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Social Media Marketing Connect  -  4th year Celebration Bash

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Dear Friends,

Its been a wonderful journey so far with lots more to come. We are nearing our 4th Year of the Blog this March 2011 and are in for a celebration. Thank You all for your wonderful support always.

As part of this Birthday bash, we are:

1. Revamping Our Website Completely (SUBSCRIBE Free To us for Sneak Peek EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW  of our New Website – Click Here)

2. Building Up lots of new tools for Our Clients for Online Marketing, Social Media Connect, Brand Monitoring, SMI, Your SMQ – Social Media Quotient, Creative Writing & Design services

3. And presenting a very Special Blog Post for All Of You – On Demand Blog Post. That’s right, You our Dearest Readers have been with us for this wonderful journey and as part of our Special Celebration, we give you a Massive Treat:

On Demand Blog Post –  Share with us Your Query about one of these Topics / Subjects related to “Technology, Marketing, Branding, Social Media, Design, SEO, Your SMQ – Social Media Quotient, Android, Geo marketing Location Tools & or Creative writing” , write to us about your query that You would want us to discuss and we will as part of that Reply post, Share in as much detail as we can, using our Experience in this field and we will do our best in creating this special blog post for you here. Hurry Up, we will post only Our Favourite Top 3 Queries as part of this On Demand Blog Post. So write to us Now!

Not only that, if you have an email-id, Twitterid, Facebook Page. Linkedin connect, Blog url that you would like us to share with the world with Your name, we will do that too with this post while answering Your query.

So what are you waiting for, write to us about any of the above topics as part of this Blog Posts comment or email us at – socialmedia@techdivine.com with Subject “4th Year On Demand Post” and we will revert back to you.

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Social Media Quotient – MarketingSMQ Week updates Measuring Online Marketing

As part of the #marketingsmq week, lot was shared from the Marketing & Social Media Team  at Techdivine Creative Services on our Facebook Page (Our Facebook Group updates to follow soon)

Here is a list of Guidelines, Ideas, Techniques, Tools & More for You to assist you in making sure your creative online Marketing practices & methods using new age media is positively adding value for Your brand & at the same time ensuring that with so much of clutter, conversations online, there is control over your brand and its products mentions too.

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Simple & resourceful Ideas, tools, resources, links, guidelines to make Marketing online a more controlled powerhouse tool for Your Brand & Products using SEO, Social Media, Brand Monitoring across platforms:

• Power your Blog with WordPress & or Blogger for a better integration of Online tools for making it easier for readers to connect with You!
• Twitter power is generated by 10% of total Twitter Users
• Facebook’s most powerful responses are noted when Links are integrated with Pictures
• Linkedin is a powerhouse for Corporate Connect when used with minimal Online tools integrated to your profile
• Search engine rankings & SEO takes into account not only Originality of Web Urls but also quality of content in terms of Text, Images their “alt text” tags.
• Using appropriate tags and categories for Your Blog Posts is the best way to give readers an easy access to their choice of topics for reading.
• foursquare is a massive location based connect tool used not only by marketers but also by Brands to stay connected through location tagging in real terms.
• SEO is more than just the right urls but is also about creating the right content in relation to the head & url names
• Online marketing is not about pushing your products to users, but informing them, educating them & adding valuable information to their daily routine
• Marketing online is very different from Brand Positioning which involves massive understanding of how a consumer behaves Online. Customer Insights is the core.
• Social Media Marketing is Measurable by all means. For Queries feel free to write to us: socialmedia@techdivine.com
• Reach out to the consumers problems online on-time. An irate customer is the best brand ambassador if connected & attended to on-time.
• Customer Views, polls, opinions and responses are powerful ways of growing your Social Media Quotient Online.
• Use Multiple online platforms to connect with users. Dont restrict to just one or two and at the same time dont overdo.
• Respect your fans / members and followers opinions online and converse with them real time.
• Make sure your Online SEO, Your Social Media Manager, Brand Consultant and Sales people have different profiles and that not all of them are participating in your SMM efforts. Brand consultation, Product Marketing & Sales are extremely different needs of an organization. Remember, place your professional online to manage your Social Media Profile who loves people and brands and not numbers. They need to be customized & industry based, well planned & tested.
• Online marketing should aim at integrating both Online & offline media for Your Brands. This will add value in terms of brand-connect, customer trust & loyalty, Higher Retention, Quicker feedback, better response time, cost reductions, & definitely better revenues.

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Techdivine Creative Services celebrates its 250 Plus Posts – Thank You All

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We at Techdivine Creative Services would like to Thank All Our Dear Authors & Readers for making this Blog a Corporate Success and a powerful medium for Brands, Products & Services to reach across globally.

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Top Online (Technology & Marketing ) Updates for 2010:

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We are in for a brand new beginning very soon with 2011 just around the corner. So we thought we would bring together some of the most important updates, wonderful freebies, free tools for Marketing online, Brand management guides, ideas & more with design trends with some power strategies using some of the most influencing websites of 2010 (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, WordPress, foursquare)

Power Tools of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

This was probably the biggest entry into the online media space in the last three to five years. In the year 2010 Social Media Marketing services have seen a fabulous response owing to the measurable rate of returns, process of marketing brand & monitoring them at the same time with great control and making the most needed aspect of online media space possible ie.

Connecting with the user & engaging them to interact with the brand.

Social Media Marketing made possible the entry of Social Media Quotient as a power packed marketing research and management tool for Brands & Organizations today for the Company Board & Management to take this tool more seriously than ever. The power of blogs using applications like WordPress has been wonderful for brands using the platform with the right set of technique and skills too.

Why:

Simple reasons: Its more measurable than your regular emailer campaigns, web banner ads, online reviews & a routine ad words campaign as it brings together all those metrics to measure consumer interaction, customer feedback & insights and gives you the ability to constantly improvise at a very affordable online marketing campaign cost.

Most importantly, customized social media marketing campaigns today make it possible to deliver realistic goals to clients for their brand, products and services and at the same time blend in traditional media with new age media tools across various platforms.

Massive developments in 2010:

Mobile Integrated Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing & Monitoring tools gifted the power to combine traditional media with new power tools for online marketing research and management and at the same time gave the power to combine mobile integrated social media marketing campaigns to further leverage the power of todays growing mobile internet users across platforms.

Android Powering Technology today Socially

Also the impact of Android based applications into the mobile space made it a fun experience for users to leverage the connect and for the Organizations, more reasons to make their presence online much more powerful and essential.

Power of Blogs with wonderful plugins from WordPress related application websites made using Blogs more than just a place to voice out opinions but also to get wonderful and sincere customer feedback and loyal readers for life for brands leveraging the power of rich content with them through this medium.

With more and more applications from mobile related tools like from the iPhone, Blackberry, Amazons Kindle, iPad & Android going SOCIAL the availability of these online marketing tools is only going to see massive boost in the year 2011.

How to Leverage:

Humanize Your Brand

Connect with Your consumers by Humanizing your brand. Social Media Marketing is a well planned process that can be customized across industries to also adapt to cross cultural environments across countries if well planned, designed, implemented and measured. So its very important to use the right set of tools to not only increase market penetration but also to monitor and safeguard your brand online constantly and improvise for best results.

Brand Monitoring

Brand You Monitoring

This has been one of the most important part of a Social Media Marketing campaign this year as the more one talks about your brand, care needs to be taken with the quality of conversations too. Its always better to have a 1,000 loyal quality followers than a million discussing or posting content that is harmful for your brand in the long run if left uncontrolled as part of the online conversations.

So make sure you have powerful ways to leverage your Online CRM to converse with your brand and customer connect across multiple platforms with great quality and damage control.

Creative Design styles

The year 2010 saw a very unique side of design styles appreciated by consumers. The stress from Brands and customers online this year was much less on “just design” and much higher on usability and ease of sharing content using that design style. For eg. HTML emerged victorious compared to any other web design application and platforms for the ease to leverage powerful SEO campaigns and flexibility to connect much larger suite of applications as part of the web design and style process. The year 2011 would be thus much largely about:

Layout style: Simple and user friendly

Design style: In tune with Users needs to share content easily

Design technique: Users seem to be much less demanding in terms of core design as before and seem to be stressing originality in layouts with simplicity to converse in todays online marketing conversation prism. So the design technique has to be definitely the one in 2011 that can let each user be a real-time Brand Ambassador for any product, services or Organization and at the same time be rewarded in a way or the other. (For some FREE Tutorials & Step by Step Guide for creating Creatives using Adobe Photoshop – Connect here)

• Free Marketing Tools from GOOGLE that every developer, designer should be aware of today: Here is a link to the set of power packed marketing tools from Google that’s free and is a must for integration across as part of your Social Media Marketing & Brand Monitoring campaigns.

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IMPORTANT Guides & Tips for a Powerful Connect across Industries Online Using the Power of Social Media:

Simple Ideas, Guides to do more with Your Brand today:

FOR:

• Retail Industry:

Fashion, style statement, pictures, latest trends & designs, users votes on new arrivals, customer feedback and Brand mentions about your line of design accessories: If all of these make sense to you as a Retail brand then what you need are simple engaging conversations customized & controlled as part of creative marketing ideas for your online customer today.

• Banking Industry:

More than a conversation online, more than a social media influence, what you need is a control of your brand mentions negative influences about your services, industry and products from your customers grieving & irate online. They can make or break your brand as we are talking about Your products and services that are directly dealing with your customers hard earned money. So make sure you have a strong Social Media connect online and at the same time have conversations that can “generate”  comments and interactions from your customers especially in case of new product launches for Small and medium scale business, Youth and the high investing clients. You need your Social Media campaigns to reach beyond your average conversations and metrics to be completely planned and customized to meet your needs across various demographics and it needs to be well executed too.

• Hospitality Industry:

That’s a rush, literally. The fast paced hospitality industry has customers across every possible age group and its never too late to get someone love your cuisine irrespective of your culture, history and style of food. All people need are flavors with a great dining experience that takes them away from their homes for that hour or so. The experience needs to be “connecting” while the food, something that would make your customer feel, I am getting value for every single dime that I have spent here. For this, not only do you need continuous feedback from your customers, but you need them to mention about your product online across platforms of twitter, review sites, food dining experience, location based target marketing spaces where people searching for good food can be connected with and their attention drawn towards your food experience. They need to be aware of and constantly rewarded for their brand mention and sharing experiences when they talk well about your products online and at the same time catered to and not tried to be pushed into talking well about your brands. Its food, they need to feel the flavors and the love while dining at your restaurant. That’s exactly what an online Social Media Marketing experience should help you gather for them.

Some simple & yet powerful sites where we have leveraged wonderful responses for Our Clients Products & Services & Brands:

Facebook (Make sure you Use FBML, Facebook Applications, HTML too with your creative marketing techniques – For Queries email us: teamsmm@techdivine.com )

Facebook

Linkedin: Purely for a Corporate Connect and reaching across Industries to leverage more than just a simple product / brand connection

Linkedin

Twitter: Brand Reach, Brand Monitoring, Product Market Penetration and More. This is undoubtedly one of the most essential powerhouses of Online Conversation prism today. Interested in a Customized Twitter Tool Updates & Techniques for Your Brand to have a larger reach – email us at: teamsmm@techdivine.com

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Foursquare: The most impactful location based target marketing application which can do wonders for Your Brand, Product And services if used optimally. For a customized Location based target marketing campaign write to us at: teamsmm@techdivine.com

foursquare

For a Completely Integrated & Customized Social Media Marketing & Brand Monitoring Campaign with Creatives & a powerful blogging platform for your Products & services – Write to us at: socialmedia@techdivine.com

If you would like to hear more from us about connecting with customers across Industries for various other industries for whom we have tried, tested and succeeded in generating positive SMM impact and the desired goals as put forth from our clients , feel free to tweet with us at: Techdivine on Twitter & OR Connect with Us On Our Facebook Group: TD studios: Social Media Marketing Services Group & or write to us at: socialmedia@techdivine.com

We are connecting and have catered for the following industries so far:

FMCG, Banking, Industrial, Infrastructure, Hospitality, Trading & Broking, MLM, Educational, IT, Retail, Advertising Agencies, Art Galleries & NGO’s.

Hope you have a wonderful 2011 filled with millions of quality connect and growth with the power of Marketing using new age and traditional media to leverage and connect with each and every user of yours, both ONLINE and OFFLINE.

Happy connecting. Have a wonderful year ahead.

Thanks & Regards

Ananthanarayanan V

Founder & CEO

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With the era of marketing going more digital than ever before the power packed internet has so much to offer than just a simple SEO campaign for your brand and business today.

This coupled with the great success that a powerful campaign could bring and measure in terms of real time ROI, social media marketing, social media monitoring & brand management have grown beyond expectation but luckily are still under great control with the marketers using these tools for optimum market reach & growth.

What can you expect out of a powerful SMM campaign today (SMM as in Social Media Marketing / Monitoring) –

• A powerful brand connect
• Massive organizational targets can be set for a large brand & product reach globally
• Measurable metrics of click through rates, conversions, lead generations, enquiries over a sensible and logical time-line
• Quality conversations and brand ambassadors online
• Controlling brand and product perceptions as desired
• Getting feedback, reviews, responses from clearly set of defined demographics
• Powerful in-depth customer insights
• Strong market research at  a powerful pace

What is needed for an SMM to work: Of the many factors, some of the key factors are:

• Clearly defined expectations from the brand / products
• Reports that speak aloud of what’s going on and that can set a clear path to review and grow further
• Measurable Metrics beyond routine numbers

Today with the pace of technology outgrown only by the number of users increasing every day, the aspect of using ‘n’ number of applications integrated with marketing campaigns in on the rise too.

The power of blogs, tweets & facebook share is being quadrupled with the leverage given by location based target marketing applications like foursquare, gowalla & more. Its only a matter of time when a user realizes the true potential of getting genuine feedback from his peers for products & brands before he / she take a plunge into investing into something new, be it time, resources or money.

Today movies and products are being reviewed and discussed on these social networking platforms very frequently. Travellers are taking the reviews, tips given by users on foursquare & gowalla seriously enough to plan and make their own trips without the help of travel agencies based on users guides & resources.

Niche markets are opening up to these new age media tools to get maximum out of the more than 500Mn users online across platforms. To Get YOUR CUSTOMIZED Social Media Marketing Campaigns ! Connect with Us Here ~ Click Here

So with the rapid strides into technology-marketing integration, make sure you are heading for investing with the right agency with proper time and resources as part of any of your social media marketing or online campaigns.

The basic idea being to think & reach global and connect with your local customers at the same time!

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Marketing (SMM), Social Media Quotient (SMQ) & BRAND ‘YOU’:  Social Media Monitoring,Measuring & Connecting integrated with a powerful SEO!

Understanding the Index of search engines, algorithms and the mathematics behind it is a key aspect of any social media marketing campaign coupled with a social media monitoring technique and a powerful SEO process. For readers, writers and the end user that is the audience of that particular content, the process needs to be equally refreshing too.

The reason being, any popular search engine be it, Google, Bing, Yahoo etc is getting more and more closer to giving the user an AI experience even in its searches and from what we hear, the search engine experience is only going to get richer, quicker and better for users.

For an optimized SEO integrated with your product based and or target based social media quotient measuring SMM campaigns for clear understanding of your SMQ, one needs to be sure of maximizing the ‘Index-ability’ factor across pages. So which are the possible pages that you would want an SEO campaign for:

• Your Social Networking sites
• Your Micro-blogging sites
• Your Blog(s)
• Your Website
• Your Media Channel platforms

The above platforms form at least  a basic part of any successful and qualitatively measurable online channel platforms for planning a SMM (Social Media Monitoring / Social Media Marketing) campaign for Your Social Media Quotient analysis and insights.

Does this mean that creating content across platforms ensures a powerful SEO?

The answer is a simple ‘NO’.

Like we quoted earlier, the mathematical calculations, various algorithms and more form part of a serious social media marketing campaign for your product / service optimum SEO.

• These include the keyword analysis, core product / category phrase density, url optimization, quality and quantity of content indexed. This needs to be carefully planned across platforms too.
• Having a sitemap always helps.
• Ensuring your place across Google Places with owner verified listing is also a great value add.
• Lesser frames on your website, lower use of flashy content animated and lesser use of tables with the least possibly complex and or numbered urls is the first way to begin your steps towards a successful continuous SEO process.

Ask us for a Free SEO report for a precise integration with a Social Media Marketing campaign from our end.  Write to us: socialmedia@techdivine.com or Visit us here if you are interested for a well designed, planned and implemented Powerful customized EXCLUSIVE FOR CORPORATES ‘Social Media Monitoring campaign’ for your product, brand and business.

At the end of the day, make sure you pay heed to your SMM experts / consultants insightful and detailed reports about your brand, blog, site and other online marketing services platforms.

Have a quality connect with your customers online!

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Social Media Quotient:Tapping the Social Media Marketing potential:

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Marketers today are beginning to understand the influence of this power packed market research and analytic’s tool to reach to a larger target audience across social networking platforms by optimally utilizing precise social media monitoring tools as per industry and organizational needs.

The power of analysis is not restricted to using a particular website or a single online tool to serve the growing ‘industry reach’ needs. Social media monitoring to acquire the right social media quotient allows you to research deeper into consumer insight, needs and preferences as over 500 million users go online across platforms globally expressing themselves more freely than before.

It gives immediate feedback, taps powerful response rates, gives ample time to get in touch, reach and respond back to save the customers going irate and many a times transforming a negative feedback to a powerful brand ambassador.

With larger number of users now clearly expressing their needs to share their experiences about a product / brand or service today, it’s becoming more and more important for the BRANDS to monitor them not as an individual campaign but as part of the social media process. Measuring the ROI for a social media marketing campaign is today combined with the goal of customization while touching base with complete consumer preferences and needs for a service or a product.

Simple words of ‘share’, ‘like’ ‘bookmark’ have today become a way of life for Brands & for branding a service.

With the number of social book-marking users, bloggers and social networking sites users growing tremendously everyday, its only wise for brands to get into the process of exclusively reaching the target users with a powerful, well planned and implemented social media marketing campaign.

What did your Brand tell your customer today?  Keep sharing your views/ comments and queries with us here.

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New age Media Advertising

The nature of consumer engagement today is radically changing. Focus on specific program initiatives, pre-defined goal oriented plans and working across media to customize and get integrated reusable and utility based digital and traditional content for the end user (Customers, Audience, Stakeholders etc) is the core today.

Advertising and marketing have grown and matured over the years. The idea has become more than clear that sticking on to traditional media or at the same time, pushing the new age media to ‘purely sell’ is not going to get the marketer even an ounce of value addition or brand equity.

Value addition for the clients can be in terms of higher market penetration, better product positioning, increase in volume sales and volume market growth. The need here is to shift from a pure marketing oriented approach or a selling approach to connecting with the consumer by humanizing your brand with higher quality services and being an active part of today’s powerful communication prism across the globe.

When we talk about the needs today, the consumer has ideas that he is looking forward from his product. Similarly the audiences have expectations from their services to go beyond providing what’s been promised. In such cases, consumers are the main open source to get insights about what the market needs, to touch that common nerve appeal.

So let’s grow beyond simply advertising and marketing to a new world order of conversation prism by focusing across channels based on market, insights and need.

The idea to begin with, in this new age digital content era is to be where your consumer today is.

So keep conversing and stay connected.

Let us know of your views on the same.

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More Caffeine to keep you fresh and going!

That’s right, the search engine guru, Google, recently announced the new web indexing system called Caffeine.

Caffeine

How does it compare with the old system?

The core difference is:

The old indexing had layers of search indexing that were updated at regular intervals and were not real-time.

With Caffeine the indexing not only is continuous but even includes real time searches happening across platforms like twitter and more.

As quoted on Google Blog: “Every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel. If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.”

The core of the indexing feature has only gotten stronger with more power packed search results but also tremendously fast in terms of real – time search capabilities.

For eg. We tested it and searched for two terms.

One something that is a new age keyword, that is fresh and is on the most discussed terms on the globe today and the other which is a legendary word since decades and has been existing since long wherein we wanted to test the most relevant and newest updates on both of them.

The 2 words were “Social media quotient” and “Elvis Presley” and the results were amazing.

Not only does the new google search give a massively larger chunk of results than before, but it also gives blog posts, video, forums, images discussed about both the topics in the last 1 – 5 hours with accurate timeline which is amazing.

With newer and more improvements being done on the Google Caffeine, we can only expect the real-time search to come down from an “discussed in the last 1 hour” to “discussed seconds before”.

Gist of Google Caffeine:

• Powerful indexing features giving us more search results across the web than before
• High on SEO & keywords
• Real time search with twitter results etc
• Power packed searched whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post

No wonder the new google caffeine is making powerful binging sounds everywhere.

Keep searching!

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Blogs replace Magazines with Social Media Marketing

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That would be a powerfully misquoted statement, especially in today’s “give them all” technology served new age media world.

I recently read somewhere of the statement above and was utterly confused. Today the digital age and new media are here to work collaboratively and give every consumer what they are looking out for.

Let us look at two scenarios based on a B2B and B2C with a practical approach and perspective.

A top class executive from a big corporation today will prefer to go through the sites online probably during his lunch break of which he might have allotted his daily ‘surfing’ time to be not more than 5-10 minutes which too is on the higher side. Having worked at different levels of marketing & product departments with Directors, Presidents and departmental heads of MNC’s and corporate biggies, this is the one thing that I am extremely sure about. Here too their rigid schedule is made up of email alerts added to their daily dose of reading related to their industry and market so that they do not spend time searching online. Their schedule revolves around a set time every single day. Time is everything. Today we find them working while traveling to and fro from work in their automobiles. Yet, we find the subscription to corporate & industry based magazines being the highest from their group.

Why? Because underestimating the power of print is pure ignorance of the true power of real connect and reach.

Now looking at the second scenario & coming back to the daily consumer by shifting away from the corporate board room. The average consumer today feels comfortable looking at a print magazine at his time of leisure. As a matter of fact, we tend to ignore any ad based pop-up and flashy banners that ‘surf-up’ during our browsing time. Another point to look and give a deep thought is the power of the print media even today especially in third world and developing countries.

The chances of an average consumer looking at a print ad in a magazine and then browsing about it online are much higher than vice versa.

Why?

The age of technology & new media have also pushed across boundaries of providing one with massive information across industries. Today, I spend on an average reading about nine to ten thousand (10,000) pages of content and news information every single week across media’s. Still there is so much updating needed.

With all of these factors, the right way to reach a consumer today, be it a B2B or a B2C consumer is by blending in the traditional media with the new age technology and providing both to the consumer. A magazine today has much stronger power in communicating a message than a blog to an average household as it reaches and is delivered in hard copy in their hands. It adds up a trust about the company, about the team of professionals associated with the organization and gives one a form of assurance about the organization being real and not just another virtual company with a work from home concept who would be handling your brand or product.

The idea to cater to both the scenarios today would be to add a healthy amount of resourceful information in your magazine for local demographic distribution and use the power of online media for a much larger field zone with more content and resources.

As a generation gifted with the power of speed & timely information it is our core duty to today combine all that we can and leverage it to fulfill the needs of the advertiser and at the same time serve as a catalyst who not only evangelizes a brand but also caters to the consumer’s needs.

Blog rules, sites dominate, social networking is growing massively, but the power of a media tool works best when you have both the traditional media and the new age technology combined as one.

Make sure when you hand over your product or brand to any agency that they are not just another technically sound organization promising a higher seo for website and analysis, but understand the market, consumers and have a powerful presence too in the web today. Make sure to know if they themselves practice what they preach and if they do, they would have a much better chance to deliver than anyone else.

Go local, get global and stay connected. But most importantly make sure that in the race to reach a client across seas we do not miss out on a prospect next door who needs the same set of services too.

Go BRAND Yourself!

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