1. Blog Marketing Innovative Techniques to grow your business! http://www.majesticsocialmedia.com Natalie Guse

2. You will learn… …to understand social media! …to set up your own blog! …that content is the key! …to market your blog online! That’s our GOAL! That’s our GOAL! You can do it!

3. Social Media Marketing Role of Blogs in Social Media Blog Marketing Process! How to blog! How to promote your blog! Content Summary!

4. The Big Deal over Social Media Marketing Marketing More than 133,000,000 blogs have been indexed by Technorati since 2002 and around 77% of Internet users read blogs according to Universal McCann Natalie Guse

5. The Big Deal over Social Media Marketing Marketing Natalie Guse The Role of Blogs in Social Media!

11. Social Media Marketing… Social media marketing is a term that describes use of social networks, online communities, blogs, wikis or any other online collaborative media for marketing, sales, public relations and customer service.

12. Common Social Media Applications

13. Social Media Marketing… Study on growth of Social media – 75% of Internet users involved in Social Media.

14. Social Media Marketing… Internet Users by Continent 14

16. 60% are 18-44

17. 75% have college degrees

18. 40% have graduate degrees

19. One in three has an annual household income of $75K+

20. One in four has an annual household income of $100K

21. More than half are married 15

23. Half are employed full time, however ¾ of professional bloggers are employed full time.

24. Around half of bloggers are working on at least their second blog, and 68% have been blogging for two years or more

25. 86% have been blogging for at least a year 16

26. Motivation of Bloggers 71% say they blog at least in part in order to speak their minds. 72% say they blog in order to share their expertise. 61% say they blog in order to supplement their income. 53% of professional bloggers are interested in attracting new clients from blogging. 72% of those who are self-employed and blogging are interested in attracting new clients. 19% are concerned that their employers might disapprove of their views on their blog. 17

27. The Big Deal over Social Media Marketing Marketing Natalie Guse Social Media and Blog Marketing Process!

29. Stay in contact

30. E-Conferences

31. E-Interviews

32. Build own networks

33. Invite your contacts

34. Interact with costumers

35. Example: NING, MEETUP

36. Create public profiles

37. Stay in contact

38. Example: LINKEDIN, XING, FACEBOOK

39. Promote Infomercial

40. Promote Business

41. Publish press releases

42. Example: YOUTUBE C I S S

43. www.slideshare.net www.myplick.com www.authorstream.com www.slideboom.com Promote/Market Publish www.reddit.com www.free-press-release.com www.prlog.com www.articlesbase.com Google adwords Google maps www.superpages.com www.yellowpages.com www.hotfrog.com Publish

44. www.wordpress.com www.blogger.com www.mybloglog.com www.technorati.com Promote/Market Publish www.youtube.com www.vimeo.com http://www.ustream.tv/ Website Integration Blog Integration Publish www.global-free-classified-ads.com www.craigslist.org www.hoobly.com www.backpage.com

45. Be organized!

46. The Big Deal over Social Media Marketing Marketing Natalie Guse SWOT and Target Market Analysis!

47. Threats + Opportunities Weaknesses Strength TARGET MARKET! TARGET MARKET! Strategic Planning Goals Vision Mission Operative Planning Content Design Promotion

48. Motivation of Bloggers Weaknesses Strength Weaknesses Strength

49. Social Media Target Market Analysis Products Students Young professional Families Business People Trend-setters The Beauty conscious The Health conscious Target Market Elderly People Working Moms Opinion Leaders

50. Social Media Strategy Matrix Directories Business People Families Young professionals + Students Blogging The Beauty focused The Health focused Opinion Leaders The Health focused Trend-setters Social Media Sites Working Moms Elderly People Communicate Interact Share Socialize

52. Lifestyle (health focused, beauty, family oriented, etc.)Products Target Market

53. Goals The major outcome of strategic road-mapping and strategic planning, after gathering all necessary information, is the setting of goals for the organization based on its vision and mission statement. A goal is a long-range aim for a specific period. It must be specific and realistic. Long-range goals set through strategic planning are translated into activities that will ensure reaching the goal through operational planning.

54. Corporate Vision Corporate vision is a short, succinct, and inspiring statement of what the organization intends to become and to achieve at some point in the future, often stated in competitive terms. Vision refers to the category of intentions that are broad, all-inclusive and forward-thinking. It is the image that a business must have of its goals before it sets out to reach them. It describes aspirations for the future, without specifying the means that will be used to achieve those desired ends.

55. Mission Statement A mission statement is an organization's vision translated into written form. It makes concrete the leader's view of the direction and purpose of the organization. For many corporate leaders it is a vital element in any attempt to motivate employees and to give them a sense of priorities.

56. Content Planning The ultimate outcome of your blog. What’s the reason your blog exist? Are you building a list, get prospects for your consulting practice, or build loyal followers and traffic to increase the value of the virtual real estate of your blog? The needs of your audience. Most of us guess, but rarely we are correct about it. You can gain insights into this by walking in their shoes, researching on public forums or asking them. Meet the needs with the outcome. This allows you to target the right audience while reaching your purpose at the same time.

58. How much time do I have to spend on my Social Media Profiles!

60. Topics can be related to holidays! (labor day – places to stay, to see, etc.)

61. Topics can point out the benefits of your products or services!

63. What: Blogging Site Year: Launched 2003 Unique Visitors: 28,048,281 Visitors: 65,278, 721 Annual growth:+29 WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it.

65. What: Blogging Site Year: Launched 1999 Unique Visitors: 31,699,703 Visitors: 6,344,571 Annual growth:+31 Blogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts. A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules. Blogger was started by a tiny company in San Francisco called Pyra Labs in August of 1999. This was in the midst of the dot-com boom.

69. What: Blogging Site Year: Launched 1999 Unique Visitors: 4,029,165 Visitors: 26,248 Annual growth:-16 Xanga is a website that hosts weblogs, photoblogs, and social networking profiles. It is operated by Xanga.com, Inc., based in New York City. Xanga's origins can be traced back to 1999, when it began as a site for sharing book and music reviews. It now has an estimated 40 million users worldwide. As of May 24, 2008, Alexa Internet ranked Xanga as the 231st most visited site on the Internet. All Xanga members receive a "Xanga Site", a web site made up of a weblog, a photoblog, a videoblog, an audioblog, a "Pulse" (mini-blog), and a social networking profile. Members also have the option of joining or making blogrings (groups)

72. Promote blog

73. Write articles

74. Inform about the product

75. Use it as a second webpage

76. Connect all your sites to mybloglogMybloglog.com Category: Blogging Site Primary Value: Strong profile ranking User: 1.300.000 visitors

78. Where Content is King… Blogging is all about…. Content Delivery – putting it out there Content Visibility – letting some people see it Content Virality – broadcasting it to EVERYONE!

79. How to blog! ?

80. Update frequently – Look, nothing is worse than having a great blog and then abandoning it. You lose momentum, any buzz you might have generated and most importantly, you lose readers.

82. Link to your social media profiles, integrate your facebook, twitter and linkedin profiles. Also add your blog to your linkedin, twitter or facebook profile.

86. Be controversial – There’s nothing like a little controversy to help promote your site. Take a stand on a controversial issue, and then write intelligently about it.

89. Include images – We live in a society of over stimulation. We’ve got flashing billboards, instant information at our fingertips, and about 15 different forms of media on our phones.

91. Link to other sites – This one is pretty simple, the more you link to other blogs or sites, the more likely they will be to link back to you.

92. Be original and make unsexy topics sexy – As we talked about in point 2, there are a ton of blogs out there. Take a different angle. Do something to set yourself apart from the mass of other blogs. Be original.

94. Grab them with the headline – Just like a newspaper, the headlines are critical. If it’s interesting, people will check out your post. If it’s not, they’ll ignore it. It’s as simple as that. And, just like in newspapers, there are some words and phrases that are attention grabbers. “Top 10…”, “How To…”, “Warning:”,

96. Tell people – So you’ve got a great blog post. Now what? The last rule for blogging is to tell people about it. Mention it to your friends and family, ping sites such as pingomatic.com, and submit it to social sites such as digg.com, reddit.com, fark.com, or any other appropriate site.

97. The Big Deal over Social Media Marketing Marketing Natalie Guse Promote a blog!

98. Optimizing for Blogs and Search Engines Yahoo News & Blog Search Sorted by relevance. Only top 4 get onto News SERPs Google Blog Search Sorted by relevance. No way to submit. Only a matter of time before it ends up in the “One Box” Technorati Sorted by date. Tagged posts featured in sidebar. Feedster Sorted by date. PubSub No immediate SERPs. Delivered only in RSS.

106. Technorati.com Rank #15 2,861,683 Unique Visitors 4,379,508 Visitors Annual Growth of -16.16% Founded by Dave Sifry Launched in November 2002 Blog Search Engine Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.The name Technorati is a portmanteau of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism.

115. Optimizing for Blogs and Search Engines

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