Conference Buddies » Web 2.0 http://conferencebuddies.com Wed, 19 May 2010 20:29:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Utilizing Social Media and Web 2.0 to Market Your Business – Miva Merchant 2009 http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/03/06/utilizing-social-media-and-web-20-to-market-your-business-miva-merchant-2009/ http://conferencebuddies.com/2009/03/06/utilizing-social-media-and-web-20-to-market-your-business-miva-merchant-2009/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:30:05 +0000 Richard Lee http://conferencebuddies.com/?p=99 Utilizing Social Media and Web 2.0 to Market Your Business - Miva Merchant 2009 Speaker: Hal Lublin, President, BuzzBuilderz

Conference Notes:

  • Social Media = People driven, social, collaborative
  • Estimated search engine marketing spend is $11B in 2010 = SEM (Search Engine Marketing Professional)
  • 65% of people feel constantly bombarded with too much marketing and advertising and consider to be out of control (Forrester)
  • Average person receives 70 spam emails a day (McAfee)
  • Become Part of the Community
  • Physical networking is being replaced by social marketing
  • Create a professional profile
  • Frolleagues = colleagues who send friendship requests
  • Plaxo = Professional Profile
  • Facebook = Personal Profile + fan page for business
  • MySpace
  • Yelp = Local businesses
  • LinkedIn = Professional Profile
  • BLIP.fm = Music Social Network
  • Seesmic = Video
  • BriteKite = GeoTagging
  • Flikr = photo sharing (shared to twitter and blog)
  • 12seconds.tv = Video (documentally = funny)
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  1. Online customers are more sophisticated and demand to be engaged
  2. Returning back to the personalized, engaging business mindset of your local business
  3. People want personalized, meaningful, relevant information – not spam or just product promotions
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