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7 Tips to a better Social Media Footprint

Starting Today

Thenew

3 Billion +

Years to Reach 50 millions Users:

• Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38• Television. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13• Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4• iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Facebook added 100 million users . . . . . . in 9 months !

CONTENT

“The more Similar we are

The more Invisible we become.”

- Anonymous

AdoptersEarlyMidLate

You have first mover advantage.

That advantage is showing up in search results!

• A significant change took place in April of 2011 in the world of Google, Bing and Yahoo search.

• For the first time the top 3 search engines started to index you and your business based upon you participation in Social Media Platforms. Platforms such as…

• LinkedIn• Facebook• Google+• Twitter• YouTube• Pinterest

Accelerate your Career

In today's economy there are two competitive advantages that you must have. 1. A positive online presence.2. A“social” layer of your career. By

social we mean real relationships, your family and friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

5 Generations• The Silent Generation born 1925-1945.• The Baby Boom Generation born 1946 – 1964.• The Generation X born 1965-1982. • Generation Y also known as the Millennial

Generation (or Millennials), Generation Next,

Net Generation, Echo Boomers born 1983 – early 90’s.

• Generation Z also known as Generation I, or Internet Generation born early 90’s.

Blogging – 1994LinkedIn – May 2003Facebook – February 2004

YouTube – February 2005Twitter – March 2006Pinterest – March 2010Google+ – July 2011

Your Goals and Objectives

Build TrustBuild CredibilityBuild Relationships

If they can’t find you on the Internet, Houston…we’ve got a problem.

1. EXPANDSocial Media Platforms. The more platforms, the broader your

reach.

Not Another Social Networking Site…

Google+ FacebookTwitterLinkedinYoutubeBlogPinterest?

Keywords

2. Think keywords…what words best describe… youYour BusinessDon’t know, ask

Google replaces the phone book

digital illiteracy

Hangouts

4. Reputation management

5. Get in the game with fresh content. blogutilize the proper keywords .and keyword phrases.

FRESH CONTENT = SEARCH RESULTS

If you are not in the game, the score will not be in your favor.

6. commitment

get in the game.stay in the game. Be consistent.Winners never quit.

Lifehappens

7. It’s OK to fail forward. All of us will make mistakes. The faster you make them…The faster you correct them…The faster you will SUCCEED!

What happens in Vegas

stays on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook…

Forget > “Learn”

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative

thoughts into your

mind, but how to get the old ones out.” —Dee Hock

“Execution is strategy.”

—Fred Malek

ONE THING

Speed rules

8000 Horsepower

“No man ever became great

except through many and great

mistakes.” —William Gladstone

(from Timeless Wisdom, compiled by Gary Fenchuk)

“You miss

100% of the shots you never

take.” —Wayne Gretzky

The greatest dangerfor most of usis not that our aim istoo highand we miss it,but that it istoo lowand we reach it.Michelangelo

Thank You