Social Media Portrait of Lotte

Here is a cool video showing a Time-Lapse Video of Lotte growing up from a baby to 13 years old. This video has had over 220,000 views so it shows you the power of social media video in today"s viral video world.

Social Media Portrait of Lotte

Social Media Marketing And The Theater Of The Mind

The most effective marketing is story tellling.  An it isn"t the one you tell to someone in your audience.  The most important storry is the one the person tells themself.

Consider this image below.  Martha Washington.  First Lady to our First President George Washington.  Instead of pointing to the obvious discussion which everyone has had about George Washington, at this point now it"s up to the observer to have a conversation with his or herself.  

"Well, I wonder what it was like for Martha Washington to be the First Lady? Who taught her how to behave like a First Lady?  Was the world so different then that she was like any other wife waiting for her husband to come home?"

This is not a pronouncement, this is an invitation to a little internal dialogue and self-talk drama.

Far too often marketers fill in all the blanks and don"t give people the chance to create their own story, which is the best way to draw your audience into a relationship.

Social Media Marketing And The Theater Of The Mind

Social Media Scribe Video for Dental Practice Marketing

Dr. Jones has a website, but he"s not getting any New Patients from it!

 

Dr. Jones knows that getting ranked Top 10 on Google is the Holy Grail of New Revenue.

 

Dr. Jones sees that his competition is ranked in the Top 10 on Google.  

 

Dr. Jones sees that New Patients are going to his competition and he is losing that revenue.

 

Dr. Jones is frustrated that his practice isn"t growing and he just wants to beat his competition!  What did Dr. Jones do?

 

Dr. Jones contacted WorldClass Brand Management at www.WorldClass.com.  

 

Within 90 days WorldClass had his website ranked in the Top 10 on Google for 20 localized keywords!

 

Is your website generating all the New Patient Prospects you deserve?

 

Are you ranked in Top 10 on Google for your local keywords?

 

Results are the ONLY thing that count.  If you want proven results, contact Kendell Lang, CEO of WorldClass Brand Management directly at 760.445.3315 or CEO@WorldClass.com to learn how WorldClass can fix your Search Engine Ranking!

Social Media Scribe Video for Dental Practice Marketing

Social Media Marketing and the impact of Social Video

Why Is Video So Important?

Don't take our word for it. See what others are saying about the power of online video!

"New York Times Highlights Advantages Of Online Video For Small Business"
http://www.varvid.com/2011/03/new-york-times-highlights-advantages-of-online-video-for-small-businesses/

"27 Benefits of Online Video"
http://www.sitepoint.com/27-benefits-of-online-video/

"Why You Should Use Online Video Advertising For Business"
http://www.famousbloggers.net/online-video-advertising-business.html

"5 Benefits Of Online Video Marketing"
http://ezinearticles.com/?5-Benefits-Of-Online-Video-Marketing&id=858538

"B2B:The Benefits Of Online Video"
http://www.onlinevideo.net/2010/09/b2b-the-benefits-of-online-video/

"Does Online Video Sacrifice SEO Benefits?"
http://www.davidrisley.com/does-online-video-sacrifice-seo-benefits/

"Explore The Benefits Of Online Video Optimization"
http://www.industrialsearchenginemarketing.com/blog/2009/02/03/explore-the-benefits-of-online-video-optimization/

Our goal is to provide our clients with a marketing tool that can be used to promote their business online, provide a powerful and positive impact to their SEO (search engine optimization) and allow customers to meet the face behind their business. That’s why we are excited to provide our clients with what is quickly becoming the most powerful tool on the internet, a video!

WHO: You, the Local Expert and Small Business Owner

WHAT: As a Guest Expert via Skype Video Interview

WHERE: Online at WorldClassTV

WHEN: At your convenience, from the comfort of your home or office

WHY: Creating videos is great way to increase the potential of being found on searches for your products, company, industry, or services, at least on Google.  Google now incorporates video results into its Web search, specifically those videos hosted on YouTube, which is an affiliate.

Let me ask you the following questions:

• Did you know that having effective video on your website is the best way to "be real" for prospects?
• Do you have a YouTube Channel for your business?
• Do you know how many videos are viewed on YouTube every day?

If you are following any of the major marketing guru's these days, there is a consistent encouragement to return to"being real".  There is no better way to "be real" with your target customers than to share who you are in a video.

A video message is much more appreciated because it feels more personal to your target audience.  Instead of reading words, they can see your facial expressions, smiles and other emotions you wish to convey.  Plus, a video could make them feel as if they’re talking to you.

You can also engage your customers by requesting them to send in their videos, such as a video of themselves talking about your service and the great experience they've had with you.

And lastly, there is a great new way for you to be presented in a "real" format by being interviewed through the WorldClassTV Social Media Internet Show.

Be A Guest Expert on WorldClassTV

If you have been watching the news recently you've likely seen the increased use of Skype to remotely interview Guest Experts.  If you have a laptop computer with a video camera, we can provide you with a great new Guest Expert Video personalized for your business.  This video is produced at your convenience, no travel involved and done at a time convenient for your schedule.

30 minute to 50 minute "Infomercial" TV Interviewers are charging $12,000 to $15,000 to produce this type of Guest Expert Interview and are then charging you thousands of dollars per month for local cable distribution.  Our production costs are a fraction of this, and we will give you the source video for you to freely distribute through your social network.  We will also host your video on our Internet Channel at no additional cost!

Link to WorldClassTV Show Opener

Your Skype Video Interview

We have developed a very convenient and cost-effective way to interactively interview you from the convenience of your home or office.  The Skype Video Interview Package is available for a limited time. This promotional pricing is being done for $297 USD which includes the following:

• 30 Minute Personalized Interview
• Questions Provided in Advance
• Your graphics and logo included in the video
• Call-to-Action Close with Your Contact Info
• Royalty Free Background Music included
• Review and Approval of Final Video
• Full Length Video included
• Short Promotional Video included
• Source Video File for both is Yours.

Link to Order Your Skype Video Interview

Social Media Marketing is being greatly impacted by Social Video, and our unique Skype Video Interview lets you get the benefit of being interviewed as a "Guest Expert" on the WorldClassTV Social Media Show.

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100,000,000 – that is the # of YouTube videos viewed per day- is your Small Business Video on that list?

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A recent survey of more than 3300 participants titled the State of Social Media Marketing found  that 77% of social media marketers plan to increase their focus on video marketing in 2012.

Social Media Marketing and Social Media Broadcasting provides New Lead Generation

As a demonstration of WorldClass Search Engine Marketing, we have created a network of "Squeeze Page Websites" which are designed to provide WorldClass Search Engine Ranking for a Primary Keyword. Each individual Squeeze Website has been designed to be search engine optimized for one primary keyword.

These are brand new websites without any history, no backlinks yet and are completely fresh from an SEO perspective. We will periodically update this report to show progress in terms of search engine ranking.

WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALMEDIAMARKETING.COM (keyword “social media marketing”)

WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALMEDIAMARKETINGAGENCY.COM (keyword “social media marketing agency”)

WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALMEDIAMARKETINGSERVICE.COM (keyword “social media marketing service”)

WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALMEDIAOPTIMIZATION.COM (keyword “social media optimization”)

WWW.SOCIAL-MEDIA-GURU.COM (keyword “social media guru”)

WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALNETWORKGURU.COM (keyword “social network guru”)

WWW.SOCIAL-MEDIA-BROADCASTING.COM (keyword “social media broadcasting”)

WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALMARKETINGAGENCY.COM (keyword “social marketing agency”)

WWW.SOCIALNETWORKBRANDMANAGEMENT.COM (keyword “social network brand management”)

WWW.AUTOMATED-SOCIAL-MEDIA.COM (keyword “automated social media”)

WWW.WORLDCLASSWEIGHTLOSS.COM (keyword "weight loss")

WWW.GOOGLOPOLY.COM (keyword "googlopoly")

WWW.SOCIALNETGURU.COM (keyword "social net guru")

WWW.WORLDCLASSWEBAGENCY.COM (keyword "worldclass web agency")

If you'd like to talk with us about building you a network of WorldClass Social Media Marketing Squeeze Websites, please call 866.347.3321

You can also send us an Email Inquiry

Social Media Lead Generation - Why You Need a Social Media Marketing Plan

Are You Getting All the Leads
You Want From Your Website?

The message of WorldClassID is simple:

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  We have identified your “pain point” (virtually invisible to search engines, nominal traffic = nominal leads)
  
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  We are your solution (complex solution with technical details attached to fix and maintain)
  
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  There is a substantial benefit/reward (fixing the problems means improved ranking, more traffic = more leads = more sales!)

We’ve got answers about why your website isn’t meeting your goals and how fixing those issues will help drive New Leads to your website. We have a proven track record of increasing website traffic and driving New Leads to websites, so we’re excited about giving you the information on which to make an informed decision about our comprehensive services which will (to partially quote FedEx) absolutely…positively…(but not overnight) bring your website New Leads.

Social Media Optimization Pricing Plan

Our website at www.WorldClassID.com does not require you to create an account. You can browse the entire site without registering, so please feel free to browse at your leisure. We encourage FREE registration which allows you to access additional functionality, but there’s no charge for registering.

The pricing information is located at http://www.worldclassid.com/page/subscribe-now and we have summarized our Pricing Plan here for our 3 Brand Packages.

The basic monthly packages we have available (and associated pricing) are:

The Brand Builder Package - good for most small business owners who will personally be writing their own content.	The Advanced Brand Package - for larger business owners with larger marketing presence and who have content writers.	The Premium Brand Package - the premiere solution for highly motivated business owners with a marketing team producing content.
BRAND BUILDER WORLDCLASSID $850	ADVANCED BRAND WORLDCLASSID $1700	PREMIUM BRAND WORLDCLASSID $3400
1 Domain Name (URL) 1 Branded Product/Service 4 Postings Per Month to 350+ Social Media Sites, including: Top Social Networking Sites Top Blog Sites Top Video Sharing Sites Top Social Bookmarking Sites Top Photo Sharing Sites Top Professional Sites Top Social PR Sites 20 Keywords Localized (geotag) Focus keyword selection subject to approval and adjusted per Pricing Matrix	1 Domain Name (URL) 1 Branded Product/Service 8 Postings Per Month to 350+ Social Media Sites, including: Top Social Networking Sites Top Blog Sites Top Video Sharing Sites Top Social Bookmarking Sites Top Photo Sharing Sites Top Professional Sites Top Social PR Sites 40 Keywords Localized (geotag) Focus keyword selection subject to approval and adjusted per Pricing Matrix	1 Domain Name (URL) 1 Branded Product/Service 16 Postings Per Month to 350+ Social Media Sites, including: Top Social Networking Sites Top Blog Sites Top Video Sharing Sites Top Social Bookmarking Sites Top Photo Sharing Sites Top Professional Sites Top Social PR Sites 80 Keywords Localized (geotag) Focus keyword selection subject to approval and adjusted per Pricing Matrix

WorldClassID is themost powerful thing in social network marketing today.

There is a video interview that I recently did at:

http://www.worldclassid.com/video/social-media-marketing

where we talk about the WorldClassID service in detail. The message is simple for business professionals looking for a meaningful impact to New Lead Development.

1. You need to have a social media marketing strategy which supports your search engine marketing.
2. That strategy MUST allow you to WRITE CONTENT ONCE and then have it PUBLISHED GLOBALLY to hundreds of social network websites.

Any social media strategy MUST do one of three things;

1. Save you Time
2. Save you Money
3. Make you Money

WorldClassID does all 3 for you!!!
This is a unique Social Media Optimization (SMO) Marketing subscription service (think of this like PRNewswire on steroids) providing the most technologically advanced automated social media content distribution service on the market. This revolutionary SMO service has forever changed the way internet marketing and search engine optimization will be done from here forward.

HERE'S THE SIMPLE REASONS YOU NEED TO SUBSCRIBE:

1. You write your CONTENT ONCE (you send us
your articles, press releases, news stories,
blog articles, video(s), photo(s), etc.)

2. We PUBLISH your content GLOBALLY an average
of 4 times a month to hundreds of social networking sites.

3. Your social media content is indexed by search engines,
increasing your presence, improving your search engine ranking
and generating new leads.

You would spend thousands of dollars per month doing this yourself or hiring a social media coordinator. Our value-added social media subscription pricing is simple, so;

Social Media Marketing and Social Media Broadcasting via Puppetheads

This is way too funny!!!

Social Media Gaining Popularity with Corporate Travel Professionals

Press Release Source: American Express Business Travel On Wednesday July 21, 2010, 9:34 am EDT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research by American Express Business Travel found that corporate travel professionals are increasingly using social media to communicate with travelers and to stay on top of latest travel industry information. Respondents also reported high expectations regarding their companies’ future social media usage plan, reporting that within the next year forums, webcasts, and online video are the most likely to be implemented by businesses.

The latest research report “Social Media in Business Travel Management” by American Express Business Travel’s eXpert insights research practice outlines the evolution of social media tools and sites from consumer use to business-to-business use, and illustrates how social media supports managed business travel today. The research also includes survey results conducted in the beginning of 2010 to reveal how individuals as well as their companies are currently embracing social media technology and how they might use these tools to support managed travel in the future.

“As businesses around the globe alter the way they communicate and receive information from clients and prospects, social media has also proven to be a useful and effective tool to share pertinent information with employees and drive change in organizations,” said Christa Degnan Manning, director, eXpert insights, American Express Business Travel.

“Applying this research to the social networking platform we’ve launched, BusinessTravelConneXion, it is encouraging to see corporate travel departments becoming more comfortable with this form of collaboration,” said Alicia Tillman, vice president, corporate affairs and marketing services, American Express Business Travel. “We will continue to provide a free forum to share ideas, connect community members, and offer webcasts, videos and blogs to meet the demand for industry information and connection entrepreneurial travel category managers are looking for today.”

Social Media Finds a Role in Corporate Travel

Social media has evolved to play a role in business travel programs. While half (50%) of respondents said that they use social media to some extent to support travel management today, mid-size companies ($3M to $10M USD in air volume) were the largest adopters (59%) of social media to support business travel management to date.

Many respondents indicated that the primary benefit of social media in supporting managed travel is educating themselves or their organization about the market. In fact, 44 percent indicated that staying on top of the latest travel information was the most important social media benefit. This response was followed closely by the interest in using social networking to learn and communicate best practices and reduce business travel costs (43%). Other findings include:


42% use social networking to look for preferred vendors and services from travelers
34% seek to uncover travel patterns that could lend to better vendor rates and services
27% look to gain visibility into traditionally siloed business functions/departments
26% use social media tools to encourage travelers to network with each other
18% network with other travel manager/procurement officer peers

Customization and Oversight Desired For Expanded Social Media Use

Of those survey respondents who do use social media to support travel management, when asked specifically what features or functionality would they add if they could design their own social media tools for professional use, the majority (61%) indicated they wanted flexibility to accommodate business travel management processes. Other top ranking features/functionality include:


Real time updates such as mobile application, the ability to push out notifications and alerts (39%)
Supervision of the entire social media sharing process and specific monitoring of those who are using social media tools (35%)
Reporting ability – notification to website abuse, comments and security issues (29%)

Corporations Apprehensive About Implementing Social Media Tools

Even though the global economic crisis curbed spending, financing was not the main social networking adoption barrier. In fact, only six percent of respondents cited lack of funding as the most significant barrier or challenge to adopt social media tools.

The most significant barrier to adoption of social media as an organization has been the lack of direct benefits realization. Twenty percent found the business case for social media tools and usage within travel management programs unclear. Lack of strategy or understanding and lack of support from upper management each followed at 15 percent respectively.

Notably, only five percent of respondents indicated that they have had no barriers or challenges to adopt social media tools as an organization.

“While companies have a way to go to embrace widespread social media acceptance, they are very involved in evaluating how to use these new technologies rather than simply dismissing it particularly as younger generations enter the workforce and move up the corporate ladder,” continued Manning.

American Express Business Travel’s own www.businesstravelconneXion.com (btX) is an online community serving as the destination for travel professionals to become more informed about travel and expense programs by learning from peers and experts. Community members including travel buyers, suppliers, technology providers, industry experts and influencers, use btX to discuss perspectives, share best practices, build relationships and stay up to date on current research and industry news. The site has grown into a community with an approximate 8,500 user base where thousands of members have participated in online events such as webinars on how to recession proof travel programs, how to adapt to the “New Normal” of business travel, building a strategic meetings management program along with volcanic ash emergency tutorials. Regularly established bloggers from the industry have also prompted hundreds viewing the sites’ blog each month.

About American Express Business Travel

American Express Business Travel (www.americanexpress.com/businesstravel), a division of American Express Company, is committed to helping its clients maximize the return on their travel investment through increased cost savings, world-class customer service and greater spending control. With clients ranging from small businesses to multinational corporations, American Express Business Travel provides a combination of industry-leading technology, travel management consulting, strategic sourcing and supplier negotiation support, alongside global customer service available online and offline. The Company also provides a dynamic online community (www.businesstravelconneXion.com) harnessing the collective intelligence of those in the business travel industry offering a variety of perspectives, best practices, current research and industry news.

American Express operates one of the world’s largest travel agency networks with locations in over 140 countries worldwide. Total travel sales volume in 2009 was $21.5 billion, including proprietary volume, volume processed through joint ventures, and American Express branded volume processed through its partner network.

American Express Company is a global services company, providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success.

To Learn more about using Automated Social Media Marketing for your business, go to WorldClassID Social Media Optimization.

What is Social Media Marketing and How Can I Drive New Leads Using Social Media?

The internet is where people now go to get information on products, services, businesses, locations, directions, etc. The internet is also where people are talking to each other about all of these things.


Social media is the communication between both individuals and groups – in all kinds of ways – all over the world wide web. The social sites that we use to engage in conversations are our marketing tools. Tools will come and go, but this advertising and marketing method is here to stay. Remember that the internet is still very young, and every day new people are getting access.

Social media is an opportunity for people to talk directly with major brands in a way that was never available before. And small businesses can use social media exactly the way much larger businesses are doing – right now there is nothing to hold any business back from participating.

The cost of social media is measured more in terms of time than it is in dollars. In order to effectively join this new way to market a business, and have success with it, there has to be a consistent and sincere effort to engage on the popular social networking sites as well as industry specific locations.

Advertising and marketing is no longer about pushing out a message, in the form of an advertisement, to a general crowd or even a targeted market. People do not want to be ‘sold to’ anymore. Prospective buyers want information, referrals, testimonies, and conversation about a brand, service, or products.

Social media is about attracting a crowd, pulling them in to your message, by engaging them in conversation, posting valuable (helpful) content online, entertaining, educating, enlightening their market.

And it’s not only enough to provide this great content. The other part of Social Media is the marketing of the message: Social Media Marketing. Helping the content to be seen to an even wider audience is achieved by consistent efforts to market the messages in strategic (non-selling) ways.

Promoting your business online using online social channels can include answering questions, listening to concerns, establishing relationships, asking for feedback, and building brand awareness. The most effective way to utilize social media marketing is to constantly be in touch with the conversation that is already happening about your brand, and responding to it in a sincere way.

There are multiple returns for social media marketing efforts. In addition to achieving a wider reach for your content that results in more visits to your website, there are search engine optimization benefits. Social media sites are now receiving top search engine listings so that even more people find your business when going to Google and other search engines to find your product or service.

So there is a plan for Social Media and there is a plan for Social Media Marketing. Both plans should be worked on a daily basis. There are optimal ways to do each, and we plan to cover that here on this blog.

Takeaway: Social Media is sharing information online. A business can participate by posting content in all kinds of creative ways to engage new people to the product or service that is represented – not to sell, but to use the social space on the internet to facilitate communication that will lead to sales.

To learn more about how to take advantage of automated social media broadcasting go to http://www.worldclassid.com/.

Neo in the Social Media Marketing Matrix

I’ve written previously about the current economic times in which we find ourselves, and uncertain times like these drive me into a big picture, naturally reflective state – “What does this mean for me?” “What should I do with this information?” “What do I value most personally?” and “Is social media turning us into the Matrix?”

One of my all-time favorite movie trilogies is the Matrix. My number one all-time favorite is Blade Runner, but I’ll save the analogy to that movie for another day. In the Matrix all humans “live” plugged in to the outside world through cocoons that facilitate all of their interactions electronically. They see, talk, hear, feel, taste, etc through nasty cable connector plugs that connect to their brain through the back of their head. No physical interaction is necessary; it’s all done electronically.

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Neo in the Social Media Marketing Matrix.

I first noticed the Matrix at the airport and on the M in Washington, D.C. Everyone was plugged into their iPods or their laptop, no talking, no looks, just zombie-style existence moving through the day. Everyone is in the same place but very much alone.

The Matrix also lives on planes, trains and automobiles, where individuals text, IM, surf the web, and talk on their phones. No face-to-face interaction, only electronic communication.

The Matrix is also disturbingly showing up in the classroom. It’s no secret that many (most?) students are on Facebook, Google Chat, Twitter, and email consistently during classes, including during the middle of lectures by professors in college.

My kids have grown up in a world where they didn’t know the Internet didn’t exist before. They have grown up in a wired world with a multi-tasking perspective that is all about connections. Technology by itself isn’t necessarily a good thing or a bad thing; it’s how it’s used that determines good or bad, so I’m just providing some observations about impacts I’m seeing. I think we can safely say that social media has increased the ability of all of us to be, well – social – at least electronically, but with networks much more diverse than we were able to maintain before.

But what price do we pay for social media? Is social media decreasing our ability and comfort with communicating physically, through face to face interaction? After all, when Neo emerged from the Matrix, his body was weak, he had to heal and build strength before he could survive in the real world!

While I’ve been amazed at the amount of interaction that an individual can maintain through social media, I’ve been slightly underwhelmed by their ability to translate that electronic interaction into physical interaction. Furthermore, the decline in effective communication skills and ability to deal with confrontation, conflict resolution and relationship building is an alarming trend that does not bode well for the future of my Digital Youth.

No one talks to each other at the gym or on the bus. In the real world, people might Google Chat about life issues, but not ask questions verbally. I’ve seen individuals in group settings who remained silent during group meetings only to unload all their thoughts in a brain dump email after the meeting was over. A number of folks even question the value of meeting face-to-face period, saying “we can all just figure it out through email.”

I think it is an easily drawn conclusion that the more you use social media, the more comfortable – and reliant – you become on it as a means of communication. We all know it’s tough to introduce yourself to someone face to face, and it seems that my Digital Youth are practicing that interaction less and less.

I spent some time researching this topic (or at least as much as could be expected from someone who is graduating in eight days) but was unable to find a direct answer to my question. There are a number of articles posted on both the perils of social media usage in the classroom, and the potential benefits. One article proclaims that continuous connection to electronic devices is killing face-to-face interaction, while another suggests it could actually create dissociative disorder. I found a couple of people asking the same question, one from his video blog, and another who realized he was being unsocial while on his computer during a Superbowl party. There is even a survey trying to figure out the answer!

So the ultimate paradox is that I’m using social media to both vent and pose the questions. Social media is supposedly all about dialogue and creating conversations. So…is social media turning us into the Matrix? As electronic communication facilitates more and more of our daily interactions, will it decrease our real world ability to connect face to face, or at the very minimum, devalue face to face interaction?

Automated Social Media Marketing Service presented on The Wellness Hour by Randy Alvarez

Automated Social Media Marketing Service highlighted in Video Interview

How do you get on the first page of Google? On this weeks report, I interview the C.E.O of WorldClassID. He is an expert on the topic of social media marketing. If you are considering or want to know more about social media marketing. You have to watch this weeks report.



New Automated Social Media Marketing Service, WorldClassID, Takes Industry By Storm

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There is absolutely no doubt that automated social media marketing, also known as social marketing, is one of the fastest growing powerhouses on the planet. Automated social media marketing is assisting with getting your branded message out to the SocialSphere pronto, on a daily basis if you want it that frequently. No matter where in the world clients and businesses are located, you're going to want to reach them using an automated social media marketing service and WorldClassID is the ONLY solution actually delivering!

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Top Social Media Marketing Agencies

Top Social Media Agencies

A Recent Article by Jason Keith of
http://jasonkeath.com

September 21, 2009

In the last month I have had 6 separate conversations
with peers surrounding the question “What is a social
media agency?”

There are several types of
social media companies out there. Some are research
focused, or software heavy, or app developers, or
monitoring services. Some are purely extending the PR
battle plan to a new medium.

The social media agency is one that can grasp all
these segments and help companies extend their brand and
marketing through training, long term strategy, and
execution.

For the purpose of this list, I have focused on
companies who mostly do social media. There are many
companies making social media a piece of what they
offer. These companies are the top ones focusing on
social media.

As
Armano points out “What
McKinsey would offer in SM would be very different than
Crayon”. Since almost every company would almost be it’s
own category, I am avoiding the categories for now.
Perhaps in future lists we can add some delineation.

Advanced Guardof CC Chapman fame.
Acquired by
Campfire, which may not fall into our criteria of a
“social media agency” but now has some major talent in
the arena.


Altimeter Group,
of Charlene Li and
more recently Jeremiah Owyang fame, “provides
thought leadership, research, and consulting on digital
strategies, with a core focus on how companies can
leverage social and emerging technologies.”

Ant’s Eye View “At Ant’s Eye View we
concentrate on helping companies of all sizes understand
and engage in customer collaboration, social media, and
community building.” Clients include Apple, Microsoft,
Cisco, Dr Pepper, and Maker’s Mark. [added per @TShelton]

The Conversation Group “The Conversation
Group is a global consultancy broadly dedicated to the
art, science, and practical application of social
technologies. We’re enabling organizations around the
world to radically scale their ability to discover,
engage and collaborate with their constituencies, both
inside and outside the enterprise.” [added per @PeterKim]

>carrot creative “is a new-media marketing
agency located in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY specializing in
social media marketing and user experience design. We
have the unique ability to take a project from the
initial ideation stages to full scale application
development all under one roof.”

Collective Bias “The Wisdom of Connected
Crowds – this is CollectiveBias, a partnership between
us, consumers, brands, & retailers.” CollectiveBias,
of John Andrews, @GeekMommy and Walmart Moms fame,
is a
new social media company
underneath the MARS Advertising umbrella.

Crayon,
of Joseph Jaffe fame, “is
a strategic consultancy that helps its clients achieve
positive change and impact by joining the conversation.”

Dachis Group, of Jeff Dachis, Peter
Kim, and David Armano fame, “was
created to unlock the value of social technologies for
large corporate enterprises through its Social Business
Design global advisory practice and technology
implementation program.” Dachis has
$50 million in funding from Austin Ventures and
recently purchased London/Sydney based
Headshift.

Ignite is “the Original Social Media Agency
®. We’ve combined content developers, technologists, and
social media strategists to form the Ignite team.
Together, we keep up with trends, filter the noise, and
help companies like yours put social media to work.”

the Kbuzz “is a Word of Mouth Marketing
firm that creates and sustains buzz through word of
mouth and social media marketing.”

New Marketing Labs,
of Chris Brogan and Justin Levy fame, “is dedicated to
solving your online marketing and social media
challenges. They approach this in two ways, events and
education (see
Inbound Marketing Summit) and through guiding you
and pitching in as a social media marketing agency.”

Mullen “is a social media agency rooted in
strategy, public relations and a belief that creativity
is as important as community. Social agency of record
for Panera, Olympus, Grain Foods Foundation, Stanley,
Stop and Shop and others.”

Shift Communications“is a fast-growing,
national agency that lives at the intersection of
Influencer Relations & Social Media. We measure our
performance according to the impact that we have on
driving your business forward.”

Social Media Group “Highly respected
independent social media shop, delivering results as
Ford’s social media agency since 2007, clients include
SAP, Yamaha, ING & govt. One of the world’s largest
independent agencies devoted exclusively to helping
companies navigate the new socially engaged web.”

Undercurrent “is a think tank based in NYC
that provides digitally-focused strategic planning,
ideation, measurement, training, and advisement to
global brands ready to engage a new generation of human
beings that were born digital.” Clients include Pepsi
and Ford.”

We Are Social is “a conversation agency. We
help brands to listen, understand and engage in
conversations in social media. We’re already helping
Ford, Skype, Eurostar, The Economist, Absolut, Dunlop,
Barclaycard and the WWF.”

Deloitte, McKinsey, Ogilvy’s
360 Digital Influence, and Porter Novelli
are also in the space. Not sure any of them would pass
the “mostly social media” standard, but I felt the need
to include them in the discussion. They are all
contributing to what a “social media agency” is evolving
into.

Also, Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group has a
great Wiki going with more information if you want
to dive in deeper.

List of Social Networking Websites

So if you have limited time and limited money to
invest in a social networking strategy, where do you
go?  We have compiled an ever growing list of social
websites, so please go to the following links to see the
entire list with URL links:

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Top 10 Social Networking Websites

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Top 10 Social Blogging Websites

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Top 10 Social Video Sharing Websites

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Top 10 Social Bookmarking Websites

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Top 10 Social Photo Sharing Websites

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Top 10 Social Professional Networking Websites

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Top 10 Social Press Release Websites

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Top 10 Social Article Posting Websites

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Top 10 Social Music Sharing Websites

The challenge is the idea that you can limit your social
marketing strategy in any way.  Even if you decide to
limit your strategy to just the Top 10 websites in each
of the 9 categories listed above (remember, there are
over 350+ in total) that means you’re looking at 90
social memberships!  If you believe that having a
strategic social networking plan is a valuable
investment, then you should also understand that having
a presence in ALL the social websites is important. 
Why? Because there are potential customers, potential
eyeballs who are in social networks other than the Top
10 who you’re not going to reach if you don’t show up in
the other social networks.

Social Networking Software Service (SnsS) – an obvious
solution

The old adage of work smarter not harder seems obvious. 
The only way to work smarter and have a reasonable
solution to managing hundreds of social networks is
through an automated software solution.  That is the
essence of what WorldClassID is and does.  It is a
technology solution which takes the manual and highly
complicated process out of the equation and creates a
repeatable, scalable solution for dealing with hundreds
of social networking sites.

About WorldClass Brand Management and WorldClassID

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technologies which are even more efficient at reaching a
target social network audience than any single method of
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