Posted on 19 April 2012. Tags: classifieds website, discount incentives, Good, marketing strategy, niche, site, thinking, Viral, viral marketing, Website
I’ve got a niche classifieds site and am really looking for a good social media/viral marketing strategy.
I was thinking of offering discount incentives for people to like me on facebook, friend me on facebook, etc but I’m grappling with how to pull it off. Any ideas?
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Posted on 15 March 2012. Tags: ALL, Answer, bias, blogging, everything, high quality, quality content, reading, Revealed, subscribers, viral marketing, viral videos, Yahoo, yahoo answers, youtubers
TO ALL THOSE READING THIS: you are either a person who wants to get noticed or you think you have the answers to this question or you’re just passing by. The point is, with all of people claiming to know the answer to getting subscribers, viewers, etc…I have yet to run into somebody who has a formula to achieve this. I bring this to your attention because I have studied trends, viral marketing, points and highlights from all over the net. I have, after I have done everything that was suggested such as creating responses to video, blogging, posting on forums, creating high quality content, creating different channels, and much more: I have discovered there is no formula, as of yet, to achieving more views..I want people to know this because if you want to give up, then maybe you should. But if you want to make videos because that’s who you, then keep on doing what you love and there is always a shade of hope that maybe you will be discovered. From what I have seen, there are great youtubers out there who never get attention and then there are those that get attention and nobody knows really knows why. Is youtube bias towards some countries and do other countries get faster responses…we all hope, that one day, one of our videos will get discovered or that people will be attracted to what we create. If you have been making videos for the past few years and still no results, then you and I have to seriously rethink things here. We need to come up with an answer that is outside the box, something new, something different. I have spent years on these yahoo answers and the majority of people who post on these sites have never been success in large youtube attention. First of all, what is attention, 5000 views, 50,000 or 100,000. I would like to say that 50,000-100,000 views on a video that you made is amazing but others might have different standards.
I know 3 people personally who have had viral videos of more than 100,000 hits and all these people have no idea why it happened or how?
The point that I am trying to make is that you should try anything and everything because youtube is a mystery and unpredictable. So the predictable in theory won’t work, not that it won’t! If you are just starting out, do what you do and you never know what may happen.
I will fill you in a few things that are Universal..that the world hungers to see such as emotion(double rainbow), faces like Justin bieber, charm, beauty, character or personality that is different, cute, attractive, ordinary but extraordinary(the man with the golden teeth) etc
I write this because after 3 years of youtube creation, after dozens of channels, parody’, songs, skits, , some HD, other’s just SD, etc..and having one video reach 50,000, I still need to re-evaluate these things, to ask myself why I do this and if I am doing it for the right reasons. I always come back to these forums just to see if there is something new out there I haven’t done yet…
“keep the youtube dream in your pants until youtube or the world yanks it out for a *******”
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Posted on 05 January 2011. Tags: affiliate marketing, brick, brick and mortar, click and mortar, cycle time, ec 8, Ellectronic, Facebook, file, Marketing, Online, second life, vending machine, viral marketing, virtual worlds
1. Compare brick- and- mortar and click- and- mortar organizations.
2. Why is buying with a smart card from a vending machine considered EC?
3. Why is e- learning considered EC?
4. How does EC facilitate customization of products and services? ( Hint: See Online File W1.11.) 5. Explain how EC can reduce cycle time, improve employees’ empowerment, and facilitate customer support.
6. Compare and contrast viral marketing with affiliate marketing. ( Hint: See Online File W1.11.)
7. Identify the contribution of Web 2.0. What does it add to EC?
8. Distinguish an enterprise social network from a public one such as Facebook.
9. Carefully examine the nontechnological limitations of EC. Which are company- dependent and which are generic?
10. Why are virtual worlds such as Second Life related to EC?
11. Register at ibm. com/ enterpriseofthefuture and download IBM’s study “ The Enterprise of the Future” ( IBM 2008). In one page, summarize how the enterprise of the future differs from today’s enterprise.
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