Now for those of you that don’t know, Social Media Examiner is ranked as one of the world’s Top 100 business blogs on both Technorati and AdAge — a position they landed just two weeks after launch — and to date, they have amassed over 80,000 email subscribers in as little as 18 months. Needless to say, that’s pretty impressive…

Join us as we discuss:

• How Mike started Social Media Examiner back in 2009 with a couple of guest bloggers and wielding a camera at Blogworld Expo,
• Their process for receiving and vetting guest blog posts,
• How and why Social Media Examiner remains a commercial free zone (no advertisements on the site),
• How they monetize Social Media Examiner with live events, and
• Mike shares is favorite #hashtag

Hit the flash-player to listen now…

[podcast]http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-91496/TS-500947.mp3[/podcast]

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So now that we’ve had our chance to interview Mike, how would YOU like to ask him a question? Better yet, how would you like a chance to win a copy of Launch?

Just post your question for Mike below and the best question (picked by Stacey Soleil and I) will be selected by Friday (June 24th) and answered by Mike Stelzner with credit and a link to the winners blog or Twitter account. So put your thinking cap on and get creative with a question for Mike!

Interested in reading “Launch” now? Pick up a copy:

Song Intro Credit: Music Automatique

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This week I’m joined by New Media Rockstars Jay Baer & Amber Naslund to talk about their new book, “The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social.” It’s not a book on how to “do” social media (like how or why to set up a blog, etc.), but rather a book on how to position yourself and your organization to embrace and capitalize in real-time business.

Join us as we discuss: (Note: if you care to Tweet a line from the interview & spread the awesome, use the hashtag #imbpr)

• How Jay & Amber decided to co-author a book (spoiler: he bugged her until she said yes)
• The concept behind “answering the new telephone”
• How everybody in your company is in marketing (everybody’s job is to be out there and be an asset to the community that you’re trying to serve)
• Should you force your employees to engage in social media?
• To close things out, Jay Baer & Amber Naslund share their two takeaways (“Best Practices” for being successful on the web)

Hit the flashplayer to listen now…

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Jay and Amber have been posting content on their site and they have a few pre-oder specials lined up, head on over and check it out.

Interested in reading “The NOW Revolution”? Pick up a copy:

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In this episode we discuss: (Note: if you care to Tweet a line from the interview & spread the awesome, use the hashtag #imbpr)

• How important it is to create content as a cornerstone of your marketing (furthermore, how to do it)
• The importance of having a plan (we discuss the important of having something as simple as an Editorial Calendar to start)
• The importance of dropping the “marketing-speak” and engaging your customers as everyday people, not numbers and statistics
• To close things out, Ann (@MarketingProfs) & C.C. (@CC_Chapman) share their two takeaways (“Best Practices” for being successful on the web)

[podcast]http://www.ricardobueno.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/contentrules.mp3[/podcast]

Click here to download the mp3 | 5.11 MB | 29.46

Ann and C.C. having been posting content on their site since they started authoring the book, head on over and check it out.

What are some of your “Content Rules” for engaging customers successfully on the web? Do you have a blogging success story that you care to share? How else are you creating content to engage with fans and customers online?

Haven’t read “Content Rules”, pick up a copy:

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• authors one of the most popular marketing blogs in the world,
• is author of (12) best-selling books,
• speaks to audiences around the world about marketing (American Way Magazine calls him “America’s Greatest Marketer),
• and he’s the founder of Squidoo.com, a fast growing recommendation website.

If you haven’t read any of his books, you should. Amongst some of my personal favorites are: Permission Marketing (affiliate link), Tribes, and Linchpin. And his blog, is the only blog I subscribe to via email. Mainly because I think the information is always timely, focused, thought-provoking and relevant.

Listen to the Recording:

Below is an un-edited version of our call with Seth (we had some technical difficulties in the beginning). I hope you enjoy the call and I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments!

PHOTO CREDIT: Seth Godin

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Many of us use WordPress. It’s what we use here at [Ribeezie Media] to build our client websites. Why? Because it ranks extremely well in the search and there’s just about nothing you can’t do with wordpress. On the call we talked to Aaron about “open source” (what it means and it’s benefits to the end-user). We discussed the differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org and moving content from one platform to another.

The book is for:

• Theme designers,
• Plugin developers,
• Core developers,
• and WordPress users alike

In it you’ll find tutorials, references, screenshots and walk-thru’s on just about everything WordPress; from the basics (such as installation and blogging 101 basics) to more advanced topics (such as plugins, themes and templates, custom fields and more).

Aaron and his publisher (Wiley), were gracious enough to send Stacey and I an advanced copy of his book and I can already tell you that we love it and will be recommending it as the WordPress “Go To” resource for new and advanced bloggers alike.

Listen to the Podcast:

Bonus:
Aaron Brazell is offering an upgrade-only maintenance plan our listeners. For those of you that have your own self-hosted wordpress blog, that means you get security updates any time new releases are issued (this includes plugin upgrades as well). The price for this is $100/month (includes up to 3 blogs).

For more, email: aaron (at) technosailor.com

Buy the Book:

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• The importance of social capital
• How to transform the space you work in to make yourself its leader
• Why networks allow people to thrive
• Many of the web’s non-verbal signals of trust
• How to leverage social tools for maximum benefit

We discuss a lot of these concepts and how they relate specifically to YOU as a Real Estate Professional because you are in fact a “Trust Agent”. If you have any specific questions you can drop them in the comments below. And of course, Stacey Soleil and I always appreciate your feedback…

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This Wednesday (yeah, that’s tomorrow), January 6th, we’ll (my co-host Stacey Soleil [she’s awesome!] and I) be interviewing David to talk about Social Media and the updated version of his best-seller The New Rules of Marketing & PR.

When: Wednesday, Jan. 6th
Time: 12:00pm PST
Dial-In Info.: (724) 444-7444
Access Code: 31897
Join the Live Chat Here: http://tinyurl.com/5b44qp

It’s  a little short notice, nevertheless, I hope you can join us. And if you have any questions about social media, blogging, podcasting and PR, drop ’em in the comments below so that we can ask David on the call!

Talk to you soon… In the meantime, Here’s David:

David Meerman Scott keynote at BMA 2009 national conference from David Meerman Scott on Vimeo.

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