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Elliot Lake social media workshop
1. Social Media Workshop
Nathan Smith
zynali.com
nathan@zynali.com
facebook.com/Zynali or CoffeeNate1
twitter.com/CoffeeNate
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3. “The wireless music box (later
termed ‘radio) has no imaginable
commercial value. Who would pay for
a message sent to nobody in
particular?"
David Sarnoff's associates in response to
his urgings for investment in the radio in
the 1920s.
4. In 1926, Lee De Forest had the following
to say about the future of television,
"While theoretically and technically
television may be feasible,
commercially and financially it is an
impossibility, a development of
which we need waste little time
dreaming."
5. "This 'telephone' has too
many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a
means of communication."
William Orton, president of
Western Union, in 1876, when
Alexander Graham Bell tried to
sell the company his invention.
6. “Visionaries see a future of telecommuting
workers, interactive libraries and multimedia
classrooms. They speak of electronic town
meetings and virtual communities. Commerce
and business will shift from offices and malls to
networks and modems. And the freedom of
digital networks will make government more
democratic.
Baloney.”
~ Clifford Stoll, U.S. astronomer and author.
10. 1,000,000,000 ACTIVE USERS
That’s about 30X the population of Canada
5,100+ Users in Elliot Lake, Ontario
24 million Canadians are ages 15-64
18+ million Canadians use Facebook
11. 1,000,000,000 ACTIVE USERS
That’s about 30X the population of Canada
5,100+ Users in Elliot Lake, Ontario
24 million Canadians are ages 15-64
18+ million Canadians use Facebook
That’s 75%!
16. Ways to acquire new
followers for free
- Include the full url of your page on receipts and any
printed materials, and any other promotional materials
- If you run traditional television or radio spots, carry
the conversation onto your social streams
- Integrate your website and blog to send traffic to your
profiles.
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22. Facebook Timeline Tips
1. Upload a cover photo*
Cover photo dimensions are 851 x 315 pixels.
2. Use a clearly branded profile picture
Use a high-quality image that scales from 180 x 180 pixels
to 32 x 32 pixels thumbnail image. Your profile picture
follows your business or organization on Facebook as a
thumbnail image in news feed stories, ads, and featured
stories.
3. Pin a post each week
Pin an important story to the top of your Page each
week. Posts can stay pinned for up to seven days.
4. Arrange your views and apps
Choose the other three views and apps you want to
appear by default on your Page. You can include up to 12
views and apps.
23. Facebook Timeline Tips
5. Post daily to your Page
Although you can pin a post to the top of your Page,
continue to post daily to engage your audience.
(90% of engagement is in the newsfeed!)
6. Manage your Page through the admin panel
Use the admin panel to view Page Insights, keep track of
new activity and respond to personal messages.
*Cover photos cannot include:
A. Price or purchase information, such as “40% off” or
“Download it at our website”.
B. Contact information such as a website address, email,
mailing address, or information that should go in your
Page’s “About” section.
C. References to Facebook features or actions, such as
“Like” or “Share” or an arrow pointing from the cover
photo to any of these features.
D. Calls to action, such as “Get it now” or “Tell your
friends”.
Covers must not be false, deceptive or misleading, and must
not infringe on third parties’ intellectual property
28. Common Mistakes
- Posting frequency (1-2 posts/day MAX)
- Linking Twitter to Facebook NEVER DO THIS!!!!
- Only text posts
- Too much text...people hate reading!
- Being inconsistent
- Using personal profiles for business. (barf)
- Only 27% of ‘fans’ want the brand to have ANY
access to their information.
- Focusing on the number of ‘fans’ you have
30. 6years old
500M+ Users
200M + tweets per day
Micro-blogging platform
140 character messages
No permission needed to ‘follow’ other users
Wild Wild West of Social Media
31. Little known twips
90% of users do not know this...
If you begin a tweet with @username, the only people
who will see it, are the person you mentioned, and your
mutual followers
This feature is great, because it reduces the
amount of ‘noise’ in other people’s stream
33. Little known twips
Don’t limit your searches for those of
your brand name or immediate market.
Also search for...
-Related fringe markets
-Competitor’s Brand
-The ‘Firehose’ of your geo-location
-Popular ‘hashtags’ in your market
Utilize ‘saved searches’
34. Common Mistakes
- Misusing tools that auto-DM new followers
- Auto-Tweeting to excess
- Failing to listen before speaking
- Using ‘push tactics’ instead of creating a ‘pull’
- Losing your cool. Be professional!
- Blast messages rather than building a following
• WELCOME • My background o I spent 13 years of my life in the Chippewa Correctional Facility…as an employee. After approximately 3 days on the job, I knew that I wasn’t going to spend the rest of my life in that environment. I always felt that I had so much more to offer, if I just got the chance. o My background in marketing is largely as a consumer and I never want to lose that perspective. ♣ I would enter a business and immediately think of the ways that they could improve, and also note things they did right. I didn’t even own a computer until I was the age of 30, and didn’t have a cell phone until 3 years ago. (My wife wishes that I didn’t have one now, but that’s an issue for a different kind of session.) My point being, don’t think that you can’t get up to speed if you want to get educated quickly o For 100 years business only had one option for communicating to consumers. Talking AT you via traditional media channels. o This has changed with the dawn of social media ♣ Word of mouth, instant connection o Social media is based upon actual relationships, and that fact that consumers are willing to connect with your brand on a personal level, should excite the crap out of you. o Perhaps you are thinking, but this is Sault Ste Marie! This doesn’t scale to our market. You couldn’t be more wrong. ♣ There are about as many people in SSM using Facebook, as there are vehicles in this city. How many of your customers drive? o Social media represents the largest culture shift in our lifetimes. Some of you are looking at me as a kid, and others as a fat old guy. I’m actually in the middle somewhere ♣ The other day I saw a 1 or 2 year old using an ipad. ♣ It’s not just the young people either. Soap operas are going out of business because of people like my Mom. Instead of watching who came back from the dead and married their daughter, she’s pulling hits while playing Mafia Wars like she’s Tony Soprano. Don’t laugh, I’m dead serious.
95% Of time online, spent on social media sites Maybe you don’t get it, but who cares. They do, and that’s what matters!
De Forest, the same person who pushed for radio as a means of marketing, failed to see the potential that television offered. He was a pioneer in the radio industry, and his invention made it possible to broadcast over a long distance.
AGB tried to sell to WU.
Clifford Stall was on the complete opposite side of history
There are free accounts, all over the web, that are already created for you...you just have to claim them and pretty them up.