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January 4, 2010

Get More Facebook Fans

If you’ve ever tried marketing in social media, you’ll probably have at some point searched for ways of how to get more Facebook fans, right? In this short article I’m going to be sharing with you the easiest way of boosting your fan page numbers quickly and effectively.

First of all, you need targeted fans. Obviously, you’re going to need them targeted as if you don’t the chances of people buying will be slim. This should be based on two factors which are either your geo-location, as well as your industry, or interest group of your business.

The second thing is that you are going to want to attain these fans as quick as you can — obviously, as you will want to make cash as fast as possible. After all, there aren’t many people out there (I doubt you’re one of them), that would rather make money slowly!

The great thing is that uSocial.net can now allow you to buy Facebook fans in packages starting at 1,000 and going up to 10,000 (however, they can deliver much larger numbers if you need them). Now more than ever, you’ll never have to search around futilely looking for options.

But the greatest thing about what they do is that they will handle all your targeting for you as well, meaning that any requirements that you do have based on the kinds of fans you want, will be delivered to your fan page at the end. So it doesn’t matter whether you’re looking for automotive enthusiasts in Australia or home-owners in Singapore, uSocial will be able to find the right people for you, without effort.

Finally, now that you’ve read this article you won’t have to spend time looking around the net for info on how to get more Facebook fans. Now just get out there and use what I’ve taught you!

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December 30, 2008

Bad Chiropractic Marketing can be the Death of your Practice

We’ve all heard the saying, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Yet, it amazes me just how much I see this done within the chiropractic marketing and the profession as a whole. Far too many times I see chiropractors buying expensive media slots in the newspaper or on TV that are yielding mediocre results. It’s almost like these media sharks are feasting on “hope,” as the DC’s that I come into contact regularly with think they’ve just purchased a winning lottery ticket or something. Little do they know the startling reality on the other side. They’re actually killing their practice.

We are in seriously tough times in this country. The economy is in recession, and older forms of chiropractic marketing and advertising do very little good now. If you spend a fortune on marketing right now, you can be sure that your business is going to tank under all the pressure and expense. That means that chiropractors are marketing less to compensate, but continue to only suffer more. You need to market to get new patients through your door, but you can’t afford to do it the same old way. What’s the answer for today’s chiropractors?

You’re probably telling yourself that you don’t have the money to market your chiropractic practice anymore, and you’re wondering how else you can spread the word about your business. The answer is much more exciting than you’ve imagined, and it’s absolutely free to you. So what kind of marketing is this? Well, it’s definitely not TV, newspaper ads, magazines, telemarketing, or postcard drops. These are black holes that will cost you a fortune and yield mediocre results.

There is good news. Even though you may have placed all of your finances in ineffective paid advertisements, you can still get some high-impact massive exposure and tons of new patients for free. This comes in the form of doing your chiropractic marketing on social media outlets like YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, and many others. By the way, at least half of members on these networks are above 30 years of age, contrary to popular belief.

Targeted marketing that specifically hits the demographic you need is the wave of the marketing future. It’s simple and cost effective, and you’ll be amazed at the amount of new patients and business you’ll receive. I can’t express how important it is to start your online marketing on the right foot! If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can seriously damage your credibility in your community from the get-go. This is how many chiropractors have failed. To create success, you need to find someone who has experienced success.

Here’s a great way to start on the road to Web 2.0 success. Get an account started on a popular social media site, and begin to invite friends who live within a 5 mile radius of your practice. Let these people learn about you and start to communicate with them. Once you strike-up friendships, you are then able to share information about your chiropractic practice and draw people who are in need of your services.

You can also begin to be of value to these people by providing them useful information online. When you make daily video blogs or weekly postings about relevant topics, people will begin to see that you can help them, and they’ll take note. For instance, I posted a simple video about headache relief and 3,000 people viewed it within one week! Viral marketing was the cause of all this exposure. When one person saw it and found it helpful, they passed it on to a friend, and so forth. Do you see the power?

You’re now beginning to see the massive potential these social media networks have in store for you. You can literally attract hundreds of people to your website and practice for free. You’re going to begin to see your chiropractic practice soar to unbelievable heights, even in these difficult financial times. With social media sites and Web 2.0, your practice can effortlessly become a vital component of your community and a very profitable business as well.

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December 28, 2008

Twitter and Facebook. Why Should I Bother?

There has been a lot of talk lately about the viral nature of Facebook and Twitter and how it can help build a person’s business. Initially, I took very little notice but the chatter was getting louder and louder, so I decided to look into it.

It didn’t take me long to find out that both of these sites were enormously popular. I had thought that most of the people using these social networking sites were teens, but I was in for a surprise when I saw how many serious and well-known business people had a Facebook and a Twitter page.

It didn’t make much sense to me, so I decided to talk to some people I know who are part of the social networking system and they reported back to me that they were actually ‘doing business’ when they were using these social websites. They said that visits to their personal websites were up dramatically and their sales were also.

The first thing I realized was that the people that were getting the most out of these sites were taking it very seriously. It wasn’t something that they did as a little diversion – it was actually scheduled into their business day. There are now courses that you can take that teach you how to most effectively operate your Facebook and Twitter pages.

Newbies tend to add friends at a frantic pace, but this is not recommended, particularly for business people. Quality is more important that quantity, especially for the first 100-200 people you invite to be your ‘friend’. This intial group of people will be the most impactful and you want to make these high level people in your industry.

Another suggestion is to add content to your sites on a daily basis, if at all possible. You don’t have to spend a lot of time. Sometimes just 5 minutes a day is sufficient. You could update your status, pull up news feeds and comment as much as you can. The search engines love content so try to continually be adding relevant information to your pages.

These website are growing faster than the speed of light. Facebook is the 5th largest visited website in the entire World and Twitter is actually adding more users a day that Facebook. Because you are limited to leaving a very small message on Twitter, it literally only takes seconds to post and you can do it as many times a day as you like. To top it off, they are both free services.

I now have my own Facebook and Twitter accounts and I invite you to sign up also.

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