social media for small business
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Social Media For Small Business
Leverage It Or Get Left Behind
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So, Are You Ready?
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Who is @MichaelBowers?
District Center Manager for Ohio SBDC at Columbus State since 2002
SBDC State Star for Ohio in 2007
Won the SBA Innovation and Service Center of the Year for Ohio and SBA Region Five in 2007
Won the State of Ohio SBDC Innovation Award 2011
Striving to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurship and small business innovation. #RunNerds Marathoner. What's worth doing is worth doing for 26.2!
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Ohio SBDC
An experienced & award winning team providing no-cost, one-on-one business management advice
with four centers to serve you at one location:
Specialty Centers
Ohio SBDC Manufacturing CenterOhio SBDC International Business Center
Ohio SBDC Latino Center
The Ohio SBDC at Columbus State
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Where is the Ohio SBDC at Columbus State
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Advised 1,087 Small BusinessesConducted classes for over 1,500 attendeesFacilitated $4,804,950 in loans / investment
capitalAssisted in the creation or retention of 617
jobs 51% of SBDC clients are women owned 36% of SBDC clients are minority owned
2012 SBDC Activity
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SBDC Business Assistance
Business Start-Up ~ BizStartNow, a three week intensive program covering the specifics of business start-up and operation ~ No Charge
Topic Specific Small Group Advising ~ Topic specific content delivered to small groups of business owners to help them quickly address pressing needs ~ No Charge
One-On-One Business Advising ~ SBDC Certified Business Advisors work one-on-one with the business owner to address the specific issues that will take the business to the next level ~ No Charge
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Slides Available at Ideas2Deals.com
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No Stupid Questions
(Although I will talk & Tweet about you afterwards)
I love you all it just may not seem like it (Tough Love)
Ground Rules
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What Are We Doing Today?
Discuss the strategic development of a social media strategy.
Discuss the various social media platforms and how to best leverage these to reach your goals.
Discuss how using Social Media will help you get your ideas to spread and reach customers.
Discuss how use Social Media to reduce marketing costs
How to manage time to best implement a social media strategy
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It’s All About The Story…
What’s Your Story?
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On The Top Of The Evaluation Form
Write ONE Thing You Want To Learn Today
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Social Media Tools Without Strategy.
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Why Did We Start With Social?
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Seth Godin, Getting Your Ideas To Spread
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There are so many options and media now that are competing for
consumers’ attention that it is easy for them to ignore traditional
“Push” advertising
Traditional Advertising Won’t Work
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Be Remarkable
Key To Success…
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Being Good Is Easy To Ignore
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Being Safe Is Bad
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Want To Hear From You
Want To Ignore You
Work The Edges
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Earn Attention Of People That Want To Talk To You
Build Trust With Them
They Will Share With Their Friends
Key To Success…
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The Power of Digital
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Why Participate?
Marketing is changing
The need to spend money on push advertising is diminishing
“Word Of Mouth” is a click away
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Your customers are on-line NOW!
You must be there too if you are going to reach and sell your customers.
If you are not there you can bet your competition is
Why Participate?
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What Social Media Can Do For You
Improved Marketing outreach.
Marketing cost savings.
Improved customer flow.
Improved impact
Better Results!!!
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I am not a technical person. I know less about programming and
computers than anyone.
I just know how to push buttons and I have a pretty cool phone.
Anyone Can Do Social Media!
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Social Media Done Right…
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Social Media is Strategic
Social Media Done Right…
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“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Words of Wisdom…
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Social Media is not the TOOLS
Social Media is the strategy and the story behind the tools
Using Social Media!
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Lead
Don’t Push
Social Media Done Right…
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Through “Engagement” You will create “Fans” that will follow you and buy from
you
Social Media Done Right…
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Social Media Is Simple…
Just Moving People Around the Internet
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Building Activity ~ Prospecting
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Goals ~ What do you want to achieve?Platforms ~ Where are your customers? This will determine where you should be.Promotion~ How are you going to promote and engage?
Three Steps in SM Development
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Social Media is about Building a “community” of
people interested in what you do.
Do You Remember Community?
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Strong ValueStrong Story
Strong Engagement
If You Build It Will They Come
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Your Website
Where The Magic Happens
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This is where the magic happens and by magic I
mean SEO and CONVERSION.
Your Website Is Critical
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Your Website Is Critical
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Ohio Growth Summit
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Your Blog
Your Story
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Thought Leadership
Your Expertise
Your Value
Your Blog
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Content Drives Traffic.
Your Blog
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The Blog Allows You To Tell The
Story…
Content Marketing
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Content Marketing means creating and sharing valuable free content to attract and convert prospects into customers, and customers into repeat buyers.
The type of content you share is closely related to what you sell; in other words, you’re educating people so that they know, like, and trust you enough to do business with you.
via www.copyblogger.com
Content Marketing
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You have to create content ~ Get in the habit of writing
Embrace Brevity ~ Not everything is a 5,000 word manifesto. Remember your content will probably be read on a 3 inch screen
Keep it simple ~ This isn’t English class. Write to your audience.
Content Marketing
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Most important
Be Helpful
Content Marketing
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What Is Your Content
Strategy?
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Ideas To Deals Blog
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Embed Video For Content
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Write Content ~ Answer Questions
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Social Media Tools
You Don’t Buy Drills You Buy
Holes
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Social Media Tools
Focus on the outcome, the desired result, not
the tool
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E-Mail Marketing
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E-Mail Marketing
With Social you can’t really know if people saw your message.
With email at least you know it went to their email box and you can track
opens.
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E-Mail Marketing
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E-Mail Marketing
Email marketing only works if you have a quality list to send to.
Build a consistent deliver pattern and provide value
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Engagement
Visual
Easy
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My Personal Facebook Page
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facebook.com/SBDC.Columbus
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facebook.com/ohiogrowthsummit
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facebook.com/ohiogrowthsummit
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facebook.com/ohiogrowthsummit
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Be sure to direct people to your page and ask for the
“Like”
Facebook.com/SBDC.Columbus
FaceBook Tips
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You can schedule your updates, pictures and videos but be sure to interact and
respond.
Engagement!
FaceBook Tips
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140 Characters
“Lead” people to where you would like to go.
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Twitter.com/MichaelBowers
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twitter.com/OHGrowthSummit
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twitter.com/Ohio_SBDC
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Great for business to business activity.
Big in job seeking and full of people considering entrepreneurship
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LinkedIn Profile
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Linkedin Groups
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People like Visual
Great way to draw attention
Google owns it…Google Likes It!
YouTube
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www.youtube.com/ohiosbdc
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www.youtube.com/ohiosbdc
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www.youtube.com/ohiosbdc
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www.youtube.com/ohiosbdc
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You Tube Interviews
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YouTube Interviews
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YouTube Interviews
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Vine ~ 6 Second Video
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Goggle +
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Goggle+
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Goggle+ Hangouts
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• Pin from your website so when people find it they will click back to your site.
• Add your business name and address to your photo so when people find it and pin it they see your information.
• Create pinboards for various topics your customers are interested in and looking for.
• Participate ~ Pin things you like and people will follow
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Visual Social Sharing
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Visual Social Sharing
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Why Instagram?
• Instagram launched as an iPhone app in Apple's App Store on October 6, 2010.
• By December 2010, Instagram had one million registered users.
• By July 2011, Instagram users had shared over 100 million photographs. It reached 10 million registered users in September that year.
• The number had hit 30 million by April 2012.
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Check-In Tools
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Why Foursquare
• Foursquare has had over 3 billion check-ins• Foursquare sees 2,000 check-ins per minute• 60% of Foursquare's 25 million users are
male• 41% of Foursquare users are between the
ages of 25 and 34• 60% of Foursquare users are male• More than 2/3 of active Foursquare users post
tips
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Check-In Tools
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Why Yelp
• Yelp had 22MM reviews on its network in September 2011, an increase of 66% over September 2010
• A one-star increase in Yelp rating leads to a 5-9% increase in revenue
• Yelp had a monthly average of 84 million unique visitors in Q3 2012
• By the end of Q3 2012, Yelpers had written more than 33 million rich, local reviews
• Yelp's mobile application was used on 8.2 million unique mobile devices on a monthly average basis during Q3 2012
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Check-In Tools
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Why Google+ Local
• 59% of consumers use Google every month to find local businesses
• 20% of searches on Google are related to location.
• 67% of Android users used Google Maps apps in the past 30 days
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Social Media Tools
You Don’t Buy Drills You Buy
Holes
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Social Media Tools
Focus on the outcome, the desired result, not
the tool
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You can manage your sites from a single tool.
You don’t have to go to each site and it doesn’t take that
long.
SM Management
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Hootsuite.com
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Hootsuite.com
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Buffer.com
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Be Sure You Are Listening
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Listen With Twitter Search
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Listen With Google Alerts
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Listen With A Reader ~ RSS
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Listen With Hootsuite
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Final Thoughts (Almost Done)
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Be Strategic. What do you Want to accomplish?
Always Think Community
Engage, Engage, Engage
Final Thoughts
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Be Heavy on Content
Don’t Push, Lead
Final Thoughts
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Be Patient.
Social is a long term strategy that will build long term client/customers
Create Small Successes.
Final Thoughts
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Create Value
Final Thoughts
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Where Am I?
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Do or Do Not…
There Is No Try!
If You Choose to Participate…
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