How much do you know About.Me ?

September 27, 2013 by owfotografik 4 Comments

About.Me
Not sure if you all had heard about this one yet or not. This is my page http://about.me/owfotografik on this site.

This is a site that is like an “about me page” but it is a whole site. So I can have a bio and links to all of my social networks and sites.
I have seen people using this as their “about me” on their website or blog. Have a link to this site rather than coding an about me page.

As you can with many social styled sites, you can interact with other users. The really cool part about this site is that they encourage integration with all of your other Social Media sites and Websites. It is truly a comprehensive listing of you online. The social aspect makes it possible for you to connect with someone across all of their social sites on the internet. In some ways you could even use it as a “mini resume” page.

“About.me (Usually styled as about.me) is a personal web hosting service co-founded by Ryan Freitas, Tony Conrad and Tim Young in October 2009.^[2] The site offers registered users a simple platform from which to link multiple online identities, relevant external sites, and popular social networking websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube. It is characterized by its one-page user profiles, each with a large, often-artistic background image and abbreviated biography.” – Wikipedia

LinkedIn or About.Me? (joshuarhone.com)
About.me bids farewell to AOL, becomes independent company again (venturebeat.com)
about.me Identify Social Media (poetslife.blogspot.com)

Networking, Omaste Witkowski, Promoting Your Work, Social Media Websites

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How to Integrate Social Media and Email Marketing – Jeffbullas’s Blog

September 2, 2013 by owfotografik 1 Comment

How to Integrate Social Media and Email Marketing – Jeffbullas’s Blog.

Written by Zsuzsa Szabo – 1 Comment
Categories: Email Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing

The problem with social media is that you don’t own it. The shareholders of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram do.

Full Story Here:

via How to Integrate Social Media and Email Marketing – Jeffbullas’s Blog.

Effective Email Marketing (daniweb.com)
email marketing and social contact building (ronnieh27.wordpress.com)
10 Skills of the Ultimate Social Media Marketing Monster (socialmediatoday.com)
Integrating Your Email Marketing Campaign with Social Media (business2community.com)

Blogging - Wordpress, Tumblr and More, Engaging Your Audience, Facebook, Google+, Omaste Witkowski, Pinterest, Promoting Your Work, Stumble Upon, Twitter

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Why Social Media will Disappear

August 19, 2013 by owfotografik 2 Comments

Written by Jeff Bullas

Categories: Social Media, Traditional Marketing, Traditional media

In the 1960’s the “Madmen of Madison” Avenue were challenged as the age of television forever changed the advertising and marketing landscape.

Read Full Story Here:

via http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/01/19/why-social-media-will-disappear/

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Making Sense Of Facebook Advertising And Hashtags

July 15, 2013 by owfotografik 0 Comments

Making Sense Of Facebook Advertising And Hashtags

Posted June 18, 2013 by Lee Jackson & filed under Content Marketing, Facebook Promotion, Online Branding, Social Media Marketing (SMM).

Facebook, on the face of it, would appear to be in a bit of a search muddle at the moment.

The social media giant has recently added hashtags to its service but is undoubtedly last to the party as platforms including Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, Tumblr and others will attest.

Still, it’s a very welcome addition and will help people and pages expand the reach of their content. According to Facebook:

Hashtags can be searched from the search bar at the top of the page
Hashtags that originate from other sites (ie Instagram) can be clicked
People can compose a post directly within hashtag search results

But while Facebook has just introduced something that other sites have used effectively over the years, it’s also cut its sponsored search ads service.

Launched just short of a year ago sponsored search results would appear whenever a user searched for something and acted in a similar manner to Facebook advertising.

But if it’s now being phased out does that mean that Facebook is walking away from the search game?

Not necessarily as Facebook has suggested that ads will be available in its upcoming Graph Search which still has a waiting list.

Facebook Hashtags: Are They Worth Your Time? (business2community.com)
Facebook introduces hashtags (wired.co.uk)
Making The Most Of Facebook Hashtags (simplyzesty.com)
How to use #hashtags to find your readers (lissywrites.com)
Facebook Hashtags Have Marketing Potential, Privacy Issues (mashable.com)

Engaging Your Audience, Facebook, Omaste Witkowski

Content Marketing, facebook, Facebook Graph Search, Facebook Promotion, Online Branding, Social Media Marketing (SMM)

10 Creative Ways to Market on Pinterest

July 10, 2013 by owfotografik 0 Comments

10 Creative Ways to Market on Pinterest

Written by Jeff Bullas –
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/05/31/10-creative-ways-to-market-on-pinterest/

Marketing used to be simple.

You placed an advertisement in a magazine, the yellow pages or the local newspaper and people picked up the phone and called you or dropped into your place of business.

Now you have dozens of marketing channels you can use and the media is not just print, television and telemarketing.

Read the rest of this article here

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Thank you to Christine Fournier for sharing this article with me.
http://christine-fournier.artistwebsites.com/

Pinterest Success: Creative Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Business (socialmediaexaminer.com)
4 Tips on How to Use Pinterest as a Marketing Consultant (business2community.com)
10 of the Best Pinterest Boards to Teach You About Marketing (rpmgr.com)
How to Use Pinterest (The Ultimate Guide to Pinterest) (business2community.com)
Pinterests – Choosing The Right Pictures (robmonette.wordpress.com)
Parody Hits Pinterest (shakingupsocial.wordpress.com)
Pinterest Drives Sales Better Than Facebook As Pins Live Longer On Web (besttechie.com)

Omaste Witkowski, Pinterest, Promoting Your Work

Branding, Business, facebook, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Pinterest, social-media, Videos

Linking FAA Uploads & Posts to Social Meida

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 4 Comments

Hi Omaste, maybe you can weigh in on this.
When I first created my FAA account, I made the rookie mistake of linking my FB account to FAA and they flooded my FB timeline with all my uploads. I was immediately called on the carpet by friends and Photographers who follow my page. So I killed that and I broke the “automatic connection.
Now I only publish to my wall once every ten or more uploads (no more gnashing of teeth is heard) The one thing I don’t want to do is annoy potential customers by constantly bombarding their news updates with “Jeff uploaded another 10 images”.
I agree with them. as I saw a week later three “friends” on FB start up and the uploads were flying everywhere. Annoying as hell…

Now I just went to a gentlemans G+ link and all it was, was announcement after announcement of a new image on FAA… Nothing about the photographer… it sounded desperate to me and that I found a media channel outlet… BORING!
One thing I do know is that our customers want to get a feel for the photographer and create a connection. When all I see is “buy my print”,”buy my print”,”buy my print”,”buy my print” etc then I head for the hill or at least the next page. What is there to interest me to get me to look at the persons artwork?
Maybe I shouldn’t say anything so I don’t have to compete with these people but since we’re supposed to be helping each other out… I thought it would help to mention this. It does no good to fire and forget your announcements because the louder you yell, the less they listen… Oh if I’m wrong let me know, I’m not perfect and my sales are not what I base this on. I base it on what I believe the very successful do to get found and sell.

Posted by : Jeff Folger

Art Sales Websites, Fine Art America, General Advice, Promoting Your Work, Promotion Fatigue Syndrome

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Read Your Feeds

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 1 Comment

Tip for Today:
Go visit your social media sites and look at your feeds. Are they solid FAA link posts or do you have other info in there as well.

Do you feel engaged by your content or are you bored by it. I was really surprised one day after posting a bunch of stuff, to go and read my Twitter feed, and be really turned off by it. Make sure you think about what you are sharing and the message you want to convey when you share online.

Inspirational quotes, photography/painting advice tips/tricks, what interests you personally that you would like to share with the world. What influences your artistic visions, What is your favorite color and why, showcase work in that color……

Social Media followers like to be engaged with you as a person and not just your work 🙂

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Auto Sharing Buttons on FAA

June 3, 2013 by owfotografik 0 Comments

When we use the buttons to share work, modify the text that is default. Any time we see the words sell or sale in these posts I think it puts people off a bit. They know we sell our work. Sharing our work is how I try to come across.
For example when you use the Facebook button it adds the “prints and posters for sale” into the box. I delete these words so that people want to click the link to look at the work not click it because they feel like they have to Buy. They are more likely to click.
On the Twitter button it says “I uploaded new artwork for sale”. I delete this line. use this many characters to say What a great green capture, or Daily find for Green art. etc. Then add tags at the end of the post that are #green #art #etc…
The less generic any of these postings look the more likely people will be engaged by them.

– Omaste Witkowski