Top Ten Social Media Predictions for 2011
Trends to watch and position your business to
cash in on…
Kathryn Gorges, www.thesocialmarketingdiva.comwww.facebook.com/SocialMarketingDiva
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Key Platforms to Watch
• Mobile• Facebook• Paypal• Google• Email• Collaboration tools: Twitter,
Chatter, Qontext, LinkedIn
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Mobile is the new Lens and the new Wallet
• Connections• Deals• Notifications• Money• Offers• Ads• Discovery
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Mobile Predictions
Facebook potential to connect pages to text alerts to deals as someone passes the business
Mobile payments will move closer to small businesses
Mobile will be the primary source for interaction with biz
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Facebook will be the new Google
• Facebook is already the most sticky site
• Adding new features every month
• Focus is on leveraging the friend relationship into all businesses:– Shopping– Deals– Checkins– Work connections
• Power of branding and referral
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Facebook Predictions
Facebook and SMS integration
Social CRM integration: Chatter
FB Connect on all websites to personalize and share every web experience
Facebook mediates the entire web experience
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Paypal Predictions
Integration with more money management capability – like Mint.com
Mobile capability with new identifier (not a card number)
Expand to brick and mortar thru mobile
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Google—where to go?
Refine search to reflect relationships: biz and personal
Continue to add more social tools by buying startups
Leverage Android into owning the mobile market
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Email—out in the cold?
Email moves inside the social sphere: Facebook
Texting replaces email for quick notifications
Email focused on strategic integrated communication
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Collaboration is King
Intra-company collaboration: Chatter, Qontext
Inter-business collaboration: Twitter, LinkedIn
Online community reflects and supports offline community: in person meetings, projects, experiences
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Top Ten Social Media Predictions for 2011
① Push texts for deal alerts: Facebook and others
② Mobile is the Lens to biz
③ FB Connect=>the social website
④ Facebook is the Lens to the web
⑤ Mobile replaces the wallet for payment
⑥ Google search weighted most towards social connections
⑦ Google competes seriously for all mobile market
⑧ Texting replaces email alerts
⑨ Collaboration wins
⑩ Web world enables the real world
2011 Social Media Predictions
Kathryn Gorges www.theSocialMarketingDiva.comwww.facebook.com/SocialMarketingDiva