Social Media for New Businesses

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A brief overview of how new small business owners integrate social media into their efforts. The presentation advocates putting total emphasis on facilitating and encouraging the business-customer relationship.

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ZenAnd the Art of Social Media

Before we begin…

How should you think

about social media?

Now…how should you think

about your customers?

Transactions$$$ signsThings to conquer

Customers are people.

You should have deep and meaningful relationships with your customers.

Are customers at the

center of your business?

This is important: Businesses that don’t get it don’t win.

Customer-focused businesses value relationships,

use the hell out of social media, and win.

Social media is a

set of digital tools that helps you find, develop, and deepen relationships with customers.

Social media is not a set of digital tools that helps you find, develop, and deepen

relationships with customers.

Social media is a

way of being.

There are some tools

to help you be…

Make Your Website Your Hub

Your BrandYour NarrativeYour Store

Your Home

WEBSITE/BLOG

Now Add the SpokesSpokes are outposts.

Outposts are neighborhoods.

Neighborhoods are different.

TwitterFacebook

Media

Special EventYouTube

WEBSITE

Email

Which Outposts Are For Me?

Research your competitors.

Research your customers.

Where can you add the most value?

Where can you get the best ROI?

TwitterFacebook

Yelp

Special EventYouTube

WEBSITE

Email

Which Outposts Are For Me?

Facebooksharing & community

Twitteralerts, specials, customer service

Emailappeals & action

YouTubestorytelling

TwitterFacebook

Yelp

Special EventYouTube

WEBSITE

Email

Integration Leads to

Enlightenment.

Let’s Talk ExecutionListen

Set up Google alerts for your business, customers, topics.Go to search.twitter.com and see what people are saying about you, or topics of interest to your business.Read blogs/sites of competitors.

PlanUnderstand the people, goals, and measurements that you will work with.

Enlightenment involves empowerment.

Use Hootsuite to manage the effort.

Case Study 1Information/Educational Products

Produces educational videos for health care professionals.

Needs to create a community of buyers.

Interact with their community.Add informational value to the community.

Discover what the community wants to learn.Feed the product pipeline.

Case Study 1Goals

Comprehensive website for info & orderingEmail newsletter for info & feedback

Facebook for info, feedback, & learning

Case Study 1Strategies to Reach Goals

___ Sales___ Email subscribers ___ Website statistics

___ Content interactions ___ New product ideas

Case Study 1Measurement

Crowded, existing marketplaceWants to be community hangout

Case Study 2Restaurant or Retail

Develop high # of repeat customers.Establish brand recognition in community.Dominate local search for product area.

Case Study 2Goals

Optimize online presences for local search.Link loyalty with rewards on Facebook.Link menu item or product to online community.Be front of mind by emailing “how to’s”.

Case Study 2Strategies to Meet Goals

Case Study 2Measurement

___ Sales___ Email subscribers___ Website statistics/search impressions___ Fans

Keven ElliffWindridge Solutions

Keven@KevenElliff.comwww.KevenElliff.com

888.544.2096