Dos and Don'ts of Entrepreneurial Marketing
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General overview of marketing essential for startups. Dos and Don'ts of Social Marketing &Video Marketing. Sources: Pixability & HubSpot
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- 1. Do’s and Dont’s of Marketing for Start Ups by Yelena Kadeykina ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 2. Why Are We Here? Because you want to solve a business problem! ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 4. Value Proposition “The brand promise” Find relevant information quickly and easy Find any item you need ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 5. Developing Your Value Proposition • Who you are? • What you do? • Where you do it? • What makes you different? ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 6. Examples of Value Propositions • Price competitive • Quality customer service • Superior quality • Easy-to-use • Huge selection • Customizable • Community ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 7. Identify Your Target Market & Assess Market Conditions • Size, growth rate and maturity • Niche market or large market • What segment exists • What their basic needs • What channels they consider ©Yelena Kadeykinana
- 8. Outbound vs. Inbound Marketing Outbound Marketing - a Inbound marketing is a traditional form of marketing marketing strategy that strategy that focuses focuses on getting on finding customers by found by customers. building brand awareness This sense is related through advertising and promotion. Seth Godin's idea of permission marketing. ©Yelena Kadeykina/@ykadeykina
- 9. Why Inbound Marketing is So Powerful Source: HubSpot ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 10. How Do You Gauge Success? Blog/Content • Inbound Links • Subscribers Social SEO Media • • Indexed Content Inbound Links • Fans, Friends & Contacts • Content Source: HubSpot ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 11. Blogging: When to Publish? • Start BEFORE you have a product • Start BEFORE you have a website • Start BEFORE you have anything! Source: HubSpot ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 12. Biggest Mistake to Avoid… • Always host a blog on your own domain… • Blog.company.com • Blog sits on a subdomain of the main domain • Company.com/blog • Blog sits on a subdirectory of the main domain Source: HubSpot ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 13. How Often You Should Blog • That depends on your goals… • Steady readership • At least weekly • More is better • SEO – getting ranked for important key words • Frequency is less important • However, more content creates more opportunities to rank ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 14. Blogging Do’s • People love stories: take a recent experience and share it • Make numbered lists of ideas, trends or thoughts • Answer questions you recently received • Comment on other blog posts you read • Write blog entries as responses to breaking news in your industry ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 15. The Value of Social Media for Business ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 16. Social Media Do’s • Build great relationships • Meet people • Start conversations • Answer questions • Help people • Follow the golden rule; give to get • Think before submitting your own stuff, no one likes a spammer • Keep it relevant • Make it useful • Make it controversial • Make it thought provoking • Keep it brief • Commit the time ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 17. The Biggest Social Media Don’ts • Creating profiles everywhere • Friending, following, connecting with anyone you can find • Selling to everyone, immediately • Using the same strategy in every environment • Facebook is not LinkedIn • Failing to measure what works • Having un-optimized and inconsistent profiles • Expecting instant results & failing to invest sufficient time and effort • Focusing internally; nobody likes a spammer. ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 18. What is Call-to-Action (CTA) Words that urge the reader, listener, or viewer of a marketing promotion to take an immediate action ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 19. Call-to-Action (CTA) Best Practices • Action oriented • Tell them what to do and start with a verb • Clear • Indicate exactly what action to take • Stress the benefits to viewers/readers • Brief and focused ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 20. What is the Weakest Call-to-Action? ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 21. Create Buzz • Quizzes • Polls • Interactive Q&A • Viral games • Marketing Stunt ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 22. Why Video? ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 23. Video is Powerful • Online video more than doubled from 2010 to 2011 • On YouTube alone over two billion videos are viewed every day • Having video on your website makes you 53x more likely to appear on the front page of Google search results… • Video into your e-mail marketing increases clickthrough rates by over 96% ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 24. What Types of Videos Can You Create? For Brand Awareness: Fun TV series Meet the Team Video Podcast Source: HubSpot ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 25. What Types of Videos Can You Create For Lead Generations: Webinars/Presentations Event Invitations Email Source: HubSpot ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 26. What Types of Videos Can You Create? For Sales Empowerment: Case Studies Product Demos Source: HubSpot ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 27. Promote: How Do Your Videos Get Found? • 30-40% of video views: Search queries Google, YouTube, Bing • 30% of views: Social sharing on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc • The rest: Discovered the video right on a website or a video platform Source: Pixability, Inc ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 28. The Top 3 Things Successful Video Marketers Do Differently 1. Produce way, way more videos: Top marketers published 11x more videos on YouTube 2. Invest in metadata that drive SEO: Top marketers used 52% more tags, 20% longer description texts and 585% more playlists 3. Use video assets on all channels: Top marketers had 53% more videos on their websites Source: Pixability, Inc ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 29. The Methodology • Get Found • Create great content • Optimize your content • Promote your content • Convert visitors to leads & customers • Landing pages of your blog, website, ANY marketing initiative you run • Track, analyze , optimize • Test ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 30. Marketing Lessons for Early Stage Start Ups • Startup success = 5% ideas + 95% is in the execution • Marketing is like dating: build relationships, create dialogues with your partners and customers, etc. • Be realistic! • Establish your own identity • TEST, TEST, TEST ©Yelena Kadeykina
- 31. A final Question… How Agile Are You? “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change” ©Yelena Kadeykina