Bob Cargill’s Marketing Show

Use Social Media to Become World-Famous

Episode 38 - Use Social Media to Become World-Famous

Speak your mind.

Share your knowledge.

Express your opinion.

Sell your stuff.

Use social media to your advantage.

You can’t afford to be shy in this day and age, not if you’re in marketing, advertising, sales or PR.

There really is no excuse for anyone in business today to not have their 15 minutes of fame – and then some.

This is no time for businesses and brands to hem and haw over what they’re going to say on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and the like.

This is their time to wake up and realize they’re going to fall dangerously behind the competition if they don’t get after it now.

The 90-9-1 Rule in Group Communications

Episode 37 - The 90-9-1 Rule in Group Communications

In this episode, Bob explains the meaning of the 90-9-1 rule in group communications, and what it has to do with your success on social media. Listen. 

 

Transparency Beats Privacy on Social Media

Episode 36 - Transparency Beats Privacy on Social Media 

You can't have social media without being social.

And...you can't really be social without being transparent.

That’s why transparency beats privacy on social media...everytime.

Being private means to be holding something back, to be hiding something from public view…and ideally, social media is transparent, fully transparent.

That's what I believe, anyway, and that was the premise...kinda sorta...of the 2017 movie, The Circle.

The Circle was based on a novel written by Dave Eggers in 2013. The movie is about a tech company called The Circle which places small cameras everywhere to provide real-time video of practically everything.

It's a little creepy, sure, and certainly scary for some.

But it is my opinion that the premise of the movie, the pros and cons of being fully transparent, is something that not only those of us in social media and marketing will be dealing with more and more in the future, but also society at large.

Brands, businesses, people who are using social media for professional reasons…those whose attention you covet will be far more attracted to you if you let down your guard and share who you really are with them.

They will respect you for being just like them, human, as opposed to being some far-fetched, unrealistic image of perfection.

That's how it should be in both our professional and personal lives, if you ask me. Share and share alike.

In my opinion, transparency beats privacy not just on social media, but in real life, too.

The Importance of Customer Service

Episode 35 - The Importance of Customer Service

It's known as friction.

It's anything that gets in the way of anything less than a stellar customer experience.

Brick-and-mortar retail operations can't afford to have any degree of friction come between them and their customers in this day and age.

There are simply too many competitors vying for the same sales, whether that competition is located down the street or somewhere on the internet.

Customer service can be the difference between success and failure.

Poor customer service is not only bad for business, it can put you OUT of business.

The best products, the best prices, the best marketing, the best advertising...can't overcome an abundance of friction.

Create Social Media Moments and Memories for Your Audience

Episode 34 - Create Social Media Moments and Memories for Your Audience

Look all around you. Everybody is taking pictures everywhere they go.

You want to capitalize on this trend.

Anything you do as a business, organization, team or individual needs to be optimized for social media.

Your people. Your office. Your content. Your events. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you want to be making it easy for your connections and customers to share something to do with your brand with their own respective networks.

Your fans and followers want to talk about you. They want to amplify everything about you to a wider circle of people. They’re looking for something to capture and disseminate via their own feeds on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the like.

Give them the opportunities.

Give them the inspiration.

Create social media moments and memories for your audience.

Take a Stand Like a Big Brand

Episode 33 - Take a Stand Like a Big Brand

Good for Nike.

I think it's incumbent upon brands and businesses to speak up for what they believe in...not just on behalf of sales.

It doesn't matter how they feel about the issue.

What matters is that they realize they have the platform and the responsibility to say something...as long as they believe they can make a positive contribution to the dialogue.

The marketer in me thinks this may even help, not hurt Nike's revenue.

But much more important, as a human being, I have greater respect for those who are authentic, transparent, open and honest.

People do business with people, not corporate logos.

Iconic swoosh or not, Nike just let consumers know that they are just like us.

Like it or not, they dared express an opinion and join the conversation.

In this day and age, that's more part and parcel of marketing than we may realize.

In the very near future, that just may be the norm, not the outlier.

Good for Nike.

Good for America.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind on Social Media

Episode 32 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind on Social Media

Don’t be out of sight, out of mind on social media.

Fans, followers, customers, connections…they expect to see you here, there and everywhere on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, wherever they congregate online.

If you want to build a business or a brand, you can’t afford not to be active on social media.

Opting out for personal reasons is one thing. No worries. Some people like their privacy.

Your friends and family may think you’ve gone into hiding, of course, but that’s your prerogative.

As a professional, though…it is expected nowadays that anyone who has anything to do with marketing, sales, advertising and PR has plenty to do with social media.

Anyone in business, really, should at least have a presence on social media. It’s the way we communicate today.

Satellite Stages on Social Media

Episode 31 - Satellite Stages on Social Media

I heard Bono on Sirius XM Satellite Radio recently say something about satellite stages.

His band, U2, uses these types of stages, often set up in the middle of the audience, to get up-close and personal with their fans.

That’s how it is for brands, businesses and anyone who uses social media for professional reasons, too.

Your website is your main stage, your presence on social media your satellite stages. Use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the like to give your own audience the opportunity to see and hear more from you as a human being, not just a corporate logo.

Put yourself out there.

Connect with your followers.

Engage with your fans.

Use social media like a series of satellite stages on which you display a more believable and authentic you.

How do you drive traffic to your website?

Episode 30 - How do you drive traffic to your website? 

There are countless ways to drive traffic to your website, but social media may be the best among them. Listen. 

Be Busy Like Busy on Social Media

Episode 29 - Be Busy Like Busy on Social Media

Be busy on social media.

Be busy like Busy Phillips.

She’s a successful actor, but she’s becoming almost even more famous lately on social media, specifically Instagram, where she shares a ton about both her personal and professional lives.

Good for her. And good for her more than 1,000,000 followers on that channel.

She’s a social media superstar, a perfect example to the rest of us how you should be using these online communications channels.

And her fans…they’re able to feel closer to someone they know and love.

That’s how it should be for any celebrity today. 

That’s how it should be for any popular executive or brand, too.

Don’t be hesitant about putting yourself out there. 

Don’t think twice about sharing with your audience who you are day in and day out.

Be busy like Busy Phillips on social media.