Social media pioneer Dave Nelsen presents a variety of proven strategies to help business executives enhance the conversations with their most important internal and external customers using proven social networking, social media, and internet communication tools. These new approaches lead to increased sales, more effective marketing, improved products and services, or greater customer loyalty; in short, to improved profitability for your company.
I use this video to introduce business audiences to social media. While I've added a few personal touches, the two videos on which it's based, and the backing music are from others as shown in the credits at the beginning.
Dave Nelsen, sharing the stage with 15 world-class speakers in Houston, TX, on October 27, 2011 -- The UP Experience. Dave discusses the use of social media tools to enhance communications within the company.
Dave Nelsen speaks to roughly one hundred groups a year. Book Dave to make your next company meeting or industry association event the best yet.
GradeNation is a new start-up by Dave Nelsen and Todd Lamb. It's designed to be a free service to help parents help their kids do better in school. Imagine; higher test scores AND a new revenue stream for schools.
Idea #1 in social media for business: Using Quick Response (QR) codes to bridge somebody from the real world into our online conversation.
Introduction to social media for business, including three rules to guide participation.
The first episode in this four part series begins with entertaining examples of social media along with a formal definition. Discussion focuses on the significance for businesses and organizations in everything from market research and competitive analysis, to sales and marketing, to internal communication. Leading audio, video, text, and messaging services are identified, including TalkShoe, YouTube, Blogger, Wordpress, and Twitter. Highlights include Mayo Clinic's use of blogging and Salesfo...
The second episode in this four part series begins with T-Mobile's famous YouTube commercial, including an in-depth analysis about its impacts and implications.RSS is discussed along with the larger implications of the social web transition from "push" to "pull".Highlights include business applications of Twitter including examples from JetBlue, Dell, and Ford. Also included is an overview of web address (URL) compression using bit.ly.The episode wraps up with a discussion of audio podcasting ...
The third episode in this four part series begins with a definition of social networking and an analysis of the two ways in which social networks are organized. Discussion focuses on the significance for businesses and organizations in everything from product planning, to sales and marketing, to internal communication.Leading social networking services are identified, including MySpace, Facebook, Ning, Linkedin, and Get Satisfaction. Highlights include Starbucks, Dell, and Sprint use of Facebo...
The last episode in this four part series begins with an overview of Ning and several examples of business applications.Next is an introduction to Get Satisfaction and examples of business applications by Zappos, Microsoft, Comcast and others.That's followed by a short overview of ChaCha and a discussion about social media creators, interactors, and consumers. Finally, the series wraps up with a review of 21 ideas for using social media and social networking to accelerate your business. More i...