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Social Media For beginners

How to use it to benefit your

business

Who are we? Online GuruBased in Bootle and Liverpool

Since 2006

What do we do?Websites/Mobile/ResponsiveSet up social mediaTrain social mediaManage social mediaEmail MarketingPPC/SEO

Clients?Hotels/RestaurantsLocal and National retailersLegal/financial/medicalFranchisors/franchiseesAssociations/BodiesAny local businesses

“We build bespoke online strategies for businesses”

Aims of this session

To give you an overall insight into the main Social Media players

To show you best practice and etiquette

To alert you to features/functionality

To motivate you to give it a go!!

Over 20% of your social media followers

will visit your website

First Things First

Keywords What are they? Words that describe

your business, products, services, location etc

Why are they used? Search engines Social media Any internet search

How best to find your keywords?

Brainstorm amongst you and your staff Ask family and friends for their input Enter words on Google Keyword Planner

Taking time to find your relevant keywords could be the difference

between success and failure

What is Social Media? It’s the process of gaining website traffic

or attention through social media sites. Improved communication for prospects

and current clients Increased brand awareness A platform to launch new products and

services Boost sales

It's BLOGGING on a massive scale

The Power Of Blogging

Set up a blog on your website

Eg: Post regular interesting news Link to and from Social Media Each page to have unique URL

A Blog gives your followers A REASON to visit your

Website, to read your post and MAYBE look further

Fail to plan, plan to fail!! P for PLATFORM

Where are my people hanging out? O for OBJECTIVE

What do I hope to achieve? Leads, sales, brand awareness etc?

S for STRATEGY

What shall I talk about? How often? Who will do this? T for TECHNOLOGY

What software/gadgets/analytics shall I use?

Social media etiquette

Act as you would at a cocktail party/networking event!

But WHAT shall I talk about? Your business history (Brand)

Your products/services Special offers/promotions/events Your team (new, b'days, good performers) Your sector Local area news and events Latest BREAKING news Cartoons/videos/sayings Celebrities in the news Direct to your Blog posts

Be Humourous

ALL WENT

VIRAL!!

Which Platform Should I Use ?

TWITTER

32% of 15 million UK users use Twitter daily

Twitter

Brand awarenessDrive traffic to website

Drive traffic to FacebookBuild momentum &

excitement

Twitter Stuff

Maximum of 140 characters per tweetso use a URL shortener

Username up to 15 characters

Biography up to 160 characters

Only 1 account per username

Only 1 account per email address

You can change name and username

Cannot assign an admin so maybe use an app to be safe?

Where to type your tweet (2)

Crafting a tweet

Type your Tweet into the box on the left side of home, or click the blue “compose new Tweet” button in the top navigation bar. Make sure your update is fewer than 140 characters.

Use @ to include someone in the tweet. (optional)

Use # to highlight a word or phrase. (optional)

Add a photo from PC by clicking camera icon (Gallery)

Remaining characters show up as a number below the box.

Click the Tweet button to post the Tweet to your profile.

You will immediately see your Tweet in the timeline on your homepage

Retweets (RT)

RT other peoples tweets too

Trending Topics

Other Stuff

Hover over tweets on your homepage to......

Retweet a message

Favourite a message

Reply to a message

Follow FridayEg: #ff @seftonchamber @investsefton @onlineguru2u

Twitter Connect

Twitter Direct Messages

Questions??

77% of the UK population have an active profile

Profile, Page or Group?Twice daily posts - topical interesting relevant

Facebook favours text over images/videosRespond quickly

No more than 25% sales messagesAbout us keywords

Like suppliers pagesUse @ in posts for shares

Use # in postsSponsored posts

Proof read before posting!!

Facebook stuff

FACEBOOK PAGE

Making a post

Scheduling a post

Facebook Features

Check-InReviewsOffersEventsTabs

QUESTIONS?

How to build up followers?

All printing material/signage to include social media names

Emails to include social media links

Email marketing contests

Links from your website

Interactions

Shares/retweets of interesting posts

Google +Best for SEO & Segmentation

Globally No.2 Social Media site. Are you ready??

Google + Business Pages and Personal Profiles

Integrate with Google PlacesPost to circles

Integrate with other Google products

Helps with your Google rankingHangouts may see the demise

of Skype

Google+ Circles

Google + Hangout

Google +

Questions??

Linked In

Best for Networking and Finding Leads

11 Million Profiles In The UK – 23% of Workers

Linked In Features

Post from profile or page

Great for search pre meeting

Linked InDo’s and Don’ts

Current pictureUse keywords in Biography

(120)Add contact details

List landing pages for websites

Get recommendationsJoin groups where targets

areRespond to people who

viewed profile

Linked In Profile

Linked In Business Page

QUESTIONS??

Pinterest – Best for Mobile / Visual

29% of UK users (2.2m) are in the highest income bracket

Other Platforms................

Analytics

Which platform or platforms are the right

ones for you?

What to do now?

P.O.S.T Platforms Objective Strategy

Technology

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See Phil or Nick

Thanks for your attention

We look forward to interacting on Social

Media with you!@onlineguru2u