how to use social media and blogging to find new clients
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IC-8 How to Use Social Media & Blogging to Find New Clients
by Catherine Christaki
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Agenda
• Social prospecting • General tips • Blogging • Twitter • Facebook • Linkedin
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Social prospecting
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process of identifying assets and resources in the community allows you to mine the social web to identify new likely buyers
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Social Media Marketing is how businesses join the conversation in an authentic and transparent way to build relationships.
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Agenda
• Social prospecting • General tips • Blogging • Twitter • Facebook • Linkedin
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Our main goals
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•Find clients and be found •Build relationships •Grow your network
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Our main goals
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Have a clear view of who you are trying to reach Then, come up with a strategy for doing so
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Keywords
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Find out who’s hiring & the keywords they’re using See ‘Qualifications’ of job listing for the key skills
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Keywords
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Update your profiles with the keywords you identified Never lie about your skills!
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/ Identify your ideal clients
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Social media provides an easy platform for targeted advertising & marketing
Understand the basics on each medium (social media & blogging)
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Listening
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Method #1 (Talking): You post, tweet, send newsletter to clients. Clients like what they see, and contact you. Method #2 (Listening): Potential clients post, tweet, and pose questions that need to be answered. You read them and reach out to the clients.
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What is content marketing?
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Gathering, assembling and sharing content in the form of articles, social media and blogs. To make ourselves visible, credible & searchable, we need to create relevant, interesting, & insightful content.
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Benefits of Content Marketing
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•Increased visibility •Higher trust levels from clients •Increased customer loyalty •90% of consumers find custom content useful
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Blogging for client attraction
Be Current Be Relevant Be Yourself
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Blogging for client attraction
Figure out your target audience Write quality content Position yourself to help Share your expertise & success stories Write content that solves your clients’ problems
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Blogging for client attraction
Demonstrate your expertise Use examples, quotes, testimonials Be known as a resource
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Blogging for client attraction
•Share where your ideal clients are •Add a ‘hire me’ tab •Include blog posts in your email signature
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Blogging for client attraction
•Online presence hub •Guest blogging •Interviews •Presentations
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Blogging for client attraction
Example #1: Write a post about an event you attended and invite the organizers to read it Example #2: Write a review about the localized version of a game you played, invite the developers to read it, then email them and offer your services
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Blogging for client attraction
Blog = Excellent low-cost marketing tool to grow your business
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Agenda
• Social prospecting • General tips • Blogging • Twitter • Facebook • Linkedin
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Twitter for finding clients
Get to know the people behind the company Twitter people search for company accounts, e.g. @Oracle
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Twitter for finding clients
Search for keywords or hashtags, e.g. Italian game #localizer Include a location in your search to find local potential clients
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Twitter for finding clients
Introduce yourself & offer your services Connecting on Twitter breeds familiarity Relevant and helpful tweets!
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Twitter for finding clients
Share the love Collect twestimonials Offer free help and advice
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Twitter for finding clients
Bonus tip for freelance translators who work with translation agencies
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Agenda
• Social prospecting • General tips • Blogging • Twitter • Facebook • Linkedin
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Facebook for finding clients
Keywords again! •Use Graph Search •Sift through the results •Follow up on the search
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Facebook for finding clients
Subscribe or send friend requests to interesting people Share useful content Join relevant groups
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Agenda
• Social prospecting • General tips • Blogging • Twitter • Facebook • Linkedin
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Linkedin for prospecting
53% of LinkedIn users join 10 or more groups Join linguist groups & groups where you are likely to find your potential clients
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Linkedin for prospecting
Active participation •Start discussions •Reply to discussions •Share your knowledge
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Linkedin for prospecting
Search for groups using keywords
See which groups you have connections in, speak your native language, are based in your area.
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Linkedin for prospecting
Make Your Profile Easy to Find Add strong keywords in Title and Summary Diversify your contacts outside your field
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Linkedin for prospecting
Research potential clients Create strategic alliances
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Linked in for prospecting
Search for opportunities •Search by relationship, groups, location and industry •Use Tags in Contacts to sort results & save profiles
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Linked in for prospecting
•Acknowledge special occasions •Recommendations •Share content that adds value •Actively use your company page
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Convinced yet?
Prospecting and getting employers to chase you down takes time and effort. You have to do the hard work that makes it easy for them to find you, and you have to keep it up.
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Catherine Christaki Site: www.linguagreca.com Adventures in Freelance Translation www.linguagreca.com/blog @LinguaGreca Lingua Greca Translations Catherine Christaki
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