Jeff Esposito

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What does social media success look like?

Jeff Esposito

While those may seem like blanket buckets, look at the examples below to see how these buckets can help ease reporting. For example if you have 20,000 fans on your Facebook page and generate 200 orders for $6,000 in the past month, you can begin to place business value on these fans. Making money. Generating sales.

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How much time should you devote to social media?

Jeff Esposito

For example, a roofing company that sees a homeowner on Twitter complaining about a leaky roof can get their foot in the door by offering do-it-yourself suggestions or a free consultation. If this is important to you and your company, create and share relevant content with your community on a regular basis.

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SXSW 2012 – Social Media’s Maturity Coming Out Party

Jeff Esposito

For example, companies sent more “suits” to the conference than in past years; and the space’s biggest publication, Mashable, was in acquisition talks with CNN for $200M. Users need their daily fix, making it a destination site and a place that brands need to be active. Facebook has created the perfect drug and knows it.

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Picking a leader for your social media program

Jeff Esposito

For example, if the product team wanted to crowdsource improvements for six products in a given quarter, but is stuck looking at20 variations of an improvement to one product, the leader’s job is to help the team refocus on the larger task and prioritize work and time to reach their goals. Community Organizer.

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Don't burn bridges

Jeff Esposito

Communications and customer service folks have been utilizing tools and building communities and brand awareness while driving revenue as a secondary benefit. Facebook for example, has over 500 million users on the site. There is no question that social media is the hotness for the 2010-2011 fiscal years for companies.

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A lesson in what not to do in social media from Barack Obama

Jeff Esposito

Many social media books use his historic campaign as an example or case study of an effective social media strategy. Now that he’s in office, however, there is significant room for improvement in his social media activity. Once you set expectations for your community you need to keep them up. So please keep that in mind.