Digital Marketing and Social Media Conference

Overview

In this one day conference, area experts will give you actionable items that you can take away and implement into your business immediately. Bring your laptop, tablet or mobile device to take full advantage of working along with the experts by reviewing your website and social media accounts. This one day conference includes four 90 minute sessions, a keynote marketing speaker, lunch and refreshments.

“Every speaker was amazing…..I will be back”

Samantha Burke, Universal Home Protection LLC

 

Conference Schedule:

8:30am – 10:00am            Welcome and Session #1: Content Workshop!, Chantel Soumis 

In this content workshop, you’ll discover what it takes to build a powerful content strategy on a shoestring budget. Grab a piping hot cup of coffee, pen, and notepad and get ready to leave this session with a strategy to take you through to the end of 2020! Chantel Soumis is a resourceful social media influencer who has learned from the best in business on how to master the art of content creation and distribution. She’ll share what she’s learned from Gartner, Forbes, and Fortune 500 clients so you can 10x your profits.

10:00am – 10:15am          Morning Break

10:15am – 11:45am          Session #2: Voice, Values & Visuals: 3 Branding Keys to Stand Out On Line, Candy Phelps

In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn the most essential factors in creating a unique and consistent brand to stand out online. Candy Phelps, will guide you through fun and interactive exercises to discover and polish your brand’s voice, values and visuals.

Learning Objectives

• Identify your brand’s top core values to guide social posting and content marketing themes.
• Establish a memorable and consistent brand voice by identifying the most central elements of your brand’s personality.
• And learn basic rules of design plus tips and tricks for creating outstanding brand visuals, even if you’re not a designer.

With a more distinctive brand, you’ll be able to get noticed in the noisy world of social media and digital marketing.

11:45am – 1:00pm            Lunch and Keynote: A Better Way to Calculate Social Media ROI – Spencer X Smith

It’s a question those of us in business have asked time and time again – “What’s my ROI on social media?” How often have you tried — in vain — to calculate your return on investment in digital and social media? In this session, Spencer X Smith will share the one social media metric no one is talking about, ROTOMA (Return on Top of Mind Awareness), and why you should start using this strategy instead.

Learning Objectives

• Understand why Return on Investment (ROI) is one of the most simple math problems there is…until it isn’t.
• Establish what people really want to know when they’re asking “What’s our ROI?”
• Discover why being the most talented or most well-known person/company can actually work against you.
• Understand the metaphor of “wearing you own band’s t-shirt” and why you should stop doing it right now.

1:00pm – 2:15pm             Session #3: Matt Nelson: The Ins and Outs of Facebook Audiences

Love it or hate it; Facebook has built the most powerful marketing tool in the history of the world. Unfortunately, most businesses never make it past boosting posts or setting up a Pixel. In this workshop, Matt Nelson with MadtownSEO.com and LocalRouteLabs.com will walk you through the basics of Facebook’s Saved, Custom, and Lookalike Audiences, which allow marketers to create highly targeted ads during any part of the sales process.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to use Audiences to setup a simple sales funnel
• Watch Matt setup and demo how to create new Audiences
• See how apps and websites use ‘events’ to create new audiences for retargeting
• Discover how affordable and effective Audiences can be when used effectively

2:15pm – 2:30pm             Afternoon Break

2:30pm – 4:30pm             Session #4: Josh Klemons: 10 Social Media Tips and Strategies You Should Be Utilizing Today

Sometimes it feels like the only constant in digital marketing is change. But here’s the thing — if you’re chasing shiny, new objects at the expense of your brand’s core strategy, you are never going to find the success you seek. Join digital storyteller and strategist, Josh Klemons of Reverbal Communications to talk about 10 social media tips and strategies you should be utilizing today. These tips and strategies aren’t about vanity metrics, but about building and developing a solid foundation and finding ways to grow and connect with your audience on an ongoing basis, regardless of platform. We’ll cover topics like the importance of blogging, understanding your analytics, why and how to optimize your accounts and much, much more.

Registration

Location: Grainger Hall, UW-Madison

Schedule: 8:30 am- 4:30 pm

Date: Friday, May 1, 2020

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or call 608-262-3909 to register

Fees: $259

Registration policy: Payment will be required at time of registration. You must have either a credit card or valid UW-Madison funding string to be able to register.

Cancellation policy: If you cancel before the program begins, there is a $25 cancellation fee. If you cancel after the program begins you will be charged for the full program fee. To cancel, call registration at 608-262-3909. If there is inclement weather, please call 608-263-2221 for a recorded message after 6:30 am for day classes or after 3:30 pm for night classes.

Disability Statement: Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact the UW-Madison SBDC office at sbdc@bus.wisc.edu to request accommodations.