2. Make it easy to connect with you
Make it easy to share your content
Promote Your Content
1st Step: Generate Useful / Engaging Content
use social media to engage and intrigue your audience
hopefully, others will share it too
Social Proof
5. create authoritative content
publish original research, info, graphs
compile resources & links on a subject
solve a common problem
catchy headline
paint a picture
take a stand (“stir the pot”)
Great resource
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/23-essential-elements-of-sharable-blog-posts/
11. Send, Like, Recommend, Subscribe buttons
on pages, posts, widget areas
Social Publishing
mention people and pages in blog posts
shows author and post on timeline
Facebook Comments
Recommendation Bar
https://developers.facebook.com/wordpress/
24. Use relevant hashtags when posting to twitter
Tag people – only if relevant – on Facebook
(new) and on Twitter
Not just post title, highlight benefit, feature…
Rework your post title for each channel?
Social media is not a broadcast media
it is not a 1-way conversation or a free ad space
No one will connect (or care) if
you sound like a robot
all you say is “Look at me! me!! me!!!”
25.
26. What are you goals from social media?
“You cannot measure what you don’t know”