Fast - forward to today: by the end of the year, any website without video will be completely outdated: all state of the art businesses will have websites with streaming video.

in recognition of these facts, and the arbitrage which temporarily makes vidoe also the best method of getting traffic from the major search engines, we now offer these new packages:

Viral Video Production And Online Promotion

Viral Video Production and Online Promotion

Viral Video Production, Distribution, and Marketiing can be done on a ridiculously low budget! If you accidentally get on top of digg, Youtube, Netscape or the like, you will get buried in hits!  Our video production partner, Moviepals Entertainment, utilizes collaborative film-making to create HD and web ready versions of custom videos for you on a tiny budget.  We have collaborated on very low budget projects that have been seen millions of times!  We can then distribute them online, on your website, on video sharing sites, on Youtube, Google Video, local TV: wherever your target customers can be found.

Guest Star Video

An extremely innexpensive way to add a professionaly formatted video to your website:
• You get a Professional  HD Video of either an event or a spokesperson
• Spice up a text only website and/or add professional video to your online look
• You get up-to 2 hours studio time (In our LA studio )
• Includes up to 2 hours of pre and post production work (video editing, script writing, etc.)

Cost: $299 – one-time fee payable in advance

Specs:

You can be the actor, or we will ouse one of our Actors
Office Location or wall backdrop
*Additional actors, scene locations, and other services, special effects and features can be added-on, see add-ons

Cinematographer Video

A better way to add video to your website:
• Professionally Shot HD Video of an event, spokesperson, interview, or created from scratch
• Advanced Branding Options and Improved Visuals
• More Studio time
• Distributed Online to Multiple Video Sharing Sites
Good for:
• Making a great first impression to your website visitors
• Spicing up a text only website
• Adding professionalism to your online look
Details & Specifications:
• Up to 5 hours studio time (In our LA studio or on location within 50 miles)
• Up to 5 hours of pre and post production work (video editing, script writing etc)
• $689 – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors
Scenes Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, or Wall Backdrop or location that you provide.

Avant-Garde Director Video

A creative video with actors, sets and a theme:
• Professionally Shot HD Video of a creative commercial or viral video, interview, or mini movie
• Even More Branding Options and Improved Visuals
• More Actors, More Locations, More Studio time
• Our creative staff will help improve your ideas by assisting int he creative process
• Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
• Put your video in our creative portfolio exposing it to additional thousands of viewers.

Good for:
• Creating a creative video designed to grow virally online and send your website permanent traffic.
• Impress your website audience with your creativity and generate ‘wow’ factor
• Enhance your brand image and social media marketing campaign
Details and Specifications
• Up to 10 hours Shooting Time (in our Studio or on location)
• Up to 10 hours Pre and Post Production ( video editing, graphics, screenwriting)
Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors and 1 casted actor(ess)
Scene Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, Wall Backdrop, Ocean Condo, Library, Conference Room, Pool, or location you provide.

$1487 – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

Executive Producer Video

• Professionally Shot HD Video of a series (at least 3 separate episodes) of a creative commercial or viral video, interview, or mini movie
• Even More Branding Options and Improved Visuals
• More Actors, More Locations, More Studio time
• Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
• Our creative staff will help hone your creativity with an idea / brainstorming session.
• Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
• Put your video in our creative portfolio exposing it to additional thousands of viewers.
• User generated or collaborative call to action – can use members of our collaborative filmmaking team.

Good for:
• Building an audience and subscriber base around your brand and marketing message.
• Attracting ongoing permanent traffic to your website
• Launching a new idea / product / or service
• Television Commercial Advertising Spots
• Community Building projects, where your fans and audience can contribute to your marketing / advertising (user generated content collection).

Details and Specifications
• Up to 25 hours Shooting Time (in our Studio or on location)
• Up to 25 hours Pre and Post Production ( video editing, graphics, screenwriting)
Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors and 2 casted actor(ess)
Scene Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, Wall Backdrop, Ocean Condo, Library, Conference Room, Pool, or location you provide.
Choice of 2 collaborative talent sources from our screenwrtiting meetup, actors, audio and post productions (basically we’ll use more team members to improve the quality of the results, so for example we could bring on an outside screenwriter to give their creative input.)

$3920 - – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

Add a Social Media Website, or any bundled solution to Cinematographer (above) or a larger video project,  and pay only 1/2 price for the website bundle add-on!

Viral Video Advertising - Put Your Advertisement Directly in Viral Videos

With PPC you pay for every click, so that when your money runs out you stop receiving traffic; ads are usually placed over or around the content which results in less viability. We place a few quick, quality ads DIRECTLY embedded into the content, so that you get maximum exposure for a minimal price. Your advertisement stays in that video permanently, so that if it becomes a viral sensation and attracts a million views or more, you continue to receive traffic and get your message out on an ongoing basis: and you only have to pay once!  More information about the service with answers to frequently asked questions follows below:

FAQ and more information on viral video ads

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Socially Conscious T-shirts - New Jacobs Clothing Line from Marc Jacobs Brother Paul

Paul Jacobs, Marc Jacobs younger brother, hopes to capitalize on the name: digg this if you like, here:  http://digg.com/arts_culture/Socially_Consciouse_T_shirts_New_Jacobs_Clothing_Line

MARC JACOBS YOUNGER BROTHER PAUL CARRIES on the LEGACY and LAUNCHES CANY CLOTHING, a SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS LINE of T-SHIRTS

Ventura, CA- June 12, 2009. Paul Jacobs of CANY Clothing is announcing the launch of their online store at http://canyclothing.com/. CANY is inspired by the belief that everyone has a voice and the right to be heard, regardless of age,sex,race, religion or sexual preference.

Paul Jacobs is the youngest of the three Jacobs children. At an early age, Paul and his sister were put into foster care when their single mother fell ill and was no longer able to take care of them. His oldest sibling Marc went to live with his Grandmother, who was unable to care for all three children at the time. Marc would eventually go on to become a fashion icon while Paul and his sister would finish out their childhood with an amazing family in foster care. Paul points to his diverse upbringing as the key factor in developing CANY and his belief that from coast to coast we are one country united not divided.

“Please join us on our journey to spread our message of peace, kindness, equality and love to all who will listen.”

Paul Jacobs - Marc Jacobs’ Younger Brother

http://canyclothing.com

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Guest Star Video

An extremely innexpensive way to add a professionaly formatted video to your website:
• You get a Professional  HD Video of either an event or a spokesperson
• Spice up a text only website and/or add professional video to your online look
• You get up-to 2 hours studio time (In our LA studio )
• Includes up to 2 hours of pre and post production work (video editing, script writing, etc.)

Cost: $299 – one-time fee payable in advance

Specs:

You can be the actor, or we will ouse one of our Actors
Office Location or wall backdrop
*Additional actors, scene locations, and other services, special effects and features can be added-on, see add-ons

Cinematographer Video

A better way to add video to your website:
• Professionally Shot HD Video of an event, spokesperson, interview, or created from scratch
• Advanced Branding Options and Improved Visuals
• More Studio time
• Distributed Online to Multiple Video Sharing Sites
Good for:
• Making a great first impression to your website visitors
• Spicing up a text only website
• Adding professionalism to your online look
Details & Specifications:
• Up to 5 hours studio time (In our LA studio or on location within 50 miles)
• Up to 5 hours of pre and post production work (video editing, script writing etc)
• $689 – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors
Scenes Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, or Wall Backdrop or location that you provide.

Avant-Garde Director Video

A creative video with actors, sets and a theme:
• Professionally Shot HD Video of a creative commercial or viral video, interview, or mini movie
• Even More Branding Options and Improved Visuals
• More Actors, More Locations, More Studio time
• Our creative staff will help improve your ideas by assisting int he creative process
• Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
• Put your video in our creative portfolio exposing it to additional thousands of viewers.

Good for:
• Creating a creative video designed to grow virally online and send your website permanent traffic.
• Impress your website audience with your creativity and generate ‘wow’ factor
• Enhance your brand image and social media marketing campaign
Details and Specifications
• Up to 10 hours Shooting Time (in our Studio or on location)
• Up to 10 hours Pre and Post Production ( video editing, graphics, screenwriting)
Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors and 1 casted actor(ess)
Scene Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, Wall Backdrop, Ocean Condo, Library, Conference Room, Pool, or location you provide.

$1487 – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

Executive Producer Video

• Professionally Shot HD Video of a series (at least 3 separate episodes) of a creative commercial or viral video, interview, or mini movie
• Even More Branding Options and Improved Visuals
• More Actors, More Locations, More Studio time
• Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
• Our creative staff will help hone your creativity with an idea / brainstorming session.
• Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
• Put your video in our creative portfolio exposing it to additional thousands of viewers.
• User generated or collaborative call to action – can use members of our collaborative filmmaking team.

Good for:
• Building an audience and subscriber base around your brand and marketing message.
• Attracting ongoing permanent traffic to your website
• Launching a new idea / product / or service
• Television Commercial Advertising Spots
• Community Building projects, where your fans and audience can contribute to your marketing / advertising (user generated content collection).

Details and Specifications
• Up to 25 hours Shooting Time (in our Studio or on location)
• Up to 25 hours Pre and Post Production ( video editing, graphics, screenwriting)
Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors and 2 casted actor(ess)
Scene Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, Wall Backdrop, Ocean Condo, Library, Conference Room, Pool, or location you provide.
Choice of 2 collaborative talent sources from our screenwrtiting meetup, actors, audio and post productions (basically we’ll use more team members to improve the quality of the results, so for example we could bring on an outside screenwriter to give their creative input.)

$3920 - – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

Add a Social Media Website, or any bundled solution to Cinematographer (above) or a larger video project,  and pay only 1/2 price for the website bundle add-on!

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If an advertising agency is compensated based on a percentage (it is usually 15%) of what I spend, what incentive do they have to find for me innexpensive, effective, leveraged advertising that is cumulative and gets me more and more business with less and less expenditure like any effective campaign should?

The obvious answer is: none at all!  The fact is that there is a built-in conflict of interest in the way that advertising companies are compensated: it is not in the ad-agency’s best interrest to do a good job:
In this alrtice in Adweek by Brian Morrissey:

“I think traditional ad agencies have very little contribution to make,”  Bryan Simkins, a marketing specialist at FedEx, told TNS:

“They are mostly driven by their compensation models which are made for closed media. Those models don’t apply in open media.”

Not only is there a built-in probelm with the compensation method, there is also another inherent conflict of interests: ad agencies typically target a vertical market or two: that is they represent primarily a certain type of business: for instance doctors, manufacturing, retail…

But if I have more than one client seeking the same market share, who do I represent best?

In my opinion, they not only must separate what you pay for advice from other compensation if you are to get good advice, they must also be exclusive to you for your market, or you cannot, and should not trust their advice.

A much better model is one where you pay for a bundle of services to a consultant who represents you exclusively.  The consultants job is to do the best he can on your budget.  If he is successful, you will be successful and spend more.  If he represents you exclusively in your market, your bread is buttered on the same side: if he does not do a good job, he cannot profit from your market, and vice verse.

This is why we recomend things like organic search as apposed to PPC (pay-per-click), and blogging over print.  Viral video distributed on the intrnet can greatly leverage the effects of advertising with video.

But don’t belive me: use your logical mind: you are a businessperson, and you are not stupid.

Here at http://socialmediasystems, we believe that our model is better.  What do you think?

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From
‘What happens if I’m charged with a felony in California’ to what sentences are customary, and where to get help: Kardon Law provides this online resource for free. You can get a free consultation and decide if you want to go further with no cost and no obligation, at this online legal questions and answers blog: http://thegalanswers.net

Get started in California legal defense here:

What happens if I’m charged with a felony in California? Legal Answers.
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What happens if I am charged with a felony in California?
A felony is a serious crime punishable by a prison term of 16 months or more in a state prison. Depending on the circumstances of the offense, as well as other factors, a sentence for a felony conviction could …click here to read more

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I highly recomend this format for community building, which can integrated in on the wbpage level into any existing website, or even function as a solution of it’s own.

Learn more by joining and filling out a profile for free:  http://meetup.com

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My, my what a great deal has changed since then.  In an effort to keep up, here are some current trends:

• Check out Meetup.com and Bloblive.com, and Ning.com
• As the technology advances, and becomes more user-friendly, the grass roots localisation of the web is coming to fruition
• Local Media companies are replacing local TV stations, Radio stations, Newspapers, Tabloids, Leads Clubs, Social Clubs, Affinity Associations, Political Action groups….
• Once a small cog in Google’s big wheel, you can now reach half the population between MySpace and Facebook, and quite possibly 80% on about 46 different social media sites.
• The Internet has changed traffic patterns, life styles, culture, demographics, and the media. (Heck, it is the media!)

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However, the best things on the Internet have always either been free, or so inexpensive that anyone could afford them.

When the code standards and options were more complicated, due to the gradual learning curve of users and a huge generational gap with computer technology in general, there was a nice market gap for Internet professionals,  including me, who built huge multi-million dollar service companies providing Internet technology - and some still do.

However, those days are coming quickly to an end.  I always knew the day would come when a website, which is basically electronic storage on an Internet - connected computer, would become completely free, and that day is here.  If you have ever heard of Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo360, and/or now over 1,000,000 others you know that you can get a website that will even rank on the search engines if you promote it properly for free.  Ning.com, for instance, offers a full blown social media enabled community for free, and completely white-labled without ads for just over $50 per month.  A setup like this was once something we could routinely charge thousands of dollars for and be the lowest bidder.  As the price tag drops, Internet clutter increases and the effectiveness of these sites decreases: now everybody has several profiles that they do not use.

It is a fact that seasoned and up-to-date professional can still help you to have a great advantage over your less tech-savvy competitors, but the day is coming when these services are so standardized as to be ridiculously inexpensive, and much less profitable than in the past.  The business will shift back to a basic consulting model, with less profit: and, with Indian companies spamming your inbox with cut rate offers daily, (some good, some ridiculous) profits in the website design business are already shrinking, and the selling and closing process has been messed up beyond simple profitability, and has become so confusing that nobody knows what to buy or from whom.

We will continue to offer the truth here; but we are finding ourselves less and less able to combat the host of misinformation being promulgated in the spam factories, and the business has changed a great deal, for us, and for everyone.

The one thing I can promise is that you always find the truth here.

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CarpKarate.com is abslutely beautiful, and it already comes up under Karate School Carpinteria California: Come on, Dave, it has been over two weeks, how about posting your first post?!

This is really a great looking setup: and it comes up under Karate school carpinteria too!

This was only our DIY $79  SEO publishing package!  And Dave is no techy, but he is a very nice guy and a wonderful USSD cetified Karate instructor, so check it out: it is the best Karate school in Carpinteria California!

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Inetgiant.com Free Classified Ads

 is the oldest, most well known, and best free classified ad site I have seen.  It is extremely quick, user friendly, HUGE - and they offer a robust set of options: seeing how many ads there are there, I would consider some of them due to the low cost:

• I especially like the option to extend for one year very cost effectively
• They have top of category, premium notice, and PPI (pay per 25,00o or more impressions) that are very affordable.
• They have guaranteed results programs for instance to promote home busineses
• As you can see here, they are huge, have a huge presence and trafffic
• The interface is all I had hoped for years ago when the technology did not exist
• They are the only free ads site I have ever seen with 83% releveancy for SEO!
• Unpaid ads expire in 30 days to keep it clean

I highly recomend that you visit Inetgiant.com Free Classified Ads!

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See our new network here as an example!

• Custom - stand alone or install into any existing website
• Seamless Branding and Integration
• Ongoing hands-on managed Social Community with Ajax, Video, Chat
• We manage SEO, Promote
• Optional $148 Per Month with domain, hosting, ad revenue

It is not necessary to spend thousands of dollars re-creating the wheel: to create your own social network is now free on Ning.com; and if you want our help creating, branding, and moderating it, it is Only $99.00 down, $99 per month - very affordable!  If you do not want to see ning.com at all, have a domain, control the ad revenue yourself: it is only $148.00 down, $148 per month for a full blown, drag and drop Ajax enabled, state of the art social network of your own.  We have been waiting for Ning.com for a long time, needed to know they would be around: aligned with Google now with a wonderful revenue model for those who do not want ads on their site, want to get the money for the ads, and/or do not want links to Ning.com services: see http://3netsocial.ning.com/ .

We think it is a good idea to use the free version in the beginning, then upgrade when sufficient traffic and revenues from ads justify the expense, that is what we are doing.  Integrated into a Wordpress blog (like our site here), or with any CMS, this can be a wonderful care-free solution to create lead capture, robust options like chat and video sharing and uploading, robust profiles for and access to your guests, and still have the ranking power and control over your site separately for ease, convenience, and safety.

We use the power of social media and niche online communities to better promote and execute your strategy; this is known associal media marketing. Through social media marketing, we target increasingly popular user-driven sites like Digg.com, Del.ici.ous and a number of other community sites by creating content that builds links, initiates conversations and creates traffic and placement on search engines.

This is achieved by:

• Creating content (e.g. articles, video blogs, interactive games) that is then syndicated throughout the web on sites like Webpronews.com, Google News, Digg and many other niche community sites;
• Promoting your content and creating conversations around it, thus garnering links and attention;
• Branding you as an expert in your field;
• Leveraging the power of viral marketing and other online advertising strategies to ensure your message spreads throughout the web’s numerous social media sites and communities.

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As someone who sells SEO related Social Media Optimization and Marketing as a service you would think that it is not in my best interest to tell people they can do SEO and Social Media Marketing on their own: But it’s true.  Just as changing the car’s oil, fixing clogged pipes, or painting a house are all relatively easy, most business owners can build, market and improve their website on their own. All it takes is an abundance of  knowledge and time.

Knowledge can be found easily enough for free (search Google), and time, well, any excuse not to make another cold call, eh?  Fortunately, SEO can be automated completely, and Social media Marketing is an ongoing advertising and marketing project, so you can simply use all your spare time to accomplish what needs to be done. (I do)

If you want to optimize your site yourself then you need to simplify. A lot of what you’ll learn about SEO and link building and social media marketing can be complicated: especially when you start reading about .htaccess, robots.txt, 301 redirects, anchor text links, and so on.  This is all good and important to consider  information and everything alse you do will be wasted if you do not get it right, but you don’t have to start there if you know that those things are already done well.

If you’re doing it yourself then start with the things that you can do yourself. Don’t get caught up in all the complicated issues that go beyond your knowledge or ability to implement. The more difficult technical tasks may still be necessary down the road so that you you do not limit your traffic, exposure, and income, but for now, do what you can with what you have: two dollars may as well be $2,0000,000 if you do not have it, right?

Here are some things that you can often do easily enough on your own:

1) Customize all your  tags. If your site is big this may take some time. If it is dynamically generated from a database with a CMS (Content Management System) then you may want to have your programmers implement a templates and plugins that pulls in and inserts keywords and tags relevant to  the page.  If you website is on an outdated platform there may not be anything you can do to optimize your website and you may need to replace it.

2) Customize your content. This can be especially important if you sell products. Don’t settle for stock descriptions, and take the time needed to write something different for each of the 20 products you have that are simply different versions of the same thing. This customized content is essential to achieve organic search rankings and get traffic from search engines and social media sites.

3) Get text based content on all of your pages that the robots index, and tell them how important the pages are, excluding navigational pages with no real content value. If you practice outdated SEO methods like key word stuffing you will be penalized and nobody will see the offending pages or your website anyway.  This is all easily accomplished either with a Google site map, or proper entries on the pages and/or the access and robots.txt files

4) Link, link, link. Add links throughout your content to other pages and products of your site. Link back and forth between pages, add links to related products, link to your blog and from your blog with properly optimized text links that are relevent to the pages or files linked to, and contain the key words you wish to found with..

5) Blog. Write content that your visitors will love, reprint with proper text links back to you, subscribe to in an RSS feed or opt-in email, and appreciate enough to want to do business with you.. Don’t just use your blog to pimp your products or services. Write helpful tips and tutorials or provide insight that your readers can use.

It’s only when we over-think SEO and Social Media Marketing that it becomes more complex than it needs to be. I recently read a blog  conversation at Activerain.com in which the author, a young woman and mother, who was in the market for a real estate website said:

“just break it down for me  Barney style”

The resulting conversation and arguments and comments was so full of miss-information and conflicting viewpoints, that it was anything but simple.

There certainly are aspects of SEO and Social Media Marketing and link-building and web design that require a technical mind and someone savvy enough to implement it. But there are plenty of areas that can be done in just an hour or two per a day. Do what you can or pay someone who has the machinery to do it.  Some of the things I would write about you in my columns which appear on search engines organic search results for whatever key words I want them to come up for within minutes of posting would be imodest if you said them, and your success in business depends on the excellence of your website and marketing efforts online more and more every day, but if you really want to you can learn it all, and do it all yourself, in which case, you do not need us, or anyone like us, since this article, and every one anybody like me has ever written, is already on the search engines,  and you can find them!

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By giving the local interactive community portal in your area away for free, you can capture a marketplace, and make a profit:

City Scoop localized online media center 

Would you like a real business opportunity?  Are you tired of wild promises and hype?  Are you willing to work hard in a fun, creative, and lucrative industry?  Would you like to put your clients’ message on top of Google and get paid well for it?  Well then, read on: you may be a social media marketing expert in the making!

Anything we write about here ranks immediately on Google and other search engines, and is syndicated by way of pings to the whole world.  Would you like your own business built around what we do, and a community blog site of your own that has the power locally to do what we do nationally?  You can sell our services right on your website, and get 30% commissions, or just white label the whole thing, charge what you like, and keep all of the money!  If you have a related skill like graphic design or video production, the synergy is even greater!

Example:  John Kitts and Cityscoop.us: (screenshot above or visit the site)

John purchased an online setup from us, we optimized it, and he now has his own local full time business with people working for him and local clients, and his website instantly ranks his clients for local searches, for the ridiculously low price of $500 for a website for a year, (renewable at $299 per year) and John keeps all of that money!  You see, John is a reseller for Social Media Systems, and he paid for the whole thing with his 30% commissions.  Now he earns his living here,  in his own business, and still occasionally sells for and buys from us. 

John earned his living from day one, paid for his business from profits: but this is NOT multilevel: this is a real Internet based business, a real web-based business that you own, with real unique products and services that nobody else sells!

Our version of Multiuser Wordpress makes an instant social networking community that you can edit change and manage with no expertise: John and I have developed everything that you will need to succeed form phone scripts to basic sales training, to the basic knowledge that you will use to establish yourself as an expert!

Choose your own look, your own target market, write your own business plan with our help!

You can do it this too:  You can choose from thousands of looks, or just use our custom themes, like the one John uses, which was made from a professional template (many of these ’skins’ are free at Wordpress.org, and these can also be purchased inexpensively at templatemonster.com)

We will setup a Multi-user Wordpress Social Media Publishing site like the one that John has, host it, maintain it, upgrade it, and support you as you build your business:

You may earn your way there by selling for us and earning 30% commissions with our complete support and training, or, if you choose to, you can pay for your business setup and get started right away: $1750.00 down, $1750.00 upon completion and final edit, $105 per month for hosting, upgrades and support.  John has done it all with commissions, he paid for his site and supported himself at the same time by selling!  John has sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of our services that we invented, and I have sold millions!

You can do it on your terms, as quickly or slowly as you like!

The same scripting (our unique version of Wordpress Multi-User promoted in our special way) can be used for any enterprise level social media marketing niche market, such as a network of subcontractors or affiliate sites.  A whole new website is added every time a user is added: and you can sell these and keep the money, charge whatever you like: and sell the whole setup too - and get commissions: 30% of gross (over $1000 per sale!)You can offer everything that we offer, or pick and choose what you feel confortable selling in your own business!

Call us to learn more:

This setup may also be purchased as a custom solution for any expanding business, at a fraction of what anyone else would charge! Call today:

My telephone number: Israel Rothman Cell: 805-827-2450 

John at CityScoop.us: 510-868-0903

or email: israel@socialmediasystems.com

Related article here:

Consider your marketing budget as a profit center rather than an expence!

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Because of my reach as an author on the topic of Social Media Marketing, I recieved this email today:
“Dear Israeli,
The power of social search will flex its muscles on this historic day as Barack Obama becomes President.

WebMynd, a nifty company that embeds social search within Google, today released a handy OneRiot extension for Firefox that brings the real-time pulse of the web straight to Google: http://www.webmynd.com/html/oneriot.html.

In addition to OneRiot, the WebMynd extension also comes packaged with other social sits like Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube. Once downloading the WebMynd extension, folks searching for news and events surrounding today’s inauguration (and other news) will see the real-time pulse of the web from OneRiot and the other social sites right alongside their Googlies. Very cool!”

This seems like a great idea to me, the ability to provide current breaking news ‘pulse’ to add to a portal or website ’stickyness’ and increase both the value of the website to it’s affinity group visitors, and conversion for the website owner.

Perhaps this is a good time to point out, at this turning point in our history (I will elaborate in a spicy way later in this post) and to share the value of this kind of blogging - siezing an opportunity to comment on current events to:

• Share your personality with your visitors
• Get great links back and link authority and traffic from places like digg.com
• Add to your website content
• Enhance the time spent on your website by a visitor while they are exposed to your message
• Affect the mood of that visitor with emotion

This post will be an example: I am going to offer some very controversial opinions that are relevant today especially, and digg this post, and see how far it goes.

You see, like Barak, I was raised by my mother, never saw my father after age 5, dies when I was 7, mother died when I was 11: I lived in foster homes, group homes, juvenile hall when they did not know where to put me: became an emancipated minor at 17.  Now the comparison stops, because I went in a very different direction with my life, and was not black: in fact, I am of Jewish decent.  There would have been scholarships for me anyway, because of my grades, but I did not choose that path.  Instead I have been a life long entrepreneur, strangely enough like my father before me, who founded the first FM radio station in Cloudcroft New Mexico in a chicken coupe.

Now I will get very controversial, because, as Jew with a unique perspective, I can say things that many others would like to say and can’t that Jews practice reverse discrimination, and that this is one unmentioned reason for anti-semite-ism.

The main-stream Jews that I have met in my travels all over this nation, have a derogatory name for every ethnicity other than Jewish: schwartz, puts, the list goes on, and then there is the catchall for everyone they forget: goyim or goy: according to dictionary.com:

“ goy·im(goi’ĭm) or goys Offensive
Used as a disparaging term for one who is not a Jew. ”

I have always been deeply offended by this, and it is the main reason that I am not a practicing jew.  I suspect that it is also one of the main reasons for the problems that the Jews have had.

In this new world of mixed races (I for one look forward to a ‘Heinz 57′ mixed nation) and on this historic day, perhaps it is time the Goy, Goyim, shcwartz and putz go the way of nigger, spic, kike and the like once and for all.  What do you think?

I am Israel Rothman: personal email: israel@socialmediasystems.com or join our forum discussion.

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On may 29th, 2007 I published this article  about 15 Top Social Media Marketing Resources which was picked up by Web-Pro news and got a lot of traffic and buzz: that was right after I reserved socialmediasystems.com (it was available then for under 9 dollars!) and formed Social Media Systems LLC in March of 2006.

Now, as is usually the case with me, there are a million copy cats out there claiming to be experts in ’social media marketing’, as traditional SEO becomes outdated (related article: see The slow death of SEO).

You cannot get anything short with the words social media in it now, and a whole industry is emerging replacing traditional SEO (search engine optimization).

Now, since things have changed so much, it is time to update the list: 46 Social Media Marketing Resources you cannot  be without:

1. RoboForm is still on the list: with literally hundredsof profiles, all with usernames and passwords, I honestly do not know what I would do without Roboform to keep track of them: i can even create an identity for a client and automatically fill in the details into any number of web forms for them: I use the paid version but there is also a free version for the beginner.

2. Tubemogul.com  Very cool, you upload your videos to one place, and they are automatically syndicated to up to 20 others in optimized format, including Youtube and Google video!  You can track statistics about your videos and do all kinds of cool things, a must have for video bloggers.

3. Veoh.com Like TubeMogul, Veoh allows you to fill in a couple of usernames and passwords for Youtube and Google (but not as many),  but Veoh has a very robust and attractive video player which displays the video nicely on your website, and allow for channels that make it very easy to show a streaming medleyof videos that you group together.  We have had some issues with  loading slowly at times ( with  their explosive growth is size), but they are worth looking at for aesthetics, and we still use them some.  In some cases you want the videos to be hosted and played on your website streaming right from Youtube  for the sake of the rankings boost you get from the click-through traffic.

4. Realtown: Realtown is owned and fed by the owners of Real Estate Magazine (RISMedia.com), Epro, Lowes, InternetCrusade and many other established icons in the Real Estate industry.  they have just re-done their site (went live in October) with new modern social networking features, and they are about to become the forums and local news areas for RISMedia.com with their new site launch.  Any group at Realtown will rank immediately for longtail searches, just as those areas of RISMedia.com do now: I know this because I was consulted on how to insure that, and I tested it last week in my first post: it took less than an hour!  They have established a way of dividing up neighborhoods by population instead of Zip codes, and they are about to go live in the communities area.  I encourage the reader to join, join a group, heck start one, get into the Realtown store while there is room!  What they are attempting to do (the grass roots localization of the web) has been attempted before, but I believe they have the resources and the software to pull it off, and they will have the reach any minute!.

5.    Plaxo: Plaxo is kind of an online  open-social contact management hub, which recently added profiles and many modern features to its already accessible from anywhere excellent Internet based contact management application - you can import your contacts from Outlook, Linkedin, Google, Yahoo and others - then sync them with the same and your cell phone, so that you can always stay in touch with many interactive features and restore everything at will - wonderful -plugs right into my Outlook.

6.  Meetup: Social networking with the whole world at will, with actual local meet up events and clubs in person, great, I have contacted and secured businesss here and it is free.  Why re-invent the wheel, start your local leads or affinity group here: it can feed your website, and you will rank  instantly on google for the name of your profile!

14 of the 15 recomendations from last year still apply: we must have picked them well: here they are:

7.  Activerain - social networking profiles and blog for Realtors and vendors 
Most people do not notice that you do not need to be a Realtor to join, you can be a vendor like me, and the profiles and blogs are not bad for Search Engine Placement link-building campaigns.

8. Alexa - Traffic and Website Statistics and Archived Information and Reviews
An Amazon.com company, we use it to get quick information about any website according to everyone who has the Alexa toolbar - which collects a wealth of information and statistics. They also archive old websites, and provide links to reviews on amazon.com.

9. Associated Content - Associated Content is a buyer and seller, syndicator of user-generated, user-filtered content
One of the most successful and well traveled sites on the web, this site is a must for branding and link building: your clout and pagerank build as an author - you can even get paid for content, although that is not what I use it for.

10. Delicious - social bookmarking, link-sharing
You install a toolbar that allows you to keep a set of favorites online where you can access them from any computer, and share them with the world, if you like, as an online resource. Excellent for traffic building and link-popularity, I recommend that you add and use the toolbar.

11. Digg.com - social bookmarking popularity-driven site:
This site is great for traffic-building for your articles and blogs, and also for link-popularity for your main site and blog: users submit, describe, review, and rank each others preferences. It is also great for getting real-time feedback on what people actually like and do not like about what you and/or others who write stuff that you read may have to say.

12. Feedburner - a feed aggregator that allows you to monitor various statistics about your feeds,
make them available in every format to your visitors, even sell advertising fed into the feed.

13. Google Adwords Keyword Tool - find out what words are searched for, and how much competition there is to rank for those words
To use it intelligently, you must understand the concept of pack mentality: we track trends in key industries like real estate and get to where the market is going first; many Realtors search daily for the same things, but they are not always each others target market - so be careful how you interpret the results from such tools.

14. Google Analytics Account - track everything through Google:
Again, it is essential that you understand that maketing is not just about what is happening right now, but also about what is changing, and what is about to happen; that being said, these are the most reliable numbers about your website, who visits it, what page they enter on, what page they exit on, and a wealth of other information.

15. Linkedin - most well-known business-to-business social networking site
Linkedin was originally for job and employment placement services - it is a very full-featured business-to-business networking site.

16.  Mybloglog.com - Blog syndication, networking, tracking, resources, and communities
Everyone with a blog should be here, and I highly recommend some of their tools, like the one that lets you see who has read this lately at the right of this page! I visit and network with them!

17. Myspace.com - the most well known social media site
If you thought is was just for kids, think again: the average age is over forty, and a profile here can be used for link-popularity and business networking, not just dating and file sharing!

18. Onlywire.com - multiple social bookmarks with one click!
It will take you a while to do this, but it wil then allow you to bookmark files in several places building traffic in one click!

19. Stumbleupon - another social bookmarking site very useful for traffic building:

20. Technorati.com - a blog, news and file sharing aggregator
Another must for bloggers: you can tag your posts and make them available to millions by keyword search

20. Yahoo360 - Yahoos little known stab at social media profiles - pretty usefull and feature rich
One of the most underused, unknown resources: Yahoo360 offers a feature rich social media site for free, complete with RSS feed importation and other nice features, very use-friendly. 

And last but not least:

21. Facebook has exceeded half the size MySpace already, continues to grow!

Here is a list of the Top Scoial Network Sites as of February of 2008: (From Compete.com)

For the big players in the space, February represented a slight decrease in traffic, but the year- over-year growth rates seem to indicate that social networking (as an industry) has yet to peak. The table below shows the top social networks in February 2008, ranked by monthly visits. This ranking factors in both total audience size, and also intensity of use.

I’ll add biznik.com, stumbleupon.com…

Are you getting overwhelmed?  Why don’t you just do what you do best, and let us do the rest, for as little as $24.95?!  Visit Socialmediasystems.com today!

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The Realtown Seal of Approval: After beating this drum for so many years, I gladly herald the new Realtown Seal of approval:  now is the beginning of the standardization of Internet products and services, with standards of quality, fair pricing, and good service.  I suggest you look for this when you do business with any Internet vendor.  From this page:

“As part of our ongoing effort to ensure RealTown.com maintains its integrity and reputation as a trusted source for real estate-related content that has been established since the company’s inception; we have created a RealTown “Seal of Approval” program that clearly sets out the standards we require of our vendors and affiliates.

As part of our subscriber’s “Consumer Bill of Rights”, all vendors and affiliates will agree to:
·Provide RealTown’s subscribers with the lowest price available for their product or service.
Contact consumer within two business days of a service request.
· Provide a contact person that is our direct connection for questions or problems.
· Provide access to information on your goods and/or services either through your own web site or blog or a RealTown-hosted website or blog.
· Respond in the timely fashion to any e-mails from InternetCrusade.
Those who comply with these terms and conditions will earn the right to:
· Display the RealTown “Seal of Approval” on their marketing materials, web site and any other marketing materials used in conjunction with InternetCrusade.com and its related web sites.
· Be listed on RealTown as a vendor that has earned the RealTown “Seal of Approval.”
· Have the RealTown “Seal of Approval” logo included in all posts and/or articles that are published on RealTown.com.”
Look for it when you shop.

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Building and maintaining rankings on your target domain is a task and takes time and an every growing website, and you should do it: but don’t overlook the opportunity to have instant rankings on Google and others by publishing directly to existing niche sites, and to sites that are aggregators of content.

An example is the Google search: internet advertising consultant: although the now well optimized Superpages with their budget of billions has finally found a way at least temporarily to come up line one in the organic (un-paid-for ) results on this search that I have owned line one of for years, I am still line twq, and notice my article on line three: Don’t Get Ripped Off by a Self Proclaimed Internet Advertising …  Associated content, an example of a content aggregator, has long since switched to an advertising (Google Adsence primarily) revenue model, and they have stripped the links to my website that helped it get there in the first place out of the article (LOL), the article continues to rank because of their size, and it still doubles my chances, and feeds be referrals, as a matter of fact, that article refers more clients to me than the SEO ranking itself.  Together they DOUBLE my chances of getting a hit from this search, which, in November was searched 590 times.  Although the no follow links from that article do not help may rankings anymore, as most profiles and articles at blog sites do not (because of no-follow tags), statistics show that 85% of Internet shoppers never click a paid ad, meaning they click the organic results, which i clearly get the lions share of here!  Consider the lesser value that all of the paying advertising consultants in the Superpages are receiving only to be lost a CLICK DEEPER WITH EVERY COMPETITOR THEY HAVE!

Now to the point, lets turn the Superpages model around: I am suggesting that you do lots of profiles and article publishing and Groups participation on websites like my favorite (Realtown.com)

(see http://www.realtown.com/Israel/groups/social-media-marketing-tips/view/6678)

If you know how to leverage these niche, topic specific off site publishing and content aggregators’ to build traffic and get instant rankings for ANYTHING YOU WIRTE ABOUT, you begin to understand how to get that power for yourself, and you begin to understand why Realtor SEO is now all about you website being, and being fed by a SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING SYSTEM!

LEARN MORE AT SOCIALMEDIASYSTEMS.COM

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You may have noticed lately the video megatrend that is taking place:  Gone are the static brochure websites and in are interactive communities with video and Web 2.0 features.  You can still find plenty of static, dead websites; but they become less relevant by the day.  Viral videos, even amateur videos, routinely rack up millions of views on the video sharing sites, creating an opportunity for companies that want to advertise in this medium a chance to reach an incredible audience. 

Google’s  advertising solution for video properties (including YouTube) is to offer “in a video” ads (see http://www.google.com/ads/videoadsolutions/advertiser.html )which take the form of graphical advertisements that initially appear on the bottom 20% of the viewing area of videos that are viewed on YouTube and other sites.  These ads can only be purchased by advertisers with a managed account, so a fairly large budget is required to get started; but there is a better cheaper option:

Google splits part of the revenue with the content creator via  partnership programs.  Like regular PPC,  partners receive and advertisers pay for each click-through an ad generates.  Since the ad content is only displayed on the bottom 20% of the screen, and because viewers can close that ad screen by simply clicking on an  X, very low conversion ratios require a large number of views.  Because I am a YouTube partner I can tell you that it is  incredible how many times a video can be viewed before it gets a single click with this method.  Higher quality branding and traffic can be generated if the ads are blended into the content itself.

At Social Media Systems we blog, and it is very effective.  You are reading this, and so are thousands of business people from all over  the world,  because our  marketing blog is syndicated internationally by many publications such as Web Pro News: our blog entries routinely show up on Google news and various other sites, then they stay there for extended periods of time, continuing to generate traffic to our website at Socialmediasystems.com .  We have  been discussing ways to diversify our product and service offerings to better suit the needs of our sophisticated audience which includes marketing and advertising professionals.

We love to blog in text and video, and it’s fun, and it  generates lots of leads and exposure for our company and our clients.  We use many viral advertising techniques to promote our content and we are going to provide additional advertising and marketing opportunities in this blog and other blogging properties that we own.  We have decided to offer viral video advertising options DIRECTLY in our video blog posts and we are going to do an entire series of instructional videos on everything from social media marketing to website development; we think  that many of the business owners who read this blog will  love a cheap and viral way to reach our shared audience, so our foray into viral video advertising begins.  We have even secured advertising in a sci-fi movie that has received main stream press (AMC TV, ZDnet).

When you visit our mini-site at hitmypage.com you will learn  all the specific details of our new offering, and how you can put an advertisement DIRECTLY into  our video blog posts (these are published on this site, sent to all our subscribers, and blasted out on the top 10 video sharing sites) for less than the cost of two PPC clicks ($2.50).  Your advertisement will stay  in that video permanently, so that a viral sensation can get millions of views, and  you will continue to receive ongoing traffic, but you only have to pay once.  When you visit hitmypage.com you’ll see the videos that are available for direct advertisements and we’ve included examples and audience stats to answer all your burning questions.

Later this month we’ll launch viral video creation services to include commercials and web videos.  Contact us for a custom quote or watch this blog for more information.  In addition to providing these new services we’ll be writing extensively about how you can target quality traffic with viral video advertising.  This is one of the most important internet marketing opportunities ever, and one you must take advantage of in 2009!

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Everything went well at first: we did over $1000,000.00 in the first 18 months and it looked like were back for sure.  Our overhead had risen with our growth to $45,000.00 per month.  Then this economy hit, and this article is about what happened to our merchant account when that happened.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that people stopped paying us: as we laid people off and trimmed expenses to outlast the storm, doing all the toughest things like pairing back our offerings to only the most profitable ones and loosing marginal clients in the process, about 5% of our clients (Realtors and related vendors), in terrible shape for cash themselves, and who had bought online with credit cards, with large non-refundable deposits for work to be performed, decided to attempt to charge back (simply forgetting their commitments).

The way we became aware of this is that all of a sudden we had negative balances in excess of $20,000.00 in our accounts without warning of any kind, completely cutting off all of our income, causing transactions to be returned unpaid to our vendors, and nearly putting us out of business, and, if you accept credit cards, it could happen to you at any minute, unless you use PayPal to process your money.

You see: what we found out ‘the hard way’ is that when you use any other merchant services including your own bank, none of the money you collect, even for services performed up to a year before hand, is secure.

Regardless of the strength of your contracts (we eventually recovered almost all of the money), those customers can decide to lie to the banks at any time, about an e-check, or a credit card payment, and without warning that money will be removed from your company account, and you will have to go through all sorts of hassle to prove that it is your money to get it back: then after it is returned to you, they can contest it again, monthly for a year in some cases, and you can be repeatedly asked to start over again proving that it is your money!  If it happens a lot, the credit card companies can also decide to grab and hold large amounts of your money for up-to a year, without warning, any time they like!

In our case, we had had a PayPal account for years that we used for website purchases and various things, and we had never had a charge back from there: so we froze our other accounts, which we must leave open to get the over $10,000 in reserves that the credit card processing companies decided to cease and hold for up to a year!  Then we changed everything to run all our new money through PayPal, because they have both buyer and seller protection, so these catastrophes cannot happen: the 1/2 point over what were paying that PayPal charges is well worth it in my opinion to guard against such exposure.

In my many years in business in numerous businesses I had heard many times that people did not want to do business with American Express, and now I know why: but I had no idea until this happened that it could also happen with e-check (they are the worst!), with Visa, MasterCard..   The only way to avoid what we have been through and are still going through, which you do want to avoid, is to run all your merchant services through PayPal.  PayPal is your buffer between your customers and you, and independent third party with both your interests at heart, effective in completely eliminating the risk of going through our experience.

My recommendation now that I know what I know: run all of your merchant srvices, not just online transactions, ALL OF THEM, through PayPal: you will sleep better at night, and there are many other advantages too numerous to list here.  If you have not already done so, go to PayPal.com! 

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