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22:48:12 11/11/11
Marketing Update:Social Objects & Marketing with @GapingVoid
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Episode #174 - November 11th, 2011 Intro How to interact on Twtter: Include #HubSpotTV in your tweet! On the show today is Mike Volpe (@mvolpe), Karen Rubin (@KarenRubin) and special guest Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid) As always, all the old episodes are in iTunes. If you like the show, please leave a 5-star review! Anyone is welcome to come by the show to watch as part of the live studio audience - 4pm Friday Special Guest: Hugh MacLeod Your Twitter bio says you are a "Cartoonist, bestselling author and marketing apostate." I had to go look up apostate and it's defined as "a person who abandons his religion, party, or cause." So have you abandoned marketing? Tell us about social objects? what is a social object and how do they relate to social networks? How should marketers think about social objects? Marketing Automation: Doing It Right http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-automation-examples/bid/28757/Great-Marketing-Automation-Ontolo-s-New-Version-Announcement I've been doing a poor job of giving you what you really, truly need as a link builder. For some reason, I thought I knew what you wanted better than you did. Because of that, we've built some of the most complex link building tools in the industry. In this letter (reprinted in part uncensored with their permission), the CEO of Ontolo, Ben Wills, apologizes for having led their product in a bad direction over their last version and explains the thought process and decisions that spurred the newest version of their product, which they are releasing next week. Ben ends the letter with a note that he will be sending a follow-up email with more product specific information on Friday morning to follow up, and thanks the community for being involved. The email never directly asks for anything except the reader's forgiveness for being subjected to sub-par software. They used this letter in other channels besides email, by publishing it on their blog and social media accounts as well. Ben sets clear expectations for his follow-up - After sending this message on Wednesday, he notes that you'll receive another email on Friday with more information about the next version of their product. On Friday morning when the next email went out, the people who received it were excited to do so: Ontolo had built up some suspense and excitement for the next version of their software. Imagine if your leads were actually EXCITED to receive their next piece of email marketing from you. Marketing Takeaway: You don't have to kill kittens when you automate your marketing efforts. Headlines Vsnap Celebrate our Vetrans http://vthankyou.com/ http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2011/10/30/south-boston-start-arranges-social-media-tribute-veterans/5aexQZLtAAcAkTnOsglb0N/story.html Vsnap allows users to exchange brief video messages and attachments. The company, which is planning to launch a beta site in mid-November, is hoping to take advantage of the increasing capability of smartphones and computers to record and send video easily. started brainstorming about how it could be used to pay tribute to American veterans on Veterans Day, Nov. 11 and came up with the Vthankyou Each video message posted on the group’s Twitter and Facebook sites will unlock a $1 donation to the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization that creates programs to help injured members of the military. Seen an increase from 10-100 impressions up to 500 impressions per post on Facebook. Having trouble measuring Twitter, since not everyone uses the hashtag, however impressions have have ranged from 6,000 towards the beginning of the campaign last week to 57,000 over the past couple days or so. Vsnap.com is seeing about 54% new visitors 46% returning with an average site time 5+ minutes. Coverage in the Globe, Boston Magazine, BostInno as well as others. Marketing Takeaway: Create unique social objects FTW! Google+ Launches Business Pages http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/28618/Google-Finally-Launches-Business-Pages.aspx Google+ Pages have a similar look and feel to Facebook Pages, allowing businesses to leverage the social network to connect with their audience, spread their messages, promote their content, and generate leads. http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/28624/How-to-Create-a-Google-Business-Page-in-5-Simple-Steps.aspx With a network of more than 40 million members, Google+ is indeed deserving of your marketing attention, so smart marketers should set up their Google+ Pages as soon as possible. Avoid creating your business page through just any old account, such as a personal gmail account. Instead, choose a gmail account that is accessible to multiple members of your marketing team (e.g. companymarketingteam@gmail.com), and use that account to create your page. Promoting a blank page isn't a great way to convince people that your Page is valuable enough to add to their Circles. So invest some time into optimizing your page and sharing a few links to valuable content before you start promoting it to the masses. Marketing Takeaway: Haven't set up your Google+ Business page? What are you waiting for?!?! Google Launches Think Insights for Marketers http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2011/11/googles-think-insights-gives-marketers-plenty-to-think-about.html As if there wasn’t enough data flying around these days now Google has opened up a veritable information maniac’s fantasy land with their just out of beta Think Insights offering. Some things you can find on Think Insights Based on search history, consumer demand for pretzels peaks in what month of the year? How much (in $) does search add to the world’s GDP? In 2011, what percent of people dreamed and brainstormed about their next vacation? What percent of the daily queries on Google.com have never been seen before? A mobile example, 85% of mobile devices will be web enabled by next year. Mobile search has grown 4x in the past year. 1 in 3 mobile searches have local intent. 30% of restaurant searches are from mobile devices. Followed by related studies, articles, tools, videos & infographics Marketing Takeaway: Find interesting data and share it with everyone! Marketing Tip of the Week
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10:28:25 08/24/10
Free! Fan Page Tool Video 2
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FREE! "Fan-Page Tool"- Video 2 -You Can Start Using Today - To Get Thousands of Leads AND Fans on Facebook! http://FarhadBillimoria.com/free-fanpage-tool/ how to leverage paid social media traffic to generate more leads for your business.
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10:19:29 08/24/10
Free! Fan Page Tool
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FREE! “Fan-Page Tool” - You Can Start Using Today - To Get Thousands of Leads AND Fans on Facebook! http://FarhadBillimoria.com/free-fanpage-tool/ I will show you how to leverage paid social media traffic to generate more leads for your business.
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16:53:00 01/10/10
Plant A Million Trees By Surfing the Web - Mokugift
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Nerd Stalker interview with co-founder Hans Chung of Mokugift at a recent Failcon conference in San Francisco.
http://www.mokugift.com/ About mokugift
Our Mission
* To create fun and meaningful gift experiences that benefit the environment.
Our name
Definition: mokugift [mōe-koo gift]
* moku means "tree" in Japanese.
* moku means "island" in Hawaiian.
Our mission
Our mission is to foster environmental solidarity by making it easy and rewarding for anyone to fight climate change and by providing the tools to inspire others to do the same. Mokugift makes it possible for concerned citizens, even those lacking access to planting space, to plant real trees for $1 apiece, either for themselves or as gifts to others. Gifting a mokugift tree is similar to sending an e-card, and recipients can display their trees online at Facebook, MySpace, MyYahoo, iGoogle and other popular Web sites. Award-winning nonprofit organizations specializing in agroforestry project—which restore depleted lands and boost the agricultural productivity and incomes of indigenous peoples in some of the poorest parts of the world—plant the actual trees purchased via mokugift.
Why trees?
Trees and forests help regulate the climate by absorbing heat-trapping carbon gasses, and there's a growing consensus that tree planting in tropical latitudes is one of the most efficient way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. On average, each tree planted in the humid tropics absorbs 50 pounds of carbon dioxide every year for at least 40 years, amounting to one ton over the course of the tree's lifetime.
In addition, although the majority of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere comes from burning fossil fuels, unsustainable, slash-and-burn agriculture and other poor land-management practices have resulted in forestry itself becoming a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions. Restoring tree cover through agroforestry programs, and ensuring that local communities receive a fair share of the benefits, is the most effective long-term approach to the problems of deforestation and land degradation.
Our platform
Mokugift is not just a Web site for planting/"gifting" trees but also a platform that enables individuals to inspire others to plant trees. Visual and interactive elements make receiving a mokugift tree fun, uplifting and memorable. Businesses and nonprofits can also leverage this technology to reward and motivate customers, donors or employees. As an eco-reward, mokugift is a great way to motivate up-sells and tap into growing environmental awareness and interest in sustainable lifestyles.
Mokugift provides personal Web pages (Tree Islands) that track and display tree-planting achievements. As individuals plant trees themselves or "gift" trees to friends and associates (who in turn receive their own Tree Islands), the system tracks how inspiration spreads from one person to another. You receive recognition not only for the trees you've planted but also for those planted by your friends and their inspired friends (3 degrees). You can see the total number of people you've inspired and the total number of trees planted by them. You can also see which friends you've inspired and their individual achievements. Active promoters of tree planting are rewarded with free tree planting.
Mokugift is an excellent fit for companies looking to reinforce a brand's environmental equity and reward customers for making environmentally responsible choices. To learn more about how businesses and institutions can use mokugift for rewards and incentive programs, click here .
Mokugift provides a fast and easy fundraising option for schools, religious groups and non-profits. Your members can promote tree planting online in support of your organization and mokugift takes care of all order taking and processing. Your organization will receive 50% of all proceeds. Focusing on online promotion makes it easier and more effective for your members.
Partnerships
Mokugift is an official partner of the United Nations Environment Programme's "Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign. Launched at the Climate Convention meeting in Nairobi in 2006, the campaign originally set a goal of planting one billion trees but has since issued a new target of seven billion trees—roughly one tree for every living person on the planet.
"We are honored to partner with mokugift as part of the UNEP Billion Tree Campaign. Mokugift is taking creative approaches with its online gifting service and iPhone application to help the Billion Tree Campaign achieve a target of seven billion trees. In the spirit of the Billion Tree Campaign, mokugift empowers ordinary people to be part of the solution." — Satinder Bindra, Director, United Nations Environment Programme
Mokugift seeks to expand distribution through partnerships with relevant sites and services. We have, for instance, partnered with eBase Solutions in a joint venture to bring mokugift to Japan (mokugift.jp). Please contact us about partnerships via our contact form, and we will get back to you promptly.
Artists & Athletes Program
The idea: to inform, inspire and empower fans to plant trees in support of UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign. By visiting Artist & Athlete Tree Islands on mokugift.com, fans can plant trees and send a message to the artist or athlete. Anyone planting a tree with a participating artist or athlete can see their message posted on the Tree Island, along with the number of trees they've planted. For their part, artists and athletes can build goodwill by offering to plant a tree for each tree they receive as a gift. To help generate awareness, mokugift is approaching media companies for PSA ad spots and encouraging interested artists and athletes to participate in the spots and assist with outreach.
News
Please refer to our blog for the latest news about mokugift: mokugift.blogspot.com
Participate
Mokugift's affiliate program offers rich media ads that are engaging and stylistically consistent with our Web site. To join our affiliate network, click here .
Founders
Mokugift co-founders Hans Chung (Idea Guy) and Krates Ng (Build-It Guy) are high school friends who both gravitated to the San Francisco Bay area's technology sector. The selling of "virtual gifts"—teddy bears on Facebook, roses on dating sites—sparked the idea for mokugift. Why not have virtual tree gifts represent real trees planted in places fighting deforestation?
Their pursuit of online tree "gifting" coincided with a growing awareness that climate change was no longer just an abstract scientific and public-policy topic, but also a lifestyle issue calling for tangible action on the part of ordinary people everywhere. In researching agroforestry and prospective tree-planting partners, they realized that planting trees not only benefits the environment (by absorbing greenhouse gas emissions) but also can serve as a foundation for sustainable economic development for communities that have been adversely affected by poor land-management practices. Conceived as a social venture focused on customer experience, profit and tangible, positive benefit to the environment and society, mokugift launched on November 20, 2007.
Prior to mokugift, Hans founded CrispAds, a blog advertising network that wound up being acquired by a lead-generation company. He also worked at consulting firms such as The McKenna Group, as a strategy consultant for technologies companies including Japan's NTT. Hobbies: martial arts, cooking, furniture design. Residing in San Francisco's SOMA District, Hans has been on a mission to reduce his apartment's power consumption. He takes public transportation to work and the gym, and shops for local groceries at the farmers' market and Mission District grocery stores.
Krates is a typical startup engineer, preferring to join a team early on. Prior to mokugift, he was with a real-time computer server monitoring company, Wily Technologies, which was acquired by Computer Associates. Before that, he was an engineer at Andromedia (acquired by Macromedia, which, in turn, was acquired by Adobe). Hobbies: ice hockey, triathlon, cooking, scuba and travel. Krates lives with his wife and cats in the San Francisco Bay area, drives a Honda Civic Hybrid, eats less meat than before, recycles everything he can, and shops for local groceries at the farmers' market.




