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Social Media OptimizationLinkedInFacebookTwitterBlogsGoogle+Pinterest

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LinkedIn

Best Practices Activities

Choose your LinkedIn connections and content carefully

Use keywords for better ranking Participate/Join in groups Review incoming messages and

reply Post question and respond to

others Follow companies Create Events and update your

connections

Events updates Jobs descriptions Tweets Advices/Suggestions Sharing interesting stuff Blog posts ………… Questions & quotations

Offer expertise through Q & A

Share useful and informative content

Launch polls

Join the discussions

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What is your criteria for accepting a connection? Be consistent.

Only join groups you plan to be active in and represent the business interests you wish to project to your connections.

Post status updates regularly Identify and follow all of your LinkedIn

connections on Twitter within the Tweets application

LinkedIn Tips

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LinkedInhttp://bettercloser.com/setting-linkedin-sales/

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Week 1

name Photo Recent Employment Education Personal

information Introductions and Inmail Awards invite five

trusted people

Week 2

Accept invitations

Invite five more

Complete experience

Add company website

Rewrite headline Join 5 groups Grab unique

LinkedIn URL

Week 3

Accept invitations

Review "people You may know'

Request recommendati

on

Write a recommendati

on

Search on company

Advanced people search

Join 5 more groups

Post status update

Week 4

Accept invitations

Add two more items website

section

Add volunteer work

Special classes training

Write a recommendati

on

Company LinkedIn site

Join 5 more groups

Search on company

Advanced people search

Request recommendati

on

Word process Summary

section

Post status update

Week 5

Accept invitations

Write a recommendati

on

Join 5 more groups

Advanced People Search

Request recommendati

on

Word process Specialities

Import contacts

Account & Settings

Connect with classmates

and colleagues

Post status update

Week 6

Accept invitations

Write a recommendati

on

Join 5 more groups

Word process Skills section

Find helpful pdf, word excel doc

Find helpful powerpoint

Document key network stats

Download Outlook Tool

bar

LinkedIn introduction

Post status update

Document goals for next

quarter

LinkedIn Six Week Programhttp://www.regnordman.com/2011/10/01/the-power-formula-for-linkedin-success-wayne-breitbarth/

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Facebook

Setup Activity

Your Profile◦ Update Bio◦ Photo◦ Make Friend Lists

(control which group of friends get the content you publish)

◦ Filter Your News Feed Setup a Facebook

Page

Profile◦ Status updates with

reference to your page Page

◦ Featured photos◦ Left Hand Links◦ Featured Likes◦ Wall Tab Layout … select

“display posts made by the page” as default

◦ Use keywords for SEO

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Create a Business Page◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOD8_0hh9bc

Register a Page Fill in Basic Info Increase Page Publicity Manage Tabs Edit Page

Facebook

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GE◦ http://www.facebook.com/GE?sk=app_175384022

520981 See 10 other B2B examples

◦ http://www.slideshare.net/jeffreylcohen/10-examples-of-b2b-facebook-fan-pages

Facebook Business Examples

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Facebook

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Create an account Profile bio Profile URL Profile Photo

Tweet original content regularly, Retweet to show your expertise in knowing what is “good”

use Hashtags to improve relevance for search Follow influential people in your industry Make Lists Listen using Tweetdeck, or other tools Schedule regular tweets using HootSuite

Twitter

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Wordpress, Blogger (Google) and Typepad are the main platforms

Search engines like to index blogs, so keywords are important considerations to “get found”

Blog is a key landing page for deeper content beyond the 140 characters in twitter (or status updates in other social media sites)

Make it easy to share your blog articles via social media

Blog

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Include your social media accounts in your signature

Links to your latest posts can provide good context for relationship building

Align your email address books with your social media followers/subscribers/etc

Email

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For demo and intro:◦ http://www.google.com/+/demo/◦ http://youtu.be/4RyY2-ofP4g (explains +1 button)

Circles, Sparks, Hangouts, Instant Uploads, and Huddle are the new terminology

Google+

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New social media tool for sharing pictures along with descriptions◦ See Geoff’s Pinterest boards for:

LinkedIn http://pinterest.com/geoffreyhansen/linkedin/

B2B Social Media http://pinterest.com/geoffreyhansen/b2b-social-media/

Pinterest

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Choose the appropriate technologies to deploy.

Technology

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Google Reader Alerts

Hootsuite Tweetdeck Jigsaw

Recommended Tools