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How to Create an Online Presence for Your Business Anthony W. Tucker RSU Innovation Center [email protected] Twit ter: @Brand_Tuck Day 2 E-Commerce Search Engine Optimization Web Analytics Social Media View this Presentation on http://www.GetMeFoundOnline.com
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This is the second part of a two-part presentation by Anthony William Tucker that discusses how to build a brand through online dominance. This encompasses website development, search engine optimization, marketing strategy development, and social media marketing. Learn more about this workshop at, http://www.GetMeFoundOnline.com.
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How to Create an Online Presence for Your BusinessAnthony W. TuckerRSU Innovation [email protected] Twitter: @Brand_Tuck

Day 2

• E-Commerce

• Search Engine

Optimization

• Web Analytics

• Social Media

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What We’re Going to Cover0 Website Development

0E-Commerce Website Platforms0Web Analytics0Search Engine Optimization0Pay-Per-Click Search Engine & Social Media Promotion

0 Social Media Development0 Google

0Leveraging for small business0Google industry secrets

0 Developing a Marketing Strategy for Your Company’s Online Assets0Pay-Per-Click Search Engine & Social Media Promotion

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Today’s Objectives0 Learn how to turn your small local business into a world-

wide enterprise with Shopify.0 Get your website found online through leveraging:

0 Organic Search Engine Optimization0Hiring Someone or Doing it Yourself

0 Non-Organic Search Engine Optimization0 Pay-Per-Click Paid Placement (Time & Space)

0 Google Ad Network0 Unplanned Purchases

0 Building a new internet marketing strategy for your business.0 Learn how to analyze your website’s performance.0 Learn how to turn social media into a revenue stream for

your business.

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Skyscrapers Aren’t Built Overnight

0 You will get what you put into your online presence development for you business.

0 If you have questions please don’t be afraid to ask today, tomorrow, next week, or whenever. The Innovation Center is a resource for you.

0 Frustration is bound to come when developing your online presence but you must persevere to build the competitive advantage it can bring your business or community organization.

0 Leverage the new Online Resource Center for industry insight, self-help videos, directory of who to hire, and register for future workshops that focus on specific online presence development functions that you would like to learn more on.

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Mail Chimp-Email Marketing

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Homework Review

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Homework Review

Top Websites0 Red Dress Boutique

0 Great use of custom application.0 Great use of categories for types

of clothes and by price range.0 Easy to operate.0 Does need major search engine

optimization work.0 Needs to encourage social

sharing of every product listed.0 Example: ShareThis application

Top Facebook Business Pages0 https://www.facebook.com/Impressionsnwa

0 Custom HTML Applications0 Browse Store0 Restock Notify0 Instagram0 Sign up for Shopping Cart0 How to Order

0 Major Return on Investment on Facebook by leveraging displaying/selling product direct on Facebook with, Run/Ship & Run/Hold comments to photos on Facebook timeline.

0 Major website work needed to compliment social media stature.

0 Must champion shipping and have solid/consistent refund process in place.

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My 8 Great Tips to Market Dominance

1. Building the Brand 2. Situational Analysis3. Build a Strategy for your Website Development4. Build Your SEO Strategy5. Build a Internet Marketing Strategy6. Analyze Your Website Performance7. Become Socially Responsible8. Make Google Your Friend

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Step 3: Building a Strategy for your Website Revisited

0Now that we know what the market looks like it is time to build a strategy for your brand.

0Are you going to hire someone or do it yourself?0Have SMART goals for your website development and

social media strategies. 0 Increase traffic from northeastern Oklahoma by 200% in first

three months of new site.0 Increase engagement on Facebook by 500 fans in the first

three weeks of the optimized Facebook page.0 Be on the first page for local results for specific industry in

first six months.

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Available Platforms0 Wix (Drag and Drop)

0 App market is available0 SquareSpace (Drag and Drop)

0 Example: Ontario PC0 Weebly (Drag and Drop)

0 Example: Build Bartlesville0 WordPress

0 Example: bugRIGHT0 Plug-in market is available

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E-Commerce Website Platform

0Shopify is an e-commerce website platform that makes designing a website and selling products easy for small businesses.

0Shopify represents an engaging user friendly website that offers search engine optimization tools to earn your site Google street cred.

0Take your local business to a world-wide market with new revenue streams.

0Key features of Shopify:0 http://www.shopify.com/website/templates

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Options for Building Your Shopify Website

Option 10 Hire a developer to design a

custom template and setup the site.0 Includes setting up for

search engine optimization.0 Setting you as the business

owner up as the admin to upload images, pages, videos, and more from mobile phone or tablet.

Option 20 Do it yourself! Take on the world-wide

market with a strategy on your own!0 Use a stock template from Shopify’s

template market place.0 Register your website with

Google/Bing.0 Optimizing each product page and

content page with keywords and SEO tactics.

0 Upload images, content, and keep track of orders.

0 Link with social media to create traffic and additional revenue streams.

0 Leverage new applications to increase engagement and functionality.

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Step 4:Build Your SEO Strategy0 Leverage the situational analysis conducted for the web development

strategy to analyze the following:0 Keywords competitors are using0 SEO tactics that competitors are using

0 Strong Tagging0 Bolded text mean, STRONG TAGGED.

0 Google/Bing focuses on those key terms.

0Micro-Tagging0 Way of the future that will tell search engines exactly what the page represents. Example: Murphy’s

Steakhouse in Bartlesville, Okla. would have Micro-Tags for local restaurant with location featuring Bartlesville, Okla. or near Tulsa, Okla.

0 Leverage Google AdWords Keyword Tool to analyze keywords per industry0 Organic vs. Non-Organic Search Engine Marketing.

0 Understand the importance of SEO dominance on all content. 0 Google/Bing can’t read or properly index Flash/Java or images without a proper

ALT Tag and file name.0 Continue to modifying strategy to continue to increase traffic and conversion

rates.

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Option 1: Hire a SEO Juice Man0 Much like scenario when hiring a web developer, must have a strategy in

place before meeting with potential SEO Juice Men.0 Have list of competitors readily available, geographic target market, and

targeted audience.0 Be ready to pay monthly fee and expect to receive updates including:

0 Monthly Google Analytics Report0 Google AdWords Reports

0 Tell them you want a SEO strategy for planned and unplanned purchases.0 Planned

0 Someone Googles the keywords, Arena Tools for Tractor, your business should be on the first page if you sell arena tools.

0 Unplanned0 Someone who has known history of looking at arena tools for tractors on

the internet or social media sees ad on a website relating to arena tools for tractors.

0 Think impulse buying at a grocery store with end caps and products at the check out.

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Example of SEO Juice Man

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Option 2: Do it Yourself0 Leverage SEO assistance apps or plug-ins if available for your website

development platform.0 Register with Google Analytics to analyze traffic.

0 Are visitors bouncing (exiting) from you site to soon?0 Are visitors getting to the desired take action page on your website?0 Just because you have traffic does not mean you have the right traffic!

0 Conversion rates and ROI!

0 Have a strategy for both:0 Organic SEO

0 How do you make your site seem more credible and relevant to search engines?0 Build back links and continually add new content that is engaging and contains keywords.

0 Non-Organic SEO0 In the beginning of launching a website or new SEO strategy it is highly

recommended to leverage non-organic paid placement to earn more traffic and higher rankings.0 Google AdWords0 Facebook Ads0 Display Ad placement on targeted websites

0 ESPN0 High Plains Journal

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SEO Tactics That Will Earn You Google Cred

0 Have a domain name with specific keywords in the actual domain name.0 Example: TulsaMetalRoofing.com0 You can make this domain name your main domain name and

then have multiple other domain names that point back to your website.

0 If you post videos to YouTube/Vimeo ensure that you use key terms in the title of the video and keyword section.

0 Have internal links on each page of your website.0 Update your content regularly. 0 Save every image that is placed on your website with

keywords.0 Example: WeddingCakeBakersTulsa.jpeg

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SEO Industry Secrets0 You can submit your website and subsequent webpages to be

indexed by Google and Bing by registering for webmaster tools on both search engines.0 You must verify your website with both Google and Bing by

placing code on your website.0 Strong Tag the products you offer and the markets you

compete in on the homepage of your website. 0 Example: bugRIGHT

0 Get social and leverage social media!0 Submit articles to targeted media contacts for publishing both

in print and online. Increases traffic to website and builds credibility in the eyes of consumers and search engines.0 PR Web

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Step: 5 Build a Internet Marketing Strategy0 Pre-Launch

0 How will you tease that you are launching a new website through various promotional platforms?0 Increase excitement about the process and also gain feedback from the market on what they are looking

for in the site or social media?0 Start collecting email addresses through Mail Chimp.

0 Launch0 OBJECTIVE IS TO GET TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE AND TO GET PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT YOUR NEW

WEBSITE AND NEW FEATURES!0 Set a aggressive budget that you are willing to work with and leverage pay-per-click paid placement

through Google, Bing, YouTube, Facebook etc. 0 Ensure that all of your touch points with your consumers has your new website and social media pages.

0 Business cards0 Branded clothing apparel 0 Banners, Billboards, Brochures, etc.

0 Find ways to be a guerrilla marketer when communicating your new website.0 GAF Roofing example of launching brand relationship building campaign.

0 Launch a YouTube video of a screen shot of how to navigate through your new website.0 A video for each of your target audiences that your site caters to.

0 After Launch0 Develop a system for altering your website and social media tactics to ensure that you are staying

relevant with your most profitable audiences.0 Massage and tinker your internet marketing budget to find the right amount of money to spend on PPC

ads through Google, Bing, YouTube, Facebook, etc. that will continue to keep you top of mind with your current customers and continuing to encourage new customers to try out your products/services.

0 Continue to find ways to encourage two-way communication between the company and its most profitable customers.0 Social media messaging development0 Website/Email survey about product performance0 Encourage reviews through Google, Facebook, Angie’s List, etc.

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Discuss Developing Systems

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Step 6: Analyze Your Website’s Performance

0 To continue your company’s empirical rise in the online market and to continue to increase conversion rates you must be consistently measuring your website, social media, and marketing effort’s performances.

0 Remember that you must set SMART goals to have specific metrics to measure success by for your business’ online performance.

0 Find benchmarks in your industry that you would like to see your business get to.0 Nesting Necessities

0 Enter world-wide market by building the brand through e-commerce and social media.

0 You must leverage cost efficient resources to really grasp your online performance.0 CrazyEGG0 Raven Tools

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Option 1: Hire Help

0 When tracking your website, social media, and marketing effort’s performances it can become labor intensive. This is why if it is more profitable for you to be undertaking other tasks for your business rather than analyzing your performance, hire help!

0 If you are to hire someone make sure to know exactly what they will be providing you with each month.0 Are you getting access to a custom online resource center

(RavenTools) with Google Analytics, social media mentions, etc.0 If there is work that is needed to be done to improve your website,

social media, or marketing efforts will this individual provide suggestions and execute these suggestions once approved or are these suggestions placed on your shoulders alone?

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Option 2: Be a GUERRILLA Do It Yourself

0 Register for cost efficient and FREE tools that will help you make adjustments to your website, social media, and promotional strategy.0 Google Analytics0 CrazyEGG0 Raven Tools0 HootSuite0 Facebook Business Page Manager Analytics

0 THINK RETURN ON INVESTMENT0 Make updates to website, social media, and promotional strategy based

on tangible analytics. Don’t fall for advertising sales reps tricks again. You own your own fate.

0 Remember that your online marketing strategy and value messaging is consistent with your offline marketing.

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Step 7: Become Socially (Social Media) Responsible

0 The important reasons why to leverage social media:0 Build your brand:

0 Continue to build your relationship with current customers.0 Enable new customers to find you.0 If your brand is not finding ways to connect with the Millennial age cohort then it will die.

These are the individuals that will leveraging social media platforms.0 Earn Reviews to build your brand through social media

0 Google+0 Facebook

0 Push traffic to specific webpages for your company or retailers of your product.0 Create another channel to generate revenue. At the end of the ROI and conversion rates are just as

important on social media.0 Earn search engine optimization juice for your website. Gives your company not only another

touch point with your consumer but earns you credibility in the eye of the beholder, aka Google/Bing.

0 Enables a customer centric method for customers to tell other potential customers about your product and services through “Sharing”.0 Try to encourage the sharing of company content.

0 Official hashtags (#) through Twitter, promotions through Facebook, etc.

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Facebook Business Pages Basics0 Know the difference between a Facebook personal page and a Facebook

business page.0 Have a strategic plan for getting traffic to your Facebook business page.

0 Organic Traffic0 Posting Facebook business page link or icon with accompanying link on all marketing

material online and offline.0 Hosting promotions for customers that run through Facebook.0 “Liking” targeted businesses, retailers, or community organizations in your target

market.0 Example: bugRIGHT

0 Non-Organic Traffic Through Internal Targeting0 Pay Per Click advertising on the Facebook network.

0 After 30 “Likes” on your Facebook business page go and claim your Facebook business page’s username.0 Example: Facebook.com/RSUInnovationCenter

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Facebook Business Page Advanced Tactics

0 Make sure to post a specific link on each and every photo or video you upload to your page.0 Tag every picture and video you upload to your page.0 Leverage free applications on Facebook that increase engagement with fans/followers on

your Facebook page or direct the them to a specific external site.0 Re-Direct0 PDF-Tab-Viewer0 YouTube0 Instagram

0 Have custom applications built for your Facebook business page that can increase engagement and possibly allow the fan/follower to make a purchasing decision on the Facebook page.

0 Have an optimized image in each image place holder for you brand.0 Facebook Timeline Cover0 Facebook Profile Image

0 Leverage Facebook advertising platforms outside of the display network that achieve specific internal or external objectives0 Facebook Offers0 Promote Your Posts

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How to Schedule Your Social Media Posts

0 It is always a battle when trying to figure out the optimal time to spend on social media efforts for your business. Now business owners can become savvy social media marketers with all-in-one dashboards.0 HootSuite

0HootSuite allows you to strategically schedule your Tweets, Facebook Posts, LinkedIn Posts, and Google + Page Posts from one dashboard.

0Best of all, Hootsuite is free for small businesses with less than 5 social media accounts.

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Learn More About Social Media Platforms Online

0Learn more at the Online Resource Center about the following social media platforms and their importance and role in creating a solid online presence for your business.0 Twitter0 Google +0 LinkedIn0 Video Platforms

0YouTube0Vimeo

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Step 8: Make Google Your Friend

0 Leverage the Google suite of programs for businesses (The List Could Go On Forever):0 Google Webmaster Tools (Previously Discussed)0 Google Analytics (Previously Discussed)0 Google Places (Previously Discussed)

0Organic placement in Google Search Engine Rankings0Non-Organic Options

0 Pay-Per-Click0 Google Offers

0 Google Remarketing0 Google Drive to Share Documents

0Google Fusion Tables-BETA0Google Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

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Learn More on Googling for Businesses Online

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Homework for After Day 2

0Schedule a meeting with the RSU Innovation Center to discuss your specific online presence development needs.0 This can be done by visiting RSUinnovation.com and

filling out the “Request for Services” form.0Email Anthony W. Tucker at [email protected] with

any questions.

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Got Questions?Contact:Anthony W. TuckerPhone: 918-338-8039Email: [email protected]: Tweet questions to @Brand_Tuck with #BuildMyOnlinePresenceReview Today’s Presentation and Other Resources at the new Online Resource Center for Online Presence Development: http://www.GetMeFoundOnline.com