How To Turn Social Media Into Your Own News Channel

What We Have Learned From 2011

There is no doubt that 2011 is the year when Mother Earth has been incredibly active, with the most notable results being earthquakes/tsunamis in New Zealand and Japan, cyclones and floods in Australia, and hurricanes on the East Coast of America.

I found it very interesting that for each and every one of these… Read the rest of this entry »

The Research Is In: How Important Are Facebook And Twitter For Your Google Rankings?

Today, our triangle of the most important ingredients to ranking well on Google, as suggested by SEOMoz’s search engine ranking factors report and interpreted by yours truly, will be finally completed as we drill down into how social media influences our search engine rankings.

By the way, I’d love for you to let me know how well I… Read the rest of this entry »

How My Facebook And YouTube Profiles Led To An Invitation To Become A High Paid Speaker

Greetings once more Entrepreneurs! I’m going off on a tangent today about engaging in the world of social media to build your profile, build your brand and grow your business. This is a topic we’re all pretty savvy about as online entrepreneurs, because we’re all doing it, and most of us will have experienced some success with it. I’m writing… Read the rest of this entry »

If Content Is King What Role Does Social Media Play?

In a previous post, I wrote about “How To Get 55 Comments And 98 Likes On Your First Article Using Social Media“. In the article, I spelled out the process I used to gain traction to a blog post I wrote on a brand new blog, using Facebook as the only source of traffic. This article… Read the rest of this entry »

Social Media Mistakes: Are You Forgetting Your Fundamentals?

It’s interesting as a marketer to watch how the Internet has changed over the last ten years, especially what has changed for solo entrepreneurs and small business owners.

When I started investigating how to make money online in the late nineties, most strategies were e-commerce focused, or built specifically to take advantage of the dot-com bubble.

You either set… Read the rest of this entry »

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Dominate Your Market: How Self Contained Communities Create Permanent Barriers To Entry

Some of my early readers may recall that I was a Magic: The Gathering card player as a teenager. No, that’s not dungeons and dragons or role playing or anything like that. It’s closer to poker combined with chess with a little bit of lord of the rings story telling thrown in. It’s a “mind sport” as far as… Read the rest of this entry »

Skype & Myspace Team Up To Bring Voip To Myspace IM Users

Talk about an odd couple. Social networking giant Myspace has teamed up with internet phone provider Skype to bring Voip (voice over internet protocol) service to Myspace IM users. The proposed service update would provide Myspace IM users the ability to enable voice chat.

This will bring voice chat to Myspace in a big way. Skype… Read the rest of this entry »

Skype & Myspace Team Up To Bring Voip To Myspace IM Users

Talk about an odd couple. Social networking giant Myspace has teamed up with internet phone provider Skype to bring Voip (voice over internet protocol) service to Myspace IM users. The proposed service update would provide Myspace IM users the ability to enable voice chat.

This will bring voice chat to Myspace in a big way. Skype… Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook.com To Fetch $2 Billion?

About six months ago I was working with two mates here in Australia to get an aussie version of the university social networking site, Facebook.com, set up in order to beat them to this market. Unfortunately due to various personal concerns the project was closed.

A short three months later and Facebook went and opened up doors in Australia.… Read the rest of this entry »