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Social Media Strategies Conference 2009

Friday, September 25th, 2009

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SocialMediaMarketing.com sponsored and presented at the Social Media Strategies Conference on Tuesday, September 22nd 2009.  The event was packed with eager executives looking to learn more about how they can leverage social media for the benefit of their company and how to ultimately measure ROI.  The bottom line is that we’re all running businesses and unless we can measure the return on our investment, there won’t be much room for social media in the marketing world much longer.

Thankfully, many of the speakers touched upon this subject and there were even great panels that highlighted “How to measure social media.”

 

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Gain a Following for Your Non-Profit

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

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Advertising can be extremely expensive and with the economic downturn no one can afford not to market their business. A combination of media with a solid frequency is generally the best way to go to create and maintain a presence in the marketplace. But what about non-profit organizations?

Non profits generally run under some sort of funding program. Whether they are given state funding, or rely on privat funding to operate, non-profits generally don’t have loads of money to spend on their marketing efforts. A solid combo of frequency and reach is not easy to come by when marketing for a non-profit.

 

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Passion – A prerequisite for social media

Friday, September 18th, 2009

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Most marketers claim that social media is for EVERYONE.  I’m going to have to disagree.

What compels someone to do 2 hours of research for 1 blog post?  What motivated someone to reach out to bloggers, Twitter users, and to comment on Facebook fan pages in addition to all of the other business tasks that he or she needs to do?  Why would someone want to associate his or her brand with the company and speak to people on the company’s behalf.

People do it because they’re passionate about their work.  If you love your company/job, then you’re going to go above and beyond what is expected of you and the people you interact with will notice this.

 

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Online Marketing Requires an Integrated Approach

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

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If you want to maximize visibility and sales with traditional marketing, then you would run a campaign through 3 traditional channels: TV, radio, and print.  By hitting all three channels at the same time, you would have a great chance at hitting your target market and cause them to take action on your advertisement.

In the internet playing field, I’ve noticed that companies take a tunnel-vision approach to marketing instead of taking an integrated solutions approach that encompasses all forms of internet marketing.  The most effective online marketing method is NOT an individual social media, seo, or ppc campaign; the most effective form of online marketing is a campaign that infuses social media, seo, ppc, and affiliate marketing all into one campaign.

 

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It’s not how hard you push along the way; It’s if you have it in you to finish

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

michael jordan

The title to this post is my favorite Michael Jordan quote ever. I think it truly exemplifies the mistakes that most companies make while building a social media push. The majority of companies that I have spoken to believe that all they need to do is build the profile, and the fans and followers will come. A company is extremely surprised when they build a Twitter profile and they only get 50 followers the first month. Even worse is when companies hoard Twitter followers and build an account with 10,000 followers full of spammers and other companies.

Like Michael Jordan said, it’s easy to build the profiles; however, what counts is what you do with those profiles.

 

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Social Media Tools Are Literally Cropping Up Like-Flies?

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

flychat

Could iPhone’s Fly Chat application be the latest and greatest in social networking? Flychat is a social application for the iPhone and has a pretty cool concept. You can send messages and friend invites via a yellow fly (the app literally has flies buzzing around your screen), to people in your city, country or even the world. Green flies on your screen are incoming messages and can be from anyone anywhere, red flies are messages from your friends. Receiving messages is as easy as clicking on the flies or you can open your inbox to view them all.

 

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