15 Actionable Takeaways From Social Media Marketing World 2013
Did you miss Social Media Marketing World in April?
Or perhaps you were there but weren’t able to attend all the sessions you would have liked to.
In this article I’ve assembled for you 15 actionable social media marketing takeaways from some experts who presented at the event.
Here’s what they had to say.
#1: Prepare for Social Displacement
Michael Stelzner
With maturity of any new industry comes disruption. Just as email, the web and search disrupted entire industries several years ago (e.g., the postal service, print publications and traditional sales), we can also expect a lot of online disruption to happen because of social media.
- Facebook messages are displacing email (it’s becoming easier to send your friend a Facebook message rather than find their email address).
- Asking friends rather than searching (more and more people are asking their Facebook friends or Google+ circles for referrals instead of searching online for a product or service).
- Listening to podcasts is beginning to replace radio.
SlideShare: How to Market Your Business With This Growing Platform
Do you use SlideShare?
Are you looking for more leads?
To learn how SlideShare can help marketers, I interview Todd Wheatland for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast.
More About This Show
The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner.
It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing.
The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting).
In this episode, I interview Todd Wheatland, author of The Marketer’s Guide to SlideShare. He’s also head of Thought Leadership at Kelly Services.
Todd shares his insights into how SlideShare can be used to generate more exposure and leads for your business.
You’ll learn the tactics to use and the mistakes to avoid to ensure you get the most out of this platform.
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How to Use SlideShare to Generate Leads
Do you want more leads?
Have you looked into SlideShare?
This article will give you 10 tips to maximize your leads with SlideShare.
Why SlideShare?
The rise of visual content marketing is forcing marketers everywhere to re-evaluate their overall strategy.
No longer can a marketing professional rely solely on white papers and blog posts to get their message to prospective buyers and customers.
It’s now vital to include a visual element across all marketing campaigns.
SlideShare is an essential part of any successful content marketing strategy for many businesses. It’s much more than just a place to upload your webinar slides, it’s a powerful social community with a reported 60 million monthly visitors.
Anyone can view presentations and documents on topics that interest them and download and reuse or remix material for their own work.
How to Generate Leads With SlideShare
Are you using SlideShare?
Would you like more leads?
In this article I’ll reveal how to use SlideShare to generate quality leads.
SlideShare for Leads?
SlideShare is the world’s largest content-sharing community for professionals.
Data collected by ComScore and presented in an infographic by Column Five Media, SlideShare: The Quiet Giant of Content Marketing, reveals SlideShare has 5 times more traffic from business owners than Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn (which now owns SlideShare).
SlideShare is a good traffic source for many businesses.
24 Must-Have Social Media Marketing Tools
Are you looking for ways to enhance your social media marketing?
Do you want new tools to simplify your job?
We asked a group of social media pros for the hottest social media tools they use today.
Check them out to see if these social media tools are a good fit for you!
#1: Unlock to Share Plugin
My favorite social marketing tool of all time is the unlock to share plugin. What is it? It’s a simple plugin that “unlocks” additional content when your web visitors share your stuff on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
Make your site go viral by requiring the user to share your link to unlock content.
Google+ Hangouts On Air: What Marketers Need to Know
What if your business could do live video broadcasts to unlimited viewers–instantly and for free?
Want to share your screen and slides, no problem. Need it to be super easy?
This is all possible with using the free Google+ Hangouts On Air!
You’ve probably already heard about Google+ Hangouts, which allow you to video chat with up to 9 different people at once.
And you may have heard of Google+ Hangouts On Air, which lets you broadcast to an unlimited audience. But this cool feature was previously only available to a select number of bigger businesses.
Watch this quick video to see it in action…
Well, Google+ recently announced the rollout of Hangouts On Air to everyone worldwide. This is great news for marketers looking for a free and easy solution to reach people via videos.
So let’s talk about everything you need to know about using Google+ Hangouts On Air for your business.
First, a brief introduction…
Google+ Hangouts On Air
Hangouts On Air allow you to publicly broadcast your Hangouts on YouTube and your Google+ stream for anyone to watch.
Yep, it’s like having access to your own live video show on the web—viewable to anyone in the world.
15 Ways to Bring Social Media to Events
Do you host events or informal gatherings?
Social media enables event attendees to connect in powerful ways. Social media can help promote events and empower attendees to share.
This article will reveal 15 ways you can infuse social media into your events.
Creating Pre-Event Buzz
#1: Registration Buzz
You don’t have to wait until the day of your event to create a buzz—it can start at the registration stage. Services such as Eventbrite let your attendees share the event with their networks as they register.
