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Social Media for B2B: Nashville 

Courtyard Nashville Downtown 
170 Fourth Ave North, Nashville , TN  37219 
5/15/2012 8:00 AM  - 5/16/2012 5:00 PM 

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                    Listen to a sneak peek podcast by Instructor
            Dana VanDen Heuvel, Founder, The MarketingSavant Group

                                 Social Media for B2B Brochure

Like it or not, social media is playing an ever more important role in the B2B decision making and sales process. As a B2B marketer, having command of the social media tools that are most relevant in the enterprise class sales and marketing environment is critical to the success of your future. B2B Social Media is for the marketer who is in a business-to-business marketing setting seeking to get a social media marketing program in place or is looking to take their social media success to the next level. B2B Social Media will teach you how to drive leads, revenue and repeat business through social media by engaging advocates, influencers and purchasers who are not just engaging online but energizing your bottom line.You’ll learn advanced strategies and tactics for reaching business buyers and building a long-lasting online community around your organization using the best practices in social media. You will also learn how to take social media beyond marketing and acquire the tools you need to deputize your sales team and front-line employees for enterprise-wide social media engagement.

Finally, you’ll build a multi-channel social media campaign, social media metrics dashboard and engage in case-based problem solving with a high-energy group of marketing peers that are keen to take their social media programs up a notch or two.

Learning Objectives:

- Be able to build a complete B2B multi-channel, social media enabled
marketing strategy

- Be able to grow the base of followers, fans, readers and engaged
participants across all of the social media channels that a brand is
currently engaged in.

- Align social media with your industrial buying process

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received 4 weeks prior to the event will receive a refund of fees minus $150 cancellation fee. Cancellations received within 4 weeks of the event will receive a refund of fees minus $300. There will be no cancellations on or after the start date of the training.

About the Instructor
Dana VanDen Heuvel

Day 1:
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Program (includes Lunch, Morning and Afternoon Break)

Morning:

1. Level setting and expectations – What is social media and why do I
need it?

a. Why social media for B2B enterprises?

b. What’s working in B2B social media

c. EXERCISE What are your social media barriers and how can we
work through them?

d. What’s the pain point that you’ve come here to resolve (determined
through pre-event survey)

e. The impact of social media on B2B purchaser behavior

f. EXERCISE Checklist – Is your company ready for social media?

2. Fundamental concepts of social media

    1. Social content and the content imperative in B2B social media
    2. EXERCISE Social media asset discovery – what content do you have/can you create to start the conversation?
    3. Social platforms and Internet community
    4. Social status and the role of status updates in B2B
    5. The ‘media’ of social media – video, documents, images

  1. Behind the scenes of 5 large social media marketing success stories

a. 5 in-depth B2B social media marketing case studies and the
tactics they used to be successful

  1. Building the social media plan
    1. Laying the foundation of objectives, audience, capacity, commitment, metrics and policy
    2. EXERCISE Begin filling in the social media plan
    3. Understanding your customers in social media
    4. EXERCISE Devise a customer survey on social media habits

Afternoon:

1. Integrating social media into the customer life cycle

a. Mapping social media to the sales cycle

b. Mapping social media to the service cycle

c. Mapping social media to customer retention

d. EXERCISE Social media revenue cycle mapping and integration

2. Social media beyond marketing

e. Customer service in social media

f. Enterprise social media applications

g. Lead nurturing with social and digital media

3. Planning the social media enabled campaign

b. How to integrate social media into your existing online and offline
campaigns

c. Behind the scenes: Examples of fully integrated – social media
enabled campaigns

d. EXERCISE Build a full-on multi-channel social media enabled
campaign for a fictitious company.

4. Response and engagement in social media

e. How to handle interaction

f. Working with positive and negative interaction

Day 2:
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Program (includes Lunch, Morning and Afternoon Break)

Morning:

1. Enabling the social media sales force

a. High-impact social media activities for salespeople

b. Connecting your sales force, distributors, volunteers and other
human assets to your social media mission

c. Social CRM

d. EXERCISE Devise a sales force survey on social media habits

2. Business development and social media

a. Social media and LinkedIn for competitive intelligence gathering

b. Sourcing candidates through social media

3. Advanced social media asset management – connecting all of the
social media dots

a. How to leverage your social media assets for more comprehensive
lead gen/awareness building/thought leadership

4. Enabling the social media organization

a. Social media policy and education for the enterprise

b. EXERCISE Checklist – What’s in your social media policy?

c. How to mobilize and deputize an entire company for social media
success

d. Staffing up for social media

i. How do organizations both large and small manage their
social media presence

1. Who do they hire? Why? What positions?

2. How much time to they devote?

Afternoon:

1. Social media metrics and analytics

a. Platform-specific metrics and what they mean

1. Facebook metrics

2. Twitter metrics (and the variety of tools to measure them)

3. Blog metrics

4. Video and photo metrics

5. How to tie social media metrics to your web analytics tools

b. EXERCISE Social media metrics for your enterprise

2. Social media ROI

c. Determining the value of social media interactions

d. How 5 leading organizations calculate the ROI of their social media
engagement

e. Building a social media engagement dashboard

f. Using advanced social media monitoring tools to gather industry
and market intelligence

1. Using things like Radian 6, Vocus and the like

g. EXERCISE Checklist – What’s included in your social media ROI
calculation?

3. Advanced Tactics

h. Advanced blogging techniques for the established conversationalist

i. Advanced Facebook pages and group tactics that grow your fan
base

j. Advanced Twitter tools and tactics

k. Advanced video and multimedia tools and tactics

4. Social media and trade shows

l. The social media enabled trade show – examples, tools and
strategies

m. EXERCISE Build a mock social media enabled trade show plan

5. Staying out of trouble with social media

n. The FTC and you

o. The WOMMA disclosure guidelines

p. Navigating the recent social media and online marketing legislation

6. Taking it back to the job, wrap-up and review

Hotel Air Travel Rental Car Ground Transportation

Training Intensive Hotel Location 
Courtyard Nashville Downtown
170 Fourth Ave North
Nashville, TN 37219
Phone: 1 615.256.0900
Fax: 1 615.256.0901
Website: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bnadt-courtyard-nashville-downtown/  

Unique among Nashville Tennessee hotels, the Courtyard by Marriott Nashville Downtown is a stunning, century-old high-rise set in the heart of the city's historic/entertainment district. This downtown Nashville hotel is within walking distance to the entertainment district of Broadway and 2nd Avenues, all of Nashville's business and government buildings, the Convention Center, and each sports venue. The Courtyard not only offers a preferred location, but many new amenities and comforts. Guest rooms are adorned with exciting decor and offer new beds, renovated bathrooms and in-room refrigerators. A well-equipped fitness center helps maintain your work out routine. In the historic Great Room, the Courtyard Cafe serves a hearty, affordable breakfast buffet each morning, plus the Exchange Lounge offers beverage specials Monday through Saturday.

Room Rates:
$169.00 Single/Double occupancy per night
(plus applicable state & local taxes, currently 15.25% plus $2.50 per room, per night city occupancy fee)
Please reserve your overnight accommodations early as there are a limited number of AMA special rates available.

Please call 1 800.321.2211 or 1 615.256.0900 & reference the American Marketing Association to make reservations. The reservation cut-off date is April 16, 2012. After April 16, 2012 reservations will be accepted based on availability and at the prevailing rate.

A deposit equal to (1) one night’s stay is required to hold your reservation. Deposits are refundable if cancellations are received by 6:00 p.m. hotel time on the day of arrival and a cancellation number is obtained.

Check in time is 3:00 p.m., and check out is at 12:00 p.m. Anyone arriving earlier than 3:00 p.m. will be checked in as soon as a room(s) becomes available. Guests checking out early may be assessed an early departure fee. Upon check in, guests will be asked to verify their departure date. At that time, scheduled departure dates may be altered. 

Hotel Features, Services & Accommodations
Please visit the hotel website http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bnadt-courtyard-nashville-downtown/ for a full list of services & features.

Area Attractions, Events and Tourism
Visit the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau website http://www.visitmusiccity.com/indexfull.php.  

Conference Attire 
Conference attire is business casual. Meeting rooms tend to be cool so you may wish to bring a sweater/jacket.

ADA
The AMA is committed to providing equal access to our meetings for all attendees. If you are an attendee with a disability and require program accommodations, please contact the AMA Meeting Services Department, and a member of our staff will ensure that appropriate access arrangements are made. If you have specific disability related needs for your hotel sleeping room, please be sure to communicate those directly to the hotel when you make your reservation. In an effort to provide the highest quality of service to all attendees, we require that details of all access requests be communicated to our office at least 14 days in advance of the beginning of the meeting.

AMA's travel coordinator, Tower Travel Management, is available to assist with reservations.  Call 1 800.542.9700 within the U.S. and Canada.  Reservation lines are open Monday through Friday 8 am-6 pm CST.  Or, you may contact them via email at association@towertravel.com.  

Tower Travel will proactively research airfares on ALL airline carriers to ensure that the lowest available fares are offered to all attendees.  They are dedicated to providing superior customer service and hassle-free travel arrangements.  Please note that fees, restrictions and cancellation penalties will apply.

Alamo Rent-A-Car
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Pick-up and drop-off service is subject to geographic and other restrictions.

National Car Rental
As an American Marketing Association member, you'll get up to 20% off rentals at National Car Rental.  And, with the Emerald Club® from National Car Rental, you can bypass the counter and choose your own car. To enroll now, click here: www.emeraldclub.com.  
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Area Airports & Directions
Nashville International Airport - BNA
Hotel direction: 9 mile(s) NW
Driving directions:
Take Interstate 40 West to exit 209 for Church Street/Charlotte Avenue. Turn right onto Church Street at the second traffic light and follow Church Street all the way to 4th Avenue. The hotel is on the right at the corner of 4th Avenue and Church Street.

Estimated taxi fare: $25.00 (one way)

Shuttle Service
Airport Express provides airport transportation to and from the Nashville International Airport. Please visit the website http://graylinetn.com/services/airport-express1 for more information or call 1 615.275.1180.  
Approximate fare (subject to change without notice): $14.00 one-way

Parking at the Hotel
The Hotel offers valet parking for $22.00 per day.  Rates are subject to change without notice.

There are no exhibit opportunities with this event.