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Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

How Relationship Marketing Trumps Traditional Direct Marketing (and Why the Social Media Craze Is Mostly Hype)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Read more about Social Media

Jack Canfield asked to interview me recently on the topic of social media. I did the interview but stressed that I really DISLIKE being asked to talk about social media marketing. I consider the whole social media marketing industry over-hyped.

I'm one of the most-in-demand speakers in this space (as I write this I'll be in [...]

The 5 Profit-Exploding Secrets of “Passion-Based Integrated Social Media Marketing”

Thursday, January 1st, 2009 Read more about Social Media

WARNING: This post is not for the “good enough” minded. Why stop at good enough when you can push for great, leveraged, or better yet, integrated?
I started toying around with social media early back in 2005. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was just having fun throwing aimless punches blindly in the [...]

MindValley’s Social Media Marketing Unveiled

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Read more about Social Media, Viral Marketing, Website Optimization

Lately, we've been pretty busy behind the scenes working on putting together something new and revolutionary.
I've already unveiled a great deal of this stuff at an exclusive, private event. However, some of the basic tricks were already published here in this blog.
In this post, you'll find a list of those useful tricks compiled for your [...]

Valleywag Amuses MindValley

Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Read more about Articles, Facebook, Social Media

A few weeks ago we started helping one of our partners set up a successful presence on Facebook. His name is Burt Goldman, The American Monk.
I'm guessing he's probably the ONLY 81 year old monk with more than 1,000 true friends on the social network, which brings me to my story.
Owen Thomas, a blogger at [...]

Kenneth Needed to Raise $10K to Purchase a Herd of Cows for His Zimbabwean Bride. Here’s How He Raised the Money In Just 3 Weeks Using Twitter.com

Monday, October 20th, 2008 Read more about Make Money, Social Media

Lately we've been having fun testing some new cool social media marketing strategies here at MindVallley Labs.
Here's what happened during this time.
Our very own Kenneth Yu needed to raise $10K for a 5-cow dowry to wed Laura, his beautiful Zimbabwean bride.
The dowry is an important tradition where Laura comes from.

Now, to come up with [...]

FaceUBook.com – Facebook’s evil twin

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Read more about Facebook, Social Media

I got a message from a friend of mine on Facebook. The message told me to check out a particular blog on AOL. I clicked on a link and ended up briefly on the AOL blog site...
...but then that page refreshed and I saw this.

Why would Facebook be asking me to reenter my password?
I [...]