Presentation to the International Executives Association Leadership Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 2001

1. Got Clout?Introducing Social Influence Presented By: Lisa McKenzie, Social Media Strategist

2. About Red Carpet More than 60 years of combined business, branding, marketing and sales intelligence. We are boutique consulting firm specializing in digital marketing solutions and partnering strategies. We help our clients build brand equity, social influence, competitive advantage, incremental revenue growth and a leadership position within their field of expertise or industry. Presentation by Red Carpet Strategies. You may not reproduce or resell the content of this presentation in any manner. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2011

4. Speaker, Trainer and Consultant in Digital Marketing

5. Co-Founder of Red Carpet Strategies Consulting and the Social Media Academy for Women

6. Founding member of the International Social Media Association

7. Co-author of 6 books on Social Media

8. Founder of Deserving Divas Community - Lifestyle Events

9. Voted a Noisemaker of the year by Montreal Mirror

11. Celebrity Influence "A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.” - Daniel J Boorstin

12. Tom CruiseRay-Ban “Wayfarers” Wayfarers 1983 Sales $18,000 $260,000

13. Jamie OliverSainsbury's Supermarkets 1st year of Endorsement = EXTRA1 Billion $$$$

14. Social Media Photo: techfreakstuff.com

15. You have a VoiceWelcome to the Age of the Expert 101 million web users read blogs ComScore Blog readership spiked 300% from 2004 to 2008 Jupiter Research 17% on time online is spent on Social networking and reading blogs Neilson

16. How far your message spreads?Your Circle of Influence YOU -> Your Network Their Network Their Network’s Network 10

17. WE are the NEW Influencers 70% of bloggers write about brands organically, almost half post product reviews Technorati 40% of online Moms use social media for product recommendation BabyCenter.com 65% of blog readers access blogs to get an opinion Synovate

18. How we BUY 92% of people trust user reviews over sales clerks Penn Shoen and Berland 52% of readers said Blogs factored into the critical moment they decided to buy Jupiter Research

19. Social Influencefor the Masses True reach, Amplification, Network Authority, Activity, Audience Scores range from 1 to 100 Early adopters in industries such as: Marketing, social media, advertising, communications and PR

24. Brand YouThe importance of Personal Branding Essential for serial entrepreneurs In your name, your influence is yours to keep You can take it anywhere with you, across any platform or social network

25. People in your neighborhood Deanna White @StorylinePR Tweeting PR tips & trends for creating news stories that capture media audiences in Ottawa. Musings from Deanna White of storylinePR can be found @storyline.

26. People in your neighborhood ColleenFrancis @CFrancisVoice A successful sales professional for over 20 years, she understands the challenges of selling in today's market and how traditional sales techniques from decades ago often fall short.

27. Gary Vaynerchuk @GaryVee

28. What’s your Passion?

29. How to increase YOUR social influence Are you re-tweet worthy? Speak, post, tweet and blog about your core business and/or your passions Stay within your niche Share high quality shareable content Follow other influencers, share their content Build your audience without relying purely on mutual following.

30. Relevance is Everything Congruent and consistentcontent creates authority. Are you on topic? Keywords determine your niche, categories of expertise Use hashtags# to clarify your topics Great indicator is how you are listed on Twitter

31. Finding influencers and brand evangelists Who and where are the influential people that will be the evangelists that motivate crowds to buy my brand? Discover who cares about your niche Find them in groups, micro/niche networks Listen, observe, learn only then interact Join them Contribute Crowd source to find out what they are engaged in People do business with those they know like and trust.

33. By invitation only

34. World’s Taste Makers

35. Sophisticated and Influential Your influence or social clout is valuable in your personal circles of influence but is not necessarily transferable into other circles.

36. 12 Key Action Steps Sign up for Gmail.com to access Google products Set Google Alerts in your name, company’s name, competitors and industry to keep up to date. Use Google Reader to pull the news you want to read each day Sign up for Klout.com and PeerIndex.netto obtain and your manage your influence scores Purchase and use your own domain name i.e. www.LisaMcKenzie.com Start a blog, use blog to post original content & syndicate to social networks Develop a list of 20 keywords and live & breathe by them to stay relevant when posting to social networks Speak, post, tweet and blog about your core business and/or your passions Stay within your niche Share high quality shareable content Manage your social networks with Hootsuite.com Find a niche network to participate in

37. Connect with Us Facebook.com/SocialMediaStrategy Facebook.com/RedCarpetStrategies @LisaMckenzie @RedCarpetVIPs Lisa@LisaMcKenzie.com Visit our website at www.RedCarpetStrategies.com

38. Questions?

39. Thank you for your participation