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Ep 043: Starting & Executing A Social Media Marketing Strategy

Ep 043: Starting & Executing A Social Media Marketing Strategy

Ep 043: Starting & Executing A Social Media Marketing Strategy

by Brad Friedman

Starting & Executing A Social Media Marketing Strategy

The Digital Slice Podcast is brought to you by The Friedman Group, LLC

A business that takes advantage of social media can skyrocket its business to the top. It’s never an overnight process though. It takes time, effort, and money to get to where they are now with social media. Social media marketing for your business is a huge help when done effectively. It can lead to more traffic, and more traffic means more engagement, and better engagement with your audience turns to profit.

Social media platforms help in connecting your brand with your audience and turn them from followers into fans. These platforms also serve as your presentation board to show the world who you are and what you do. Three billion people live in this world, for sure everyone has come across social media for whatever reason.

Learn more about developing your own social media marketing strategy and plan with Desiree Martinez. Desiree is a video creator, Facebook live host, social media consultant, and speaker about strategic video and content marketing. Desiree is the owner of All-In-One Social Media – a company that helps companies grow their online presence in social media. It’s never easy, but your passion and desire to master social media can fuel your main goal – grow your business and get a better bottom-line.

In this Episode:

  • Why you need a social media marketing strategy
  • How to develop and implement a social media marketing strategy
  • The importance of knowing who your Target Audience is
  • Which social media platform(s) to use
  • Developing what content to share
  • How to run your business while managing your social media
  • IG & FB Stories: do they fit in your business
  • Determining your return on investment when using social media marketing
  • The 5-step process for developing a social media marketing strategy

Quotes from this Episode:
“Social media is a part of an online and overall marketing strategy. It is NOT the answer to all the problems. It is only part of the marketing strategy NOT the marketing strategy itself.” – Desiree Martinez
“Know who your audience is.” – Desiree Martinez
“Analyze and see who your audience and customers are. You might know who you want to talk to, but you don't who you're actually talking to.” – Desiree Martinez
“Pick a platform once you've identified who your audience is.” – Desiree Martinez
“Once you've determined which platform to use, become the master of it.” – Desiree Martinez
“You don't need to get on EVERY social media platform there is. Master a platform you pick and then once you're comfortable with it, you can try adding another platform. Just don't start using ALL of them at the same time.” – Desiree Martinez
“You should be creating content where your customers want to consume it.” – Desiree Martinez
“Breakdown your content calendar or schedule into a theme.” – Desiree Martinez
“Know your objectives and goals are in creating your content.” – Desiree Martinez
“Create your theme and keep developing content around it.” – Desiree Martinez
“If it's something you can do, you SHOULD do it.” – Desiree Martinez
“IG & FB Stories allow you to be there with your audience.” – Desiree Martinez
“Making stories on FB or IG can help you get comfortable creating videos.” – Desiree Martinez
“You're not going to know if it's right for you if you'll not try it out.” – Desiree Martinez
“Everyone has a story or something they can share.” – Desiree Martinez

Resources:

Desiree Martinez
Website: All-In-One Social Media
Facebook: @AllInOneSM
Instagram: @AllInOneSM
Twitter: @AllInOneSM
YouTube: @MrsDesireeRose
Course: The Livestream School
Identify your perfect customer here: https://youtu.be/z_k1VSHNyiM
Podcast: Marketing For Your Boring Business can be found on the podcast platform of your choosing.

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

@BradFriedman

@FriedmanGrp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfriedman/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Website: https://friedmansocialmedia.com

Books
Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

Ep 038: Let’s Start Making Our Marketing Content Accessible And Inclusive

Ep 038: Let’s Start Making Our Marketing Content Accessible And Inclusive

Ep 038: Let's Start Making Our Marketing Content Accessible And Inclusive

by Brad Friedman

Let's Start Making Our Marketing Content Accessible And Inclusive

Digital marketing is here to stay. Businesses taking advantage of digital marketing today are more likely to succeed. And, social media marketing should be a big part of your digital marketing strategy. But how does it really work? Do you just need an image, a video or audio to post every day?

It takes a lot of time and effort to plan and post valuable content on your social media channels. So, when you do post something, don’t you want to get as many eyes on it as possible? One tactic for doing this is to make certain your content is accessible and inclusive. Can your images be enjoyed by someone visually impaired? Can your video be consumed by persons with hearing impairment? In this episode of The Digital Slice Podcast, Brad talks about how important inclusive design is for your digital marketing strategy.

In this Episode:

  • Accessibility in today's digital slice
  • Digital marketing tools and tactics you need to succeed
  • Ideas for creating accessible inclusive content
  • Enhancing user experience to your website visitors

Quotes from this Episode:

“We do want to send our message out to as many people as we can online.” - Brad Friedman
“Inclusive design for social media simply means the design method with the intent to deliver an incredible user experience to as many people as possible.” - Brad Friedman
“A recent survey of Facebook users in 50 countries found that more than 30% of people report difficulty with at least one of the following: seeing, hearing, speaking organizing thoughts, walking, or grasping with their hands.” - Brad Friedman
“Emojis can get read aloud by assistive technology. That means people will hear loudly “crying face,” and so on.” - Brad Friedman
“Include captions in your videos. Close captions are crucial for viewers with hearing impairments, and it can actually enhance the experience for other viewers.” - Brad Friedman
“Add alternative texts to your Instagram posts. When you post a photo click on ‘advanced settings'. Then type in the description that will allow all of your followers to experience the content.” - Brad Friedman
“Enable image descriptions on Twitter.” - Brad Friedman
“Men get 4 times as much screen time as women. Men speak 7 times more than women. 25% of ads feature men only vs. 5% that feature women only. 18% of ads feature male voices vs. 3% of ads with only female voices. Women are 40% more likely to be shown in the kitchen. Men are 89% shown as smart. Women are shown in sexually revealing clothing 5 times more than men. And 40% of women polled by Unilever say that they do not identify what the women they see in the advertising. You can take these also into consideration as we create our inclusive and accessible content.” - Brad Friedman

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

@BradFriedman

@FriedmanGrp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfriedman/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Website: https://friedmansocialmedia.com

Books
Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

Ep 036: Let’s Talk Legal Tech

Ep 036: Let’s Talk Legal Tech

Ep 036: Let's Talk Legal Tech

by Brad Friedman

Let's Talk Legal Tech

Legal technology is keeping up with the pace of technology in general and changing at an incredibly fast pace. Apps and software come to market almost daily as developers seek to make the lives of attorneys and their clients easier.

Nick Rishwain is the Vice President of Business Development & Client Relations at Experts.com, an online platform offering professionals an opportunity to showcase their expertise and get hired by attorneys to testify as an expert at trial. Nick is also the primary author of the Experts.com blog. Nick is founder and co-host of LegalTechLIVE where he spotlights legal tech innovators with a special focus on startups that are viable and under a year of age. Nick interviews CEOs and developers, innovators and disruptors, enabling him to have his finger on the pulse of cutting-edge legal technology.

In this Episode:

  • All about Nick’s LegalTechLIVE – how he started it and his motivations
  • How legal technology has evolved over the years
  • How Nick saw the potential in focusing on and working with startups for LegalTechLIVE
  • How Nick looks for guests for LegalTechLIVE in a variety of ways
  • How Twitter is where the Legal Tech people are
  • How Nick features Legal Tech products on his show
  • How legal tech is making the lives of attorneys and their clients easier

Quotes from this Episode:
“I was looking and playing with the social media and getting used to it, came across live video and found it much more engaging because you really got to know people a little bit better and you get to look at them eye to eye, digital eyeball to digital eyeball.” - Nick Rishwain
“Things have gotten even more advanced… so I wanted to know more about that and I thought the best way to do that was to start interviewing people who were in Legal Tech and who had been in Legal Tech for a while and who were doing exciting things in Legal Tech.” - Nick Rishwain
“Some of the most exciting stuff, some of the most convoluted and complicated but also really interesting stuff is happening at the start up level.” - Nick Rishwain
“Twitter seems to be where the legal technology group of people have gathered” - Nick Rishwain
“A lot of us, we are tied to the phone and I think that’s why a lot of these platforms are using this text-based services.” - Nick Rishwain
“It is a full-time marketing position to be a lawyer today.” - Nick Rishwain
“There’s a lot of really exciting things happening in Legal Analytics these days.” - Nick Rishwain

Resources:

Nick Rishwain
Twitter: @NickJRishwain
Instagram: @nickjrishwain
Facebook: Nick Rishwain
LinkedIn: Nicholas Rishwain
Podcast: LegalTechLive

Experts.com
Facebook: @Expertscom
Twitter: Experts_Com
LinkedIn: @experts.com
Website: Experts.com

The Monikur App: Monikur

Text A Lawyer: Text A Lawyer

Lexigogo: Lexigogo

ClientSherpa: ClientSherpa

UniCourt: UniCourt

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

@BradFriedman

@FriedmanGrp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfriedman/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Website: https://friedmansocialmedia.com

Books
Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

Ep 035: Community Building and Engagement – The What, Why and How

Ep 035: Community Building and Engagement – The What, Why and How

Ep 035: Community Building and Engagement – The What, Why and How

by Brad Friedman

Community Building and Engagement - The What, Why and How

The Digital Slice Podcast is brought to you by The Friedman Group, LLC

To grow your business, you have to build a community of engaged supporters. People who will Like, Share and Comment on your content. People who will leave 5-Star Reviews. Facebook Groups could be the best place to do that right now.

Rob Balasabas is the Social Media & Community Manager at Thinkific, a platform where you can host and market your online courses. Rob manages Thinkific’s daily message curation on social media. Rob engages with Thinkific’s private Facebook online community which comprises more than 14,000 course creators online. In this Episode, Brad and Rob talks about developing and managing you online communities. Rob is also into livestream video creation, social media marketing, and video and content strategy. He mostly speaks about these same topics on webinars, podcasts, and live streams. When he is offline, he enjoys a good taco and lots of coffee.

In this Episode:

  • How to get started with building a community
  • How to make people in your community stay engaged
  • How content is a driver for engagement in your community
  • How the community can be an extension of your email list
  • How the value of your content should make it interesting for your audience
  • The value of live video versus a static post in a community
  • How long it will take before your community takes off
  • How you have to be clear about your goal in building the community for the benefit of your audience and not for self-promotion
  • How engaging in other groups help attract members to your community organically
  • How to promote your group in other places, channels, platforms online
  • How questions, timely replies, and conversations is key to engagement
  • What questions to ask for those wanting to join your group

Quotes from this Episode:
“The nice thing is that everyone helps each other. There’s no egos or anything like that. So it’s a great community.” - Rob Balasabas
“It just grows organically at this point. People are discovering us – it’s on our website, it’s on our on-boarding email.” - Rob Balasabas
“Online community, I’m thinking Facebook. Facebook is the king – Facebook groups.” - Rob Balasabas
“It’s really important to understand what they are looking to get out of your community so that you can then create content and engage with them in a way that brings value for them to be part of that community.” - Rob Balasabas
“We give space for people to share their wins so that we can celebrate that as a community.” - Rob Balasabas
“The more niche you are, then the more successful you are when it comes to groups.” - Rob Balasabas
“I think live videos are really good for community because it just gives access to the people behind the scenes.” - Rob Balasabas
“Getting the conversations started, that’s the really biggest key.” - Rob Balasabas

Resources:

Rob's web and social links
Website: https://socialclub.thinkific.com
Instagram: @RobBalasabas
LinkedIn: @RobBalasabas
Twitter: @Rob_Balasabas
YouTube: Social Media Club

Thinkific's web and social links
Website: https://thinkific.com
Instagram: @Thinkific
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinkific”
YouTube: Thinkific
Twitter: @thinkific

Linktree: Linktree
Quora: Quora

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

@BradFriedman

@FriedmanGrp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfriedman/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Website: https://friedmansocialmedia.com

Books
Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

Ep 034: Millionaire Marketing On A Shoestring Budget

Ep 034: Millionaire Marketing On A Shoestring Budget

Ep 034: Millionaire Marketing On A Shoestring Budget

by Brad Friedman

Millionaire Marketing On A Shoestring Budget

The Digital Slice Podcast is brought to you by The Friedman Group, LLC

In today's world, business owners understand how important marketing is to the success of their business. Unfortunately, in many cases, marketing gets pushed to the side because of the expense.

Debra Jason is an author, speaker, copywriter, mentor and marketing consultant. She wrote the best-selling book, “Millionaire Marketing on a Shoestring Budget.” And, that's exactly what we're talking about in this podcast.

In this Episode:

  • Know the difference between Marketing and Sales
  • Learn where to start your marketing strategy
  • What are some of the best, inexpensive marketing tactics?
  • What do you need to know about Networking?

Quotes from this Episode:
“Marketing is about building and nurturing relationships. It's about connecting to people.” – Debra Jason
“KLT Factor: People do business with companies they know, like, and trust.” – Debra Jason
“Marketing is like you're going in there not with a pitch - you're going in there adding VALUE.” – Debra Jason
“Mostly, people want to talk to everybody, but talking to everybody is like talking to no one. Learn how to focus yourself on 1 or 2 communities within your target market.” – Debra Jason
“Don't just join an organization. Get involved. You may join a committee, or serve on the board of directors - because that is where you build relationships and build the KLT factor.” – Debra Jason
“Guesting on a podcast is not just ‘guesting' there and speaking a lot. It's about giving VALUE to the listeners of the podcast.” – Debra Jason

Resources:

Debra Jason
Facebook: Debra Jason
Twitter: @debrajason
Instagram: @debrajason
LinkedIn: @DebraJason
Website: The Write Direction

Brad Friedman

Twitter:

@BradFriedman

@FriedmanGrp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefriedmangroup

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfriedman/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-friedman-group-llc

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/friedmansocialmedia

Website: https://friedmansocialmedia.com

Books
Brad Friedman on Digital Marketing,” by Brad Friedman
The Small Business Owner's Guide To Inbound Marketing,” by Brad Friedman

Be sure to sign up for the Brad Bot at TheBradBot.com To get reminders when I go live on Facebook and to receive freebies and other content from The Friedman Group, LLC.

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