what your sbdc clients need to know about marketing today to succeed

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A presentation by Douglas Burdett to the annual meeting of the Virginia Small Business Development Center.

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What Your SBDC Clients Need to Know About

Marketing Today to SucceedVirginia SBDC Network

June 5, 2013Douglas Burdett

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If you only read one marketing book, read this one.

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The marketing playbook is broken. The Marketing Playbook Is

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. . The Marketing Playbook is BROKEN.

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This Is Not Our Parents’ World Anymore

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXD-Uqx6_Wk

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People hate being marketed to

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People can avoid your marketing messages

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People can research your company or product without

contacting youTuesday, June 4, 2013

Now the buyer is in control

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But, there is a silver lining for small business owners

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Marketing success now has more to do with

the size of your brain...

...than the size of your wallet.

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So what’s the secret to marketing success today?

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Think Like a Publisher!

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Also Known

As...

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What’s the most important marketing asset every business

needs now?

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A solid online marketing platform

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Websites aren’t as expensive as they

used to be.

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Less than $50/month*

You can set up a hosted site

*Includes hosting, plugins and email service

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Make sure your site is mobile

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Tip: enter your URL for a free, comprehensive website analysis

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Develop Buyer Personas(detailed profiles of your

ideal consumers)

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[Video] David Meerman Scott on Buyer Personashttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvTszioAN4

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What words would your prospects use to describe the problem they have that your company can solve?

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Determine what long-tail keywords prospects use when searching for a solution that you provide.

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Find your keywords with this free tool:https://adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool

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And then blog about those keywords.

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Blogging

“No matter what, the very first piece of social media real estate I'd start with is a blog.”

-Chris Brogan

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Blogging Tip

• Make a list of the top 25 questions you get from prospective customers (or influencers) and write a blog post about each one.

• Include relevant long-tail keywords

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Blogging Benefits

Source: HubSpot, 2013 SOIM Report

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Companies that blog get 55% more website traffic than those

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Companies that blog get 70% more leads than those that don’t blog.

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57% of companies have acquired a customer through their blog.

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Once you have remarkable content, spread the word

with social mediaTuesday, June 4, 2013

Social Media

“Content is fire. Social media is gasoline. “

-Jay Baer

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Capture Email

Addresses!

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DO NOT buy email lists!

• Using lists that did not opt in to your marketing messages can tarnish your IP address and hinder your ability to send any email.

• Spamming is illegal (CAN SPAM act)

• Recipients will hate you.

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A word about search engine optimization

(SEO)...

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85% of the links search users click on are organic - not paid

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Which means that getting your site found

organically is really important

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Got links? On-page optimization accounts for only15% of SEO

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How To Rank Well on Search Engines

Have content so great and useful that other sites will link to it and people will

share it on social media

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Measure Everything

Then, do more of what works, and less of what doesn’t work.

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http://academy.hubspot.com/certification

Educate yourself. It’s free!

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Thank You!

• www.ArtilleryMarketing.com/IncomingPresentation & Survey:

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Photo Credits• http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/4757032987 (clouds)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/zabowski/3430603734 (flipping the bird)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielavladimirova/4679740934 (shhh)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/markjsebastian/325820210 (internet research)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/antonjackson/6897860342 (wrestlers)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/malakhkelevra/4951863053/ (top secret)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/gagilas/6974761035 (typing)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnian/2341252716 (55)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnian/863664806 (70)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/big-ashb/7004347156 (57)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/erix/55243213 (speakers)

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/therichbrooks/2600080329 (butterfly net)

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