Win Free Tickets to Social Media Success Summit 2012
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Social Media Examiner has worked hard to bring you our fourth-annual Social Media Success Summit. This is our best event ever! And we’ve come up with a fun way to get you involved.
First, what is this event?
Social Media Success Summit 2012 is a large online conference dedicated to helping marketers and business owners master social media marketing.
More than 1400 businesses have already signed up, including Wells Fargo, Motorola, Kraft Foods, Fox Broadcasting, Autodesk, Salesforce.com, Hubbell, American Heart Association, NASA, Marriott, Vanguard, HP, Verizon Wireless, McGraw-Hill, and hundreds of smaller businesses.
Twenty-seven of the world’s most respected social media experts will share their strategies with you. 
8 Tips for Training Social Media Marketers
Does your business have a plan for bringing on social media marketers?
Are you wondering how to work with experts outside the company while maintaining a consistent brand experience?
Before you jump in headfirst or turn over the social media reins , check out the following eight tips to make sure your employees or contractors correctly represent your company.
#1: Create a Social Style Guide
Agreeing on a style for outward-facing content helps solidify your company’s identity and character, and is the starting point of good social media employee training, because it puts all agents on the same page. Perhaps the biggest hurdle in creating a style guide is to define your company’s voice.
Businesses to Fully Embrace Social Media In 2012
The vast majority of Americans are actively using social media. Has your business acted on this fact?
Are you looking for a way to keep pace with the quickly evolving field of social media marketing?
If so, Social Media Examiner has some exciting news…
But first, consider this story.
Imagine your business competing for your state’s “Best Brand” title against huge names such as Target, Dairy Queen and Wheaties.
Now imagine simply leveraging the power of social media and taking the grand prize! Wouldn’t that just blow your mind?
5 Ways to Get Your Entire Company On Board With Social Media
Is everyone supporting social media at your company?
Are you struggling to get the support you need?
And although there are many reasons why social media campaigns fail, far and away one of the biggest reasons for failure is the lack of top-to-bottom “buy-in” from all employees in a company.
- In some cases, the CEO thinks the idea is frivolous.
- In others, management has their doubts.
- And in a large majority of companies, employees have no understanding of what social media is, what it does and how they can play a role in its success.
This, my friends, must change.
Small Businesses Set to Excel with Social Media in 2012
Do you own a small business? Are you tired of hearing how big businesses are succeeding with social media?
If so, Social Media Examiner has some exciting news…
But first, much has been said about big companies such as Red Bull and Cisco, and how they harness social media to drive massive traffic to their sites and generate enormous sales.
But when small business owners are asked about social media, many have no idea how to use it in a practical way that can impact their business goals.
Social Media Has Changed: Are You Ready?
When Michael Stelzner started Social Media Examiner in October 2009, he never dreamed it would become so successful so quickly.
As of March 2011, Social Media Examiner has 59,000 email subscribers, 33,000 Facebook fans, over 60 writers and half a million page views per month.
In addition, the site has generated almost $2 million in sales; ranks among the top 12 websites on two Technorati lists – business and small business; and ranks among the top 1,500 websites in the entire United States, according to Alexa.
“We didn’t do anything unique,” Stelzner said. “We simply employed great content with smart social media marketing and our community did the rest. And any business can achieve great results.”
How To Get Your Social Media Message Right
In this video I interview Michael Brito, vice president of Edelman Digital. Michael has worked with some big brands such as Hewlett Packard, Yahoo and Intel.
Michael explains why there’s a need to get your social media message right today and how businesses can use governance and training to do this. And you’ll also hear a great tip on how to get more out of your social media activities.
Be sure to check out the takeaways below after you watch the video.
