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

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

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

Photo Gallery Software / Blogs

Hi All,

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

• Zenphoto
• Coppermine
• Pixelpost

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

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

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

Great Article - Content Creator? Then Forget Analytics. Use Digg.

Here is a great article about finding content and relevant data using Digg.  Good info about how to use Digg to search for relevant key words, content and links rather than raw data from Google.

Here is the link: 

http://www.talentzoo.com/news.php?articleID=2118

Here is the story:

 

"Who can figure out Google Analytics? I can’t. The data is fascinating and it certainly makes one’s curiosity complacent. But how do civilians use this information -- some of which clearly has nothing to do with you or what you are creating?

 

How then, does one leverage website analytical data into a marketing strategy that will drive people to a blog or other conventional website?

 

For now, let’s forget Google Analytics. Use Digg instead. Digg distinctly determines the value of content and its relevance. It is a valuable marketing tool for pinpointing what -- and how -- to create targeted, well written content. Content that could leverage existing -- and popular -- web information and push visitors to your site with strategic use of expected and accepted tags and keywords.

 

Suppose you are a fitness and weight loss writer and you need a relevant and “hot” topic within your beat / scope. Search Digg “Lifestyle > Health.” What are the topics people have Dugg the most? Easily evaluate what is relevant to you, your audience and how you can determine what topic is worth writing about, i.e.: will get you the hits slash exposure you are obviously seeking.

 

Now, the magic

 

There is a valuable and free service for journalist looking for sources. Peter Shankman’s “Help a Reporter Out” or “HARO.”  I was fortunate to find Peter after reading Timothy Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Work Week and doing some further research. The queries from reporters and the quality of responses are considerably better. As Peter said in his book, “under promise and over deliver.” HARO does. I use it for my own motivation column on Examiner.com.

 

Leverage all of this with Twitter; absolutely certain to always request responses sent to Twitter in Twitter format (@stefanpinto). You gain credibility on Twitter by doing this and you will immensely increase your followers, not to mention the quality of followers.

 

Now, these services are merely tools. Results are not typical and vary depending on how much effort, dedication, time and perseverance you put into it. If you are good at what you do, it doesn’t matter what service you use, the cream always rises to the top.

 

Go on, be clever"

Have a great day!

Curtis Copeland - Professional Photographer South Florida