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Social Media Success Summit Competition Winners
Did you win? :) Wow! I knew this Social Media Success Summit was generating a lot of interest, but when I had the idea to hold a competition to win tickets I ...
Win Tickets to Social Media Success Summit 2009!
All around the world people are very excited about Social Media Success Summit 2009 — the first major online event dedicated to helping you successfully market your business with sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. More than 500 people have already registered.
Now you have the exclusive chance to win two valuable seats to the event for no cost!
I am not bragging when I say that the line-up is an all-star cast (well… maybe a little).
Presenters include bestselling authors and social media marketing experts such as Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV), Darren Rowse (Problogger), Mari Smith (Facebook guru), Jason Alba (wrote the book on LinkedIn), Ann Handley (MarketingProfs), Brian Clark (Copyblogger), Denise Wakeman (BlogSquad). Oh, and me.
Sessions include:
- How to Create a Mega-Following and Mega-Sales With Social Media Marketing
- Building a Loyal Facebook Following for Increased Profits
- How to Grow and Engage an Audience on Twitter
- Using the Power and Reach of LinkedIn to Grow Your Business
- How to Productively Engage in Social Media Marketing
- Five Reasons You Need to Be on Twitter (and Tools to Help You Manage)
- Social Media Start Up: 3 Key Tools to Build Your Social Media Marketing Plan
- How to Attract Tens of Thousands of People in Mere Days
- Using Social Bookmarking for Improved Traffic, Links and Visibility
Go here to see the full details of all 11 sessions …
This event does not require any travel (no hotel, rental car or wasted time). You simply attend sessions online and meet the experts and network with peers from the comfort of your home or office. Pretty cool, eh? 
Contest Prizes
There are two prizes:
- Twitter Prize: Valued at $497
One ticket to Social Media Success Summit 2009 - Grand prize: Valued at $1,693.90!
Two tickets to Social Media Success Summit 2009 (one for you and one for a friend)
PLUS
- A social media marketing consultation with Michael Stelzner (Michael will spend an hour with you, helping you get your plan in order)
- A blog critique by me (I will identify actionable steps you can take to improve your blog)
- A copy of the Problogger book by Darren Rowse and me
- A copy of the book Writing White Papers by Michael Stelzner
Just think how your business or online efforts could be boosted by this package. Just the consult with Michael is priceless; he after all put this whole summit together.
How to Enter
Step 1: Enter for Twitter Prize
Simply post a Tweet on Twitter using the button included here, or simply copy and paste the below Tweet message. This automatically qualifies you an entry into the prize draw to win a free seat at the summit. You may tweet up to 5 times between now and 21st May 2009. The tweet must contain “#smsuccess” to qualify. We will select the winner randomly on the 22st May 2009.
The Tweet:
Win a FREE ticket to Social Media Success Summit 2009: http://cli.gs/Grq8RX #smsuccess
How to Win the Grand Prize
To win the grand prize, write a blog post (no longer than 1,000 words) explaining why you want to win a seat at the Social Media Success Summit 2009. Have your post published by midnight 21st May 2009 (GMT). So we are notified about your post you will need to leave a trackback on this blog post or comment with a link.
Remember the grand prize includes two summit tickets, social media consultation, a blog critique and two awesome books, so it is well worth getting your friends on board. The more friends who enter the more chances you have of getting a seat yourself .
Good Luck!
The winners will be selected by Mike and I and announced right here on this blog on the 22st May 2009.
Good luck, and tell your friends!
Social Media Marketing Survey Results – Free PDF
Social Media Marketing on your to-do list? If so, you will want to read this report! If you think there is no ROI to Social Media, or that it is ...
Want to Grow Your Blog Traffic and Audience?
Do you want to grow your blog traffic and audience? If so I have a deal for you ... You might have seen I have been planning a webinar in aid of my favorite charity. Details here and more here. In a nutshell, the idea was to put on a webinar stuffed with valuable ...
Which of These Topics Would You Attend a Webinar On?
If you recall I had an idea to do a webinar in aid of one of my favorite charities. To gauge interest I did a survey asking what you would want the survey to be about. Here are all the results.
Any interest?
First up I asked if it was worth organizing. It seems most people are interested, depending on the topic.
With that in mind there were tons of topics suggested, below I have listed the most popular. Please vote for the topic you would most like to attend. If you are reading this in your feed reader or email you will need to click through to vote.
Which of These Topics Would You Attend a Webinar On?
[Please Choose a Charity Webinar Topic - click through to vote]
I have to thank Rob Anderson from Accuconference who has been a great help in allowing me to use their service for this, and Cindy King and Denise Wakeman who have offered tips on how to organize it.
About the Charity
What is all this about? Well, I am trying to raise £10,000 for the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund.
While I have been resisting saying too much about why I chose this particular charity, I have been told it is unfair of me to ask for money without giving at least a little background, so here it is.
You might or might not have noticed I went quiet for a while here and on Twitter. That is because my daughter went in to hospital for heart surgery. She had been on a waiting list since early last year and when the call came we had to drop everything. While we were there we experienced first hand what this charity does for patients and families.
My daughters operation looks to have been a great success, and for that we are grateful. That said there are many more kids going through this right now or will be coming through in the future.
While the doctors and nurses are brilliant and fully funded (it doesn’t matter if you have private health, it is the same team, same facilities), anything beyond the absolute basics comes from donations. As you can imagine it is a traumatic time for all concerned so anything that can be done to ease things is well worth supporting, and many families need ongoing support.
So there you have it, a bit of background. Of course I am going to try to help them in other ways, but this webinar idea seems to be a way to help the charity by getting some international donations and also pass on some good, valuable blogging and social media material at the same time
Over to You
Please take a moment to select the topic you would most like to attend or have a recording of – please click through and vote now
Please help me with a charity webinar idea?
I have set myself a goal of raising £10,000 for a children’s heart surgery charity. So far through asking on Twitter there has been raised around £700, so clearly I need to put in some extra effort if I am going to achieve this goal
Through discussions with friends on the Authority Blogger Forum and Twitter we had the idea to hold a webinar or teleseminar, with a small ticket price of, say £1/$1.50 or so, and all the proceeds going to the charity.
After sounding out a few folks on Twitter to see if there would be any interest, I contacted Rob Anderson from Accuconference who generously gave me the go ahead.
So now it is over to you.
Would you be interested, and if so, what would you most want me to do a webinar about?
Please fill in these couple of survey questions and let me know!
WordPress SEO Secrets Review
WordPress SEO Secrets from Michael Martine is launching today, and I am sure it will make a big splash. I have contributed a bonus and a testimonial. I guess you could say I am supporting the product!
Frankly, when Michael told me he was developing a blog SEO product I was worried.
You see, most of what I read about blogging and SEO is just plain wrong. I get sent a lot of products to review, and it seems to be the ones that focus on SEO that contain the most misleading information. The risk with SEO information is if it is wrong you can cause more damage than good. When Google is happy with you then you get a ton of profitable, targeted traffic, but upset the mighty Google and you can have a world of hurt that is a pain to clear up. Michael is a friend, how could I tell him if it was bad, or worse, damaging?
Thankfully, Michael has put in a lot of hard work to make sure that his facts are accurate, easy to follow, and most importantly, based on his and his clients real world experience of gaining search rankings.
Yes, blogs are said to be decently optimized out of the box, especially WordPress, and especially when you use DIYThemes Thesis Theme but that is only the beginning. You can gain so much more traffic very easily when you know how. Anyone who is a member of my Authority Blogger Course or has been through my coaching or consulting already knows the difference search optimization can make to a blog. Better search rankings are there for the taking, and any one of Michael’s tips could give you the boost you are looking for.
Now, inevitably you might be thinking that you can get this information for free from websites and forums. That might be true, if you have the time, and can filter out the good advice from the bad, and find immediately implementable tips rather than abstract theories and untested ideas. WordPress SEO Secrets puts everything you need to know in one package, with a guide book and walk-through videos not just telling but showing you exactly what you need.
Think: How much more traffic and profits will you make when you rank higher in the search engines? Much more than this product costs I bet, and hey, there is a full money back guarantee, so there is no risk in trying it.
If you are blogging on WordPress and want a boost in search traffic then I recommend you grab WordPress SEO Secrets today, before the price goes up
Thanksgiving Links
We don’t do thanksgiving in the UK quite like our North American cousins overseas, but I like the idea of it anyway, so here goes:
- I am thankful for my family, pets and friends,
- That my work is something I love doing and am passionate about,
- and my wonderful clients who keep life interesting and a roof over our heads!
Here are some links to share the love:
- Be thankful for our planet – Enter your email address for a chance to win a Solio Solar Charger and charge up your iPod or cell phone using the power of the sun
- Apparently it is a tradition in USA to have discounts this time of year – Be thankful for the Thesis 20% discount! (read about Thesis from DIYThemes here)
- If you struggle with Microsoft Excel you might like my free excel cheat sheet – I am thankful I don’t have to resort to Google now when I forget the keyboard shortcuts!
- I have been learning how to be more international in my approach – I am thankful for Cindy’s great international marketing resources
- and John for roping me into the fantastic social media for non-profits chat where we had a great time answering questions
Got any links to share or things you are grateful for? Have you written up a thanksgiving post with a twist? Add yours in the comments, and the best one or two in my extremely biased opinion will win a copy of the ProBlogger book!
Partnering+Profits Launched – Plus Bonus from Me
Partnering Profits has now launched, and there are great bonuses for anyone who moves fast. Previous products from Brian Clark and co have rushed out the door, so you don’t want to miss out on this one.
Can I recommend Partnering Profits? 100%, you will see on the Partnering Profits landing page that in a way I have put my name behind it already, Darren Rowse and I are going to feature on one of the calls!
Seriously though, a great deal of my income has been generated through the partner opportunities that blogging has brought me, and the more partnership projects I work on the more opportunities that come along.
Partnering has helped build million dollar businesses from scratch. Brian makes over $100,000 a month because of his partner businesses. At only $97 this course is a bargain, I am sure you will agree, but as an extra incentive, I am going to discount my blog critiques by the same amount for anyone who buys Partnering Profits through my link.
Don’t hang around, grab your seat and bonuses now, you will not regret it and it could actually be the best move you ever make for your business.
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