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Conference Buddies » facebook http://conferencebuddies.com Wed, 19 May 2010 20:29:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to Sell to Niche Markets Online – BizTechDay 2009 http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/25/how-to-sell-to-niche-markets-online-biztechday-2009/ http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/25/how-to-sell-to-niche-markets-online-biztechday-2009/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:19:21 +0000 Joanna Lee http://conferencebuddies.com/?p=326 How to Sell to Niche Markets Online

How to Market to Baby Boomers:

Panelist: Ali Moiz , COO, Peanut Labs Media, Virtual Currency Specialist

Virtual currency is a new market, valued at $2 billion
Baby Boomers are born between 1946 to 1964
They have the highest income bracket
Spends more than other age groups, especially in travel
Fastest growing group of social networks users
$1.2 billion in custom-sample market in 2008
Fastest growing section of online gamers
Only 5% to 15% are monetizing for gamers
Example: Zombieland movie, finding a good trailer for that movie can generate $2 million more. Tested on baby boomers to find which trailer out of three they liked the best, used that one for the campaign
Biggest segment of baby boomers make over $50,000 to $125,000 per year

]]> http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/25/how-to-sell-to-niche-markets-online-biztechday-2009/feed/ 1 How to Build a Business Brand on Yelp, LinkedIn, Facebook, & Google – BizTechDay 2009 http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/25/how-to-build-a-business-brand-on-yelp-linkedin-facebook-google-biztechday-2009/ http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/25/how-to-build-a-business-brand-on-yelp-linkedin-facebook-google-biztechday-2009/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:02:28 +0000 Joanna Lee http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/11/10/how-to-build-a-business-brand-on-yelp-linkedin-facebook-google-biztechday-2009/ How to Build a Business Brand on Yelp, LinkedIn, Facebook, & Google Moderator: Shawna Causey, Comcast Business Class

Google

Panelist: Ryan Hayward, Product Development & Marketing, Local Business Center, Google

80% + are looking for businesses through Google & Google maps
Business Listing is free
Helps you get more business
Can see a daily report of your traffic
Anatomy of your listing on Google: Business name, business hours, description of business, photos, reviews of that business, location on Google maps and Google street view, photos are provided by the business, Google pulls info from City Search and other websites
To optimize your business on Google: add photos, keep all info up to date, add a thorough business description, select all appropriate categories and describe specific products sold, give unique details and use specific keywords
google.com/lbc, add your business, verify that it’s really your business

]]> http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/25/how-to-build-a-business-brand-on-yelp-linkedin-facebook-google-biztechday-2009/feed/ 0 State of the Medical Blogosphere – BlogWorld Expo 2009 http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/23/state-of-the-medical-blogosphere-blogworld-expo-2009/ http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/23/state-of-the-medical-blogosphere-blogworld-expo-2009/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:44:49 +0000 Joanna Lee http://conferencebuddies.com/?p=264 State of the Medical Blogosphere Speakers: Kerri Morrone Sparling: www.sixuntilme.com Kevin Pho: www.kevinmd.com Nicholas Genes: www.medgadget.com, www.blogborygmi.com Kim McAllister: www.emergiblog.com 10/15/2009, 9:45am - 10:45am

Evolution of the Medical Blogosphere

60% of patients use the internet as their first source of information
Doctors need to get on board to connect with their patients, answer questions about medical news and new medical info
Patients are blogging about their experiences as a way to find other people like them
People are leaving the Blogosphere due to privacy and employer issues

]]> http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/23/state-of-the-medical-blogosphere-blogworld-expo-2009/feed/ 0 10 Ways to Build Your Audience – BlogWorld Expo 2009 http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/23/10-ways-to-build-your-audience-blogworld-expo-2009/ http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/23/10-ways-to-build-your-audience-blogworld-expo-2009/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:57:30 +0000 Joanna Lee http://conferencebuddies.com/?p=242 10 Ways to Build Your Audience Speaker: Nicole Simon, Social Media Mentor & Consultant, @nicolesimon 10/17/2009, 12:45 to 1:15pm

Four different types of visitors:

Subscribers, (people who already love you)
Search engine traffic, (they don’t know you)
Life stream (people come for specific reasons, people pointed others to it)
Social bookmarking (people who find you interesting)

Other traffic:

People who want to contact you (journalists)
People who want to offer you something (other bloggers)
People who want information from you

Big Questions:

What do each of these segments want from you and your site? They are all different!
What do you have to do to help them get what they want?
What makes me happy?
What helps me to get what I want?
What can I do to make me happy?

]]> http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/23/10-ways-to-build-your-audience-blogworld-expo-2009/feed/ 0 Facebook & Twitter Fortunes: How To Strategically Grow Your Business Using the Top Two Online Social Networks – BlogWorld Expo 2009 http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/22/facebook-twitter-fortunes-how-to-strategically-grow-your-business-using-the-top-two-online-social-networks-blogworld-expo-2009/ http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/22/facebook-twitter-fortunes-how-to-strategically-grow-your-business-using-the-top-two-online-social-networks-blogworld-expo-2009/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:44:21 +0000 Richard Lee http://conferencebuddies.com/?p=235 Facebook & Twitter Fortunes: How To Strategically Grow Your Business Using the Top Two Online Social Networks Panelist(s): Mari Smith @marismith

Facebook:

Facebook Mission: To help the world connect & communicate more effectively. For social media, it is important to know the difference between a Facebook personal page and a Facebook fan page. Facebook personal pages have a limit of 5000 friends but fan pages do not have such a limitation. Fan pages are also fully indexed by Google. Personal pages do not have any requirements to get a shortened vanity Facebook URL. However, fan pages require at least 25 fans (initially it was 1000, then 100) in order to register for one.

Twitter

When it comes to Twitter, who you follow is as important as who follows you. One rule of thumb to go by is, follow people that have "passion". Also, it is important to always thank people who retweet your content.]]> http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/10/22/facebook-twitter-fortunes-how-to-strategically-grow-your-business-using-the-top-two-online-social-networks-blogworld-expo-2009/feed/ 0