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What is Your Web Content Strategy?
Agenda: QuesOons About Content How do we capture a=enoon? What do customers want in our content? How do we think about content differently? How o\en do we need to provide content? How does social media fit into content strategy?"
Agenda: We Will Find Those Answers When We Know The Difference Between TradiOonal & Social Media Who Our Audience(S) Are What Language To Use Where To Engage and Convert Our Audience(S)
Tradi(onal Media (Radio, Print, TV, etc) Monologue ONE to MANY communica(on Interrup(on based
Social Media (Web site, blog, Facebook, Twi4er, etc) Dialogue MANY to MANY communica(on Permission based
TradiOonal Media is about GETTING a4en(on Check Us Out! (We can help ) Social Media is about GIVING a4en(on www.wildinspire.com
Tradi(onal Media Vs Social Media
Tradi(onal Media (Radio, Print, TV, etc) Monologue ONE to MANY communica(on Interrup(on based
Social Media (Web site, blog, Facebook, Twi4er, etc) Dialogue MANY to MANY communica(on Permission based
Social Media is the largest referral network in history! It takes word of mouth to world of mouth
TradiOonal Media is about GETTING a4en(on Check Us Out! (We can help ) Social Media is about GIVING a4en(on www.wildinspire.com
Is Social Media Worth My Time/Effort? But what seems like small, insignificant tasks (a couple of blog posts, Tweets, friend requests on Facebook, etc) CAN ADD UP VERY QUICKLY! For example: Folding a sheet of paper
Folding a paper 50 Omes 1 Ream or 500 Pages = 2 1,125,899,907,000,000 Pages = (100 million kilometres) www.wildinspire.com
Audience Profiling
More than one AUDIENCE? Create a profile for each one!
What problems, issues or frustraoons do they have? What soluoons can you provide?
Customer service: Help them solve problems! How to videos InformaOonal resources for planning or decision making Emergency nooficaoons
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Gegng The Language Right
Connect with CUSTOMER centric vs organizaoon centric language!
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Ways to listen and learn Talk to those in the business/ organizaoon that have contact with the users. Visit social media groups Use Google s tools for research
Engaging and Conver(ng Your Visitors
Strangers (new visitors) Influencer Friends (regular visitors) Leads (curious visitors) Traffic Ability To Convert Customers / Subscribers / etc Converted Visitor
Are you adding VALUE? or just VALIDATING yourself?
Use Social Media for Building Rela(onships DON T HARD SELL HERE!! ENGAGE THEM and give them the a=enoon they seek.
Lead The Back to Your Site for Conversion Don t link to your HOME page, but rather the page that has the content they value!
TWO Key QuesOons (each site page) #1: What do I want you (the audience) to do right now? #2: Is it obvious where to do that task?
Your brand does not change but how your target audience CONSUMES your brand does change
Let them READ it Let them HEAR it Let them WATCH it Let them SUBSCRIBE to it Let them SHARE it Let them give FEEDBACK on it Let them CONTRIBUTE to it
The New Inbox We don t find news as much as the news finds us! www.wildinspire.com
Social Media has transformed us From content consumers into content producers.
Social media is democra(zing communica(ons! Technology is shi\ing the power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, and the media elite. Now it s the people who are in control Rupert Murdoch Ques(on: Are we giving our audience any control over our message?
Essen(al Social Media Tools
The EssenOal Tools:
Why Use a Blog? It s your social media hub! It s like a newsle=er or journal Push your content around the social web! Engage and encourage feedback through comments that s published one arocle at a Ome that shows the latest arocle on top of the pile that s updated as the news happens that s audio and video capable that has its arocle separated into categories that people can subscribe to on their phone, ipod, etc. RSS can push subscribers content! www.wildinspire.com
The EssenOal Tools:
By the numbers Over 500 million acove users 50% log on during any given day Average person has 130 friends 900 million objects (pages, groups, events, and community pages) to interact with More than 200 million mobile device users
Promote With Like Box You can use the code on your website to increase the number of Facebook fans you have!
The EssenOal Tools:
Answers the quesoon: What are you doing? 140 characters or less (including spaces)! Use it for call to acoons or acoon alerts Use the search funcoon to LISTEN Gain valuable intelligence! Your tweets are indexed by search engines
Customer Service
Consider using Hash tags (#) to track conversaoons!
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Mark your 2011 calendars for the upcoming webinars of this season 2 nd Thursday, 2:00pm (ET), 1:00pm (CT), 12:00pm (MT) February 10 Gegng Down to Business with Social Media Marke(ng EvaluaOon @ h4p://(nyurl.com/etcjan11