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Do You Think Your Business Idea Is A Head of It’s Time?

March 16, 2012 by Elias Shams Leave a comment

A few month after Yurie systems, my first startup employer was sold to Lucent for a cool $1.23 B, as employee number 8th, I cashed out my stock options and lunched telezoo.com back in 1999. telezoo.com was the first B2B social networking site on the web years before myspace and Facebook of the world. I remember I ended up hiring at least ten sales guy and wasted a third of our series A funding, a cool $1 m on advertising to get the attention of the companies. We rarely managed to get 300 companies to utilize the site.

Getting the companies to leverage the power of social networking to market their solution offerings and get engaged with their existing and potential clients online was something totally unheard of and premature. Many of them even thought I was on dope We had a good run with it till 2004 though. Read more of this post

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The Clash of Social Media Titans: The Ultimate Winner Is You And Your Business!

January 26, 2012 by Elias Shams Leave a comment

As many of you know, and many including myself had been predicting, there’s now a rapidly brewing battle going on between the social media titans. According to the WSJ, Google has tweaked their search to favor those more active on their Google+ pages than other social networking site – Facebook, Twitter Call Out Google On Social Search Results.

Needless to say, the change has obviously pissed off the engineers working for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. While many of the heavyweights and their users are having to work real hard, the ultimate winner is you, the awesome users – especially those of you actively using the Q&A feature on awesomize.me – most of your pages on awesomize.me are now popping up ahead of your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter pages when searched for on Google. Just Google yourself and check it out. The main reasons for this are, unlike Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, Read more of this post

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Why Your Business Can’t Afford Ignoring Google+ and awesomize.me

November 26, 2011 by Elias Shams 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

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The Hot New Social Media Chick

August 6, 2011 by Elias Shams 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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Feel free to connect with me via awesomize.me

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Ask Not How Your Fans and Followers Can Awesomize You…Ask How You Can Awesomize Them!

August 4, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a comment

As a serial entrepreneur, I’ve learned that we can have the most incredible ideas, but if we fail to come up with the right messaging our startup could end up nowhere. Typically, a startup hires a marketing communications person or even a PR agency to help them with that task. But, what would you do if you don’t have the funding to afford one? Well, do what I recently did: Put your heads together with other successful entrepreneurs to learn from their experiences – and surround your self with smart, creative people – if they are beautiful, that’s even double jackpot! Read more of this post

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Google and Justin Timberlake Joining the Social Networking War

July 5, 2011 by Elias Shams Leave a comment

Translation: awesomize.me is needed on that wall more than ever now!

In case you missed the News, myspace is about to be brought back to life from dead by Justin Timberlake and Google is about to launch their social networking site, Google+. They plan to compete head to head with Facebook. What does this mean to you and your company? In addition on killing your time on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn today, whether you like it or not, you and your business will soon end up spending time on the two new social networking sites too.

The more social networking sites popping out, the more you and your company will need the portal, awesomize.me to manage all your social media channels. The platform to help you to distinguish your quality vs. quantity friends, fans, and followers.

All aboard! Social Media Train Gearing up to Awesomize your Business in 2011

December 20, 2010 by Elias Shams Leave a comment

As more and more studies on social media are released, the more I am getting excited about our new venture, awesomize.me that we launched last month from the heart of the Awesome Washington, D.C.

The recent study by eMarketer’s predicts that 80% of the businesses will adopt social media for their marketing purposes in 2011. The global surveys indicates that over 30 percent of those businesses don’t even have a social media policy. The report also says marketers that have spent the past few years ramping up their internal social media marketing infrastructure—and their presence on sites such as Facebook and Twitter —will take social media to new heights in 2011. Right on! Read more of this post

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Businesses Will Be Flocking to Social Media in 2011

December 8, 2010 by Elias Shams 3 Comments

and the Washingtonian startup, awesomize.me will be there to greet them

It was exactly a month ago today that we launched the beta version of our new venture, awesomize.me that targets both consumers and enterprises. I’ve believed in our business model on day first, the latest study by the IT research firm, IDC, is giving me even more confidence about the concept. With the explosion of social media phenomena, one of the awesomize.me‘s mission is to assist business owners to select the right social media channels for their operation as well as connecting them to the right strategic partners and clients.

The new study titled “Top 10 Predictions 2011” shows that businesses will increasingly turn to social networking tools in 2011. It also noted that many small and medium-sized businesses will turn to social networks such as Facebook to establish a free online presence that improves their ability to acquire, engage, and retain customers without the hassle and cost of setting up a traditional Web site. Read more of this post

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Time To Move On If Your Partner Starts Sexting

March 22, 2010 by Elias Shams 6 Comments

by Elias Shams
Social Media is the latest fad among us these days and literally, most of us are kind of addicted to it. We have gotten so caught up with the convenience and effortlessness of these methods that we are beginning to forget what it means to have a relationship of any kind with someone unless it is through a cell phone or computer.

I was just reviewing an interesting, but sad study (commissioned by Retrevo) that made me to realize how social media has taken over our lives. Sharing stuff via Facebook, Tweeting, and Texting have allowed us to send messages and post pictures in order to keep in touch with old or long distance friends, eliminating the need to pick up the phone and schedule a lunch date. The study even shows many of us already getting into the habit of interrupting our sex to checkout the incoming text messages. That says something about the growing lack of personal boundaries.

Can you picture this?
ah! ah! ah!
Oh God! Oh God! Oh my God!
I love you! I am coming! I am coooooooommmmmming!
Wait! wait honey! I got a txt …