Marketing Study Lab - Actionable Marketing Knowledge: Twitter Basics with Jim Fuhs of Fuhsion Marketing

Hello, I’m the Lego Master of Marketing!

Odd statement to start a profile, but go with it, it’ll make sense.

You know when you have loads of Lego all over the floor and it just looks like one big pile of nothingness. Not only does it look a mess, it’s a pain when you stand on it.

I take these bricks and start to make sense of how they all fit together.

If your marketing feels like a pile of painful Lego, let’s chat and get those building blocks fitting together: peter@marketingstudylab.co.uk

Why is this an issue?

The biggest problem facing todays marketing departments is the severe lack of qualified marketers, which usually happens by accident.

It’s not your fault, this usually happens by accident.

Perhaps there was an immediate need to design a website or create some literature and you needed someone to coordinate this – before you know it, Mark is the new marketing department.

Maybe your business has experienced some rapid growth, expanded and was looking to promote within or Andrea from customer service fancied her hand at marketing and is now in charge of all corporate comms.

Or perhaps your competition is way too active on social media and you feel you need to be present on this platform as well. Get Hayley to post ‘stuff’ – she’s young enough to understand how to do this.

You get the idea!

These circumstances lead to 100s of hours of wasted time and money by focusing on the short-term tactics rather than a long-term strategic approach that will make a difference.

Even worse than this, the misplaced management of employees creates missed business opportunities, leaving money on the table that many didn't even know was there!

Hello, I’m Peter!
I can help with this.

I’ve been there, seen Marketing Departments churning out worthless tactical marketing communications that do nothing but damage a company’s reputation, wasting peoples time and reducing, not building long-term brand value.

I specialise in training programmes that will alter the mind-set of lost / forgotten / unqualified marketer's, by developing the skills needed to confidently create successful, long-term marketing strategies that generate business opportunities.

How is this done? Tell me, tell me now!

Quite simply by removing the pain points and problems than many marketers face as they haven’t had the training or been given the opportunity to develop their marketing skills through;

Strategic Marketing Planning
Professional Marketing Qualifications
Marketing Training Days
Mentoring
Tutoring

Any business that is not benefiting from the opportunities marketing will create is missing out MASSIVELY! The chances are that the marketing tactics that are being deployed focus on pushing the wrong messages of ‘Buy. This. Now’ to the wrong people (who don’t even care you exist), creating minimal awareness and even less success.

Positioning a company through a strategic marketing approach, not only carves out a point of difference for a company to differentiate themselves from the competition, but creates a unique proposition within the marketplace that highlights the problems it helps to fix for those that care enough to seek out this solution. Moving a company from a wasteful and unwanted push strategy to one that creates value where customers will actively gravitate towards this value proposition.

This changes your marketing and the marketing department from being viewed as a cost centre that haemorrhages money, to the department that creates value and saves money in the long-term.

And here’s a little bit of social proof for you:

‘It is refreshing to see someone with a passion for the profession producing such valuable content for others to learn from.’

‘He was genuine and very honest in his approach and it was a pleasure working through this with Peter. An ‘out of the box’ thinker, he enabled me to consider different approaches'.

Happy Marketing
Peter

www.marketingstudylab.co.uk

I would love to get your feedback on how I can improve the podcast or what you would like to hear in forthcoming episodes so either leave a comment or contact me directly - peter@marketingstudylab.co.uk

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Twitter Basics with Jim Fuhs of Fuhsion Marketing - Episode 107

Apr 14, 2020

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Guest and Episode Links
Jim Fuhs
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfuhs/
https://twitter.com/FuhsionMktg
Tim and Jim Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnn36obQRil327wFGA756UQ

Tools
Canva: https://www.canva.com
Adobe Spark: https://spark.adobe.com
Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee
Smartbio: https://www.tailwindapp.com/smartbio
Metricool: https://metricool.com
Social Jukebox: https://www.socialjukebox.com
Periscope: https://www.pscp.tv
Streamyard: https://streamyard.com
Tweetdeck: https://tweetdeck.twitter.com
Gilphy: https://giphy.com

Book:
Age of Influence – Neal Schaffer: https://amzn.to/2J6MOpV

Enjoy the Episode - Happy Marketing!
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Intro
Twitter has around 330 million active users and is sometimes see as the watercooler of the social channels (one for the older listeners that one). It can easily be dismissed as trash and full of negative comments, but look below this surface and there is a wealth of value in being active and using the platform.

In this episode we’re chatting with Jim Fuhs of Fuhsion Marketing, a full service social media marketing company. Jim is known for his social expertise and personal training to get your rocking on multiple platforms.

In this episode we strip it right back and discuss the all the Twiiter fundamentals you need to maximise your influence on this channel.

Jim also mentions so, so, so many apps and tools that I’m not even sure if I caught them all for the show notes!!! (Let me know if I haven’t).

Watch the episode video:
https://youtu.be/f-pf0qpW9Mw

Takeaways
- Lets cover the first steps again – Get your Bio and your header right. Don’t use a logo, use a picture of yourself (that can be used across multiple platforms) and make sure you utilize your bio and username to add engaging elements such as keywords and hashtags

- Have a Hashtag of your own (that people can use, follow or engage with) or use the hashtag of a live event to engage with those there and those that can’t make it! For example Social Media Marketing World used #SMMW20, which Jim was at AND was in the top Tweeters while there.

- And finally, Jim’s four E’s to guarantee growth on Twitter that we should all be using right now;

- Education
- Entertain
- Empower people
- And last but most importantly Engage (this is what the platform was built on and a fundamental for any success now and in the future)

Music Featured on this Podcast:
Sleepy in the Garden
Lobo Loco www.musikbrause.de
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