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Introducing Our Search Engine and Social Media Packages

Sherean — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:21:19 +0000

Last week, I introduced you to Josh, our new search engine optimization (SEO) specialist, and I promised you we’d be rolling out search engine packages. We’ve put together basic packages where we make sure your pages are set up with the appropriate tags and content/copy. Our packages are a la carte so if you only need us to do the set-up, we can. Or if you need monthly link building, we have that, too.

We’ve also heard from a lot of you that you’d like a Facebook page, but aren’t sure how to set it up. Take a look at the pages we’ve done for Atlanta Women’s Specialists and Happy Baby Solutions. Looking for a more custom look? Take a look at this custom welcome page Kemba, our creative director, designed.

Our social media starter package gets you a presence on Facebook, Twitter, Kudzu, Yelp and Wikipedia. It’s a pint-sized package designed to pack a lot of social media punch.

Click on the image below to read details of our online marketing packages and pricing. Let me know if you have questions (email: sherean at newthoughtmarketing dot com or call 404.641.9134). We are working hard to stimulate the economy by helping you stimulate business. I hope these packages are a good place for you to start.

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Shout Out to the WCR

Sherean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:51:22 +0000

Vesatee and I are at the Women’s Council of Realtors/Alabama Chapter (WCR) annual retreat at Callaway Gardens. They asked us here to speak on social media and other online marketing tools. Today, we discussed the importance of referrals in service-based businesses (well, any business really). Social media gives us the ability to amplify that word-of-mouth. If you used to be able to call 10 people a day, you can now easily reach hundreds of people that you already know (if you know that many people) in just one day — well, minutes really.

I meet lots of social media skeptics, people who think it’s just another waste of their time. And some of it is. But I think most of us agree that we want to hang out where our customers are hanging out, and increasingly, that’s online. They are interacting on Facebook, using Twitter to communicate, uploading videos to YouTube and blogging. It’s important to cruise this virtual town square and insert yourself in these online conversations.

The women of WCR understand this. They are building their local association chapters, in addition to building their individual businesses. They are dynamic and motivated. They understand that in times of economic distress, it’s more important than ever to step up one’s game.

Tomorrow, we are going to teach the group how to use Twitter. Twitter, for all its bare-bones functionality (it is, after all, just short messages), is still baffling for new users to figure out. The interface is not intuitive; that’s why so many people use Twitter apps like Tweetdeck, Twhirl and the like. For new people just getting started, the learning curve can be steep. What’s a “retweet?” What’s the difference between an “@reply” and a “dm”? Heck, what’s an “@reply” anyway?

Given how confusing it can be to get started, it’s remarkable how much Twitter usage has grown: it grew an astonishing 2,613% year to year (July 08 to July 09). Somebody’s figuring it out. Your customers? Your competitors? Might it be time for you to find out?

Thanks to the WCR for asking us to be part of their retreat.

How to Get Followers on Twitter (Fun on a Friday)

Sherean — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:30:56 +0000

“I don’t even talk to anybody with less than 900,000 followers,” opines Ryan Seacrest in this satiric little bit with Ben Stiller on how to get Twitter followers. For those of you who came to the Tweetorial yesterday, I thought this might provide some additional, uh, insight. Enjoy!