Download - Travel Industry Meets Personal Brands - Threats and Opportunities

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Welcome to the Personal Brand EraOpportunities and trials in the travel world to leverage Personal Brands

Ed Schipul | Schipul - The Web Marketing Company | www.schipul.com

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/history/video/

“The Hannagan Method”

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Roosters + Explosions

★ The Personal Brand Era

★ Social Objects

★ Strategy above all

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Let’s talk about...

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Welcome to the Personal Brand Era

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The Personal Brand environment

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AsynchronousFaulty, Redundant Communication(like old people)

(it’s evolution baby!)

Information Overload

source: “Living Systems”

Hi, I’m happykatie

More than just a person

The Big Idea:

Personal Brands are Profitable for Your Businesswww.flickr.com/photos/joshuacraig/3075437046

Grow your footprint + impact

27 on Twitter14,065 followers

27 on Facebook12,446 friends

A tangible Win-Winwww.dstagg.com www.schipul.com

3,635 page views / 6 months from employee site referrals

$1 / click PPC advertising

$7270 / year FREE online advertising

The ROI of Social Media

Gary Vaynerchuk found:

$15,000 in direct mail = 200 new customers

$7,500 Billboard = 300 new customers

$0 twitter = 1,800 new customers

http://socialnomics.net/2009/11/12/social-media-roi-examples-video/http://www.flickr.com/photos/29970359@N07/3373700426/

Elements of The Personal Brand Era

1. Story2. Creation3. Curation4. Distribution5. Monitoring6. Terms of Service

Read more: http://bit.ly/pb-era

So my point is...

1. Message 4. Plot

2. Conflict 3. Characters

What makes a Story?

Let’s talk about YOU

Tell people how to talk about you.

(or they won’t)

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Brand naming

1.

2.

3. SHORT!

Businesses can help Personal Brands

Recruit internally for Personal Brandswww.schipul.com/personalbrands

Twitter/Facebook+ Personal Brands

+ PR Strategy = Increased Profits

Big Idea:

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Social Objects

@gapingvoid

Who is telling and sharing your Story - RIGHT NOW?www.marfashadows.com

#marfa

Maximize connections, create beautiful archives to sharewww.facebook.com

Give + get back - find those Win-Win relationshipswww.twilightandtea.com

Video is a big, big, big deal - NO EXCUSESwww.apple.com/ipad // www.theflip.com

Connect community with an ‘experience’ + they’ll talkwww.greatwolflodge.com

#chevygwl

Twitter keeps everyone in the knowWhat value can you create?

Ben Gillinwww.twetches.com

1. Research

2. Strategic Planning

3. Implementation

4. Evaluation

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Strategy Above All

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www.google.com/alerts Email updates for your company

name and keywords

http://alerts.yahoo.com Yahoo! alerts you of any occurrences

of defined terms and names

www.technorati.com Email updates for your company

name and keywords

http://search.twitter.com Search Twitter for what’s being

said about you

Are you a good listener?

2. Strategic Planning

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“What’s your Brand? If you can’t answer that question

about your own Brand in 2 or 3 words, your Brands in trouble.”

~ Al Ries

3. Implementation

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This isn’t new...

The Brand Development Cycle

Analytics tools exist - but you decide successwww.google.com/analytics + www.scoutlabs.com

Let’s talk about threats...

Who are your rock stars?

1.Human/Asynch = Better

2.Personal Brands are Profitable

3.Create Social Objects

4.TELL them how to talk about YOU

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Big Idea Review

A quick review...

• Facilitate Personal Brands

• Create Social Objects

• Think & Execute Strategy

You are your own Brand, make it work for you

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