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Social Media for Business���Waste of Time or Winning Ticket?
Leon Valley Chamber of Commerce
Do We Have Time For This?
Riding Technology Waves
Choices, Choices, Choices
Have you heard this one? • “Social media is a fad. Like CB Radio.”
• “Our CEO wants a blog.”
• “Make sure our employees can’t access Facebook. Or YouTube. Or LinkedIn.”
• “We need a Facebook fan page.”
• “Just put it out there, they will use it.”
• “Which of you whiny, ungrateful $#@ posted this?!”
Exercise: ���Google Yourself
The Big Three
#7: Talk About What You Do
Substance or ���Snake Oil?
(Run Away!) • “EVERY business needs a
<Twitter> presence.” • Let’s get you going in Facebook
& Twitter & MySpace & SecondLife & Delicio.us & Groupon & LinkedIn & YouTube & blogging & …
More Like It • “Let’s examine how traffic ���
flows through your website.” • “Who are your best customers?” • “Who are the opinion leaders in your
industry?” • “What are we trying to accomplish?” • “What are you currently doing with
eMail?”
• Claim your profiles
• Be real
• Jump in and try it, small steps
• Have goals and a simple plan
• Pilot, fail fast
• Share juicy content
• Get help with training & strategy
• Make sure someone closes the loop
Twitter: @firecatsue
LinkedIn: susanprice
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email: [email protected]
QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION
Thanks for inviting me!