5. Internet users (Sept 2009) 1.73 Billion 252 Million in North America 90 Trillion e-mails sent in 2009 247 Billion e-mails per day 200 Billion of them are SPAM 1.4 Billion e-mail users worldwide
6. Internet users (Sept 2009) 1.73 Billion 252 Million in North America 90 Trillion e-mails sent in 2009 247 Billion e-mails per day 200 Billion of them are SPAM 1.4 Billion e-mail users worldwide 234 Million Websites as of Dec 2009 126 Million Blogs
8. 84% - percentage of social networks with more women than men 27.3 Million Tweets per day (November, 2009)
9. 84% - percentage of social networks with more women than men 27.3 Million Tweets per day (November, 2009) Facebook serves 260 Billion page views per month (Dec 09) LinkedIn has 1.9 Billion page views per month (Dec 09)
38. Following Conversations What is a #hashtag? It’s any word that has a “#” – or pound sign – in front of it: #expowest #TS2 #journchat #wordpresschat
78. BLOGGING What to blog about? IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! *Industry problems
79. BLOGGING What to blog about? IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! *Industry problems *Solve a problem, answer a need
80. BLOGGING What to blog about? IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! *Industry problems *Solve a problem, answer a need *Short: 300 – 750 words
81. BLOGGING What to blog about? IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! *Industry problems *Solve a problem, answer a need *Short: 300 – 750 words *Use guest bloggers
82. BLOGGING What to blog about? IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! *Industry problems *Solve a problem, answer a need *Short: 300 – 750 words *Use guest bloggers *Photos, audio/video
84. BLOGGING How often should you blog? As often as necessary so people don’t think the blog is ignored.
85. BLOGGING How often should you blog? As often as necessary so people don’t think the blog is ignored. To begin – 2 – 4 X a month Increasing to 2 – 4 X week
86. BLOGGING How often should you blog? As often as necessary so people don’t think the blog is ignored. To begin – 2 – 4 X a month Increasing to 2 – 4 X week The more often you blog the more successful the blog will be!
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What is the main thing here?
People share photos…a LOT of photos. It’s probably one of the most popular things to do online. I read just this week that women take almost 4 out of 5 photos posted online. My thought? Guys, we aren’t trying hard enough? I don’t know if the stats are accurate, but I do find them surprising – I wouldn’t have thought the disparity between men and women sharing photos was so wide.
Video has become – in a sense – the KILLER APP for online sharing, beyond photos.
Ran across an article last week: If you’re still of the opinion social networking is a waste of time and resources, 85% of sales managers think you’re ignoring a major source of revenue. Nearly 85% of sales organizations have a social media program in place, and 75% plan to expand their efforts in the months to come, according to a recent study conducted by MoreVisibility (a leader in Web 2.0 technology). Some other findings: 98% of companies use Twitter as the main focus of their social media initiatives 96% of companies use Facebook as a secondary source, and 74% also use LinkedIn as part of their strategy.
So where do you start? It all gets a little overwhelming if you try to take it in all at one bite.
When you’re involved in social media you must keep in mind: THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE! Okay, there’s a little difference. But what you share with your family and friends will find it’s way to clients and business partners. What you share with your business partners will find its way to your family and friends. Having said that…what it really means is that when you step into social media, it behooves you to be very aware of what you’re sharing. So we’ll look at social media from the perspective of a) getting involved as an individual, b) getting your company involved. Both are important – both cross lines – but both approaches – individual vs. a company – have their distinct approaches and disciplines.
It’s probably good to narrow your focus to just a handful – or even just one or two outlets. If you’re not on Facebook, for instance, you might start there. It won’t take long to gather friends, acquaintances, business partners and more on Facebook since so many are there..
We’ll talk about blogging a bit later – in fact, I’m thinking of doing a full one-hour webinar just on blogging because there is so much to cover about it. I do know people that make a good loving doing nothing but blogging, whether for themselves or for a company or corporation. Blogging is fun, it’s engaging, it’s a great outlet…but if you’re doing it for your company there are a lot of things that you’ll have to weigh before getting involved: Who’s going to blog, how often, what kinds of things are appropriate, and so on. The main thing to remember about a blog is: it’s NOT about YOU. It’s about your readers…
No doubt you’ve heard about the world of Twitter…how news stories have broken on Twitter, jobs have been found … and lost… on Twitter….if you’re going to get involved, like blogging, it’s something that you need to consider – from a company point of view – how will it be done? Some companies do a great job on their Twitter accounts….Starbucks, Ford Motor Company, Comcast … are all good examples of how problems have been solved, customers have been helped …had their day made, in fact…all because of the company response on Twitter.
It’s pretty easy to set up an account. Just log into Twitter.com and follow the instructions. Give ‘em your full name, come up with a user name (@tradeshowguy), password and email and you’re off and running. You’ll soon want to flesh out the profile a bit so people can find you.
Here’s what people see…a link to your website if you choose, and a brief BIO. Good idea to think about what you want the link to go to. My suggestion is to create a special page so that you’re actually greeting people who click through from your Twitter page. Or you might have a special Facebook page or something you want people to go . Don’t be afraid to experiment and change it up every now and then to see what kind of traffic and reaction you might get.
Twitter works like this: once you are on Twitter, you can ‘follow’ anyone you’d like – if they allow it. Since 99 percent of all Twitter users allow anyone to follow them, chances are you can follow pretty much anyone you want. By following a user, all it means is that when they send out a ‘tweet’ you can read it in your stream – or on your main page after you’ve logged in. You can also post tweets which anyone that follows you can read.
We’ll talk in just a moment about how to find people in your industry or business niche that you’d like to follow..
If you don’t know what to tweet about…here are some general guidelines: Tweet about: Fun stuff – links Offbeat stuff you’re doing, music you’re listening to, thoughts you have…but try to avoid the mundane things like what kind of muffin you’re having. Industry-related links Promo things: blog posts, podcasts, great deals you have – but don’t do JUST promotions or you’ll turn people off Imagine Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. as a giant party going on 24/7…you wouldn’t walk up to a guy in a party and say “hey, come on over and BUY something!” No. You’d get to know them, then you’d invite them to your house. Imagine your blog as your house…that’s where people come to find out about you. It’s more intimate and you have more control… But you CAN sell from your Twitter account – it just depends on how you do it. Maybe every few days, mixed in with your other fun tweets, you invite people to check out a special deal you have going on…again, experiment. There are no hard and fast rules…but if you start to do something that the twittersphere doesn’t like, you’ll hear about it. Dell Computer for instance – with 1.5 million followers – has managed to balance promotions, deals, clever talk, customer service and more into a number of twitter accounts. I’ve heard they keep offering great deals and sell millions of dollars worth of computers each year – just through their Twitter account. Of course with 1.5 million followers that’s not surprising.
Respond to other people. Reach out. Help them when you can.
There are a number of tools that have been created around Twitter that make it easier to manage your accounts. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on them – but I will give you sort of a thumbnail sketch of what you can do with these tools.
Scheduling is a big deal. Events, tradeshows, promos, contests. Etc. If you don’t have to do everything in real time, it helps you become more effective.
Hootsuite similar to Tweetdeck, but to my mind is a little more robust.
It allows you to shorten links, track click-throughs and more.
The search tool at Twitter is also very useful. Helps you find any conversation going on around a topic you’re interested in.
Hashtags are an easy way to track conversation topics.
One thing that’s grown out of Twitter are what are called ‘twitter chats’ where people can just log on, chat with dozens or hundreds of people about a topic – these are usually scheduled ahead of time, a specific hashtag is used to follow the conversation
Here’s a screen grab I did of some tweets about LeBron James a week or two after he announced he was leaving Cleveland…
Just like anything…you have to dive in to really know what it’s all about!