Creative idea + Technology = Dynamic Architecture
Posted by Ash Patel in Technology, Viral Marketing, YouTube
After thousands of years in which buildings were static, David Fisher’s Dynamic Skyscraper is an important step ahead towards Future Architecture. The Rotating Tower brings three main futuristic aspects, three revolutions.
The first revolutionary aspect is related to the shape of the building, which changes continuously. It is “Architecture as Part of the Environment”, adjusting [...]
Is Print DEAD? [InfoGraphic]
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Is The Printing Industry Being Crushed By The Internet?
Source: www.Sketchee.com
8 Facts About Facebook’s $33 Billion Valuation [InfoGraphic]
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Did you know Facebook’s recent valuation is estimated at a whopping $33 Billion? Here’s an interesting Infographic by AllFacebook.com to put things into perspective:
Source: www.AllFacebook.com
Social Media For Insurance Professionals: VIDEO
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Books, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Am super EXCITED!!!, as after hours of to-ing & fro-ing, writing the video scripts, browsing for the ‘right’ music, giving my video guy a hard time ;-) …etc, finally, the short VIDEO for our Social Media For Insurance Professionals book is ready!!!…must say, I like the end result
We would like to thank Mari [...]
Social Media Ad Spending [InfoGraphic]
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Social Media Ad spending is on the rise and I guess, rightly so! Check out this interesting InfoGraphic by Flowtown:
Source: www.Flowtown.com
StumbleUpon: Did You Know? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Marketing, Social Media, Viral Marketing
Social Bookmarking has come a long way and the following StumbleUpon InfoGraphic may surprise you to say the least and will make you start “stumbling”:
Source: www.Penn-Olson.com & www.BlueGlass.com
FACEBOOK FACTS: You Probably Didn’t Know About
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing
Some interesting stats & facts about Facebook:
Better Facebook: Free Script To Make Your Facebook Experience Better
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing
Better Facebook is a FREE user script that plugs into your browser and adds a lot of great enhancements to your existing Facebook account.
Here’s just some of its 75 features:
1) Tabbed News Feeds
2) Advanced Feed Filters
3) Hide Posts You’ve Already Read
4) Highlight New Comments
5) Static Header And Left Column
6) Quick Links To [...]
Craigs-List Stats: Did You Know?
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Marketing, Technology, Viral Marketing
Here’s some interesting, fascinating and SHOCKING stats about CraigsList you probably didn’t know about:
BIG BROTHER: Do You Know Who’s Watching YOU?
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
These stats are interesting as well as scary in a way:
Source: Wordstream.com
How the INTERNET works – InfoGraphic
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Another awesome infographic by Online Schools:
Social Media For Professionals: VIDEO
Posted by Ash Patel in Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Books, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Am super EXCITED!!!, as after hours of to-ing & fro-ing, writing the video scripts, browsing for the ‘right’ music, giving my video guy a hard time ;-) …etc, finally, the short VIDEO for our Social Media For Professionals book is ready!!!…must say, I like the end result…would lurvve to have your feedback too:
We [...]
FLOCK – The Social Browser
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
I’d stumbled upon this new “social browser” a while back, but didn’t quite get to installing and using it, but now that I did, must say, am impressed.
FLOCK’s tagline: Built for Facebook & Twitter
Here’s an excerpt from their website:
Flock is faster, simpler, and more friendly. Literally. It’s the only sleek, [...]
Top 10 lists of interesting trivia information
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing
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Geography
Countries
Vacations
Automobiles
Business & Consumerism
Miscellaneous
Social Media For Professionals: Book Foreword by Mari Smith
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Books, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…you’ve been hearing about these online social networking sites on a daily basis and may be wondering:
“What exactly is Social Media?”
“Is this just another fad?”
“Can it ‘really’ help me grow my business?”
Social Media is a fundamental shift in how we function on [...]
The Social Network: Movie Trailer
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing, YouTube
YES, a movie based on the FACEBOOK story:
– Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg;
– Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook’s founding president; and
– Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.
UK Prime Minister in discussion with the Facebook Founder
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Talk about the ‘impact’ of Facebook, check out this interesting video between David Cameron (UK PM) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) on how to engage/encourage ideas from people to get the country out of debt…is this a good idea? What do you think?
The Venus Project: Designing the Future Cities
Posted by Ash Patel in Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing, YouTube
Because of my architectural background, I’ve always been interested in everything ‘design’…from furniture design to houses, commercial buildings to multiplexes to urban design to even design of cities…and, lucky for me, since graduating in 1995, I’ve been involved with various types of projects, small, big and the mega!
‘Futuristic’ being one of my five strengths, [...]
The Modern Day Version of A-B-C
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
This is quite interesting :o)
Social Media For Insurance Professionals: Book Foreword by Matthew Sapaula
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Books, Twitter, Viral Marketing, YouTube
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one MOST RESPONSIVE to change” says the biologist Charles Darwin.
This is probably the only thing I will agree with him on, yet it well-describes the financial services industry undergoing reform and especially, change.
Insurance professionals [...]
AT and T creative ads
Posted by Ash Patel in Advertising, Branding, Marketing, Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing
AT & T ad campaign
40,310 Facebook Fans In 4 Days: Case study
Posted by Ash Patel in Email Marketing, Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Viral Marketing
An interesting case study article on AllFacebook.com, by Dennis Yu of BlitzLocal.com
When we took over the Facebook Fan page for Weekly World News , they had 3,244 fans. 4 days later, we had 40,310 fans– 10 times larger. We’re going explain exactly how we did it in this exclusive article for AllFacebook.com. In [...]
World’s First Social Payment System: www.PayWithATweet.com
Posted by Ash Patel in Social Media, Technology, Twitter, Viral Marketing
Pay with a Tweet is a platform that lets content owners sell their goods in exchange for a single tweet rather than cash. Developed by German-American Innovative Thunder, Pay with a Tweet bills itself as “the first social payment system where people pay with the value of their [...]
Social Media + Email Marketing = More Clicks
Posted by Ash Patel in Email Marketing, Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Twitter
Study shows that E-mail messages that include options to share content on social media sites drive significant increases in click-throughs according to a new study released today by GetResponse, an e-mail marketing firm.
Specifically, the study of 500 million e-mails sent using the service found that e-mails [...]
Social Media Check-in Earns You Hotel Rewards
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Technology, Twitter
It’s standard practice for hotels and airlines to offer discounts and other rewards to their own best customers, but a new service aims to pass those benefits on to other consumers as well. Specifically, users of location-based social networking services including Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Loopt, Brightkite, Google Buzz and Google Latitude can now coordinate [...]
Facebook “Like” Increases Traffic to Blogs by 50%
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Technology
TypePad users who installed the Facebook “Like” widgets on their blog sidebars have experienced a 50% increase in referral traffic from Facebook collectively, TypePad revealed in a blog post.
Approximately 1,500 TypePad bloggers have installed the “Like” buttons on their blogs since the widget became available on the platform in early May.
Shortly after releasing the [...]
Social Media For Insurance Professionals, Agents & Brokers
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Social Media Books, Twitter, YouTube
Discover How This Lead Getting System Can Help You Attract Your Own, Exclusive, Qualified Leads Without Buying Leads Or Making A Single Cold Call.
Why selling insurance is doomed to fail most of the time
As an insurance agent, you’ll know how difficult it is to sell an insurance policy to a lead. People don’t want [...]
Facebook Storefront: Setup your’s in 15 minutes
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Technology
Facebook Storefront:- PAYVMENT:
Since Payvment launched in November 2009, more than 20,000 businesses and individuals have started to sell goods on Facebook and over 500,000 Facebook users have shopped for products in stores using the Payvment application.
Christian Taylor, Payvment CEO, says: “Facebook users want a buying experience that captures what’s truly unique about the Facebook [...]
MASS MINGLING: Why the online revolution is fueling an ever increasing range of real world meet-ups.
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Social Media Books, Technology, Twitter, YouTube
MASS MINGLING | Thanks to the online revolution, hundreds of millions are now actively searching for, finding, connecting/signaling, and staying in touch with likeminded souls in the virtual world. Constant updates, GPS and mobile online access is now bringing this explosion of dating, networking, socializing and mingling to the real world domain.
Here’s what driving [...]
iPhone 4: Are you wondering what’s new in the soon to be released new iPhone?
Posted by Ash Patel in Technology
Apple announced it’s new iPhone-4 today, due to be release on June 24th:
Apart from the sleek looks, iPhone 4 boasts:
- Retina Display
- Engineered Glass
- Stainless Steel Band
- Apple A4 Processor
- Gyro + Accelerometer
- 5MP camera + LED
- Mic + Speaker
- iBooks
- Multitouch…and much more!!!
Check out the COOL video here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/design/#design-video
Social Media Books cooking in our labs:
Posted by Ash Patel in Facebook, Social Media, Social Media Books, Twitter, YouTube
Thanks to all our friends and potential JV partners for helping us finalize the list of 10 books we plan to release this year:
COOKING IN OUR LABS and almost ready to be served:
Social Media For Coaches
Social Media For Accountants
Social Media For Professionals
Social Media For Network Marketers
Social Media For Insurance Professionals
RECIPE FINALIZED :O)
Social Media For [...]
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