Ben Wills

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Video Search Interview on WebProNews

Chris Richardson was kind enough to not only listen to me talk about the cool video search marketing stuff that’s out there now, but also was kind enough to interview me and put it up on WebProNews.

Here’s a link to the video. Or watch it below ;)

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

No Need For Google, Myspace Works For Me

The longest-lasting online resource that I’ve come across for the nitty gritty of online marketing and business, WebmasterWorld.com, has just had a post on the front page of their site titled: No Need For Google, Myspace Works For Me.

It is in their subscriber’s section, so if you’re not a paying member, you won’t be able to access it.  But, the discussion is a great example of how Social Media is being noticed at all levels as a potential avenue for marketing a product, service or business.

Here, “carlr,” outlines the success that he has had as a photographer through his MySpace profile, especially as compared to the success he has seen from Google.

“My commercial photography website has been launched over a year ago.. PR4 now and about 100 on-theme inbound links and no outbound links. Still sandboxed so i get 4-5 hits per day from Google - a joke. Oh well. I signed up at MySpace with a custom template with portfolio etc. It’s been a month only and got many calls from clients, a major magazine and i even unexpectedly met somebody for real in a bar.. “hey! by any chance.. are you …?”

In this age where we must as webmasters wait and pray to get a decent position in google before we get out of business, this is refreshing. Maybe some of you guys should have a look.”

The entire discussion is definitely worth a read for those of you who are paid subscribers.  And for those of you who are not, I highly recommend that you consider paying for membership here.  As someone who runs a website with a community of members over 60,000 members large, I can truly say that this is one of the best online communities out there.

I’ll also be at PubCon for those that might want to meet up - I’d love to talk to anyone and everyone who has seen success or failure from their Social Media Marketing campaigns.