– Do not sell to them

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

Learn and write about the products you promote

Engagement = Conversation

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Talk to your audience

Listening is key

Who is talking

What are they talking

Where are they talking

Participate in Social Media

Join the conversation !

Contribute - Share exciting events/news

Contribution Tools - MicroBlogging (Twitter)

Contribution Tools – Document Sharing

•DocsToc

•SlideShare

•Scribd

Contributing Tools - Multimedia

Contributing Tools – Social Networks

Questions ?

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