The Next Google Will Have Its Humble Beginings In Meetup.com

About an year ago, during a serious conversation on memberhsip site models I heard about Meetup.com and its high membership stick rates

While I appreciated the idea then, I completely forgot about it until recently when a friend of mine insisted that I visit local meetup groups to spread the message about my upcoming “Internet Income Summit“, he further explained how even Tony Robbin’s upcoming UPW event in San Jose is promoted in Meetups.

That woke me up…

So last evening I attended my first ever meetup in Campbell, CA. There were about 50 people in attendance and the organizer Sunil Bhaskaran was amazing. A seasoned sales professional himself, Sunil shared some valuable lessons in sales & marketing with everyone. Kept the entire group focused and allowed ample time for the attendees to network. If you live in the Bay Area CA, make sure you attend Sunil’s meetup. The meetup is called The Bay Area Business Leads & Networking Group Meetup. .

Apparently Sunil had known me for sometime and had visited this blog in the past.

Coming out of this meetup, I made a couple of observations about meetups in general, This is kind of my first impression. It could change as I attend more meet ups and get to know more people.

There are some amazing, out of the box thinkers who are just looking for a good break. Their ideas are big, their intentions are noble and their hearts are in the right place. yes the economy is bad, and things are not good, but there is no grief in their attitudes or actions. They are upbeat, optimistic and are eagerly waiting for the “tomorrow” while making the best use of “today”

Thanks to Sunil, I’m inspired to start my own meetup. The work is under way, you can check it out here: Go Rich Online

If you are an investor looking for the next big opportunity, make sure you don’t ignore meet ups. If you are entrepreneur looking to start your next big thing, you should participate in as many relevant meetups as possible as there are equally more people with money like those with ideas.

5 Valuable Lessons I learnt About Twitter Recently

Not only Twitter, these lessons apply to any social media site. Certainly Twitter is different, but again more and more social media sites are incorporating twitter like features into their mix. No matter where this all goes, there is an increasing amount of stress on marketers to learn how to leverage these mediums.

The debate is still on, Does Social Media Marketing has an ROI? there are all kinds of reports and conflicting data. Dell says they are making money from Twitter. While Twitter is enabling many small and big businesses to connect and grow, how will it ever make money for itself? this is probably a hot discussion at Twitter headquarters.

No matter how we look at it, the core principles of marketing are more or less the same.

Over 90% people don’t know what twitter is and how to make it work. There are principle on how to harnesses the power of this new medium, provided one takes the time and learn them.

For the first time a channel called “Twitter” has made it easy for people to make money online without big lists.The best way to make money from twitter is to connect with people and immediately take them offline into a better controlled sales process

Just tweeting un-necessary unwanted stuff is not going to work. Scheduling future posts is a futile act provided they deliver tremendous value and those “Get 10,000 followers in 10 days” tools, next time when you see them ask why? what will change in your business if you have 10,000 followers. You may get a few more clicks, but would that increase conversions. Marketing is all about attracting not chasing.

The best way to get maximum visibility for your self is to create a lot of products. Not just products but products that bring value to your customers. People buy when they see value, Your job as a marketer is to create that value. In the social media world, Marketing is all about delivering value instead of creating a perceived one.

Relationship marketing will bypass any other marketing method in near future, Twitter and Facebook are the enablers of this change

This post is an outcome of a discussion that I have closely followed on askMetaFilter

One person even described the use of Twitter like this..

Our Continuous Partial Attention disorder needed some fresh material for our ever-fracturing ability to focus on one thing.

May be there is some truth to it.

My First BlogTalkRadio Interview

You probably are about “Internet Income Summit” that I am putting together in Santa Clara, CA from Aug 14th-16th. This morning Social Media Marketing Expert Dr. Ron Capps interviewed me on his BlogTalkRadio Show. Here is the recording.

To get more details about the summit visit www.InternetIncomeSummit.com