Time Saving Tips and Tools for Social Media Marketing

Milena Regos Out&About Marketing Twitter: @milenaregosTwitter hashtag: #AIFD

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”William Penn

How much time do you spend weekly on marketing your business?

0

7.5

15

22.5

30

<1 1-2 hrs 2-5 hrs 5-10 hrs 11+ hrs

Source: Out&About Marketing Imagine Social Media Survey 2011; n:285

Personal/Business Use of Social Media

0

25

50

75

100

Facebook

VideosBlogs

Review sit

esPhotos

Twitte

rForums

Geo-location

6.28.5

29

2221.6

34.7

22.4

93.4

7.1

19.6

26

34.939.5

45.2

52.7

92.5

Personal Business

Source: Out&About Marketing Imagine Social Media Survey 2011; n:285

0

12.5

25

37.5

50

Direct M

ail

Local print ad

s

Yellow Page

s

Magazine a

dsRadio

Outdoor TV

Telemark

eting

10.212.4

16.4

19.9

27.8

36.8

47.748.5

Traditional marketing methods for florists

Source: Out&About Marketing Imagine Social Media Survey 2011; n:285

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Your new business card

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Create a Plan• Listen

• Plan

• Engage

• Measure

• Review and Adjust

Get Organized

Content Schedule

Source: Out&About Marketing Imagine Social Media Survey 2011; n:285

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the

pilot.”

Michael Altshuler

Prioritize

Automate• TweetMeme

• HootSuite/TweetDeck/Seeismic

• SocialOomph

• Facebook to Twitter - when needed

• Twitter to Facebook - when needed

• Blog to social networks

• Ping.fm - to all

Aggregate

Hootsuite

Favorite Tools• iPhone

• Animoto for easy videos

• TubeMogul for distribution of videos

• Ping.fm

• Evernote

• Diigo

• Firefox add-ons - Hootlet, Diigo, Bit.ly, SproutSocial

• Dropbox

• TimeLogger

• Instagram/360/Best Camera

On the Go• Facebook

• Hootsuite

• Flickr

• Instagram

• Animoto

• Ping.fm

Commit

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. quotes (American best selling writer, author of Life's Little Instruction Book)

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