Logic has logical thoughts on social networks and micro-blogs

Logic Talk Opinion
Like there is an ass for every seat one used car salesperson once shared with Logic so too is there an opinion on everything in life opinions are like asses everyone has one.

Logic thought from the heart
We think that the creators of these micro-blogs and social networks are smart, they are really charismatic and devoted to the point that Logic actually has a profile on 1000 of these and other types of get the word out online medias today. What is not good is that the capacity of these creators need the next set of persons to monetize the creation for the longer hall, remember Google from search to search advertiser.

Social Network business model flaw
The basic business model works like this, give it away for free, invite APP creators allow all to have a space in it, make it popular mostly because it is free and then sell advertising space. All online Forums, Social Networks and Micro-Blog sites in a sense have the same end result in mind it is not a business model to sell advertising space only that and the hip social network of the day make this way to volatile to sustain any true test of time.

What is missing?
There is no product nor a service included in these efforts of creators of these social networks, micro-blogs what have you, in fact we see through monitoring the Twitter model through our own profile of followings and followers all 140 characters of typing space is advertising and promotion with few actually being clicked on. Next in our opinion this is all sort of modern day venting space where people vent in over the top frustration about the topic of the day news reports and 1000’s twitter it but it is already old news then back ti pushing their wears through links to their sites to the followers of their Twitter accounts.

Hot today, who are you tomorrow
While we deal with a phase in and out of popularity from MySpace into Facebook and now from Facebook into Twitter change in the technology world is really not changing at all, or clearly at a slowed pace during these times. Think I am incorrect; no look at the blog scene and the blog directories yesterdays all of the rage never mentioned today.

Myspace is Yesterday

Logic has 3 Facebook 2 Myspace and 2 Twitter FREE accounts for disclosure in this article.

What is Twitter Really?
Instant Messaging of the past.
The account features beyond IM are followers and following and the ability to have it posted on the Internet with new features of capturing followers and pushing user participation. Now who really reads these Twits’s?

The positive side
All three of these free services offer a mass amount of people getting together in some cases, though many just open and account to say in the competitive environment of today hey look I have a Twitter, Facebook or Myspace account do you?

The negative side
Building free members and gaining global traffic is, while a wonderful thing is just not a business model. Logic thought this lesson would have been conveyed in the late 1990’s when site traffic and free email accounts were the way of doing business.

Comparing Social Networks to the Major Search Engines
This is where the largest mistake is clear to Logic, the mind set of the human for a social network or micro-blog (in our opinion) verses the search engine mind set are serving two entirely different ways of thinking at the sites point of entry.

Search Engine advertising works because of the mind set and the keyword searches.
Truly at this very point, you need to read our example of why the social network as a search engine replacement is never going to work for the mass business and consumer market.

Search engines, the top 3 anyways have their own battles brewing over the search quality Logic switched from Yahoo to Bing because of accuracy at least as accurate as they can get for offering all things to all people, mass services are not able to focus.

Meet a real product that is a service
Viper Mailer is an email-marketing service provider, ok fine, now even though it not only saves a business money like so many other business services can claim, it actually goes beyond the savings statement and can make higher level claims, the ultimate in claims, it makes business money, and it does it for the least amount of money out of pocket, then any other type of service offered today.

How many email marketing accounts can you sell on a social network?

Our advice to social networks and micro-blogs will require work
To withstand the test of time (weather the storm) these broken models are going to need products or even a relationship with (for example only) Amazon books might work since a lot of these social network and micro-blog posters and followers read can download through Kiddle book reader or Viper Mailer an email marketing service, these are both on demand, right now, instant gratification products or services, we assume (though I hate to assume) and this would bring into the mix a true product that is for the masses.

One larger flaw is a current event
When your whole business model is focused on advertising space what do you do with the below issue?

The global economy is in a time of great suffering and we actually think, somewhat through having no choice with tightening credit, lack of credit and personal net worth reductions, along with unemployment globally that in America in particularly the greatest nation on earth, we are going into the pay down and saving mode.

This is what the masses are heading into (in our opinion) and though there is always this famous claim, that there are people with money in good and bad markets, these small percentages are not going to float the mass unfocused on a particular group types of ad space operators like social networks and micro-blogs will need to survive.

Culture of the globe has changed
We are looking down the road at a change in the American and perhaps global makeup of how humans consume for the coming 2 too 3 decades, these quote business models will need to create actual products that are services to help others to survive past the hype and stave off the next hot social thing to come along and replace them. Research Google, Yahoo and Bing for actual income from advertising over cost cutting, this is going to get a whole lot worse.

e-Communications for Small Business Part 6

Logic Help
I hope you have been enjoying the last 5 parts of growing your small business through e-Communications beyond your new web site.

Throughout this series of articles Logic discussed a lot of various items, yet we stayed away from the initial web site you have designed and built for your business. We are sharing the growth after your initial web site is launched and you begin to realize effort must be applied to grow the online portion of your business.

We hope these articles will help your business grow online. 

Is Logic too self promoting?
Have you begun to learn the ways of the online world you have got to be a self promoting authority and you really need to love yourself to gain the popular passions on the Internet?

This is a whole lot different then the personal contact world of the past, on the Internet you can be anything and anyone you want to be, that is why I am Logic.

Get into the game
If you do not talk up your business become the authority on the product or service you are offering you are not going to succeed, you need a PASSION and with all of the world of distractions these days you need to stay FOCUSED to win the game.

Business Owners
Build it and they will come, NOT, and build on your Internet presence, win the game YES.

Growing your Small Business Part 6

Did you miss Parts 1, 2, 3 or 4? We have them right here to help you get caught up today.
Part 1 Small Business Growth Blogs
Part 2 Small Business Growth Forums
Part 3 Small Business Growth Additional Domain Names
Part 4 Small Business Growth Email Marketing
Part 5 Small Business Growth Social Network and Forum Building

Directory Listings a real must for growing your web site popularity
In order to get started in the third tear, this tear is below the top tear the search engines and the Social Profiles being the second tear, where we are all working to be easily found by offering what a person searching the net is looking for.

Staying Consistent in your description we discussed in Part 5 (keywords that match your business)
In order to obtain the best results in the directory listings, they are going to best serve you if you have the best wording to be consistently found.

The third tear directory sites can be good and helpful, you need to get the listings right to benefit you for the overall major search engine (SERP’s) Search Engine Result Pages.

This SERP thing is how people searching for you and your product or service ultimately find you, all based on what the type into the search bar to find the products and services you offer.

In Part 5 we shared how you should decide what the single keyword or two that best describes your business.

Logic’s directory listings
These are some of the directory listings and you should be listed in these directories as well but reminder some are pay sites others are free, you get what you pay for when it comes to directories. 

Logic’s rule of thumb
It is a great and profitable practice to become the authority on whatever subject your business is offering, you will find it to build trust with site visitors and it is more important on the Internet then in any other medium to convey confidence because you are not afforded the luxury of having a conversation.

Remember that there is more to e-Marketing then just driving traffic generated by the major search engines to your web site.

There is the best opportunity to drive sells, make friends, build trust and learn what the competition is doing through these forums and you want sells not just traffic to your site; it is going to take work and a lot of it, so work smartly and have fun with your “FOCUSED” “PASSION”.

Local Area Global Directories
The latest craze that will more then likely have great difficulty surviving the large search engines dominance of the internet are these sites like City Search, Local, Yelp Trusty, Merchant Circle and the list goes on.

Merchant Circle See Logic on Merchant Circle

Google Knol Logic on Google

Yahoo Directory Yahoo Logic

DMOZ Toughest Place to be Listed

JoeAnt Logic Answers

Google Directory Google Logic

Go Guides Guided by the Logic

Trustys Trust this Logic 

Naymz Sounds like a German Site so German Logic

Yelp Hottest Local Restaurant and Hotel Logic

Just an update on Logic’s Internet Profiles
Logic has just signed up for the 1000 profile for our company and it’s a number one product for the best email marketing practice that gets results Viper Mailer.

Why would anyone spend this amount of time opening and updating 1000 Internet profiles or listings when Logic shares that no one should spend this kind of time on Internet profiles, that is way too much of a time investment for the return on Investment possibilities?

Answer to be the authority on the subject of e-Communications you need to confirm the results thuse the reason for the 1000 profiles.

Best bang for your time
What you need to do, enter into the local search returns, building a local profile on Yahoo Local, Bing Local and Google Local search for each on their respective sites to learn how to build your business and personal profiles.

Global Directory Submissions
Before you run out and hire a service that guarantees your business to be listed on a million directories, please understand most directories mean nothing to helping your business grow, they just want your listing for them to grow.

Directories are not for direct sales
The fact is Logic has not had a single sell in the decade and a half plus from a directory. Directories are great for helping the search engines value your site and can help a little in getting your site listed closest to the top of the first page for the keywords that best match your product or service, the words that best result in getting you the sell.

Coming up in Part 7 We are going to shock our readers and announce something that most Internet companies do not want you to know, it is because that would not be best for their business models but Logic has proof of a tactic that can, does and will grow your business, setting you apart from any and all competition.

Part 7 will lead us to the truth in Part 8 the final part in our e-Communications for Small Business Series that we are not going to even hint about but if you follow this you are going to win the Internet Business Model of tomorrow.

Discovering Cities in California Series - Dos Palos

Welcome to Dos Palos, California.
Located in region 7.
The county is Merced.
The city has over 4,500 residents living in 1.5 square miles of land area.
The city was incorporated in May 1935.
The city is in Northern California.

Some interesting facts about Dos Palos, California.
The city is a nice center piece to famous locations of California with Monterey Bay to the west and Yosemite only two hours by car to the east this city sits right on the bordering county of Fresno the agricultural anchor of California.

The city sits between Interstate 5 Freeway and the Agricultural Highway Interstate 99 surrounded by farmland this is a great place to start exploring the San Joaquin Valley. 

Things to do in and around Dos Palos, California.
Dos Palos Museum
CCHMM (Central California Historical Museum) located at Eagle Field is a great military aircraft and military vehicle history located here at Eagle Field Dos Palos.

Dos Palos Air Field
 

Located in the neighboring city of Atwater, California is the Castle Air Museum at Castle Air Force Base. Also located in nearby Atwater is the United State Penitentiary at Atwater an all male high security prison. Learn more about Atwater, California here on Discovering Cities Atwater, California.   

City of Dos Palos, California web sites.
City of Dos Palos no city hall see county of Merced City of Dos Palos, California Merced County

Dos Palos Chamber of Commerce Dos Palos Chamber of Commerce regional chamber Merced

DosPalosWeather.com

e-Communications for Small Business Part 5

We hope you have been enjoying the last 4 parts of growing your small business through e-Communications beyond your new web site. Notice we have throughout this series of articles discussed a lot of various items yet we stayed away from the initial web site you have designed and built for your business.

We help businesses grow online after they have started and launched their first web site.
This is mostly because there are plenty of businesses on the information highway that will build you a web site from a cookie cutter, e-Commerce too an advanced site with some neat features. 

Logic Expert
Is Logic too self promoting?
Before you bark at Logic (who enjoys dogs and their barks but LOVES cats) of course we are going to promote our products that are Internet based service is to help any business succeed for the least amount of money but this is exactly what we are trying to share and promote you into doing for your newly started business.

Running any business takes smart work
I mean you would be amazed at how many businesses we deal with that feel like doing the work required in our e-Marketing series is just too much work. We really are amazed about this and find that the types of businesses that feel they should just be able to open and the money will just come flooding in seemed to have started during the easy credit economy that has now past.

Lazy business owners allow you and I greater opportunities available to grow in their space.

Growing your Small Business Part 5

Did you miss Parts 1, 2, 3 or 4? We have them right here to help you get caught up today.
Part 1 Small Business Growth Blogs
Part 2 Small Business Growth Forums
Part 3 Small Business Growth Additional Domain Names
Part 4 Small Business Growth Email Marketing

We are now going to target Social Networks and Forums
In order to get started in the second tear, the tear below the top search engines where we are all working to be easily found by offering what a person searching the net is looking for.

Consistency in your description will yield the best rewards
In order to obtain the best results in your forum posting and social networks it is going to best serve you if you have the best wording to be consistently found.

These second tear sites can be good and helpful only when done right for your overall major search engine (SERP’s) Search Engine Result Pages. This SERP thing is how people searching for you and your product or service ultimately find you.

The whole lesson with these two mediums is all about inbound link building for your site and if we are able to make friends, help others share with the world what we are doing great but rarely usually however in no way is this effort going to result in direct sells.

Deciding what the single keyword or two that best describes your business for example:

Meet FreedomCookies.com
You are in the business of baking and selling cookies but not just any cookies your cookies are “cookies for a cause” and a portion of your net profits from your sells go to helping injured veterans coming home from these wars America is fighting around the globe, so your business name is “Freedom Cookies” and your domain name is “FreedomCookies.com”.

FreedomCookies.com keywords
The best fit for FreedomCookies.com because they are specialized in helping others is not to be just under the keyword “cookies” is perhaps too competitive and too broad a search term for a specialized cookie baking and for a good cause operation.

We would go with the keywords “Charity Cookies” and a slogan or tagline “Cookies for a Cause”
Realize that the search term for “cookies” worldwide per month is 764,500 and that you would be competing with 168,000,000 million pages also under this same search term on the Internet, learn a lesson here from Logic this search term used in our example is a crowded one.

What are keywords?
The best word to describe your business will also be the keyword or keywords for your business the keyword or words work in the same way for search engines when people are looking for what services or product you offer, as they do for the local phone directory. 

Going social with FreedomCookies.com
For some business types, social networking is more adaptable to their business then others for example; if you are a music singer or you are a movie actor then your more out to see results on the social network scene, then say a company that makes computer controller cards is going to have.

Somewhere in the middle of the online rock star and your cookie business (if effort is well applied) you make what you are offering exciting, like an explosion of an oven caught on film for a You Tube video then you are off to a great success.

MySpace, your space, it is a place with space, fill it up
Setting up any micro site profile
How you enter your information into these online profiles is critical to helping potential customers find you both in the particular social network, forums and in the major search engines, so please pay close attention to how Logic has done this for or product Viper Mailer.

Pictures of you, your product, your services, your building and anything else that is relevant to your operation is GREAT, pictures tell a thousand words remember.

Adding your keywords to your online profiles
The best practice is to make your site link in each profile, keyword rich and if you post into the blogs or walls of your profile use the keyword.

Look at what is in all of the profiles that Logic obtained the link is to Viper Mailer at ViperMailer.com but the wording in the link is the keywords that actually find our service they are “Email Marketing” and this is where a visitor ends up when they click on the links.

Web site links and landing page links
In our example case, you might start out using only your Freedom Cookies main home page as the link in your profile that is using the actual key wording in the text for the link “Charity Cookies” or “Cookies for Charity” that takes the visitor to FeedomCokies.com.

Once you have built your basic profiles and you begin to interact with updates to your online profiles you will start leaving messages on your walls, your billboards, your social network blog, your profile page status box whatever, it might become better to begin using other actual “landing pages” (example: FreedomCookies.com/Recipes into your web site, these will directly bring the site visitor to the recipe page because that if the profile update you just built on your social network.

These are called “Call-To-Action” moves, you are pointing the site visitor directly to additional information about the blog or wall topic you were just sharing with them. 

How much time should you spend on these profile networks?
Logic likes to look at this in a logical way, remember there are, depending on the product or service you offer forums that you should join, there is the social network scene and the video scene and the picture sharing scene and on and on and on so, it is important to set yourself up with a schedule of which sites you are going to participate with because if you just go after them all and if you maintain these sites you are headed for certain failure.

What business are you in
Remember that first and foremost you are in the business you are in, whatever product or service you offer is where your time needs to be spent. We suggest you set aside some time for this profile networking and other stuff related to it and start out with a small amount of sustainable efforts that over time you can delegate to a trusted team member or expand on the time spent as you feel comfortable.

Time is money, spend it wisely…

Now let’s look at a few of Logic’s profiles
Remember when viewing Logic’s profiles that Logic represents Email Marketing as an Internet based service for businesses, nonprofits and membership groups so what you will be viewing is what Logic feels is best for the needs of Viper Mailer.

Here are some of the places you can find Logic:

LinkedIn is for business professional networking 
Facebook actually Logic has 3 Facebook profiles we recommend only 1
MySpace here are 2, one we have not touched in 2 years California Beach Authority and one that is a new one for Viper Mailer MySpace Viper Mailer 
Flicker where Logic shares logos and images related to Logic at Flicker Images
Trusty’s Is a fun place for Logic see Logic on Trusty’s

Two many profiles to handle
Beyond these there are over 200 that Logic has a profile on from forums to social networks so you only need to have a few for your business spend about 1 hour a week r less updating you profiles updating your thoughts and images, all of those kinds of things.

Micro-Blog Sites Cautionary Note
Where to use caution to not waste your time
Stay clear of Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk these 3 instant message (not new technology just repackaged) type formats (Logic has a profile on each) are time consuming riddled with advertising from all of the persons you wish to follow and unless you want to type these short little instant messages 2 to 300 times a day with a link to your product or service only to receive about 4 visitors from these efforts every 7 days you could spend your time doing things better for your business. None the less if you would like to build a profile in these 3 with a back link to your web site then have at it, no harm done.

Joining forums of your interest
Logic belongs to about 40 forums that are related to web site optimization, web site hosting, domain names, email-marketing and some personal self health forums to boot.

What these forums related to your business are good for is actually quit a bit, you can create a signature in the reply of your forum postings (reminder FreedomCookies.com the link reads Charity Cookies save veterans lives) that is using your keywords for your business with a description and drive traffic and inbound links to your site great for search engine optimization.

Please use forum etiquette when posting on these free forums, always be kind and helpful, and never try to just directly sell your products or services (except in your forum signature of course) that are a big problem and ultimately the downfall of your credibility.

It is the best or a practice to become the authority of what it is you know and do for your living but to do it with a soft and helpful hand.

Remember that there is more to e-Marketing then just driving traffic generated by the major search engines to your web site.

There is the best opportunity to drive sells, make friends, build trust and learn what the competition is doing through these forums and you want sells not just traffic to your site; it is going to take work and a lot of it, so work smartly and have fun with your “FOCUSED” “PASSION”.

Coming up in Part 6 We are off to see what the world of directories is all about, what these directories can do for your business what they offer you and your business and what the directory is not going to provide your business and why.