Kansas City SEO and SEM

By: Anne Haynes
As some of you may know I’m interested in helping my friend Jeff Hinkin make it big in the music industry. He is amazing and sings, plays harmonica and the guitar, not all at the same time, but close. And I think the world and especially the US needs to love Jeff Hinkin’s music – he’s AWESOME

I’ve been educating Jeff and his brother Jason on how to launch a social media campaign. I know the best way to market Jeff Hinkin is to associate him to John Lennon. His voice is so much like John Lennon. If you get a chance to listen to him live in Monterey, California singing Beatles covers or his original music, it’s an experience.

Jeff is being featured as the Arzuk Artist of the Week starting March 16, 2009. Jeffsends me the Myspace marketing 411 from Arzuk Productions/Record. The email below from Arzuk speaks volumes….um

rom: Arzuk Productions / Artison Avenue Records
Date: Jan 29, 2009 7:30 PM

Hello from Arzuk Productions & Entertainment
Congratulations for become
Arzuk Artist of the Week
For the week of March 16, 2009
You will be featured at:
www. arzukproducitons. com
www. myspace. com/arzuk
www. myspace. com/arzukartistoftheweek
www. myspace. com/arzukfans
www. myspace. com/arzukangwish

Also at:
www. myonitlive. com/arzuk
www.myonitarzukartistoftheweek
www. reverbnation. com/arzukartistoftheweek
www. facebook. com
www. myyearbook. com
www. IMradio. com
http://www. xndhangout. com/Artisoftheweek

We will provide you with some banners for each of the Principal places where we promote you, we will send different bulletins. During the day to invite friends to, list to your music, visit you pages at
myspace, myonit and Arzuk, also to see if you have a video at our theater at Arzuk productions.

We send e-mails to over 800 friends using yahoo and hotmail
We post blogs at most of the sites we mention above.

Also soon ( this is just a project not effective just yet) we will find
your local news paper and put a small add mention that you are
the Artist of that Week for Arzuk.
Also we will do that here at ridgecrest California with the local paper
Daily Independent.

Now we strongly advice you to use some of the banners,
This is the way to promote your self and send your friend
To listen to your work.

It will help if you can repost some of the bulletins we send.

At the end of the season we will talk about making a compilations Cd
With all the musicians involve, this season 14 artist.
The objective of the Cd is not to make nobody rich, is jus to give us
As independent musicians some more exposure always need it.

We sell the Cd between 10.00 and 12.00 dlls.
Eack artist get between 80 to 1.00 per cd sold.
We at Arzuk pay for the duplications and art of the Cd
and we take for each cd between 2.10 and 2.50 for the
productions of the cd.

If any artist would like to buy Cd’s the price will be only
the cost of the cd $2.50
This is a good way to promote your self.
However this is a plan only and we will let you know more
Later on.
Well this all we need to let you know for now
Thanks and we hope this experience is as great for you
As is for us.
Keep that music Rocking and if you have any questions
please feel free to call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx
We are located in California so sometimes we have a
Big difference on time, however we always handy.
So just call if I’m sleeping I let you know lol lol.
But we work until late very late. and
always some one is early very early.
Take care
G

Now really, is this going to get Jeff where he needs to be?

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Following are my thoughts after reading a post by Louis Gray. Geechee_girl speaks her mind in more ways than one. And William educates the masses on “closed source”.

Twitter’s API Grip
Boo on Twitter for being greedy closed source developers! I don’t feel twitter should ask for money from users. I will not pay for all the functionality that Geechee_girl mentions in her comment. Twitter needs to fix their code to scale for all the other services using the API. Twitter there is enough money for everyone. Givers gain and takers toil!

I love automation and integration tools with Twitter. I think everyone uses Twitter differently. I don’t have time to spend 8 hours behind Twitter using my mobile or my computer. Automation tools allow me to not be rude and automatically follow someone that follows me. I don’t think spam is an issue either. If someone spams, I unfollow them – it’s that simple.

William thanks for bringing up the white elephant! Nice job!

Kudos to Twitter if this is in fact the case. I’ve been waiting for them to put the kibosh on autofollow, autounfollow, Qwitter, FriendorFollow and other third party tools that promote spammy practices (even if the third party tool creators did not intend for that to be the case, they have done little to stop the abuse, so if Twitter does, good). Is putting the kibosh on autoDM on the list? Man, I hope so. Twitter works because of involvement of REAL PEOPLE. Automation is not real. obsession over follower and following numbers is not real. Linkbombing is not real. Twitter is ushering in an era of new business, and I hope they stick to their guns about the “real people” “real engagement” aspects of it now and in future. On the separate note of Twitter making money, I hope they don’t sell follows, as was posited recently, but I hope they do start charging for SMS usage in excess of 20 Tweeters (for example, I get 30 people to my phone, so I would pay for the privilege of the extra ten), charge to get Track back, IM, etc – all the features we miss. Maybe charge for filtering too, so I could lose the annoying #tcot hashtag, for one… ;) They do lack some features, like search in your follower and following lists, things like that would be handy, and I did I mention how much I miss track?

Originally posted as a comment by geechee_girl on louisgray.com using Disqus.

The Elephant in the room

If you are an Open Source Developer or Content creator (If you are a member of either service you are a content creator) you should not use Facebook or Twitter.

By using Facebook or Twitter you are essentially raising the value of their companies and applications. Both Facebook and Twitter are closed source content silos that do not allow you to control the content that you create. Neither Facebook or Twitter put the content creator/members at the top of their pyramids when thinking about revenue models. Each of these companies puts their Companies first above the members and communities that have given them value and money.

If you are a developer you may be able to make some money by creating applications for Facebook or Twitter ; but I do not believe that Facebook or Twitter will ever allow your application to eat into their user base or their revenue. Because they are both closed source companies that have the ability to literally cut you off by changing the code/api or by using their proprietary knowledge to build an application that you can not possibly compete with. As a coder understand that when you build and extend Facebook or Twitters propitiatory platforms that you undermine the longevity of the Open Internet.

Content owners and Developers do not help these closed source companies (Twitter and Facebook) in their goal of creating another closed source content trap that will extract hundreds of Millions on dollars from their member and developer communities and give nothing back in return.

Originally posted as a comment by william on louisgray.com using Disqus.

By: Anne Haynes

I’ve been reading the Social Media Predictions 2009. The introduction by Peter Kim speaks volumes; he subscribes to RSS feeds. From the latest information I’ve seen RSS feed subscriptions are down. And it makes sense; people don’t have time to read thousands of RSS feeds in a day. I’ve been involved in the internet since the TRS-80 or 1980 when I used command line to get recipes over the internet. While recent studies suggests smarter people have thousands of RSS feeds, who really has time to read them? It’s the same analogy of having too many friends to follow with social media. How many social media friends have you never met in person are online friends? What defines a social media friend? Is it the person that says good morning after you’ve broadcasted “Good Morning” on Twitter? Is it when you’ve posted a photo of funny socks on Brightkite and everyone else takes photos of their socks and posts them on Brightkite? Or is it just the information and/or feeling you get when you learn about the Google and Yahoo deal and the fact that someone cares about your socks! I’m looking forward to seeing and witnessing the movements in social media. If you interested in what some of the experts are saying, check out the Social Media Predictions for 2009.