VIDEO BELOW: How to capitalize on the move to Voice Search in 2020
You’ve done it yourself, right?
You’ve picked up your phone, and demanded something like “Hey Siri (or her Android equivalent), find me a seafood restaurant nearby…”
Thanks to smart phones, and gadgets like Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Home, 2020 is the year that voice search will start taking over from ‘old-fashioned’ practises like typing in a search term using a keyboard.
And that has huge implications for how your salon or spa business is going to be found in Google searches from now on.
You already know that unless you’re found on the first page of Google searches, you may as well not exist.
Well, the coming voice search boom is beginning to up-end many of the ‘rules’ that govern how businesses appear in search results.
Here’s a short grab from a live Q&A session with some of our Client Attraction System salon members as our former Director of Online, George Slater explains how all businesses will have to update their online presence for voice search…
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I know many salon owners who rely almost entirely on Facebook for their bookings and sales.
It’s where you post special offers, announce new products and services, introduce your team members and much more.
But sometimes, no matter how loud you shout, it seems nobody is listening, right? Hardly anybody seems to notice, and it can be SO frustrating.
So here are half a dozen simple easy-to-do contests that can serioously boost engagement and activity among your Facebook followers.
First thing is, a Facebook contest has to be SIMPLE.
Forget messing about with third-party applications – just run a simple contest through a status update on your Facebook timeline.
The goal is to increase theengagement and reachof your business on Facebook by encouraging activity. When people LIKE, Share and Comment on your Facebook updates, you’ll get exposure to their Facebook network and increase the likelihood of showing up in their timeline in the future.
You can also use a simple Facebook contest to grow your email list. I’ll talk about this strategy last.
If you find yourself wanting to hold a more complex contest than the below, consider using one of the third party apps I mention at the end of this article.
You can have any of the six contests below running in minutes.
1 – Like to Win
It doesn’t get simpler than this. Find an incentive to give away and ask people to LIKE your page to enter.
The goal here is simply to increase the number of people that LIKE your page so that you can continue to engage with them.
If possible, use an image of the prize in the post.
This is really simple.
Ask your fans to comment on your post. The comment is their entry into the competition. Here’s a typical fill-in-the-blank example that encourages comments:
“My fav travel destination is_________________________ because __________________ Post your top travel destination to enter to win (Prize)! We’ll pick a winner from the comments at 5pm on Thursday!”
Here’s how Gummy Bear did it:
2 – Comment to Win
3 – Solve to Win
It’s just a twist on Comment to Win.
Contest entries will still be registered through comments but, in this case, you’re asking them to solve a puzzle or answer a trivia question.
Here’s a classic example:
“Guess how many jelly beans are in this jar. The closest guess will win [PRIZE]. Winner will be announced at 6 pm on Easter Sunday on our Facebook page.
The LoansbyChris Facebook page posted a series of trivia questions over several days that ultimately culminated in a single winner.
Notice that the trivia questions are relevant to his mortgage lending business…
4 – Selfie Contest
People LOVE taking selfies.
Why not take advantage of it, with an “upload your fav selfie and Win!” contest…
Such as:
“Did you go to the Beauty Expo? Share a photo you took of your weekend activities, put the pic in the comments below – if your photo gets the most ‘likes’ you win (Prize) – contest winner announced Monday at 11am.”
Here’s another one:
5 – Caption Contest
Here’s another twist on the Comment to Win contest – and this can get a LOT of activity on your page.
Be careful with the image you choose though, if you use the wrong image, it can fall flat. But a good image that’s relevant to your fan base will generate a lot of comments, likes and shares.
Here’s a winner:
6- Join Our Email List to Win
But the contest you should be concentrating on is one which gets all those fans and followers into your email list!
Having fans on Facebook is all well and good. But they are Facebook’s customers, not yours – until you can get them away from Facebook and into your mailing list.
Which is why, for example, whenever my team of specialists builds a new website for a salon, somewhere in the world, we always encourage them to instal some kind of email ‘lead capture’ device on the website.
Then you can run a competition on Facebook to drive people to your website, where they can pick up a free Gift Voucher for first-time visitors, like this one:
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This week I clicked on a link that took me to an article with the preposterous headline
60+ SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IN 2018
Yes, that’s SIXTY social media platforms this writer insists that – for some reason – you ‘need’ to know about. The mind boggles. Most business owners struggle to get their heads around managing one or two different social media accounts, let along 60 of the damn things. Who has the time?
So it got me thinking…what IS the most important thing for a small business owner to concentrate on this year?
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Barely a day goes by that I don’t get an email from somebody – usually in the backblocks of India, Pakistan or the Philippines – promising to ‘get my website to the top of Google’.
If you run any kind of business, no doubt you get the same kind of emails. Y’know, those spam emails.
These emails last a nano-second in my in-box, before I hit the delete button. Here are just a few reasons why:
Reason #1: These people always start their pitch with “I’ve been studying your website and notice that it has big problems etc etc..”
If you’ve been studying my website, you would’ve noticed it has my phone number prominently displayed. If you want my business, call me on the damn phone. Don’t be lazy.
Reason #2: If you were any good at marketing yourself, and weren’t so damned lazy, you’d figure out that sending an email to somebody you’ve never met, from a company I’ve never heard of, expecting me to leap at your fabulous offer with open arms, is no way to start a business relationship.
Reason #3: if you’ve been studying my website, and you’re so observant, you’d know that we specialize in real, effective, manual-labor search engine optimization, for scores and scores of businesses all over the world. But you didn’t bother looking that hard, did you…you just fired off a lazy email, among thousands of similar emails, to thousands of small business owners, hoping that some of them will be so ill-informed, they’ll leap at your fantastic offer.
You may have picked up that this practice makes me a tad cranky. But I get positively livid when our own long-term members get the same kind of nonsense offers.
One Australian business owner who’s been a Member of Worldwide Salon Marketing for more than a decade called us this week after receiving one of these delightful offers, in this case from Canada. We’ve been driving this Member’s online advertising and organic search results for a long time, so she wanted to see our take on this company’s offer.
“It didn’t take long to do some research on this company,” says our Member Services manager, Peter Doman. “The reviews we found were scathing.”
“These guys are not to be trusted.
Its the same deal, telling you that they can guarantee first page rankings when in fact you are more likely to be blacklisted,” said one reviewer.
And…
“These guys didn’t even know a damn thing about SEO work or how to set up adwords… To top things off they didn’t even have the right ranking data from my website…
Poor form but it can sucker in the unsuspecting,” said another.
(There are plenty more like this, you can read them here.)
Once presented with this information, our Member wrote back:
“Thank you so, so much, Peter. Based on the reviews, I will give them a miss. Thank god once again for WSM.”
The lessons are clear.
1) There will always be somebody, somewhere, promising a lower price. But in all things, you get what you pay for, by and large.
2) If something sounds like it’s too good to be true, it usually is.
3) Do business with people you trust. They might not be perfect, they might not be the cheapest, they might not get it absolutely right, every time. But people you trust will likely trust you too, and will bend over backwards to put things right, as soon as possible.
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