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As 2013 is coming to an end, we are back with top reports, activities, happenings and debates of the entire year. Most of top tech giants like Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
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A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 890 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 15 trips to carry that many people.
A Social Media Strategy is an essential component of a broader marketing plan for any business in today’s world. We accept that Social Media is a powerful medium to connect with prospects and customers but because Social Media is so new, we’re just not sure how to effectively market our business using Social Media.If you were applying for a business loan the first thing your bank manager would ask is, Do you have a business plan?
If you’re venturing into Social Media for your business the first thing you need to ask yourself is, What’s my Social Media Strategy?
Having one or more Social Marketing Strategies in place before you enter the big wide world of Social Media will help you gain clarity and direction for your business.
Do you think the World’s top athletes begin a race without a strategy? No way, anyone serious about achieving results in any field knows they need to have one or more effective strategies in place PRIOR to beginning their venture, event etc.
While marketing principles remain the same, the manner in which those principles are applied within the Social space will vary depending on the platform you’re using to market your business.
The four most known Social sites are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. Each represents an opportunity for businesses to target prospects in a different way.
For example, are you a B2B business wanting to market your products or services to other business owners? Use LinkedIn.
Would you like to educate prospects and customers in a short, quick and easy to understand way, use YouTube.
Would you like to create a community of enthusiastic fans and engage with them in a personal way? Use Facebook.
We know that a strategy is simply a method or series of steps we must take to achieve a certain outcome. Creating a Social Strategy requires a detailed analysis of who you’d like to target and how you’re going to target them in the most effective way.
Some initial questions you might like to ask yourself to formulate your Social Media Strategy are:
And when creating your Social Marketing Campaign…
In developing your Social Media Strategy it’s essential that you answer these questions not immediately, but throughout the formulation of your Strategy.
If you miss your mark the first time, keep trying until you get the formula right. With every campaign you’ll come closer to cracking the code that is your customer’s mind.
If you can get inside their head, you’re on your way to a sale. The majority of your prospects will have the same questions, queries, concerns and turn offs. If you can figure out what these are you’ll create a compelling Social Media Strategy and you’ll enjoy amazing results that most others can only hope to attain with their Social Marketing.
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Matt is the Co-Founder of SocialSelling.com.au, Australia’s #1 Social Media Marketing Training company.
Matt offers regular Social Media Marketing Courses, Workshops, Seminars and Webinars across Australia.
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Happy Birthday to The Interwebz. That’s right, January 1 (which was yesterday for those of us outside the US), marked the 30th birthday of the modern Internet.
Writing on the Google blog, Vint Cerf — the company’s VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, and a key figure who helped the Internet get off the ground — recalls the packet network-related work that he and Robert Kahn undertook to develop the initial TCP Internet standard that got things moving. That was then split into two parts, one of which was “Internet Protocol”, aka IP, and the other TCP.
From there, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which had first tested ARPANET – took Cerf and Kahn’s work into the mainstream on January 1 1983, as he explains.
TCP/IP was tested across the three types of networks developed by DARPA and eventually was anointed as their new standard. In 1981, Jon Postel published a transition plan to migrate the 400 hosts of the ARPANET from the older NCP protocol to TCP/IP, including a deadline of January 1, 1983, after which point all hosts not switched would be cut off.
Cerf explains that there were “no grand celebrations”, and that mainly the switch over was met with relief among those that were working to get it done. He, nor any others, had any idea that what they were pioneering could become so influential in future times.
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 1,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 3 years to get that many views.
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