The above is an example of how we use our site at UpLog.org to do article marketing for clients like this  Hotel Motel Listing Service in Boerne Texas

Enterprise level social media communities can be easily and quickly created in 2012 using WordPress and the new plugin we created:

The free version of the plugin can be downloaded here for free at WordPress ,  or from your WordPress dashboard...the pro version is a $20 per year subscription with additional features and it builds  taxonomies and cleans up MapPress databases automatically here: MapNavigator Plugin for WordPress – US Upgrade Taxonomy

MapNavigator Features

• Creates  a Hierarchy of Posts to support navigation of a  geographical region
• Customizes the MapPress Google Maps,  Mashups and Map Markers with your organization’s
• Name or Title
• Website Link
• Image  Link
• Icon from a list of icons supplied by MapPress or a custom icon placed into the MapPress icon directory
• Creates a Map Taxonomy that provides easy categorization of a Post by geographical location
• Provides the ability to add any post to your Map Navigation hierarchy without coding any complex MapPress parameters.
• Provides a customized WP-Affiliate Registration script that will place your new affiliate on the appropriate Map in your Map Navigation hierarchy
• Map Navigational Hierarchy is defined in CSV file format; example provided with instructions on customization
• MapNavigator USA includes pre-made map navigation file for USA and includes 1 year of support ($20)
• MapNavigator includes several customizations to the MapPress plugin to address limitations and enhancements that provide the above functionality
• Provides Option to Cleanup MapPress database tables of “Orphaned” Maps
• Provides Option to Link all previously created Posts with Maps into the MapNavigator Hierarchy.

We can also do a customized, elaborate setup for you:

Uplog clone

White Label

WPMU+BuddyPress Custom Social Network setup and design – adds Multi-site WPMU, and our custom code which creates a custom GUI using Google maps and feeds the maps as a revenue model to the above

 info@uplog.org

Such a setup is ideal for a multi-location company of any kind:

• Legal
• Accounting
• Industrial
• Consulting
• Services
• Advertising
• Media

Any company needing to navigate and rank multiple locations and to add each location also in a search friendly way to Google Maps and the search engines.

2012 WordPress, Enterprise Level Social Network, Google Maps Navigation,    Legal     Accounting,Industrial,Consulting,Services, Advertising,Media

The more resources that Broker spends on promotion, staying ahead of the curve, online marketing, and advertising in general – and the more experience int eh area and profession that Broker has, the better qualified that person is to help you, to advise you, and to buy and sell Real Estate with clients.

One way for a new or younger realtor to establish a value statement is to be more high-tech, forward thinking, and creative that their experienced, established competition.

However, a Broker with many years of experience is always better if you can find one who also has high tech skills and is forward thinking.

One way to establish yourself as that person, eve n if you are busy and behind in your skills, is to be come the local Radio, Newspaper, and TV Station with nothing but a well optimized blog fro $179.00 per year at uplog.org!

Enter: San Antonio Community News and links sponsored by your local Realtor and foreclosure exper you!

Our new sponsor of the San Antonio Community News and Google maps, Michelle Doerr, is an expert marketer and Real Estate consultant in San Antonio, and now she sponsors the San Antonio Community News and Links!

This is the way we feed, promote and rank on Google and Google maps a Realtor for each town and sell advertising to other local business – advertising that can actually create positive cash-flow for the advertiser in addition to sales, links and a better listing presentation!

In the  seldom quoted and controversial book of Revelations, this scripture, in almost every translation of what some call “the living word”, seems to encourage “zeal” as apposed to political hedging as a strategy for spreading the truth.

I am here to tell you that this is still excellent advice for marketing today in the “Book of Life” – otherwise known as social media!

Here are some numbers I found this morning: look at this article from the Christian Post quoting Reed and others…

The FFC reports that 29 percent of the conservative movement are evangelical Christians. These evangelicals reside in Southern and Midwestern states, research shows. Reed also said of these evangelicals, “They are the majority of the Tea Party movement.”

Public Opinion Strategies polls found that Tea Party members made up 27 percent of the electorate. Just over half of all self-ascribed Tea Party members identified themselves as conservative evangelicals. Yet, Reed says the reverse is also true: Two-thirds of conservatives also align themselves with the Tea Party.

“These movements are inexplicably intertwined, and there is an enormous amount of overlap,” explained Reed.

Reed says, with numbers like these, “these voters cannot be ignored.”

“Either party ignores them or opposes them at their peril at the ballot box,” he reiterated.

It was Democrats who were put in danger Tuesday night. That night the majority of evangelicals, Tea Party members and mass-attending Catholics voted Republican.”

Have you been told that business, politics and religion do not mix?  Think again: here are the real numbers:

• Probable online response to no-opinion position articles and posts: less that 1%, if any.
• Probable online response to ANY opinion – 5% or more!

Wake up!  Satan wants to neuter you!  God wants you to be heard, to think, to create – to have a voice, to use it, to learn from the response!  Welcome to the proverbial “Book of Life!”  (Otherwise known as Social Media)

Original article:

2012 Statistics Politics, Religion and Social Media Marketing

“Wow! Look at all that nu-plowed ground!”

2012 Local Internet Real Estate – the new Homesteading Business Opportunity | 2012 Rothman Guide

Google’s maps are almost completely empty! They opened up the API months ago to get us to feed them, and almost no apps have been written, no revenue models created; no good local groups formed to feed Google from the grass roots! Everybody from Realtor.com to the most obscure, ridiculous newcomer has attempted to create a network of local city and community blogs: this is why they do not work:

• They are not good for the advertiser
• They are not exclusive – simply modern versions of an outdated model that will put you an a page populated by every competitor – not good!
• They rank their pages instead of the client page
• They start with an empty database, and nobody wants to go first
• They are overcapitalized, over-priced, too expensive – again outdated
• They lack ‘boots on the ground’ IE: no local connection to real local people
• Nobody wants to train and build a real sales force with local people selling good advertising to local people
• Their pricing structure is outdated, the internet is less expensive
• They are too short sighted – want instant rewards without years of hard work – IE no fundamentalist value to the business.
• They do not promise results
• Their salespeople do not even understand what they are selling, much less the client – or nobody would buy it.

This is how we will sell $1,000,000 at UpLog.org this year right in front of you (like always, we call it ahead of time, then prove it):

• We are exclusive to our clients – not trying to sell everything to everybody – one advertiser per local niche
• We love what we do – the goal is not quick riches; instead to do good work, and serve God.
• We are willing to do the hard work of building and fully training a local sales force with ‘boots on the ground” one salesperson at a time
• Our pricing is ridiculously fair and reasonable – no room for a competitor with higher overhead to come behind us and profit
• We are unique – from our independent team approach, to our fair systems of incentives and rewards – all real
• We do not believe is cheating, tricks, gimmicks, get-rich-quick, or multilevel bubbles
• Our approach is miles ahead of the pack, and we will stay there the same way we got there, with vision.

Your thoughts, opinions?

For the business networking in Ventura County - Unlike BNI (Business Networking International) community and various other small networking groups around the local Coffee N Contacts Group meeting at eh Pier Point Inn on Wednesday Mornings at 8 – where sometimes 50-75 people show up weekly including the usual Chamber of Commerce regulars. I have been going there 3 times and am already doing multiple;e things.

Are you tired of doing something that you hate for a living?

Were you sold a lie before you were old enough to know better; forced into a life of servitude and slavery by poverty and the fear of not having what you need or being passed by by the mainstream world?

Have you ever wished that you  had had the opportunities that others,  who have less talent, less character, and  less purity have had to pursue their dreams; while you had to toil  from behind the proverbial 8 ball to try to catch up?!

If so, this information is especially important for you: read on…

And all this is simply about the ability to survive, and have security, and food, and warmth, and comfort: right?

Wrong!  That is a lie, that was sold to you by the same people who put you into the bondage you are now in.   What really enslaves you is your own fear and doubt, your pride, your greed, your fear, your weaknesses and your willingness to give in…for without those you could not be  enslaved in this way, it would not be worth the trouble to try.

The truth is right in front  of you all the time: you just do not see it, because you are too busy looking for it: you have always been a slave.

It is because you do not realize your own value that this keeps happening to you. 

If you are not afraid; if you are fearless: then you are a warrior, a soldier, a general, or a spiritual leader, a good worker or a good manager, but not a slave.  You can only be enslaved because you believe a lie: the lie that you are a slave to these circumstances, that  you have no choice is really and excuse; that is not your true potential, and you are really not limited in that way: you could accomplish great things..  Somebody who had similar issues sold you that lie to make themselves feel better about themselves, and it did not even really make them feel better.  That poor soul who perpetuated that lie was also a victim.  Read on, and I will absolutely prove it to you:

My take on the classic novel by Herman Hesse: a man who died in prison during a time when it was considered treason to point out the likenesses of eastern and western philosophy, instead of fighting wars over it: somebody made a lot of money on those wars:

If you want to meet the real Satan in person, forget your scapegoat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating – instead, look in the mirror, accept responsibility, forgive yourself, for you are human too, and change:

”When Siddhartha ( a member of the Samma tribe who vowed poverty in search of enlightenment) realized that nobody in his tribe ever found anything but poverty and servitude, he left; he went across the River to the city to come to meet with a wealthy merchant  in search of a job, with nothing to offer but the rags on his back, and his labor: the merchant said:

”You are a Samma, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=samma+tribe+india&redirs=1&ns0=1) you have nothing, what can you possibly offer me?”

Siddhartha pondered this for a moment, then said:

”I can think. I can fast. I can wait.”

In so many words, the wealthy merchant said  ’You are hired’.

Later in the story, when Siddhartha had acquired riches and concubines beyond belief, he still he was empty, and not enlightened, and not fulfilled: so he decided to through himself in the river, since life had no value anyway.
As he was about to do so, when he remembered a sacred word, and fell asleep on the River bank.
He was awakened by his friend who taken him across the river in the first place.

”Siddhartha! Tell me how you fared!” he asked.

Siddhartha told him of his journeys and his conclusions, then prepared again to through himself in the river.  His friend stopped him, saying:

”Since you are going to kill yourself, and have nothing to loose anyway; why not help me for a while first – I could use a hand as commerce crossing the river has increased…later n the story, Siddhartha looks into the river boat owners eyes, and sees enlightenment – the River-man has found God in the river.  Siddhartha is finally enlightened: he realizes that God was with him all along the journey, not just in the river, but in everyone and everything that happened to bring him to this realization: he just needed to stop seeking for long enough to realize it.

Don’t worry, I will get to the point, and the proof that I promised ( I had to read that whole book and many others and live a full life  to get this, so hold on a just a little longer.. it will be worth it).

You see, this paradox between what you really care about and what you must do for a living does not really exist – there is a never ending appetite, greater than our appetite for life itself: it is the desire to be loved and to love, to hear and to be heard, and to seek out and find more and more of the truth which sets us free when we are not  afraid.  It is only the fear and doubt itself that enslaves us. Proof:

• An animal, that can live, eat, reproduce and die is a happy animal: that is as good as it gets.  some of you are saying: “What else is there?”, am I right?  But the answer is already known to you too: because:
• A human who can do only that will emaciate and starve himself, climb rocks, jump out pf perfectly good airplanes, and do all sort of crazy things looking for more, and:
• He will eventually kill himslef seeking it if he does find enlightenment, even if he is not conscious enough to know that this is why he feels lacking: you are not fulfilled.

A CALL TO ACTION:

Even in the worst of circumstances, there  is inspiration, and you have options.  Now watch this video for it all to come clearly together. A word to the wise, bring tissues:

Larry and Shirley Taylor, their daughter, Cheryl, Allen and Charlotte, Mari Mae and my brother David and myself: we all want you to “Make Heaven Your Home”: right now: right here on earth!

If you do not love what you do for a living, fire your boss, hire yourself, do what you love for a living: this is why social media works in the first place: we need each other.  Forget politics, religion, money, insurance, driving in traffic, working in a cubical, paying more taxes than anyone else (until it all falls apart any minute!):

Do what you love for a living: join the roar of all of US at upLog.org

By blogging together, we aggregate our content and our voice in a way that allows us to totally dominate the search engines and social networks on behalf of ourselves, and our mutual clients ,we are a team of professional bloggers.
As our UpLog.org Exclusive Agent in your area or niche: you become the topic-specific or geographically specific media!  Join us!

The facts:

• As  rule, everything sold at a real estate trade show is overpriced
• Contrary to popular belief, websites and marketing designed specifically to be sold to sheep (new realtors)  are dumb-down overpriced garbage.
• You would be better off to do research, and buy online in your own time.
• Real estate website companies sell INFERIOR OVERPRICED PRODUCTS as a rule.

Anyone care to dispute this?!

1. You must own your own blog: a free blog on WordPress or Blogger or the like will not work because there are dead sites on these. Free blogs at Activerain.com, Realtown.com, Linkedin.com, Facebook.com and many other s can be maintained with the same posts from your own blog, extending your reach.
2. You blog first on your own site, establishing you as the source of the original high quality unique in all the world human edited data (usually text or video) – Use key words (the same ones) in the title, the body, and the tags (sometimes called keywords)
3. At the bottom of each post at your blog, have a bookmarking menu and choose digg.com first immediately after posting, to insure that your post is spider-ed immediately.
4. Have your Corporate Facebook marketing profile attached to your digg.com profile, press the buttons after digging and Facebook and twitter also immediately, giving your friends and followers an opportunity to digg. Google= and +1 the post, properly optimized of course….In my case, I have already reached a few thousand people who read everything I post. ( I am sure some of them are competitors lol)
5. Now re-post your articles in relevant groups on linked in by pushing the linked-in bookmarking button, e-marketers over 200,000 consultants network over 100,000 frog pond…at this point I have reached 500,000 people within 48 hours, but I am only getting started:
6. Now I post to my profiles at AssociatedContent.com, where some of the articles I have written for clients have been viewed 5,000+ times since I wrote them, and they still rank for the searches they are designed to rank for like: internet advertising consultant
7. Now Activerain, Realtown, blog aggregates like mybloglog, Tehcnorati and Feedburner are automatic feeds that reach thousands, Uplog.org.., my Geo-targeted local content aggregation network of advertising professionals who help each others clients…

Of course, none of this will work without high quality content and a plan. I could set you up to accomplish the above weekly like I do for $179, earn a living while you do it as part of our social media advertising agency, or use it as a side business to feed your marketing budget for your real estate or other endeavor. Israel Rothman Cell: 805-827-2450

We helped Hooks Industrial rank for industrial pump parts, iso9001 2008 pump parts and a host of other searches which are makeing them money: then an afterthought – they asked to be ranked on Google search now for ‘Goulds pump parts‘.

Ranking for the manufacturers proper name is not easy, especially if they have a well optimized site with many dealers linking to them, with anchor text like this: ‘Goulds pump parts‘.

So i decided to do a little experiment here, to see how long it would take me to do this: it is 5:11 AM, will take a few minutes to create the link-authority…we built their site, so it should work…

Ah yes, it all starts with a plan:

1. The blog – social media marketing in 2012 starts with a modern website (sometimes referred to as a blog – short for weblog). This website must grow weekly, becoming a more and more popular and a larger and larger online resource. This website must exist as it’s own domain, and be owned by you, so that this ‘cyber real estate’ is owned by you as the business and presence grows. A blog on WordPress.org, or Blogger, or any non-topic-specific behemoth platform will not work for competitive searches – the host must be known for related content for best rankings on competitive searches. The site must be on it’s own machine, or a host that is known for well optimized, related content. A virtual server from a company like Hostgator.com is very inexpensive. We offer free hosting on our servers for the first year to offset setup costs with savings. If you have not done so already, it is time to move your website into WordPress, or some other content management system (CMS) which you personally and all of your staff can edit, change, and add to – a website cannot be a static brochure anymore. CPC, CPA and other auction style advertising models have removed all profit from paid search in the long run – because the big players are getting involved, and they are willing to buy the market. Unless you are very heavily capitalized, and have a crack, state of the art marketing team, you cannot compete on an even playing field. Fortunately, content trumps distribution, which is automatic – and those same large players are not known for innovation, controversy, viral popularity, niche popularity, or non-commercial content – and, thus, the value of these are elevated online. A small or start-up company can compete – but not head-to-head, and not on a level playing field financially. Even the largest of companies need to seek out viral and social marketing experts, outside of their normal chain of command, because innovators and forward thinkers are generally not rewarded in large companies.
2. The platform – WordPress has over 60 million blogs, and nobody really knows how many other websites are in WordPress – some say over 200 million sites. This means everything for an interactive website, because the users must be able to use the software. Your visitors will not know why, necessarily; however, if your website (which really needs to be a social media enabled, interactive community) is in WordPress, they will be able to use it. >>more about WordPress here>> (If your users can use your software, and they are compelled to do so, your website will succeed)
3. Strategy considerations – picking a battle that you can win: I often have this discussion with realtors: they all want to come up on ‘city state real estate’ searches, because those are the most searched for; but have you ever wondered by whom? There are, by some estimates, over 200,000 licensed real estate agents in the US: they all search city state real estate often …lets see , that is how many per state….the most expensive words you can buy?! One of the problems with Real Estate is that it pays so well that it is hard to get a Realtor to listen to any strategy other than what all the other realtors are doing. I call this “pack mentality”. I would equate it to guys who concentrate on metrics and measurements and call them self marketers, when all their decisions are made on main-stream accepted and forensic data. The fallacy is that all this information is worthless when it comes to online marketing: if you do what the ‘main-stream’ or your peers are all doing, you will fail, from sheer numbers. The true innovators are the ones making real money – and they do not share their secrets until they stop working. In online marketing, following the pack is sure failure: even more risky than trying something new. For most people and companies, innovation is the only solution that MAY work, while following the ‘pack’ is sure failure. If you are mainstream in real estate, the numbers suggest that you will not be here next year! Online marketing favors the new, the quick, the controversial even, the different. Conventional ‘following the leaders’ will not work online, for anybody but the leader. Online, it is better to become an expert, than to listen to one. What are you an expert at? Start there. What you know has value online, whatever it is , related or not: and somebody with that same interest needs what you are offering. Make your strategy based on your abilities, interests and assets: if you love what you are doing online, you will do it well, and often; and you will succeed. They all live in houses, take vitamins, buy presents, have health concerns, raise children…there is always something to sell to those that you can reach. Pick the battle that YOU can win.
4. Your profiles, outlets, fans, and links – your social network: I post a good, original article or two per week mostly. We require our clients to post weekly, as this is necessary for any presence with any reach: to maintain the profiles and build the fans. If you cannot, or will not do this; then you need to pay somebody else to do it. I can always find somebody to post for you, and we are training an ever increasing number of people to do this well; we have priced this ongoing weekly posting at $100 per month or more depending on the marketplace, and the qualifications and reach of that blogger. I know of very few business that cannot cash flow such an effort from the leads that are generated from the postings and ever growing social media profiles where the posts are bookmarked, shared, liked, tweeted, etc…we have ongoing clients in almost every industry. Think of it as your entire advertising budget – easier to swallow that way. Here are some good places to post and build profiles, with my notes and demographic research for each: thanks to adage.com for this chart

Thanks also to http://blog.crowdscience.com/2011/09/changing-social-media-demographics-over-50-of-adults-now-use-social-networks/ for these trends:

• MySpace - I barely maintain my MySpace Profile, but being the oldest, it is one of the top ten on Google when somebody Google me sometimes, and, according to the demographics that follow, MySpace it is actually loosing terribly to Facebook unless you are specifically interested in 18-20-year-olds.
• Facebook is a must - we are all there more and more – gaining universal acceptance as a popularity driven social network with controllable levels of access: we have a business endorsement page – and I post my stuff. If you are selling primarily to consumers, I suggest a much more robust viral marketing plan for Facebook – a fan club, thumbs-up tab, viral video, groups, meetings… in many business a full time Facebook marketer is indicated. We are business to business mainly, and I only post my content there, it maintains one slot on Google for my proper name, the company name..I do not get leads from Facebook as a rule, but I do use it to maintain long term personal and business relationships.
• Linkedin.com – Our largest referrer; largest source of clients other than our own site: I have a complete profile and I post to about 25 groups that fit my audience: Linkedin.com has made some changes in the last year that re-ignited the site: I do very well here by just re-posting all my articles here. I highly recommend a strong LinkedIn presence for B2B and for recruiting.
• Google+ – I like the software, and I like the integration with Google mail, calendar, docs and other apps that I use for maintaining my presence. I was able to transfer most of my presence elsewhere in minutes, and my network continues to grow on its own with nothing by my posting my articles to maintain.
• Associated Content – I have been writing here for years. I get lots of traffic and the occasional client from this site. The editor adds no-follow tags, so you will want to post in code or html view, and not use the editor. Pay special attention to the categories: your post will appear there for a short time, and that link is very strong if you are spider-ed during that time. Some of my articles with permanent links to clients have been seen many thousands of times in this one place. A tip: always choose published elsewhere and display purposes only – this avoids their journalistic editors who rarely approve anything, and this makes your articles go live immediately. Another tip: nobody gets through the editors, so my stuff still routinely gets picked up by yahoo news: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/9115503/hooks_industrial_quality_pumps_centrifugal.html (the clients REALLY like that)
• Activerain.com - this site recently sold so they may change things a lot, but this is an excellent site for anybody wanting to sell to Realtors or Lenders: and, if you post in code view, you can get strong links to you from hyper local pages. On the flip side, over 200,00 real estate professionals are doing a very poor job of using this resource properly, resulting in a hyper-local page that is populated by their peers ranking on Google for people searching for their proper name and address – not so good!
• Realtown, Trulia, Realtor.com, Zillow, etc etc etc – many main stream companies have tried to build a network of community blogs funded by advertising dollars from Realtors – one basic common problem: consumers do not like these sites, populated almost entirely by realtor listings and spam; overpriced, non-exclusive…Good to build links from in the right way. If it is done the wrong way, these sites instantly outrank the real estate professionals’ target site for his proper name – very bad, and not good for the advertiser. Type in your proper name or company name with city and state into Google – is your TARGET SITE number one?!
• Niche communities and link building with high quality posts – run a search for the terms that you think will feed you traffic – see who ranks. Do they allow posting? Do they allow comments? Do they need guest columnists? Content is king!
• UpLog.org is unique – exclusive to its bloggers: so that a properly optimized upLog.org blog ranks immediately for competitive geographical real estate and other searches, and our client is the only sponsor unless he or she chooses to sell advertising to related businesses on his or her upLog.org blog. At $179 per year with training and support, this is a very inexpensive all encompassing alternative, with high link-authority to get started.

5. About email marketing – I have been appending and mailing out the B2B Home Business Network News .com – business.uplog.org for one year now: I include some recent articles, how-to’s, a plug or two for a client..the double opt-in list is over 125,000 now with no unsubscribes. I was curious, so I moved it to my proper name (israelrothman.com) to see how many people actually got it. To my amazement, only one unsubscribe, just enough to know it is working. This form of marketing is very effective: we purchased a couple of scrapers, and setup the PHPlist ope- source list program – if you do not want to do this yourself we can manage and build, setup and format your list: $500 down, $500 month. We can reach, increasingly so, anybody you want to reach, any demographic, any search…we will promise a 100k list within a year for most industries of you use our strategies. such a list can feed almost any business if done well.

6. About robo-calling or voice broadcasting – again we have been dong this regularly for about a year off and on: it is an effective and easy to generate traffic and even deals – we provide a trial to 1000 numbers that we scrape from key word search or SIC code for $50, and provide the vocie-over if needed, and the list afterward to track results with follow up.

7. Reputation Management – you do not manage your reputation, somebody else will:

8. Google places, Google maps, local search – all the major search engines have a local area – you must have properly optimized profiles there: if you do not want to do it, got to UBL.org and pay them $30 to do an ok job, or hire one of us at upLog.org to do it well for you (using their service as a tool) for $100

Costs and time frames – other than your time, there are some costs:

Hosting – 5-10$ per month or more depending on size

Website – our $599 custom WordPress works well for most. It must be on its own or related server account if you want it to rank for tall, for instance, real estate, and other competitive searches. (we include virtual server for 120/year, first year is free)

Uplog.org exclusive blog for your area or topic: $179/yr – this provides the roar of all of US – translates into very strong link authority to rank instantly for almost any search (note: this only works if you follow instructions!) Instant traffic and all of us looking back at your first visitor created better lead capture – this is a good DYI solution for somebody who is willing to learn, and who has a small budget, or even needs to earn a living doing what we do.

Marketing, posing, commenting, +1ng, liking tweeting, following etc…this takes about two or three hours per week for the novice, about 15 minutes for a professional, and needs to be done weekly: do it yourself, or pay one of our professionals 100 per month (this option includes the upLog.org exclusive agency blog)

Mass emailing, robo-calling, farming and list building – again, do it yourself in about 10 hours per week, or we will do it all for you for $500 in advance and report to you monthly…

Or just buy it all in a discounted social media marketing bundle at UpLog.org! You can even buy your own white label version of upLog.org!

Original article is here:

2012 Social Media Marketing Guide Planning Checklist and 2011 Stats

i do not know how long they will leave that article there, so I will post it here too:

That is correct: I said that that may very well be true: look:

I suppose you think that it is good for you to have active rain conquest your proper name with a page populated by your peers!  and to pay them for that priveledge instead of ranking your destination site?

This lady did not understand how anything could be better for SEO than AR, she is also a big spender EVERYWHERE ELSE, BUT LOOK:

Click her active rain listing on this search for her:  Complete name, address, telephne number and all right off her destination website:

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=Joye+Hollis+ridgeway+843+2708665+S+Carolina+Commercial&btnG=Google+Search

Then click this one
http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1&nord=1#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&nord=1&site=webhp&source=hp&q=corona%20california%20community%20news&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&fp=3b95fad9dd53fefd&ion=1&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3b95fad9dd53fefd&ion=1&biw=1225&bih=768

and see Sharons setup at uplog.org for corona.uplog.org

She does not see why uplog.org is better LOL !

Which do you think in your expertise is a better strategy, other than that I need to remind sharon to put her silly telephone number in the description!
Proof!
http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1&nord=1#hl=en&cp=15&gs_id=3m&xhr=t&q=real+estate+social+media&pq=corona+california+community+news&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&nord=1&site=webhp&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=real+estate+soc&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3b95fad9dd53fefd&ion=1&biw=1225&bih=768

Uplog.org LLC (formerly socialmediasystems.com) is the best in the world and don’t you forget it!

http://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=UTF-8&ion=1&nord=1#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&nord=1&site=webhp&source=hp&q=real%20estate%20social%20media&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3b95fad9dd53fefd&ion=1&biw=1225&bih=768&ion=1&pf=p&pdl=500

There is no comparison at all, unless you are selling houses to realtors!

When I met John Kitts, he was working with my daughter in a restaurant: he was 23 years old, and had never sold anything before, but did have some computer and technical savvy – a musician.

My company had been completely taken over and changed by the second round investors, who were doing everything wrong and who eventually destroyed the company:  I wanted to prove a point, and I trained John to sell: he sold $8,000.00 of advertising in his second month (I made sure of it).

When coracle was about to go down, John and I had a discussion, and my son and I sold John a WPMU  setup (Word Press Multi-User, sometimes called Multi-Site) in 2006: Cityscoop.us Local Business News – a B2C advertising site that creates local search rankings immediately  without breaking search engine rules.

John has been earning a full time living from that site ever since, selling local advertising and the resulting SEO benefits of blog aggregator : cityscoop.us.  We recently upgraded the site – it had been completely stable for 5 years, because John never updated the code (WPMU was very buggy in the beginning):  so we had to some very difficult work to update the code after all this time and the code changes; we moved the database into the new, much more robust programming.  Now the site could become a full blown social network, and, in my opinion, that is the next step.

In this, the first chapter of the new:  2012 Rothman Guide to Enterprise Level Social Media Marketing:

With the history of our products and services and history and clientele to build on: we will now address the very tricky and sophisticated task of taking a business to the next level, and viral nationwide expansion by way of social media marketing.

We will collaborate with John as he prepares to raise some $$ to take his 5 year old company to the next level, and we will assist him in planning that process (one that I have gone though many times).

Cityscoop.us is very inexpensive, and very easy, with lots of support, and a very low entry price.  The problem is expanding without capital, with John overloaded and doing everything himself.  It is my opinion that the solution is to add on higher end services to create a commissioned sales force that can make a living: but make no mistake: John has ever needed another job, and he has supported himself, as have I, through the worst recession ever; and he is poised, as he goes through this very difficult step to the next level, to raise capital and expand profitably.  Very few have accomplished as much with nothing but a $1,500.00 website and their time during these very tough years.  Needless to say, we all had to shift our focus from mostly Realtors to other businesses during this time.

It has not helped the way venture-capital funded companies keep coming up with ridiculous advertising propositions and hiring young people with no experience on salaries to try to sell the overpriced advertising: then subsequently going out of business leaving a mess and a trail of dead bodies!

Now, with the new Plugins available like MapPress that inter phases with Google maps API, and our own plugin that adds a system of GUI pages that feed and are linked to each other as easily editable value-added navigation to WordPress; BuddyPress which effectively turns WPMU into a full blown social network; and our voice broadcasting and email marketing systems: there are an infinite number of ways for john to automate some of the things that require his time; and to add on revenue sources to allow him to hire help.

With our very modern systems of expanding and actually cash-flowing without capital, John will be successful in bringing cityscoop.us to the next level as a Local News Advertising Agency; and with our obvious link authority as the original person (me) to use those four words together, this article will achieve some rankings also.

Just for the record, what we are discussing here, and will continue to discuss, as we have for the last ten years (as people rolled their eyes) is marketing with real content: what we like to call “social media advertising agency“.

I saw this in my Google+ stream this moring, thanks to http://gigaom.com/2011/11/10/confirmed-wordpress-crosses-60-million-blogs/:

Updated. WordPress now powers more than 60 million blogs, founder Matt Mullenweg confirmed Thursday. The online publishing platform is now fielding in excess of 300 million unique visitors per month.

Update: About half of those 60 million blogs are powered by WordPress.com, the service owned by Automattic that hosts WordPress blogs, Mullenweg said. WordPress is an open source software that people can also download to run blogs on the web servers of their choice.>>>rest of article>>

Add to that the ones that Matt does not know about (our 136, for instance), and some say there are over 200,000,000 websites in WordPress at any given moment.

That is why we, at our UpLog.org,  use a high-bred, highly maintained code base in Multi-Site WordPress, the very same software that powers WordPress; with BuddyPress added-in, linking us all together.

We have been developing in WordPress for ten years, but BuddyPress was a buggy mess until recently.    Now  our UpLog.org is a one year old B2B  B2C social network , which is especially good for mobile, and for Realtors and other businesses: to reach everyone in their community, continually, and daily; by sponsoring a local blog.   WordPress has, by far, the largest user base of any content management software making it a sure bet for social networks,  but maintaining the multi-site code base and hosting is still not for the novice!  Properly setup and maintained, Multi-site WordPress is an SEO machine.

Join the roar of all of US at upLog.org.

http://business.uplog.org/free-weekly-wordpress-training-and-support-at-uplog-org/

You have to see this Israel: every year at the National association of Realtors there is a wide open free-for-all! You have to raise your prices! You have never seen so much money changing hands in your life!

The course of the next few years would change my life.  The owner of a giant Vista-print Printing in Portland  (I was living in Eugene, Oregon at the time) Steve, wanted to expand from printing mainly real estate printing to doing all forms of online printing and we told him what to do and helped him rank line one number one for online printing – probably long since retired.  RISMedia.com’s John Feathers ton and Darryl McPherson became my clients for years -we moved RISMedia.com into WordPress  – look at them copying me with their new “content producers network” LOL – some things never change- and we did over 4 million dollars in business with Realtors and we  attended many leadership conferences, CEO summits and Power Broker dinners in those years, as many of you know.

In retro-spec, it amazes me how much has changed, and, in some ways, that I am still standing after it all!

How many jobs have moved overseas?  How many good American companies have gone public, then subsequently sold out to foreign interests, exporting the jobs.

Steve had two of these gigantic presses that printed and shipped without humans when I met him.

Now, I am happy to say, my new client uses the same technology moved forward to offer business cards, and other online printing WAY CHEAPER THAN VISTA PRINT : (http://printing.uplog.org/)

ENTER REVELATION PRINT – ALL AMERICAN ONLINE PRINTING – WAY CHEAPER THAN VISTA PRINT!

Because he owns an Uplog.org blog, I believe I can make  him come up under   ‘online printing cheaper than vistaprint‘  with this ad – LMAO lets – see shall we?!

1. Every business or professional, or individual talent, or anyone else with a reputation that feeds them needs to have a social presence.
2. This should consist of, and should originate from, an automated website, what some would call a blog, where the content is optimized, relevant, regularly updated, growing, dynamic.
3. This resource should be updated at least weekly, creating a pattern of constant improvement, pinging the search engines..
4. These updates (contextually specific to target the intended audience) should the be shared on at least two or three profiles (linked-in, Google+, Facebook), and blogged to groups at linkedin.com, activerain.com, Realtown.com, associatedcontent.com, Uplog.org and/or other sites where contextual links can be built linking back to, and feeding traffic to the original blog from contextually correct category and profile pages, and reaching the intended audience with text, video, audio and/or graphics.
5. This constant posting weekly, and then bookmarking the quality posts and videos; optimizing them for search rankings; and spreading them around will cause ever-increasing traffic and rankings.
6. These standards will clearly manage a company or a personal online reputation sustainably and indefinitely.

Pricing and fee Splits: we have setup the following standards:

• We feel that the minimum price for such a service should be $100 per month, with a 3 month commitment in order to see real results, and that will sell, and it is selling at uplog.org for the last year.
• We feel that the people selling, ordering up, writing, producing and project managing the work should get a total of 50-60% of the actual advertising dollars spent.
• This leaves 10% for the agency to maintain our infrastructure and the ever-increasing ROAR of all of US, and 30% perform the actual production work (graphs, software setup and maintenance, ad placements in the bullets, free ads categories and maps, etc..) and promote the team at upLog.org
• Because of our size and growth, and ‘the network effect’, the value of the advertising we sell is constantly increasing creating long term clients as the network grows.
• We feel that bloggers should be exclusive to their clients, just like a hit man, or a lawyer, conflicts of interests are not ethical. We are exclusive to our bloggers.
• With these splits, we see bloggers charging between this $100/ month to $1000 depending on the size of the project and time commitment, and the existing social media power of the professional blogger his or herself (there are many of us who are very powerful already – outdoing traditional SEO methods, rendering them useless). Obviously a blogger video blogging the fashion scene in new York City may need to have only 10 or twelve large clients to do the job, requiring and justification of the higher price because of the audience and overhead.

Legitimate professional blogging for a living:

“We believe, at upLog.org, that a meritocracy of independents working with a system of fees and splits is needed to organize a disorganized market.”

Blogging is becoming main-stream and necessary to maintain company branding and reputation, and it is an ever increasing form of advertising that creates higher and higher returns, with a fixed cost – in fact, for more and more of us, it is our only marketing. At the same time, the audience for the content itself is increasing. A blog on Blogger or WordPress or other free blogs will not achieve search rankings; but a WordPress website or other optimized and growing destination website fed by a blog and profiles in this way, where everybody has skin in the game and a reason to take blogging seriously, will create stellar SEO immediately for almost any search, huge qualified traffic, and sales.

A wanted and needed service:

A blogger with an UpLog.org blog ($179 per year) can create instant search rankings and traffic from the roar of all of us for any client, by simply posting weekly and spreading the post around to optimized profiles, which we think they should get at least $60 month for.  Some people who are are prolific writers like myself can make great money just posting. 30% of the money is set aside for sales/posting, two things that we think go together. (IE: The actual blogger must know and be accountable to the client, must know and understand the intended market, and must understand how to use our tools properly to achieve a result for the client.) Ongoing training must be part of the standard in a market that moves this fast, which we do provide.

A way to get started with low entry costs for the right motivated people:

We provide hosting with c-panel and Fantastico and we think all hosting should have these programs.

Email and Voice Campaigns – newsletters and alerts automated, building an audience intentionally:

We believe that most companies should also have an ever growing email and/or voice campaign to numbers and emails scraped on-going constantly building the size of the opt-in list – this is not spam: it is I-CAN compatible opt-in email like the Web Pro News. We charge $500 to setup and host such a list for one year, and $500 month to promote and build it – we do this, optionally form my list server israelrothman.com – all the mail gets read! Our one year old list is now 111,000 and only one opt-out from the 9th edition of our newsletter!

An uplog.org community news blogger or free ads blogger could feed any number of client business from one niche blog, with nothing but a $179 uplog.org blog that ranks every post in organic search, and a knowledge of the topic, if used properly.

We are training a huge team of very talented people from all over the world, all walks of life, to do what we do for a living: blogging.

My checklist for 2012:

1. Start writing the 2012 Rothman guide to Social Media Marketing
2. Get the existing 140 bloggers at uplog.org and the 1300 members to realize what I have done right in front of them (2011 Guide) and that they can do it too. Recruit, train, add, one at a time, 1000 city bloggers and 50 state managers at uplog.org
3. Get people to understand the value at upLog.org to have an exclusive as one of our team for only $179.00, your own captive audience and niche or location.
4. Completely write, rewrite, break down our process into a step by step business opportunity that anyone with a brain can take advantage of anywhere in the world; put any client on top of Google for any search, dominate the social networks on behalf of a client, manage a client reputation
5. Pursue ISO9001 Certification to the 2008 Standard – something that nobody has done there is a lot of money on the table.
6. Raise more money to invest in advertising upLog.org and making it grow faster and feeding it’s clientele.
7. Sell through our team over $,1000,000 in full service advertising at $100 or more per month to local and niche companies who need to manage their reputation and get up to speed online
8. Get our multilevel bloggers to realize that, if they put their efforts totally into uplog.org, they would make more money for their time, and have a legitimate business and reputation that they can be proud of with a future, instead of driving off all their friends with one multilevel rip -off bubble after another!
9. Make you consider this special offer: buy an uplog.org exclusive for $179 by this Friday, get a $120 per year virtual server hosting account for free for one year to put your destination website(s) on:
10. Start getting ready to go public.

That is my list, but I am sure I missed something, your thoughts?

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We will be seeing more large clients like this with ISO: this is Global Reputation Management – this initial step involves a blog, a website, and some search rankings, the next will be to manage ten slots on Google for the company name,

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