210110 - Guerrilla e-marketing Bristol/Gloucester/Salisbury
A seminar looking at business opportunities provided by email, SMS marketing and social networking websites.
Speaker: Andy Poulton
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1. Your Business Success is Our
Business Objective
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2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Marketing – what we know
• Social Networks
• Business Networks
• Viral
• Video Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Blogging
• Twitter
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3. World Wide Web – The World Wide WHY!
Vast Market Opportunity
Lots of money spent online
Online spend rising 35% annually
17% of the retail £ is spent online
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5. World Wide Web – The World Wide WHY!
Vast Market Opportunity
Lots of money spent online
Online spend rising 35% annually
17% of the retail £ is spent online
People spend more and more time online
New ways of working
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8. Choosing a name
• What name could you use?
Business name
Service name
Product name
• Short is good
• Think about how and where it will be used
Print
In conversation
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9. Choosing a name – The Good
www.diy.com
www.bbc.co.uk
www.cadbury.co.uk
www.wispa.co.uk
www.formula1.com
www.tesco.co.uk
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10. Choosing a name – The Bad
www.phones4u.co.uk
www.toys2wish4.com
www.4learning.com
www.any-domain-with-too-many-hyphens.co.uk
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19. Design rudiment No. 3
Compelling Content
WHY?
Visitors don’t read – they scan
Visitors need to “get it” almost instantly
Visitors need to know you can meet their needs
Visitors need to know WHY they should use you
Visitors need to TOLD what to do
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20. Grab the Attention
A – Grab their ATTENTION
I – Generate an INTEREST
D – Build the DESIRE
A – Promote the ACTION
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21. Marketing – what we know
In 1873, John Wanamaker, father of the department store said
50% of marketing works
We don’t know which 50%
…….however, this is the traditional view in a pre-internet world!
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22. Marketing – what we know
Everything on the internet can be measured
You just have to know how
If it can’t be measured – it’s probably not worth doing
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28. Who are “Generation Y”?
• Baby Boomers – 1946 to 1964
• Generation X – 1965 – 1982
• Generation Y
• born after 1984
• 8m in UK alone
• Techno “savvy”
• Technology is embedded in lifestyle
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29. Social Networks – Business Benefits
• Reach out to new audiences and markets
• Reach out to existing markets
• Better understanding of related markets
• Relative low cost of entry
• Possible high return
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30. Social Networks – Build your profile
Have a good look around and see how things work
Set up an account and build your profile
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32. Social Networks – Build your profile
Have a good look around and see how things work
Set up an account and build your profile
Look for “friends” to invite and link with
Post to your wall
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33. Social Networks – Build your profile - Groups
• Search for Groups
• Join some groups
• Start your own group
• Post comments on Discussion Boards
• Link back to your website
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34. Agenda
• Introduction
• Marketing – what we know
• Social Networks
• Business Networks
• Viral
• Video Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Blogging
• Twitter
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48. Video Marketing
You’ve been framed!
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Business Opportunity
2nd most searched site on the internet
• YouTube – 1Bn videos watched………..DAILY
• Video results appearing in Google Search
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51. Social Networks – YouTube case study
www.beadsbylili.com
North Wilts based (Chippenham)
Launched November 2005
Selling beads for jewellery on line
Working from home
Features self produced video tutorials
Videos posted to YouTube
Was a “featured video” on global YouTube home page
Video views jumped from 24,499 to 232,389 in 24 hours
Website visitors jumped from 200 / day to 3,000 per day for 3 days
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52. Video Marketing
Your Video
• Look for an angle
• Look for the competition
• Get a feel for YouTube
• Think how else it could be used
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54. Video Marketing
Your Video
• Prepare prepare prepare
• Prepare and learn your script
• use cue cards
•Prepare your location
• quiet and free from disturbance
• Prepare yourself
• Get filming
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55. Agenda
• Introduction
• Marketing – what we know
• Social Networks
• Business Networks
• Viral
• Video Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Blogging
• Twitter
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57. Why Email Marketing?
• Build Loyalty
• Remind former clients that you are still around
• Advise clients of full range of services
• Provide easy access to latest – news/advice/offers
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61. Why Email Marketing?
• over 95% of site visitors = “Window Shoppers”
• x 6 – the cost of winning new clients
• Web users like them (over 95% have subscribed)
• 65% have made a purchasing decision
• 37% find the invaluable
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62. Email Marketing – Key Elements to success
• Develop your database
• Existing Client Data
• Encourage Subscription through website
Offer enticement to subscribe
Exclusive deals, Top Tips, early access to information
• Subscription through other routes
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63. Email Marketing – Key Elements to success
Quality Content
• Relevant
• Tailored
• GRAB attention
• Frequency
• Monitor, Monitor, Monitor
• Legal
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64. Email Marketing – Measure by Measure
What can be measured
• Number of emails sent
• Number of bounces
• Number opened
• Number deleted without opening
• Action taken
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66. Email Marketing – The Law
• Pre-existing relationship
• Opt in or Double Opt in
• Sender is clearly identified
• Unsubscribe instructions with EVERY email
• No consent = SPAM
• Anti-Spam laws apply to Individuals
andy.poulton@hotmail.com = individual
andy.poulton@businesslinksw.co.uk = corporate
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70. Blogging – Why
• An easy way to update latest news
• An informal way of communicating
• Helps with the search engine position of your website
• Opens your business to a wider audience
• Helps keep your clients updated
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71. Blogging – When
When you have something to sell
When you have something new to offer
When something changes
When you have some news
When you have something to say
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72. It’s really easy to set up and run a blog
1/ Sign up
2/ Choose a look
3/ Get typing
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73. Blogging – Where
www.typepad.com
www.blogger.com
www.movabletype.com
www.wordpress.com
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74. Agenda
• Introduction
• Marketing – what we know
• Social Networks
• Business Networks
• Viral
• Video Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Blogging
• Twitter
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82. iPhone
SMS
Twitter – Updating
140 Characters only
Web
SmartPhone
Email
Applications
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83. Twitter – Who
Respected News Services
International companies
BBC
Cisco
CNN
IBM
Daily Telegraph
Dell
Swindon Evening Advertiser
Celebrities
Informational Services Demi Moore
Nasa Oprah
Marketing Donut Stephen Fry
Startup Donut Jonathan Ross
Britney Spears
Small Businesses
William Grant – FoxGrant
Warren Cass – Business Scene
Lindsay Smith – Team Pixie Politicians
Fiona Davies – Flame Interiors Anne Snelgrove
Anthony Lloyd – Fallowfields Hotel David Drew
Neil Ryder – If Only Jim Knight
Bryony Thomas – Clear Thought Kerry McCarthy
Consulting Parmjit Dhanda
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88. Twitter – How
Retweeting – Going Viral on Twitter
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89. Summary
• Introduction
• Marketing – what we know
• Social Networks
• Business Networks
• Viral
• Video Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Blogging
• Twitter
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90. Thank You
Andy Poulton
Business Link
M: 07966 547146
E: andy.poulton@businesslinksw.co.uk
Slides available from
www.businesslink.gov.uk/southwest/eventspresentations
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