Excerpt from a live YouTube workshop titled "Social Media Wizard" (host Colin Sprake). This chunk is an audience Q&A on day three (33 people present) where participants report measurable benefits from social platforms: increased "cloud score" (18→41 in under a month), increased website traffic attributed to Facebook, and qualitative business relationship-building via weekly blogging.
Questions this video answers
33 people.
Cloud score rose from 18 to 41 in less than a month.
So we're here at Social Media wizard. This is day three. We've got 33 people in the audience. We've had an amazing three days. How many of you on Twitter, how many are getting results from Twitter? Great. Tell me, what are you getting from Twitter?
My cloud score went up from 18 to 41 in less than a month.
What does cloud score mean to you?
Exposure.
Exposure.
Traffic.
It means the clout you have online in terms of social clout.
The program, cloud.
Absolutely. It's a clout that you have online. That's what it looks at. You've been using Facebook, haven't you, Matt? How's Facebook work for you?
It definitely increases our web traffic. So noticed on my Google Analytics for our website that our web traffic has increased because of Facebook.
Fantastic. So let's look at blogging. Someone wanted to tell me about blogging. Tell me about blogging. Kesha, what has blogging done for your business?
It allows me to express what I do and my passion for why I do it. And I can put it out every. Every week, and whoever wants to read it can comment back. And it allows me to create a relationship.
Create a relationship online. Would you highly recommend blogging to people watching this video?
Absolutely. Blogging rocks.
Blogging rocks. Great. Give us a wave for a social media wizard. Fantastic.
