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Social Media for Business Waste of Time or Winning Ticket? 10 for 10 Series, Fredericksburg CofC

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Social Media for BusinessWaste of Time or Winning Ticket?

10 for 10 Series, Fredericksburg CofC

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Do We Have Time For This?

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Riding Technology Waves

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Tip #1: Google Your Company

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Choices, Choices, Choices

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Have you heard this one?

•“Social media is a fad. Like CB Radio.”

•“Our CEO wants a blog.”

•“Make sure our employees can’t access Facebook. Or YouTube. Or LinkedIn.”

•“We need a Facebook fan page.”

•“Just put it out there, they will use it.”

•“Which of you whiny, ungrateful $#@ posted this?!”

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Tip #2: Check Into These

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Tip #3: Watch for Snake Oil

Apply Credibility Tests to Enthusiasts, Vendors

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Run Away!• “EVERY business needs a <Twitter> presence.”

• First you need a blog…• Let’s get you going in Facebook & Twitter & MySpace & SecondLife & Delicio.us & Groupon & LinkedIn & YouTube & _____ & …

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More Like It• “Let’s see how traffic flows through your website.”

• “Who are your best customers?”• “Who are the opinion leaders in your industry?”

• “What are we trying to accomplish?”

• “What are you doing with eMail?”

• “Is your website ready for the traffic?”

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Tip #4: Website First

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Tip #5: Pick ONE Target First

• Employee collaboration

• Status updates

• Knowledge management

• Employee engagement

• Executive communications

•Word of Mouth Marketing

•PR

•Customer service

•Recruiting/HR

•Professional networking

Inside the company

Outside the company

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Tip #6: Let Your People Help

Don’t prevent your employees from participating

“Social software is a trend that cannot be ignored. It is bringing about fundamental change to the way people expect to communicate with one another.

Companies cannot use social tools with their customers and not also allow their employees to utilize them.”

Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group

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Tip #7: Create an Influence Map

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Tip #8: Communicate Guidelines

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Tip #9: Tell Your Stories •Re

•We were founded!

•The Geniuses who founded us!

•Our savvy investors got on board

•Our business is featured in WSJ

•Our business is featured on Oprah

•Our company goes public

•Our company is acquired!!!

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Tip #10: Maintain Your Pace

Check and participate:

•Water cooler times

•Not too much at once

•Once a week at least

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•Claim your profiles

•Be authentic - REAL

•Jump in and try it, small steps

•Have goals and a simple plan

•Pilot, fail fast

•Share juicy content

•Get help with training & strategy

•Make sure someone closes the loop

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QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION

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