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How Do You Define Social Media?

vswp911 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:03:52 +0000

At the Social Media Club-Cleveland meeting in April 2009, we asked members “How Do You Define Social Media?”
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vswp911 — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:03:47 +0000

http://www.twitter.com/chrispirillo – Social Media can be confusing for people who aren’t yet a part of the sphere. Where do you start? What should you join? Social Media is something that has wormed its way into our daily lives, and become an integral part of it for many of us. If you haven’t gotten on board the train yet, what are you waiting for? http://geeks.pirillo.com – http://chris.pirillo.com

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Social Media Training – Essential For Every Business

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:38:21 +0000

Despite what you may believe about Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and other similar sites, they are not just for kids to hang out on playing games and sharing silly pictures. They are also very powerful business tools. Called social media (or Web 2.0) sites, these websites offer you an unprecedented opportunity to expand your business, gain new customers, and increase your profits like never before. It’s all thanks to the magic of interactivity. These sites connect you with your customers in very direct ways. Through them, you become not just a non-corporeal entity behind a computer screen, you become a real person they can talk to, get to know, and trust. People buy from those whom they trust. That’s why you need social media training if you want to really thrive in the 21st century business environment.

Make Friends First

The first and most important thing you should remember in your social media training is that you’re on these sites to make friends. People on Facebook and such do NOT want to be sold to, so leave off the overtly sales-oriented talk. It can actually get you banned from these sites, as it’s considered bad etiquette. Create a fan page for your business and use it to have friendly conversations with people who are interested in what you offer. You’ll make some good online friends who will likely become customers at some point based solely on their interactions with you. If they like you, they’ll want to buy from you, plain and simple.

Your Account Often

Next, remember to use your account often. If you disappear from your account for long periods of time, your fans and followers will stop visiting your page and business will slack off. Check in on your social media accounts at least two to three times a week, though if you can do it every day, that’s even better.

Brand Yourself

The final step in your social media training is to brand yourself. Even though you’re not engaging in direct sales talk, you can still create a logo for your company and use it as your profile picture on your Facebook, MySpace and other social media accounts. This way, people will think of your logo when they think of you, and will recognize it when it appears in other places. It’s a wonderful way to create brand recognition, which can increase sales throughout all aspects of your business.

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admin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:16:46 +0000

You’ve probably wondered why it seems everywhere you go everyone is talking about Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and social media and all that type of techie stuff. If indeed you have not then here are some reasons you must entertain Social Media usage.

When you analyse the use of Facebook a social networking site for instance, you would discover that there are about 260 million active users already registered. This includes over 130 million people logging in each and every day. In fact the fastest growing age category on Facebook is 35 years and over. This is the medium where your kids could chat with their friends about what sport to go and watch the next day. You could take advantage of this great meeting place by becoming the favourite of people who visit. This is a great avenue for an international company because over 70% of all Facebook registered users are from outside the United States of America.

Twitter another social media site registered a growth rate of 752%. This is tremendous Social Media usage. In December 2008 alone they received one million visitors to their site. However sixty percent quit this social site within their very first month of usage. This is because a lot of people are not in the know as to how to utilize this opportunity to enhance their business. On Twitter there are fantastic tools which are developed by individuals which if utilized can turn your Social Media usage on automatic gear. Twitter received about 23 million special visitors in June 2009 only. All kinds of people across the world are using this social networking site. In fact it could be very chatty and sociable. Just take pains to learn it and it could prove useful in the long run.

There are other statistics that depict incredible Social Media usage. For instance Facebook and MySpace each had about fifty nine million people using their sites. Going forward Facebook has far outgrown MySpace to become the principal in the social media industry. With about sixty nine million users Facebook was ranked number one in the social media industry only in January 2009.On a monthly basis, MySpace gets about eighty million visitors while Facebook gets a whooping 1.2 billion in monthly visits only.

There are a number of other social media sites some are which are worth trying. You could start with any of the fore mentioned and your Social Media usage would never be the same.

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Cashing In On Facebook – 5 Ways To Do It

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:16:56 +0000

Facebook has revolutionized the social networking scene many times over. Internet marketers and developers worldwide are cashing in on Facebook every single day, and we’re not talking about chump change either! Several hundred million dollars is made through Facebook alone, and that figure is sure to rise with the recently added Facebook PPC program.

The main difference between Facebook marketing, and MySpace marketing, is the fact that with MySpace, you aren’t allowed to blatantly sell or promote anything without staying under the radar a bit. With Facebook, there are literally several ways you can cash in ethically and easily right on their site. This, and due to the fact that MySpace is “sooo 2006”, is one of the reasons that Facebook has recently surpassed MySpace in traffic.

That’s quite the milestone to reach, and we’re talking about millions of potential customers.

If you’re kicking around the idea of launching some kind of marketing campaign on Facebook, but aren’t sure where to start, here are five different ways to kick-start your brain:

1. Create a Facebook Blog – There are hundreds of thousands of these already, but to truly take advantage of this, you need to be unique and creative (which goes the same for any method mentioned here). Once you have a large audience, you can then turn around and sell ads and sponsorships to marketers who want to promote their products.

2. Consulting – There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of companies out there that would kill for a good Facebook Application developer. Since Facebook is so new, the supply of great developers is low. If you have this skill, you would be stupid not to explore this opportunity. Rumors are that this skill is a $200-$500 an hour gig. See the potential? If you don’t have this skill yet, then I highly suggest you learn it!

3. Develop Your Own Apps – Some might say, “Why develop an App for someone else, when you could do it for yourself?” – Good argument. In that case, why are you still reading this and not working on the hottest new application that everyone will want to share? Grow you users to the tens of thousands (and more), and partner with an Ad network to sell advertising. It’s almost a license to print money, and you’ll be happy you took the time to do it. Imagine if it made it to the top ten Facebook Applications page – you would be pretty well off for quite some time!

4. Facebook PPC – If you’re skilled in the PPC arena and familiar with Adwords and YSM, then it’s safe to say that you could take that valuable skill and tap into Facebook’s own PPC program. Many people have made small fortunes doing this already – the trick is knowing what to promote. But what makes it so attractive is the fact that you can actually dial in your demographics down to sub-level, eg –“Canadian Women, Ages 18-35, Single, Who Like Classic Rock”. That’s pretty neat, and if you know how to work it, then you could be padding your bank account as we speak.

5. Write A Book About Facebook – Yeah, it really is a good idea, especially if you know the Development side of things. A well written Facebook Application Development book would probably fetch the author millions, and would earn him/her instant credibility over night. There aren’t many (if any) on the market yet, so there is still room for people who want to take it one. Publishing companies who know what’s hot and what’s not would jump all over you if you had one in development. Get to it!

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