Members of the National Speakers Association and Canadian Association of Professional Speakers are familiar with Short Circuit Media. In addition to being a sponsor at NSA Influence ’11 in Anaheim, and The CAPS National Conventions in Montreal and Toronto, we’ve worked with a number of members to improve their marketing efforts online.
Our most recent work with Kurt Shaver – www.thesalesfoundry.com – is indicative of the results we can bring to your business.
Using the latest social media integration tools, SEO and multiple lead capture forms, we have transformed Kurt’s whole business in less than 8 weeks!
If you are about to publish, read this post on promoting a book, using microsites and autoresponders. We believe this is the way every book should be marketed.
CASE STUDY 1: The Sales Foundry
Rebranded and relaunched Kurt Shaver’s site The Sales Foundry using WordPress.
Began the process by doing an extensive keyword analysis to create content that would attract traffic from Google.
The first thing you’ll see on the home page is a set of rotating banners that promote all of Kurt’s services. You’ll also note how prominent the signup is for his monthly newsletter along with the icons for each one of Kurt’s social media pages.
Above each piece of content on every page we have icons to help people share individual pages across various social media – LinkedIn, Facebook, Google.
And on Kurt’s blog, we’ve replaced the default WordPress comments with Facebook comments to reduce spam and provide another opportunity for people to bring the conversation into the social sphere.
Staying with the blog for a second, we’ve connected the pipes so that whenever Kurt creates a new blog entry, that content is fed out Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn automatically. We used Feedburner for this.
But if someone is interested they can sign up to receive blog postings via email or install a native Android or Blackberry app.
Social media a a great way to let folks share content. But it’s important to have something worth sharing. Here you will see a quiz that allows folks to do a self assessment for the LinkedIn effectiveness.
Other items a lot of folks seem to miss when building a site, that we’ve included:
- Proper XML sitemap
- Privacy statement
- Feedburner RSS feed
- Copyright
- Physical address
- Videos
CASE STUDY 2: Jim Clemmer
Reinvent his online presence,by integrating the latest social marketing tools with his existing content to increase traffic and get his message out to an international audience.
To do this we:
- Rebuilt his existing site using the Joomla Content Management System
- Integrated a hosted WordPress blog
- Installed detailed web analytics to track successes and traffic
- Created a custom YouTube channel
- Set up Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin accounts
- Switched our email newsletter distribution to aweber.com
- Created and distribute ebook versions of Jim’s titles using Smashwords
- Arranged for distribution of audios through iTunes
- Created an iPhone app for Jim’s book Moose on the Table
- Set up a search engine optimization program (SEO)
Additionally, we were able to increase distribution of all Jim’s books (including those that were long out of print) to Canada, United States, UK and EU using Lightning Source’s Print on Demand services. As a result Jim’s books are available through online retailers like Amazon, Chapters and Barnes and Noble – with local pricing and shipping costs.
In addition to my all-in Your Virtual Marketing Director program, I’ve also developed a number of budget-conscious options for speakers and consultants who would like to kickstart their marketing by implementing social media to already existing sites. This can be as simple as integrating Facebook functionality or implementing a full social media strategy.
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