Social Media Expert / Agency Seoul Reveals how to Sell to Seoul Koreans

If you thought that New Yorkers were a tough bunch to sell to, Seoul Korea is going to surprise you. Seoul “is the largest city proper in the developed world” according to wikipedia. The city itself has 10 million people in it. And the greater metropolitan area has over 25,000,000. The competition in seoul is [...]

Why Ad Agencies Shouldn’t Buy Digital Media Ads and Placements

According to @Adage, the rest of 2010 and beyond is going to be led by digital media buys from ad agencies. Sure, this is not good for print and radio media. But it’s even worse for ad agencies. To really see why, we have to understand the evolution of advertising. Back in the day, the [...]

Viral Marketing Formula: How to Launch a Viral Marketing Campaign – The Checklist

You can’t. The concept of launching a marketing campaign that “goes viral” is a 2005 thing. It is. The smartest Harvard Medical School PhDs can’t even predict how much penetration a real virus like H1N1 will impose. So anyone who offers you a viral marketing campaign is either inexperienced or happy to defraud. But let’s [...]

Budgeting a Social Media Marketing Budget Ehem.

prequel: How to Get Your Boss to Pay for Social Media Marketing Before you begin to write up a budget for your boss or client to approve, you’ve got to create a landscape where the final numbers you present will create a sigh of relief instead of a ghasp of panic. Right? If you try [...]

Twitter vs Facebook Social Media Marketing: CTR Effectiveness and Conversion Rates

After almost half a decade of Twitter and Facebook being around, nobody seems to clearly understand the pros and cons of either for use in marketing. In fact, I started Googling for a competitive matrix that compared all the key web marketing factors applied between Facebook and Twitter. I Fail. So I just built one [...]

Google Adwords vs Facebook Pages Advertising: Which has better CTR and CPC?

When Google first bought the contextual advertising system that later became Adwords, it made them a billion dollars fast. And it was worth it. Google’s credibility was an eternity further ahead than Yahoo’s and All the ads were matched to your search. But in reality, where they made most of their money is that the [...]

How Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter Location Based Services Will Disrupt Your Business, Dating, and Marketing

Stephanie Marcus, a new Mashable editor, just posted an anecdotal list of the Top 10 Gowalla check-in locations. On the list are Disneyland, Pike Place Market in Seattle, Trafalgar Square in London, and surprisingly, the Alamo Draft House Cinema in Texas (Turns out Gowalla is a TX native and born from SXSW). At first glance, [...]

Social Media Marketing: How to Use Facebook Pages

I just found Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop on the same topic. But since the link he posted for a free ebook download seems like a email harvesting scam, I’ll just share with you my Facebook marketing secrets. 80% of my traffic comes from Facebook friends. 10% comes from Twitter. The rest come from Google. Based on [...]

How to Export Gmail Inbox Messages as CSV Then Extract All Senders Email Addresses For Importing to Facebook Twitter Linkedin and Sparkah.com

You remember when you first joined a social media networking site like Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter? The first time was a breeze. You imported your email address contacts and immediately had a chunk of followers, friends, and connections. The trouble is growing this network afterwords. If you want a strategy for consistently growing your follower [...]

How to Get Twitter Tweeple to Follow Back Fast

You ever feel like unless you’re already a bigshot, nobody will follow you back on Twitter? Well, this video will make you a micro-bigshot. You’ll atleast be big enough to have 70% of the people you contact follow you back… here’s how to get twitter tweeple to follow back fast: Followers: Drop me a hello [...]

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