Getting A Foothold In Social Media: SES Chicago 2008

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Getting A Foothold in Social Media
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Part of the Small Business Blitz panel at SES Chicago 2008, discussing how small business can get started in social media.

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Getting A Foothold in Social Media

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Get Educated.

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Where to start:

Chris Brogan

Social Media Explorer

K.D. Paine

Marketing Profs Daily Fix

Small Business Answers

Social Media Today

PR Squared

Church of the Customer

Groundswell

New Rules of Marketing and PR

Now Is Gone

Age of Conversation

The New Influencers

Citizen Marketers

The Cluetrain Manifesto

BLO

GS B

OO

KS

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Listen.

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Where to start:

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Where to start:

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Find your personality.

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Where to start:

Talk to people.

Trust them.

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Define Success.

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Where to start:

Benchmarks: Where are you NOW?

Pick goals that matter.• Repeat customers

• Shorter sales cycle

• Referrals

• Reputation

• Customer Service

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Participate.

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But don’t be that guy.

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Where to start:

The Fantastic Five:

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Measure.

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Where to start:

Pick Three Things.Sentiment

Positive reviews

Subscribers

Web Analytics

Inbound links

Customer satisfaction

Media mentions

METR

ICS

Number of leads

Quality of leads

Referrals

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Don’t be Afraid to Fail.

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Thank [email protected]

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