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Google Reportedly To Buy Yelp…Gulp!

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

This weekend I have been hearing rumblings that Google is poised to buy Yelp for $500 million, a social network of sorts based on reviews of local business establishments. Let me make a prediction, 2010 will be the year of “local Search” and local UGC (User Generated Reviews)

What does this mean for Google? They can strong arm the local search market by acquiring Yelp, and snag an additional 25 million monthly unique visitors! Now this will add to Google’s recent aggressive push towards their own Business Local product, and “Favorite Places on Google” which will allow businesses (Who are verified) to place Google’s branded sticker on their store-front window. Take a look at this below:

Getting back to Yelp, do you see how huge this could be? The “local Search” wars are ramping up, thus why I am actually teaching a class on local search next month to show businesses how critical it will be to know how to get listed in these products and services for local business. Let us not forget the mobile search applications too such as Foursqaure, Gowalla and UrbanSpoon. Take a look at the comparison of these mobile and local search behemoths….2010 should be fun! What do you think? Please leave your comments below if you agree or disagree with my predictions…
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Will 2010 Be a Turn Around Year?

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Yes.
This could by far be my shortest post ever….

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Google Advertising “Chrome” On Home Page Of CNN?

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

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I just happened to notice this on CNN’s home page today, an ad by Google? If you are aware, Google hardly ever spends on advertsing, at least not as much as Yahoo! & Bing? It’s just interesting to me that we are seeing a little more aggressiveness on Google’s part to dominate.  What do you think?

By the way, if you click the ad Google has on CNN, it takes you to the video below. I also added some additional goodies from Apture.

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Why Do You Think Google Bought AdMob?

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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Speaking At Social Networking World Forum

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Tim at Hyatt I just wanted to give a quick update on my travels to my home state, California.  Right now, I am sitting in my hotel room trying to tackle the poor Wi-Fi service in this nice hotel (Yelp review coming)

Ok, so I am in San Jose, California, just miles away from where I was born, Fremont, California. Tim Moore and I are here for an exciting international event called Social Networking World Forum – North America. The company that organized this event, 6 Degrees, is based in England, and are extremely organized in  international planning.  They are holding events like this one all over the world, and this is their US stop.

The Event:

Starts Monday November 8th – November 9th, 2009. This 2 day conference will focus totally on social media, and it’s use in business.  What I like about this event is that it focuses how other companies are leveraging social media, and receiving ROI. Other highlights:

  • How to build a social media marketing campaign
  • How to balance this with other marketing initiatives
  • Will feature speakers from fortune 500 companies, and small business using SM
  • Facebook developer Garage & Workshops
  • 600 registrants, and 1000+ coming to the expo

We Are Speaking With Some Cool Peeps:

Tim and I were invited to not only be one of the few sponsors, but also to participate on panels.  We are humbled that two guys from little ole’ Wilmington, NC will be contributing to this event.  Take a look at both of our discussions.  For a full schedule of both days, take a look at this PDF.

   Tim on Day 2:

Tim Moore, President SayItSocial is chairing part: “Monitoring and measuring people talking about your company”
Richard Jalichandra, CEO of Technorati
Donna Goff, Advertising manager of MGM Grand Hotel & Casino
Jack Teuber, Director of US online marketing, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
Morgan Mclintic, Executive Vice president, USA & APAC, LEWIS PR

The gist of this part:

  • How to monitor and listen to your audience
  • How to maintain a watchful eye over forums and blogs and other informal media
  • New technologies and services available

  Ty Day 2:

Part: Home Entertainment, broadcast television and social media

Ty Downing, Vice President SayItSocial, President Perspective Internet Marketing
Justin Kan, founder of Justin.tv
Barry James Folsom, CEO, Twirl TV

The gist of this part:

  • The marriage of online video and social media
  • How communities can help develop better TV programming
  • Using social networks to engage new audiences and expand reach
  • Integrating social media within the television proposition
  • Developing pay-tv with web 2.0 applications.

Starting Monday November 9th (Early) make sure you are following us on Twitter & Facebook for event updates, videos, and live streams…Should be a blast!

If you want to track this event on Twitter in your “client” use #SMWF & #SNWF

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YouTube/TyDowningTV

@TimMoore
Facebook.com/TimMoore
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@SayItSocial
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I Spoke At SMBF And Loved It!

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

You may be asking, “What is SMBF” right? Well, this acronym was no doubt a popular #hashtag trending on Twitter. It stands for Social Media Business Forum, an event that took place just a few days ago in Raleigh, NC. A well known social media thought leader, and good friend, Wayne Sutton (@waynesutton) invited me to have a speaking part, and I took him up on it.  I had a blast at his event. He combined with Kipp Bodner (@kbodnar32), Jeffrey L. Cohen (@dgtlpapercuts), and Ryan Boyles (@therab) to create the first ever SMBF conference.

The line-up they had was truly incredible, take a partial look at some of the tracks, and their speakers:

Take a look at my brief SlideShare of this (It was brief, but designed this way for more audience interaction)

SMBF- Networking with Facebook and LinkedIn

View more presentations from Ty Downing.

Here also is a quick video I took of the intro to Waynes “Social Monitoring panel”

One of the highlights was the Keynote. It was both informative, and funny. I invite you to take a look at some of the skilled panelist they had.

Keynote Panel – The Future of Business on the Social Web

Jason Falls, Laura Fitton (@Pistachio), Lucretia Pruitt, John Andrews

Overall this was a wonderful event, I had a blast presenting, and look forward to the next event, thanks Wayne, Kipp, Jeffrey and Ryan!

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Social Media For Real Estate, A Perfect Combo!

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Last week our team comprised of me, Tim Moore and Lori Lorusso, had the privilege of teaching nearly 20 real estate agents from Coldwell Banker, Sea Coast Realty here in Wilmington, NC, the basics of social media.  We had a blast with them, and we equally learned a lot from them.  Social media is really an incredible useful tool for real estate agents, and as you’ll see from the testimonials, they agree.  One of the agents, Ken Keegan, actually received 2 leads after the first day of our training using LinkedIn…no joke, watch his video too.  The average home purchase price in his community of St. James Plantation, is about $500,000 so you do the math regarding how much he could possibly make off commission…!  Drinks on Ken!! Again, these potential sales were a direct result of social media…

Enjoy the testimonials.

Renee’ Follow her on Twitter

 

Tricia Urban & Brenda Bokano Tricia on Twitter – Brenda on Twitter

 

Sherri Pridgen Sherri on Twitter

 

Ken Keegan Ken’s LinkedIn Profile

 

Chloe’s First Tweet! Chloe on Twitter

 

Peggy Stone Peggy on Facebook

 

Tricia Urban Gets an “A” for optimizing her social profiles!

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Has Social Media Changed The Way Businesses Communicate? Find Out In Raleigh.

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

smbf-imspeaking This has been one of the busiest summers for sure on the social media circuit, and it has no sign of slowing. A colleague of mine and a notable in the social sphere, Wayne Sutton (@waynesutton) has put together an incredible social media conference to be held October 23rd 2009 in Raleigh, North Carolina next month called “Social Media Business Forum.” Of course with a program like this, he has had help putting this together with the help of his partners Kipp Bodner (@kbodnar32), Jeffrey L. Cohen (@dgtlpapercuts), and Ryan Boyles (@therab)

Well, what is this even all about, and why should you attend? Here are some things you can expect:

The Social Media Business Forum will feature the following:

  • Speakers from marketing companies.
  • Speakers from technology companies.
  • Speakers from social networks.

They will be discussing ways in which business communications have changed due to social media. Sessions will include discussions and panels on internal and external communications methods for both B2B and B2C companies.  I have had a chance to go over the schedule (Take a look) and there are going to be some incredible, practical topics such as how to monitor social media, introduction to FaceBook, linkedIn, Twitter, building your online community and much more…

The video below sums it up, in fact one of the features of this event is that finally…finally…finally you can attend a conference with no high level fluff. This event is on a Friday, and the organizers promise you will be able to go to work the following Monday, actually use, and implement the things you learned…now that’s bang for your buck! Wayne graciously asked if I would be a speaker on one of the panels, so I will be making sure to prepare information that a business can immediately use…oh the pressure! Hope to see you in Raleigh!

Be sure to get updates on Social Media Business Forum on Twitter @SMBusinessForum & FaceBook.com/SMBF

Social Media Business Forum info from Wayne Sutton on Vimeo.

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I’m Such A Corker!

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

corkologie Actually I am not. Corker is defined as “one that is excellent or remarkable” so doesn’t really fit me, however it does fit Jenni Simcoe and her business, Corkologie.com.  Jenni was nice enough to send us a couple samples of her eco-friendly cork mouse pads, and they are not only cool, but easy on the environment.  You can get custom eco-friendly names put on your own pads too.  For a live view of the mouse pad I got, take a look below at my TwitVid, I chose the “Home Sweet Earth” pad. Which one would you choose? Let me know in a comment below.  Be sure to follow Jenni on Twitter here.

Jenni, thanks again for promoting a “Green” environment, got to keep mother Earth clean…

 

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