Last night we presented “Social Networks: How to Use Them in a Down Economy” to the Hospitality Industry Association of San Francisco. Our meeting outlined how LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter are the new sales and marketing channels. We presented tips and strategies:
- Identify the etiquette and culture of each network
- Identify the common and major mistakes companies make that hurt their brand within these networks
- Describe the basic navigation of each network
- Showcase the search functionality and importance of each network’s internal search engine
- Provide statistics of page views, unique visits that support the growth and importance of each network
- Compare and Contrast the old traditional sales and marketing channels to the new social media channels
- Highlight Twitter’s prospecting-lead generation strategy via keyword search relevant to the group’s focus
- Highlight Facebook’s CRM and rich blog like functionality
- Outline Target, Dell, Starbucks’ case studies
- Overview of real time Google search indexing and the mobile market
