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After ‘Become a Fan’ changing to ‘Like’, Facebook now has a plan which infiltrates the entire web space. Facebook has introduced social plugins and personalized web tools to be used across the internet.

What happens exactly?

According to Facebook, a plethora of ‘like’ and ‘recommend’ buttons have been introduced for the web. So, any website implements these buttons and users can click on them to prove that they are interested. This information gets recorded and when your friend visits the same site, he/ she can see that you have ‘liked’ it.

Also all these activities get recorded on your activity feeds and friends can see a consolidated list on FB.

Walk up to Frankies, pay him Rs. 30/-, he will get you a non veg roll. If you like the food, you will go back. You are certain to tell your friends about the place. Next time they are around they are sure to try it out.

Your restaurant business works very similar to this. People pay for food and of course for the experience. They share their experiences with their friends, the conversation that they had with your restaurant. Experience becomes a conversation.

Social media is about interactions. It’s a one to one conversation that has the ability to generate many to many conversations amongst a group of friends and online buddies, a trusted community.

The Facebook fan page functionality has been altered. From now on ‘Become a fan’ is extinct and instead pages will have ‘like’ in its position.

Basically, the wording has a Twitter-isque connotation where if you want to follow a particular brand’s news feeds, you ‘like’ the brand’s page.

Twitter has come up with a new business model after 4 years of existence – the “promoted tweets” feature. According to this feature certain tweets will act like ads and will be displayed on search results with a different background.

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