It was a coconut landing on my head sort of moment, when it dawned on me that all of the things I had been talking about for months to potential clients...actually meant a whole new frontier in more ways than one.
For the first time in a long time, I have the opportunity to utilize my talents and experience in being creative, techie (well kinda), using my PR savviness, promotional inspiration and marketing concepts. Not to mention the ability to develop business and create a fun or depending what you call fun, maybe a better term is a "slightly warped" image of my client.
The off-line portion actually takes less time than the online compilation of sites, sounds, clips, blogs, applications, connections, etc...although, my point is: this is more fun than I remember marketing ever, ever, ever! And believe me, I have done some creative promotions in the past.
I would love to hear from other people about their experiences online and the viral effects of the social media aspect...not to mention the improvement in business. I know without proper analytics, which no matter what anyone states to the contrary, is there ain't much out there to call reliable. I am curious, so feed my curious mind, either leave a comment or email me.
I have found myself over the past few months accumulating clients who need social media marketing and optimization. All of my time spent studying this last year allowed me to speak of this phenomenon in non-layman's terms....you know, I actually sounded like I knew what I was talking about!
Upon being hired to create the web presence, I have found myself immersed in social media HELL. There is sooooooooo much content, sites, applications, gadgets, blogs, blah, blah, blah....to lear about and consider.
I have spent hours learning and I am stating this because in the midst of all this "education" I realize I have neglected my own blog. For shame for shame! We won't even mention my wonderful website. That one may be on the front burner for 2010.
I am going to add posts here on a more frequent basis. I am thinking it would be good to cover some of my learning curve here to help others.
Today, has been spent with blogs (once again--were I started with my education comes full circle), Pluck, PayPal, Weblogs, FB, Flickr, Twitter, NetVibes, Yahoo, Buzz, etc... that is just today.
And some of it is not learning per se, it is about connecting all this shit together. And poking my client to contribute their part in the equation. Too bad FaceBook does not make a Poke widget that would really poke someone physically until they remembered to do what they keep "forgetting".
So...Pluck...is now going to be added to this blog. This oughta be interesting. I am a person of many talents, my background allows that in business, plus personally I being years of experience to the table. In other words, my front burner time is being spent making money and building a name....my back burner time is spent belly-dancing, coaching and having fun!
Anyways....please comment. I like to talk with people from all different viewpoints.
Whether you are the first on the block or haven't let go of your latest ad in newsprint, SEE if you can keep up! Please, please leave comments on what you think of any, some or all of these sites. I have used many and plan on using even more of these sites.
SEND ME MORE SITES; I will list each and every one, as long as they are porn-free.
One of my greatest pleasures has been to coach people. I am told by those who know me personally and professionally, that I tend to listen intently to them. I am genuinely curious and care about other people, so I have found that through no fault of my own, I am also a coach.
This post will be my only mention of my coaching services. If you are interested in more, please email me at Tracy@13degreez.com
Need a bit o’ coaching to reach that goal; here are some areas to consider:
Time Management/Organization (including work/life balance)
Stress Management
Career planning and development
Looking for a mate
Love life/Relationship/family
Empty-Nester looking to start a career or change direction
Stay at home parent looking to re-enter job market
Diet/Exercise/Well-being (including meditation)
Spiritual and Personal self-care
Finances and Budgeting
Creativity
Entrepreneurial and Small Business Development
Business, marketing and sales plans
We make choices each day; ranging from the profound, life-changing kind to the trivial. Each choice affects our lives; we may be both fulfilled and balanced or feel a definite lack of “that something we just can’t put our finger on”. As a coach, I can help you to create an effective, balanced and fulfilling life professionally and personally.
Social-media marketing combines the mythic effectiveness of word-of-mouth with the limitless power of the Internet to connect people.
Social media marketing (SMM) is a group of online marketing tools that utilize and influence social media. From the perspective of Internet marketing, Social Media is a diverse community of web sites, in which the content is mainly published by its members. Most of the sites do not receive their content from direct employees of the property (example: The content on Twitter is micro-blogging from members. The owners may “tweet”, but it is the choice of members to follow them).
Social media optimization (SMO) is online public relations. The brand, product or service of a company may be optimized through tactics, which generate publicity by use of social media, community websites, blogs, and online communities. An example of optimization would be to add links to a company’s blogs or to websites from communities such as FaceBook, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, etc…
Another example would be to add Google’s Ad Sense or Pluck to your blog or company site, thereby not just providing a link, but also benefitting from the monetization of the click through from your site.
We will as time allows, post more insight into the world of Social Media and how we integrate it with our offline efforts for both marketing and business development.
Planting Seeds That Grow and Yanking out The Weeds
Ways we can help you with marketing and business development services:
Extra grey matter and another set of hands for a time-sensitive project
Act as if we are a full time in-house marketing/PR department
Revive slumping sales or need a creative shot in the arm with Social Media Marketing
HELP! Brand new entity in start-up mode or a new division of an existing business
Raising sponsorship and sales dollars
We are dedicated to helping each client increase their revenue, provide opportunity for exposure of your service or product, improve your sales pipeline, provide a substantial ROI and reach NEW BUSINESS!!!!!!
We want to EXPOSE YOU and who you are to your demographic! Don't worry we won't get carried away unless you want us to!
Like a traveling circus we are a troupe of talented people in marketing/PR, social media, business development and juggling, we make things happen, quickly and seamlessly.
My personal experience in a variety of industries and in the capacity of business development, marketing and promotions makes me ideal for creating a deal of any scope.
I have spent so much time researching social media marketing and optimization. I have techniques for integrating this cheap or I should say almost free (except for our time) tool with off-line efforts.
Whoever you are and wherever you are I can almost guarantee we can help you! We look for that synergy when taking on new clients, because we need to work as a team to create success.
We charge as little as 400.00/month on up, depending on your needs.
