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Monday, 18 July 2011

TIP: Do you TWEET your Foursquare Check-ins?

I LOVE managing the Social Media marketing strategies for companies. It is really something that I do very well. Will I get rich, famous and be able to retire next year? NO! That is OK though. I can say it can be more demanding than many might know. Social is 24 hours a day and profiles you manage have to be watched often. Thankfully I am uber connected!
Here is one tip that is really easy to do and makes a great impact! Make sure you are managing the Foursquare profile for your own business or client. Foursquare has a very clean interface to manage the venue along with some great statistics on your users check-ins. Inside the venue profile you will be able to see the users that have their Twitter account integrated with their Foursquare account. Sending the user a tweet to ask them how their visit was only takes a minute. I personally have been tweeted by a venue that I checked into and was very surprised. I felt so special and felt like the business actually cared. The photos above show a few Twitter and Foursquare examples of the Harry & Sons restaurant in Atlanta that I manage.

TIP: The Harry & Sons twitter account is new so they don't have many followers. Once you have a following you might want to use a tool like Hootsuite to schedule the tweets a little apart from each other so it does not overload your followers twitter stream.

Have you tried this tip yet? If so let me know how it has worked for you by commenting below.

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@Spotify via @Klout = #PERKS

I got a nice little email in my inbox today saying I "could be" eligible for a Spotify account. The email had me log into the "Klout Perks" section of the site. Spotify has teamed up with Klout to help launch the new music service in the US. I am not sure if everyone that is registered with Klout gets the early invite or if there is a score threshold they are following. My Klout Score generally floats over the 50 range so I figured getting an account should be easy. I am all set up with Spotify. The interface looks great. Although I am currently at the beach with no speakers so giving it a test drive will not happen until later this week.

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Friday, 15 July 2011

Modelfy #1 For Model Portfolios!

Being part of the fastest growing site for model portfolios is VERY EXCITING! The growing community and social interaction between professionals in the modeling industry is starting to get a lot of attention. Not just by talented beautiful people but search engines like Google. We have been working on some brilliant content creation and participation from users that has leapfrogged us to the top of search results for many terms.
Today is an excited day as we have finally reached #1 for model portfolios. Yes this is just one of millions of search terms but you have to start somewhere. Modelfy is a new site and will take some time to gain authority with search engines. The site features thousands of modeling photos from both male models and female models. There are all types of models on the site from fitness models to those that specialize in runway modeling. The amazing part of Modelfy is the community is not just US based models. We have a large user base in Australia and see it growing in Europe. The internet makes creating worldwide communities possible and it is amazing to be part of it.

In just six months Modelfy has really started to get some great traction. We have been working on a few key features that will only increase our results faster. I am keeping these secrets quite for not until further testing is done. Looking at the photo above it seems we have found a system that works well for now. Although the fastest growth will be from our user base. Nothing can compete with a large amount of user generated content! Always remember that Content is King!

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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Deal of the Day!

I am excited to announce that Online Gourmet Shopping just got better with the Deal of the Day on Snazzy Gourmet.
The feature is something I have wanted to integrate for a long time as it is a great way to get customers back to your site more frequently to make purchase. Snazzy is hosted on the Volusion platform which I have thoroughly enjoyed over the past few years. Until yesterday, creating a special deal that changed frequently was a little time consuming and difficult to manage. The latest "Deal of the Day" feature that was integrated into the V11 version solves this problem. It helps store owners create their own Groupon type deal with ease. The best part is you don't have to pay big commissions to Groupon to do so either.

Using a reputable E-commerce platform can greatly improve the shopping experience for customers and take a lot of stress away for merchants.

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Mikey Moran has a Paper?

Of course! We all should.
It is really easy to create your own daily addition with the use of Paper.li. It is as easy as connecting your Twitter account, tweak a few setting and publish. One of the great things about it is the beautiful format of news it presents. It makes reading stories from your favorite tweeters really simple. Above is one of my daily additions. It would be excellent if they had more SEO friendly URL's that would include my name but I guess I cannot complain about this free service.

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