Matt Schollmeyer

Proximity Based Social Networking – Will It Be The Next Big Thing For 2012?

Being an internet marketer I’m always looking for what’s going to be trending in the future. I was reading through some articles online and found an article from businessnewsdaily.com regarding proximity based social networking. If you’re not sure what “proximity based social networking” is then let me fill you in. Think about having a Facebook that automatically friends people based on how close they are to you as well as your interests.

For example if I’m sitting in a coffee shop downtown and post a picture of my Adsense earnings for 2011 and one of my interests are internet marketing and there happens to be someone else that looked at my photo, liked it and has the interest of internet marketing as well it would basically add them to your firends list and allow you to network with them if you and that other person felt like networking.

It’s basically helping to open up the world around you in a way that has never been done before. I think this is definitely some pretty exciting stuff. I also believe there’s definitely going to be some major barriers to break down to really harness the capabilities of proximity based social networking. I mean if you think about it everything from how businesses hire individuals to how two lovers meet is about to be revolutionized with this kind of technology.

How Proximity Based Social Networking Works (In A Nutshell)

1. You’re going to need an app for your mobile device with the “proximity based social networking” application on it

2. The app will collect data from social networking sites you’re already a part of such as Facebook, linkedin, twitter etc..

3. The “proximity based social networking” app will gather data from these social networking sites such as your newsfeeds and preferences

4. Your location will be gathered via your smartphone

5. All the information will be compiled by the “proximity based social network” and then fed to you.

A cool example of this working to simply meet someone with your same interests would be an instance of where you just purchased a plane ticket to Las Vegas because you’re going to a wedding and wrote about it on your Facebook wall, one of your interests is a stand up comic that’s performing in Las Vegas the weekend you’re going to be there. While you’re stuck in Sin City with a bunch of people that want to go out and get hammered and gamble the remainder of their life savings away you just want to go to see this comic perform. It seems you’re out of luck.

That is until the proximity based social network you’re using just identified 12 gorgeous ladies that share your particular interest in that comic and then even further more are narrowed down to where you share even more interests with 6 of them. Now you know of some ladies you can ask to go to the show with you, it’s up to you to close the deal though, all a proximity based social network can do is help find people sharing your same interests

I personally feel like most of the groundwork has been laid by the already in place social networking sites like Facebook for proximity based social networking to really take off and gain a solid footing in 2012.

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The Easiest Ways To Get More Followers On Twitter

No matter if you’re just trying to be cool by having a ton of followers or if you’re trying to drive traffic to your website or blog it can be a difficult task to get as many as you possibly could, thus my easy guide for gaining Twitter followers.

I Use This Site Daily To Build My following For Free

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Alright for starters, there’s an awesome website out there called Twiends. Basically it allows you to sign up and earn things called seeds, you offer people so many seeds for following you and you earn seeds by following people. It’s an extremely simple way to grow a following very quickly and it’s completely FREE! However even though it’s free if you want to speed up the process a bit you can actually purchase seeds for money.

With that said I would have to say Twiends is probably the absolutely easiest way to start building a following, other than that there’s few other ways for an everyday person to start gaining massive amounts of followers but here’s some ways.

1. Be creative with your tweets. This helps you gain followers by getting retweeted and by simply making people care about what you’ve tweeted.
2. Get involved in the hashtag conversations. I’ve gotten quite a few followers that way.
3. Talk to people, search for people talking about a topic you’re interested in and toss in your 2 cents.
4. Add a follow me thing to your website or blog, I don’t do this mostly because I’m lazy and I don’t know if it’s really worth the extra space vs. a different type of banner but I’m sure it would help and I know it helps a lot of other people as well.

Well that’s what I have for gaining a following. If you want to figure out some other ways feel free to check out my Twitter marketing section. Make sure you check out Twiends though, it’s just way too good of a resource not to use.

Facebook Marketing – How To Get Super Cheap Clicks

So you have a facebook fan page and want to promote it on a budget? Well if you do then check out this case study of mine and hopefully it can help you successfully achieve what you’re looking for. If you read my latest Facebook post you’ll know that I’ve just started to dable in FB marketing so I’m still seeing different results but in an effort to get ready for this huge video game launch coming up I’m doing this test for fun and hopefully fun as well.

The first thing I did was of course create a fan page and some graphics, I really want to post the graphics up here because they’re pretty cool but I’m going to go ahead and wait until after the game launch, no need to ad a ton of competition to what I only have a small foothold in already. Lets just go ahead and call it call of duty, I don’t like that game much and it already has a ton of comp

Now I’m searching for a certain segment of these fans, they already like a certain game so lets go a little deeper and target those that like a certain part of it that there isn’t a fan page for or might be some seriously weak competition for.

Now obviously there’s already a fan page for COD, a huge one with something like a million fans. Now I took out a section of the game, lets call it sniping. There’s obviously going to be plenty of people that enjoy that part of the game. So we need to make a cool graphic, maybe even find a YouTube video that shows a cool sniper shot and place that on the page people are going to land on. Then we need to place a call to action on the graphic that tells them to like the page.

Once you have that done roll on into the FB ad center, this is where the magic happens. See Exhibit A courtesy of Mr. Green via Nana Gilbert Baffoe ( great content builds it’s own links for all you seo junkies )

Exhibit A.

As you can see, all countries are not created equal. Now all you need to do is find some offers and test them out with your great new source of dirt cheap traffic If you’re not sure where to find offers then make sure you check out Offervault.com they also have some great webinars on Facebook marketing.

Make sure you subscribe if you want to stay updated on what I’m doing with Facebook marketing. I think I’m going to go ahead and put together a cool little video & graphics package for like $10 or something, maybe even just pay with a Tweet or something like that for anyone that wants a little help getting started.