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The MarketingSavant Group is a specialist company that focuses on transforming our clients into the preeminent
thought leaders and trusted advisors in their industry. Through our thought leadership marketing approach and
deep experience in digital and social media marketing we do extraordinary work for B2B clients to move your
entire organization beyond the competitive realm and into the unique niche of industry thought leader. We focus
on genuine organizational transformation through marketing, innovation, intellectual capital development and not
on producing a campaign that’s merely a quickly forgotten flavor-of-the-month tool.
We formed MarketingSavant to work with ethical, intellectual, innovative and challenging clients in the Business-
to-Business market sector. Our approach and our philosophy are to always put altruism before capitalism. We do
well by doing good, and we like to work with clients who share our philosophy.
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What Will We Talk About?
• Fundamentals
– Social Media: What Is It?
– Social Media Strategies &
Channels for Sales &
Marketing
– What To Do Next…
– What’s Possible?
(Discussion)
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What is Social Media?
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Social Media: Defined!
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• WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
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Why Should You Care?
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93% OF SOCIAL MEDIA USERS BELIEVE A COMPANY
SHOULD HAVE A PRESENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA.
Cone, Business in Social Media Study, September 2008
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But…It Can
Be…“Complicated”
It Can Also Be
Distracting…
• Why you must have a
strategy in place
• Mobilize your
volunteers, donors,
advocates and
everyone else to help
with social media
efforts
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Social Media Is Just a Set of Tools…
Blogs
Widgets
Micro Blogs
Online Chat
RSS
Social Networks
Social Bookmarks
Message Boards
Podcasts
Video Sharing Sites
Photo Sharing Sites
Virtual Worlds
Wikis
Local Search
(…just to name a few)
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Evaluate the Social Tools
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Your Website
• Your “home
base”
• Sets the tone,
authority and
mission –
needs to be
“perfect”
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Everything should have
at least two homes (if
not more)
• The first, where it
originated, the second
the overall home,
which is your
website/blog
• Network tools should
connect believers and
tell the world where
to find your
information
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Get Blogging (Transparency)
• You “almost need a blog”
• Dynamic vs. static content
• Audiences ‘connect’ with blogs
• Metaphor for:
– Transparent communication
– Authenticity
– Responsibility
– Reputation
• “Connectable platform” (Wordpress, Typepad)
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Why Blogs?
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Even if you have great
website, consider a blog site.
Remember, content and
conversation are paramount.
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Tap Into Your Community
• Community members
can be worth 30% more
• Tap the power of your
customer base
• Increase long-term
lifetime value
• Involve them in
something meaningful
• Know what customers
really want to buy
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Facebook
• Events
• Fan Pages
• Groups
• Personal Pages of Fans
• Paid Advertisements
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Facebook Ads
• Quick Targeting
– Age
– Education
– Location
– Gender…
• Start/Pause/Stop
• CPC Basis
• Export Reports
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Facebook Causes
• Start a Cause
• Raise $$
• Show Fundraising
Momentum
• In order to accept
donations through Causes,
a nonprofit must be a
501(c)3 that is also
registered with GuideStar
• Payments through Network
for Good
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Microblogging (Twitter)
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Microblogging
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Driving Conversations
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Social Media Listening
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Listen to the Conversation
• Be transparent. Be open and
honest in all communication.
• Be ethical. Live by the WOMMA
Practical Ethics Toolkit
• Be relevant. Share information
and perspectives that are
valuable to the online community
• Personalize and be personable.
• Address negative discussion
head-on.
• Court evangelists & advocates.
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Comcast provides support via Twitter
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Using Video
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Share Things
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Podcasts & Vodcasts
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Where are all the pretty pictures?
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Social Media Overkill?
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Feature: Friendfeed
• Consolidate
• Simplify
• Track
• Comment
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Case Studies
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Case Studies
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Brooklyn Museum/ Integration
TV and
Radio Magazines
Integrated Social
Media
Campaigns
Direct
Online Mail
Advertising
Martell Home Builders uses social media to connect with home buyers
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Martell Home Builders
3 Lessons:
1) Be Transparent
2) Holistic Strategy
3) Human Relationships
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Toolkit
Blog
Facebook fan page
YouTube Videos
Twitter stream
eBay sales page
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Integrated Social Media Strategy
Goodwill Repositioning
Blog
YouTube
MySpace
ebay Store
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A Few Good Stats
• Over 11,500 unique visitors to the virtual fashion show 9/12 launch
• Over 42,000 page views
• 16% of fashion show visitors have been converted into online Goodwill
shoppers
• Fashion Show Visitors from 31 countries and 48 states plus DC
• 48% of fashion show visitors are from the DC, MD, VA region (the area
we serve)
• Blog is averaging between 600 & 700 visitors a week
• 5.6% of blog visitors are being converted into online Goodwill shoppers
• Blog visitors from 77 countries and all 50 states
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Goodwill of Greater Washington
3 Lessons:
1) Incorporate Into Marketing Strategy
2) Regional Execution
3) Entertainment + Trust = Desire to Shop
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Social & Thought Leadership Toolkit
Blog
Twitter (rates)
RSS feeds
Podcasts
Business Pulse Survey
VOC community center
Nicolet uses a blog and social media to educate and connect with their tribe
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Social Media & Thought Leadership Marketing
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Nicolet National Bank
4 Lessons:
1) Leverage Transparency & Thought Leadership
2) Unfiltered Conversation
3) Content Matters
4) Education = Trust
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Comcast Cares…Because This Guy Didn’t…
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Toolkit
Twitter
Blogs
Social Media Listening
Customer Service
YouTube Videos
Comcast uses social media to take care of it’s most vocal customers
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Comcast Cares
3 Lessons:
1) Listen Intently, React Immediately
2) Educate The Team (Internally)
3) Social Media Success + PR = Momentum
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Toolkit
Blogs (10 of them)
Video
RSS feeds
LinkedIn
Twitter
Flickr
Indium employs social media to generate leads for electronic assembly components
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Social Media Marketer
Indium Corporation
• 25% reduction in
marketing spend
• Major account wins
• Entire organization
involved
in the ‘community’
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Thought Leadership Marketer
Indium Corporation
“[Being a Thought Leader] is
being considered the best, most
authoritative, trusted source. It
means being the “go to” people.
It means being given the first
look, being invited into a
development project and asked
for advice. It means being the
organization that others MUST
HAVE involved with a project.
And it all leads to increased sales,
profits, and image or it simply
didn’t matter..”
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Indium
3 Lessons:
1) Focus on Specific Content
2) Start Small With Commitment
3) Create Dialog Where None Exists
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Social Media Marketer:
Adams Magnetic
• Goal: Separate themselves as
thought leaders in the
industrial magnets market to
drive new direct business
• First to hold the “market
conversation”
• Building the community
around industrial magnets
through blogging, conference
appearances and thought
leadership articles
• New leads attributed to TLM
activities
• Bested their competitors in
growing website traffic
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The Social Media Restaurant
• Caminito Argentinean
Steakhouse is a single-
location restaurant in
Northampton, Mass
• Using a website, local
ads, blogging, video,
Twitter, MySpace and
other digital tools to
drive business
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Caminito’s World…
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Preparing Your Social
Media Plan
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Balance Risk &
Reward
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Claim Your Name!
• Go to namechk.com
• Type in your district
“handle” or
“shortname”
• Reserve your name on
important sites
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Learn to Converse (Blog)
• Foundation of
content/consistency/
connection
• Metaphor for Social
Media & networking
• Transferable skills to
video & social nets…
• Transferrable benefits to
SEO, SEM & TLM
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It’s Also About “Getting Found”
• Blogs enhance search findability
• Search provides a strong, highly
measurable ROI for marketing dollars
spent.
• Search garners click-through rates that
exceed all other forms of online
advertising.
• Search offers marketers the potential for
immediate sales online, as well as for
online and offline sales at a later time.
• Search can even enhance brands.
• Over 80% of consumers and
businesspeople engage in on a regular
basis
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Share, Link and Guide
• What will your audience find
useful?
• Share competitors info – it
drives them nuts, and gets
them to link to you!
• Easy, time-conscious way to
stay relevant without creating
original content
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Harness the Power of
Social Networks
• Connect with your supporters
in their network.
– Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace,
etc…
• Build applications for them in
their networks.
• Assign someone in your
company as the ‘community
manager’.
• If you build it, they won’t come
– put together a sound seeding
strategy
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Local Coffee Shops Run
on Facebook
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Facebook Ads –
Hyper-targeting
“Local” Facebook Ads
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LinkedIn
• Create a group &
discussion
• Connect with
professionals
• Connect with
customers
• Ask questions
• Approach prospects
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Customer Community
• Small business focused credit card
company is changing the business
financing discussion through ideas
• Created ideablob.com to stir the
conversation about what it stands for
• Positioning itself as the most helpful
credit card company to small
business
• Involved in other small business
related causes to help developing
countries
• Online resources for small business
owners just getting started
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Tap Into Your Community
• Community members can be worth
30% more
• Tap the power of your support base
• Increase long-term lifetime value of
parents & community members
• Involve them in something
meaningful
• Know what your supporters really
want to talk about
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Crowdsource Your Next Big Idea
• Define an idea management
process.
• Design and develop the online
community.
• Promote the community with
your customers.
• Invite them to contribute.
• Post questions to spur their
thinking.
• Use: LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning,
Blogs, etc…
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Podcasts & Vodcasts
• More human & emotional
than blogging
• Be found on Google
• Low investment
• Easy distribution
• Differentiator
• Share more than text
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Driving Sales With Twitter
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Become HUGE With Twitter
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Tech Support Via Twitter
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Share Photos and Videos Online
• Create a brand channel on YouTube.
• Interviews, screencasts, customer
videos, installation photos, etc…
• Promote your company’s YouTube
channel or specific videos on your Web
site, emails, newsletters.
• Engage your audience by encouraging
them to add comments, rate videos,
share video.
• Update your content frequently to keep
it fresh. This is critical to keep people
coming back.
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Social Media Is Just a Set of Tools…
• Blogs
• Widgets
• Micro Blogs
• Online Chat
• RSS
• Social Networks
• Social Bookmarks
• Message Boards
• Podcasts
• Video Sharing Sites
• Photo Sharing Sites
• Virtual Worlds
• Wikis
• Local Search
(…just to name a few)
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Toolkit
Blog
Facebook fan page
YouTube Videos
Twitter stream
eBay sales page
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Goodwill of Greater Washington
3 Lessons:
1) Incorporate Into Marketing Strategy
2) Regional Execution
3) Entertainment + Trust = Desire to Shop
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A Few Good Stats
http://dcgoodwillfashions.blogspot.com/
• Over 11,500 unique visitors to the virtual fashion show 9/12
launch
• Over 42,000 page views
• 16% of fashion show visitors have been converted into online
Goodwill shoppers
• Fashion Show Visitors from 31 countries and 48 states plus DC
• 48% of fashion show visitors are from the DC, MD, VA region (the
area we serve)
• Blog is averaging between 600 & 700 visitors a week
• 5.6% of blog visitors are being converted into online Goodwill
shoppers
• Blog visitors from 77 countries and all 50 states
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Brooklyn Museum/ Integration
TV and
Radio Magazines
Integrated Social
Media
Campaigns
Direct
Online Mail
Advertising
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Define the Plan
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Understand Your Organization
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For Tomorrow
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