January 2010 Entrepreneur's Forum
On January 7, 2010, Ultra Light Startups is hosting an expert panel on PR, Branding, and Buzz. After six months of covering and blogging about the various events put on by Ultra Light Startups, I’m now pleased to actively participate and moderate the first Entrepreneur’s Forum of the upcoming new year.
Our panel of experts will include:
Todd Barrish, Managing Director, LaunchSquad
Rachel Honig, Managing Direct, G.S. Schwartz & Co.
Karl Schmieder, Founder, MessagingLab
Lloyd Trufelman, Founder of Trylon SMR, publisher of NYConvergence
PR, Branding, and Buzz are terms that have various and ever changing meanings as the “new media” technology evolves around each one of us. Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, WordPress and LinkedIn seem to launch a new application or sharing tool almost every week.
My company, Bizbriefs, has used many of these tools in conjunction with one another to help various businesses boost their SEO rankings and divert more attention to their websites.
What I’ve found is that it’s not how you use one of these social media tools by themselves, but how you can link them together and start a viral campaign with a targeted audience.
Every business owner seems to have a favorite social media site, just one that they feel most comfortable using. However, not using other site options to support their efforts, means losing out on potential prospects and future customers.
In conducting several social media campaigns during the past three years, I’ve learned that there are certain steps you should take before just diving in.
- You have to identify the true audience your customers are trying to reach first.
- Once that’s done, you must craft the message or the image that each company wants to portray to the online community.
Too many times, companies want you to just get started, without knowing the message they want to deliver or what audience they hope to reach.
To learn more about branding, buzz and PR strategies, join us at for the first Entrepreneur’s Forum in 2010 sponsored by Ultra Light Startups.
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Hey John,
Great post – I'm looking forward to the event next month to see some of these ideas play out on the panel. You touch on both PR and Social Media here. Are these one in the same or are they different things? Should PR consist of only (or mainly social media)?
Graham.
Hey John,
Great post – I'm looking forward to the event next month to see some of these ideas play out on the panel. You touch on both PR and Social Media here. Are these one in the same or are they different things? Should PR consist of only (or mainly social media)?
Graham.
Hey John,
Great post – I'm looking forward to the event next month to see some of these ideas play out on the panel. You touch on both PR and Social Media here. Are these one in the same or are they different things? Should PR consist of only (or mainly social media)?
Graham.
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