Last week YouTube announced their new PPC Advertising solution. My friend Michelle Macphearson created a sick pictorial walk through for you to check it out.
Head over to Michelle’s blog to check it out now:
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Tonight, November 12th, on SuccessfoolTV we’re very excited to announce that Online Community Management Expert Patrick O’Keefe will be joining us LIVE for an interview.
Patrick is a writer, web developer, and community administrator who has been professionally developing websites since 1998 and managing online communities since 2000. Beyond just being the administrator, however, Patrick has spent substantial amounts of time contributing to communities from all angles, as a member, staff member and owner.
Patrick is also the author of the highly acclaimed book, Managing Online Forums and was invited to speak at Blogworld Expo to speak about Online Community.
Patrick is also the founder of the iFroggy Network, an Internet network featuring several communities, including SportsForums.net, KarateForums.com, phpBBHacks.com, DeveloperCube, CommunityAdmins.com, PhotoshopForums.com, and BadBoyForums.com.
In this interview we talked about:
- Managing Forums
- Marketing in forums
- Building Online Community
as well as possibly doing some forum reviews live on the show.
So if you’re looking to start a forum or get web traffic from a forum in your niche, make sure you watch this video interview tonight.
Here’s the video:
I look forward to seeing you every Wednesday night on SuccessfoolTV.
A few weeks ago a reader of mine asked me what I thought about “Fake RSS Counters.” I was pretty shocked that I’d even be asked such a question. I thought to myself, “Why would anyone want to fake their RSS count?”
(your participitation in this topic is greatly appreciate & you’ll see why below)
I started to do some google searches with the term, “faking RSS subscribers” and I was shocked to find out that there are actually people faking RSS counters/subscribers. INSANE!!
Why would people wanna do this? Maybe to show “social proof” and come across as more of an “authority?” Maybe to use it as a marketing gimmick to actually gather more RSS Subscribers.
There’s actually a way that you an expose these people “Faking Coolness,” so Posers beware! Here’s a simple tool called “Feed Analysis” that shows you how many RSS Subscribers that a blog actually has.
I dare you to go to some of your favorite blogs that have an RSS and see if they’re “keeping it real” or Faking Coolness. You might be surprised.
So why write a post about this? Why spend the time spending any energy on this topic? Well for one, I was shocked to see a couple people that I “thought” were credible are in fact faking their RSS Subscriber Count.
So last night on SuccessfoolTV I brought these ‘finding’ (LOL) to my viewers and with 75 folks on the show, no one saw the benefit of lying about your RSS Count and faking that you’re cool. Some folks were disgusted, others called these fakers liars, and a bunch of other things.
(A replay of last night’s SuccessfoolTV is below the list below)
People were glad that I brought this to their attention as a lot of them did not even realize that people would go to such lengths to make themselves seem more “credible.”
So I started to think of some reasons why people fake their RSS Counters. With the help of folks from Twitter and my show last night, I decided to come up with a top 10 list of why people fake RSS Subscribers.
Top 10 Things I Think About People Who Fake Rss Subscribers:
1. Will go out at all costs to Fake Coolness (people will eventually find you out)
2. They don’t do what they’re Passionate about so they decide to be posers
3. Show lack of Integrity
4. It’s Lying via Felicia Slatterly on Twitter
5. Its ‘Wankerish‘ via Justin Brooke on Twitter
6. It’s Lame via Rodney Ruford on Twitter
7. They’re Embarrassed by their RSS count because no one is reading their blog
8. They’re Misleading their followers and people that trust them (for now)
9. Egotistical. They feel the need to fake that they’re an ‘authority’
10. They will eventually be Exposed or Come Clean. Their long-term success depends on it
I’m interested to see what YOU think about people who Fake RSS Subscribers. Lets expand on this list.
Leave your comments below.
Here’s last night’s show on SuccessfoolTV.
Ever wonder when someone “unfollows” you from Twitter? Well if you’re someone that cares to know about those type of things, Qwitter is a really cool resource for you.
All that you have to do is just put your username and email into Qwitter and it will notifiy you when someone stops following you. It will look like this:
You might not wanna know who is unfollowing or for some you might. I just stumbled upon Qwitter and I think it’s pretty interesting. I’ll be testing it out to see what happens.
Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.
I’d be interested to know what YOU think?
Would you rather know who’s unfollowing you or not know?
Social Media Marketing with Facebook.
In this interview with Facebook Marketing stud, Deontee Gordon, we cover a few strategies that you can start implementing today.
The thing I loved most about this interview was the tip about Facebook “Events.” I don’t hear a lot of people talking about Events within Facebook so I’m glad Deontee shed some light on this for us.
Enjoy this 60 minute interview that I did on my weekly show, SuccessfoolTV.
Comment & let us know what you liked best!
Stay tuned for more news & insights on what’s REALLY going on in Social Media Marketing!
Last Tuesday on my Live Internet Show “SuccessfoolTV,” I interviewed my mentor & passion expert Gary Zelesky on the 10 Commandments of Passion. The response was great so I wanted to post this video on my blog & will continue to post my shows on this blog.
Here’s the 10 Commandements:
1. Wealth: If your Passion is not part of what you do you will never be rich!
2: Career/Business: You must build a career/life around Passion to live without regret.
3: Attitude: Your Passion for life will affect your position in life.
4: Significance: If you do not define your Passion someone else will!
5: Responsibility: Do what you must while you focus on your Passion.
6: Balance: Core values are the difference between Passion and Obsession.
7: Time: Manage your Passion not simply your time.
8: Resiliency: Passion never dies it only gets buried through negativity.
9: Goals: Your goals without passion are fantasy!
10: Enthusiasm: Passion is the fuel of the soul that moves your goals forward to completion.
Enjoy!
Hey what’s going on folks!
I miss ALL of you! I’ve been extremely busy working on something that’s going to BLOW YOUR MIND! No joke. Be on the look out for an IMPORTANT announcement from me next week.
Here’s a video that my friend Simon Leung & I did at LAX airport a couple months ago about Social Media Marketing.
It’s a 22 Minute video that Simon entitled: “Social Media Marketing Secrets.” Look forward to your feedback.
Enjoy folks!
Man what a day!!! Over the past 12 hours i’ve read a dozen posts on “Twitter vs Friendfeed” and “Everyone is leaving Twitter” blah blah blah.
FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.
It’s interesting cause a lot of people have been chatting about Friendfeed over the last week. Michael Arrington from Techcrunch wrote about it, iJustine who is the Internet wrote about it, TechTicker wrote about it, & several other posts & “influencers” in the Social Media world have talked about it. Jeremiah Owyang who is a Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research also wrote about that actually inspired me to write this post & do the Video below (more about his post below).
Techcrunch talks about how much more interesting the conversations are on FriendFeed vs Twitter (which to me are a HUGE part of Social Media), iJustine is talking about “who will go mainstream first - Twitter or Friendfeed” and “asks does it really matter”, and a few others are chiming in.
Check out my thoughts on this 8 Minute video on FriendFeed:
Its very interesting because with Social Media, things change so fast so you can’t focus on the “Social Technologies” but focus on the “Social Touch” side of things, the people, the conversations, the relationships, then figure out which technologies would best fit you.
There’s so many technologies out there and guess what, you don’t have to be on all of them to succeed in Social Media Marketing. I promise.
Listen, I LOVE Twitter, it’s really helped my business & I’ve made some tremendous advancements in my business just become of the little tool. This is NOT about who’s better. Twitter sure has been having some issues over the last few weeks & some of the functionality has been taken away for periods of time, etc. That’s inconvenient for the folks that spend 8 hours a day on Twitter. LOL
Not only is FriendFeed a GREAT solution for when Twitter is down, I think the concept and what FriendFeed is up to is pretty outstanding. They just “get it.”
So back to Jeremiah’s post about the “Herding Behavior on FriendFeed.” A couple more folks who are at Forrester (Charlene Lie & Josh Bernoff) wrote a book called “Groundswell - Winning in a transformed by social technologies” that talks about what Jeremiah referred today in his post. He talked about the Social “Technographics” which is a tool to allow people in business to examine and then create strategies based on the groundswell tendencies of any group of people.
The Social Technographics ladder represents a group of consumers more involved in the groundswell than the previous steps. Take a look at the image below:
Jeremiah says that…“aaside from aggregating content (you can see all my tweets, flickr, digg, upcoming, blogs on one stream) you yourself can be a creator, critic, collector, joiner, or spectator.”
It’s too soon to see who will go mainstream first, and if FriendFeed will do what Facebook did to Myspace, or predict any of those type of things, the one thing that is for sure is that FriendFeed’s concept is RIGHT ON. I think this is where social media is going as having all these tools, sites, etc in one place makes it easier to:
Who’s to say that Twitter or FriendFeed won’t go under tomorrow, that’s irrelevant, the point is that FriendFeed is onto something with their concept and if the influencers are attracted to it, there’s definitely something to say about it.
Over the next week or so I’m going to be playing with it & will write about my thoughts about it.
What are YOUR thoughts about FriendFeed so far?
Please make sure to also leave your FriendFeed URL.
I’ll start http://FriendFeed.com/successfool
You’ll also wanna make sure to add my good buddy Maria Reyes-McDavis the WebSuccessDiva here: http://friendfeed.com/websuccessdiva
Stay Hungry - Stay Foolish
Alejandro Reyes
Image source, Forrester and FriendFeed, screenshot taken by me
Hey there folks! I have (2 BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THOSE THAT DIDN’T WIN)
First off I wanna say thanks so much for all those who entered into the contest. This was a very tough decision for me to make but I obviously had to choose 3. Because it was so hard for me I ended up choosing a total of 5 people to give the free seats to.
Here are the winners:
Ari Pietarinen
Deon Gordon
JoLynn Braley
Joselin Mane
Diane from PlatinumParenting.com
Here’s a quick video with with 2 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENTS for those that DID NOT a free seat. You can also look below the video for these 2 announcements.
For those that didn’t win a free seat, I’m going to do a couple things for you that I think you’ll appreciate!
1. I’m going to give those that entered into the competition 3 free months of the Successfool.com Premiere Membership that is launching in Sept/Oct.
What’s included in the Premiere Membership:
2. I’m going to DROP THE PRICE of the Social Marketing Rockstars program from $497 to $349 for a LIMITED TIME ONLY. ALSO, there’s 2 spots left for the First Movers Advantage which includes:
Thanks so much for those that participated in this contest. Everyone is a winner here at Successfool.
I appreciate all of you and look forward to building relationships with each of you.
Stay Hungry - Stay Foolish
Alejandro Reyes
DEADLINE EXTENDED TIL TUESDAY JUNE 17TH (a couple of the promoters - promoted it late & i wanna give their people a chance to enter)
***YOU MUST WATCH THE VIDEO IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND ALL THE RULES OR YOU’LL MISS OUT!***
***I’M ANNOUNCING THE WINNER TO MY LIST SO MAKE SURE YOU’RE SUBSCRIBED***
So you wanna become the LEADER in your community…keep reading…
I’m am crazy insane excited right now.
That’s because I have created a new contest that’s going to give 3 people a chance to win a free ticket to my Social Marketing Rockstars 8 week coaching course that I’ve been working on for a while now.
NO ONE on the internet is teaching Social Media Marketing & Networking the way I’m teaching it. I don’t say that to impress you but press upon you the fact that you’re going to have the opportunity to use the same simple yet crazy effective strategies I’ve been using to have massive success online.
Because of the things I’ve learned in Social Media, not only have I created a 6 Figure Online business but a lot of my close friends have also benefited from the strategies that I’ve shared with them.
I’ve created a contest that all you have to do is answer 2 simple questions and you could potentially one of the 3 lucky people who wins.
Think about this for a minute. If you invest just a few minutes of your time to answer the two questions above, you could potentially walk away with a free seat to one of the hottest Social Media Marketing Coaching Programs. Not to mention, you’ll learn tons of skills that could pay you thousands of dollars this year and in the future.
To enter, here’s what you need to do. Simply post a comment below and answer these two questions:
1. WHY should you be chosen to be a part of the 8 Week Social Media Marketing Coaching Program??
2. HOW will the Social Marketing Rockstars Coaching program help you?
If you can answer these two questions, you have a shot at winning the prize.
What exactly will you win? Simply this…
I’d say that’s a fair trade, wouldn’t you?
Here’s what I want you to do now…
Scroll down to the section below that says “Comments.” Be sure to add your full name and email address so I can contact you in case you win! Answer the two questions. It should take you no more than 5 or 10 minutes. But the pay-off could be huge…
IMPORTANT: You might also subscribe to the Successfool newsletter in order to be notified as I’m announcing the winner on my newsletter. So enter your First name & Email to be notified cause you have to respond within 24 hours. (if you’re currently subscribed - don’t worry about entering in your information again)
Make sure to go check out the information page for Social Marketing Rockstars here:
http://SocialMarketingRockstars.com
DEADLINE EXTENDED TIL TUESDAY JUNE 17TH DEADLINE: Friday, June 13th, at 3pm pacific time.
I will choose a winner based on what I feel is the best response to these questions.
The 3 winners will be chosen and notified Saturday night, June 13th, by 9pm pacific time.
I’m really excited to bring this coaching program to the market as I know the potential its going to bring to many people’s business.
Be sure to check back Saturday night to see who the winner is!
Look forward to checking out the answers…
Stay Hungry - Stay Foolish
Alejandro Reyes
