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No one can deny the fact that communication with customers is of the utmost importance to every internet marketer. Blogging has opened up doors to attain effective communication with customers. The social media emerges as the latest and most promising method to fulfill this aim. Marketing on the social web paves the way to new marketing possibilities as its strategies reach out into new forms and media.
The marketing mindset of today is essentially focussed on the building of relationships through effective dialogue. The next vital element will be virality for the social Web Marketing campaign. Virality must be attributed to good content about good products and services that will set the viral effect into motion. To achieve best results, Marketing Strategies must include complete integration of marketer and business into the relevant online community.
(1) Gain more understanding
Before embarking the path of marketing on the social web, it is imperative to do some research about the social media and the opportunities that are available on the social web. There are indeed many online communities that offer interactive communication. They provide the best ground for the development of relationships. A little bit of research will go a long way. Find out what the communities are offering in terms of content. What topics are they frequently talking about ? Are these communities large in size? Listen attentively to such conversations that may originate from customers, bloggers and even analysts. Important information thus derived may be of great help to formulating your Strategies For Marketing on the social web.
(2) Invitation to join your community
Openly invite others to join your community. This will pave the way for others with similar interests to communicate with you, and share with you their opinions about your product or service, or even offer good ideas to take your business up another level. In the process of interaction, better relationships are being fostered. Suffice to say, in order to shape the community that you intend to have, it is imperative to locate the right target audience. All of your efforts will be directed strictly to this target audience. You will be able to provide value when you are focused. Work in line with your marketing plan to get content that will support your strategies, and subsequently build up momentum to engage your customers.
(3) Decide on your appropriate platform
Having laid down the marketing goals and having drawn up the appropriate marketing plans , the next vital decision is to decide the best platform that will propel your marketing on the social web. Conduit strategies include social network, blogs, reputation aggregators and e-community. Each of these platforms is a specialist in its own right. Each provides various opportunities to different marketing goals. You should have ready your answers to questions on your target audience and marketing objectives. Next it would be wise to check out more about the characteristics of the audience as well its level of interactivity. This will provide the necessary information to help you provide the right content and add more value to your community.
(4) Good content
Getting readers back to your site more regularly can only be achieved by writing good content. Content helps to engage your readers. If content is good and relevant, readers cannot wait to return for more. For marketing on the social web to be Successful, readers must be satisfied and feel at home with your content. The content must connect these readers convincingly. Readers will in return contribute to the conversation through feedback and comments. Always pay attention to what they have to say. Good content will ultimately lead to strong interaction and further building of relationships. Make customers feel worthwhile staying in your community. Do not cause negative repercussions by making the mistake of asking your customers about everything too frequently.
(5) Keep track of progress
Progress for your campaign must be kept. This can be done by determining the appropriate metrics that will help you track the movement. It is important to ascertain what is the actual direction that your community is going. This is vital to your future plans in terms of providing more value and giving them better experience in your community. Keeping track of progress will help you revamp your strategies if necessary. Your community initiatives should be implemented in alignment with your marketing objectives, which may include the improvement of customer and channel relationships, building brand awareness and market share, and the financial improvement of your return on investment.
(6) Actively promote
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(7) Optimize your site
Needless to say, improving your site through optimization will make it more friendly to your community and to search engines. Your customers will be interested to make the return trip when they find your site easy to navigate, contains great content, and providing them with the best possible experience. It is indeed wise to pay attention to what your site visitors have to say and respond to them accordingly. Constantly perform reality checks on your site; look out for new innovations to surge ahead of your competition. Add new features and new tools to enhance the appeal of your site. Visitors will acknowledge that your site is fresh and fun to visit.
Proper organization is required. The presence of an attractive environment and community will serve the dual purpose of inviting customers to spend some time with you and to close sales. The creation of comfortable spaces specially for your customers where they will feel at home will surely bring them back for more. Ultimately, there can only be Success for your marketing on the social web campaign.
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The Chinese character for “crisis” is made up of two other characters, “danger,” and “opportunity.”
If we let it, this economic crisis can enable a paradigm shift that will not only create a much more balanced and sane world, but also ensure a sustainable and enjoyable planet for our children and grandchildren’s children.
Unknown to most of us, our planet has been severely “out of balance” for a long long time. Traditional Chinese Medicine has for millennia extolled the need for balance to ensure health, individual health, community health, and global health.
What do I mean “out of balance”?, you may ask. I’ll explain. My wife is from Hong Kong, while I grew up in a fairly affluent time in Western Kansas. We weren’t rich or even upper middle class, but even in our blue collar world we had plenty, never went hungry, and took long road trips on cheap fuel whenever my father had time off.
What I didn’t know, was that on the other side of the planet, a young girl I would one day marry was experiencing a world where resources were very precious. My parents understood that, from their experiences in the Great Depression. However, I thought their views were out dated, and when I eventually met and married my wife, Angela Wong, I thought her views were not relevant to our modern world either.
Angela, like my parents, extolled me not to “waste.” Not to waste energy, fuel, paper towels, anything. She taught me that everything we consume is a precious commodity. I laughed at her for decades.
I am no longer laughing. I am changed. Since the initial stunning collapse of much of our economy a few months ago, I now tear a tiny corner off of a paper towel to wipe up a small spill rather than use an entire paper towel. I have a Prius hybrid, and I play the game of seeing just how much road miles I can squeeze out of every gallon of gas. I’ve double paned our windows, and insulated our house, and bought energy saving appliances, and light bulbs. I no longer leave a door open when the heater or air conditioner are on, and have learned to live warmer in the summer and cooler in the winter.
I am not miserable, or living less really, I’m just challenged to be efficient. I am growing from this experience. I am evolving into a new person, a better conscious person. This crisis has been an opportunity, which I was propelled to by a danger of economic stress.
From talking to friends, I believe there are millions, perhaps tens of millions of Americans doing the same thing now. So, when I make one paper towel do what ten paper towels did before, I “became aware,” I know that tens of millions of paper towels are being saved across our nation. Tens of millions of gallons of gas are being conserved.
For decades half of the planet has been living at or near starvation wages. Why? When the Wealth of some nations pulls resources out of poor nations like a sucking magnet, there are none left for locals. When I was young, my father worked with a Mexican man who’d come from a part of Mexico that had grown water melons to export to America. All his life in Mexico he’d never tasted water melon, until his arrival in America as a young adult.
As fuel becomes expensive, long range exports become less attractive. Local lands in poor nations can possibly be more geared toward local populations nourishment, as we in developed wealthy nations again become accustomed to seasonal diets on locally produced produce.
However, the fuel crisis can also spur a massive investment privately and publicly toward green, cheap renewable solar-wind type energies. This technology can then be exported to the world, to a China hungry for energy, for example.
Our environment is in dire straights. Few people deny this any longer. A tipping point approaches, and if we do not radically move from fossil fuels (oil/coal) to renewables (wind, tide, solar), we may damage our ecosystem beyond the point of repair. Anyone who is conscious knows the weather has changed from when we were children. A point may come where that change escalates painfully worldwide.
This time of economic “crisis” is dangerous, but sewn within it may be the opportunity to catapult the global economy to cheap renewable energy. Because in the end it will be much cheaper, not only in the energy production, but the maintenance of the system, and the lack of environmental disasters and clean ups that other energy involves.
Health care is another area that is set to experience a paradigm shift. Current trends project that in coming years the United States annual health costs will exceed $4 trillion per year. This is unsustainable, and will bankrupt our nation, if left unchanged.
However, it is changing us. We all have experienced outrageous insurance costs, and had to fight to get medical bills covered even if we are insured. We’ve seen health professionals set us on very expensive, and not always effective treatment protocols for our long term health.
At the same time emerging research, and our personal experiences, are enlightening us about complimentary and alternative health solutions that can address many of the most common, and socially most expensive health challenges.
Research has shown that Tai Chi, Yoga, and Meditation can lower high blood pressure, help with chronic pain and mobility problems, decrease depression, anxiety, ADHD, and mood disorder conditions. Type 2 Diabetes can be treated with Tai Chi and heart disease as well, according to emerging research. A UCLA controlled study found that Tai Chi increased participants resistance to viral infection by 50%, and in another study found Tai Chi improved sleep quality in 65% of participants. How much money is spent inoculating people, or treating flu victims? How much business productivity is lost due to colds and flu that could have been avoided by inexpensive mind/body training? How much is spent on drugs for anxiety, depression, and sleep loss
When spending $10 or $20 a week learning Tai Chi or Yoga can save us thousands or tens of thousands in future health costs, and our wallets grow increasingly thin . . . the options become ever more appealing
A twenty year study by Kaiser Permenente found that between 70 to 85% of all illness sending patients to their doctors were caused by stress, not aggravated by stress, but CAUSED by stress. As our corporations learn that by including mind/body health into corporate wellness can save each company tens of thousands of saved health insurance and lost productivity dollars, things shift.
When our education system begins to teach mind/body health tools to our 90 million students, we will begin to see trillions in future annual health spending saved. This is a wonderful opportunity, propelled forward by an economic crisis.
Without the economic crisis, we would likely have staggered along relying on drug and surgery as our first line of health defense, rather than as a last line of defense, opting first for natural mind/body training that can actually heal these problems rather than just reducing symptoms.
This time of crisis is actually an age of opportunity. The question is, will we take this opportunity to change, or will we grit our teeth and grip onto old arcane ways of living, that are constipating the birth of a new way, a new world?
The ancient Chinese Yin Yang symbol, if you look within the white dots and black dots, hold smaller yin yangs, and so on and so on. This symbolized that our bodies function can be seen in the collaboration of cells in the body, and our society’s function or health is reflected in the body’s health and function. What does this mean to our modern society?
In Tai Chi or Qigong practice, we learn that the tension in our mind, heart, and body restricts blood flow, energy flow, immune cells distribution, nutrient distribution, etc. So, when we “tighten up” around old thoughts, fears, hatreds, prejudices, patterns, all our body’s vital flowing functions tighten up and restrict the ability of all our systems to maximize health.
A Tai Chi or Qigong practitioner breathes deeply, and envisions “letting go” of “old rigidities” we’ve collected so that we can open, and flow into a newer healthier, more expansive paradigm of health. By “loosening up” our mental, emotional, and physical being, we can allow it to re-form into the most optimum state to maximize our health.
Our local, national, and global society is being challenged right now to re-form into a newer evolving self image that will nurture our people, our planet, and our emerging reforming economy. If we tighten up around old patterns, fears, prejudices, etc. like our body’s tend to do, we will constipate our ability to open to the flow leading us to the most optimum future possible.
As hundreds of millions worldwide open to mind/body techniques to maximize their health, and minimize their health costs, they will experience a “side-effect.” Not the negative kind of side effect we see in drug ads on TV, but another side effect pregnant with possibility.
As these hundreds of millions of people “loosen” their grip on the old rigid thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, their communities and nations too will loosen their grip on old wasteful economic policies. The nutrients of raw materials on an over populated planet, will begin to flow to technologies and production that will maximize effect, while minimizing cost.
New industries will bloom that will take free sunshine and free wind, and power cars and industry with it and increasingly lower costs. Labor may find gainful employment in fields that nurture health and wellbeing in society, rather than unabashed consumerism for the sake of consumerism and profit. We may find that these new industries not only do not damage our societies or eco-systems, but rather nurture it on many levels.
For example, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Meditation teachers are a labor intensive industry that spreads out wealth across communities worldwide, rather than focusing profits in the hands of tiny pharmaceutical distributions points. The result will be more vibrant, healthier, more creative populations who ripple out economic innovation and benefit throughout their communities in a very de-centralized way.
This will benefit the ecosystem. Why? A Kansas City Star article a few years back pointed out that the largest polluter of the Missouri River was pharmaceuticals, not from industry, but from human waste run off. As people turn to mind/body health solutions, they will not only spread wealth across the economy, but reduce pollution problems.
Mind/body tools also reduce violent and aberrant behaviors in practitioners according to studies, and in fact the calming effect they promote seems to spread out through larger populations around them, as was demonstrated in a large Transcendental Meditation study in Washington DC in the early 1990s. In this study an influx of TM Meditators actually lowered the violent crime rate of the entire city.
Given that the United States now imprisons more people than any nation on the planet, spending untold hundreds of billions annually on police, courts, and penal systems, such a side effect of mind/body training of our people, can dramatically save on these costs as well.
Our economic crisis does present a danger if we lock up our mind, heart, and body around old patterns. However, as the Chinese symbol tells us, it also offers us great opportunity to move into a new paradigm of humanity that will nurture us all and our precious planet for generations to come. We know that bad patterns are passed down through family’s, so as economic concerns drive our people to mind/body healing solutions, these too will influence future generations, unfolding multi-faceted benefits we cannot even imagine.
It is time to breathe, to loosen, to change and flow into a new future of limitless possibility. World Tai Chi & Qigong Day’s WorldTaiChiDay.org provides you with free “Breathing Lessons” and more to facilitate this process. WTCQD has offered these tools for some of the world’s largest corporations staffs and executives, major international health insitutions and corporations, and to government worldwide as free public health services.
And on the last Saturday of April teach-ins will be held in hundreds of cities spanning over 65 nations on 6 continents, and all 50 US states, sharing the mind/body tools that incorporate breathing, visualization, and gentle movement to relax the mind, heart and body so that it can open to vast possibility on many levels.
About the Author
Bill Douglas, Founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, and author of the #1 best selling Tai Chi book, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to T’ai Chi & Qigong.” Bill has been a Tai Chi source for The Wall Street Journal, The South China Morning Post, BBC Radio, The New York Times, and media worldwide. He is the 2009 Inductee into the Internal Arts Hall of Fame; recipient of the Lou Gehrig’s Hero Award; the recipient of the Extraordinary Service in the Field of Qigong Award from the National Qigong Association; and the Media Excellence Award recipient from the World Congress on Qigong. Bill can be reached at http://www.WorldTaiChiDay.org
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In their July 5 report, the FBI notes that much of the information sought by identity thieves, such as full names, addresses, phone numbers, and even social security numbers. The same people who work so diligently to block hackers from unearthing the same often unthinkingly post personal information such as this on an online resume. The resume can then be accessed by any “employer” who happens to register with the site, and the information can be used at will without the thief ever having contact with the poster.
Aside from stealing personal information from job seekers, scammers are using job search sites to pose as legitimate employers to extract information from victims or to “hire” them for jobs that turn out to be scams. In the first instance, victims are contacted, “hired,” and then asked to provide their bank account information for purposes of direct deposit, after which their bank accounts are left open to the perpetrators. In a more complicated and currently popular method of fraud, victims are hired and sent packages, with instructions to reship the packages to overseas addresses. This seemingly simple job has been found to be part of an international reshipping scam, a way for criminals overseas to receive items purchased with stolen credit cards.
So what can you do to make sure you don’t involve yourself in such a scam or otherwise compromise your privacy? The following simple steps may help you to protect yourself:
1. Don’t include all of your personal information on your resume. This may seem like common sense, but a surprising number of people don’t think twice about doing so.
2. Never give account information or personal details to a potential employer online. These details include bank account or credit card information and information found on your ID cards or passports.
3. If a company asks you to pay a fee or otherwise transfer money to them, do not do it. Legitimate employers do not ask their employees to pay them.
4. If the job posting looks like it was written by a child or is otherwise fraught with spelling, grammar, and sentence structure errors, there is a possibility is it not legitimate. Don’t take the chance by answering an ad that looks unprofessional.
5. Do not forward, transfer, or “wire” money to an employer, or otherwise accept transfers that require you to give them your account number.
6. Do not transfer money and retain a portion for payment.
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3. Words and phrases such as “Foreign Agent Agreement,” “package-forwarding,” “money transfers,” “wiring funds,” “eBay,” and “PayPal.”
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2. Order credit reports and watch them for unusual activity. Consider placing fraud alerts on your credit reports if your Social Security number has been made available to anyone.
3. Contact your local Secret Service field agent to report any suspected international fraud, file a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center, and file a police report with local law enforcement.
4. Report the company name, the job posting, and all contact names to the job sites where the scam was posted.
5. Delete all email accounts you used in connection with the job.
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