Social Media Marketing System Costs; pt 5

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Over the past four articles we reviewed Brian Campbell’s path to making $10,000 in just a few weeks, how he created buzz with a review by John Chow, how the buzz grew at virally to unimagined proportions, how the Social Media Marketing System was borne, and now, lets hit the bottom line. How much are the hidden expenses of an online business?

The answer to that question depends on your business strategy. What do you want to achieve? How fast? How will you go about it? What tools do you need? Lets start with something simple, you need:

a. Credentials…

    1. Your credibility depends on what you have being doing up until now. If the     only thing you have on your website, or profile are pictures of last weekend party,     and of you throwing up, you have a hard road ahead of you. We will discus how to     go about fixing your persona on another article.

b. Niche…

    1. You need to specialize in a particular area. Otherwise, you will be a Jack of all     trades and master of none. It is ok to refine your target as you go, but you will     need to know sooner than later if you want to go about creating a site about     education, golf, party, science, archeology, politics, or what.

c. Product…

    1. Will you be selling a service, or a tangible product? Will it be golf clubs,     memberships to a club, information, an e book, coaching… You need to know     this because you should be able to see how much your product cost to produce,     fixed expenses like storage, shipping, postage, handling, etc…

d. Marketing strategy…

    1. Will you use word of mouth? Will you buy advertising? Do you have the know     how to do everything yourself or will you need coaching? How will you create     buzz? Do you want to find a joint venture partner and pay him or her to create the     buzz for you? Will you do radio or TV? Magazine ads perhaps? Do you own a list     of potential customers? Remember that spamming is against the law. My best     suggestion is to get a list of double opt in leads. You will need an auto responder.     I suggest Aweber.com.

e. Store front…

    1. Many Internet Hosting Services will provide you with a store front, and will     help you set up a business account somewhere. As you grow, Pay Pal will not be     enough. You will need to be able to accept credit cards. Your store front can be     your website. Will you have a blog (highly recommended). This cost money. You     will need a domain name or several, be ready to pay at least a year in advance. It     will be cheaper, and you will be able to snatch the domain name that you like right     away. If you don’t, many domain providers will keep the information or the     proposed name and if you do not buy it, next time that you go and check, the     domain will be unavailable unless you pay a hefty premium.

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Social Media Marketing System; pt 4

 

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Social Media Marketing 101

Somehow, Brian came up with the Social Media Marketing System, and opened a membership plan where if you were among the first bunch, you could join in and receive personal training from Brian himself. There were three levels, bronze, silver, and gold. I joined in as a Bronze Member and quickly upgraded to Silver.

Brian’s teachings were eye opening, and I do not regret joining. His group of marketers are at the cutting edge of Social Media Marketing, and his teachings are first rate.

The bottom line is simple, there is no amount of instruction that you can get that will make you successful, if you do not implement those principles.

Ooops, I forgot, Brian had no trouble whatsoever making the $10,000.00. He later on gave them to John Chow in a public ceremony.

Our Social Media Marketing 101 continues to grow and it is a forum to present business opportunities…

I enjoy passing along what I have learned from Brian, through 22 years of military leadership and experience, through 8 years of search and rescue experience, and a few other endeavors that have opened my eyes and helped make me successful.

On the first article of this series, I promised that we were going to analyze:

a. Brian’s technique to make $10,000 in a few weeks using FaceBook. We did that.

b. Hidden costs. That will be the topic for the next and last article.

c. Tools. Will be discussed on the next article.

d. Buzz. You read how the buzz spread, starting with John Chow’s Article, and through all of us who followed Brian’s path to success.

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Viral Buzz; pt 3

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I started this series of postings with “The Road to $10,000.00 in 37 days”. And, just yesterday I posted the second part of the series called: “The John Chow Review, Buzz”. Today, we will continue with the “Viral Buzz”.

What do you think happened when the millions of people that read and subscribe to John Chow dot Com read John’s review about Brian Campbell’s goal of making $10,000 in a few weeks using FaceBook?

On the words of John, “when someone says that he is going to make $10,000 in ___ weeks, he either makes it or don’t…” so, the seed of curiosity is planted. The buzz has started. John also published Brian’s FaceBook profile name so we could add him as our friend…

To be honest, I did not owned a FaceBook account, and really was not that much curious about Social Media either. But, I had to see if Brian was going to succeed.

I started my FaceBook account and added Brian as my friend. He was explaining step by step what he was doing… and was asking us to imitate him… so, what could we loose, I started adding friends too. Quickly, I had a few hundred like minded friends who were watching Brian, and, like the Pied Piper, he was leading us. He started the P.R.I.S.M. group, and asked us to join, we did. He started making YouTube videos, and we watched. He asked us to post our ideas and opinions on his group wall, and, since we were actually learning by doing, and following his example, we complied. His wall had hundreds of comments, and we were excited that our personal friends number was growing by leaps and bounds. Soon I had 500 friends.

I met great marketers. I made great friends from almost every Nation in the world. All of us with a goal, watch and see if Brian was going to make it.

Brian taught us the value of cultivating friendships. He told us to make sure and we shared our knowledge. He also asked us to start our own groups on FaceBook, while following his example, and he instructed us to pass along the knowledge that he was giving us for free.

By doing this, by creating groups, and by spreading the knowledge that we had recently acquired, we learned even more, and we established our credibility.

Brian’s groups promptly multiplied, and he quickly reached the magic number of 5000 friends, the maximum you can get on FaceBook.

He told us to listen when FaceBook displayed it’s dreaded warning labels. And soon, we all were learning not only from Brian, but from each other’s experience.

In a month, I reached over 1000 friends, and my group reached 500, not as exciting as 5000 friends and 1500 group members, but I was learning…

By now, tens of thousands of people were following Brian, watching his videos, and asking for more…

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