Introduction to social media for the flooring industry

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Explanation of social media use and simple tactics to introduce it to the flooring industry.

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Welcome

Understanding and Getting Started with Social Media from a

Flooring Industry Perspective

Social media from 40k feet.

Infrastructure needed to participate.

Data to support using it.

Some starting tactics.

Overview

“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.”

Rupert Murdoch

Overview

Push Sell

Qualify Leads

Cold Call

Social Media

Educate Engage

Old Model New Model

Overview

I’m here!

Trend 1

COMPRESSED COMMUNICATION STREAMS

personal access decreasing

cheaper access to tech platforms

generational receptivity changes

shrinking attention spans

What’s driving it?

Trend 1

average # of times per hour workers check their email

Source: Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder, and Matthias Mayer: “Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use,” in the ACM Transactions on the Web vol. 2, no. 1 (February 2013), article #5.

average attention span in 2000 12 secondsaverage attention span in 2013 8 secondsaverage attention span of a goldfish 9 seconds

30Source: Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder, and Matthias Mayer: “Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use,” in the ACM Transactions on the Web vol. 2, no. 1 (February 2013), article #5.

Trend 1

Trend 2

INTERNET ON DEMAND EVERYWHERE

“345M mobile subscribers in US. “ “Global mobile statistis 2013, part A: Mobile Subscriptions, Handeset Marketshare, Mobile Operators” - mobithinking.com

“67% use social media as prime info source” “Why American use social media” - Pew Research Internet Project - pewinternet.org

Trend 2

“71% of consumers are now more likely to make a purchase based on social media referrals.” @invespBlog “How Social Media Influences Purchase Decisions”

Trend 2

Trend 3

WILLINGNESS TO ADOPT

Trend 4

THERE’S AN APP FOR IT

“Consumers spend two hours per day on apps” Wall Street Journal - Tech “Apps Rocket Toward $25 Billion In Sales”

Trend 4

Trend 4

Trend 5EVERYONE’S A PRODUCER NOW

King Bach

6 million

1 to 2%

email design & deployment

where pros go to understand

who’s your daddy of social media

Infrastructure

word spreading 140 @ a time

Infrastructure

say it in pictures about a zillion times

powerpoint and keynote nirvana

Infrastructure

Shout OutsTwitter

microblogging service for instant social and professional messaging

Email DistributionConstant Contact

subscriber service for managing contacts and distributing creative messaging and brand building

Social Network

Facebook

social network useful to influence specific groups or decision makers in your lane

Cloud Service

internet access to all of your resources including databases, media, templates, pos materials,specifications

Box Dropbox

Professional Network

LinkedIn

professional network useful to influence specific groups or decision makers in your lane

Photo Network

Instagram

show them what you’ve got.

contact database media

mill resources specifications

tech data msds

presentations handouts

princione@gmail.com (720) 934-0611

Infrastructure

Infrastructure

• Architect, Design, and Engineering

• Developers

• Property Owners

• Property Managers

• General Contractors

• Subcontractors

• Large Scale Property Associations

Infrastructure

while they watchDEPLOY IT

while they watch

Tactic

Social Media

Educate Engage

Tactic

Tactic

“Is continually using the same Divison 9 specification inflationary?”

LinkedIn Discussion Group Topic

Tactic

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new product.

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Tactic

Tactic

Concrete Moisture Mitigation AIA Presentation1.25 Learning Unit with HSW Credits Program ID: FS Moisture Mitigation

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Peter Rincione

BASF Construction Chemicals - Building Systems

Welcome

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75% of the world is happy with the status

quo.

Understanding and Getting Started with Social Media from a Flooring Industry Perspective

psrincione@gmail.com