Social Media - You're Invited

30/07/2010 - Manchester

To a Digital Conversation - Social Media

How can you engage with your audience and profit from the Social Media revolution?

Whatever your business, social media has revolutionised it!

In order to build our businesses we are all constantly looking for innovative, fresh and exciting ways to reach out and encourage people to engage with us.

With this in mind, we have assembled a range of speakers to talk about how the social revolution has affected their specific sectors and to share what they have learnt along the way.

We will show how social media strategies have been used to increase profitability, improve reputations and empower employees to be brand ambassadors.

You'll pick up tips on how social can be leveraged to:

• Drive new traffic to a website.
• Increase a company's online visibility.
• Win over online influencers.
• Generate a true social media ROI.

You'll come away with new ideas and an in-depth understanding of how to:

• Best use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs and online communities to develop a social marketing strategy that drives real business.
• Link social media strategy with SEO to improve your natural search ranking and increase relevant traffic to your site.
• Track marketing campaigns, monitor discussions, and measure success.

The Client:

Nicola Peate - Social Media Guru from Keep Britain Tidy

Nicola will explain how social media has changed the playing field in digital marketing - "It's time to let people do the talking and the brand do the listening!" She will show that it's not about big budgets; it's big conversations that can lead to strong ROI.

The Agency:

Paul O'Donoghue - CEO from the Reading Room's Distillery

The Distillery has been working with G4S (the second largest private employer in the world) and has applied their "3 S's" - Strategy, Social and Seeding to create a social engagement platform to connect 14 budding Olympian hopefuls from around the world.

When:
31st Aug 2010

5.30 - Arrival drinks
6.10 - Welcome
6.15 - The Client
6.40 - The Agency
7.10 - Drinks and canapés and the odd bit of real world social networking!

Venue:
Roof Lounge, Great John Street Hotel, Manchester, M3 4FD (View Map)
www.greatjohnstreet.co.uk

Please let us know if you would like to bring a friend or two.