Social Media Players Will Add To Your Profits

Tonight’s Social Media Radio Show will have CEO of companies that can help you share your story better in social media.

We know that a story will stay with a person much better that a list of products and services. People think in stories.. help them learn about your message, your missions and your passion and they will be more likely to share it with many others.

Features guests:

Burt HermanBurt Herman (@Burt Herman) is the CEO of Storify.com. He is an entrepreneurial journalist. 

Storify is in private beta, and can be described a way to create stories using social media. Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories.

@EdLovesSumo and I have been using storify and wondering at the possibilities. Burt will tell us when we all can use it.

Jordan Kretchmer

Jordan Kretchmer (@jkretch), Founder and CEO of Livefyre background is in product development and brand strategy. At 17, he started his full-time career designing web applications for brands ranging from Subaru to Match.com to Pepsi to MINI Cooper. He spent nine years in the advertising industry, and where he managed the digital development teams.

Livefyre will turn your comments into LIVE conversations. You can replace your static comment section with a live stream of comments, images, and video. Built on chat technology, Livefyre brings the most engaging live conversations right to your content.

imageEric Goldstein (@eGoldstein) is the CEO and founder of Amplify.com where he says “conversation is king”. He’s been on the show a couple of times and when I talked to the other guys, I realized how these all are working on the same goal.

Eric is a big USER of Amplify and we’ve had many great stories come out of extending the conversations that get started on Twitter.

Tune in to Social Media Radio at 7:00 PM Pacific (10:00 PM Eastern) on Friday 10/22 (that’s tonight)

Log into the chat at http://BlogTalkRadio.com/warren

And please TWEET, Share and LIKE this announcement, The more we grow, the more our your grow. Let’s all tell the story of Profitable Social Media together!

Is Social Media a Game or a $2 Billion Market?

Why would anyone waste time playing a silly game on Facebook?

That’s what the majority of users are saying.

But think for a moment about the small part that does play. By “Small” I mean 75,000,000 users on Farmville.

Facebook now has  team working on  marketing with games, developing ways to make the user experience better. Targeted ads, to be sure.. but also connecting people similar interest

People who use Facebook either tend to tell us that they love playing games or hate them, and we haven’t had the right tools to enable developers to grow their games while at the same time providing a great user experience for non-gamers. We’re building more sophisticated tools that will allow us all to be more successful against those goals.

For game players, here are some improvements we’re excited to be launching today:

  • Full stories in News Feed so they won’t miss when a friend shares an action or needs help in a game. The more active a person is in a game, the more prominent the stories will be.
  • Smarter bookmarks on the home page that will automatically appear and reorder based on the games they’re playing. They will no longer need to individually bookmark apps, and it will be easier to get to favorite apps.
  • A clearer, highlighted number for pending requests or tasks alongside bookmarks.
  • Requests in the Games Dashboard, where they can manage all their game activity and discover new games.

Facebook Developers Page

And best of all.. less announcements to the rest of us that aren’t involved in the game?

How will you include this market in your profitable social media plans?

LOCATION: Ask Your Phone a Question and Get Nearby Answers

Local media continues to evolve with Ask.com going back to it’s roots and actually answering questions.

ASK says that about a 1/3 of its queries are in the form of a question, that about 5 times more than other search engines.

The new twist?

A new iPhone app coming form Ask will be location aware.

Social Media Revolution

When we wrote Twitter Revolution two years ago, we were laughed at a for calling the change in marketing and selling a revolution.

Now Eric Qualman updates a video tied to his excellent book Socialnomics with data we didn’t have just a few months back.. and I wonder Was I underestimating.

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