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5. Let’s Get Started! Start with a top-notch weekly newsletter. Build brand interest amongst current subscribers. Attain new subscribers by embedding social sharing tools. Invite guest contributors & industry ‘celebs’ to add unique content. Solicit feedback from readership to improve newsletter content & fine-tune category specialisation. Each week should focus on a different theme/category. Be ABOUT something – do not water-down your message by trying to appeal to everyone. Focus on your core audience, and speak directly to them.
8. GOOP! A lifestyle website launched by Gwyneth Paltrow. “Make your life good. Invest in what’s real,” Paltrow writes. “Cook a meal for someone you love. Pause before reacting. Clean out your space. Read something beautiful. Treat yourself to something. Go to a city you’ve never been to. Learn something new. Don’t be lazy. Workout and stick with it. GOOP. Make it great.” Provide valuable insights instead of repetitive information.
10. Why Use Twitter? Micro-blogging is a fast and effective way to describe your brand. Network through shared interests with potential brand advocates, customers, clients, industry leaders, innovators, peers, news media, International groups/agencies, & so on.. Stay informed about what everyone is saying concerning your area of expertise. Join the conversation about the issues that matter to your brand.
11. Share Your Tweets Add a Widget to Your Company Website, Microsite or Blog
12. Basic Steps Setting Up a Twitter Profile Create a profile by visiting: www.twitter.com Once your username, password, image, and overall profile ‘style’ is setup get busy tweeting, tweet about: your brand, the purpose of your products/services, interesting articles from industry news, opinions about industry trends, your favourite industry blogs, podcasts, online videos, etc. Before you start following anyone make sure you have enough tweets to assert your motivation for tweeting. No one will want to follow you if you don’t have anything interesting to say. During the first week log-on 2-3 times per day to tweet, follow, favourite other tweets, send direct msg’s to new followers, RT fun or interesting tweets, speaking directly @ peers and influential people, etc. After the first week, log-on just once on a daily basis to interact and tweet.
13. Learn More About Twitter -By Mashable The Twitter Guidebook Get your questions answered on Twitter 10 Ways to Find People on Twitter Managing Twitter on your desktop Tools for organizing your Twitter community TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet
15. SlideShare.com It seems strange to inform you about using slideshare.com through a profile on slideshare.com, but… you know you can do this too, right? Just keep in mind that there are lots of slide shows to choose from, and the only way yours will be watched is if they have something valuable to convey.
19. YouTube Think of YouTube as a free TV cable supplier who allows anyone to start their own channel. If you had the ability to produce shows on NBC, or ABC, or BBC, or CBC – what types of shows would you create for your brand? What types of commercials would run between those shows? Who would be your core viewership?
25. Why exist on so many different social media platforms? Because no one can find you if you’re not advertising. Because it’s not good business to build a website with little to no traffic. Because websites are not autonomous to the greater World Wide Web. Because there are too many choices facing consumers and they need to know why to choose your brand over the competitor.