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		<title>Some things you just can’t fake!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samyo Dalgarno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2012 Samyo Dalgarno. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/what-is-authentic/.Woohoo!!! Well Annie has gone &#38; got herself productive on other things and she has given me back the keys to the ute (&#8220;the pick-up&#8221;,  if you&#8217;re one of our American friends) So I am left wondering where to go for my first drive. I <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/what-is-authentic/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>Well Annie has gone &amp; got herself productive on other things and she has given me back the keys to the ute (&#8220;the pick-up&#8221;,  if you&#8217;re one of our American friends)</p>
<p>So I am left wondering where to go for my first drive. I could go downtown on some practical internet marketing mission or I could wander off into the scenic wilderness of cyberspace, on a Quest to discover something deep, meaningful and ultimately useful.</p>
<p>I like Quest’s &#8230;</p>
<p>So where to begin.</p>
<p>There is a lot of talk about authentic marketing, I know, we started it more than 3 years ago, but what does it really mean to be authentic?</p>
<p>To give you a background, I left the mainstream world in 1999 off on a personal quest to discover the answer to Life, The Universe &amp; Everything.  During that journey I came to understand and experience a lot of things about energy and about how we create and un-create our lives.</p>
<p>Everything is energy, this is a scientific fact. Deeper into that, like people and places, businesses also have an energy you might call it a vibe or a feeling. That vibe or feeling we get about a business is its most important asset and comes from several places.</p>
<p>Like a child, a business will have had an inspiration a first moment of conception, a seed or kernel that will contain the idea or possibility that is a business. Did that inspiration come from a desire to be of service, a desire to create a better widget, a desire just to make money or maybe a genuine place of interest or enthusiasm?</p>
<p>This is the first &amp; most important question to ask yourself. What is the root of the tree that is your business?</p>
<p>Next it will be influenced by the people involved, the core group of players that are nurturing the tree to life and growth. Then the people you bring in to work with you, either as partners, employees, web designers or external contractors. The imagery the logo’s the furniture the building, and on and on .. (You get the picture).</p>
<p>Each and every piece of your business comes together to create an energy or entity that is a business, and your business is a reflection of the core, the inspiration, the conscious and the unconscious. That energy or vibe, we <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span></strong> feel to varying degrees, wether we know it consciously or not, it is this energy that will mean success or failure.</p>
<p>Sadly what I have seen in the last 30 years in the area of marketing &amp; modern business is that the root or the core energy of a business gets lost or forgotten in the rush for profits or expansion. That is why we are now seeing major players in trouble and issues like the Global Financial Crisis.</p>
<p>What’s worse is that in recent times, major and minor marketing companies are jumping on the back of the shift in awareness and hijacking it in the rush for a new idea or an “Edge”. What happens is that some people take on the concept of “Authentic Marketing” but they do it with their head, so it is not real, they see it as a tool or a clever marketing trick.</p>
<p>I can tell you that you cannot fake authenticity, it does not work like that, authenticity does not come from your head and it is not just an idea, it is soooo much deeper than that.</p>
<p>I often hear business people scoff at many “New Thought” ideas and concepts, but let me assure you if you do it properly and in integrity with yourself (as a business leader) it works.</p>
<p>My current poster child for this is my good friend Tony Oliver of <a href="http://www.sacredskin.com.au/">www.sacredskin.com.au</a> . Tony currently runs two very successful Tattoo Studios and has online business selling Swashdrive tattoo machines <a href="http://www.qualitytattoomachines.com/">www.qualitytattoomachines.com</a> , he has become so successful, that he has to open a 3<sup>rd</sup> studio. Tony has done this in a downturned market in an industry that most people might consider a luxury  item.</p>
<p>His website traffic is growing daily, his statistics are enough to make any web developer or online entrepreneur shine with pride. (that’s why I am telling you his story)</p>
<p>How as he done it?</p>
<p>He has done it by ensuring every step is in alignment with his core values and his vision for his business and his life, and I don’t mean ideas in his head.</p>
<p>Authenticity is not a mental idea, it is not a concept or clever tool it is a genuine place of really understanding yourself and what motivates you at the deepest levels.</p>
<p>You cannot “do” authentic you have to “be” authentic, even when it is not comfortable.</p>
<p>To get there you have to peel away the layers of inner noise, the should’s and should nots, to discover that which genuinely sets you apart from the herd. Then you have to have the courage and the willingness to expose that aspect of yourself, take the steps and follow that energy for all it is worth.</p>
<p>How do you do that? &#8230;.. well that’s another post.</p>
<p>Stay Shiny<br />
Samyo</p>
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		<title>The &#8216;Why You Should&#8217; Enter and Host of Blogging Contests</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why blogs hold Blogging Contests?

One of the best reasons is that they can result in amazing Win/Win for both the host blog and the entrant bloggers in so many important ways!!]]></description>
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<p>Have you ever wondered why blogs hold Blogging Contests?</p>
<p>One of the best reasons is that they can result in amazing Win/Win for both the host blog and the entrant bloggers in so many important ways!!</p>
<p>Both blogs/sites will as a result of hosting and entering the contest boost traffic, readership, and backlinks to their websites and create more excitement and promotion opportunties through the generated extra marketing involved. Add to this that winning the Guest Blogging Contest means that you will have the opportunity to guest blog with links and full attribution back to you and your blog every time you guest post!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a list of the main reasons for entering blogging contests and winning of course:</p>
<ul>
<li>Increase in traffic to both blogs</li>
<li>Increase in comments on both blogs</li>
<li>Increase in subscribers in both blogs</li>
<li>Huge increase in backlinks to both blogs</li>
<li>Shared more often</li>
<li>Excitement generated</li>
<li>More mentions and followers on social media</li>
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<p>Now that has to be worth the time it takes to enter and create a really great post, link it to the host blog and promote the contest and your entry with gusto for a couple of weeks. The result could be a sky-rocketing of your blog stats and your brand awareness right throughout social media and the blog-a-sphere!</p>
<p>They do mean more work for the host who will have to check their blog  and social media stream daily so that they can respond to all the new backlinks, hashtags, comments and mentions and usually every backlink coming from an entry post is reciprocated via the host blog in another post on their blog so it is a lot of work. The results can be amazing and the work well worth every minute for all the reasons described above.</p>
<p>Blog contests can be found all over the web and some are held regularly, however I love to find the new and once-in-a-while bloggin contests as I have a much bigger chanced of winning it. The latest blogging contest I am entering is the <span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://culgoapoint.com.au/culgoa_point_blog/?p=85"><strong>Culgoa Point Resort &#8211; Guest Blogging Contest</strong></a></span> and it is so easy to enter:</p>
<p>just post an appropriate post on a range of subjects based around Noosa Heads where the resort is based or about the competition itself and link to the blog or the post about the contest in your post which is exactly what I am doing here.</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re ready to make a huge difference to your marketing for your blog today, why not head on over by clicking on the link above, read the rules and how to enter and enter yourself? Too easy!!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would be seeing your Facebook Page Stats in the left-hand column under your profile image and you would recently be receiving this information via email from Facebook, a new innovation. Do you know how to read these statistics? Or even more importantly how to make the most of them?]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Do you have a Facebook Page?<br />
	</strong></span></p>
<p>You would be seeing your Facebook Page Stats in the left-hand column under your profile image and you would recently be receiving this information via email from Facebook, a new innovation &#8211; very handy and thank you Facebook! <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Do you know how to read these statistics? Or even more importantly how to make the most of them?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BizFBStats.jpg"><img align="right" alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-568" hspace="5" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BizFBStats-300x150.jpg" style="width: 336px; height: 172px;" title="BizFBStats" vspace="5" /></a><br />
	Let&#39;s take a look at a typical Page&#39;s stats as we look at my three week old Facebook Page Noosa BizBuzz and what the activity stats mean and what I can do about the information in them to create even better engagement and more &#39;Likeers&#39; on my page.</p>
<ul>
<li>First of all let&#39;s take a look at the information about <strong>&#39;Monthly Active Users&#39;</strong> the arrow is pointing downward even though the information is telling me that there are still 27 people actively commenting and liking my comments on this page &#8211; this information put together means that although I have 27commenters actively using the pageI had morelast week and so my average has come down a little. I could read this as meaning I need to do a little more to create conversation on my page, up the ante, find new information to comment and post about, create a competition or poll or other strategy designed to engage others in conversation.</li>
<li><strong>Next I have had 0 new &#39;Likers&#39; this week, and 63 the week before</strong>, this means, I will need to put the word out more often about this page and what it can do, and the other way I could read this information too is that that I may have reached the limit of people who live in Noosa who have business pages on Facebook &#8211; so my new strategy might be to reach out to those people in Noosa who do not yet have a business page and let them know I can help them get it up and running and help create Buzz for their page through my BizBuzz pages.</li>
<li><strong>Wall posts and comments are down</strong>, this means my own posting and commenting is down this week, again this is tied to the first statistic and means that it is up to me to engage more frequently with my page and get things going again. This is going to happen from time to time as there are times in your business when you are more engaged &#39;out there&#39; in the real world than online and as I had a couple of conferences to go to this week my own posts and comments were not as frequent &#8211; on my other page though Brisbane BizBuzz I had one of my Social Media Managers take over and the stats on that page where not only stable, but on the rise! A great incentive for using a Social Media Manager to boost your page engagement no matter how busy you are.</li>
<li><strong>Visits stats are a reflection </strong>of how many people come to take a look at your page, not necessarily those who are reading and commenting on the posts on their wall, just those who have come to look out of curiosity or to decide whether the page is worth their &#39;Liking&#39; or those who want to visit to see what is happening because they are &#39;Likers&#39;.</li>
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<p>Now this information can really help you to market your business in so many different ways, you can use it to understand what it is you do to create the most activity, commentary and likers on your page by using a strategy once a week to see what happens to your page acitivity. Use only those strategies that create the most engagement. There a loads of options for different markets, using more visual posts like images and videos, using more polls and contests, posting more specials, quotes, questions.. the list goes on.</p>
<p>You could also decide on the best strategy for your page whether you can afford to fit it into your busy lifestyle or whether it would pay to pay for a Social Media Manager to take over the page for you.</p>
<p>Use it to find what you do that creates the most engagement and fine tune the most useful strategies to create maximum engagement and new likers on that page.</p>
<p>What are your favourite tactics, what works for you?</p>
<p>What one thing you have done created the most engagement with your Likers?</p>
<p>What one thing helped your page get more &#39;Likers&quot;?</p>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://searchenginewatch.com/3641240">Targeting Your Facebook Messaging For the Greatest Impact</a> (searchenginewatch.com)</li>
<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://e1evation.com/2010/08/15/facebook-pages-become-customer-support-centers/">Facebook Pages Become Customer Support Centers</a> (e1evation.com)</li>
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		<title>Google Wave is Dead!! Long Live Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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<p>Yes folks Google announced it will put no more energy into Google Wave and that it will be dead forever, until resurrected by someone else <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  (Google have also announced they are allowing free access to the code for it, so someone will be sure to make good use of it) by the end of this year:</p>
<p>Official Google Blog &#8211; <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html">Upate on Google Wave</a></p>
<p>Loads of great posts about this event can be seen on the web and the best are linked below just for your reading pleasure:</p>
<p>Search Engine Journal &#8211; <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/sayonara-google-wave/23176/">Sayonara Google Wave</a></p>
<p>Mashable &#8211; <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/08/04/rip-google-wave/">RIP Google Wave</a></p>
<p>Personally I loved it! Without paying a cent I was able to collaborate with friends, clients and business acquaintences on conversations, content and so much more.. I believe that people just didn&#8217;t understand it or &#8216;get it&#8217; if they had it would have taken off the way Google expected it to. Just ahead of it&#8217;s time &#8211; like so many other of the worlds great innovations.</p>
<p>God Speed &#8211; Google Wave &#8211; come on back now y&#8217;here!</p>
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		<title>How to Create Your Own Page on Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recieved a few requests for an easy step-by-step guide to creating your page on Facebook, this is a very easy process although there are a few extra tips that can come in very handy when creating a page to help maximise your leverage, your conversations and your exposure that can make a real difference to the success of your page.]]></description>
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<p>I have recieved a few requests for an easy step-by-step guide to creating your page on Facebook, this is a very easy process although there are a few extra tips that can come in very handy when creating a page to help maximise your leverage, your conversations and your exposure that can make a real difference to the success of your page.</p>
<p>So here goes:</p>
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<li>First of all the easiest way to &#8220;Create your own page&#8221; is to go to another person&#8217;s page and scroll down to the bottom of the left hand side of the page and look for the link &#8211; as shown here</li>
<li>You will be taken to a new page where you can fill in the form with the name and type of your reason for creating a page. Here you have some very important choices to make as the information you choose here is written in stone! So let&#8217;s go through your choices:<br />
* Choose your business typ -  either a Local Business or if it is a Product or Service or if it is time to brand you as well Public Figure. Here you can also decide if you are more of a community or group based around a certain subject or meetup.<br />
* Choose the name of your page &#8211; Here use your Business name, the name of your product or service or of course your own name if you are branding yourself.  <strong>EXPERT HINT:</strong> add two descriptors or keywords of your brand here so that people and search engines know what this page is about. This is expecially important if your business or product name is not clear about what it is. e.g. Our business &#8220;The Zen Bull&#8221; does not prolaim itself as a website and online marketing company so our descriptors on our FB Page name are &#8220;Website Creation and Marketing&#8221;.<br />
Once you have made these very important decisions click on &#8216;Create Official Page&#8217; and Bingo! you have your very own page!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FB_Create-a-Page-_1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-459" title="FB_Create a Page _1" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FB_Create-a-Page-_1.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="330" /></a></li>
<li>The next page you will see is the very new &#8216;Getting Started&#8217; page with lots for you to do: Here you will put in the profile image for your page <strong>EXPERT HINT:</strong> don&#8217;t waste this very important real estate &#8211; make sure you have a profile image that displays your business or product to maximum effect. See previous post here <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/ins-and-outs-of-facebook-pages/">Ins and Outs of Facebook Pages</a> for more information on enhancing your Page<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Fb_Create-a-Page_3.1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-460" title="Fb_Create a Page_3.1" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Fb_Create-a-Page_3.1.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="746" /></a>
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<li>When filling out your Page information please make good use of all the spaces provided -if you cannot see a box that describes exactly what you need use anything available, as in the case of  a Local Business page there is a box provided for describing Transportation and Parking &#8211; instead use this to describe your business or product and what you do, and what you solve and your passion for your business.</li>
<li>Once you have filled out as much as you want or need to on this list it is time to see your behind the scenes &#8216;Edit Page&#8217; dashboard and set up your settings for maximum effect on your page.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FB_Create-a-Page_9.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-457" title="FB_Create a Page_9" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FB_Create-a-Page_9-300x69.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="69" /></a>Go to &#8216;Edit Page&#8217; underneath your profile image and click this will bring you to a long page with lots of settings on it. For beginners the main setting to change is the Wall Settings &#8211; click on it and this will open to a smaller area where you can change these settings your choices are &#8220;Only Posts by Page&#8221; or &#8220;All Posts&#8221; choose all posts for enabling the maximum conversations on your page. This is very important to go from being an advertising page to a conversational, relationship marketing page.Yes you may have to delete the occasional annoying post, this is far better than being an advertising page after all Facebook is a social platform.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FB_Create-a-Page_7.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-506" title="FB_Create a Page_7" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FB_Create-a-Page_7-300x74.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="74" /></a></li>
<li>You may want to add more applications to your page as encouraged in my other posts on Facebook:<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/why-does-my-business-need-a-facebook-page/">Why Does My Business Need a Facebook Page?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook for Business Are You Missing Out?</a><br />
to do this scroll down to the bottom of your &#8216;Edit Page&#8217; dashboard and click on &#8216;Add more&#8217; &#8211; easy!</li>
<li>Oh! and don&#8217;t forget to &#8216;Like&#8217; your own page <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Be your own first &#8216;Liker&#8217; this creates your very first FB &#8216;vote&#8217; for your page and your stats will begin to go up immediately and with every &#8216;Liker&#8217; and link.<a href="http://thezenbull.com">
<p></a>Another great post can be found here: <a href="http://thezenbull.com">How to create a facebook fan page</p>
<p>The Zen Bull Websites and Marketing</a></li>
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		<title>Corporate Social Media Must Haves!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a conversation with one of my best clients yesterday, I was shocked to hear that some businesses and corporations still seem to think that social media is just a passing fad. Social Media is in fact taking the world by storm]]></description>
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<p>After a conversation with one of my best clients yesterday, I was shocked to hear that some businesses and corporations still seem to think that social media is just a passing fad. Social Media is in fact taking the world by storm and proof of this is that some of the biggest corporations are not only taking it on they are excelling at it! Look at big brands like Coca Cola, Burger King, Ford, Dell and of course the meteoric success of Starbucks all using social media well.</p>
<p>There are of course some brands who are missing the mark big time and the reasons for this are many, with the main reason being that they are using an old mindset to use new tools.</p>
<p><strong>Old mindsets that miss the mark are:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Social Media is just a passing trend:</strong> not with the numbers on social media steadily rising every day and more social media sites popping up weekly.</li>
<li><strong>Social media is too time consuming</strong>: a social media strategy needs only to set  one or two times a day to be on social media and choosing the right sites on which to put your profiles is a part of the strategy.</li>
<li><strong>Social Media is viewed as just another advertising channel:</strong> social media is anything but this, in fact we must look at it in an entirely new light. Social Media for corporations needs to be put in its own more autonomous category altogether as part of a larger marketing strategy.</li>
<li>They think that it isn&#8217;t worth setting up a central strategy: Social Media is about having a global strategy and global audience, but this must be both created and monitored by the international head office of the corporation.</li>
<li>They aren&#8217;t trying to build communities: using your social media profiles as just another place to advertise, sending out link after link or sales pitch after sales pitch with no conversation is not what social media is about at all.</li>
<li><strong>They don&#8217;t see the long term view: </strong>social media is exponetial and can grow very quickly, BUT it can take little while to generate the trust and respect needed to allow fans to connect with a big brand and this takes time!</li>
<li><strong>They can&#8217;t track it properly so they don&#8217;t trust it: </strong>the metrics are there, but as old mindset marketers everywhere bewail &#8211; none of it is entirely definitive &#8211; this is people and trend driven and unless big brands are keeping up they will go down.</li>
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<p><strong>What Corporations who miss the mark are missing:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Social Media is SOCIAL:</strong> it&#8217;s about building relationships based on trust and respect for the person handling the profiles, this means one very important thing &#8211; you MUST have trust and respect for the person you have handling those profiles. Do they post in ways that authentically represent the brand? Do they have the integrity and sense of enthusiasm necessary to show passion for the brand? Are they incentivise to create a worldwide audience? Starbucks could not have done what they did with social media if they hadn&#8217;t had someone handling their social media who filled this criteria, who is handling your social media strategy?</p>
<p>If this was farmed out to young Sally because she understands Facebook and Twitter, you may want to rethink this. Social Media is a profession and it needs a professional to handle branding and dissemination of your marketing messages and brand awareness, if this is not possible it needs to be someone who is passionate about the brand and has the best interests of it at heart. Social media is fast becoming the &#8216;voice&#8217; of the world, you not only need to know what they&#8217;re saying about you, you need to be listening and responding. Because it is the &#8216;voice of the world&#8217; who is going to be deciding if your corporation makes it or not, yes social media is just that powerful. If you doubt this just take a look at what is happening with BP right now, or what happened with Nestle, Pampers and of course the makers of Mortrin.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Requires Transparancy: </strong>now this is a big one for many large corporations, the idea that the marketing message is going to be in the hands of &#8216;the people&#8217;, and worse that they may recieve negative comments on their social media profiles where everyone can see them. Here&#8217;s a hard fact &#8211; both of these things are happening anyway and with no listening ear or social media presence what can you do about it? Nothing! The lessons from Domino&#8217;s and other brand who were caught out on social media are profound, when you can hear and converse with your market, when you are in a relationship with them you can create enormous good will and word of mouth by admitting you were wrong and finding a way to settle any disagreements with style and flair!</p>
<p>Not only this, but this kind of transparency also helps to create brand advocates and even evangelists who see your brand as trustworthy, just because your brand was there on the spot admitting you were wrong and settling the dispute online right in front of the world. You can gain such amazing charisma from these small acts of kindness, proving that your brand is still listening to the little guy. This is your opportunity to take the BIG out of BIg brand and bring a warm and fuzzy feeling to your customers that will translate into bottom line win/win for all.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Means Sharing:</strong> Yes, we&#8217;re back talking about &#8216;warm and fuzzy&#8217; things again. Sharing means listening, communicating and collaboration with your customers, which also means you will be right at the coal face and able to ask your customers what they want from your brand. Talk about the simplest way to &#8216;test&#8217; the market, think of the opportunities to raise your brands worldwide profile! Starbucks have this down pat, asking their audience to &#8216;design&#8217; the next coffee or the Technorati asking their audience to help them design their new logo. This kind of sharing means trust is a two way street and this builds even more trust, this kind of mutual trust and admiration can only translate in higher profits.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media is About Being Authentic:</strong> Now this comes back to a point I made earlier in this post about who you trust to handle your social media branded profiles. Because social media requires an authentic mindset from everyone and I mean everyone, corporations need to have someone who understand who your brand is, what the brands vision and mission is. What personality your brand has, because your brand needs to be HUMAN! People want to do business with people, social media is to blame for this as it makes every brand more accessable. This is key! Only humans can be authentic, corporations cannot, the human you have as your voice on social media needs to be authentic and authentically representing your brand.</p>
<p><strong>Social Media Requires Consistency:</strong> There is no set and forget in social media, someone needs to be online daily or at least very regularly, in fact the bigger your corporation the more often you will need to be there. This will mean you must have a strategy, a team of people who know what they&#8217;re doing and scheduling, goals and outcomes in place. Social media is constantly changing and growing and you will need someone in charge who is on top of what&#8217;s happening and what&#8217;s trending and what to do next. Someone who understands that social media is all about trickle feeding your social media profiles consistently, answering questions and complaints daily, praising and rewarding your brand advocates and evangelists and coming up with innovative and creative ways to engage your online audience.</p>
<p>Social Media for Corporations needs to be set up by someone who understands your brand and how best to use the different social media platforms for maximum effect, which ones will work for you and how to create initial and continuous engagement for your corporation. Corporations need to start now, social media is not a trend that will die out, in fact it is a steadily growing trend that sees no end to its exponential growth, look at Facebook now topping 500 Million users by mid-July &#8211; the world has found its voice and it is has no intention of losing it again.</p>
<p>Get ready for a whole new world or get left behind.</p>
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<a href="http://mashable.com/2008/12/24/free-brand-monitoring-tools/">http://mashable.com/2008/12/24/free-brand-monitoring-tools/</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2012 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/a-tzb-collection-best-seo-advice/. Image by Getty Images via @daylife There is a LOT of advice out there, some of it pure gold some of it ok and let&#8217;s face it &#8211; some of it pure drivel. I have numerous RSS subscriptions to the ones I know are good <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/a-tzb-collection-best-seo-advice/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>There is a LOT of advice out there, some of it pure gold some of it ok and let&#8217;s face it &#8211; some of it pure drivel.</p>
<p>I have numerous RSS subscriptions to the ones I know are good to great and I thought you might like me to share the best of the best with you on certain topics each week, this week seems to be SEO week and here are the posts I thought were most relevent to you regarding your Search Engine Optimization:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/05/25/google-seo-services/">Noone Can Guarentee #1 Ranking on Google</a><br />
This first link is I believe <strong>the most important </strong>one as I had a (very short) conversation with <a class="zem_slink" title="Matt Cutts" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mattcutts.com">Matt Cutts</a> himself a couple of weeks ago and he verified that &#8220;<strong>..no-one can guarantee you the first page of Google..</strong>&#8220;, so please read this one carefully and do not be taken in by those emails that tell you they can. Let me tell you if they can, they can only do it for local searches and for certain keywords that will not necessarilly be the main search terms (keywords) you want to use.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/The-Problem-with-SEO-Advice.html">The Problem with SEO Advice </a><br />
Expect Change..</li>
<li><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2010/06/01/seo-traits/">SEO Traits Your Strategy Should Contain</a><br />
Headline says it all</li>
<li>Matt Cutts says: <a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/give-each-store-a-url/">Give Each Store Its Own URL<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/Do-Categories-Matter-for-SEO.html">Do Categories Matter for SEO</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/the-second-biggest-search-engine/">The Second Biggest Search Engine is</a><br />
&#8230; wait for it&#8230;.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/SEO-Tips-to-Double-Rankings-Traffic-and-Conversion.html">Tips to Double RAnkings Traffic and Conversion
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<li><a href="http://searchengineland.com/3-search-types-all-seos-should-know-43286">3 Search Types Every SEO Should Know</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/top-25-seo-blogs/">The Top 25 SEO Blogs</a><br />
Now you could read these blogs yourself every day, or you could trust me to let you know the most relevent posts and get them here <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </li>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4Mat system is simple with the idea that if you can cater for the different learning styles in your presentation or training session you will not only engage your trainees or listeners you will keep them engaged with your presentation by allowing their brains to follow your information by providing the information in a format that allows their curiosity to both build and be assuaged.]]></description>
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<p>If you have ever been a teacher or learned NLP you will have at some stage come across a system called 4Mat, it is an excellent across the board learning and training tool.</p>
<p>The 4Mat system is simple with the idea that if you can cater for the different learning styles in your presentation or training session you will not only engage your trainees or listeners you will keep them engaged with your presentation by allowing their brains to follow your information by providing the information in a format that allows their curiosity to both build and be assuaged.</p>
<p>In other words you are going to answer the questions they have as they arise naturally in their minds, leading to maximum memory retention and enjoyment of your training, teaching or presentation session.</p>
<p>Now have you thought about adding this system of presenting to the copywriting or your articles and blog posts?</p>
<p>Your task as a business owner is to understand the problems and challenges of your consumers and to provide answers and solve problems for them. In your online marketing you are setting about establishing yourself as the trusted and respected expert in your field. This information needs to be set out in such a way that it creates immediate and sustained engagement to the average online surfer. This is where the 4Mat system comes in very handy.</p>
<p>No matter how wonderful your information is, if it is not written or presented in a way that engages the reader, listener or watcher the veracity of the information will be completely lost on them. So the article, blog post, video audio or comment will be unsuccessful even though it may hold the very problem solving answers the surfer is looking for.</p>
<p>Writing with engagement in mind has to take into consideration the people you are targeting, their personality types and their reactions to the information and how it is presented. Video is hailed as the be all and end all of engaging media, yet if you have a person with a boring voice or who is really an introvert (I&#8217;m thinking of the movie Ferris Beuller as I write this and the teacher who said over and over, &#8220;Beuller, Beuller&#8230; LOL).</p>
<p>The <strong>4Mat system</strong> is aimed at teachers and educators and can provide the insight we need to setting out our information in such a way that we create maximum engagement with our audience. This system maintains that although people use a wide range of learning styles, individuals tend to favour one particular method over another.</p>
<p>Basically Some people want to know Why, some people want to know What, some people want to know How and the rest want to know What If. More specifically what each group of peoples wants to hear is:</p>
<p><strong>Why?</strong> People (Approx 35% of population)<br />
Why people learn best through discussions. They want to discuss the reasons why, specifically so they can find out why something is worth doing. They are unlikely to take action until they’ve explored the reasons for doing so.</p>
<p><strong>What?</strong> People (Approx 22% of population)<br />
What people learn best from teaching. They want to be taught the information either verbally or be given it on paper. What people are going to be the most satisfied when they are presented with so much information that they can’t keep up. They are likely to take lots of notes and try to get as much of it down as possible.</p>
<p><strong>How?</strong> People (Approx 18% of population)<br />
How people learn best from coaching. They don’t really care about the reasons or the theory – they want to be diving in there and getting their hands dirty. The sooner you have How people doing something and giving them feedback on what they are doing the happier they will be.</p>
<p><strong>What If?</strong> People (Approx 25% of population)<br />
What If people learn best from self discovery. Don’t be surprised when What If people, after being given clear instructions, go off and do something completely different. They get great pleasure from changing things around, trying out new ways of doing things and trying to get an answer to the question of “I wonder what would happen if I just tried this… or that… or…?”. What If people are great at considering the consequences of what they are doing and testing the boundaries. You can really engage this way of thinking by speculating about the opportunities to embrace and extend what they have learnt about.</p>
<p><strong>These four methods are…</strong></p>
<ol>
<li> <strong>Imaginative Learning </strong>– Feeling and watching, seeking personal associations, meaning and involvement.  Imaginative Learners seek personal involvement, meaning and connections in what they learn. They act concretely and reflect on their experience. They need to know why they are learning something. Learning strategies associated with this learning style include listening, speaking, interacting and brainstorming.</li>
<li><strong>Analytic Learning </strong>– Listening to and thinking about information; seeks facts thinking through ideas, what does the expert think. Analytic Learners seek facts and information, formulate ideas and think through ideas. They favour abstract processing and reflection. They need to focus on what they are learning, on content. Learning strategies that suit this learning style include observing, analysing, classifying and theorising.</li>
<li><strong>Common Sense Learning</strong> – Thinking and doing. Experimenting, building, creating usability, tinkering. Common Sense Learners learn by doing, experimenting and applying ideas. They gain information by active experimentation and process it abstractly. They need to know how what they learn can be applied. Learning strategies favoured by these learners include experimenting, manipulating, and having a go.</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic Learning </strong>– Doing, feeling. Seeking hidden possibilities, exploring, learning by trial and error. Dynamic Learners learn by exploring, seeking possibilities, self discovery and trial and error. They like to experiment and test their experiences concretely. They like to apply what they learnt to new situations, to adapt and modify what they learn, to ask &#8220;what if?&#8221; Dynamic thinkers use strategies such as modifying, adapting, risking and creating.</li>
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<p>Another factor that plays a part in how an individual inherently learns is the usage of left and right brain.</p>
<p>* Left brain – Operates best through structure and sequence.<br />
* Right Brain – Comprehends images, seeks patterns.</p>
<p>When the left and right brains are both used during the learning process higher learning and thinking is achieved. There is a greater range and depth of understanding leading to a greater implementation or take up of the new ideas.</p>
<p>The model extends to include a breakdown of</p>
<p>1. How we perceive the information – Take new information in and this scales from THINKING (Conceptualizing) to FEELING (Experience).<br />
2. How we process the information – What is done with the information which scales from DOING (Active or Experimental) to WATCHING(Reflective or Observing).</p>
<p>Why, What, How and What If are the questions you will answer using the 4Mat system and in that order, as you can see from the graphic there are submodalities for each sector and so this is really a 12 stage process.  Once you have grasped the idea this is a simple way to present information as it follows your own natural learning style as well.</p>
<p><strong>The first 3 steps</strong> of the cycle are dedicated to winning the attention of your audience and engaging their interest.</p>
<p><strong>Steps 4 to 6 </strong>is where you give them the meat of the information and help them build their knowledge of the subject.</p>
<p><strong>In steps 7 through 9</strong> you teach the skills needed for your audience to begin to put the new knowledg into practice.</p>
<p><strong>And in steps 10 to 12 you </strong>will actively encourage your audience to put their new skills into practice, extend their knowledge and thereby internalise the  knowledge they have gained.</p>
<p>As way of an example, consider how you could use the 4MAT System on your website.</p>
<ul>
<li> Launch your presentation with a “This is why I am giving you this information and this is why you would want to know what I can do for you”</li>
<li>Explain what you can do for them. Go into the details and explain exactly what it is that you are offering.</li>
<li>Then you want to go into details about how it will work for them. Explain “This is how it can work for you. This is how similar clients have used it to their benefit”. If your product/service allows for you to give them a hands of demo then this is the time to let them see this.</li>
<li>Then share with the the potential benefits if they do go ahead and the consequences if they decide not to go ahead.</li>
<li>Finally you close and give them an action to complete, this is often where the &#8216;call to action&#8217; comes in.</li>
</ul>
<p>How could you use The 4MAT System?</p>
<p>The 4MAT System is a powerful system for engaging with an audience. How could you use it to make your communication more powerful?</p>
<p>* Could you use it in your sales presentations?<br />
* Could you use it in the class room?<br />
* Could you use it when trying to persuade your friends/family/staff of a fresh idea?<br />
* Could you use it in your written work?</p>
<p>Now go back over this article and see how I have used the 4Mat system to plan and execute the layout and progress of the information in it. Recognise it? 4Mat all the way!</p>
<p>The fact is we all use each of the ways to process the information, we just begin at different places and favour one or more over the others, personally I am a Why and What if person, I need the other information too, but if you answer these two I can often figure out the rest on my own or with little help. What is your processing order? Do you know?</p>
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<p>The new &#8216;smart&#8217; phones are about to change the web again forever and one of the ways you can stay ahead of the game, along with making sure your site is optimized for mobile is to <strong>&#8216;geo-tag&#8217; your site</strong> with one of the new <strong>location based social sites</strong>: <a class="zem_slink" title="Foursquare" rel="homepage" href="http://www.foursquare.com">Foursquare</a>, <a class="zem_slink" title="Gowalla" rel="homepage" href="http://gowalla.com">Gowalla</a>, BriteKite, Yelp, MyTown&#8230;</p>
<p>A simple explanation for these new <strong>geo-tagging</strong> sites is that location based social networking allows members of those communities to share their location through GPS, mobile email or text message. Once you have been located in an area you can then get a list of businesses and venues to choose from, simply choose the coffee shop, shopping centre, club or resort where you are actually located and &#8216;check in&#8217;. Once you have done this you can add comments and reviews about the venue, or let friends know your there and meet up.</p>
<p>For members this allows them to broadcast their whereabouts and ask others to join them, or just show off, but f<strong>or businesses this is a whole new ballgame! </strong></p>
<p>What&#8217;s really interesting about an app like Foursquare, currently the leading location based community site, after coming from behind after a late start, is how local businesses can leverage their presence on the site to attract more customers. The idea is that Foursquare and Gowalla and others give out &#8216;badges&#8217; and other kinds of kudos to members for checking in. The more times you check in the more badges and honours the member gets until they earn what is called a &#8216;Mayorship&#8217; (on Foursquare).</p>
<p>A &#8216;Mayorship&#8217; usually comes with a prize and this is determined by the business itself, usually a discount or an extra added bonus for being a regular. <strong>This takes &#8216;checking in&#8217;to your business to the level of an online game and gaming is huge!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Let&#8217;s give an example:</strong></p>
<p>Imagine you are visiting a new city for the first time, before you go you log onto the site and search for &#8220;resorts in Noosa&#8221; and up pops a list of resorts, scrolling through you find the perfect accommodation (with great onsite reviews) for you and make a booking after noting down the phone number or website booking page. When you arrive at the resort you make sure to &#8216;checkin&#8217; at Foursquare as you check into your hotel, you get to your room and using your phone again you log on and &#8216;search&#8217; the area for a restaurant, you have a taste for Thai food tonight so your search is for &#8220;Thai food in Noosa.&#8221; Again a list of suitable place pops up and you check the reviews and find one that everyone seems to rave about and ring them and make a reservation. Of course when you get there you &#8216;check in&#8217; at Foursquare as they have a special, if you check in 3 times you will get a free bottle of wine with your meal.</p>
<p>Next morning you want to shop&#8230;</p>
<p>Now the list of sites you get is based on those smart early adopters who have listed their sites and/or made sure their sites were coded with GIS data, those that don&#8217;t show up have lost out. Are you listed?</p>
<p>From a marketing perspective the introduction of location based social sites is a goldmine:</p>
<ol>
<li>Prequalified Target: The consumer is already near you and looking for something in your area, if you are closer to where the customer is located they are much more likely to come to you &#8211; location based marketing. Interestingly if the consumer doesn&#8217;t use a search term the site they are using just gives them a list of businesses near them so there is also the probability of dropins as people learn that your business is close.</li>
<li>Increased Impulse Buying: Your marketing message is delivered to the consumer, in real time, as they search for businesses in their area, e.g. &#8220;Customers who dine with us in the next 30 minutes recieve a 15% discount,&#8221; prompting an immediate response.</li>
<li>Relationship Marketing: Customers who frequent your business earn badges and &#8216;Mayorships&#8217; thus earning loyalty bonuses and building a relationship with you and your business (there are many ways this can be capitalised on in a win-win for you and your customer). This also create a history with you which can be used as research for your marketing, tracking what works and what doesn&#8217;t and responding to the customer trends allows you to give your customers what they want from you.</li>
<li>Targeted Promotions and Direct Marketing: Your promotions are truly targetted to your customers in real time via their own location, search and &#8216;checkin&#8217; habits and are delivered on demand. No waste of flyers or advertising in other ways.</li>
<li>Customer Engagement: By earning badges and bonuses your customer feels like a &#8216;star&#8217; in your eyes and uses this emotional engagement to boast to their friends, creating brand recognition and loyatly and amazing word-of-mouth marketing that easily goes fractal (my version of viral).</li>
<li>ROI: Loyaty and &#8216;Gaming&#8217; for badges and Mayorships determines a high rate of repeat &#8216;checkins&#8217; and purchases with amazing Return on Investment.</li>
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<p>If you are going to use more than one site for instance Foursquare and Gowalla make sure you have thoroughly researched beforehand the different ways these sites earn customer loyalty and plan ahead. Add your website and your specials to each site and then make sure you advertise your presence on these sites and the specials customers and clients will recieve for &#8216;checking in&#8217; on social media and on the front door of your business/es.</p>
<p>Make sure everyone who interacts with your business knows that you are on these sites and that you are rewarding loyalty online and offline!</p>
<p>These new location bases social sites are still new and updating their customization options all the time so make sure you keep track of what&#8217;s available to businesses e.g. :</p>
<p><strong>Foursquare</strong>: Once you have an account on Foursquare you can then create to-do lists giving users and &#8216;friends&#8217; a list of places to explore in your area, imagine the possibilities of adding to-do lists that include your business?</p>
<p>You can then add your business, if it is already added by someone else you can then claim your business which will be verified by them via phone call or email to make sure you really are the manager or marketing manager of that site. When you do this you immediately have the chance to create your first visitors and Mayorship specials.</p>
<p>Please know ahead of time what specials you would like to offer people for their loyaly, there are options to reward customers for different levels of loyatly including how many visits, immediate specials&#8230;</p>
<p>Then it is time to decide how to use the many options available to your business to <strong>reward customer loyalty:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Coupons</li>
<li>Travel and sightseeing tips</li>
<li>Recommendations (cross marketing opportunities abound)</li>
<li>Specials</li>
</ul>
<p>Now it&#8217;s up to you, how many ways can you think of to use this new location based marketing?</p>
<p>More links for your research into Location Based Marketing:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/04/20/google-local-business-center-now-google-places">http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/04/20/google-local-business-center-now-google-places</a><br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/19/business-geolcation-ready/">http://mashable.com/2010/02/19/business-geolcation-ready/</a><br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/10/fourquare-tips/">http://mashable.com/2009/12/10/fourquare-tips/</a><br />
<a href="http://mashable.com/2009/12/10/fourquare-tips/">http://mashable.com/2010/01/15/10-foursquare-apps/</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2012 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/the-universal-laws-of-the-new-economy/. Image via Wikipedia &#8220;Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. This great work has been going on for decades, but <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/the-universal-laws-of-the-new-economy/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Of all the endeavors we humans are now engaged in, perhaps the grandest of them all is <strong>the steady weaving together of our lives, minds, and artifacts into a global scale network. </strong> This great work has been going on for decades, but recently our ability to connect has accelerated. Two brand-new technological achievements&#8211;the silicon chip and the silicate glass fiber&#8211;have rammed together with incredible speed. Like nuclear particles crashing together in a cyclotron, the intersection of these two innovations has unleashed a never-before-seen force: the power of a pervasive net. As this grand net spreads, an animated swarm is reticulating the surface of the planet. We are clothing the globe with a network society.</p>
<p><strong>The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks</strong>. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works.</em>&#8221; (<a class="zem_slink" title="New Rules for the New Economy" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Economy-Kevin-Kelly/dp/014028060X%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D014028060X">New Rules for the New Economy</a> &#8211; Kevin Kelly, 1998)</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Using <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> and the art of conversation underpins the new economy,</strong> it is the foundation for the networking that is so important to the 21st century. Gone are the days of the advertiser here is the time of the value based marketer, the individual and business that adds value long before their customers and clients have begun to buy.</p>
<p>This new economy entrepreneur &#8216;gets it&#8217;; that working in line with the way the universe itself works will create a cogent alignment with the reality of primal chaos, the matrix from which all reality emerges and when you are working in line with the universe magic happens.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The atom is the icon of the 20th century. The atom whirls alone. It is the metaphor for individuality. But the atom is the past. The symbol for the next century is the net. The net has no center, no orbits, no certainty. It is an indefinite web of causes. The net is the archetype displayed to represent all circuits, all intelligence, all interdependence, all things economic, social, or ecological, all communications, all democracy, all families, all large systems, almost all that we find interesting and important. Whereas the atom represents clean simplicity, the net channels messy complexity.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>In other words the new 21st Century icon is the quantum wave, where all, and I mean everything begins. Before there is an atom, the symbol of matter in the universe there is the wave of probability this is a scientific fact and that wave is representative of the new economy. The quantum wave is probability rather than certainties and it is the true essence of our universe, that wave of chaos (meaning primal soup out of which all matter comes) it is <strong>the matrix where all things are possible and yet nothing is certain unless and until it is defined by thought, belief</strong> or in our case the crowd in our communities and tribes on the internet.</p>
<p>The internet has changed our lives forever and now <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> has changed things even more, we are not in the information age any more we are in the information sharing age and this means networking &#8211; building communities and creating tribes. Where information is shared, conversed about and agreed upon we have our realities, our certainties and our matter. Out of the primal chaos of the everchanging conversation on the world wide web we begin to see memes (viral conversations) around which we form tribes and communities.</p>
<p>This is where Fractal Magic Marketing comes into it&#8217;s own and meets the world of the online wave, it is only by interacting with full understanding of the new economy and the way waves of possibility and probablity work that we will learn how to marketing in this new economy.</p>
<p><strong>Do you understand the rules of the new economy? </strong></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The three great currents of the network economy: <strong>vast globalization, steady dematerialization into knowledge, and deep, ubiquitous networking</strong>&#8211;these three tides are washing over all shores. Their encroachment is steady, and self-reinforcing. Their combined effect can be rendered simply: The net wins&#8230;</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you marketing within the rules of the new economy? Using the laws of the universe to create memes from your marketing messages? Some clues are within this text:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Networks are nurtured by making it as easy as possible to participate. The more diverse the players in your network&#8211;competitors, customers, associations, and critics&#8211;the better. Becoming a member should be a breeze. You want to know who your customers are, but you don&#8217;t want to make it hard for them to get to you (IDs, yes; passwords, no). You want to make it easy for your competitors to join too (all their customers could potentially be yours as well). Be open to the power of network effects: Relationships are more powerful than technical quality</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Fractal Magic Marketing is the only marketing system that takes advantage of the scientificly applied laws of the universe via quantum wave theory, </strong>direct from a former secondary science teacher who turned online marketer extra-ordinaire.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Unlike viral marketing, which grows enormously and then dies quickly, fractal marketing goes forever, repeating itself at every scale imaginable.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;One of the most interesting things to note about Fractal Magick MarketingTM is that it is all about infinite growth that is built on the value of the product, service or brand, not the amount of hype created around it.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fractal Magick MarketingTM is all about being totally authentic, giving loads of value, giving back and building your brand on those rock solid values.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Marketers should now be thinking and acting differently as humanity once again finds it&#8217;s voice and the power to create or destroy businesses, perhaps even nations through the power of <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">social media</a> and world-wide conversations.</em>&#8221; (quotes from the Fractal Magic Marketing course &#8211; Stay tuned for more about the launch of this amazing system in the next few weeks &#8211; coming soon to a computer near you).</p>
<p>Swarms need real-time communication. Living systems don’t have the luxury of waiting overnight to process an incoming signal. If they had to sleep on it, they could die in their sleep. With few exceptions, nature reacts in real time.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another quote from a site called &#8216;<a href="http://neweconomyentrepreneurs.com/new-economy/">New Economy Entrepreneurs</a>&#8216; outlines the understandings you will need to participate easily in the new economy:</p>
<p>&#8220;The following list of names personify the essence of a New Economy Entrepreneur:</p>
<p>* Warren Buffett<br />
* Ariana Huffington<br />
* Oprah<br />
* The Guy Who Runs the Koi Fusion Food Cart in Portland, Oregon</p>
<p>Okay, okay. You were with me until the last name on the list, weren’t you? <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>What does a local food cart guy possibly have in common with those other Big Famous People?</p>
<p>Simple.</p>
<p>1. He is someone who invests his energies into adding value to the world through his business ventures that reflect what he is passionate about (an entrepreneur);</p>
<p>AND…</p>
<p>2. He embraces the power of technology to get Big Things Done (in his case, he uses <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">Social Media</a> sites like Facebook and Twitter to attract a loyal customer base who eventually creates a “buzz” about his business and grows his profits for him — the epitome of new economy tools).</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/tracking-your-social-media-analytics/">Social Media</a> has allowed this man to take his business from one cart to five, all in less than a year’s time! There is no other way he could have grown as quickly had it not been for the Internet. Of course, once the buzz about his scrumptious multi-cultural tacos was flying all over Facebook and Twitter feeds, the local news media picked up his story and ran a couple of human interest pieces on him and his business, only adding exponentially to his customer base because people saw him on TV.</p>
<p>Thus, a New Economy Entrepreneur is someone who engages in businesses* he or she owns that:</p>
<p>* reflect his or her passions<br />
* add value to the world<br />
* capitalize on the power of the Internet to multiply efforts, improve efficiency, and increase profits.</p>
<p>*Note emphasis on the plural of business — businesses. I point this out because it is critical to understanding what a New Economy Entrepreneur is. NEE are never one-dimensional. Having multiple streams of income is an essential component of the overall definition, just like chocolate chips are an essential part of chocolate chip cookies.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The Zen Bull team have taken this to heart and are so excited to reveal our new sites which are to form a trio of sites</strong> along with The Zen Bull, to give an wholistic experience to those who are interested in learning more about being their authentic selves, revealing their own magnificence to the world and interacting with those who are on the same path.</p>
<p><strong>Over the next week we are launching our new sites The Inward Road and The BuddhaField:</strong></p>
<p>The Inward Road is a presenter site featuring 16 amazing spiritual, personal growth and wholistic natural health presenters on topics from authenticity, life strategies, health, homeopathy and more.. via video, articles, audios and workshops.</p>
<p>..and our sister site The BuddhaField is an interactive social site where you can be fully you and speak and interact with others on the same journey, form groups and interact with the presenters from The Inward Road.</p>
<p>The good news for you is that one membership will cover both sites basically the cost of 3 cups of coffer per month to have access to all this incredible material and interaction. We will also be introducing feature business pages where you can promote your wholistic and spiritual business to the select people who are members of these sites.</p>
<p>We know that people just like you who are on their own personal journey to add value to the world via their passion and are dedicated to pursuing their own authentic selves and passions will be eager to find out more, so please stay tuned for more information.</p>
<p><a href="http://thezenbull.com">The Zen Bull</a></p>
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