Steve de Luca discusses using social media to grow a business. He outlines how to get found, followed, and increase business through social media. Social Velocity is introduced as a program that tests and optimizes social media campaigns to achieve business goals like brand awareness, sales, and leads. It starts with a two week evaluation to develop an effective social media strategy tailored to each business.
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Steve De Luca Social Media Update 2010
1. Get Found. Get Followed. Get Business.
By Steve de Luca
Certified Internet Marketing Consultant
WSI E-Business Growth Partners
July, 2010
2. social media is basically a
conversation
social
media
hi whats up?
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4. Set of Best Practices to:
Get your digital assets found on most
popular, relevant social media sites
Blog, Twitter, FB effectively & efficiently -
less time, more business benefits
Increase ROI on social media spend
Increase Search Engine Optimization
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5. Just adding pages and pages
of content as an SEO strategy And Im SMO.
doesnt cut it anymore Hello. Im SEO.
Social Media is the new way
to take your SEO strategy to
the next level
Social Media increases the
number of high quality links &
targeted traffic
6. Social Media Has:
Generat
ed Helped us
qualified rise in the
leads search
engines
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7. Increase
Promote
Brand
Products
Awareness
Promote Get Indexed
Services Quickly
Dominate The
Search Engines
8. Be Authentic, Transparent
Understand that Consumers Rule
Dont Just Push Content
Follow, Listen, Learn
Blog or Die
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9. Social media sites = vertical search
engines
Keywords as tags
Same aim as SEO >drive to corporate
page
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10. Cold Economy > Warm Personal Touch
Care
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11. Then: Text, some linking
Now: Videos, photos, podcasts, widgets, mash-ups,
networking, reviewing, crowd sourcing
Social Media Success = Value-Rich Content:
Original
Sincere
Open-source
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12. Then:
Hope/pray for good reviews
Ignore bad reviews
Now:
Move bad reviews off Page 1 (SEO)
Join, listen, chat: explain, defend, disclose, fix
Conversation about you is going on anyway!
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13. profile links to your blog
Your blog links to your channel on
...which has a link to your Twitter stream
And your links to everything!
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14. Huge jump in global user base
40%+ in the US the last 4 months: to 33.6 million
unique visitors/mo.
Facebook pages > now "public profiles" for
businesses vs. Facebook Groups
FB Events
Use it or Lose it!
FB links in Search Results
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15. Forrester Group on B2B:
91% of buyers are consuming blogs, online
video
69% of them using social media for
business purposes
55% of these decision-makers were in
social networks such as LinkedIn.com
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17. WSI~the worlds largest internet marketing
company in the world with 1500 consultants in
87 countries
AND
Yovia~a start up company funded by angel
investors almost five years ago started purely to
figure out how the Social Media revolution could
be packaged and quantified to grow businesses
around the world
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18. Social Velocity: in R&D mode for 3 遜 years
And, then piloted for 1 遜 years with
companies such as Nickelodeon,
Coca~Cola (Dasani Water), NY Times
Yovia (developing company) approached
WSI and is now available through the WSI
network to small, medium & large
businesses
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19. Test results prove Social
Velocity on average
outperforms Google Ad
Words by 25% (and up to
1200% for some clients!!)
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20. Social Velocity the first ad network
for, of and by real people. Social
Velocity harnesses the power of
the social media networks to grow
your business and predicts your
companies message to go viral!!
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21. Just about everyonebut prior to a full
market campaign, Social Velocity will
manage your risk with the 2 week Social
Velocity Evaluation (SVE). Ongoing
campaign budgets start at $500/m
Small businesses, large businesses, B2B,
B2C even businesses without websites
have reaped the benefits of Social
Velocity!!
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22. Social Velocity is a technology
driven program that tests, validates, &
optimizes campaign resources
and makes a recommendation on how
to use the social media networks
to achieve your business building objectives
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23. Brand Awareness
New Product introductions
Special Offers/Promotions
Event Attendance
Website Traffic
Lead Generation
And ultimately Sales & Revenue Goals with
proven ROIs!!!!
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24. Every Social Velocity program starts with a Social
Velocity Evaluation (SVE)
Two week in market LIVE test with real people on the
social media networks (first week on networks, 2nd
week predicts the viral-ability of the campaign based
on residual effect)
Campaign is custom-developed for your business and
includes a landing page, a/b tested fidget ads, buzz
content, blog, full paid ad campaign on the social
networks ($8250 value for $1495)
Final social media strategy recommendation for
rollout
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25. 2 Custom Fidget Designs ($1,500 value)
A Yovia review with email capture ($250 value)
A buzz blog with content ($1,500 value)
150,000 minimum impressions ($500 value)
A custom landing page that delivers leads
Social Media Strategy ($4,500 value)
_______________________________
Total Value: $8,250
26. Social Velocity uses the Yovia technology
platform, sophisticated algorithms and analytics
to develop the valuable SVE final report which
outlines your rollout campaign specifics
Which creative execution performed best (landing
pages & fidgets)
Which message and/or call to action worked best
% budget allocation on which social media networks
Recommended monthly budget
CPA~forecasted cost of cost to acquire a new lead
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27. CTR: CTR:
0.40% 0.33%
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32. The Naked Brothers Band
2,033% increase in YouTube friends in a single year
www.natlalex.com recd more than 14,000,000 page views in
one year
548% growth in website membership
JamsBio, Houston based start up
$20K full launch cost brought them from obscurity to one of the
most influential music communities on the web
Bought by MTV
Helped launch Partnerships with Sony Records and Michael
Jackson in the first month of operation
Utilized and recruited 200 music writers and bloggers from
around the world. <60 days, 2,000 pages of content created
POMA, regional Fleet Management Co
Impressions >1.5 mil for SVE (guaranteed 375,000)
CPA $45 for a high value new customer
Effectively reached extremely targeted decision makers
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33. Social Velocity is an industry leading
program that has endured years of
rigorous R&D & testing.
Yovia & WSI are proud to be able to offer
this revolutionary and unique patent-
pending program that truly takes the
power of the social media networks and
packages it into a system that drives
businesses results~cost effectively!!!
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34. Steve de Luca
Certified Internet Marketing Consultant
WSI E-Business Growth Partners
sdeluca@wsiebizgrowth.com
www.wsiebizgrowth.com
M: (847)-648-8855