social media for the artist
DESCRIPTION
Workshop led by social media strategist Andy Welfle at Artlink in Fort Wayne. One in a series of workshops about the business of being an artist and managing yourself and your art. We focused on five elements of social media: blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram and how artists can use that to promote their work.TRANSCRIPT
Social Mediafor the
ARTIST
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Andy Welfle(well-FLEE)
Social Media and Content StrategistReusser Design, LLC
[email protected]@awelfle
INTRODUCTIONS
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INTRODUCTIONS
•Your Name
•Your Art
•Your experience with social media, personally and professionally
•The biggest question on your mind today
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WHAT ISSOCIAL MEDIA?
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“Social media is having conversations with people online.”
—Marta Kagan
WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
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3 KINDS OF “SOCIAL”
Social MediaSocial NetworkingSocial Marketing
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Blogging Platforms
Microblogging
Content Sharing
Social Network
Professional Networks
Democratic Content
Preference Sharing
Communication Tools
Location-Based
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Social NetworkingThe act of using social media.
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Social MarketingThe act of using using social networking, via various social media channels, to attract attention for a brand/product/service, and to convert that attention to brand loyalty, which leads directly or indirectly to sales.
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Social Marketing
convertConversion Rate
The rate of visitors who convert casual content views or websites into desired actions based on requests from marketers.
• SALES•AWARENESS•VISITS• RESPONSE
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Why should I care?
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67% of online US adults use social
media.
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Source: Pew Research Center, The Internet and American Life Project.
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“Every company will have to be social eventually. Our customers will demand that they be able to interact in this way — the same way they demanded we connect via websites and email.”
— Jay Baer ConvinceandConvert.com
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Likes to interact with companies on Twitter. FB is for friends and family.
Interacting with brands on SM is easy, but so is going to their website.
Local businesses have better, more useful, relevant content than large organizations and businesses.
Wants businesses to engage, not just have a presence.
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SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY
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SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY4 Basic Questions:
WHO?Who is your audience?
WHY?What do you hope
to gain?
WHAT?What do you want to discuss with them?
HOW?What are your
resources? (Time? Staff? Money?)
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Think like a journalist.A little communication and writing skill goes a long way.
Read a lot. Steal. Adapt. Link.
Find related blogs. Subscribe to them in Google Reader an RSS Reader.
Use Google Alerts.
Ask your audience.
Solicit guest posts.
Conduct brainstorming sessions.
Keep an editorial calendar.
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WEBSITE/BLOG FACEBOOK TWITTER
INSTAGRAM PINTEREST
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HOME BASE
YOUR WEBSITE:
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DOMAIN NAME
YOUR WEBSITE
WEB HOST
SOFTWARE(Content
ManagementSystem)
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DOMAIN NAME
• andywelfle.com
• welfle.com
• welfle.org
• welfleart.com
• andywelfleart.co
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DOMAIN NAME
• Keep it as short as possible
• Keep it easy to remember
• Be as mainstream with the TLD as possible (ex. .com and .org over .biz or .co.us)
• Buy it for as long as you can afford (Somewhere between $10-$20 per year)
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WEB HOST• The physical
location of your website
• Could cost anywhere from $5/month to $50/month
• Could offer email: @your-domain.com
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SOFTWARE
• Programming used to build your website
• Examples: Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Squarespace, etc.
• Self-hosted or system-hosted
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SELF-HOSTED OR SERVICE-HOSTED?
Self-hosted blogSelf-hosted blog
Pro ConYou own your content Hosting is expensive
More flexibility over design
Some programming/coding knowledge required
More third-party plugins available
Harder to get tech support
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SELF-HOSTED OR SERVICE-HOSTED?
Service-hosted blogService-hosted blog
Pro Con
Access to newest services and features
You may not ultimately own your content (see TOS)
Better tech support/knowledge base
Third-party plugins often not permitted
Often plugged into an internal user community
Sometimes there are bandwidth/upload limits
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What is a blog?
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• Contraction of “web log”
• A series of updating entries (or posts) appearing linearly in reverse chronological order, and/or in multiple streams
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Online publication for people or companies to write, post media, and to impart information or tell their story.
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• Frequency doesn’t matter as long as you update consistently.
• Be collaborative: link to friends
• Media-rich posts are read more often
• Want to protect your posts? Use a watermark.
• Fill out metadata
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USE THE BLOG TO TELL YOUR STORY IN THE WAY
YOU WANT TO.
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• 1.06 BILLION monthly active users
• 680 million mobile users
• 50 million pages for brands or businesses
• Closed system — you bring people to your page
• Advanced analytics available
Source: http://investor.!.com
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ADVANTAGES
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Easy media posting.
In-line commenting.
Easy sharing.
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The “LIKE” button.
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DISADVANTAGES
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Facebook’s Terms of Service: They can use your content without
permission.
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Example:
The Art Farm
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• 500 million users
•(200 million active users)
• 59 million tweets per day
• Started life as a cross-platform mass texting service
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Example:@pencilscom
(Pencils.com)
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HASHTAGS
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Example:
@SmallAndRound
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• 49 million users
• 80% of users are women
• >80% of content is repinning
• Prices can be attached to pins
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•100 million users
•4 BILLION photos
•Similar to Twitter, but for photos
•Mobile-centric
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See the
BIG Picture!
•Don’t automate• It takes time to build your network. Give
it 6 months to a year to see results•Be consistent — don’t start something
you can’t sustain
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Thank you!
Questions?
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