If you are like me and 600 million other people you are spending an average of 55 minutes a day on Facebook and many other social media platforms.
Did you know there is a way to do everything you need to do in order to profit with social media in just 17 minutes per day?
Recently , I have been using this check list that my friend and Facebook mentor Austin Walsh created and I am able to do everything, if not more, in less time than I used to.
I trust him implicitly with my social media strategy and recommend you do to. Click the link below now, as this powerful and proven tool may not be available for much longer. If I were him I would charge a pretty penny for it. But if you go now, you can get it at no cost.
Maybe you keep the facebook tab open all day and
spend more time on there than doing anything else.
Well it is time for that to change. There is no
need to literally be wasting all that time.
I want you to take back 38 minutes of you day that
you used to have before social media came along.
Why 38 minutes?
A good friend of mine who has made
thousands of dollars with Social Media for himself
and others such as Mark Victor Hansen, Gary Goldstein,
Stephen Pierce and many others just like you has
come up with a powerful and proven checklist that
allows you to get done all you need to do to make
money with social media, in just 17 minutes a day.
The best part is, that you can get it right now
for absolutely no cost. Take 30 seconds and click
the link below to get your checklist but do this
now so you can spend an extra 38 minutes today
doing something you really love like exercising,
visiting with a loved one or whatever else you
enjoy doing.
To Your Success,
William Stewart
Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Facebook and Social Media - The Next Marketing Opportunity
Marketing as an activity is all about reaching the right customers with the right products, and the result sought is delighted customers who are more than willing to open their purses wide enough to boost your revenues. For many years, marketers stalked their target customers through various means and by trying to get their message across to spread awareness about their wares.
Traditional Means of Communication
Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.
Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.
Enter Social Media and the Internet
The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage for a few simple reasons:
The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user.
The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.
Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.
Facebook – At the Center of Social Media
With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.
A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.
These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.
How does this help a marketer?
Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.
Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:
Get more information here for the best Facebook training available
Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.
Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.
Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.
What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done.
The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.
However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.
Get more information here for the best Facebook training available
Traditional Means of Communication
Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.
Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.
Enter Social Media and the Internet
The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage for a few simple reasons:
The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user.
The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.
Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.
Facebook – At the Center of Social Media
With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.
A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.
These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.
How does this help a marketer?
Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.
Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:
Get more information here for the best Facebook training available
Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.
Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.
Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.
What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done.
The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.
However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.
Get more information here for the best Facebook training available
Thursday, December 4, 2008
50 Most Powerful and Influential Men in Social Media
50 Most Powerful and Influential Men in Social Media
by Ron Hudson
Posted on | October 21, 2008 |
Last week, as you probably know, I published a list of the 50 Most Powerful & Influential Women in Social Media. It caused quite a stir on the internet. In fact, this blog was visited by over 2,000 unique visitors the day the list was published. I truly appreciate each of you who visited that day and the following days.
One of the amazing but unforeseen results was the nearly 200 or more visitors who left comments. Most of the comments were about one or more people that they felt should’ve been included on that list. That was fantastic.
However, all the comments were not approved for various reasons. e.g., not nice, not constructive or spam. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but please be polite, courteous, and professional to ensure that your comment will be approved. Thank you!
With that in mind, here’s the list of the 50 Most Powerful & Influential Men in Social Media:
1. Michael Arrington | www.techcrunch.com
Rank: 4076 | Linking in: 26,705
2. Pete Cashmore | www.mashable.com
Rank: 6,977 | Linking in: 15,105
3. Darren Rowse | www.problogger.net
Rank: 45,859 | Linking in: 8,734
4. John Dvorak | dvorak.org/blog
Rank: 46,169 | Linking in: 2,009
5. Frank Kern | www.masscontrolsite.com
Rank: 69,096 | Linking in: 180
6. Aaron Brazell | technosailor.com
Rank: 78,019 | Linking in: 1,123
7. Jason Calacanis | calacanis.com
Rank: 87,831 | Linking in: 2,813
8. Steve Rubel | www.micropersuasion.com
Rank: 87,428 | Linking in: 4,232
9. Willie Crawford | williecrawford.com/blog2/
Rank: 90,848 | Linking in: 387
10. Jeremy Schoemaker | www.shoemoney.com
Rank: 101,291 | Linking in: 3,153
11. Leo Laporte | leoville.com/
Rank: 103,445 | Linking in: 824
12. Brian Solis | www.briansolis.com
Rank: 103,873 | Linking in: 941
13. Dr. Mani | ezinemarketingcenter.com/
Rank: 111,254 | Linking in: 178
14. Joel Comm | joelcomm.com
Rank: 116,064 | Linking in: 455
15. Kevin Rose | kevinrose.com
Rank: 117,490 | Linking in: 372
16. Peter Shankman | www.shankman.com
Rank: 118,363 | Linking in: 147
17. Fred Wilson | avc.com
Rank: 119,697 | Linking in: 212
18. Alejandro Reyes | www.successfool.com
Rank: 123,815 | Linking in: 138
19. Gary Vaynerchuk | garyvaynerchuk.com
Rank: 126,983 | Linking in: 408
20. Loren Feldman | www.1938media.com
Rank: 130,510 | Linking in: 587
21. John-Paul Micek | tribalseduction.com/blog/
Rank: 131,223 | Linking in: 109
22. Bob Jenkins | askbobtheteacher.com/blog/
Rank: 133,414 | Linking in: 46
23. Charles Heflin | charlesheflin.com
Rank: 137,361 | Linking in: 51
24. Jeremiah Owyang | web-strategist.com/blog/
Rank: 140,943 | Linking in: 2,544
25. Guy Kawasaki | alltop.com
Rank: 141,299 | Linking in: 1,745
26. Brian Campbell | www.socialmediamarketingsystem.com
Rank: 145,783 | Linking in: 26
27. Brian Clark | www.copyblogger.com
Rank: 160,034 | Linking in: 5,541
28. Robert Scoble | scobleizer.com
Rank: 172,114 | Linking in: 6,446
29. David Bullock | www.davidbullock.com
Rank: 177,325 | Linking in: 98
30. Evan Williams | evhead.com
Rank: 179,093 | Linking in: 1,292
31. Alex Albrecht | www.totallyradshow.com
Rank: 207,687 | Linking in: 104
32. Doug Firebaugh | www.passionfire.com
Rank: 209,503 | Linking in: 299
33. John Reese | income.com
Rank: 223,014 | Linking in: 481
34. Ron Capps | www.nicheprof.com
Rank: 249,536 | Linking in: 53
35. Timothy Carter | theresidualincomelifestyle.com
Rank: 281,062 | Linking in: 42
36. Chris Brogan | www.chrisbrogan.com
Rank: 282,439 | Linking in: 1932
37. Jack Humphrey | www.jackhumphrey.com
Rank: 289,758 | Linking in: 668
38. Mark Davidson | twitterstars.com
Rank: 316,034 | Linking in: 8
39. Vincent Wright | mylinkingpowerforum.ning.com
Rank: 324,857 | Linking in: 38
40. Jim Turner | jimturnersmm.ning.com
Rank: 393,091 | Linking in: 0
41. Blair Warren | www.blairwarren.com
Rank: 384,204 | Linking in: 66
42. Mike O’Neil | www.integratedalliances.com
Rank: 465,698 | Linking in: 36
43. Wayne Sutton | wayne-sutton.com
Rank: 497,921 | Linking in: 131
44. Dave Lahkani | www.subliminalpersuasionbook.com/blog/
Rank: 581,749 | Linking in: 22
45. Ross Goldberg | www.mastersseminar.com
Rank: 642,790 | Linking in: 43
46. Alex Mandossian | www.alexmandossiantoday.com
Rank: 712,815 | Linking in: 25
47. Doug Haslam | doughaslam.com
Rank: 963,976 | Linking in: 198
48. Ben Mack | benmack.com
Rank: 1,271, 846 | Linking in: 7
49. Warren Whitlock | www.zerocostpromotions.com
Rank: 1,313,652 | Linking in: 27
50. G. Wayne Clayton | socialmarketingexpert.org/
Rank: 1,671,769 | Linking in: 2
Congratulations, gentleman! I’m grateful to have discovered you on twitter. I wish you greater success in both your personal and professional lives.
Warmly,
Ron
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