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Lisa Marie Wark, MBA is a leading social media firm in Las Vegas, Nevada that is concentrated on social media for small businesses, medical practices, and law firms.TRANSCRIPT
Top 10 Tips for Improving Social Media Exposure
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Top Ten Social Media Tips
1.Social Media Strategy2.Define Your Brand3.Define Your Audience4.Content is King5.Strengthen and Protect Your Brand/Reputation6.Foster a Network of Followers & Champions/Influencers7.Extend Opportunities of Engagement8.Identify Real Trends by Listening to conversations9.Optimize each social media campaign10.Maintain and manage all your social media platforms
Good Content
Targeted Audience
Sustainable Results
Tip #1: Social Media Strategy 101
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Tip #2: Define Your BrandStrong Brands
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“A brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.”
-Jeff Bezos Amazon.com Founder/CEO
Tip #3: Define Your Audience
1. Patients- patients 2. Medical
Professionals 3. Social Forums-
content sharing
def (wikipedia.com) - "A type of website with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video."
Tip #4: Blogs – Content is King
• Approximately 200 million blogs
• The majority of web users interact with blogs every single day
“Brandtelling”Blogging
“Brandtelling is built on the foundation of connecting people through a story that is relevant, real, and repeatable.”
-Arthur Germain, Communications Strategy Group
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Promote Your Brand’s Values
your Social Media Message must convey your core values ( healthcare, etc.)
Everything you do in social media relates to your marketing message – Brand Ambassadors
Generate a following through openness about yourself and your business (no mixed identification)
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Tip #5: Strengthen and Protect Your Brand
Tip #6: Brand Ambassadors
Tip #7: Opportunities of Engagement
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Tip #8: Identify Trends
Tip #9: Optimization
Tip #10: Social Media Maintenance
Your Patients are Looking for
YOU ONLINE“Eight-in-ten internet users look online for health
information, making it the third most popular online pursuit….following email and using a search engine. Since one-quarter of adults do not go online, the percentage of health information seekers is 59% among the total U.S. adult population.”
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Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, Feb. 1, 2011; http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1875/internet-health-topics-accessing-updated-data
Social Media & YOUYouGov Healthcare Report findings:
57% said that a social media connection with a hospital or medical practice was likely to have a strong impact on their decision to seek treatment at that facility
81% of consumers believe that if a hospital or medical practice has a strong social media presence, they are likely to be more cutting edge, creating a halo effect across clinical functions
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Source: Consumers’ Use, Preference and Expectations of Hospital Social Media, http://corp.yougov.com/healthcare/consumers-use-preference-expectations-hospital-social-media/
Top Ten Social Media Tips
1.Social Media Strategy2.Define Your Brand3.Define Your Audience4.Content is King5.Strengthen and Protect Your Brand/Reputation6.Foster a Network of Followers & Champions/Influencers7.Extend Opportunities of Engagement8.Identify Real Trends by Listening to conversations9.Optimize each social media campaign10.Maintain and manage all your social media platforms
Lisa Marie Wark, MBA, (702) 374-1944@LisaMarieWark, [email protected]
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