Social Media Marketing for Health and Fitness Businesses
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Using Social Media to grow your Health / Fitness Business Bill Pryor, Business Development Director NCI / HealthfitSherpa [email protected]
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Review of social media growth and evolution as a marketing tool. Social media as a powerful way for Health and Fitness businesses to increase google rank and community engagement. HealthFit Sherpa as a cost effective way to outsource social media content generation for your business.
Transcript of Social Media Marketing for Health and Fitness Businesses
Using Social Media to grow your Health / Fitness
BusinessBill Pryor, Business Development DirectorNCI / HealthfitSherpa [email protected]
Network Communications Inc.
Based in Atlanta with operations throughout the country, NCI is a leading publishing and media content producer. Through it’s Sherpa operations group launched in 2008, NCI is currently providing over 1000 small and mid-sized companies with social media marketing programs
Custom, turnkey internet marketing services
1) Social media explosion
2) Social media marketing in health & fitness
3) Key success factors
4) HealthFit Sherpa solution
Social Media
38 Years
13 Years
4 Years
3 Years
Years to reach 50 million users
SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLOSION
Exhibit A: Facebook Growth
“44% of Internet users visited a social network at least monthly in 2009” “85% of social media users thought companies should interact with their consumers through social media” “Nearly 6 out of 10 Americans who use social media interact with companies on social media sites”
“The fastest growing segment of social media users is people between the ages of 35 and 55 years old.”
SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLOSION
Exhibit A: Facebook Growth
Social Media: “the highest level of Internet marketing”
BRANDING +
FINDABILITY +
ENGAGEMENT
FINDABILITY
BRANDING
Web site
Web site FacebookFacebook
OtherSoc.Id’s
OtherSoc.Id’s
BlogBlog
Q: Why social media for my fitness business?
1) Low-cost
2) High-impact
3) Competitive advantage
4) Community emphasis
Google Rank
Web Traffic
Engaged Community
New Clients
Retention
Referrals
Key for today’s fitness business:
Fitness Industry Example
Fitness Industry Example
Power of Loyal Clients with Social Media Tools
“…..Not all customers are into this stuff……. But a small, passionate and fast growing group ARE into this. And those people are disproportionately important because they are those key “connectors” or “engagers” …..They can turn into obsessive evangelists for your business…”
Example: Viral Return and Engaging Social Media Users
“ ……One of our customers, a heavy social media type…asked to use our facility to run a charity fundraiser — and mention it in our Facebook fan page ……..When I agreed, she posted a compelling video on You Tube that ended up on our Facebook page and got a number of other customers heavily involved.
Further the local cable channel saw the post, as did the local paper and both did stories. The thing spiralled in various ways as others picked up and posted……
Keys to Success
1)Frequent fresh content
2)Community engagement
3) Consistent delivery
3) Multiple platforms
4) Ongoing outreach / recruitment
A custom, turnkey Internet marketing tool for the health and fitness industry.
For a low monthly fee, HealthFit Sherpa will develop and execute a complete social media program for a new kind of Internet
marketing presence.
We eliminate the risk, time expenditure, expense, and complexity of using these tools.
Custom, turnkey internet marketing services
1) A custom blog, Facebook fan page and Twitter account are set up and linked together under your company name.
2) Twice a week, your assigned “online community manager” posts fresh, relevant content to the blog and out to Facebook & Twitter
3) Network and comments are monitored, SEO practices administered, updates and maintenance, follower recruitment
4) Metrics and reporting, on traffic, audience interaction, leads, referrals
HealthFit SherpaWhat exactly is it?
1) Intake interview to learn your business, capture your company’s “look and feel”
2) Blog, FB & Twitter accts created, URL mapping website integration, production issues
3) Online community manager oversees“outreach” and begins day to day execution - 2 posts per week - liasion to your company - SEO, community development - metrics reporting
HealthFit SherpaSet-up Process
HealthFit Sherpa content
Customized Blog Look and Feel
•Customized categories and posts
•Two posts a week
•Email list building and lead capture
•Participate as much as you like
HealthFit Sherpa content
“Curated” from the web, posted by us
(relevant topics selected by you)
and / or
Company news, informationevents and promotions (posted by us or by you)
Why outsource this?
HealthFit Sherpa saves you time, does the “heavy lifting”
- Saves you time --- program goes on “auto pilot”
- Eliminates risk and learning curve of using these tools
- Updates and adapts as systems evolve
- Assures fresh, frequent content activity
- Executes SEO and tagging
- Provides regular reports
HealthFit Sherpa Summary
Turnkey social media marketing solution
- Low monthly fee: $495*- Simple, powerful, customizable- Dedicated account management
Benefits for your business
- Higher search engine visibility- More web traffic- More leads- Increased referrals and word-of-mouth- Enhanced connection with customers- More sales
* 10% charter discount until July 15 ($345 p/mo)
HTTP://healthfitsherpa.com
Bill Pryor [email protected]
781-254-3677
For more information or getting started
Metrics Reports
Blog Activity- unique visits- avg. time on site- page views
Traffic sources- organic- facebook- twitter- direct
Leads (phone calls)
Website traffic
Search rank
