Friday, October 30, 2009

Risarcimento record a Facebook

Settecentoundici milioni di dollari e passa. Tanto il social network Facebook riceverà da Sanford Wallace, conosciuto come il “re del marketing online”. Lo ha stabilito una corte distrettuale californiana.

Facebook aveva denunciato Wallace a febbraio. L’accusa: essere entrato negli account degli utenti senza permesso e aver inserito messaggi e post nelle loro bacheche, insieme a due complici. Mesi fa il giudice Jeremy Fogel lo ha riconosciuto colpevole di aver violato il Can-Spam Act, legge firmata da George W. Bush nel 2003, e gli ha ordinato di non entrare in Facebook.

Ma Sanford “Spamford” Wallace, dopo aver dichiarato bancarotta, avrebbe continuato i suoi traffici. «Anche se non ci aspettiamo di ricevere buona parte del risarcimento, speriamo che questo agisca da deterrente in futuro» scrive il consulente legale Sam O’Rourke, sul blog del social network.

Wallace è un esperto di messaggi-spazzatura. A maggio 2008 è stato inoltre condannato a risarcire 234 milioni di dollari a MySpace.com per aver inviato quasi 800mila proposte commerciali indesiderate agli utenti. Pochi mesi dopo, a novembre, è toccato a Facebook vincere un’altra causa contro uno spammer, Adam Guerbuez, e la Atlantis Blue Capital, ottenendo il risarcimento record di 873 milioni di dollari.

Fonte: www.corriere.it

A homophobic sub sandwich

“Not everybody likes surprises.” These are the words that YouTube watchers have been hearing in a highly controversial Mr. Sub ad that was leaked this week. That is, of course, right after Dad tells little Mary and the gang that he is “like super, super gay.”

Out of left field, the LGBT division at CAW (Canadian Auto Workers union) objected. Hard to say why it was them, but they’re entitled to their rights.

As we know, the fine line between funny and offensive is dangerous, and notably, some people can push the envelope a lot more than others. Mr. Sub never even formally released the ad and they’ve learned that the hard way.

Interestingly, BOS, the agency that actually created the ad, is taking almost none of the heat. In contrast, Mr. Sub has been making every effort to smother the ad as they’re already neck-deep in hot water. They have contacted YouTube users who have posted the video with cease and desist notices, and hastily parted ways with BOS. Hopefully the video above will survive.

Salute BOS for taking a risk (you have to sometimes), and also Mr. Sub for being responsive to social forces. Sensitivity and tastefulness are important in mass communications, but frankly, sometimes you’ve got to lighten up. One could argue that if this ad demeans the act of coming out, then adding humour to Viagra commercials is equally crude as it makes light of male impotency. Perhaps this sort of thing is more suited to an episode of Family Guy, but is the content really that offensive?

It is in these situations that we see how susceptible a brand is in a media-saturated society. It only takes a handful of people to make an opinion heard. Whether it’s a strong-worded email to the company, an innocent-seeming tweet, or just telling a few friends, it all adds up. As a seriously peeved Marge Simpson once said, “I’ll show them what one screwball can do!” She later drives Itchy and Scratchy to ruin.

It’s good to be bold, but there are conditions. You’ve got to be accepting of risk, you’ve got to be responsive, and finally, you can never forget to watch out for the screwballs. They’ll kick your ass.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Creative Ad - Terra Biz

I found this little beauty in last month’s Executive Magazine. I am half certain that I have seen this concept before in some design handbook, but one must admit its interactive and very effective!

After you take off the business card you, the message reads:

“If not you can remain in a business of wasted opportunities where clients complain which will lead to your employees resigning. You won’t get any bonuses. You wide will stop hosting dinner parties. You will sell the Chalet, the sports car and the golf kit. then before you know it your family will be living on discount coupons.“

The only thing that I don’t like is that it does not convey the fact that Terra Biz is part of Terra Net and the services they offer are internet related.

If you’ve seen any of its predecessors , tell me!

8 BƯỚC CHO BLOG TIẾP THỊ THÀNH CÔNG

Làm thế nào mà dù chỉ mới bắt đầu từ vạch xuất phát nhưng bạn đã tạo rađược một blog tiếp thị thuộc hàng đỉnh trong vòng dưới một năm? Nếu tôi có bất kì một công thức dễ sử dụng nào thì tôi đã sản xuất ra một đoạn phim quảng cáo chứ không ngồi viết bài viết này. Tuy nhiên, tôi vẫn có thể chia sẻmột vài mẹo vặt từ kinh nghiệm của chính tôi để giúp các bạn cóđược thành công với blog tiếp thị của mình.

1. Đọc

Trước khi vạch ra một kế hoach cho blog của bạn, hãy nghiên cứu thật kỹ. Bạn nên tìm và đọc về những blogger tiếp thị nổi tiếng (xem mục Mack Collier’s Top 25). Tuy nhiên, đừng bỏ qua những y kiến mới, họ có thể có những y tưởng hay ho và một viễn cảnh tươi sáng. Quan trọng là phải biết lắng nghe trước khi nhảy vào trò chuyện và đó là tất cả những gì cần khi tạo blog. Thường thì những quyết định tới lui xuất hiện trong những “comment” là phần giá trị nhất trong một bài blog được đăng.

2. Bình luận (Comment)

Tôi đã không làm gì ngoại trừ đọc blog và đánh dấu chúng trong vòng một tháng trước khi tôi chuyển qua giai đoạn hai là tham gia cuộc trò chuyện bằng cách comment cho blog mình vừa đọc. Hãy viết cái gì đó liên quan tới câu chuyện hơn là comment những câu chung chung. Tại sao chủ đề đó lại quan trọng đối với bạn? Làm thế nào mà bạn có thể sử dụngđược những thông tin đó? Và bây giờ khi bạn để lại comment, đó chính là nơi mà phép thuật của tiếp thị bắt đầu. Hầu hết các blog đều có ba ô cho phần thông tin cá nhân giúp nhận dạng người comment.

Đầu tiên là tên của bạn. Trừ phi bạn đã được biết đến rộng rãi qua nickname hay bút danh, còn không hãy sử dụng tên thật của mình. Mảng thông tin thứ hai cần có là địa chỉ email của bạn. Phần này sẽ bị ẩn đối với người đọc khác nhưng lại cho tác giả biết bạn là một người đàng hoàng chứ không phải là một kẻ chuyên đi spam. Ô thứ ba cần điền vào là địa chỉ trang web hay địa chỉ blog của bạn (nếu có). Khi bạnđiền một địa chỉ trang web vào ô trống này, nó sẽ tự động hình thành một đường linkẩn dẫn đến trang của bạn. Và khi người đọc di chuột vào tên bạn, tên blog của bạn sẽ hiện ra.

Vì bạn đã vô tình tạo ra một con đường để người đọc tìm thấy bạn nên phải cẩn thận với những phép xã giao chưa tốt khi sử dụng ô comment trong blog của một người khác để quảng bá bản thân. Đừng ăn cắp comment, hãy tự suy nghĩ comment của riêng mình, và đừng xài quá một đường link ẩn.

3. Viết

Khi bạn mới bắt đầu viết blog, phải mất một lúc để bạn tìm cho mình một phong cách. Lời khuyên tốt nhất mà tôi có thể cho bạn là đừng cố gắng trở thành Mack Collier hay Drew MacLellan hayJohn Moore hoặc ai khác.

Tham khảo từ những người dẫn đầu là tốt nhưng hãy dành thời gian để đề ra những y kiến của riêng bạn rồi trình bày theo cách của bạn. Đồng thời cũng đừng viết một bài luận dài dòng văn tự để rút ra kết luận cuối cùng vì nó sẽ kết thúc luôn cuộc nói chuyện của bạn. Hãy học cách xin comment trong blog của bạn và diễn đạt chúng theo cách mà có thể đem lại sự hưởng ứng.

4. Hưởng ứng

Khi người xem comment trên blog của bạn, hãy đáp lại họ một cách thích hợp ngay trong ô comment. Đó là một sợi dây liên kết bền vững giữa việc kiểm soát cuộc nói chuyện và giữ cho chúng luôn tồn tại. Vì vậy hãy tích lũy comment rồi hẵng trả lời lại luôn một lần. Nên nhớ những người comment có thể sẽ ghé lại blog của bạn để xem trả lời của bạn mặc dù điều này sẽ dễ dàng hơn nhiều với công cụ mới cho phép tạo RSS hay email feed cho cánhân những người comment.

Toby Bloomberg đã dạy tôi một bài học về cách đáp lại những người comment mới: Cô ấy gửi cho tôi một email ngắn gọn để cảm ơn vì tôi đã comment và giới thiệu côấy. Thật là một ngạc nhiên thú vị khi một blogger hoàn toàn mới nhận được email cá nhân từ một Diva! Và vậy là cuộc trò chuyện của chúng tôi vẫn còn tiếp tục cho tới bây giờ.

5. Trò chuyện

Một cái blog không phải chỉ là nơi để bạn gặp gỡ với người đọc và những người dẫnđầu. Hãy nói chuyện ở một diễn đàn khác những công cụ blog tí hon như Twitter hay Facebook chẳng hạn. Hơn 900 người theo tôi trên Twitter, nơi mang lại nhiều cơ hội cho những cuộc nói chuyện thú vị và hữu ích. Khi tôi gửi một tin nhắn kèm theo đường link dẫn tới một bài blog, tôi luôn thấy con số truy cập tăng lên. Tuy nhiên tôi không xem Twitter như một kênh tiếp thị. Những ai chỉ gửi link mà không bao giờ quan tâm tới người khác sẽ không nhận ra được giá trị của Twitter.
6. Kết nối

Hãy tìm kiếm những cách mở rộng cuộc nói chuyện thành những cuộc gặp gỡ trực tiếp với các blogger khác. Vì dụ như tham gia hội họp hay mời một blogger đi uống café. Những kết nối này sẽ tiếp thêm sinh lực cho bạn và giúp bạn trở nên nổi tiếng hơn trong giới tiếp thị trên blog. Khi bạn ghé qua blog có một mối quan hệ cá nhân, biết đâu bạn sẽ gặp lại một người bạn cũ.

7. Lặp lại

Đừng ngừng lại ở đỉnh vinh quang. Viết blog là một quá trình lâu dài và bạn cần nhận thức được nó và chuẩn bị cho nó. Lịch viết hay lịch biên tập có thể là một công cụhữu ích giúp bạn liên tục cho ra đời những bài viết mới theo đúng trình tự thời gian. Hãy lập bảng thời gian biểu mỗi ngày để đọc và comment cho những blog khác nữa.

8. Màn thưởng

Chuẩn bị cầu may đi thôi. Bạn không bao giờ biết được những mối quan hệ bạn cóđược trên mạng sẽ đi tới đâu đâu. Chẳng hạn như một lời comment thân mật từ một người bạn trực tuyến Cathleen Rittereiser đã cho tôi cảm hứng bắt đầu một dự án lập quỹ cho những bệnh nhân ung thư vú gọi là Quỹ Frozen Pea, gây được sự chú y của tác giả Craig Colgan người đã lấy tôi làm hình ảnh cho câu chuyện được xuất bản ởWashington Post và điều đó đã mang lại…. Mà thôi tôi sẽ để cho các bạn tự tìm hiểu.
( Tác giả Vietnambranding)

Monday, October 26, 2009

How to Survive Your Megachurch

Surviving is either remaining in or coming out of your megachurch/church with your faith and heart intact. How have you done it?

Here are some thoughts that Heretic and I have come up with.

1. Roll your eyes back and think of the Church of England. (Hmm – my motive for going initially was that I wasn’t going back to the Anglicans.)
2. Keep something back to live on – whether it be your money or your own time and energy.
3. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you can only access the Presence of God at church.
4. Maintain your friendships and love for people who do not go to your church – for the sake of the relationship, not just for evangelism.
5. Don’t believe your pastor is above temptation.
6. Don’t believe your pastor is God.
7. Is your church a corporation – then they probably want your money as much as any other corporation.
8. Do love the genuine believers around you and continue to value them as God does, not because of their position in a hierarchy or their external degree of success.
9. Ignore any pressure to look good for marketing purposes.
10.Only go to as many meetings as you can go to without putting pressure on your family life, genuine friendships or work life.
11. Don’t believe that serving God first means putting your family second to your church.
12. Don’t believe that tithing is more important than feeding your family and paying your bills.
13. Don’t put should on people.
14. Do think for yourself.
15. Test everything you hear and know that this is what we are meant to do.
16. Do nothing out of guilt.
17. Do just ask God when you or others need something – don’t think you have to do anything to earn his love or answers.
18. Be kind to your pastors and leaders – just don’t feel you need to take everything they say as gospel.
19. Know that your work is an important part of your life, not just a way to raise funds for God or to evangelise. God designed us to work in all kinds of ways.
20. Know that your key relationship is with God, not your church. Body life is vitally important – but we need Him to come first.

I could keep going, but I’m sure there are many more thoughts out there. What are yours?

Do you think any of this contradicts a Purpose Driven methodology, Prosperity Gospel, or any other current fashion?

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RavingPente

Improving Performance And Being Professional At The Same Time Is Smart Business

There are numerous types of marketing online and depending upon who you talk to will depend on the reaction you will get. They begin with emails, AdSense, Adwords, online classifieds, traffic exchanges, and the list can go on. They are all huge business and cater to everybody online. Several will work better than others depending on what your niche may be and what techniques are involved, not to mention the amount of effort that you may put forth to ensure reaping the benefits.

Let’s proceed with the first and talk about it. Email Formatting Software is a great custom business software that will help boost your performance while enhancing professionalism that will show in your articles, blog posts, ezines, newsletters, and anything else that you may well write. This is a great business software application that will absolutely give your content the look of a professional.

Some of this software that you can come across will provide you two options. The first is being able to use html and the following is ordinary content. Both will come with the wrap option which is what provides you with the professional look. The html will allow you to do a lot of things with your email from bold text to highlighting and will give you the change on words that various people like to do. But the thing about using html is there are some email programs that don’t accept html and that can mean some of your customers don’t even see it. That can be very crucial when it comes to mailing your list. The second option is utilizing the content wrapper and this ensures that everyone will see your email.

Once you have made your choice on which option to apply all you have to do is type, click, and it’s finished. Then copy and paste it into your email and send it. It does sound simple enough, but providing appropriate substance can sometimes be tricky. There are becoming some extreme titles/subjects on the emails now-a-days and that is because it is getting difficult to get someone to open the stupid thing. But even with that considered there are people making substantial wealth using email campaigns.

An email formatting software is a computer software download that is a part of the business works software on the internet and when looking, one can usually discover a free download. There are some common to great computer software downloads out there, you just have to find the best one that will fill your need.

You will become aware of that when searching for a custom business software, there are more business software applications in the marketplace besides the email formatting software and all are pointed towards the entrepreneur. Most are designed around some variety of marketing and are constructed for quickness and accuracy. So, whatever the selection you make in your marketing, be certain to use the best business software that will help you the most.

Friday, October 23, 2009

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Happy Shopping

Kirsty Xx

Answers To Your E-commerce Problems

First of all, what is e-commerce? E-commerce is commerce, including business, trade, buying, and selling, that is transacted electronically, rather than hand-to-hand. Businesses need efficient technology and strong marketing in order for e-commerce to be successful. The goal is to increase your business by making it easier for customers to shop, and if your website’s lack of technology and marketing make it difficult for them, they may as well drive to the mall.

Before we look at e-commerce solutions, we need to first figure out some of the problems with e-commerce. There are many complaints from customers when it comes to purchasing items online. A few include a disorganized site that is difficult and confusing to navigate; lack of information on the website including failure to tell customers about special deals or prices; the inability to pay with the customer’s native currency or the inability for the customer to even understand the language in which the website is written; and frustrating and confusing shopping carts and check out procedures.

Well then, what are some e-commerce solutions? Having a professional looking website will attract customers and make them feel confident in buying from you. You want your website to be organized and easy to navigate, and if you have an informational website that is search engine friendly; shows promotional deals; encourages up selling in a friendly way (such as showing related items or showing items that customers purchased who also purchased the item you are purchasing); is accessible in most languages and accepts different types of currency; has a user friendly shopping cart and single page checkout, then you won’t need many e-commerce solutions!

Remember, when your business is e-commerce, you want to take all possible steps to make sure you and your product are presented professionally, friendly, and easily accessible.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

4 Must-Dos for a Successful e-marketing Campaign

The internet has opened new opportunities for small business owners, as well as entrepreneurs, to broaden their reach and build a relationship with their clients, or soon-to-be clients.

 

In this post, I will tell you the 4 Must-dos for a successful e-marketing campaign.

1.     Identify your Niche

 

Firstly, you need to decide who your campaign is going to be tailored to, ie. Who is your perfect customer?  Once you know what your niche is, you then have to determine how you are going to entice them once they are on your website, and how you are going to get them onto your website.

 

2.     Set Realistic Goals

 

There is no point in saying ‘Right, I’m going to create 5 new pages a day for my website’. No you are not. You have other work that needs doing, so how are you going to keep to this? Set yourself realistic targets, say one Newsletter a week, a few web pages per week, etc.

 

3.     Plan your Budget

 

The third step towards a successful e-marketing campaign is determining how much you are willing to spend on advertising and maintaining your website. This isn’t exclusively about money, it includes time as well. Don’t forget, time is money!

 

4.     Devise your Strategy

 

Your strategy should depend on two things; your niche and your budget. This is where you decide what the point of your e-marketing is going to be, what websites you are going to use, and how you are going to increase traffic to your website. I would suggest the major social networks, these really improve traffic significantly. To read more about social networks, click here.

 

So there you are; your 4 must-dos for a successful e-marketing campaign. This is not everything you need to consider – the world of e-marketing is large, and you must make sure that you research it deeply before having a go yourself. I hope that you found this post helpful, please leave me a comment. There will be a post coming soon that will elaborate a bit more on your e-marketing strategy. Watch this space!

Essence of Creativity

You can be creative in your prospecting, store décor, employee attire, methods of gaining free publicity, and many other ways. If you train yourself to think that the opposite of creativity is mediocrity whenever you engage in marketing, you’ll start forcing yourself to use marketing tools in the most creative manner possible.

Creativity starts with knowledge. You need knowledge of your own product or service, knowledge of your competition, knowledge of your target audience, knowledge of your marketing area, knowledge of the economy, knowledge of current events, and knowledge of the trends of the time. From this knowledge, you’ll not only develop a creative  marketing program but you’ll also be able to produce creative marketing materials.

Armed with all the knowledge, you’re able to do what many people define as the essence of creativity. You can combine two or more elements that have never before been combined.

My Consultancy–Asif J. Mir - Management Consultant–transforms organizations where people have the freedom to be creative, a place that brings out the best in everybody–an open, fair place where people have a sense that what they do matters. For details please visit www.asifjmir.com, Lectures, Line of Sight

Monday, October 19, 2009

Designing Your Customer Experience

It’s Monday! And, here is a quick tip from Harvard Business:

Most customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives have impressive goals, such as to increase sales, drive cross-selling, and minimize resources. These goals are important, but they represent an inside-out view that focuses more on the company’s systems and internal metrics than on the customer. Instead, start with the customer experience. Ask yourself: what makes for a positive and productive experience? Then build your CRM initiative from there: design the interactions, touchpoints, procedures, and systems that will allow your company to deliver that positive experience. There will no doubt be internal limitations that affect your ability to create the experience, but by starting with the customer, you’ll make better decisions when it comes time to implement.

Bang on! So, think about your customers before implementing that fancy CRM solution.

6 Engineers, a CEO and a PM

In light of the recent posts on Bill Campbell (1, 2) and some of the comments debating when to hire a PM, I was pleased to read the following in Entrepreneur magazine, about the early days of a company called RingRevenue and why VC’s decided to invest in them.

“Part of our secret sauce is that we know how to cost-effectively acquire and manage large groups of phone numbers,” Spievak says. “We build platforms that allow affiliate networks to bring on higher-margin products like financial services, and track the calls that result from those ads. It’s a win for advertisers, affiliates and affiliate networks.”

The company was also running lean, which is always appealing to investors. “Here’s what I liked,” Suster says. “They were six engineers and a product manager and a CEO, and nothing else.”

The last line speaks volumes: a CEO *and* a Product Manager. Who knows what will happen in the future, but at least, they’ve started out the right way!

Saeed

Friday, October 16, 2009

Negócios e Inovação

A CNN Money lançou recentemente um pequeno estudo sobre qual a melhor cidade para lançar um pequeno negócio. O que importa destacar, além dos vencedores, é a metodologia simples e com três grupos de indicadores: Clima de Negócios, Procura e Custos.

Numa autarquia, é fundamental ter este tipo de informação acessível e estruturada para esclarecimento dos investidores interessados. Além dos dados gerais do panorama económico-social da cidade, as autarquias poderão fornecer outros tipos de informação, como os espaços devolutos disponiveis, ferramentas como um plano de negócios, informação sobre incentivos locais ou nacionais em vigor (ver outros em Toronto, Doing Business). Neste sentido, o investidor sentir-se-á confortável e apoiado o que poderá ser decisivo no seu start-up. A C.M. Tavira, por exemplo, disponbilizou em 2007 um Estudo de Oportunidades de Negócios e o CRIA (Centro Regional para a Inovação do Algarve) tem no seu Plano Regional de Inovação um documento estruturado de modo similar. Contudo, o sucesso dependerá sempre da astúcia em lidar com os clientes e com o mercado em geral.

Google Search Engine Optimisation And Their 80/20 Rule

from: http://bloggerpinnacle.com/google-search-engine-optimisation-and-their-8020-rule

Search engine optimisation or optimization (with a ‘z’ or is that ‘zee’ if your from across ‘the pond’) techniques are constantly evolving. This evolution is in response to the evolution of search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google in particular has come to be seen as the most sophisticated and advanced search engine as it is armed with an array of anti-spam technology.

Google’s increasing use of anti-spam features has meant that optimising websites for Google has become much harder and it’s now not just a case of opening your websites source files in notepad, adding some keywords into your various HTML tags, uploading your files and waiting for the results. In fact in my opinion and I’m sure others will agree with me, this type of optimisation, commonly referred to as onpage optimisation will only ever be 20% effective at achieving rankings for any keywords which are even mildly competitive. Those of us who aced maths in school will know this leaves us with 80% unaccounted for.

This 80% corresponds to offpage optimization. Offpage optimization is all to do with the amount of links pointing to your site and its pages, the actual linking text (anchor text) of these links and the quality of the pages which the links are on. Offpage optimisation is now for sure the overwhelmingly dominating factor which decides where a site will rank in Google. That then is what I mean by the 80/20 rule, I’m not talking about the pareto rule which means that in anything a few (20 percent) are vital and many (80 percent) are trivial, I’m not sure that applies to SEO.

What is the logic behind this then, why does Google give so much ‘weight’ (80%) to offpage optimization efforts and so little (20%) to onpage optimisation. Well simply put it is all about the quality of their results. Whereas onpage optimisation is completely controlled by the webmaster and can thus be abused by an unscrupulous one, offpage optimisation is something that is not controlled by anyone as such by rather by other webmasters, websites and indeed the Internet in general. This means that it is much harder to conduct any underhanded or spammy offpage optimisation methods in the hope of gaining an unfair advantage for a website in the Google SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages), this does not mean it is impossible though.

Let’s elaborate for a paragraph or two just why offpage elements such as incoming links are deemed by Google to be such a good measure of relevancy, thus making offpage optimisation the most effective method of optimisation by far. Take the anchor text of incoming links for instance, if Google sees a link from SITE A to SITE B with the actual linking text being the words ‘data recovery london’, then SITE B has just become more relavent and thus more likely to appear higher in the rankings when someone searches for ‘data recovery london’. SITE B has no control over SITE A (in most cases…) and Google knows this. Google can then look at the link text and say to itself, why would SITE A link to SITE B with the specific words ‘data recovery london’ if SITE B wasn’t ‘about’ ‘data recovery london’, there is no answer so Google must deem SITE B to be ‘about’ ‘data recovery london’.

I said ‘in most cases’ above because often webmasters have multiple sites and would crosslink them with keyword rich anchor text, but there is only so many sites and crosslinks any webmaster can manage, again Google knows this and so as the number of backlinks and occurrences of keyword rich anchor text grows (and with that grows the unlikelihood of anything unnatural like crosslinking going on) so to does the relevancy of the site which all the backlinks point to. Imagine hundreds or thousands of sites all linking to a website X with variations of ‘data recovery london’ type phrases as the linking text, well then Google can be pretty dam sure that website X is ‘about’ ‘data recovery london’ and feel confident about returning it in the top 10 results. This is why they place so much importance (80%) on offpage ranking factors such as links; they are simply the most reliable way of checking what a site is about and indeed how well it covers what it is about. This reliance on hard to cheat offpage factors is what produces the quality search results we all know, love and use everyday.

The moral of the story from an SEO point of view then is to spend less time on those little website tweaks which you think might make a big difference (but won’t) and work hard on what really counts, what really counts is how the web ’sees’ your website, the more quality (keyword rich) incoming links your website has the better the webs ‘view’ will be and therefore the better Google’s view of your website will be. What Google thinks of your website is very important, as they ‘look after’ websites which they like.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A crisis too good to waste!

I stumbled across a great post about ‘making the most of tough times’. This is an old story that we all know well but one that is important to listen to, with evidence showing that investment is the key to success even when the company belt is being tighten. This piece, written by John Mathers on Popsop demonstrates that by nurturing your brand you can come out of the recession into good economic times with your brand flourishing, not floundering!

Six Figure Blog Marketing

Blog marketing is sweeping the internet world. It is something that most everyone is doing and using to make an income. There are some that are even six figure bloggers. How do you become a six figure blog marketer? Anyone that is making six figures with blog marketing is not very likely to give up their secrets. Unless they can sell it to you in an ebook. However, if you are serious about making that amount of money and you have money to invest in it, chances are you could be a six figure blog marketing guru as well.

Six figure blog marketing is more than likely not done with one single blog. It would take many many blogs to create a six figure income, and if you have the funds and the resources, it could be done. The first thing that you would need to do is find out the markets that are low in competition but are high in the search engine rankings. Doing so will give you a great idea of what you should be marketing in your blog and what you should stay away from. Finding a niche market that is barely touched in the world of internet marketing is the best thing to do. However, you then have to decide if the niche markets that you have discovered are ones that you are interested in. Some start out with things that they know and get great results, whether they are niche markets or not.

When the goal is six figure blog marketing, you are going to find out real fast that outsourcing some work to others is not a bad idea. Doing all of the work yourself is not something that is possible when you are wanting to make that amount of money. Just be sure that you hire those that you can trust and have a great reputation for getting work done on time and accurately. You  will not want your workers to put you behind schedule.

While you are planning to outsource some of your work to others, you may want to decide and get an outline of just what is needed and the priority. Perhaps you need someone to set up your many blogs, or maybe you need someone else to write the content for the blogs. You can easily find experts on particular markets that you are wanting to blog about and pay them for the rights to their articles. Then post them as needed on your blog.

When you start looking to make a six figure income with your blogs, you are going to see that you will need to be sure that they are all updated in a timely manner. You are going to have to update them as often as possible, and maybe even hire help to be sure that everything goes smoothly with that as well.

Making a six figure income with blogs is the ideal work at home job. You make great money, and have great people working for you. Just be sure that you hire those that know what they are doing and are fluent in the language that you are marketing in as well. Someone that speaks and writes poor English will not help your income, but may hurt it if you have English based readers.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Thanksgiving Cards for Self-Published Authors

Want to send out a Thanksgiving mailing to promote your book? Outskirts Press now offers personal and customized Thanksgiving Greeting Cards, featuring your published book!

Greeting cards are 4.25”x 6” on Premium 14 pt. gloss cover stock. These cards are full color, front and back, and scored for easy folding. The front of the card recognizes the occasion. The inside-left of the card highlights your single book, along with the title, the author name, the cover image, and the webpage address. The inside-right of the card is blank so that you can personalize each card with a handwritten message before folding and mailing them in the included white envelopes.

Greeting cards come in quantities of 250. Outskirts Press authors can also order Custom US First Class Postal Stamps to send out these promotional mailings. Both of these optional marketing products can easily and conveniently be added from the Marketing Options screen of their author’s center.

*Production, printing and shipping can take up to 3-4weeks. Order now to allow plenty of time to receive your cards for a timely holiday promotional mailing.

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Production values matter

Sure we live in a mash up society. It’s acceptable to bootstrap. It’s OK to learn on the job in the digital arena. What’s not acceptable is to get worse. To not reach previously set quality benchmarks. In any business, no less your start up. All of the self made youtube stars invest time in the final production of their content. People expect a higher level of quality these days especially if we want to gather long term fans and loyal viewers. Production values matter. What was acceptable in 2004 in not acceptable in 2009.

The first thing you notice in the video output of these highly subscribed Youtubers is production quality: Hotforwords,  Community Channel, Kev Jumba, Happy Slip, Fred and others.

So when Miley Cyrus throws together a home made video seen below. We realize how much value her producers add to her usual output – seen underneath.

Home made Miley

Produced Miley

I myself, need to improve the videos I make for rentoid.com. So I’ve recently been investing a lot of time learning how to use iMovie editing software.

The lesson for startups is to invest in our digital output. A little more effort in production can be the difference between gathering customers and looking like an amateur.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Apesar Dos Avisos de Altos Indices Caloricos...Os Hamburgueres Continuam a Ganhar...

Nem com Avisos, as Pessoas Ponderam o Seu Consumo Fonte:www.vegansoapbox.com

Trago hoje, uma notícia sobre Saúde VS Cadeias de Fast-Food, passo a transcrever a mesma, seguida de um comentário:

« Avisar os clientes das calorias não resulta. Eles comem na mesma

Estudo realizado em quatro cadeias de fast food revela que os rótulos são insuficientes para provocar mudanças

Um estudo sobre a lei pioneira da cidade de Nova Iorque relativa à afixação de calorias nas cadeias de restaurantes concluiu que, na altura da escolha do menu, o estômago é mais forte que o cérebro.
O estudo levado a cabo por vários professores das universidades de Nova Iorque e de Yale incidiu sobre clientes de quatro cadeias de fast food – McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King e Kentucky Fried Chicken – em bairros pobres de Nova Iorque, onde a taxa de obesidade é elevada.

As conclusões do estudo revelam que metade dos clientes reparou na contagem de calorias que figurava em lugar destacado nas ementas afixadas. Cerca de 28% das pessoas que repararam na alteração disseram que aquela informação tinha influenciado a sua escolha de comida e nove de cada dez admitiram ter escolhido pratos mais saudáveis por causa disso.

No entanto, quando verificaram os talões a posteriori, os investigadores descobriram que as pessoas tinham, de facto, escolhido pratos com um número de calorias ligeiramente superior ao dos clientes normais antes de Julho de 2008, quando a lei entrou em vigor.
Estas conclusões, publicadas terça-feira passada na versão online do jornal “Health Affairs”, surgem numa altura em que a popularidade das propostas de contagem de calorias como meio de melhorar a saúde pública no país tem aumentado.

“Acho que nos demonstra que os rótulos não bastam”, afirmou, numa entrevista, Brian Elbel, professor-assistente da New York University School of Medicine e principal autor do estudo em questão.

A cidade de Nova Iorque foi o primeiro sítio nos Estados Unidos a exigir a afixação de calorias nas ementas, tornando-se assim um caso de teste. Desde então, Califórnia, Seattle e outras regiões e cidades instituíram uma legislação semelhante.

A afixação das calorias nas ementas chegou a ser objecto do debate nacional sobre a reforma do sistema de saúde, com uma proposta apresentada no Senado que exigia a contagem de calorias nas ementas das cadeias de restaurantes.

Este estudo centrava-se sobretudo nos clientes pobres – negros e hispânicos – de restaurantes de fast food no Sul do Bronx, no centro do bairro nova-iorquino de Brooklyn, no Harlem, em Washington Heights, e no bairro Rockaways, de Queens. Como grupo de controlo, foi escolhida uma população com as mesmas características na cidade de Newark, no estado vizinho da Nova Jérsia, que não tem legislação sobre afixação de calorias. Estas localizações foram escolhidas por causa da alta percentagem de casos de obesidade e diabetes nas populações pobres e minoritárias.

Os investigadores reuniram perto de 1100 talões de caixa duas semanas antes e quatro semanas depois de a nova legislação ter entrado em vigor. Os clientes receberam dois dólares (o equivalente a 1,36 euros) cada um para entregarem os talões.

Para os clientes de Nova Iorque, o menu escolhido tinha uma média de 846 calorias depois de a lei ter entrado em vigor. Antes a média era de 825 calorias. Em Newark, os clientes escolheram em média 825 calorias antes e depois.

Comportamentos difíceis de mudar Na segunda-feira, os clientes do McDonald’s da 125th Street, perto da St. Nicholas Avenue, no coração de Manhattan, comentavam as conclusões do estudo.

William Mitchell, de Rosedale (Queens), que estava em Harlem para uma entrevista de emprego, escolheu dois cheeseburgers, num total de cerca de 600 calorias, por 2 dólares (o equivalente a 1,36 euros).

Quando lhe perguntei se tinha verificado as calorias, respondeu: “Como porque é barato. Tento arranjar a refeição mais barata possível.”

Tameika Coates, de 28 anos, que trabalha na loja da Catedral de St. Patrick, escolheu um Big Mac (540 calorias), com um pacote grande de batatas fritas (500 calorias) e uma garrafa grande de Sprite (310 calorias).

“Não ligo muito porque como de qualquer maneira”, disse Tameika Coates. “Sei que não devia porque já estou muito gorda”, acrescenta com uma gargalhada.

April Matos, uma especialista em fast food, com 24 anos, comprou para Amari, o filho de três anos, um menu Happy Meal com McNuggets de frango e um Snack Wrap para si própria. Encolheu os ombros e disse que não lhe interessava contar calorias. “Não ligo. Que importa? Porque não haveria de comer? A vida é curta”, exclamou, acrescentando que costumava ter uma alimentação ligeira. “Agora comecei a comer de tudo porque estou grávida.”

Os peritos em nutrição e saúde pública dizem que as conclusões do estudo mostram como é difícil alterar os comportamentos, embora isso não justifique o abandono da política de afixação de calorias nas ementas dos restaurantes.

Um defensor da afixação de calorias defende que as pessoas com baixos rendimentos estão muito mais interessadas nos preços das refeições que nas respectivas calorias.

“A nutrição não é a preocupação principal das pessoas de baixos rendimentos, provavelmente as menos sensíveis à afixação de calorias”, assegura Michael F. Jacobson, director-executivo do Center for Science in the Public Interest, um grupo sem fins lucrativos sedeado em Washington e que se dedica à promoção de hábitos saudáveis.

Os responsáveis de saúde da cidade de Nova Iorque garantem que, como o estudo teve início imediatamente depois da entrada em vigor da legislação que obrigou à publicação das calorias nas ementas, é possível que não tenha captado mudanças de comportamento das pessoas que tenham ocorrido mais gradualmente.

Há um ano, frisam os mesmos responsáveis, a cidade lançou uma campanha publicitária junto dos utilizadores do metro na qual se informava a população da cidade de que a maioria dos adultos devia ingerir 2 mil calorias por dia, o que poderia ter contextualizado a contagem de calorias.

Embora o estudo da Universidade de Nova Iorque tenha examinado 1100 talões de caixa de restaurantes, a cidade está a proceder à sua própria análise de 12 mil talões, que tenciona divulgar daqui a alguns meses, avança Cathy Nonas, directora de programas de nutrição do Departamento de Higiene Sanitária e Mental daquela cidade.

O estudo em questão reflecte outros estudos que concluíram que, em termos de alimentação, as pessoas por vezes confundem a intenção com a acção, diz Marie Roth, dietista registada pelo Blythedale Children’s Hospital em Valhalla (Nova Iorque).
“Só pelo facto de tencionarem fazer escolhas mais saudáveis as pessoas sentem que o poderiam ter feito e que talvez o façam quando voltarem a ter oportunidade”, diz Marie Roth.»

In: http://www.ionline.pt/conteudo/26712-avisar-os-clientes-das-calorias-nao-resulta-eles-comem-na-mesma, a 08 de Outubro de 2009, no Jornal I

O meu comentário:

Mediante este estudo, podemos inferir que o problema são os hábitos enraizados, neste caso na cultura norte americana, onde as pessoas, têm pouco tempo para poderem alimentar-se, e então recorrem a algo rápido, que lhes permita libertar tempo para outras tarefas, ou para, continuarem a trabalhar, pois podem não dispor da hora toda para o almoço.

No entanto, um dado relevante, que podemos tirar no estudo, é que as pessoas com menores rendimentos, menosprezam as calorias ingeridas, sendo mais importante, o preço da refeição, do que a qualidade, o que em certa parte, compreende-se, senão vejamos, mesmo no nosso país os jovens são grandes clientes deste tipo de cadeias, por ser barato e bom, sabemos que estas cadeias de fast-food, quando surgiram, atacarem os clientes por dois vectores, o rápido e o preço, surgiram com preços muito baixos, face aos restantes players do mercado.

Há bem poucos anos, só nas grandes cidades, é que se comia o denominado prato do dia, com preço reduzido, no entanto, com o surgimento destas cadeias, o preço foi mais baixo, esmagando as margens de lucro, obrigando os pequenos restaurantes, ou mesmo cafés nas nossas cidades, a criarem alternativas, para fixarem as pessoas, e criaram os seus menus, por valores em que podiam competir com estas cadeias, e melhoraram o outro vector, a rapidez do serviço, oferecendo ainda algo, que as mesmas não dão, atendimento à mesa.

Mesmo com notícias, em que as cadeias, faziam comida que era nociva à nossa saúde, as pessoas continuaram a ir lá, pelos mais diversos motivos, criando problemas nefastos na saúde pública, como obesidade, agravamento de doenças cardiovasculares, etc.

Então foi necessário, publicas as calorias, e indicar que não devemos ingerir diariamente mais que 2000 calorias, sendo que um menu destas cadeias, muitas vezes ultrapassa estas 2000 calorias diárias, que deveríamos ingerir, nem mostrando às pessoas, que estão a pisar o risco, as pessoas vão deixar de consumir este tipo de alimentos, ou de recorrer com tanta frequência a estas cadeias, para a sua alimentação.

A publicação das calorias neste tipo de alimentos, dá-me logo com termo de comparação, os anúncios colocados nos maços de cigarros, onde indica mesmo, que fumar pode conduzir à morte, no entanto, as pessoas continuam a fumar, apesar dos avisos, pois é algo difícil de se fazer, deixar de fumar, apesar de saber que se estão a destruir, a mesma teoria passa para os alimentos destas cadeias, em que as calorias são imensas, no entanto, as pessoas tem que se alimentar, e pelos mais diversos motivos, recorrem a estas cadeias, no artigo acima, uma cliente diz que procura a refeição o mais barata possível, e outro cliente, indica que come, porque se tem que comer, independentemente do seu peso para a saúde, apesar de reconhecerem que deveriam comer menos, devido a estarem gordos.

O que devemos tirar daqui, é que as pessoas apesar dos avisos, continuam a comer, pois este tipo de cadeias, ataca o mercado, com comida saborosa, rápida e essencialmente barata, o que faz com que nichos mais desfavorecidos, ou tradicionalmente com menos rendimentos, como pessoas com empregos precários, pobres, e estudantes, vão continuar a recorrer a estas cadeias, para se alimentarem, como, quando somos jovens nada nos dói, muitos bebem, fumam e abusam de certos comportamentos, que no futuro se vão arrepender, pelo peso que estes têm na sua saúde.

Basicamente quando de é novo não pensamos que os nossos comportamentos de então, podem ter altos estragos e podem nos sair muito caro, alguns anos à frente.

No entanto, é simples, se querem que as pessoas ganhem cultura alimentar, têm que a dar, tal como fizeram nos cigarros, na educação sexual, etc. Em educações sociais, somos muito débeis, em políticas como planeamento familiar, financeiras, somos um desastre.

Penso que devemos fazer alertas, e criar uma legislação para estas cadeias, no entanto, não sou a favor de uma legislação rígida, pois senão estarão em causa valores de liberdade, e que estão consagrados na constituição da república portuguesa.

Vamos aguardar de ver qual será a percussão desta situação, para a Europa, e mais concretamente a Portugal.

Deixo a Questão: Que pensa da afixação das calorias nos produtos das cadeias de fast-food, não ter resultados práticos, pois ficam a prevalecer factores como rapidez e economia?

Tenho Dito

RT

Retailing's atomic bomb

Dropping the bomb

Those of you who saw Costco CEO Jim Sinegal being interviewed by CNBC this week, standing right there atop the stairway leading to the fabled vendor meeting rooms at their HQ  in Issaquah, might think he was just a warm, cuddly, typical Washington-state guy.  You would be wrong. 

Sinegal’s casual, folksy appearance masks a strong determination:  one that helps keep this chain on the forefront of trends.  WalMart may be the powerful locomotive, but Costco may just be the speeding bullet.  Or, the atomic bomb…

Sinegal was actually using this term to refer to Costco’s private label program, their juggernaut.  Private label now comprises 20% of their SKUs, but their goal is 35%.  Sinegal stated that in this quest there is “no room for mistakes.”

According to AC Nielsen, U.S. private label consumer packaged goods  accounted for 73.3 billion in dollar sales for the year ended April 2008, up nine percent from the previous year.  In an industry where growth of two to three percent is respectable, this is almost indecent.

To Costco, their private label is all about customer service.  They hire consultants who work around the clock to deliver the best product options.  They run tests constantly, and employ all manner of quality control systems.  All this for the roughly 500 products that comprise the Kirkland brand.

Those of us who shop at Costco have grown to know and love Kirkland.  It is all that the old private labels were not.  Remember the old ugly, yellow, generic product packaging ? 

Store labels were once synonymous with cheap.  Now they have become real brands, with all the baggage that a brand implies, including extensions, but most importantly, defensive strategies.   Thus, the weapon of  choice for Costco:  private label.  This is bomb that Sinegal is using to blow up the world of retailing as we know it.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Self-Publishing Book Teasers: Jesus An Authorized Biography

Fast, flashy, and fun, book teasers are an ideal, cost-effective way to kick-start your online video and social networking promotional efforts for your book.

Here’s a sample of a book teaser we recently produced for one of our authors:

Outskirts Press can help you get your social networking and video sharing promotional efforts off to an exciting, high-quality start. Outskirts Press published authors can order either option, or both, from the Marketing Options screen of their Author’s Center.

Not yet published with professional marketing options like these?

Which messages will resonate best with your customers?

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that marketing is a lot harder than many people give it credit for. Doing good marketing is even harder. So take my advice when I say this: the message you convey to your audience is a) vitally important, b) very difficult to target, and c) extremely challenging to get right. If you don’t understand a), b), and c), you’ll be relegated to d) crappy sales, poor marketing materials, and unrealized potential. Is there any hope?

Of course there is. C’mon… you know I’m an optimist…

Like everything else, messaging takes a solid plan and good execution. If you have a lot of different customer-facing teams in your organization, you want to make sure everyone is saying the same thing, and in the same way. Your best bet is to create a Core Messaging Platform, a systematic, strategic document that accomplishes several important tasks:

  1. Centralizes your messaging in one location so that everyone in your company is literally on the same page.
  2. Defines, shapes and drives all of the outbound communication for your products and services.
  3. Consists of a series of overarching messages, high-level/benefit-based core messages, and supporting messages that elaborate on key ideas.

If you take the time and effort to create this “one-stop shop” for your messaging needs, you’ll be amazed at how much easier and more effective your communication efforts are.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Sevices at DPS Technologies

At DPS, we specialize in both BPO & KPO Services. They are both B2B Models, and can be differentiated in the following manner:

BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) is the corporate term used for hiring a 3rd party with a specialty in a work area to perform routine duties within their specific niche. In most cases, businesses choose to outsource tasks that are outside the core focus of their primary service. Examples of BPO services are: Accounting, Formatting, Archiving, IT Maintenance, Software Development (to automate internal processes) & Maintenance, Floor plan Constructions, Data Conversions, etc.


In the BPO Model, the contractor rarely speaks to the client, as you, the Primary Service manages the client’s needs.

KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) is the term used for hiring a 3rd party to grow your Business idea. It is a relatively new model, but has accrued quite some interest over the last decade as businesses in declining economies are looking to cut costs. KPO models usually comprise of a Business entity working in conjunction with an International Facility to manage end-to-end internal service needs, by training members in a variety of specialty areas to manage domains within their enterprise. The KPO model’s foundation is reliant on a long-term partnership, where both the contractor and the buyer work closely together to deliver a primary service to the client.


In the KPO Model, the Contractor & the Primary Service maintain a codependent relationship in servicing a client.

DPS’ Primary Service areas are:

  • Business Staffing
  • Data Conversions
  • Software Development
  • Website Solutions

We understand that every Business’ needs vary, and we invite you to read through our Case Studies to learn more about how we customize our solutions to the individual client’s needs, or contact us >> to speak to one of our Business Consultants, who are trained to educate you on both models, as we treat each client with the same precision and detail one would use in a science/ technical project.

Promotion

It would be great if you initiate to promote our services. However, please note that:

  • Sebelum membuat iklan atau promosi dalam bentuk apapun, selalu submit draft nya ke saya (Klara) sebelum iklan di publish atau dijalankan
  • Boleh memberitakan bahwa kita bekerja sama dengan registered migration agent Australia. Tapi jangan mengundang orang untuk meminta saran mengenai PR ke kita
  • Untuk promotional material yang bayar, berikan rincian apa tujuan dan keuntungannya iklan menggunakan cara tersebut, serta biayanya ke saya

Friday, October 2, 2009

Internet outstrips TV but total ad spend plummets 17%

by Daniel Farey-Jones, Brand Republic 30-Sep-09, 09:15

Based on figures from the Advertising Association and WARC, a report from the IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that internet advertising was the only sector to grow in the first half, taking a total of £1.75bn.

The 4.6% growth in all forms of online advertising — paid-for search, display and classifieds — came within an overall market that fell 16.6% to £7.5bn.

Guy Phillipson, chief executive of the IAB, said: “Internet advertising has beaten all expectations to achieve growth in the most challenging market conditions.”

TV revenues fell 16.1%, according to the figures, meaning it has lost its status as the medium with the biggest market share to the one that had the smallest share only six years ago.

Online now has a 23.5% market share compared to TV’s 21.9%.

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Phillipson said that online had overtaken TV around six months earlier than expected because of the recession, which has accentuated marketers’ search for certainty.

“The internet is the medium they are least likely to walk away from,” he said.

He predicted that marketers’ increasing exposure to the measurability of the internet would lead them to require greater measurability of other media. “The whole research industry will be working hard on that, to solve that conundrum, over the next few years.”

Eva Berg-Winters, online advertising expert at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: “Perhaps surprisingly, a slowing economy has accelerated the migration to digital technology and hence the continuing shift from more traditional forms of advertising to online.

“The only certainty is that this transgression demands fundamental structural change of business models across all industries.”

Other media suffered greater revenue reverses than TV, notably print sectors. Press classified was worst off, down 37.3%, followed by directories, down 25%; outdoor, down 22%; and press display, down 20.4%.

However, press display is still the third largest sector with a market share of 18.5% and press classified has a market share of 11%.

If they were combined, as the online display and classified sectors are, they would have the biggest share of overall spend.

TV ad marketing body Thinkbox, issued a critical response to today’s figures.

Lindsey Clay, marketing director at Thinkbox, said  it was “interesting but meaningless to sweep all the money spent on every aspect of online marketing into one big figure and celebrate it”.

Clay said: “Online marketing spend is made up of many things including email, classified ads, display ads (including online TV advertising), and, overwhelmingly, search marketing.

“They should be judged individually.”

Clay added that TV was the most effective ad medium “pound for pound” and that it was even more effective when put together with online.

Clay said: “They are the perfect marketing marriage. To set them up in competition is a mistake and misses their complementary relationship.”

Source: http://www.brandrepublic.com/BrandRepublicNews/News/942055/Internet-outstrips-TV-total-ad-spend-plummets-17/?DCMP=EMC-DailyNewsBulletin

THERE IS NO VERIZON SERVICE! THAT GEEK F*CK AND HIS MINIONS DON'T EXIST!

We here on the Farm tried out Verizon phone service and found ourselves in service HELL.

Almost a dozen calls of frustrating waits till “service” centers wrote “tickets” but would take 10 days to “resolve.”

Don’t call back before 10 days – even though your phone calls rattle and buzz like U2 on a bad day – because Verizon will tell you “Wait!”

Looking for some credit on bad calls? Wait 10 days! Then maybe yes, maybe no!

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The CRIME of AMERICA: Corporations plastering propaganda TV/print commercials that LIE and LIE.

The USA FCC in the good old days actually took action against lying TV corporations.

No longer – in Bushian/Cheney/Madoff Lie and Let Lie Corporate Policy.

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America! Open your windows and scream – “We’re NOT going to TAKE it anymore!”

America! If the Corporations F*ck you, then time to F*ck them back!

Take matters into your own hands! Your US government doesn’t care about you – the Consumer.

So take action! Find the lying culprits – the 22 year old twats out of Harvard BUsiness School responsible for stealing your money, and in the best tradition of Abbie Hoffman – Take revenge against the Man!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Manager of Global PR

The successful candidate in this role will manage the Global Public Relations (Corporate & Consumer) in the implementation & management of the public image of this site. The candidate will require tremendous attention to detail and multitasking abilities, managing global Public Relations initiatives, including on-the ground events, online PR initiatives, European (and other international) television events, and various sponsored/tournament events. In addition, this candidate will be heavily involved in working with ten Country Managers, three International PR firms, Head of SEO, the Copy Team, various marketing departments and the Player Liaison department.

 Skills Required:

  • Strong copywriting, proofing and information distribution skills
  • Experience in dealing with multiple cultures and languages
  • Understanding of SEO needs and communications analysis
  • Strong event management experience
  • A minimum of 4 years PR experience
  • Ability to be on call 24 hours per day due to various time zones
  • Knowledge of poker is desirable but not essential

The new way to socialize

Every time I share with someone my passion for building my brand through social media, I’m met with comments such as, “But why do I want a Twitter account?  I don’t want to know what people are doing every minute of the day.”  Or, “I don’t need Facebook.  I don’t need to connect with people I don’t remember from high school.”

Let me explain.  If you have a business and you’re not using these medium to reach your audience then YOU ARE MISSING THE BOAT.  How awesome would it be for Starbuck’s or McDonald’s to create a video, post it on their site and in this video ask the consumers what they want?  Instead of spending millions of dollars on advertising, spend $0 and post a video on Youtube then post tweets about it with a link to the video. Put in on their Faccebook fanpage.  Connect that page to their website or blog.  The possibilities are endless and flat out amazing!  Then when they get feedback from the customers they can create a product they know will sell because the consumers helped to create  it.  The consumers want it!

The truth is whether you’re a company or an individual…  You’re on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, etc…  And you’re saying, “Hey!  Look at me!  I’m over here!”  That’s not a bad thing.  However, if you have a passion for a topic or a business, you BETTER be saying…  “Hey look at me!  I’m over here!”

Pretty soon people will check you out.  They will “re-tweet”, re-post on Facebook or send your link via email to their friends.  THAT is more powerful than any commercial during Super Bowl Sunday.  The power of ONE person looking at your brand…  PRICELESS.  That one person has so much power at the click of that mouse!

And that is how Twitter and Facebook and the rest of the social media platforms out there, work for you.