Posted by Chris Treece on January 12, 2010 at 2:21pm
Please Join The Chris Treece Show on January 13, 2010 at 11 am CST as my guest will be “The Social Media Scientist” Dan Zarrella. He will be discussing his new book, “The Social Media Marketing Book”. Call in number is 347-633-9495. www.blogtalkradio.com/Chris-TreeceDan Zarrella is an award winning social, search, and viral marketing scientist and author of the upcoming O’Reilly media book “The Social Media Marketing Book”. He has a background in web development and combines his programming capabilities with a passion for social marketing to create applications like the social URL shortener Votrs.com, Link Attraction Factors keyword tools, as well as TweetPsych, TwitterBrandSponsors, TweetBacks and TweetSuite.His Link Attraction Factors report helped readers determine which topics, days, times, and keywords attract links in social media stories for semantic content optimization, while his Viral Content report details the motivations, preferences and habits involved in online content sharing.Dan has written extensively about the science of viral marketing, memetics and social communications on his own blog and for a variety of popular industry blogs, including Mashable, CopyBlogger, ReadWriteWeb, Plagiarism Today, ProBlogger, Social Desire, CenterNetworks, Nowsourcing, and SEOScoop.He has been featured in The Twitter Book, Fast Company, The Financial Times, NYPost, The Boston Globe, Forbes, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, Mashable and TechCrunch. He was recently awarded Shorty and Semmy awards for social media & viral marketing.He has spoken at PubCon, Search Engine Strategies, Iowatasmic, Convergence ’09, 140 The Twitter Conference, The Cool Twitter Conference, WordCamp Mid Atlantic, Social Media Camp, Inbound Marketing Bootcamp, and The Texas Domains and Developers Conference, and he currently works as an inbound marketing manager at HubSpot.
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Posted by Chris Treece on January 9, 2010 at 11:06am
Join me Monday, January 11th on The Chris Treece Show as my guest will be "The Networking Queen" Denai Vaughn. Show Time is 11AM CST. Call in number is 347-633-9495 www.blogtalkradio.com/Chris-TreeceDo more. Be more. Achieve more. YOU ARE WORTH IT! There are simple tools, tips and techniques for increasing our networking success both online and offline. The difference is knowing WHEN you are ready to go to the next level and WHO to have help you shoot for the moon! Denai's skills and talents are capitalized upon each and every day by men & women around the world who seek to grow their business and minimize their bottom line. She is a woman who prides herself in connecting others with WHO they need to know WHEN they need to know them. Through strategic alliances and synergistic partnerships she continues to network with some of America's most loved and most amazing people, companies, and organizations. Many are impacting the nations!Denai has been blessed by having amazing coaches and mentors in her life, to include the renowned Master of influence, Jason Sisneros, ever-knowledgeable Patrick Dougher of Doer Success Systems, and an incredible life coach, Darlene Stark. She continues her quest for knowledge by surrounding herself by the amazing instructors, to include the infamous Niurka, astonishing Michael Bernoff, Three-Time Olympian Rueben Gonzalez, comical Jerry Clark, sensational Chris Widener, and Erik "Mr. Brightside" Swanson. All have provided invaluable training, insight, motivation, and accountability. Another "feather in her cap" is being selected out of THOUSANDS to share the stage with many of these celebrities during their seminars and events throughout the United States!
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Posted by Chris Treece on December 21, 2009 at 6:53am
If you watch teenagers these days they are forever texting each other. I dare not ask what about – but they do spend all day with their fingers on that keypad. Of course I am talking about cell phones and some reports suggest that teens spend more on text messages than on actual calls.Social blogging seems to be the ‘grown up’ form of texting. It certainly has a big following with many of the top web identities having a ‘twitter’ or ‘plurk’ accounts. The difference between texting through a cell phone and social bookmarking is the audience.Cell phone texting is generally one to one. Social blogging is one to many – thousands perhaps for some. Where social blogging is making its mark is in it’s ability to deliver visitors. Twitter allows the ‘twittering’ of posts from blogs via RSS feeds.This becomes an instant message to the world that you have a new post and what the topic is. Those interested can immediately access that post. Is it important? In one way – very!With respect to bloggers, particularly the big namers, getting an early advice on a new post means you can jump in, read the post and leave a comment – at the top of comments. Believe it or not this is important. If your comment is in the first five, every other commenter will most likely read what you have had to say.If your comments are valid there is a good chance they will visit your site. Furthermore, comments near the top are more likely to get a response from the blogger than those lost in the 15 or 20 comments that come afterwards.Social blogging is definitely here to stay. If you can learn to use is effectively you can benefit your site and your reputation.
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