You DON'T Have to Waste Your Time For Your Business To Benefit From Web 2.0
The Internet's Next Wave is Here NOW How Your Business Can Ride It EFFECTIVELY ...Without the Geeky Details
It's Over!
Your business on the Internet is not the same as it once was. The days of having a web site are over. The days of Google sending you customers are over. The days of pretty web pages are over.
That was Web 1.0.
Welcome to the new Wave: Web 2.0.
And this isn't any old wave. In fact, if you're not riding this wave, you're going to drown or get eaten alive. Not only are you going to be out there in the middle of the ocean without a boat in sight, but you'll be surrounded by sharks just circling closer and closer because they know you can't keep it up forever!
You may have gotten away with it so far, but you aren't going to live if you continue.
Think about this: President Obama was elected by harnessing the power of this new wave. It's how he's continuing to market himself. It helps him seem like he's closer to the people. And he rode the wave to the White House.
This isn't about any particular candidate, either. In fact, after he lost the election, Senator John McCain has a whole group of people who are helping him ride the wave, even though he has admitted to being technically challenged.
Many of the leaders of the world have caught the wave, as well:
The Pope
The Dalai Lama
Oprah
Larry King
...and many others
are all harnessing the power of the wave and riding it into the future.
The writing's on the wall
Of course, you can fight it and want to stick with the same old 1.0.
You may survive for a short amount of time... but you cannot tread water forever!
The lifeboat is here, the helicopter has just dropped the ladder, it's time for you to grab on and get ready for the ride of your life.
I can understand if you don't believe me. Last time this happened, some of the brightest minds on the planet didn't see it coming...
In the beginning, even Bill Gates didn't see it
"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
- Bill Gates, 1993
"Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority."
- Bill Gates, 1998
I remember when everyone thought web pages were just for college kids and socially-inept geeks. I also remember the first time a web address was in a TV ad (espn.com). There were a few of my clients who took my advice and took to the web with a solid business strategy early on. Today, the vital important of the web for business is obvious. Your customers use the web instead of the Yellow Pages, the phone, or print advertising. Once it was the new Wild West. Not any more. The web has come a long way since those early days. Companies who figure out how to use the web are successful. Those who didn't got left behind. Companies like Amazon.com and eBay exploded overnight, while companies like Mervyns went bankrupt.
We're at another one of those times.
If you could go back to the early days of the web, what would you do? You have that choice again. You can ride the wave past the competition or you can sit on your surfboard while the waves passes you by. Are you planning to catch the next one? What if you could catch this one without wasting your time trying to understand it all? Read on to find out how you can do just that. But first, let's look at what's already happening in some businesses:
What if you could DOUBLE your clients?
That's what J.R. Cohen, Operations Manager for CoffeeGroundz, a successful coffee house in Houston did. J.R. and his staff have become the go-to coffee house in Houston because he's surfing the wave.
On the other hand, FedEx FIRED one of its agencies from a multi-million dollar contract because of ONE stupid mistake made in the wild west.. An agency VP made a snide remark to friends about Memphis during a trip to FedEx. By the next morning, that remark was known throughout FedEx and all across the Internet.
Oops! Bye-Bye Business
Used wisely, you can drive hundreds of leads to a web page or blog, create and build relationships with thousands of people who are current or future customers, develop your on-line brand, and out-pace your competition by going where they are in Social Media.
You may be surprised to learn that the fastest growing demographics on social media sites Twitter and Facebook are baby boomers, with females often outpacing males. Hundreds of millions use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media every day. While some post drivel that makes it seem worthless, it is not hard to develop ways to gain the advantages without spending hours doing it. In fact, many organizations have staff members or outsourced experts doing most of the work for them. Just like they do with their web sites.
The question for you is this: How do you take advantage of the next wave, use it to build your business, and avoid the waste of time and mistakes that others have made?
That's What I Do
I'm Stephen Hultquist, and I'm your Geek Whisperer®. I take the over-hyped tech-geek gadgets and websites and help you get down to business. You've heard about social media and probably have seen them on the news, Oprah, and kids' phones and computers. Perhaps they look like toys for kids and anti-social geeks. They may be that for some, but that's NOT all they are. They are also business tools and have emerged as the next wave. Social media can help your business increase revenues by thousands. They can help you deal with customer issues and help you learn what customers are thinking.
The time to get involved is now. The train is leaving the station. If you wait, you'll be playing catch-up ... AGAIN!
A Smart Entrepreneur's View
"Two weeks ago I heard someone say they were 'tweeting on Twitter' and I had
no idea what they were talking about. I literally wondered if there was
something wrong with them. Then I hired Stephen Hultquist as a coach to teach
me what social networks are, how they work, why they work and how they can
supercharge my business by attracting more leads, closing more sales and
satisfying more customers.
"In the very first session with Steve I was able
to join Twitter, set up my account, understand what it is, post tweets from
my cell phone and begin growing my list of followers. Social networking is
revolutionizing the way people and businesses connect. Don't be left
behind, contact the Geek Whisperer today. Put his combination of skills,
experience and technical know-how to work in teaching you how to leverage
social networks to grow your business and make more money"
Jim M Anderson
Executive Coach and Entrepreneur
Colorado
Getting started
If you want to do it yourself, you need to quickly get the complete picture and learn how to avoid the mistakes while spending as little time as possible doing it right. If you DON'T want to do it yourself, you choose the option that will do the work for you while giving you access to add your own personal touch. Choose whichever of the two options works best for you:
Customized social media services to get you started building your brand and business in social media without spending the time learning anything new, or
A 6-week personalized social media coaching program that will teach you all you need to know about how to use social media in your business.
If you just want to get set up and moving with social media without spending time learning how it works, the Social Media Quick Start is for you.
Whether you are brand new to social media or have a ton of existing content that you'd like to use to create a unified social media presence, this is the service for you. Once you sign up, we will:
Create a cohesive presence across the major social sites, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and others
Continue to add sites as they emerge
Develop an overall strategy for monitoring the sites for your presence
Build your presence using content creating and posting strategies across the sites
Maintain and ongoing social media strategy to:
Build your communities
Generate new leads
Drive traffic from multiple sites
Use social media together with your existing communications strategies
...and more
When you'll sign up, you will receive FREE access to the presentation I gave during an exclusive, closed-door session in January. The entrepreneurs at this event, many of them very skilled in marketing and the Internet, came away blown away by the new wave. They learned how to think about social media in their business and many have taken profitable action as a result. Instead of paying more than $12,000 to be in the audience, you get the video right away. In addition, after our first one-on-one conversation, I'll also send you a free overview of your Twitter strategy so you do a little "tweeting" of your own without wasting any time at all. You'll receive additional reports into the marriage of your business with social media and other technologies each month. You will have email access to me at any time, and we will work together to develop your on-line social media strategy.
In addition, as a member of my program, you will have access through the social media to my large social networks.
"I am truly grateful for the help Stephen has given me with my business. He is one of the brightest, most insightful businesspeople I have ever met. He has helped me enormously on a couple of occasions, and has given me ideas that have helped me to secure a ton of new business. His marketing and business savvy never fail to astonish me. There literally seems to be no end to his knowledge and creativity when it comes to finding business and marketing solutions that really work. Best of all, he is one of the most generous and kind people I've ever met in the business community. He's someone who actually cares about you and your business - that comes across immediately, both in the quality of his ideas, and the level of attention he gives you. I cannot recommend him highly enough. Get on the phone with this guy for half an hour, and you're going to learn some powerful stuff!"
David Jacoby
CEO
Boulder, Colorado
Learn it and then do it
Instead of having someone else do it for you, you may want to learn to do it yourself -- or have a staff member learn about social media -- and there is a business-minded guide program for that. Six weeks of weekly teleseminars, email and social media access directly to me for questions, guidance in using the right tools to make social media more efficient, strategies for developing your following, ways to make sure you avoid the mistakes, and more:
In this 6-week education, you'll learn:
What Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media are
What they can do for YOU and your business
How to avoid blowing up your business with social media
How you can use social media to get leads and convert prospects to customers
What to say... and what not to say!
How to build your Twitter following
How to limit your time and make it worth every moment
How social media can improve your customer service
How to discover complaints before they get out of hand
...and more.
Together, we'll find the right mix of activity and focus to garner the greatest benefit for you and your business.
When you'll sign up, I'll point you to the you will receive FREE access to the presentation I gave during an exclusive, closed-door session in January. The entrepreneurs at this event, many of them very skilled in marketing and the Internet, came away blown away by the new wave. They learned how to think about social media in their business and many have taken profitable action as a result. Instead of paying more than $12,000 to be in the audience, you get the video right away. In addition, after the first teleseminar, I'll also send you a free overview of your Twitter strategy so you do a little "tweeting" of your own without wasting any time at all. You'll receive additional reports into the marriage of your business with social media and other technologies each month.
I personally guarantee you'll get what I've promised here.
Accelerate your business online
It's your turn to join Jim, J.R., and other successful business leaders. Avoid the trial-and-error headaches and tech-geek frustrations. Make social media a powerful tool in growing YOUR business. You have the opportunity to be one of those who take advantage of a new technology early in its life. Join the elite who will make it work for them.
To YOUR success,
Stephen Hultquist
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