How to “Win at Social Media ” – from StomperNet Live

March 7th, 2009 View Comments

This is day two at StomperNet Live.  The morning will start up with a presentation by Perry Belcher.  The title is…

Social Media:  How to Build a Massive List of Rabid Fans & Become a Celebrity in ANY Niche in 90 Days or Less.

Perry is #24 in Twitter rank.  He got there in four months.  He says that he only spent a total of about 2 hours per day to get there.  Here are some of his comments…

NOTE:  Unfortunately, StomperNet has requested that I take these notes down from off the blogosphere.  I’m disappointed, because I thought it was good information that would help build appreciation for the value of StomperNet Live.  Yet, they seem to feel that the information is only for members.

From the start of StomperNet Live, we were told that we could not blog about certain confidential roundtable sessions.  This was not one of them so I assumed I could write about it.

My appologies.  It is down now.

I am just keeping the two small notes below.  One is my personal thought.  The 2nd has to do with a comment that has been mentioned in other blogs that would not make sense if to others if I removed it.  If StomperNet has any more problems like this, I’ll be happy to oblige.

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are the big three players in Social Media.  Interestingly he did not talk about LinkedIn or StumbleUpon and that is probably because there is little you can do in them to influence them.

Perry tried reaching M. C. Hammer a couple times and he did not respond.  So he told his followers and over 900 people told M.C. Hammer to call Perry.  Five minutes later the manger for M.C. Hammer called and told him that M.C. is sleeping and will call him when he wakes up.

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  • Hi Corey,

    Your pod casts on Social Media were great.

    I learned a lot from them. I have built a following on facebook of over 1025 Real Estate Professionals in Charlotte and provide information to them to help them sell new homes in Charlotte, NC. http://BuildersDirectOnline.com is my new public search engine for finding new homes in Charlotte. I learned a lot at our last meetup and did a press release yesterday. I was surprised how high the press release climbed on google.

    I noticed by looking at the source code of this blog page that the link to archive.org in your previous post has a no follow tag. I'm interrested in seeing if google will view my link in this post as an external link to my site.
  • Thanks Cory,

    I also found the "Way Back Machine" in the firefox add-on SearchStatus. This utility is built-in and one of the options available in the pull down menu. The info regarding Blogs and Forums clears things up for me. Thanks.
  • Nice to hear from you again. To answer your questions below, you can type into Google "Way Back Machine" and you'll get to http://www.archive.org/index.php. I think that's what you are referring to below.

    Regarding the nofollow tag, remember that simply means that you will not get any Google PageRank from that link. It does not mean that people (and even search engines) will "not follow" the link. The link is fine.

    Getting involved in Blogs and forums is a fine way for people to find you, just don't expect it to do much for your actual SEO. I hope this helps.
  • Looks like Google replaced the Cached pages. Corey, you had shown us in class how to get to a website "time machine" which showed what your site looked like in the past. Can you refresh my memory on what utility you used to get that information.

    I also had a question on blogs and forums. I noticed that a lot of keyword links that I have been putting in blogs contain the "nofollow" tag when I examine the source code. Does this mean that I am just waisting my time and should be looking for blog or forum sites that do not have the "nofollow" tags next to my embedded links?
  • was at the conference but missed this presentation :( Found your post and looked at the Google cache and could still see the notes :)
  • I am very jealous you got to hear Perry Belcher, he is really dead on on many of his testimonies.
    It's nice to see someone actually chart a course, or protocol on what, how, and when you should Twitter!
    I must ask Corey, how do 'you' feel about Twitter?

    Great notes, I plan on using them!
  • Roy
    You touch on some great points Corey. Looks like your learning some valuable information down there. Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to hear more.
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