effective social media techniques
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Get insights into the techniques behind effectively using social media to build your brand and achieve business growth. Includes a question and answer session with the panelists.TRANSCRIPT
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Affiliate Summit West 2010
Effective Social Media Techniques
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Objective: To unbundle the uncertainty, skepticism and cynicism surrounding social media
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The Panelists
Rebecca KelleyDirector of Social Media, 10e20 (Twitter @RebeccaKelley) •Began her online marketing career in 2006, SEO consultant, focuses on organic SEO, social media, content creation, blogging, viral marketing, linkbait
•Provides consulting for clients and manages 10e20’s blog and social media presence
•Guest blogs for IM publications and speaks about IM and viral marketing at industry conferences
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The Panelists
Brett TabkeCEO, WebmasterWorld (Twitter @btabke) •CEO and founder of WebmasterWorld Inc and Chairman of PubCon Conferences
•Coined several SEO staples such as “Link Farm”, “SEO Themes”, and the classic “SERP” (Search Engine Results Page)
•First known person to have fully decoded the Excite and most of the Altavista search engine algos
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The Panelists
Keith PlocekSocial Media Manager, Mail.com Media Corp(Twitter @KeithPlocek) •Heads up social media efforts for Mail.com Media’s family of sites, including Movieline, Hollywood Life, Deadline and OnCars.
•Original social media manager for Village Voice Media, where he started as an editor.
•Specializes in crafting and identifying eyeball-grabbing content that connects writers and readers
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Moderator
Andrew WeeOwner, WhoIsAndrewWee.com(Twitter @AndrewWee) •Singapore-based affiliate, consultant, marketer
•Webmaster and site developer for one of Asia’s first internet portals, developed 10+ vertical portals
•Background in technology/electronics focused business reporting
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What is effective social media branding/marketing?
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Second Contact
@KeithPlocek
@btabke
@AndrewWee
@Rebecca Kelley
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Affiliate Summit West 2010
Effective Social Media Techniques
Brett TabkeCEO, PubCon/WebmasterWorld
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PPC Advertising $65,000 on PPC Ads over 4 yearsZero Tracked Sales
$75,000 Marketing budget 2008Moderate Success
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All-Twitter-All-The-Time 2009
• $0 On marketing or adsResults:• Up 30% attendance in down year• Overall income up 40% year-over-
year and up 15% from peak year.
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Ah-Ha MomentBlogging vs Tweeting
• Blogs live forever - Tweets don‘t
• A blog post starts to live when you post it - a tweet starts to die when you post it
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What is Tweeting?
• Tweeting is a one time broadcast event
• ReTweeting is when it enters reruns
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Twitter Tracking
• SocialMention.com• PitchEngine.com • Twitalyzer.com• TweetEffect.com• TwitterAnalyzer.com• Socialoomph.com• CoTweet.com• Klout.com
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Retweet is A Marketing Arm
• Retweets reach and tap new markets that you can reach alone
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Retweet Reach
• I have 26,000 followers.• My 26,000 followers have a
total of 22,000,000 million followers, about 1.1 million unique people!
• If Tweeting is a broadcast medium, then retweet reach is your max audience share
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• RT + 1 space + @nick + space or colon + tweet (about 130 chars max)• Do not start the ReTweet with an @ sign• Respect the tweet and keep it original• Do NOT RT this way: (via @foobar)• If you have extra space, drop in a #hashtag• RT’s reaches new followers - #hashtags reach searchers
How To Retweet?
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Twitter: @btabke
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Retweets Types
• Educational Content – tutorials• Breaking news – losing steam• Alerts and Warnings (virus, phishing, etc)• Contests (decreasing)
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What Retweets?
• Tweets with #hashtags have a higher amount of retweets
• Bit.ly retweets more than TinyUrl• Afternoons are retweet heavy
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Retweet The Classics
10 Retweets7 related @’s@ Slushy Related Mix = 20Total Reach = 91k follower
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When to ReTweet
• Timing is everything – TOD rules.• When is your audience on Twitter?• A good tweet deserves to be seen.
Tweet it again
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When To Tweet
• Highest Tweet Day- Wednesday• ReTweet Days - Monday & Wednesday• Highest number of retweets 2:15pm-3:30pm
eastern.• #1 Twitter City: London England
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Tweet Who/What?
• ABO : Always Be Optimizing • Troll the friends of your competition• Scout related keywords and hashtags• Contests, coupons, limited time offers, and
invites to beta programs.
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Retweetables
• Put Tweet-It buttons everywhere • Retweet buddies. Ask for a retweet• Fresh content while it is being retweeted
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Influentials
• Klout – Page Rank for Twitter• ReTweeters? Track them.• Thank your retweeters. Let them know you
saw it.• Keep score. Remember to retweet friends.• 1 offs - “payback” retweets at odd hours
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Klout
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Tweet This! Hello Twitter = Goodbye Google
Brett Tabke, PubContwitter: @btabke
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Affiliate Summit West 2010
Mail.com and Social Media, or the Power of Personality
Keith PlocekEditor + Social Media Manager, Mail.com Media Corporation
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Mail.com Media Corporation
comScore Nov. 2009
• 4.7 million unique U.S. visitors
• 10 million unique visitors worldwide
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Mail.com Media Corporation
• Large focus on the entertainment industry• Breaking news, exclusive interviews and colorful analysis• Name-brand talent:
• Nikki Finke, Bonnie Fuller, Mark Lisanti
• Social media efforts reflect this focus• Never shy about having an opinion• Individual voices placed front and center
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The Power of Personality
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Opportunities and Challenges• Variety and scale offer opportunities for cross promotion.
• Varied personalities require varied solutions.
• The need to build and maintain brands requires long-term thinking, i.e. no quick fixes.
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The Rules of Social Media, or Why Social Media Is a Little Like Sex
• Be kind.
• Don’t just take. Give.
• Variety is key.
• Hand-crafted > automated
• Take your time (but don’t waste it).
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So What’s This Got to Do with Affiliate Marketing?
• The rules are the same• Quick tricks = traffic• A little extra effort = quality traffic
• Personalities help drive engagement• Bland: “What you guys think of Avatar?”• Better: “Anyone else think Avatar was overhyped?”
• One word: Linkbait
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Good Linkbait Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
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Top 3 Reasons Why Lists Are Awesome
1.) They are easy to write.
2.) They are easy to read.
3.) They get conversations going.
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Charts and Graphs
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The Mail.com Personalities
@bonniefuller @marklisanti @louisvirtel@nikkifinke @corynnes @ppfanner@willlee
twitter.com/keithplocek/mail-com-media
@strange_news@hollywoodlife@oncarsonline@movieline
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Many thanks!
@keithplocek
281-513-4867
Come up and say hello!