Thursday, August 6, 2009

General Meeting Master Blaster

Hi Guys,

Rich is talking about http://www.esyndicat.com/

Rich bought unlimited directories and sharing his success because his link is on everypage. He has over 2000 directory listing.

Curtis told John H about http://www.smugmug.com/ and http://www.zenfolio.com/ to monitize his website.

John Neyrot is going to sign up for a gmail account and then sign up for Google Ad Sense.

John Mac showed his template for http://dolphinplaces.com/default.shtml

John Neyrot is going to work with DreamWeaver.

Anyone have suggestions, please make some comments.
Have a great week!!
God Bless,
John
Swimming with the Dolphins Oahu Hawaii

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Skype Meeting 7-23-09

Hi Guys,

We talked on the Skype. Here are some links:

Facebook and Using it for $$$
http://www.socialmediamoneysystem.com/member.html

John Neyrot is trying to find a voting tool. We talked about using Frontpage Extension.

Rich asked "What is it do your really want to do with your business?"

John Mac said that Linked in may be a good tool for John N for looking for a Marketing type person to help him grow and sell.

John N latest promotion for boby paintint http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK9FBhUuUUo

Rich suggested to John N to start up a paypal account and start selling products. To see Rich's products, go to: http://www.usadogstoday.com/dog_food_samples.html Then go to Life's Abundance Weight Loss Dog Food section, you will see the paypal link. Its simple.

Thats all 1 hour of talking.
God Bless,
John Mac
swim with the dolphins in Miami

Friday, July 10, 2009

Linked In Seminar

Hi All,

I went to the SFIMA meeting last night and it was a good meeting because the main speaker was talking about Linkedin, which on the Social Media scale is hardly talked about.

I sat with Mike Monahan, he is the Internet Marketing manager for a cruise ship portal site, called Cruise One. He mentioned a blog that was really successful, call foursuitcases.com, it about a family that is traveling the world. They are a member of CruiseOne and he said they have a huge following on the blog. You might want to check it out, pretty cool.

LinkedIn Meeting Notes:

A place to find people and place to be found.

Not a substitute for meeting people face to face. Building Relationships!!!

There are 10 Application for Linked in. I never knew.

Linkedin has grown, from 18 million user in 07 to 44 million in 08

The average income of a user in linked is $110,000

This biggest nugget I got from this speaker is this....
All Social Media you should have a strategy before starting, don't go into it blind.
His strategy is
Part A - Pressence on the Social Site.
1. Strategy >> 2. Brand >> 3. Profile
Part B - Participation
4. Execution >> 5. Connections 6. Key - Coordinate this social site with your other marketing efforts

Brand questions to ask yourself
  1. My company (or you) is known for_______?
  2. 3 Adjectives to describe you or your company?
  3. Describe your expertise.
Profile
Profession Discription of yourself in profile - Make you and your brand very descriptive.
7 Elements of linkedin profile >> It important to get this completed properly. If you don't you wont be ranked on Linked in.

What makes your profile complete?

  • Your current position
  • Two past positions
  • Your education
  • Your profile summary
  • A profile photo
  • Your specialties >> Add Key Words here to get ranked better!!
  • At least three recommendations
To increase Participation
Join Groups
Send out Invitations >> Don't spam
What are you working on Now Section >> kind of like twitter -- Don't over use

Before growing your connections with others, make sure your profile is 100%

You can grow your connections quickly by importing your email list into Linked in

Final
  • Spend 10 - 15 minutes a day on Linked in
  • Define strategy
  • Be clear on what your expertise is
  • Proffessional description
  • Value Links
  • Power of Summery

Speaker Website - LinktoProsper.com

Last thing - One guy told me from the last meeting about twitter, a guest ask what is the next thing to come along we should watch for. The speak said Google Wave Check it out.

God Bless You All !!!
Johnny Mac
Swimming with the Dolphins Miami

Monday, June 29, 2009

Feed Front Magazine Review

Hi Guys,

I was reading FeedFront the Affilate Summit magazine they sent out and I wanted to highlight a few points they made in the magazine.

1. Things I wish I knew 10 years ago - Article 1
  • Don't Skip on the Basics Like Web Hosting, Web Design, domain names, and third party solutions like Aweber for emails and Membersgate for membership sites.
  • Time to Work Hard is NOW
  • Solving People's problems = Making Money
2. Google Site Map Protocol May need Riches Help with this

3. Four Great Tools for Twitter
Search Twitter.com
Twitscoop
Monitter
Tweetdeck

I think that is it.
God Bless,
John

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Photo Gallery Software / Blogs

Hi All,

Just thought I would share these free downloads for Photo Gallery Software for your server.


They all look cool and a great source of building content very easily. I know the social aspect of flicker is really good but building your own content is great for you SEO. Tough call.

Anyway, if any of you guys check out these products, I would love to hear from you which one you think would work well and easy?
God Bless,
John

Sunday, June 7, 2009

FreeDictionary.com - MasterBlaster Meeting June 4 Meeting

Hi All,

Here is are some note from our meeting on June 4th. It was really cool and different. We had a chance to interview Steve Boymel the owner of FreeDictionary.com. We did this on Skype.

  • Always loved the computer, since he was little. A programer at heart.
  • Work during the dot com period and build a business with venture capital dollars and the business crashed during the bust.
  • Went back to school and for a MBA degree after the failed business.
  • Graduated with a MBA with a computer Technology degree. During his MBA as a class project started freedictionary.com 2004.
  • His theory is to build an Asset. His website is an asset. Like real estate and wants to build for the long haul. He builds his site with White Hat intention. ( Which means he stays google compliant)
  • He will never use venture capital dollars again. He uses only his own and partner's money to build the business.
  • He believes heavily is to go to big web SEO related conferences. He goes to at least 7 a year. The big one he goes to WebMasterWorld in Las Vegas. Pubcom This show is in November every year.
  • He makes a lots of money from Advertising from his website.
  • He is involved with Web 3.0 now, more than web 2.0
  • He follows and listen to Matt Cutts a lot from google.
  • He mention about this 1 man show, who owns plentyoffish.com and makes a lot a money. He said this guy works about 1 - 2 hours a day and is very focus on this site.
  • He now has about 15 part time programers. He has a partner and makes a great living from this website now.
  • He mentioned a great tidbit. Since he started, he has listen to his users all the time and has built the site from their suggestions. It has paid off. The way he has gotten feedback with a feedback link. I need to do this right away. All he has is Feedback link at different places on the website. Left sidebar and bottom footer.
  • You need to check out freedictionary.com pagerank, wow an 8. That is amazing!!!
We plan to try to record others who we interview and try to have a podcast for the next time. Rich Mattheisz was going to send me a link to record from the computer. Alex mentioned about Gold Wave Audio. If any other suggestion for recording, please let me know.
God bless,
John
Swim with the Dolphins Key Largo

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Pod Casting for Success

Hi All,

I was listening to a podcast on the success of Podcasting.

Here are the tips it gave:
1. Finding your guest to interview. You find these type of guest from your customers or local associations.
2. Schedule your interview. Find someone to interview for your type of business.
3. Research on the Topic - Outline. Ask for a Bio from your guest.
4. Come up with a List of Questions for you and send to your guest for them to prepare.
5. Find a place that is quit for the interview. Don't worry about Mistakes.
6. Find a phone to use for recording. This podcast said to use landline to landline for best quality and record. But I did some research and I think Skpe to Skpe would be the best quality due to the fact that you can digitize the recording and edit it. < Read More on this Part 1 >. < More Part 2>
7. Be at Ease - Prepare 30 minutes before interview. Be Alert. Have quite. Make the call. Read the intro and Bio of Guest. Start the interview. Thank the guest at the end of the interview.
8. Edit Podcast. Click and Read #6. This part sounds a little tricky to me.
9. Publish the Podcast to Podcast Directories for exposure. < A Good directory list to check out>
10. Email all your customer that you have publish a new podcast. Get the word out there.

Has anyone done a podcast? Anyone have anything to share on it? Everything seems easy to me except the part of recording the podcast and editing the podcast. It seems if someone had that experience the rest would be simple. It would be nice to record our next meeting.
God Bless,
John
swim with the dolphins miami