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VUE Media Group (www.VUEMediaGroup.com) enables cost-effective, customized mobile marketing and communications for any brand, media company, marketing agency, or content owner. VUE Media Group (www.VUEMediaGroup.com) is an industry leader in advanced mobile technology and solutions for clients across all industries. Our solution is built on a multi-functional patent-pending web-based software, custom integrated campaigns, and exceptional support to our clients. VUE Media Group, Keeping Internet Solutions Simple! Once again, thank you for your interest and I look forward to speaking with you soon. Please send me two times you might be available for us to further discuss your needs and how we can help. To Your Success, Shawn Welk 904.545.3928 ShawnWelk@gmail.com www.InSocialMedia.com Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves. Herbert Hooverar future. My dept works in the Internets social world. Check outMyspace.com/NUSwerve, Myspace.com/Interchanges, Myspace.com/VWDUBClub, MySpace.com/CaitlinBrunell,Myspace.com/LiveVolvo

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Online connections can build customer base January 12, 2009

Online connections can build customer base

 

Jacksonville Business Journal – by Dolly Penland Correspondent

 

Many people get most of their information from the Internet, especially when planning to buy products or services. Consumers want solid product information rather than responding to traditional marketing techniques. However, one thing that hasn’t changed over the years is the value of advice and recommendations from friends before buying.

One way companies can find those most interested in their offerings and provide the information they want is to make customers into friends through social networking sites such as Myspace or Facebook.

“In the past, with traditional media, advertisers would just dominate the market by pushing their message through as many outlets as possible: TV, radio, newsprint, whereas now the buyer has control,” said Shawn Welk, director of new media at Interchanges.com. One technique the company calls “social droving” involves identifying and inviting likely “friends.”

Because many buyers avoid any hint of a hard sell, those who join a company’s network presumably have a genuine interest in the product. “You invite them to be part of the network and they choose to be part of that network,” said Welk, who works with businesses on social marketing strategies. “They can stay with you or opt out” at a later date.

Businesses and other groups can create networks of friends. “It allows for more information without being bombarded with heavy sales tactics,” Welk said. Businesses “use it as an information tool, to send information to prospective customers.”

Social networking won’t guarantee a sale, but it does give companies another channel to pass on information.

“Traditionally, Volvo and VW customers e-mail or call,” said Dennis Walters, Internet sales and marketing manager at O’Steen Automotive Group, which has two sites, www.myspace.com/livevolvo and www.myspace.com/vwdubclub. With computer-savvy clients, “I find them on Myspace and become friends only. They have to accept when they see [the friend request], and they say, ‘That’s the guy I talked to when I went down there or e-mailed.’ It actually works out a lot better.”

Businesses can market to friends via bulletins, blogs or comments. That information can range from offered specials to simple product updates.

“I don’t use Myspace as a sales tool,” Walters said. “I use it as a way to keep in touch, a contact tool to let them know if we’re having free car washes, or new accessories come in, or if we’re looking for certain trade-in cars, or an event going on. We use it as a communication tool more than anything else.”

Walters said being a friend, not a salesman pushing a product, pays off. “I’m getting a very favorable response. Several customers have bought from me [who are] friends.”

Social networking isn’t yet a stand-alone marketing tool, but rather a complement to a standard advertising campaign. “You can never get rid of television advertising, the radio advertising or even the newspaper advertising,” Walters said.

However, social networking offers a chance to target the most desirable prospects. “Our demographic for Volvo and VW are highly educated and 95 percent of [these car] buyers have broadband in their homes. They’re very Internet-savvy. If your demographic is an educated, Internet-savvy customer, go and advertise where the customers are going to be.”

Social networks also help raise brand awareness, whether for companies or other groups, such as nonprofits.

That’s why Caitlin Brunell decided in November to add a Myspace page,www.myspace.com/caitlinscloset, for her charity Caitlin’s Closet. Founded in 1996, the nonprofit collects new and gently worn ball gowns and donates them to girls who otherwise would not get to go to a prom or other formal function for lack of a dress.

“When it started, it was, ‘We’ll see how many dresses we can get and figure out how we can give them out.’ Now, it’s, ‘Where can we store them all?’ ” said Stacy Brunell, Caitlin’s mom.

The Brunells are getting as involved with their Myspace communities as with the real-life communities in which they live and work. Stacy’s husband and former Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback, Mark, uses his Myspace page to draw friends’ attention to The Brunell Family Foundation, but he also has given the page more personal attention. For example, his social networking friends were the first to find out that he had signed with the New Orleans Saints for the upcoming season.

 

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New Media Overview February 29, 2008

Interchanges.com Helping The Companies Shift To New Media  New Media Marketing is a relatively new concept utilized by businesses developing online communities which allow current and potential customers to congregate and discuss a particular brand, product or service. In most cases, the online communities include mechanisms such as blogs, podcasts, videos, message boards, and product reviews, all of which contribute to a transparent forum to post praises, criticisms, questions, and suggestions.  Also included in the realm of new media is Mobile Marketing.  Mobile phone users (xx million in the US alone) opt-in to a short-code using a certain keyword (TEXT VW to 59925) and once they are opted-in, they will receive messages tailored around the campaign to learn more about the product or service.  Other unique and highly effective campaigns can be developed as well.  One of the primary reasons to use New Media Marketing is because traditional advertising is losing its influence on consumers. This premise is backed by statistical evidence demonstrating a growing trend of consumers making purchasing decisions from Internet research and referrals. Most people agree that feedback and reviews from like-minded peers hold more weight than corporate marketing messages dispersed through traditional television, radio, direct mail, or newspaper advertising.  Combining Social Media Optimization and Mobile Marketing can have huge impacts on delivering messages to your targeted demographics.Although businesses would be exposing certain weaknesses to the marketplace by allowing individuals, or even competitors, to post critical comments, responding with an honest and transparent answer designed around solving the issue at hand may mitigate potential risks. Marketing Experiments has conducted research on the topic of transparent marketing. For More Info:www.Interchanges.com