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Social Brand Visibility

Social Brand Visibility: BibSonomy

October 20, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

Many sites are actively advertising in search engines for the most valuable search queries. This high level of competition tends to result in high advertising costs which make it difficult to find attractive advertising opportunities. Resource sharing provides new ways of organizing and sharing information on the web and provides advertisers with another way for Search Engine Marketing (SEM).

BibSonomy is a social bookmarking system that allows users to bookmark and share their favorite sites and publication in a collaborative manner.

The bookmarking is easy, just as it is done on the regular browser, but it saves all the bookmarks to the BibSonomy site, which enables accessed from any computer. Users tag their ‘finds’ and can look at what others have tagged and viewed, in a social networking manner.

The uniqueness of BibSonomy is that it goes further than just being a social bookmarking system. It allows for publication sharing. It is what they call ”A team oriented publication management”.

It offers users the ability to store and organize their publications and supports exchange and integration of different people by offering a social platform for literature exchange.

Both bookmarks and publication can be tagged to help find information. A description can be freely chosen. The assignment of tags from different users creates a new vocabulary called ‘folksonomy’. It evolves from the participants of research groups, individual users and learning communities organizing their information needs. Folksonomies became popular on the web in 2004 as part of social software applications. The word is a mix of the words “taxonomy” and “folk” and allows an intuitive structure for navigating the data.

Developed by a team of students and scientists at the “Institute of Knowledge and Data Engineering” and is hosted by the University of Kassel in Germany.

While about 55% of visitors to the site come from India, it is also popular in the Philippines. The use of this site in the United States is at about 8% only, but is growing rapidly.

Filed Under: Blog, SEO Search Engine Optimization, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics Tagged With: SEO, Social Brand, Social Media, Visibility, Visibility Marketing

Social Brand Visibility: Mixx

October 18, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

Mixx is a user-driven social media site that combines social networking and bookmarking with web content, blogging and personalization tools.

There is so much information of the web these days that we don’t have the time to find the good stuff that interests us or is important to our business. Who knows better than you what informs you, what makes you think, what makes you laugh?

With Mixx you can be in charge. Using YourMixx you can tailor the content categories, specific users and groups and see the top-rated content as chosen by you and people who share your passions. It is like whipping up your own version of the web. Just tell the site how you like it and they’ll deliver the best the web has to offer—whenever you want it. You can create a personalized blend of web content that includes text-based articles, images and videos, using either free-form or pre-determined meta tags to define items by subject matter or geography.

The content on Mixx comes from various online sources. Mixx is in partnerships with a growing list of online publishing outlets that include CNN.com, USA Today, Reuters, The Los Angeles Times and The Weather Channel.

Mixx users can also follow other users with whom they share common interests, as well as create, join and invite other Mixx users to private groups to further share and discuss relevant items among peers.

There are a few methods you can use Mixx: –

Mixx Channels – Publishers of content must fight to be noticed.  Mixx Channels enable companies to gather topical chatter and shared stories, photos, and videos into one place, an experience that cuts through the noise and delivers relevant content and information.

Mixx Sitebox – Promotes increased engagement and recirculation. It allows users to get a box of their favorite news channel and see what others have chosen and how much interested the news bit has generated.

Mixx Sifter  – The Mixx community gives direct feedback on advertising. The better ads will get impressions – not based on how much is paid, but on how positive the feedback is from users.

An advertiser uploads five different ads, in virtually any format. Mixx then invites its frequent users to review those ads, rate them and provide direct private feedback. The most popular ad is then run on the site. Mixx is highlighting the value of direct feedback to advertisers.

Filed Under: Blog, Digital & Internet Marketing, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics Tagged With: Social Brand, Social Media, Visibility, Visibility Marketing

Social Bookmarking Sites – Blinklist

October 13, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

Using the big search engines; Google, Yahoo, and Bing has become a way of life for us. Google became a verb in the English language. The problem with the search engines is the amount of information they present. If you want something specific it is sometimes like searching for a needle in a hay stack.

The main reason, apart from the wealth of information, is the indexing system which is done by machines. What will happen if all those pages were vetted by humans, not machines?

Social Bookmarking provides that vetting.

Social bookmarking sites allow the users to choose the website they like, bookmark them, tag them, categorize them and share them with others. Other users can pass them on to their groups of friends, and the word spreads. It is a way for like-minded users to rank and store websites, articles, blogs and videos.

Blinklist is one of those sites that proved to be very affective.

With an extremely simple and free registration, Blinklist installs a button on your toolbar. In a few quick steps you export all your existing bookmarks to their site.

You have entered a world of human interaction. You can see what others have bookmarked, you can check what is the most bookmarked page in a certain topic, you can see what your friends found interesting and you can rate their finds.

And by going to their site, you can access your bookmarks from any computer. That is a great feature when you want to show your friends, your coworkers or your boss something interesting you have found.

Blinklist enables you to save a copy of the web page on your computer. If the website disappears or is blocked you still have a copy. You can bookmark articles you are interested in reading later, a copy is saved on your computer and you can read it even when you are offline.

Social Bookmarking has become a great way to increase the visibility of your website, articles, blogs or product and is increasingly incorporated in an effective marketing campaign. It provides an instant statistics tool that enables you to measure, assess and learn what is working and what does not.

To use social bookmarking to your advantage you need to know which sites cater to your target audience, especially if you are dealing with affiliate marketing programs, or specific blogs. Birds of feather flock together, they say, and so do internet users.

Filed Under: Blog, Digital & Internet Marketing, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics Tagged With: Social Brand, Social Media, Visibility, Visibility Marketing

Using Facebook Places to Promote Your Business

August 23, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

Last week, Facebook entered the location services game with the release of Facebook Places. Places is very similar to Foursquare, in that the feature allows users to “check-in” to local businesses to alert friends of where they are at any given time.

For business owners, Facebook Places provides a means of promoting your business, increasing visibility and rewarding loyal customers.  Each customer that checks into your business is sharing the name and location of your company with hundreds or thousands of online friends.

To register your business on Facebook Places, search for your business on Facebook Places.  Click on the link that says “Is this your place of business?” and follow the verification prompts.  Once you have claimed your business, you can update the location’s contact information, hours and profile picture.

Once you have successfully registered your business on Facebook Places, consider using Places as an additional advertising platform.  Hang signage to encourage customers to check-in to the location.  Remember that every check-in spreads the word about your business.

You can also use Facebook Places to attract new customers.  Post a note on Facebook informing potential customers that they will receive a discount if they show that they have checked in to your business.  Not only does this technique bring in new clients, it also creates viral advertising as customers share the check-in with their friends.

Use Facebook Places to reward loyal customers.  Reach out to customers who frequently visit your business and offer coupons or promotions for additional visits or check-ins.  Keeping loyal customers happy is an easy way to gain repeat business and ensure positive word of mouth referrals.

Encourage your existing customers to post notes, photos and comments about your business online.  Perhaps reward customers who post feedback with special coupons or freebies.

Of course, any marketing plan needs to be tailored to the needs of your business.  Claim your business on Facebook Places today, and create a detailed plan that makes sense for your company and your customers. 

Need Help? Contact Visibility Acceleration by Puglisi Consulting Group, Inc. 631-932-0019

Filed Under: Blog, General, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics Tagged With: Social Media Social Brand Visibility

Marketing in the Internet Age

August 7, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

It used to be simple; you would hire someone to design a website for you, put some pictures, graphs, numbers, and post it on the internet.

As far as you were concerned – your name was out there, your business advertised, you got your money’s worth.

But things have changed. Throughout the years information kept coming in, into this absorb-all, Ethernet. It kept coming in, but hardly going out. The World Wide Web has becomes saturated with websites.

It only got worse when Google followed a business model of ads, PCP, Adsense and more. Millions all over the world started to figure out a way to make money by providing ad space to advertisers. E-commerce was born when people open information websites to link them to businesses for a cut of the sale.

With a crowded marketplace it is not so easy to get visibility. Research shows that most of the searchers on the big search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.) look mainly at the first page of the results. In order to get the clients, you need to be high up on the list, preferably in the first few positions.

How to do that became a highly specialized field. To understand it you have to know how Google, for example, scans the pages of a new website that is posted, what does it see and what it doesn’t. Graphs and pictures are not seen by the scanners for example. While it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words, it is not the case with the logarithms of Google.  How those scanners (or spiders in professional language) scan the page is another thing you need to know. Do they start from the top? From the bottom? How do they categorize their scans?

What words, or a combination of words, will bring the most results is another issue. How to place those words so the spiders can read them and categorize your site the way you want it, have another set of rules.

Words matter the most in building sites that will rank high on Google and create the most visibility. Volume of the site – how many pages, is another category. Google is watching very closely and places fines on users that are abusers. That is called the “Google slap”, and when you are slapped, it is not easy to reverse it.

This is what Puglisi Consulting Group (http://puglisiconsulting.com) specializes in, through their Visibility Acceleration (http://visibilityacceleration.com/#/website-visibility/4541419972) company. How to make your site more visible, how to use social media to increase it, how to use e mail campaigns, mobile phones, even old methods of print and radio ads is their expertise. Your website, and your business, will not only be out there, it will increase the visitors, and buyers, coming to your business.

Filed Under: Blog, Conferences & Education, General, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics

The Marketing Power of the Written Word

August 2, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

Using articles as a marketing tool for small businesses, has been known to be a very cost effective way to increase traffic to your site, increase its visibility on search engines pages, and increase sales  with relatively small effort and very low cost.

The main objective of your website is to generate clients. And that starts with generating traffic and increasing your visibility on the World Wide Web.

There are many ways of generating traffic and with most of them you keep spending money. Since the internet is such a vast ocean of information, getting visitors to you site, through a ‘back door’, can increase you traffic and what’s more, will convert clicks and visitors to sign ups and sales.

Two things have to be considered when talking about internet advertising; the huge amount of information out there which keeps renewing and updating every second and the short attention span of the reader.

Your site might be the most colorful and eye popping, but it is the content on the page that will make the reader stay. This is the face of your company. A bunch of numbers and specs will not do it anymore.

So, the first way to use articles is to make sure your landing page is tempting.

Renewing the page location on the search engines (SERP)  is made up of, among other things, the volume of your site and the new information added. Having a blog on the site and writing in often, is another way to generate a better location on the page.

The third way is ‘the back door’ way, which proved to be very efficient.

Let’s face it, internet took over our lives. It is our key to the libraries of the world and it brings the information back fast. When someone is trying to solve a problem, or make a purchase and types a combination of words, the information that comes back has something to do with the word combination, on top of the words themselves. And what might sit there, at the top of the Google search page, if no other than an article that someone wrote dealing with a similar problem, with the same word combination.

If the title and the sub title are catchy, the searcher will click to read the article – which has a back link to your site.

You’ve created a connection with a highly potential customer.

The more articles of yours are out there, the more exposed your site will become.

There’s an art and a way to those articles to make them affective. You’ll hear talk about mysterious words such as “keywords”, “SEO”, “SERP” and other terms, so you might want a professional write the articles on your behalf.

At Visibilityacceleration.com you’ll find such experts. The mystery will become a mastery of the written word and you’ll see the marketing power of the written article in action.

Filed Under: Blog, Conferences & Education, General, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics

Promotional Social Interactive – FourSquare

July 12, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

Promotional Social Interactive – FourSquare

My reaction to AOL cover story – http://www.switched.com/2010/06/30/testing-times-square-what-is-foursquare/2#comments 

FourSquare was developed a short time ago. As a Social Media application it was met with the “So what,who cares” as Twitter and Facebook seem to be the only Social Tools that the masses have taken to.

FourSquare uses Twitter and Facebook to deliver its content and purpose…. WHAT?

That’s right, FourSquare’s update “micro blog” posts to both Twitter and Facebook.  However,  if you are an avid Twitter user you already can set your tweets to syndicate on facebook.

What does this mean?

Well, this means that FourSquare leverages the followers and friends to maximize exposure, communication and interaction. The interaction is the new “oooohhh” shiny toy. FourSquare is a location- based application that allows users and businesses to interact and promote on a mobile level that Twitter and Facebook are yet to capitalize on.

FourSquare uses locations and has tips and the coveted “Mayor” status. Let’s talk about Starbucks, the location is at, yes you guessed it, Starbucks…. so you go to Starbucks, your favorite location and you “check in here” the mobile application logs you in, detects your location and then lets you “micro blog” or tweet what you want. You get points for checking in at that location and all your friends, FourSquare, Twitter and Facebook now know you’re at Starbucks, even if your tweet didn’t say Starbucks the location and link does. Now that’s direct advertising. In addition to you blasting out your location and hoping someone else nearby sees and decides to stop in and say hello, you can read about tips, deals or specials as posted by that location or other visitors.

Mayor status: Once you have checked into a location, over the course of sixty days, more then anyone else you become the mayor for being the frequent visitor. The Mayor status is an opportunity for the business, i.e. Starbucks by me offers a free coffee or half price Frap anytime the mayor visits the location.

Tips: This little feature can really help you be the winner, let’s say you go to Paces Steak House in Port Jeff, NY. The Tips section can tell you to ask for a “Fun Platter”.  This local treat is not on the menu and unless you ask for it they are not giving it to you. The “Fun Platter” is a mix of Steak, Salad, Seafood, Olives, Fresh Clams and more…now without FourSquare Tips you may have missed out on this opportunity.

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Filed Under: Blog, General, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics Tagged With: FourSquare, Puglisi, Visibility

A day without a Blog, or is it?

July 1, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

It is generally a good idea to create a schedule and follow it when blogging. In my case, I was trying to do it each weeknight. The issue with that type of saturation becomes, does your blog have value? Is your post useful?

Today was a busy day and some new information came to hand, especially surrounding a new type of Social Media, but perhaps jumping into it might not be the best bet. Reflection like other forms of evaluation is an art that is most impressive when you actually use it.

In this case I decided that today’s blog would be about taking a step back from the blog, while you can still publish something, perhaps going off beat a little will be refreshing and allow you to return to the next publication with a snap in your step and an impressive publication in your blog.

The purpose of this post.  Ttake the time to review what you’re going to write about, if it’s just for the purpose of staying on schedule or maintaining a impressive post count, you might want to rethink this before proceeding.

Filed Under: Blog, General, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics

Review – Social Media Camp, Long Island June 25, 2010

June 26, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

Review – Social Media Camp, Long Island June 25, 2010

This free event was a fascinating collaboration of business, educational and technology providers across Long Island. I had the Chance to sit in three sessions all of which were very informative.

Social Media Now, by Kathy

Social Media is developing its role as a relationship builder in a community that can and will become clients and customers. The role of social media is to introduce you, not your products.   Through this process, people become familiar with the person behind the product or business and convert social media into positive ROI.

Podcasting 101, by Aaron

This wonderful media tool allows people to interact and capture the attention of followers through audio and video events (recordings). Audio Podcasts are still the top provider of media for outreach and education in technology.  This method makes for great networking and exposure. This is a great tool to establish a loyal core following of supports and establish you as an authority in your area of expertise.

Facebook, by Bruce

Facebook “Business Pages” or the Like Pages (aka Fan Pages) have customizations to them that few people take advantage of. With control over the landing page when a visitor visits or “Likes” your Business Page, the ability to customize those pages using PBML gives a unique and presentable feel to the business or product.

The event was very informative and diverse. This was a great opportunity to learn, network and have fun.  I highly recommend it to everyone in the future.

Filed Under: General, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics

Social Brand Visibility, Social Brand Reputation Management

June 25, 2010 by basilpuglisi@aol.com Leave a Comment

 

Social websites have become a viral tool to get noticed, and not always in a positive light.  Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have provided tools to let novice technology professionals reach each other and the market like never before.  

While the big three above are what most people reference when talking about visibility in social media, the cast of players and influential who’s who of social media is endless. Anyone who has a blog, a comments page, forums, any technology that allows multiple users to interact is running some form of social media.

Social Brand Visibility is  getting your name, brand or product into the public network that is social media. Like any other marketing tool or campaign, this requires a well thought out approach to who you’re going to target, how you’re going to target them and what consistent brand image you’re going to create to convert to sales or referrals later.  

While many tools exist to run a Social Brand Visibility campaign, it is important to realize that the SBV Campaign is just one side of the coin.

In the near future I will talk about the bigger picture with Social Brand Reputation Management.

Filed Under: Blog, General, Social Brand Visibility, Social Media Topics

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