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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AnnieInfinite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 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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<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>
</ol>
<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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		<title>What&#8217;s all the Hype About Location Based Marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new 'smart' 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 'geo-tag' your site with one of the new location based social sites: Foursquare]]></description>
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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>
</ol>
<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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<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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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/.When you play and work on Social Media for as long as I have, you realise that there are some social media types you come across regularly, now I could just tell you what to look for, but I thought I would have some fun with <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/do-you-know-these-social-media-personalities/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>So sit back and enjoy this post and gain some inights into the characteristics of some of the most prolific social media personalit<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/puppies1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-145" style="margin: 6px;" title="puppies1" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/puppies1.jpg" alt="" width="144" height="115" /></a>y types:</p>
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<li><strong>The Puppy </strong>- the total newbie to social media, this personality type makes mistakes however they are endearing and learn from watching other more experienced personalities. When you meet a newbie it is a good idea to be a little patient with them until they learn the etiquette, when they make a mistake because they have been watching and modelling their comments on the &#8216;wrong&#8217; type, guidance is the best option until they learn the ropes.<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Chihuahua4.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-146 alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="Chihuahua4" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Chihuahua4.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="104" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Chihuahua </strong>- This personality type yaps often and yet seems to say very little, there is no substance, rhyme or reason for their tweets and posts they can be seen typing things like: &#8220;sitting watching tv and chillin&#8217; with ma bro&#8221; or the classic &#8220;gotta go pee&#8221; Yapping all day long about nothing in particular trying to get noticed.<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/POODLES.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-147" style="margin: 6px;" title="POODLES" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/POODLES.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="142" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Miniature Poodle </strong>- These posts can be classified as sickly sweet, this SM personality like quotes and fires them off one after the other in quick succession and has little or nothing to say at all other than &#8220;I just love my life&#8221; etc.. , again no real substance or conversation. This is the cream puff of the social media world again nothing of real substance however occasionally they post a quote worth reposting or retweeting.<strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/doberman-harness-big2_LRG.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-148  alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="doberman-harness-big2_LRG" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/doberman-harness-big2_LRG.jpg" alt="" width="143" height="120" /></a></strong></li>
<li><strong>The Doberman</strong> &#8211; now this SM personality is all business and no nonsence, they are there to advertise their product, service and brand and do not bother with any real world conversation. Their posts are characterised by no-nonsence marketing which is often sent out via autobot so they don&#8217;t have to bother replying or conversing at all. The all business character of the SM universe and often blocked by me even though I too market online.<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/snarling-dog_thumb.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full  wp-image-149" style="margin: 6px;" title="snarling-dog_thumb" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/snarling-dog_thumb.jpg" alt="" width="83" height="88" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Mongrel</strong> &#8211; it is interesting what types are attracted to social media and this type loves to bad mouth others, cause trouble and gossip, they will find any user and treat them to a post denegrating their personality, looks, and posts in a rude and uncouth manner and are best blocked at your earliest conventience for good. Obviously have no other way to gain the fame they seek and have a bad attitude.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Bassett.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-151 alignleft" style="margin: 6px;" title="Bassett" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Bassett.jpg" alt="" width="108" height="108" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Basset Hound </strong>- this type tells you every little thing about their lives, they are often looking for sympathy and they post pathetic comments and tweets hoping that you will be reeled into their lives in a way that you will feel you need to help them in some way. This creates the very attention that they crave. They love playing the victim and often ask for help in ways that are downright rude &#8220;I am so low at the moment the only way I feel better is when I write my story, I cannot type and so really need someone to buy me a voice recorder &#8211; this is the one I want LINK&#8221; (a real post I saw on my <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/facebook-for-business-are-you-missing-out/">Facebook</a> wall recently)<br />
<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/german_shepherd.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-150" style="margin: 6px;" title="german_shepherd" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/german_shepherd.jpg" alt="" width="98" height="100" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The German Shepherd </strong>- now this personality is worth knowing, although they are there for business they also understand the need to converse and be social on social media, they will openly edify other businesses and people and are up for a cross marketing opportunity or two. They often post items of interest from all over the web and are generally business-like and social at the same time.
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-152" style="margin: 6px;" title="Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Golden-Retriever-Dog-Photographic-P.jpg" alt="" width="122" height="162" /></a></li>
<li><strong>The Golden Retreiver</strong> &#8211; This social media personality truly gets social media, they create relationships and friendships at the same time as cultivating their business and marketing relationships. They will openly post about their life while not becoming completely boring and are great at cross marketing with those they are &#8216;friends&#8217; with, even their direct competition, understanding that competition is only an untapped market. Look for the Golden Retrievers they are focussed on creating great relationships and helping you to become successful as they understand that reciprocity is a key component of social media.</li>
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<p><strong>Have you got any Social Media personality types you would like to add to this list? Leave me a comment and tell me about them..</strong></p>
<p><a title="The Zen Bull" href="http://thezenbull.com">The Zen Bull</a></p>
<p>DISCLAIMER &#8211; I love dogs and at no time am I saying that any of the dog types mentioned in this post are unloveable or not worth having, this is just meant to be a bit of fun. At no time were any dogs harmed during the creation of this post.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright &#169; 2010 AnnieInfinite. Visit the original article at http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/12-blog-directories-you-should-be-submitting-your-blog-to/. Image by joelogon via Flickr Blog Directories are a dime a dozen all over the web, they are popular because they are important. But how do you sift through the many on offer to find the ones worth your time and effort? To make it <a href='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/12-blog-directories-you-should-be-submitting-your-blog-to/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>Blog Directories are a dime a dozen all over the web, they are popular because they are important. But how do you sift through the many on offer to find the ones worth your time and effort?</p>
<p>To make it easy for you here is my list of 12 Blog Directories that are worth that time and effort, use one or two or use them all, it&#8217;s up to you:</p>
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<li><strong><a title="Best of the web" href="http://blogs.botw.org/">Best of the Web</a> </strong>: This is the top of the list, they have very high standard and only allow you to list with them after six months of blogging. A backlink from here to your blog remains one of the more elusive and most revered on the web. (PAID &#8211; annual fee)</li>
<li><strong><a title="Bloggeries" href="http://www.bloggeries.com/">Bloggeries</a></strong> : Long list of categories and subcategories allows you to categorise your blog perfectly, easy to navigate for readers. It is fast becoming a premier blog directory (PAID &#8211; one time fee and/or yearly fee for Featured)</li>
<li><strong><a title="AllTop" href="http://alltop.com/">AllTop</a></strong> : A Guy Kawasaki venture AllTop is going from strength to strength and is growing in popularity every day. (Free)</li>
<li><strong><a title="OnTopList" href="http://www.ontoplist.com/">OnTopList</a></strong>: This free human edited blog directory has a full service approach to their directory where you can submit your RSS feed, set up your own mini-blog ranking directory on your profile, socialise with other bloggers, measure and improve your blogs performance, and feed your blog to Facebook and Twitter.. (Free)</li>
<li><a title="Blogwogo" href="http://www.blogowogo.com"><strong>BlogoWogo</strong></a> : A social blogging platform where you can add your blog, create a profile, network with other bloggers, set up a favourites blogs list &#8211; a bit like MySpace for bloggers. (Free)</li>
<li><strong><a title="EatonWeb" href="http://portal.eatonweb.com/">EatonWeb</a></strong> : A highly ranked directory with it&#8217;s own blog rating system, one time review fee but can be well worth it. (Paid- one time fee)</li>
<li><a title="Blogged" href="http://www.blogged.com/"><strong>Blogged</strong></a> : Another interactive Blog Directory come news site, share, rate, and follow, well worth a look (Free)</li>
<li><a title="BizSugar" href="http://www.bizsugar.com/"><strong>BizSugar</strong></a> : While not strictly a blog directory Bizsugar is worth a mention here, it&#8217;s relatively new but it is growing fast &#8211; bizSugar is a social bookmarking and      networking site for small business and medium-sized business owners  and managers.</li>
<li><a title="blogcatalog" href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/"><strong>Blog Catalog</strong></a> : is a huge directory with many categories for blogs of all types and niches, it&#8217;s search capabilities are second to none with the ability to search via country, language or user as well as the immense list of categories. Again billing itself as a social blogging directory it allows you to rate other blogs and network. (Free)</li>
<li><a title="Superblog" href="http://www.superblog.com.au/"><strong>Super Blog Directory</strong></a> :  with the featured links and submissions being the latest submitted, so you can always be sure of being on the first page at least once every time you  post. (Free)</li>
<li><a title="LS blogs" href="http://www.lsblogs.com/"><strong>LSBlogs</strong></a> : Top ranked blog directory that offers free submission, search capabilities, networking and more. (Free)</li>
<li><a title="bloggapedia" href="http://www.bloggapedia.com/"><strong>Bloggapedia</strong></a> : one of the better looking blogging directories on the net, they have a constantly updated list of recently listed blogs on the home page as well as users profile pics. Readers can connect to the top blogs and newest posts easily. (Free)</li>
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<a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-hack-5-ways-to-up-your-visible-iq.html">http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-hack-5-ways-to-up-your-visible-iq.html</a><br />
Why should you care about appearing smart on <a class="zem_slink" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a>? Because the people who hire, promote, fire, date, marry, and divorce you will all read your tweets (updates) at some point.</p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/facebook-fan-engagement/">http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/facebook-fan-engagement/</a><br />
there are many brands who’ve surpassed the one million fan mark, while their peers have languished in the thousands. What’s their secret? These companies have figured out how to move from “broadcast” mode into engagement. They have engaged people so well that their fans even invite others along for the ride.</p>
<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/global-social-media-usage/">http://mashable.com/2010/03/19/global-social-media-usage/</a><br />
According to the Nielsen Company, the global average time spent per person on social networking sites is now nearly five and half hours per month (February 2010 data), with <a class="zem_slink" title="Facebook" rel="homepage" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a> accounting for the majority of that time.</p>
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What’s the REAL SECRET POWER OF FACEBOOK?  Well you would be right if you said 1) the number of people that go there, 2) the number of connections you can make 3) the networking you can do or 4) the entertainment apps.  Each one of these has something I call ‘gravitational pull’ – like gravity, they pull you towards them and make you want to stay, but they are not the Secret to viral marketing on Facebook.</p>
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If you’ve been up to “no good,” you might want to think twice about who you ‘friend’ on Facebook and other social media sites, because there just might be a government official trying to track you down. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has been collecting information on how a variety of U.S. federal agencies are fighting crime using Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, <a class="zem_slink" title="LinkedIn" rel="homepage" href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>, and other social networks.</p>
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Twitterers mostly consume news, MySpace users want games and entertainment, Facebookers are into both news and community and <a class="zem_slink" title="Digg" rel="homepage" href="http://www.digg.com">Digg</a>’s audience has a mixed bag of interests.</p>
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Over the last few years LinkedIn has evolved to play a central role in professional networking and relationship building. I’ve come to find it very disappointing when I see a profile that looks like it was thrown together in 20 minutes, doesn’t have much thought put in to it, or is clearly overdue for an update.</p>
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It has long been known that Facebook Apps are not to have the name “Facebook” in their names, but it would appear that Facebook is starting to go after domain names too.  Just recently, they have asked such major sites as Mari Smith’s WhyFacebook.com, to change their name in defense of their own Trademark.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now not only does the new MarketMe Tweet brand your tweets it's a complete Twitter desktop management tool, with plans to keep it updated, relevent and add more features according to users requests - who could ask for more?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Freview-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Freview-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div>Copyright &copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog">AnnieInfinite</a>. Visit the original article at <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/review-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/review-marketmetweet-twitter-branding-and-management-tool/</a>.<br /><p>A few posts ago I raved about a new <a class="zem_slink" title="Twitter" rel="homepage" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> branding tool called TweetBrand a free little Twitter app put out by the makers of the all new and amazing <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">MarketMe Tweet</a>. This cute little desktop app is able to brand every tweet with your URL and a link back to your site in place of the usual via ?? seen at the bottom of all tweets.</p>
<p>As you can see in the image below it works without taking any space from your character count and as far as I am concerned is a sweet use of Twitter real estate.</p>
<div id="attachment_75" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 630px"><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Tweetbrand-image.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-75" title="Tweetbrand image" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Tweetbrand-image.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="303" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">How TweetBrand rebrands your Tweets</p></div>
<p>Now along comes the much awaited MarketMe Tweet taking this tool to a whole new level! After using the original Tweetbrand for a week or so, I emailed the lovely people at MarketMeTweet and asked them if they had plans for a multi-account version and lucky for me the reply was, &#8220;Wait until you see what&#8217;s coming, you&#8217;re going to love it!&#8221; They were right!</p>
<p>Now not only does the new <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">MarketMe Tweet</a> brand your tweets it&#8217;s a complete Twitter desktop management tool, with plans to keep it updated, relevent and add more features according to users requests &#8211; who could ask for more?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mmtscreen.png"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-120" title="mmtscreen" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mmtscreen.png" alt="Market Me Tweet" width="456" height="241" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Let&#8217;s have a look at the most relevent functions of Market Me Tweet:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Multiple Accounts:</strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MarketMe-Tweet_brandmanagement.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-112" title="MarketMe-Tweet_brandmanagement" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MarketMe-Tweet_brandmanagement.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="410" /></a></p>
<p>MarketMe Tweet allows you to handle multiple accounts right from it&#8217;s interface, users must first login using <a class="zem_slink" title="OAuth" rel="homepage" href="http://oauth.net">OAuth</a> and then follow the protocols set out in the user help files.</p>
<p>Once it is done you will have the ability to brand any and all of your user accounts right from your desktop. Changing accounts is as easy a choosing from the list you have created, and can be done on the fly as you tweet.</p>
<p>To Setup Your Brand: Go to Step 2 ‘Create Your App’ &gt; Sign in to Twitter account &gt; Go to Brand app &gt; Retrieve the consumer and secret key &gt; Step 3 to fill in fields.</p>
<p><strong>Shrink your links with Bit.ly:</strong></p>
<p>Users can now shrink their links with Bit.ly right from the app via a little button that&#8217;s even easier than using my previous favorite Twitter app Seesmic.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/rep1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-121" style="margin: 6px;" title="rep1" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/rep1.png" alt="Market Me Tweet Reply Campains 1" width="336" height="310" /></a>Reply Campaigns:</strong></p>
<p>Tracking keywords just became so much easier with<em> MarketMe Tweet</em>, not only you can track multiple keywords at the same time (and filter out unwanted terms for accuracy using ‘Negative Keyword’ option), you can also include reply templates for targeted users.</p>
<p>Once you &#8220;Run&#8221; a campaign tweets will show up from various users who used that keyword in their tweets.</p>
<p>Once you have found these people you can hover over the keyword in their tweet andthe word &#8220;Reply will appear justc lick on this to instantly send the auto-reply you have created to them, picking up another follower based on your niche keywords.</p>
<p>If you have a real distaste for automated Tweets, worry no longer you also have the option to reply live to them, still taking advantage of finding people who are interested in your niche.</p>
<p>No matter what your stance on automation and if or how you use it remember authenticity and being real are key elements for success.</p>
<p><strong>Scheduled Tweets:<a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_scheduling.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-122" title="MMT_scheduling" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_scheduling.jpg" alt="" width="399" height="367" /></a></strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t schedule a lot of tweets however it can be useful if you are planning to be away, or to use them for tweeting links out to your followers. I like to on Twitter myself to connect and interact on a very regular basis, but the truth it is, if I am on all day, I cannot hope to get much work done either. So I do automate some of my tweets, some quotes and links are loaded up each morning so that something  is going out every couple of hours all day and then when I am having a free moment I connect live and reply to my followers and friends, retweet great posts, answer questions and converse &#8211; the most important things you can be doing on sociall media.</p>
<p>That being said this function does save me some time and I love it!</p>
<p><strong>Threaded Con</strong><strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_Groups-management.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-115" style="margin: 6px;" title="MMT_Groups-management" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_Groups-management.jpg" alt="" width="330" height="326" /></a></strong><strong>versations:</strong></p>
<p>This is new on Twitter and you don&#8217;t miss out on them using MarketMe Tweet right from your desktop &#8211; see who you are conversing with and read back the whole conversation via the threads &#8211; love this as sometimes it can be a while since I started a conversation and some replies don&#8217;t make sense unless I can refresh my memory.</p>
<p><strong>Follow/Unfollow Users: </strong></p>
<p>This is self explanatory but I have to tell you it means I can manage my followers right from my desktop &#8211; very useful.</p>
<p><strong>Group Management:</strong></p>
<p>Create groups of people right on MarketMe Tweet, easy to keep up with your favourites, or according to geo-location or niche. Works just like Twitter lists.<strong><a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_lists.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-118 alignright" style="margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px;" title="MMT_lists" src="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MMT_lists.png" alt="" width="227" height="391" /></a></strong></p>
<p>Now that we have a full review of the features of this amazing tool, all I can say is the most attractive thing for me is the ability to brand my own and my clients Tweets with a linkable URL. Branding your business and your self online is about making yourself stand out in every situation and making it really, really easy for your audience to find you and come to your site to learn more, to purchase product or to book your services. <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">MarketMeTweet</a> does this in such a way that no matter what you are tweeting, your link is available to your audience every time you tweet.</p>
<p>For a short time only this excellent Twitter Client is available for just $39 for life! and there is an <a title="MarketMeTweet affiliate" href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/index.php?ref=111">affiliate program </a>that goes with it where you can earn money for recommeding it along to your friends and followers &#8211; as far as I am concerned you are doing them a favour! <img src='http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Review: Love it! Get yours <a title="MarketMeTweet " href="http://www.marketmetweet.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=111">HERE</a></p>
<p><strong> BREAKING NEWS:</strong> MMT now has Twitter List support! and coming soon Mobile support!!</p>
<p>I love that they are continuing to add features like this &#8211; thanks Tammy!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posterous is a blogging platform with a difference! At it's simplest it is a blogging platform that allows you to post via email. Yes! that's right via email. Just create your blog post in your email or in word, add your images and post it directly to Posterous.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fusing-posterous-upping-the-ante%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thezenbull.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%2Fusing-posterous-upping-the-ante%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div>Copyright &copy; 2010 <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog">AnnieInfinite</a>. Visit the original article at <a href="http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/using-posterous-upping-the-ante/">http://www.thezenbull.com/blog/index.php/using-posterous-upping-the-ante/</a>.<br /><div class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; display: block;">
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<p>First of all what is <a class="zem_slink" title="Posterous" rel="homepage" href="http://www.posterous.com">Posterous</a>? you might well ask.</p>
<p>Posterous is a blogging platform with a difference! At it&#8217;s simplest it is a blogging platform that allows you to post via email. Yes! that&#8217;s right via email. Just create your blog post in your email or in word, add your images and post it directly to Posterous. When you do this the first time, it creates your account and once this is done you can login and change the look and feel and add in your auto-posting options (even to your wordpress.com blog) and from then on all you need to do is send more posts. Easy? simple? you bet!</p>
<p>Posterous even allows you to embed MP3&#8242;s, videos, audio&#8217;s and can turn images into image galleries and slide shows. What more? your PDF&#8217;s and word files are displayed as a Scribd embedded widget,  so if you wish to avoid this you can send it straight in the email. However this does afford some good qualities, it means you don&#8217;t have to re-write all those articles and this means you can post those older reports as blog posts with changing a thing.</p>
<p>Posterous is the blogging platform for those who wish to blog the easy way and is great for beginners. It is also a way for those of us with multiple blogs and social media to aggregate our posting into one place. Yes I know I am going to here screams of &#8220;Duplicate Content&#8221; however you do have to ask yourself does one aggregator qualify as a downside to &#8220;duplicate content&#8217; or does the added benefit of having your content on a site with such a high growth rate outdo the downside?</p>
<p><strong>This is how easy it is:</strong></p>
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<li> <strong>Post to your social media service</strong>. Posterous can automatically spread your post to more than ten sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr.<a title="Posterous blog" href="http://blog.posterous.com/tag/autopost"> Click here to learn how</a>. Here’s a list of Posterous email addresses and what they do:</li>
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<li>post@<a class="zem_slink" title="Posterous" rel="homepage" href="http://www.posterous.com">posterous.com</a> creates a public post and automatically shares to the social medias services you’ve set up.</li>
<li>private@posterous.com creates a non-public</li>
<li>post.posterous@posterous.com makes a public post that is not automaticallytweeted.</li>
<li>twitter@posterous.com spreads your post only via Twitter.</li>
<li>twitter+facebook@posterous.com spreads your post via Twitter and Facebook.</li>
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<p><strong>Post to different Posterous blogs</strong>. For example, twitter@jonesfamily.posterous.com will update http://jonesfamily.posterous.com and your Twitter account. The right side of the @ tells Posterous which Posterous site to post to, and the left side of the @ tells Posterous which external sites to update.</p>
<p><strong>Customize</strong> the look-and-feel of your site. Posterous now supports customization. Select one of the built-in themes, and customize the colors. Or create your own custom theme. You can even port Tumblr themes to Posterous.</p>
<p><strong>Use a custom domain</strong>. By default, Posterous assigns you a domain based on “posterous.com” However, you can change this to a custom domain like Holykaw.com. <a title="Posterous custom domain" href="http://blog.posterous.com/custom-domain-name-support-for">Click here to learn how</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Post pictures inline.</strong> Posterous automatically converts set of photos into a gallery view (where readers click from picture to picture), but if you don’t want a gallery, just put “((nogallery))” in the subject of the email. Posterous will post all the photos individually one after another.</p>
<p><strong>Post from any site.</strong> The Posterous bookmarklet lets you quickly grab content out of the page you’re on. You can click and drag to select text and then click “Share on Posterous” in your bookmark bar. Or just click the bookmark without selecting anything and it will auto-detect all large photos, video and media on the page. <a title="Posterous bookmarklet" href="http://blog.posterous.com/tag/bookmarklet">Click here to learn how</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Create a group site</strong>. You can add contributors to your site, and they don’t need to create an account. They simply email post@sitename.posterous.com. All contributors will be notified of new posts and comments by email.</p>
<p><strong>Post using links not embed code</strong>. If you want to post a video from Youtube, photo from Flickr, or TV show from Hulu, just send Posterous the URL. There’s no need to copy and paste the embed code. Posterous will take the url you send and convert it into an embedded video automatically.</p>
<p><strong>Add tags</strong>. You can add tags to posts by putting them in the title of the email. For example, “((tags: food, New York))” will add those two tags to the post. This also works in the Bookmarklet and iPhone application.</p>
<p><strong>Enable public postings. </strong>Turn on “Post by moderation” in your account settings, and anyone can email post@sitename.posterous.com to add something to your site. You just need to approve each post before it goes public. This is a great way to accept user-generated content.</p>
<p><strong>Add a your location.</strong> Posterous can automatically add a Google map to your post to show where you took the photo. All you have to do is geotagg your photos..</p>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t include your email signature.</strong> Do you have an email signature that you don’t want posted? Either cut it or end your post with “#end” and Posterous won’t publish anything after it.</p>
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