ISA Marketing and Sales Summit Social Media Workshop

The sad reality is that most businesses suck at social media. Most often, it’s because they don’t understand the fact that traditional (outbound) marketing strategies are incompatible with social media (inbound) marketing channels. When faced with disappointing results from those efforts, the companies will frequently double down on ineffective tactics or even blame the medium itself and abandon the effort altogether. But this begs the question, “What does success look like?” Well, it does not look like a bunch of Facebook fans or Twitter followers. At the end of the day, a successful social media effort means getting new customers.

Companies need to escape from The Matrix. For a hundred years, they’ve been trapped in The Matrix that was created by the media owners (newspapers, radio, television). The challenge now is for companies to recognize that when it comes to social media, the users are the owners. That leads to a vastly different set of rules and norms than they are used to dealing with. This workshop will present ten common violations of those rules that companies make in their social media marketing efforts. And then it will then go into detail about how to prevent and/or fix those mistakes.

This half-day workshop was delivered at ISA’s Marketing and Sales Summit in Austin, TX on 15-Aug, 2012. Click here to download the agenda for How Not to Suck at Social Media Workshop.

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