Social Media and Small Businesses

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Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Your Business and the Internet

• Web 2.0 explained• Social Media explained• Social Networking explained• Business and all of the above!• Q & A

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

The Internet Journey

The physical or metaphorical pathway that provides the least resistance to forward motion by a given object or entity, among a set of alternative paths.

The path of least resistance

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Present Day

Is it ever quite how we imagined it to be?

The path of least resistance

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

On-line or Off-line

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Push and PullThe path of least resistance

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Harnessing Collective Knowledge

Rich User Experience

More channels of Communication

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

The Internet Time Line

Geek Stuff

Business Stuff

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

“the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other. Social media can take many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video. Popular social mediums include blogs, message boards, podcasts, wikis, and vlogs.”

Social Media for Business

• Media Sharing• Community Building• Market Research

• Networking• Narrating• Collaborating

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Social Networking for Business

Facebook

Ecademy

Linked In

E.Factor

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Faces of Facebook

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Niche Target Marketing

Shift Happens Creative Industries and converging technologies event

Facebook group created

11 well selected Facebook groups targetedFacebook potential audience – 63,385

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Niche Searches

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Meta groups

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Nottingham Creative Business Awards

• Web Site• Online Community• Facebook Group

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Embedded Rich Media

http://www.keepitsecure.co.uk/

YouTube – UStream – Blip – Mogulus – Bambuser

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Future Thinking

New LeadsProfit and Income GenerationCustomer ServiceCustomer RetentionAcquiring KnowledgeEstablishing Authority

Social Media Strategy

Leveraging the web

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Future Thinking

Contribution and ConversationWork vs. Wind downBusiness or Pleasure

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

In Plain English

• Social Media• Social Networking• Blogging• RSS• Photo Sharing• Wikis (Online collaborating)

• PR web (http://www.prweb.com/)

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Resource Availability

http://www.slideshare.net/pcmcreative

Making the web work for you – bringing online worlds into focus

Any Questions?

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