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		<title>743 Million People use Social Media &#8211; Leverage this Traffic Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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<p>This post is Going to Short and to the Point! (This have NEVER been offered Before)</p>
<p>***Not Sure we&#8217;ll Ever Do it again !!! This Offer Must Go Offline Soon.***</p>
<p>If You&#8217;ve looked at the Extreme Value and amount of Cutting Edge content<br />
in the Platinum Membership of <a href="http://www.web20formula.com">Web20Formula</a> You&#8217;ll know what a Killer Offer this is !</p>
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<p>Each Day <a href="http://web20formula.com">Social Media Marketing and Video Marketing</a> just becomes more and more essential<br />
to your positioning and self branding strategies online.</p>
<p>On Top of All That !</p>
<p>Social Media is becoming one of the Most Sort After New Professions with 75%<br />
of Businesses Looking to Hire Social Media Consultants in the Next 12 months.<br />
Source:(Social Media Jobs Salary Survey 2009)</p>
<p>These employers indicated that they considered social media oriented roles to be essential<br />
to the success of their businesses over the next 12-18 months.</p>
<p>Does that Tell you Something ??</p>
<p>Are you skilling yourself Up to be apart of this New Revolution in Online Marketing and Sales??</p>
<p>Why Not learn <a href="http://web20formula.com">Social Media Marketing</a> , and apply it, growing an online business and at the same time<br />
becoming a highly sort after for employers as this new media becomes the solution to all the failing<br />
old media advertising and marketing of the past.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the Deal &#8230;</p>
<p>*Yellow Pages are DEAD</p>
<p>*Newspapers are Dying</p>
<p>*Radio advertising is Dying</p>
<p>*Television is in Decline</p>
<p>These Old Media&#8217;s are getting CRUSHED by New Media&#8217;s (Social Media)</p>
<p>==&gt;&gt;People are not Buying Newspapers.. (They Read Blogs)</p>
<p>==&gt;&gt;People are not Listening to the Radio like they once did (They Listen to Ipod&#8217;s)</p>
<p>==&gt;&gt;People are not watching as much T.V (They are on Youtube and Facebook all night long)</p>
<p>Look, I hate to break the News to you, but Social Media is Changing Everything</p>
<p>You need to see it and make the changes to accept it or you may even be out of work<br />
as fast as the businesses that Don&#8217;t embrace it will be.</p>
<p>I can Give you 100 Reasons why this is happening, but that&#8217;s going to be kept for another Blog Post</p>
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<p>* Video Optimization and Analytics &#8211; A closer look at YouTube Insight&#8230;</p>
<p>* Traffic Tips for Video + Social Marketing &#8211; 10 Devious Traffic Ranking Tips for Video + Social Marketing&#8230;</p>
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<p>* and much more!!!</p>
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<p>See you on the Inside,</p>
<p>John Gregory<br />
Web20Formula Head Coach</p>
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		<title>Most Business Owners have it all Wrong &#8211; Video tells all&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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<p>We need to stop embarrassing our potential customers with cold calls, mail shots and advertising, instead creating a better business experience through community building.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been said time and time again&#8230; that in today&#8217;s highly competitive marketplace, people only<br />
do business with people they know, like and trust.</p>
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<p>Heavy duty interuption marketing campains via the old &#8211; Mass Media are failing and business<br />
owners are loosing more money than ever before, and wondering whats the solution to this problem.</p>
<p>The only way you can Listen and Learn to exactly what your customers Like and Dislike about<br />
your Products and services is via <a href="http://www.Web2Formula.com">Social Media</a></p>
<p>What are People saying about Your Business in Social Media ?</p>
<p>To Learn how to Leverage Social Media in your Business Visit : <a href="http://www.Web2Formula.com">www.Web2Formula.com</a></p>
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		<title>The Social Media Marketing Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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<p>There is a lot of buzz about social media marketing these days. We have all heard it, and no industry is immune. All of the facts and figures point to the inevitability that your business will be affected by this turn in the marketing tide. This all got me to thinking about the dilemma that social media poses to each and every business entity.</p>
<p>The dilemma is in weighing the cost of participating versus the risk associated with not embracing social media marketing. <strong>So how can you mitigate your risk?</strong> Spend a moment with me to understand why you should not overlook social media for another minute.</p>
<h2>Social Media Marketing: Now or Later?</h2>
<p>The part that may be the hardest for many companies is that this shift in the marketing tide has occurred during an already frightening time for business people. Companies who used to advertise in newspapers have found that they are largely ineffective in 2009. This has further added to the already obvious demise of print media. Similarly, television is losing the marketing battle at an astonishing rate. Your local affiliate stations used to receive a piece of the national advertisers spending, and that was cut by the major networks. This is all happening because the Internet has fully eclipsed all other media in both total adspend and consumer reach.</p>
<p>I can give you a long list of the things which have added to the social media boom, but I do not think I will need to explain this. You know it is here, and you are quite possibly feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all. It is a huge transition. It is kind of a big shuffle where everybody is just trying to find their way and hope when it all settles that they will have made the right choices and that they adapted to the new rules of marketing soon enough to be effective. This really is a dilemma of when to make a quantifiable effort: will it be now, or will it be later? When should you adopt the new rules of engagement? Are you too late? It is too soon? The questions are so plentiful and pressing that I have watched it paralyze many would-be good business decision makers.</p>
<h2>Social Media Dilemma: Risk vs. Risk</h2>
<p>Perhaps you are just warming up to the idea that this “new” media is where things are going. The fear of jumping in is really pretty normal. After all, it is hard to believe in something after you have watched all the things you always knew about business and economy suddenly change. Most of us were always told that our home would always be a great investment. That seems to be a bit shaky now, although it will certainly return. We thought companies like General Motors, AIG, and others were unshakeable and that the whole world economy could not all just collapse. Things have changed, and amidst all of that change around you, the thought of spending what seems like a fortune in order to effectively participate in a marketing method with a whole new set of measurement metrics probably feels a bit uncomfortable at best.</p>
<p>So what will make all of this feel better and help it all make sense? The answer is this: If your competition does it sooner and better than you, the cost of lost opportunity will be greater than any other potential risk.</p>
<p>Social media marketing is truly not as new as you may see it on the surface. In many ways, it is the way it used to be done in every company, for as long as business has been done. The tools have changed a lot, but the communication basics are that if you develop a warm market, your business will always perform far better. Your sales process will be much smoother. Your brand image will be enhanced by the added customer satisfaction. The list of benefits to the added communication of social media marketing over advertising as usual should not be so hard to understand. All the same, as a social media and Internet marketing professional since the mid-1990s, I still often feel like I am trying to explain the color blue to a person devoid of sight.</p>
<h2>A Picture of Social Media Marketing</h2>
<p>I want to provide you with a mental picture of social media marketing. Work with me, please. Let’s say that you are about to walk out the door to drive to your local Wal Mart for a couple items. You are going to pick up a garden hose, some razor blades, a new alarm clock, and a few other items. As you head for the door with your car keys in hand, the doorbell rings. You get to the door and there is a salesperson standing there to greet you. They are with a company you have heard of, but you have never met this person. He says that he has all of those things you planned to pick up at Wal Mart. He has the garden hose, the razor blades, and even the alarm clock, and he happens to have them right there. He even has the brands you would buy. How does this feel to you? Are you a bit uneasy about it? Many people have answered this question for me, and it seems that the vast majority would still get in the car, drive to Wal Mart, sort through the aisles, wait in line, and return home. The trust factor compels them, and the guy at the door just did not have the trust yet, regardless how hard he tried.</p>
<p>I have a new picture for you. The person standing at the door is somebody you have had some brief communication with, and you realize you have some mutual friends. It warms up with a bit of friendly conversation, and what do you know. You belong to the same social group. It all starts to look different now, does it not?</p>
<p>The differences in these scenarios are very similar psychologically to an advertisement compared to a social media approach. In addition, with a social media approach, it is altogether likely that the phone rang before you even grabbed your car keys and a friend was on the other end to let you know they were sending the hose, razor, and alarm clock guy over. It has a completely different feel, and it is the reason that advertising has always been an uphill battle compared to proper relationship marketing.</p>
<h2>Social Media Fears: The Biggest Dilemma of All</h2>
<p>Now that I have walked you through an analogy of digital social media compared to yesterday media, let us look at the worst social media dilemma of all. This time, you are in the selling position, and you are the guy at the door. Answer yourself this question: do you want to be that guy at the door trying to peddle your goods, or would you rather be the hose, razor, and alarm clock guy who took the care to build relationships and will be walking up to the door already announced.</p>
<p>If you fear what happens if you embrace social media marketing today and that it may not work for you, the greater question should be in which hose, razor, and alarm clock salesperson you want to be. If you leave it up to your competition, your cost will be much greater indeed, because the deepest cost is that of missed opportunities.</p>
<p>This article written by : <a href="http://www.awebguy.com">The Web Guy</a></p>
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		<title>Social Media and Web 2.0 : The World is YOUR Oyster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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<p>One of the purpose for this site is to feed you with positive news. You hear stuff all the time, so stop by to recharge your batteries here. The idea is to make you feel better and great.</p>
<p>Today, I want to share something fantastic with you! Do you know we live in the easiest and best times. Why? Because of our amazing technology. With web 2.0, social media and the growing demand of the internet we have it made. My favorite is <a href="http://www.Web2Formula.com">social media and web 2.0</a> which gives us the ability to connect on a global scale easily and effortlessly. How would this site been possible if not for the amazing technology we have today.</p>
<p>Did you ever hear of times in our recorded history when you could create a cool video or advertisement about your products and services and broadcast it to the world for FREE? Multi national companies pay millions of dollars each year, employ marketing department, hire PR agencies to get their message out. All this to reach their target audience to buy their product and services. Today you can convey your mesage or promote your talent on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and so many fantastic social media sites that are emerging for *FREE. So is it good or GREAT?</p>
<p>Today is the only time when people have at times started business with no money or very little money and hve become millionaires leveraging the internet and these powerful tools we have. Earlier it would have taken generations to create the money and wealth people create today at such a fantasic speed.</p>
<p>Did you hear Frank Kern made $4 million in one day? Mark Zuckerberg, founder and creator of Facebook has become the youngest billionaire in less than 5 years of starting Facebook. Yes, a Billionaire with a &#8216;B&#8217;. All because he had an idea that would benefit millions and add value to their lives. Did he expect to become a billionaire so fast? I cannot read his mind, but isnt it inspiring to read his success story.</p>
<p>So if you have an idea, skill or talent you can promote yourself to the world with the technology we have today. Thanks to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many others you can broadcast your message to the world for FREE.</p>
<p>So when you reflect on this, we live in the easiest times and it only gets better by the day. As we advance and our technology improves we have entered an empowered generation and era of human global connectedness.</p>
<p>So lets be very grteful today for the wonderful abundance we have all around us. There is absolutely no excuse for anyone today. Anyone can succeed if they are willing to take actions, add value to others, imagine some goals that will benefit them, their families and our world.</p>
<p>President Barrack Obama made a public declaration on 24th February 2009 that the future of our economy lies in the imagination of our entrepreneurs. If you are an entrepreneur then it is your birth right to imagine the best global economy for our world, our generation and for future generations. What kind of economic world would you like to live in? We already live in great times today, but there is always a next level up.</p>
<p>So what kind of business would you like to create that would serve you and others in a positive way? Would you like to have more financial security for your family? Give better education to your kids? Have a luxurious lifestyle, travel more, shop better, feast more and have lots of fun along the way? Then go for it. <strong>IMAGINE!</strong> Even this is FREE!</p>
<p>This article was written by <a href="http://twitter.com/dainazsillava">Dainaz Sillava</a> Follow her on <a href="http://twitter.com/johngregory75">Twitter</a></p>
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		<title>Social technology activity skyrockets in ‘08</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2008/10/new-2008-social.html" target="_blank">Forrester’s 2008 Social Technologies Data</a> shows something alarming: <strong>75 percent of U.S. Internet users participate in social technology. </strong> This up from 56 percent in 2007.</p>
<p>Another interesting note is that actual amount of creators (people creating original content on the Web) grew slightly from 18-21 percent. So while there aren’t as many people making noise, <strong>there are more people listening.</strong></p>
<p>Where is this growth coming from? Not the college-aged or 20-something crowd you’d expect. It’s the 35-44 year-old group. Activity is even up among the 45-54 year-olds.</p>
<p><strong>If you’re not seriously investing in social media… this proves you should be.</strong></p>
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<p>Forrester Social Technologies Data 2008</p>
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		<title>How to Get Twitter Traffic To Your Blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks i have been investing a lot of time learning to better leverage Twitter. The more and more I learn about Twitter the more valuable it becomes, and over the coming weeks I will be blogging alot about what I have discovered and why Twitter is one of the most powerful [...]]]></description>
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<p>Over the last few weeks i have been investing a lot of time learning to better leverage Twitter.</p>
<p>The more and more I learn about <a href="http://twitter.com/johngregory75">Twitter</a> the more valuable it becomes, and over the coming weeks I will be blogging alot about what I have discovered and why Twitter is one of the most powerful Social Media Sites on the Web today.</p>
<p>While I was doing my daily Twitter research I came across a Twitter post by Jim Yaghi, and he had just posted this awesome article about using twitter and your Blog together for great traffic increases.  Check it out : <a href="http://www.jimyaghi.com/technical/how-to-get-twitter-traffic-to-your-blog">Jim&#8217;s Blog</a></p>
<p>For the past few weeks, I’ve had Google Analytics installed on this very blog to track how people are discovering it.</p>
<p>In the beginning, most visitors came in by directly entering the URL into their address bar. As it became more popular, referral traffic and search engines played a bigger role.</p>
<p>Over the past few days though, I noticed 500% spike of new visitors coming from Twitter.</p>
<p>Light bulb went on in my head of course. It occurred to me that the reason was a stupid little post I did a few days ago which had a picture of my crazy book shelf. For whatever reason, that was interesting enough that a few of my Twitter pals re-Tweeted to their pals who then discovered the blog.</p>
<p>Anyway, so I decided to ditch the other social bookmarking plugin I was using with wordpress and get another called TweetMeme. It’s pretty simple to install and activate and makes it easy for visitors to share on Twitter any of this blog’s posts. Simply genius.</p>
<p>Only thing I didn’t like was that it posted the little sharing box EITHER at the top or the bottom of a post but not both. I wanted it both at the top where it’s easy to spot…and at the bottom where it’s convenient to share a post when someone is done reading it.</p>
<p>So i jumped in to my wordpress plugin editor and modified it as I do with any plugin that needs minor tweaks to suit my uses. I was going to leave it at that…but I thought you guys might want to try to modify it on your blogs too.</p>
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<li>Save yourself the effort, just <a onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/downloads/tweetmeme-modified.zip');" href="http://www.jimyaghi.com/tweetmeme-modified.zip" target="_blank">download the modified Tweetmeme from here</a> .</li>
<li>Upload to your wp-content/plugins directory.</li>
<li>Activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Click Settings on the left of your WordPress interface.</li>
<li>Choose Before AND After option</li>
<li>Save Changes</li>
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<p>Now you’re set to go. Enjoy</p>
<p>Original Post can be found <a href="http://www.jimyaghi.com/technical/how-to-get-twitter-traffic-to-your-blog">here </a></p>
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