Southern Social Media 11/17/09
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A later edition of Southern Social Media due to hoops conflicts. College basketball has officially started, and it’s practically religion around Kentucky & Indiana regardless of who you cheer for (Go Cards!)
Roger and I chewed the fat on a few things today:
- The southern definition of “beer”
- How YouTube tricked me into showing gay porn to my church!? (You gotta listen to this to get the full story.)
- How to disable related videos when you show a YouTube video on your site
- 5 Ways to Promote Your Facebook Fan Page (and why you need a fan page to begin with).
- How being controversial can further your cause and popularity
- How a popular video blogger has been banned by YouTube because of his stance against Obama (see http://la-gun.com/manning for an example of his “content”)
- Recap of some recent topics.
YouTube Tricked Me Into Showing Gay Videos to My Church.
This week I volunteered to setup a simple website and shopping cart for my church to sell Christmas trees and tree stands.
I went to Jimdo and created a free site and make a couple of pages, put in some pictures of Douglas Firs and Nobles and poinsettias. I then went into my Infusionsoft account and created some products and a custom shopping cart and published the site.
Here’s Where the Gay Times Began
To welcome people we made a little welcome video just so people could see us from church and maybe recognize us and put them ease and let them know they’re in the right place.
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Southern Social Media 11/16/09
Welcome to the 11/16/09 edition of Southern Social Media.
Topics of discussion include:
- Roger’s apology/clarification on StomperNet’s pricing practices (they have a good offer in place right now)
- Avaya’s $250k Twitter Sale (it sure pays to listen these days!)
- 3 more social media case studies
- How restaurants and salons can use social media to grow their businesses organically
- Making sure your company has a disaster recovery plan that isn’t based on the disaster occurring in the past
- Southern definition of “bayou”
- Social Media Mondays
- List Samurai program update
Southern Social Media 11/13/09
A “salty” version of Southern Social Media is in store for you today . . . Roger went on quite the rant about some recent happenings in the Internet Marketing world and some of the scam artists out there.
Topics include:
- The southern definition of “barrier”
- Two social media connections that have figured this stuff out that aren’t trying to get money from you . . . why they’re successful and how it can benefit your business.
- Perry Belcher – Forewarning: SERIOUS rant ahead . . . this guy isn’t the “good guy” we all thought
- StomperNet: buyer beware (why are they struggling financially if they’re getting $800/month and have “2,500 happy subscribers?” Something just don’t add up, Ya heard me?)
- Brad Fallon’s $100,000 spending spree (as it pertains to StomperNet)
- 5 Mistakes to Avoid with Social Media
- Employing someone to help your business utilize social media
- You might be a redneck . . . 3 full examples
From a personal standpoint, Roger feels 10 times better for getting this stuff off... (more...)
Southern Social Media 11/12/09
Get ready for the day-before-Friday-the-13th edition of Southern Social Media.
Among today’s topics:
- Perry Belcher’s exit from Internet Marketing Training & what we can all learn from it
- Making money with social media instead of just winning the popularity contest
- Growing a list even if you provide a service
- Salon tips from researching review sites
- Social benchmarking study
- A contest you can enter to win 1 month’s access to my Social Media Mondays and 5 people can win free access to my upcoming List Samurai program
- The southern definition of “banner”
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