Practical Social Media Tips

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Practical Tips for Using Social Media in a Small Business Anita Campbell Editor, Small Business Trends http://smallbiztrends.com Twitter: @smallbiztrends

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This presentation offers tips for small businesses, freelancers and entrepreneurs about how to get the most out of Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, Twitter, BizSugar and other social media voting sites.

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Practical Tips for Using Social Media in

a Small Business

Anita CampbellEditor, Small Business Trends

http://smallbiztrends.com

Twitter: @smallbiztrends

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How to Use These Tips

Not a hard and fast formula Not every tip fits every situation – not

everything will be right for you and your business

My goal: trigger ideas

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Align with Biz Strategy

Your “marketing needs” tell you which social activity to do. Goals: Generate leads? Increase brand awareness? Drive website traffic? Listen to your markets and customers? Develop expert status and authority? Reputation management? Other?

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Yelp

Very important for retail, hospitality, consumer services Respond to customer complaints Monitor quality issues Reputation management Use Business Owner’s Guide at

www.yelp.com/business

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Yelp –Business Owner’s Guide

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Facebook

Unique mixture of personal & biz Beyond the Personal Profile:

Use Groups as a microcommunity; publicize events; discussions

Use Fan Pages to establish microcommunity – some say overtaking Groups

Advertising available App craze fading See www.facebook.com/advertising

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Facebook – Business Pages

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Twitter

Combination of broadcasting & 1-to-1 Fast intimate way to connect with customers

and public – relationship builder! Customer support channel – “listen” Develop brand visibility Announce specials Drive traffic to a blog

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Twitter – Personalize, Engage!

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LinkedIn

Great for corporate market and job hunters Go beyond the profile Ask and answer questions to display

expert status, drive traffic Start or join a Group See www.linkedin.com/answers

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LinkedIn – Groups

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LinkedIn – Answers

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Voting Sites – Digg, Tip’d

Build traffic to your website Great if you have blog content Submit your content Be a good social citizen and vote for

others’ content Discover content for newsletters and

your own blog See www.bizsugar.com for SMB site

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Voting Sites - bizSugar

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Bonus Tip

Be Authentic!Distinguish yourself from the bots

and fake accounts and spammersBe YOU! There’s only one YOU

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What else would you like to know?

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Thank you!

Anita Campbellhttp://smallbiztrends.com

Twitter: @smallbiztrends