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Social Media for B2B: Las Vegas 

SpringHill Suites Las Vegas Convention Center 2989 Paradise Road  
Las Vegas , NV  89109  
1/18/2012 8:00 AM  - 1/19/2012 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
Toby Bloomberg

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 Series Location
SpringHill Suites Las Vegas Convention Center
2989 Paradise Road
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Phone:  1 702.433.5880
Fax:  1 702.433.5161
Hotel Website: www.marriott.com/laspr 

Welcome to the new SpringHill Suites Las Vegas, a new addition to the Las Vegas Convention Center hotels, where you'll have the space you need to get things done or unwind. Close to the Las Vegas Strip, the stylish and smartly designed Las Vegas Convention Center hotel suites are 25% larger than comparably priced standard hotel rooms, giving you room to succeed. SpringHill Suites Las Vegas is conveniently located within minutes from the Las Vegas airport (LAS). Looking for recreation close to your Las Vegas Convention Center hotel? With the central hotel location you can conveniently play all of Las Vegas' premier golf courses including Rio Secco, TPC Las Vegas, Bears Best and Bali Hai. After a day of golf stop by the SpringHill Suites Las Vegas Inspiration Lounge for a cocktail or lite meal or order room service. Premier dining is also a short walk or cab ride from the hotel. Choose from the famous Piero's Italian, exotic RA Sushi or the renowned Capital Grill Steakhouse. 

Rates: $124.00 Single/Double occupancy (plus applicable state & local taxes, currently 12%)

Rates are based on availability.

Rates include complimentary breakfast and in-room high speed internet access.

Please call 1 800.228.9290 or 1 702.433.5880 & mention the American Marketing Association Training Series “Social Media B2B”. You must make your hotel reservations by December 27, 2011 and properly identify yourself to qualify for the special group rate.    

In order to confirm a reservation, the hotel will require a credit card or first night’s room & tax deposit, refundable up to 1 day prior to your arrival.  Cancellations made within 24 hours prior to arrival & no-shows will forfeit the initial deposit.

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.

Area Attractions, Events and Tourism
Please visit the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority at www.visitlasvegas.com/ for additional information.

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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.

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Directions

Area Airport
Las Vegas - LAS
Phone:  1 702 261 5211
Distance: 2.5 miles N

Driving Directions: From McCarran Int'l Airport: North on Swenson Avenue turn left on Harmon, then take       an immediate right on Paradise Road go North 1.5 miles past Convention Center Drive, hotel will be located    approximately ¼ mile up on the left hand side. From Car Rental Terminal: Turn Right out of Rental Car              Center and go 0.2 miles and turn right onto Warm Springs Road, then turn right onto Las Vegas Blvd. Go       North on Las Vegas Blvd for 5.3 miles and turn right on Convention Center Drive. Follow to Paradise Road,     turn left. Hotel is 0.1 miles on the Left.

Transportation
Taxicabs are readily available at the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport & the estimated taxi fare is $20.00 one-way.

The hotel does not provide airport shuttle service.

Parking at the Hotel
The SpringHill Suites Las Vegas Convention Center offers complimentary parking.

 

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