December 29, 2011 Leave a comment
Content marketing institute just released a list of interesting predictions by 80 different social & digital media gurus with the focus on the relationship between brand and content, the evolution of blogging, the future of Google’s influence, content marketing and distribution. Read more of this post
December 8, 2011 Leave a comment
In today’s environment, the easiest question to ask and sometimes the hardest to answer is “What’s the ROI?” It is so commonplace that some people even use “ROI” as a metric in their personal lives! But I digress. What I am really trying to tell you is that almost any good marketer or media person knows that you need analytics to measure the effectiveness of your strategies and tactics. At a minimum, we all want to know who’s the coolest kid on the block or what is the new “it” thing. So without further adieu, I give you Awesome Analytics – our first business intelligence report.
Our preview version of Awesome Analytics easily shows you the most awesome folks in 5 market segments - people, company, product, service, and question categories searched and viewed on awesomize.me. Below is our November’s Awesome Analytics. You can click on each link to see the top people, companies, products, services, and questions awesomzied (rated) by the community for each category. Read more of this post
November 26, 2011 Leave a comment
I have been on Google+ since their launch earlier this year. Although, I love it more than facebook, but I rarely see any of my facebook friends using it. I would say out of 460 of my facebook friends, only five of them including myself using Google+.
Well, their recent TV commercial during Lions vs. Packers football game on Thanksgiving day poised to attract my remaining 455 friends so as other remaining 750 m people on facebook. Read more of this post
November 22, 2011 8 Comments
If you wonder who else besides Steve Jobs can predict the technology trends real well, it’s Craig Newmark, the founder of Craig’s List and now the founder of craigconnects.
I met Craig last year during the FedTalks 2010 event in downtown DC around the time I was thinking of building my next gig, awesomize.me. I managed to take 10 minutes of his time during the break to yap about startup and the business model for the company. One minute after my yapping, like a good doctor, he gave me the good news and the bad news.
The bad news was that my idea of creating a directory of influential people was not quite original. He told me that there were other sites like Klout that have been working on a similar concept, but that they were all doing it using analytical methods. Then he gave me the good news. Read more of this post
September 24, 2011 Leave a comment
Let us know if the message is finally clear.
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September 4, 2011 4 Comments
In case you still trying to figure out what to do with all those videos you’ve uploaded on youtube, the company has a feature that allows you to make money off of advertising revenue run on your videos on their site – as long as you own the videos and not copied from someone else. Here is what you need to do on youtube/Google to make extra couple thousands a month and how to leverage your awesomize.me pages to double that:
Once your videos start getting some traction, YouTube will send you an email with this subject line: “Apply for revenue sharing for your video“. Make sure to upload videos on regular basis and keep on distributing them to social media channels you are members of (Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn,etc.) Read more of this post
August 24, 2011 4 Comments
To provide you with more intel, engagement, and online conversation about people, companies and their solution offering, awesomize.me just added the real-time twitter feed to every page on the site.
If you don’t see yours, its’ because either:
a) You don’t have twitter account, or…
b) If you do, you forgot to add your twitter URL to your social media presence section of your awesomize.me page. You can add it by editing your profile or business page on the site. Read more of this post
August 19, 2011 Leave a comment
It’s all about content, content, and content on your pages. Not any content! They have to be valuable enough that provides other users enough incentive to awesomize you, your company, products, and services.
The scores on your awesomize.me pages will also help you with your SEO effort. The more content and videos you add to your personal, company, and solution pages, the more they will be found by major search engines indexing them including google, Yahoo, etc.: Read more of this post
August 10, 2011 Leave a comment
If you are an app maker, I am sure you have already learned that App Store is such a competitive environment. You’ve developed an iPhone, iPad, or Android application. You’ve got it up on the App Store next to hundreds of thousands of other apps which they are also begging for attention. You built it unique, your tweeted it, you blogged about it, but not much luck with getting the word out yet. How do you make sure yours stands out?
Leverage the power of your happy users to awesomize them on awesomize.me to get new users! Read more of this post
August 6, 2011 Leave a comment
I spent my Friday night making social media Pee Pee Analogy, and spent my Saturday night drinking Bodegas Atteca lady red making this:
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Elias Shams
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