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Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Is the Right Headshot is Crucial for Social Media?
If you use any of the social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, your image or photo is everywhere. Anytime you post anything: a blog, a tweet, an ad, or change your status, etc., you are representing yourself, your company and your brand.
I would suggest a businessperson look as recommended by many internet marketeers.
Also consider that websites with photos of uniformed people convert higher numbers of visitors into paying customers.
However, using an image of a cartoon character or realistic fun character is a good marketing strategy (think of Macdonalds).
This website advises Google regarding website conversion strategy resulting in the Google optimizer:
http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/
…look at the fact that they are using a cartoon image to promote themselves.
Any blogs, tweets can be added to by other employees under a generic image.
If it is just yourself that is actively involved then a shirt & tie/uniform photo would be the best image to project for a personal approach depending on the type of business.
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How to use Social Media Monitoring Tools $4.99 It’s no longer enough to launch a social media program: Your company needs to gain clear and substantial value from its social media investments. Getting results begins with monitoring. In How to Use Social Media Monitoring Tools, leading social media marketer Jamie Turner offers a fast-paced primer on social media monitoring and realistic, low-cost methods for getting started. You’ll learn how to go beyond mere “snapshots” of who’s talking about you, determine whether your social media presence is actually achieving results, and use what you learn to drive more revenue. Turner begins by introducing both quantitative and qualitative tools for monitoring performance, and linking them to ROI through the crucial concept of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). You’ll discover how to align measurement with business objectives; measure the effectiveness of branding and direct response; quickly capture emerging performance trends; and more. Turner briefly introduces many of today’s most valuable monitoring tools, including Google Alerts, Google Analytics, Spiral16, Radian6, Bit.ly, Visible Technologies, SWIX, PeopleBrowsr, SocialMention, BrandsEye, Heartbeat, and Alterian. He concludes with a practical eight-step social media monitoring plan that can be implemented quickly by virtually any company or marketer. |
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The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, And Strategies For Business Success $9.49 The Ultimate Guide To Social Media Marketing The Social Media Bible will show you how to build or transform your business into a social media enabled enterprise where customers, employees, and prospects connect, collaborate, and champion your products, your services, and your way of doing business. Using the systematic approach presented in this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to: Increase your company and brand value by engaging people in new forms of communication, collaboration, education, and entertainment Determine which social media tactics you should be using with your customers and employees Evaluate and categorize the tools and applications that constitute the rapidly evolving social media ecosystem Make social media tools like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, blogging, podcasting, and hundreds of others a part of your business strategy Do a social media analysis inside your company to improve internal operations and outside your company to create and monetize relationships with customers and prospects Implement social media micro- and macrostrategies to give your business the competitive edge it needs to survive and thrive Virtually every business can use social media to increase sales and profits, and The Social Media Bible will show you how. Part One introduces you to social media, and gives you a helpful framework, and presents practical and tactical tips for using some of these tools. Part Two introduces you to over 100 social media tools and applications in fifteen different categories, giving you a quick rundown of the features and functions of the tools that should become part of your social media strategy. Part Three offers mini exercises and assessments to help you conduct a social media audit of your company, your competition, and your customers, so you can craft the perfect strategy for your business. If you want to grow your business, you have to stay connected to your stakeholders- whether you’re a big corporation, a small business, or even a nonprofit. The Social Media Bible will show you how to harness the collective wisdom and viral value of your stakeholders and stay ahead of your competition. www.TheSocialMediaBible.com |
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The Social Media Management Handbook: Everything You Need To Know To Get Social Media Working In Your Business $14.99 How do organizations manage social media effectively?</p><p>Every organization wants to implement social media, but it is difficult to create processes and mange employees to make this happen. Most social media books focus on strategies for communicating with customers, but they fail to address the internal process that takes place within a business before those strategies can be implemented. This book is geared toward helping you manage every step of the process required to use social media for business.</p><p><i>The Social Media Management Handbook</i> provides a complete toolbox for defining and practicing a coherent social media strategy. It is a comprehensive resource for bringing together such disparate areas as IT, customer service, sales, communications, and more to meet social media goals. Wollan and Smith and their Accenture team explain policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities, metrics, strategies, incentives, and legal issues that may arise. You will learn how to:</p><ul><li>Empower employees and teams to utilize social media effectively throughout the organization</li><li>Measure the ROI of social media investments and ensure appropriate business value is achieved over time</li><li>Make smarter decisions, make them more quickly, and make them stick</li></ul><p>Get the most out of your social media investment and fully leverage its benefits at your company with <i>The Social Media Management Handbook.</i></p> |
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The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media $8.39 Co-authored by ASTD President and CEO Tony Bingham, and long-time workplace educator and Fast Company business writer Marcia Conner, this book shows readers how social media can help trainers and workers increase their knowledge, innovate faster than their competitors, and enjoy themselves in a way that increases their commitment to their employer and to the customers they ultimately serve. |
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Navigating Social Media Legal Risks: Safeguarding Your Business $14.99 The plain-English business guide to avoiding social media legal risks and liabilities–for anyone using social media for business–written specifically for non-attorneys!You already know social media can help you find customers, strengthen relationships, and build your reputation, but if you are not careful, it also can expose your company to expensive legal issues and regulatory scrutiny. This insightful, first-of-its-kind book provides business professionals with strategies for navigating the unique legal risks arising from social, mobile, and online media. Distilling his knowledge into a 100% practical guide specifically for non-lawyers, author and seasoned business attorney, Robert McHale, steps out of the courtroom to review today’s U.S. laws related to social media and alert businesses to the common (and sometimes hidden) pitfalls to avoid. Best of all, McHale offers practical, actionable solutions, preventative measures, and valuable tips on shielding your business from social media legal exposures associated with employment screening, promotions, endorsements, user-generated content, trademarks, copyrights, privacy, security, defamation, and more…¿You’ll Learn How To•Â¿Â¿ Craft legally compliant social media promotions, contests, sweepstakes, and advertising campaigns•Â¿Â¿ Write effective social media policies and implement best practices for governance•Â¿Â¿ Ensure the security of sensitive company and customer information•Â¿Â¿ Properly monitor and regulate the way your employees use social media•Â¿Â¿ Avoid high-profile social media mishaps that can instantly damage reputation, brand equity, and goodwill, and create massive¿potential liability•Â¿Â¿ Avoid unintentional employment and labor law violations in the use of social media in pre-employment screening•Â¿Â¿ Manage legal issues associated with game-based marketing, “virtual currencies,” and hyper-targeting•Â¿Â¿ Manage the legal risks of user-generated content (UGC)•Â¿Â¿ Protect your trademarks online, and overcome brandjacking and cybersquatting•Â¿Â¿ Understand the e-discovery implications of social media in lawsuits |
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Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies $14.99 Face Facebook, link up with LinkedIn, and tweet with Twitter using this all-in-one guide! Marketing your business through social media isn’t rocket science. Here’s how to apply the marketing savvy you already have to the social media your prospects are using, helping you get and keep more customers, make more sales, and boost your bottom line. Find the business side &mdash; explore the variety of social media options and research where your target audience hangs out Collect your tools &mdash; discover ways to simplify posting in multiple locations and how to monitor activity Establish your presence &mdash; start a blog or podcast to build a following Follow and be followed &mdash; find the right people to follow on Twitter and get them to follow you Fan out &mdash; showcase your company with a customized Facebook business page Follow up &mdash; use analytics to assess the success of your social media campaign Open the book and find: Tips for finding your target market Important legal considerations Step-by-step guidance for setting up a campaign Lots of helpful technology tools Blogging and podcasting advice How to make Twitter pay off for your business Tools for analyzing your success in each medium When to move forward and when to pull back |
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Outsmarting Social Media: Profiting in the Age of Friendship Marketing $9.99 This book is about the brewing war between Google and Facebook. ¿It’s about the intersection of search and social media, and who will control that¿intersection. ¿Google knows everything you search for, but that is no longer enough. ¿They have become jealous of Facebook, who knows every personal detail about you; Google wishes they could have all of that social data themselves. ¿They would like to use that data – the opinions of our friends and connections – to retool the search results. ¿Facebook, on the other hand, is jealous of the power Google has over people’s purchasing decisions. ¿Because both Facebook and Google¿know our friends are where we get many of the recommendations that we¿value (What smartphone is the best? Was that movie worth seeing? Who makes the¿best running shoe?) they both want to exploit our online friendships. ¿But there is a big problem. ¿Both companies¿control their own piece of the puzzle – Facebook has our social circles and¿Google has our purchasing channels – and neither company is interested in¿sharing¿with the other. ¿Thus, social search nirvana won’t happen overnight.¿This¿book is a peek into the future of what search engines and social media channels will look like in the future, when the two have largely merged. ¿The people in our social networks will become driving forces — tastemakers,¿so to speak — in how advertisers market to us. If Facebook knows that one of¿your valued Facebook friends loves Klipsch speakers and then you search for home¿theater speakers on Google, you might see your friend’s recommendation for Klipsch¿speakers at or near the top of the search results. ¿If your friends post a lot of pictures on Facebook of concerts at The Greek Theatre, Facebook may begin advertising other Greek Theatre concerts to you using these pictures of your friends. ¿Tomorrow’s ads will be nothing like todays; they will reflect our friends’ likes and interests. ¿Digital marketers will find this book extremely valuable since they currently rely on¿social media sites and search engines to drive marketing. ¿With social information playing a dominant role in both outlets, the face of digital marketing is shifting. ¿On Google, the things your friends talk about will color the search results¿—¿and the ads around those results. ¿Two people searching for the same thing will see different¿results based on the opinions of people in their¿social circles. ¿On Facebook and Twitter, new status updates and ads will appear featuring our friends’ preferences – and this will influence our purchases. ¿The holy grail of marketing, as it were, will be knowing how to use your relationships to motivate other people to making purchases. ¿This book shows readers exactly how to do that. ¿Don’t be left behind. Get a leg up on your competition! |
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Social Media Marketing $41.49 Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach promises to be the seminal textbook in the field with its distinctive conceptual foundation and practical approach to developing successful social media marketing plans. A proven eight-step social media planning model provides students with a cumulative learning experience, showing them how to construct social media strategies that achieve desired marketing goals. |
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Social Media 101: A Beginners Guide to Online Marketing (Collection) $26.99 A brand new collection of state-of-the-art insights into social media marketing from world-renowned experts…in a convenient e-format at a great price!Start Now with Social Media: Avoid Beginners’ Missteps and Get Great Business Results Fast!Five great books bring together all the information you need to start profiting right now from social media! Start with Jon Reed’s Get Up to Speed with Online Marketing, the concise beginner’s guide to promoting small businesses online using every major tool, including websites, search, email, blogging, online video, social networks, and even virtual worlds. Reed doesn’t show you how to use each medium; he shows how to make the most of each of them on a limited (or nonexistent) marketing budget! Next, in How to Use Social Media Monitoring Tools, leading social media marketer Jamie Turner offers a fast-paced primer on social media monitoring and realistic, low-cost methods for getting started. Turner briefly introduces many of today’s most valuable monitoring tools and presents a practical eight-step social media monitoring plan that can be implemented quickly by virtually any company or marketer. In How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on Facebook, pioneering social media expert Clara Shih summarizes everything you need to know to help your business win in the Facebook Era, from strategy to execution, systems to policies. In How to Make Money Marketing Your Small Business on Twitter, Jamie Turner offers step-by-step techniques for tweeting your way to profits and transforming negative customer tweets into business-building opportunities. Finally, in How to Make Money with Email Marketing, Robert Scott Corbett explains why email is still the 21st century’s messaging workhorse, why you need to do serious email marketing–and offers practical tips and steps for getting powerful business results from your email, fast!From world-renowned leaders in social media and online marketing, includingJon Reed, Jamie Turner, Clara Shih, Jamie Turner, and Robert Scott Corbett. |
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Social Media Marketing, First Edition $40.99 The social media content that students—and their future employers—need to have.Tuten/Solomon is the first social media marketing textbook that focuses on showing students how social media fits into the marketer’s toolbox. |
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Social Media Marketing For Dummies $16.09 Learn how easy it is for your market to get your message Nowadays, if you’re not tweeting, Facebooking, or blogging, what are you doing? Everyone has a Twitter account, a Facebook page, or a blog even celebrities! With the popularity of social networking comes the need to learn about social media marketing. Social media marketing is a cheaper and highly effective way to spread up-to-the-minute news; an easy, inexpensive way to enlarge your audience, customers, and business. Social Media Marketing For Dummies provides an indispensable resource for small businesses and start-ups looking for low-cost online marketing strategies, as well as for marketers in larger companies who want to be more involved with social media. Learn which social media site best fits you and your business and how to: Use Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and other social media outlets to full advantage Create your own online spokesperson for your brand Identify social media sites that appeal to your target audience Tell which social platform works for which objectives Develop a unique, Google-able voice in social media Optimize your page to attract clicks and customers Set up a program to assess your success and measure your results Social Media Marketing helps you learn the art of social media marketing to build your business to its full potential. Includes contributions by Michael Becker, Jeannette Kocsis and Ryan Williams |
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Power Friending: Demystifying Social Media to Grow Your Business $17.99 Amber understands how important it is for all of us, both as individuals and as businesses, to be able to use social media to connect with people in ways that are real and authentic. I think she’s a leader in this space. -Tony Robbins, world-renowned speaker and entrepreneur Amber Mac wants to be your friend. She may be a tech-savvy webpreneur, the popular host of TV shows and video podcasts, and an in-demand consultant and speaker, but if you ask Amber Mac about her strategy for success, she’ll tell you she’s just trying to be a good friend. When it comes to social media-whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or the latest video blog-the tools evolve quickly, the rules change rapidly, and the technology feels more and more complex. But making social media work for your company doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. In this compact yet thorough guide, Mac shows you how to effectively harness the online world to grow your business. The secret: think of your audience as your friends and then treat them that way. The Power Friending approach is all about developing real relationships based on mutual respect and support. While you may never meet some of your online friends face-to-face, they still expect you to follow the established norms of friendship: be authentic, reach out, listen. And don’t lie to your friends. These same rules apply when building a strong brand online. Whether you’re a blogger, a small company, a well-known global enterprise, or an aspiring queen of the Internet, Mac shows how to make the most of social networking tools, including: -Targeting the right networks -Feeding and seeding a community -Authentically engaging with customers and fans -Managing your online friendships on a daily basis and on a budget This isn’t a book of abstract theories or complicated strategies. Mac writes from personal experience: she built a huge fan base through social networking. She also draws on real-life and up-to-date examples to give you the information you really need in order to establish and maintain credibility and meaningful relationships online. |
