This is a step-by-step process of using Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter for Small Business. It helps you understand features of each platform and how and why you would use it for business.

1. Making Friends for Business
where the world is, business needs to go

2. 2 billion emails per second
1 million IM messages per second
8 terrabytes per second of traffic
65 billion phone calls per year
Kevin Kelly Web 3.0 – The web is a black hole

3. How marketing and advertising
has won for the past century.
Shout Your Message
Loudest Guy Wins

4. Consumers Block Marketing

5. Because there are other ways to get to info they want.

6. PUSH Marketing
Use these to achieve Word of Mouth:
Telemarketing
Trade Shows
Direct Mail
Brochures
Yellow Pages
Editorial
Industry Newsletter
Flyers
Print Ads
Radio Ads
TV Ads

7. PUSH Marketing
to
PULL Marketing
Use these to achieve Word of
Mouth/Social Media:
Telemarketing - Vontoo
Trade Shows – Virtual Booth
Direct Mail – Permission Email
Brochures – Interactive Web
Yellow Pages – SEO/SEM
Editorial – Blogs
Industry Newsletter – RSS Feed
Flyers – Direct to Web
Print Ads – Direct to Web
Radio Ads – Direct to Web
TV Ads – Direct to Web

8. Facebook up 700% to 13.8 Billion Minutes.
Twitter up over 3700% to 299 Million Minutes.
Linkedin up 69% to 202 Million Minutes.

9. Communication online
has increased 18% to
27% of total time while
Entertainment has
decreased 30% to 19%
of total time online.

10. Social Media is the
Online Word of Mouth

11. But it’s more than this…
Social Media can help:
SEO with links
Allow Permission
Build an Audience
Company Authenticity

12. Social Media is anything
(media content) that can
be added to it (social).
Mike Volpe
Hubspot

13. Meet People
Start Conversations
Ask questions
Answer Questions
Handle Complaints and Compliments
Promote Others

14. Become a valuable
member of the
community

15. Three Things You
Can Do with Social
Media
Publish
Share
Network

16. Publish
The more you publish, the more search
engines love you.

17. Customers
can publish

18. Share
You can promote
your stuff
You can promote
your customers
You can promote
your partners

19. Network
It’s about
relationships
But virtual lives
forever
Employees,
Customers, Potential
Customers, Partners

20. Three Simple Tools To Get You Started

22. Linkedin has:
41 million users
All Fortune 500 Companies
170 Different Countries

23. Linkedin is your business suit:
Resume
Recommendations
Connections
Expertise
Executive Level Search
Link to your company and blog

24. Search
invite
People Linkedin
thinks you should
photo know
status
Status of your Connections

25. Connections:
For people you
don’t know you
can easily find
out which of
your
connections
knows the
person you
want to know.

26. Search:
1. People
2. Jobs
3. Companies
4. Answers
5. Inbox
6. Groups

27. Company:
Hierarchy
Titles
Connections
Location
Websites
Male/Female
New Hires
Popular

28. Jobs:
Titles
Company
Location
Date
Freelancing
through your
status

29. Q & A:
Answer questions
to establish
yourself an expert
Ask questions to
get answers from
professionals

30. Groups:
Join Groups to met
others
Answer questions
in Groups
Make Your Own
Groups
Get Daily/Weekly
Emails from
Groups

31. ROI for Linkedin:
Measure Your Time
Measure Your Connections
Measure Your Conversations
Measure Cost To Advertise on
Linkedin

32. Facebook is my business causal:
Largest Social Network
Over 200 Million Users
Over 100 Million Unique
Visitors

33. Facebook: Facebook:
Over 3.5 hours 35-54 year old
for 25-50 years demographic
segment not
only continued
to grow the
fastest, but it
accelerated to a
276.4% growth
rate over the
past 6 months.

34. Facebook:
News Feed of
Friends
Suggests Friends
Share your news,
your photos, your
video – basically,
share your life
Play Games with
others

35. Biz Fan Page:
News Feed of
Friends
Send messages &
events to Fan Base
Set up Events and
Invites
Use Fans to help
advertise

36. Applications:
Games
Quizzes
Utilities

37. Data:
Lexicon to see buzz
Enormous amount of
data
Addictive Quality to
keep up and build an
audience

38. Business vs. Personal

39. ROI for Facebook:
Keeping up and in front of
clients
Build Fans and Buzz
Measure work time/pleasure
time
Measure social connections
Measure Cost To Advertise on
Facebook

40. Twitter is my cocktail
party
Marketing Buzz
32 Million Users
19 Million Unique
Visitors
1,192% growth

41. Twitter is:
Write 140 Characters or less
Broadcast to entire network
Real-Time Conversations
@name – means you are talking to that
person but the whole word can see you
Direct Message – speak only to that
person
#hashtags for easy search

42. Following people you
want to know like
Experts in your field
Potential Customers
Current Customers
Create an Audience

43. www.tweetdeck.com

44. www.twitpic.com

45. Customer Service

46. Real-Time Search

47. Business Applications

48. Sears Story

49. ROI for Twitter:
Measure Your Time
Measure Your Connections
Measure Your Conversations
Measure Cost To Advertise on
Twitter

50. ROI for Offline Actions
5
4
3
Value
2
Reach
1
0
Ad PR Earned Word of
Media Mouth

51. ROI for Online Actions
5
4
3
Value
2 Reach
1
0
Online Ads PR Wires Blogs/News Social Media

52. Today’s Take-Aways
Social Media is growing quickly
You must be a part of Social Media
to receive real benefits from
relationships
You must be a valuable member of
community
Virtual Relationships give multiple
benefits for your web presence and
website

53. What I do:
Business Card – Link up with them
in Linkedin and search them out on
Twitter
After some conversations – Add
them to Facebook

54. MediaSauce has many
ways to help
- Consulting Time
- Branding
- Web Design
- Video, 3D & Animation
- SEO & PPC
- Social Media Specialists
- Traditional Media

55. Experienced Gunmen For Hire
Talk to the Sauce
Opportunities Assessment – What are your opportunities online and how to reach
them
Project Blueprint – Just need a tactical piece of the pie like website or video or
both
Digital Blueprint – Full blown marketing plan including all the essentials as well
as how to execute

56. Don Schindler
Senior Digital Strategist
How to get a hold of me
don.schindler@mediasauce.com
Twitter: donschindler
IM: donissauced
Cell: 317.496.2334