Social media provides opportunities for digital intimacy and connecting brands with customers through their voices. It allows for real-time search and crowd-sourced commentary. Personal branding on social media involves creating a presence, monitoring your brand, creating content, and demonstrating intelligent transparency. For small and medium businesses specifically, social media enables location-based engagement, competitive monitoring, and magnified image building.
4. This kills your latest press release
The result of true
engagement
ask questions
share thoughts
personalize examples
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5. Breaking it Down
Revolutionary Evolutionary
Synergistic channel
Talking “about” SM is no longer an
advantage
You can’t control the conversation...you never
have!
6. what does it do for you?
Provides a means of digital intimacy
Connects your brand with customers and
shares it through their voice
Real-time search and crowd-sourced
commentary
8. Personal Branding
Create a presence
Monitor your “brand”
Create content or direct traffic
Intelligent Transparency
“Never eat alone”
9. Personal Branding
Nobody cares about how many Twitter
followers you have....to a certain extent
More valuable - RT @ChrisBrogan or
@SpychResearch??? - Depends on who
you are targeting
12. who do I get to do this?
You
Someone that knows SM but brings
more to the table
Look down, not up
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14. Corporations
Customer Engagement
Brand Monitoring “Customer service is an
investment not an
Product Development expense....and is really
marketing” - Tony Hsieh
Customer Service
Personalized Marketing
17. the other side of branding
Transparency
Living your message, culture and
brand essence
2 things controllable - internal
company culture and external brand
18. A thought..or two on ROI
Social Media is not free! - But, there are
a lot of free tools!
It’s not always about ROI....directly
Sometimes, it just is not possible -
measuring conversations
19. ROI
@DellOutlet - $3 Million in Sales
Blendtec - Youtube - “Will it blend? -
500% Sales increase