Small Business Social Media Marketing Solution

clock September 4, 2011 14:49 by author Ogoing Team

Ogoing is pleased to announce the most innovative Social Media Marketing Small Business solution that will have an immediate impact on your business topline - Growth in Sales!

Ogoing Social Media Marketing Solution:

  • Planning - Social Media Strategic Marketing Plan and Campaign to jump start your Sales! Now!
  • Profiles - Setup of your business profiles on the big social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+ and more...
  • Community - Creation of Exclusive, Private business community to build relationships and grow your loyal customer base.
  • Branding - Complete Branding & Design of your business profiles, making your online business brand customer-friendly, and ready for business.
  • Promotions - Daily, Bi-Weekly or Weekly social media promotions and online marketing of your business products, services, launches, events, news, coupons, discounts & latest offers.
  • Leads - Generation & Management of new leads, fans, followers, prospects and customers from the combined Social Media Strategic Marketing Plan and Campaign Execution.
  • Reputation - Tracking, Management and Analysis of what's happening with your business brand, what people are saying about your products, services & business, and observed trends.
  • Analysis - Extensive Reports & Analysis of the Social Media Marketing plan, campaign activities, what's working, branding trends, campaign changes and optimized solutions.
  • Support - Complete Training and Support to plan, launch and execute your combined Social Media Marketing and Social Networking campaigns.
  • Profits - ROI analysis of growth in business, sales and profits owing to the strategic Social Media Marketing Solution.

The Ogoing SMB Social Media Marketing Solution is Guaranteed to Boost your Business! Now!

"Our clients have seen their sales accelerate north of 20% in less than six months!"

Contact us to get started!



Social Media Boot Camp for Small Business - Sep 15

clock August 30, 2011 09:28 by author Ogoing Team

Ogoing presents Social Media Bootcamp

What? Ogoing launches Social Media Marketing Boot camp for small businesses, entrepreneurs, startups, owners and SMBs. Ogoing will help you become a social media expert, and share tools and best practices that will help accelerate your sales. Ogoing is an exclusive small business social network that helps small businesses efficiently expand their local customer contacts through an easy to use online business networking platform. There is no cost to attend this Bootcamp.

 

Why? While the social media market is exploding, with major sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare, YouTube, Yelp, Reddit, Blogger, Wordpress and hundreds more, Ogoing vies to remain focused on utilizing key tools that small businesses need in order to grow their social media presence. Emerging businesses and startups do not always have the time and money to get their brand out there; however, Ogoing creates relationships between businesses in an affordable manner. Think of Ogoing as the business matchmaker.

 

Key Benefits why YOU should attend this boot camp:

  1. Learn the importance of social media today in building your social presence
  2. Create leverage to promote your brand, products and services, news and events
  3. Connect with local relevant businesses on Ogoing, and expand your social network
  4. Jumpstart your sales using the latest social media tools and best practices
  5. Manage, defend and grow your social media reputation to your advantage

 

When? Thursday Sep 15, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.

Where?
Irvine Incubation Center
111 Academy Way, Suite 100
Irvine, CA 92617

REGISTER HERE



Social Media Power Boost for Small Business

clock August 30, 2011 09:22 by author Ogoing Team

Social Media Power Boost Service for Small Business

Power Boost Your Web Site Now!
* Increase your website rank on Google and major search engines
* Grow the number of high quality visitors to your website
* Add the number of websites that reference your website
* Get more quality leads and prospects for your business

* Improve your social media ranking and engagement

What's included in the Social Media Power Package:

  1. Web Site Keyword Research
  2. 1200 Unique Social Bookmarking
  3. 4000 Directory Submissions
  4. 200 Press Release Submissions
  5. 300 Article Marketing
  6. DMOZ Submission
  7. 1 Squidoo Lens

1. Keyword Research

Organic traffic from search engines such as google and yahoo are extremely valuable because they represent highly targeted traffic looking to buy your products. Getting the keyword targeting right is extremely important for getting part of this traffic and we're here to help you do just that!

"I just wanted to let you know. Since we changed the title, description and keyword on our front page and google reindexed it, we jumped from 25 to 6. The highest we rated to date." - Bryan Kennedy

2. Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is one of the fastest acting SEO options currently available. We submit your website to social bookmarking sites such as digg, delicious, etc., helping you spread the word about your content. You'll normally get some traffic right off the bat from people interested in your site (and a lot more if your site becomes popular on social networks). Within a week, most of these links will already start to have some effect on your rankings and within a month, very clear results can be seen from our social bookmarking service.

"My traffic has been off the charts with your service. Feel free to quote. Thanks!" - Marcus Bradley

"This page was #10 5 days ago and is now #4 on Google. Great work. Thank you!" - Allen

3. Manual Directory Submission

Directory Submission has been one of the most tried and true ways of getting your website/business out there. It involves submitting your website to yellow page like sites so that users browsing those sites can find you when they look at a certain category. This method has been worked very well for our clients and has been recommended by Google itself until recently.

Our staff takes great care in making sure your submission details are formatted to have maximum acceptance rate. We also make sure to submit to the correct categories so that your website gets the attention it deserves from the editors.

Every order comes with a report of the list of directories we submitted to, the time it was submitted, and the category we picked for that directory. We will open a new gmail account so that you don't get spammed and also click on all the confirmation links for the directories.

4. Press Release Distribution

Press Release Distribution is a great way of gaining exposure for your website as well as getting a high quality source of backlinks.

We will write a press release for you which you can review or you can use your own press release. It will then be submitted to various press release distributions websites which will syndicate your release to hundreds or thousands of places online.

Every order comes with a report of the press release websites we submitted you to as well as the pagerank of those websites.

5. Article Marketing

Article Marketing / Article Submissions has become one of the most popular ways of promoting your website. It is very whitehat, in that both you and the reader of your article benefits. Your reader gets to read informative and useful content, the website hosting the article gets a share of the revenue, and you get targeted traffic as well as some links to your website. It's win-win!

We make sure to research the subject area thoroughly before writing the articles, making sure the content is as informative and useful to the reader as possible. Additionally, we try our best to target the content to your keywords, so that not only are the links from the article more relevant, the article itself might gain some rankings and drive some targeted traffic to your website. Some of the articles we have written and submitted to ezinearticles.com drives over 100 visitors/day to our website!

"Just so you know, I already picked up a SEO sale within 48 hours of the article distribution your service did. This was a international sale that I would have never gotten exposure to. The ROI on your service so far is far better then any other service on the market." - David A. McDougal

6. Squidoo Lens / Hub Creation

Squidoo and Hubpages can be a great way of boosting your website. Both of these websites are PR8, so having a backlink from them (even on a subpage) is of immense benefit to your website. Not only will we create a professional, well researched lens/hub in your area, we will also promote it for you so that it gets the best exposure.

Every order comes with the link to your hub or lens, plus a report of how we have promoted it for you.

7. DMOZ Submission

We will help you submit your website to DMOZ in the correct category and with well written description. We will do our best to make sure your submission is correct and compliant with guidelines.

Why partner with Ogoing?

SEO Experts

Ogoing has partnered with a team of USA based Cornell engineers who build, maintain, and more importantly – promote, a portfolio of hundreds of websites in various niches and markets. We use our own SEO link building services to promote our sites. We test and monitor each service to make sure that it produces unparalleled ROI for you and for us.

US Based Timely Support

If you ever have a question about your order – just leave us a message or send us an email. Our friendly staff will get back to you within hours. Our customer service staff are American and own websites themselves – so we understand your needs.

Real-Time Tracking

Ever feel antsy if your SEO work is being done? Our team keeps you updated every step of the way:
>> Order Received >> Begin Processing >> Seeking Feedback >> Report Ready & Order Completed
Currently, most orders begin processing within 18 hours and complete within 3-4 days. We are diligently promoting your site 24/7 and are always striving to improve.

Results & Testimonials

At the end of the day, it’s the results that matter. Check out what our customers have to say and try our services for yourself.
— “My website is now #9 out of 5 million for one of the most competitive keywords online. THANK YOU!!”
— “The ROI on your service so far is better than any other service on the market.”

 

Are you ready to order your Ogoing Power Boost? Contact us here!



Start Up Success: Foodspotting by Soraya Darabi

clock August 3, 2011 11:39 by author Ogoing Team

Foodspotting, a network that connects foodies with one another through reviews and mainly photos for all the hungry food enthusiasts all around the world. Soraya Darabi, 27,  the marketing, branding, and promotional director for the start up talks about her experiences with Foodspotting and the other hats she wears on her businesss venture.

An interview conducted by Mashable.com, asks her questions about herself and social media today. A year ago, Soraya met Alexa and Ted, the CFO, and CEOs of Foodspotting, when she met them through a mutual friend about food, and how to incorporate it through technology.  " I was grown up in a foodie household," she says, talking about how her mother was a chef and her aunt was a caterer.

From the get go, she knew she wanted to work within social media and technology. After graduating form college in 2004, she worked for Sony Music in D.C. and began following trends of the internet and saw how powerful it was moving. From there, she later worked for the Washington Post and wanted to experience the newsroom, since during that time it was an eager environment to be in. It gave her time to learn the traditional and new media revelations of RSS.

She later moved to New York to work for media and from there, she explains that after seeing three young guys sell Reddit in 2006 to Conde Nast, one of the biggest publishing syndication, best known for Vogue US, she was amazed by how young and smart these guys were. Selling an amazing product for students to  use for their web properties. She then knew she wanted to work in social media and began to  go to news tech sites daily and how the media world was slowly taking over.

Besides being a director of promotions at Foodspotting, Soraya also works for ABC News for marketing and advises on the side to small start up businesses. She recently advises for Arcitezier, which is network of architects and for those who love design concepts. Since she was also an art history major, she says she finds it inspiring to work with great, creative thinkers. The site allows anyone to connect and enjoy the great power of design. She feels accomplished on how the start up flourishes to what it is today.

Lastly, she finds women in the industry and in media are quite powerful. She gives the example of Caterina Fake, a great media turner since she founded Flikr. She loves that women like that are exceptional and have the idea to change the landscape of media and technology, which she has.

Coming from a small town, she never thought this was ever going to happen to her. So the last idling question is.. "What is her advice with aspiring entrepreneurs and businesses?"

"Don't just  jump into working at a a startup or creating a small business just beause you think it will be a world of fun and games." she explains, " it is much harder and so much more work than you imagine. The tech industry can be volatile, so toughen up!" She also says if you're not risk averse, you must put your heart into it and the lasting value and the right team making the product a reality, you must do it.

"Take the chance now since the recession is where entrepreneurs are rising, execute your idea and make it great, give what your target audience wants."

Isn't that so inspiring for a 27 year old? She is completely passionate and works so hard for what she does! What do you think of her ideas and article?

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EVENT RESCHEDULED!

clock August 3, 2011 10:55 by author Ogoing Team

Hello Everyone,

As you may know, our social media boot camp is postponed to Aug 18, and it will be held at Ogoing headquarters in Irvine! Register for the Bootcamp here.

follow our updates on Ogoing!

 



Essentials for Sales Teams via Linkedin Apps

clock August 1, 2011 23:33 by author Ogoing Team

Besides focusing on small businesses like Ogoing, Linkedin focuses on personal profiles. Who knew but according to Mashable, Linkedin is good for sales lead generation engiines. Accordoing to Brian Carroll, author of Lead Generation for the Complex sale, 95% of qualified prospects looking at a company's website are there to research, and are not yet ready to talk with a sales rep. So here are five things the sales team shouldn't go without!

1) Did you know that Wordpress, A blogsite, has been a linkedin app for the last three years? If you have not already have a linkedin or a wordpress, they would benefit your business through web traffic up to 20% using this app alone.

2) Slideshare.com is a app on Linkedin that connects the customer with presentations and analysis overviews on  your product. To better understand your  company, this website could generate sales lead off or online 24/7.

3) Box.net can add your own content and storage unit on all your data. it is very ideal to Linkedin becuase its free storage for the best sales content.

4) Tripit on Linkedin is a network for leads over seas. When you're in the area, it is easy to connect with your overseas contacts, and establishing the relationships that's already needed.

5) The simple Events App is easy to use and is key for sales. It will connect you with other similar businesses and also spread the company's presence in your market and industry.

These Apps sound so amazing and easy to use! Are you on Linkedin yet?

 

How about Ogoing? It's the best way to connect with other small businesses!



Is your business not getting enough traffic views? Here are tips on better marketing strategies!

clock August 1, 2011 13:30 by author Ogoing Team

Although you are having a facebook or twitter account, and blogging about special promotions about your company or business, it doesn't mean it will effectively give you the promotion. Although those social media tools are free marketing for any business, you must understand that the market is different. You are competing against other like minded businesses, and are working in a faster and more efficient space.

In order for your business to avoid getting lost among hte flurry of content already clogging direct marketing channels, promotions and tactics must be clever, highly competitive, and contain high quality message that will get your audiences' attention right off the back.

Mashable.com talked to many marketing enthusiasts and asked about what tips could effectively market their product.

ONE: Partner with like minded people around your area.
     Teaming up with other small vendors or businesses could help you. Advise a team, or work off one another, and create promotional campaigns about spreading the word about the industry and shedding some light on companies that are in the same shoes as you are.

TWO: What exactly does your customer need?
     Keeping up to date information with your clients and providing some hands on experience with your customer is  key to drive business. You need relationships in order to make business effective. Connecting with clients on social media platforms keeps them up to date with you.

THREE: Follow current trends in the industry
     Following trends are key, and in order to do well, one must understand how the market is. Trend forcasting, for instance, like how social media has been booming for the last couple of years.  I see things are going digital nowadays..can you spot the next upcoming trend?

FOUR: Use multimedia
     Creating videos of what's coming or a review on why you should purchase this product could communicate to your audeince could be beneficial to them.

FIVE: Make your own Top 10 lists
     Creating a list of products you know or hear from, relating or non relating to your business, can create revenue and buzz about your business and the product.

SIX: Source through a diverse crowd
     Outsourcing for your product or services could give your business a large audience. By outsourcing, you are creating awareness that you are in this business realm, and that you can offer things that another like minded business cannot.

SEVEN Create Contests and Competitions
     Creating some kind of buzz through your business could give your services much of a boost. With things like either monthly giveaways or extra percentages off something, the  audience would be able to see that you are trying to build some kind of conversation or buzz.

EIGHt: Make it personal
     Taking the time to personally talk and thank the client for their business can make them feel appreciated. The client will see how much the person has put the effort into that gesture since you personalized the message.

NINE:Send it out!
     Although you may be offline from the digital world, sending simple things like cards and gifts thanking your client shows how much you really care for their business. With that, your clients could keep coming back and create more revenue for you.

TEN: Advertise on your own!
     Although this is very traditional and maybe tacky, try advertising through mail posts, or even your car. Since you drive around alot, advertising through your car could create a great first impression on their minds.

 

Really great tips to follow up on. Try these marketing strategies and let us know how they work out!

Are you a small business? Join ogoing to network and make new connections!



SOCIAL MEETING BOOT CAMP URGENT UPDATE: DATE CHANGED!

clock July 25, 2011 17:11 by author Ogoing Team

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend. In recent news, Ogoing has decided to postpone our Wednesday Webcast  that was suppose to be July 27th to Wednesday August 3rd of next week. We apologize for the inconvenience and we hope that those that are interested will hopefully see this before Wednesday this week.

So again, please remember theLIVE webcast for our Social Media Boot Camp will take place on Wednesday, August 3rd from 11am-12pm.

Thanks and hope to see everyone there!

To RSVP to the Event, click here.

For more information about our upcoming event taking place next Wednesday, click here.

If you haven't already done so, join Ogoing for updated information!

 



Looking for potential employees for your start up?

clock July 25, 2011 14:33 by author Ogoing Team

One way to know what's fresh out in the workforce would be social media. Start ups should consider useing social media as a recruiment tool and when executed preporly, social media offers recruiting manager a larger applicant pool and more access to information that will enable them to a better pre screen and filter candidates, and also a line of communication to the potential gires themselves.

it is also important to avoid spamming people and getting your business nowhere fast. It's atricky balancing act but by being respectful, honest, and humane, you next hire might come off twitter or Facebook.

An interview conducted by Mashable, a group of young entrepreneurials talk about the best ways to use social media to find top notch talent for your business!

 

ONE: ACHIVE EXPERT STATUS
    Use social media to get the talen t to you.  You shouldn't have any problems for anyone want ting work for you and they would be gladly to contact.

TWO: Tweet with hashtags
   By using twitter, promotion on new openings and using specil hashtags for j bs will get attention to the right candidates.

THREE: Twitter is your best friend
     search for talent by twitter search and hastags and erms relevant to your industry. Create a list and evaluate their Twitter activity by looking at their number of dollowers as well as the quality of their tweets.

FOUR: Pick the folks you want
      when you're a star up, you have o make sure you have the right team to help coordinate with the workload you have.

FIVE:Have a contest
     choose an imporatan trait tha you're looking for an host a contest via social media. Get creative with submissions and guidelinds and chare the contest with influencers and hubs and invite them to the talent your way.

SIX: Get a referrel
     Referrels are a liveligood for a business. Ask your social media contacts of leads for any new postion open for their company.

SEVEN: Listen, converse, and engage
      monitoring job trends or twitter in keeping you job board updated is alaso a great pull strategy.

EEIGHT: Youtube your vision
     record a short video describing your vision, progresss, and motivation and then share the video via socail media.

 

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Starting a small business? SBA loans rules get tough

clock July 25, 2011 11:10 by author Ogoing Team

A fellow colleague of mine sent me this article to read. It's about SBA loans and even in this economy, it is getting alot harder to obtain one.

According to the LA times, "Southern California lent the SBA loan with a decline of about 7% to $922 million that ended just this past June 30th compared with %988 million  last year. It's more than double the 3% nationwide.

So you may be thinking, should i start a business? If so, what is the best way to get a loan in this economic environment?

Those that were able to obtain a SBA loan said that the only reason why they were able to get the loan was because they were prepared. The banks required additional information like a three year growth project, real estate appraisal, and a down payment. The bank also requiress application revisions and additional data to verify whether or not the person can handle these costs.

This is what happened when a couple recieved a loan through their pank. They were opening a brewery which was their wholesale busines with a retail tasting room, but required a revision to rewrite sections of their business plan.

After filling out stacks of paperwork, the couple recently just opened their brewery within the the last month. They were able to figure out detailed numbers and took a free consultation.

However, the couple was one of the luckiest to get a loan during these economic times. Acquiring a SBA loan means that your business and personal life will be watched by the SBA, and that the costs that you make will be looked upon.

"You have to be able to bare it all" says Elizabeth and Christian Rebufat, co owners of a Bakery in Long beach. They were lucky enough to find a lender to give them the loan and was frustrating when trying to take the business opportunity. Although the bank wasn't going to give them the loan within the next month and the land lord already given the vacate space for the bakery, it is currently under construction.

So whatever industry you may be in, is it smart to make a move to get an SBA loan?

All i can advise you is to just research, research, and research. Understand how the markey and economy are working now and understand what is needed in these tough economic times. Without a plan, and starting a business, you are more unlikely to get a loan.

Are you a small business and want to get connect with others like yourself? Join Ogoing for further updates!

 



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