Embracing the Shifts in Social Media

MIKE ALLTON, STEPHANIE LIU & AMANDA ROBINSON

In This Episode

• Frequency illusion
• Shifts in social media
• Storytelling
• Chatbots
• Investing in processes

Quotations From This Episode

“A VA can be just as powerful of a tool as an Excel spreadsheet.” — @Mike_Allton

“Embrace the shift.” — @heystephanie

“Chatbots aren’t a mechanism for spam. They’re a vehicle for delivering information and for acquiring information.” — @Thedigitalgal

BIOGRAPHIES

Mike Allton is a Content Marketing Practitioner―a title he invented to represent his holistic approach to content marketing that leverages blogging, social media, email marketing, and SEO to drive traffic, generate leads, and convert those leads into sales. He is an award-winning Blogger, Speaker, and Author at The Social Media Hat, and Brand Evangelist at Agorapulse. As Brand Evangelist, Mike works directly with other social media educators, influencers, agencies, and brands to explore and develop profitable relationships with Agorapulse.

Stephanie Liu is one of the most sought-after international speakers on live video, known for her dynamic stage presence and cutting-edge Facebook engagement tactics. She led paid search advertising for one of the largest search agencies in the United States, served as the Director of Social Strategy for San Diego’s leading ad agency and has created powerful campaigns for small businesses to giant, multimillion-dollar corporations. As a digital marketing strategist, she spent a decade deep in the trenches of agency life where her experience opened doors to working with big brand names such as Coach, Givenchy, Nike, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Her work has been recognized and awarded by Online Marketing Media and Advertising (OMMA) and PR Daily. Stephanie is most notably known for her Facebook Live show called Lights, Camera, Live®, where she helps businesses succeed with live video.

Amanda Robinson is the founder of The Digital Gal. She is widely sought after in the digital marketing industry for her knowledge and experience as a Facebook Ads expert. She advises Social Media Examiner’s membership group, the Social Media Marketing Society, with over 2,000 entrepreneurs and digital marketers. She is regularly featured as a guest on digital marketing podcasts and speaks both on stage and in workshop settings on everything from Facebook Ads and Analytics to Messenger Marketing Chatbots. In recent projects, Amanda was a key player in #RoadToSocial, a Social Media Road trip across the US Midwest covering 3 back-to-back digital marketing conferences with 1.9M reach and 20.3M impressions on the #RoadToSocial content. Amanda’s real flair for digital marketing comes with her hands-on experience with extreme deep dives into data analysis focusing on analytics, SEO, ad targeting, split testing, and ways to make your marketing dollars more efficient.

About their book:

The world runs on social media – and so should your business. While over 54 percent of users make purchasing decisions using social media, only 49 percent of companies have a documented social media strategy. Your business can’t afford to be left behind.

Social media marketing experts Eric Butow, Jenn Herman, Stephanie Liu, Amanda Robinson and Mike Allton team up to take readers through a 360-degree view of social media marketing from strategy to tactics, from organic to paid, from B2B to B2C, encompassing all of the current social media networks from Facebook and LinkedIn to emerging platforms like Snapchat and TikTok.

Resources

Websites:

• www.socialmediabook.shop
• www.lightscameralive.com
• www.thedigitalgal.com

Twitter usernames:

• @Mike_Allton
• @heystephanie
• @Thedigitalgal

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