Like cooking, marketing your brand online is an act of love without any strict guidelines. Web marketers must improvise, use the ingredients they have on hand and focus on who they are 'cooking' for.
This presentation, originally given at the IS Conference 2009 in Houston, TX, was dedicated to the curious and the hungry geeks out there.
4. ✓ 5 delicious Online
Recipes
✓ Stories to inspire
your kitchen
✓ A doggie bag full of
good ideas
5.
6. ✓ LISTEN!
✓ Established voice and response platform
✓ The magic words (‘I’m sorry’ or ‘Thank you’)
✓ Discover unexpected opportunity
7. www.technorati.com
Email updates for your company
name and keywords
www.google.com/alerts
Email updates for your company
name and keywords
http://search.twitter.com
Search Twitter for what’s being
said about you
http://alerts.yahoo.com
Yahoo! alerts you of any occurrences
of defined terms and names
8. www.viralheat.com
Compile networks and
related key phrases
www.scoutlabs.com
Reputation management -
with collaborative elements
www.socialmention.com
Real time Social Media alerts
(FREE)
http://personas.media.mit.edu
Review your personal brand equity
through great visuals
13. http://twitter.threadless.com
Vote on Tweets about Threadless
tees!
www.threadcakes.com
Bake cakes with Threadless shirt
www.threadless.com/quote2win designs, vote and WIN!!!
www.vimeo.com/threadless
Comment contests through Facebook
Weekly Community video update
video giveaways
and announcements
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16. ✓ A company that cares
✓ Pro-active responders
✓ Creative playfulness
✓ Hero making missions
22. ✓ Offline mojo
✓ The new life cycle
✓ Fun interactive stuff
✓ A solid home base
23. www.facebook.com
Tried and true connective network,
great for events too!
www.mailchimp.com
Great (free) email marketing tool
www.google.com/documents www.eventbrite.com
Secure and collaborative document Easy and clean event promotion,
sharing space - no more frantic emails! registration and payment
24. www.flickr.com www.eye.fi
Tried and true connective network, On-the-spot photo uploading - flash
great for events too! them on the big screen!
www.twitter.com
Update your audience on what’s
happening, find out where the parties are
What’s your
hashtag?
Get your LIVE BLOGGERS!
Allow your audience and Community to
document for you!
25. www.facebook.com
Don’t forget to follow up!
www.slideshare.net
Post your slides and other info - have
video or audio, do that too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfn9pzgtkc0
www.youtube.com + www.vimeo.com
Upload your footage, interviews and
presentations!
31. 1. Message 4. Plot
So my point is...
2. Conflict 3. Characters
32. www.intensedebate.com
Forum-like comment threads and user
profiles to follow!
www.scoutlabs.com
www.backtype.com Reputation management -
Follow and promote with collaborative elements
comments about YOU
www.convotrack.com
Sidebar to aggregate comments
on content from all over
33. www.twitalyzer.com
http://search.twitter.com What are your RT-ers influence and
Old school Twitter search footprints like?
and monitoring
http://bit.ly
Shorten your URLs and revel in the
handy built-in statistics!