Thoughts on Yuwie Paid Social Networking

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Aug 172008
 

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I recently signed up for yet another social networking account through one of our clients sub accounts called Yuwie.  In addition to all the standard features of making friends and sharing photos this one had a nice catch.  It pays you.  That’s right it pays you for being social, so I decided to try it out and note my thoughts at different points in the setup process.  It’s bit of a rant, but may hold some interesting observations on this up and coming social network.

To begin this adventure, I went to the site via an affiliate link (http://r.yuwie.com/anthonym ) and proceeded to watch a video giving a nice pitch on how you get paid to do social networking.  It was simply, but decently convincing (Can you really get paid for playing around on the Internet, Yes).  That one make me smile, even though statistically I’m unlikely to make very much money, but you never know, if I got popular enough (hence the draw). Continue reading »

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Guerilla Marketing Correspondence for an Online Movie

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Sep 302007
 

I’m looking forward to reading the script for (MOVIE TITLE REMOVED FOR PRIVACY)  I’ve been playing around with some great marketing ideas and I definitely can get (MOVIE TITLE REMOVED FOR PRIVACY) in the MSM (main stream media) with a little hard work and a lot of spin.I’d like to set a goal of getting at LEAST 2 million people to watch the movie in the first year, with an eventually market penetration of 10 million+ (more then the average Hollywood movie). I have Youtube videos with 1-2 million views already, so this is should be easy.  I want to literarily putt (move title removed) on the top 100 most downloaded movies of all time (on bitorrent networks across the world) and break into the blogosphere in multiple languages.  Just wait till you read articles about yourself in Russian, Spanish, Slovakian, Arabic, Japanese, Italian etc – it’s pretty amazing what viral marketing and the power of the Internet achieve when done correctly.

Getting something on paper is must before I start any of my real work, but we’ll have to meet in person and hammer out the details.  Step 1, you need to show me the script and give me timelines of when you’ll be finished etc.  I’ll take those and write something up giving the details of our arrangement, including the financial pay offs for you and the distribution of the film.  I need to know how much money you want within the first 3 months.  After the viral campaign starts really kicking in I’ll be able to send you a check for a few thousand dollars per month (from the online advertising revenue etc). The first few months will be a bit bleakers until the word really starts spiraling through the blogosphere and I can get the viewers in the range of 100,000 per week.  I’m going to try to pre-sell some advertising in the movie itself before the release. 

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Link Baiting Advice to Rank for Public Relations

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Sep 302007
 

The amount of links required to rank in the top 5 on Yahoo or just on the first page on Google for “public relations”  is in the thousands, which is why the first five results are mainly large portals, public relations society’s or content publishing sites like encyclopedias or news sites.  SEO involves outdoing the other people ranking for those same terms.  For rankings that high you’ll need a strategy above regular link building / promotion / regular SEO efforts – One of the following could be successful  

  1. Create “link bait” or  something ( web tool, service, guide, set of articles) valuable enough to  and encourages hundreds of other websites to link to you voluntarily.
  2. Publish a large amount of updated information (if you updated your blog daily for a long enough period of time you would have published enough information to obtain the required number of links with regular SEO efforts.)

Doing that will involve a lot of work and creativity.  If anyone reading this is interested I can help with a plan of attack if you’re willing to be that aggressive with your SEO efforts. 

 

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