I have heard a lot of people using MySpace to create their social network profile earlt this year and I was so excited too when I heard MySpace has gain popular among the crowd. Although I made some new friends from MySpace and was pretty doing well with MySpace, soon sometimes I wasn’t convince and buy the idea that MySpace is a good social networking place.

Early this month, I begin to look to look at Facebook, a much similiar social networking place like MySpace but there are a lot more great features. As I start learning about Facebook, I discovered my lost contact secondary good friend, Jet Chaw.

As I get excited with Facebook and start learn more and more, I stumbled across this video clip from Youtube recently that finally help me to re-affirm the decision to move on to the Facebook instead of Myspace. This video tell exactlly what I think of, be sure you watch the reason why I decided to move on to Facebook.

About My Social Profiles:

• MySpace
• Facebook

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Recently, I met up with Kian Ann again in MasteryAsia Business Forum (23^rd May 2007). He was invited as the speaker for the seminar topic “Blog Marketing for Beginners” in Wisma Equity, KL.

Kian Ann is my old friend who met in Money Mastery Bootcamp in May 2004. He is a blog marketing trainer based in Singapore and he is passionate in helping individuals and small businesses reach out to the world using blog marketing.

During the 2 hours seminar, Kian Ann shared his thought on how does small & medium business even the corporate business owners can be benefited from blog marketing.

I managed to pick up some good points from his presentation, and I thought I can share a little bit with you here. He highlighted the important of using blog as a powerful tool to promote your business online even thought you have very little or not budget on advertising campaign.

This is what he shared during the seminar:

Blog marketing is NOT about:

- making $10 off each of your 100 blogs

- creating your blog today and the money will pour in tomorrow.

- making money online.

 

Blog Marketing is about:

- Search Engine Marketing

- Building a brand

- Establishing yourself as an expert, being a thought leader in your industry

- Generating Targeted leads

- Getting customer feedback and building relationships

He revealed that what is the “good writing” blog style we should adopt. It should be content rich blog articles and in conversation style. Just as like you are doing one to one conversation to your visitors.

We shouldn’t pitching on products too often. Visitors tend to feel we are trying to sell them products all the time and will not come back again.

Kian Ann told that even owner, president and chairman of Fortune 500 Companies like General Motors, Boeing, Marriot International have started on blog marketing. Today, it is no longer just internet marketers, bloggers or adsense earners who want to make money by blogging. Big corporations are in the game now!

What about us?

Do we see the potential of blog marketing (web2.0 marketing) that can bring impact to our business?

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A lot of people ask me how to explained RSS. Well, I will try my best to explain from the research I did from the web to you.

RSS can mean many things, Rich Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication, RDF Site Summary and it also mean Real Stupid Simple.

Watch the video below for the simple definition of RSS and how it’s works!

To get started with RSS, follow the 2 steps below:

1) Get a RSS Reader such as Google Reader, NewsGator - http://www.google.com/reader

2) Grab the RSS feed from your favorite sites. Look for the orange icon like below and click on the icon and subscribe. You can try on my site feed icon, subscribe to my feed and see what will happen next.

You can also watch the following video tutorial on more advanced features for Google Reader.

You can also read the one page quick introduction on What is RSS here.

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