Social Media Trends - Social Media in the Age of Obama

Social Media Trends for 2011

Assembling the Social Media Puzzle

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Social Media Strategy

Analytics

B2B Strategy

Become an Industry Resource

Engage Your B2B Community

Social Media Success

Product Feedback

Community Engagement

HP Ambassadors

Social Media Failure

Social Media is a Reflection of Your Business

Social Q&A answers.yahoo.com vark.com

linkedin.com quora.com

Social Scanning stickybits.com

Attach digital content to real world objects

Video to Birthday Card

Resume to Business Card

Photos to a Flyer

Group Buying livingsocial.com groupon.com

8coupons.com

Location Applications

Facebook Places foursquare.com

Make Your Business Geo-Location Ready

 Get Familiar with Location Social Web Apps

 Make Your Business Discoverable (search engine optimization, social media optimization, geo-location optimization)

 Get in Now to Hook Early Adopters

Mobile Advertising brightkite.com

admob.com

Encourage Customer Reviews

1) Incentivize

2) Link your business to reviews

3) Encourage a constant stream of reviews

4) Don't discourage bad reviews

Social Media Management hootsuite.com

tweetdeck.com

cotweet.com

Analytics Strategy

 Tag entire web site with "page tracking" analytics tags

 Tag "donations" with "call to action“ analytics tags

 Tag "sign up page" with "call to action" analytics tags

 Bench mark traffic against similar web sites

 Measure effectiveness of each social media strategy to see which strategy drives the most traffic to web site

 Make modifications to the plan based on analytics results

Strategy for New Trends

 Determine Objective

 Be Responsive to Customers?

 Brand Awareness?

 Find An Internal Evangelist

 Consider Your Employees

 Are Your Employees Interested?

 Are Your Employees Tech Savvy?

 Technology

 No Big Tech Investment Needed

 Who Will Have Access?

 Rules for Content

 Listen First

 Internally

 Externally

Contact me

eric@socialmediaobama.com

http://socialmediaobama.com