Have you ever been cheated by a beautiful profile picture on Facebook or MySpace? Now you know how they took those pictures! Absolutely hilarious!
Samsung’s latest social media campaign teaches you how to take better pictures of yourself! There’s a reason why I call it social media marketing instead of viral marketing. Let’s take a look at how social media it is with this social media campaign. Laugh your heart out watching this video:
Absolutely funny isn’t it? Very viral too! This is the kinda thing you would wanna share with all your friends. But wait! This is not all, the individual characters shown each have their very own videos too! But wait, that’s still not all! These characters have Facebook profiles too! I just requested to all Petra Fry on Facebook, let’s see if i get a response hahahaha
In response to mounting threats of real-time search capabilities offered by social networks like Twitter and Facebook, Google has just launched (today) a ‘past hour’ filter search results capability. With this feature, you can now search for the latest results based on relevancy to your keywords. In a world where most keywords are dominated by high ranking sites like Wikipedia in a regular Google search, you can now filter your results to find the latest (past one hour) results.
This feature really opens up quite a lot of possibilities to help you find the latest and freshest of information online. For example, if you search for “digital marketing” in a regular search, you get Wikipedia’s link at the top spot. While according to Google that is the most relevant result, it most likely (or in this case, definitely) is not the latest. Read the rest of this entry »
The Nielsen Company has recently released a study on the usage of social media among Americans. Guess what, the usage has tripled! Interestingly, here’s a chart on the amount of advertising/marketing dollars spent. As you can see, when advertisers are cutting overall marketing budgets, spend on social media marketing has increased for all industries.
While there’s a lot of hype surrounding social media marketing as the new rules of marketing, including written books on social media marketing such as the one written by Tamar Weinberg, there are also skeptics with different views calling social media marketing as the biggest fad.
I believe social media marketing is indeed the next big thing (if it isn’t already) and it’s here to stay for a long time. What might potentially kill social media marketing are those who treat it as a one-way advertising channel, instead of a channel to build relationship, engagement and most importantly, conversations.
What say you?
If you’re interested in learning more about social media marketing, here’s a great book for you to read.
There has been a lot of buzz over the last few years that there will be more and more entrepreneurs in the next 5-10 years. In as early as 2005 in the United States, one in ten people were already involved in some forms of internet businesses or making full time or part time income online. By now, I’m sure the numbers have increased tremendously and you would’ve heard of countless stories of successful digital entrepreneurs, for example:
Mark Zuckerberg, the (at time of writing) 25 year old founder and CEO of Facebook
Alex Tew, the 21 year old dude who brought you his Million Dollar Home Page back in 2005 (imagine making a million bucks, just by selling pixels in one homepage!)
Carl Ocab, the 14 year old Kid Blogger from the Philippines who’s making 4 figures in USD a month, probably 5 figures by the time you read this
The list can go on and on and on…
Why are these digital entrepreneurs become who they are, digital entrepreneurs, and why you should consider becoming one too? I’m sure everyone’s got their own story to tell, here’s what I believe are the top 10 reasons why you (or any other digital entrepreneurs) should start building an income online today, hopefully they’ll give you some food for thoughts:
1. Retiring young and retiring rich
Every once in a while, we get approached by financial planners who’ll map our lives out financially and calculate the income we need to make in order to retire the way we want to. Well, do you like the figures? Here’s something new, digital entrepreneurship, when done right, can actually help you retire younger and much more richer too! Look back at the fine examples above, god, aren’t they young?
2. Financial security
Ever been through a recession from a global financial crisis? Did you know how many careers were destroyed and how high the retrenchment rate was? You know what, digital entrepreneurs are affected too, but a lot of them actually make more money during the recession too! Digital entrepreneurship is not 100% recession proof but it’s 100% safer than a 9-5 retrenchment risk. The funny thing is, many actually turn to digital entrepreneurship AFTER they were retrenched, and they always ask the same question – why didn’t I think of this earlier? Read the rest of this entry »
Successful digital entrepreneurs always, always have certain habits that make they successful, little things here and there that make them so good at building their incomes online. Here’s what I believe are the top 10 most common traits of successful digital entrepreneurs:
1. Knowing how to manage your money.
Most digital entrepreneurs embark on their journey from a small startup with a small budget for setup. Spend only on necessity and don’t splurge it all. Just a quick example, if your setup is an office for 5, then get only the most basic things you need. A normal desk or cubicle functions just as well as a fancy one that costs 3 times more. Spending the extra money on the fancy one doesn’t benefit the business very much now does it? On the other hand, if your employee needs a higher specifications of a laptop in order to work better and faster, then by all means spend that money.
2. Having multiple game plans and knowing when to quit
Digital entrepreneurs don’t invest all their eggs in one basket. They try out certain things, invest a fair amount of time to make it work, evaluate, and decide to continue or call it quits and try other things. It’s good to be persistence but there’s a fine line between calculated persistent efforts versus plain stubbornness. Sometimes, the only way to move forward is to quit and move on, on a different path. Read the rest of this entry »
When I first started with digital marketing, I spent tremendous time Googling for information and how to manuals. As you would expect, there are just too many Gurus out there offering very different tips from each other and they all have excellent valid points. So who should we listen to? Who’s hotter than the other in one specific topic? Can Alexa ranking really make a judgement?
Advertising Age has a list called the AdAge Power150. It’s an awesome list of the hottest digital marketing blogs in the world, ranked and updated daily through their system.
To save you time, here’s a list of the 100 hottest digital marketing blogs in the world to help you build a sustainable income online. These are the best of the best digital marketing blogs out there for you get inspired and learn from.
Read them, visit their websites, learn, and come back to KeepMovingForward.Asia for more!
This morning I came across an interesting study called the Ruder Finn Intent Index. The chart below summarizes the top 22 reasons why people go online. I find this to be a very useful data for any digital entrepreneurs.
The survey is done on a sample size of 500 American adults, 18 years old and above. What’s more interesting is that the data is dynamic and is updated on a quarterly basis. You should really visit the site, play around with it, drill down further and discover more trends or insights. It’s awesome!
Here’s a screen cap of the results:
Top 22 things people go online for - useful information for Digital Entrepreneurs
Successful digital entrepreneurs always, always have certain habits that make they successful, little things here and there that make them so good at building their incomes online. Here’s what I believe are the top 10 most common traits of successful digital entrepreneurs:
