About
Steven Groves – Author, Blogger, Podcaster, CEO, Founder,
Steven Groves is the founder and principal consultant for Social Marketing Conversations, LLC. As a Digital Polymath (a term that means he’s REALLY good at digital stuff, like being an author, podcaster, blogger, and digital video producer), he has worked with some remarkable brands in the traditional and social media arena.
Through his work as the Chief Evangelist for TheSocialMediaBible.com, he delivered strategy and expertise to clients around the country, demonstrating a genuine passion and energy for social media and how to use it.
Is Steve an ‘expert’ or ‘guru’ in social media? He is – Steven is very literate in online marketing technology, he is a successful business person, and as a business consultant Steven combines experience working with both corporate America and start-up entrepreneurs. In his work he can convey to you in business terms what the best practices and tactics are when it comes to a successful social media deployment for business.
Steven has been worked with some of the largest technology and software companies in the world and has consulted with clients in a wide range of industries – consumer product goods companies, authors, publishers, real estate professionals, non-profits, banks, and software companies on marketing and business development needs globally.
He has held responsibility for designing and developing international sales and business development programs and now focuses on the successful deployment of social marketing programs for mid- to large organizations with an eye on ROI – the kind of solid ‘Return On Investment’, hard dollar comparisons that drive results.
Download a PDF of Steven Groves Public Bio / Curricula Vitae here
Connect in Social Media with Steven Groves
Between the blog (subscribe here), a new manuscript on the ‘ROI of Social Media’ due out in the fall of 2010, and working on client projects, Steven posts regularly on Twitter as @StevenGroves, or @ROIEvangelist. In social networks, you can look him up on Facebook and LinkedIn and with Fan Pages, Groups and Company Pages created and managed at both. His Google Profile also cites a number of other social media sites he frequents. Reach out and connect!
Social Marketing Conversations
Social Marketing Conversations (SMC) provides conversation and consulting that give you effective tactical advice that let you target your audience to be more effective in social marketing. We provides consulting and strategy development services for businesses around the world.
The array of services includes -
- Social marketing strategy planning
- Independent marketing / social marketing ROI audits
- Executive Briefings on social media connected to ROI
- Facilitation for marketing team on social media ROI goal setting
- Social media monitoring / reporting
- Online social PR
- Social media content generation
- Social bookmarking
- Keynote and group presentations
Connect with Social Marketing Conversations
Want to speak with us, request a consult, book an interview or speaking engagement with Steven? Email us here or use the Google Voice link to call & connect (it calls you first and then connects with Steven, pretty neat really) – go ahead, we do want to hear from you!
Consulting with SMC
Chris Brogan wrote a great post on the ever present request to make a coffee, lunch or dinner so someone could just ‘pick his brain’. The ability to provide a client the months or years of time savings, not making the same mistakes we have already made has taken a great deal of time and work to develop. While we expect a client to take what we provide them and use it – that is to say, we want you to leverage it to a material gain for yourself or your company – that is why we do what we do!
If you believe that kind of interaction has value to it, then we’d like to talk with you. If that is not what you’re looking for, its OK too – look us up at a conference or networking event and we can talk then.
For the kind of conversation we generally see, we propose that we speak first on the phone about what you are needing; You’ll get 15 minutes of our undivided attention. We promise you will come away from the conversations with a good deal of information around what you want as well. If there is something that comes up that suggests we meet and take it to the next level, we’d be very pleased to get together then as an engagement for services – we’ll even buy the coffee!
The Last Word – Are you this client?
We put this video here not to offend anyone, but to share a perspective on how we’ve seen some people ask for help, but not realize that it is the work we do at SMC. We encourage you to take full advantage of everything published here and elsewhere around the web by Steven and our associates – there is some really good stuff out there and we believe in the power of the social web!
Thanks to the people at Scofield Editorial, Inc. for helping us all say this in a serious but entertaining way!
