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84ideas is the official Social Media partners at Tie’s Travel and Hospitality Entrepreneurship Summit, 2010! Yes, we are excited. We are excited because it is a blend of the things which we are extremely passionate about – Entrepreneurship and Travel! Click here for more details.

So we went to ItsAP and Head Start’s event!

With calyen having overslept, anicode and I rushed to the stall by 8 30 in the morning. By that time, the entire place was buzzing with activity and everyone was busy pasting up banners and setting tables.

The event started promptly at 9 30 am and people were diligently visiting the 100 stalls and trying to understand what each firm did. There were representatives from the biggest MNCs to the newest startups.

So lets be real people. Social Media is not something which can just magically double your sales and bring more traffic to your website. Here is what social media CAN’T achieve :

• Multiply your web traffic in 3 months.
• Make your brand/product a household name in a matter of time
• Be a complete marketing solution that solves all your needs and eliminate the need for all other channels.

While social media is great, it requires a lot of analysis, planning, continuous work, commitment and support from other marketing channels to be successful. Social media is not about tools, its about a approach.

We have our own stall at the ITsAP  Software Products’ Showcase and Awards – March 12th 2010 @HICC Madhapur. We are very excited about it and looking forward to meeting all of you there. So, do register yourself  for the event here.

“ITS YOU” … NOT your company …NOT your product which your customers buy !   Throughout the workshop Bill stressed upon this very simple but very important point effectively with some really good captivating stories from his social and professional life.

Branding yourself is so essential in today’s world where everybody is closely connected. I realized the importance of this in the tough way, after loosing couple of clients just because I did not make the right first impression. This has been one of my most important learning’s as an entrepreneur.

Key to mastering self-marketing is to perfect an eloquent and descriptive introduction of yourself and your position. This strategic tool, commonly known as the “Elevator Speech,” can be your best approach in professional networking situations and those rare moments when opportunities arise to create strategic new allies.

I recently got to know about the event “Pitch yourself” which basically helps entrepreneurs brand themselves in a way that we make right impressions the first time. We are all very excited and looking forward for this event.

Being a startup we are always at shoestring budget and going for a paid event like this always needs a second thought. Thanks to  “Meraevents” we got the tickets at a good 30 % discount. Now that’s a good deal.

If any of these #hashtags apply to you #hyderabad, #startup, #entrepreneur, #bd, #social media, this is one event you should not miss. We are going to be tweeting throughout the event with a #pitchyourself.

Here are the event details.

About the event  : “Pitch Yourself ” – Spend 8 hours to know the value of 30 seconds

When is it Happening : 19th Feb @ Taj Banjara, Hyderabad

Who is talking  : Bill Faust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPurMDzZCy4

He also authored a bestseller “Pitch Yourself”

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books/s?ie=UTF8&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ABill%20Faust&field-author=Bill%20Faust&page=1

Promotions

Meraevent gave us this promotional code to all our readers which you can use it during registrations to avail 30% discount.

Promotional Code : hWk9fa

How to attend :

You guys can register yourself to the event here and don’t forget to use the promotional code.

http://www.meraevents.com/Events/KRD_Vision/14

I always thought it was strange that none of companies we worked with ever talked to their employees about their social media activity.Its amazing how many companies are talked about online by their employees and so they could be a part of their online branding and reputation management efforts.

Do you have anyone in your company who’s a guru on twitter, facebook, youtube or blogging? Don’t ignore it- analyze whether you can harness their expertize to help you achieve your business goals.

Check out an interesting presentation from Social Fresh.

Yes we are going! We are really excited about this event. We are big fans of TED talks and now TEDx has come to Hyderabad!
The Event has a very interesting line up of speakers including Nagesh Kukunoor, Karuna Gopal, Dr Sunitha Krishnan, Sharat Chandra, Smitha Madhav, Sarath Guttikunda, Prof. D Balasubramanian and many more!

Find out more on TEDxHitechCity Website – http://tedxhitechcity.com

Definition: Web strategy is translation of the organizations objectives into a web implementable set of activities.

For a business/product to be successful online it has to successfully talk to all the aspects of the web ecosystem. It has to answer ‘who’, ‘what’,'when ’s ‘ of the market.

As a part of our market research activities, we were evaluating the customized t shirt market scenario in India. Online t-shirt selling websites are a huge successful in the US and lot of these models are being adopted for the Indian market as well.