We are helping one of our own select a social marketing profile today, so is Barb human, or is she a Chew toy?

One of my email delivery clients and has been swayed over to the social marketing side as email delivery continues to slide with Conficker delivering spam by the boatload and spam filters cranked up to an all time high.

So Barb asked me “Should she use @BarbSalisbury or @VirChewAll on Twitter. You know what I said and of course I asked her, “Well are you a human, or are you a chew toy?” You see Barb owns Vir Chew All, and makes just about the coolest pet toys on earth.

Her reply was “People will be looking for VirChewAll, not Barb Salisbury.” Those of you in the Google Wave Surf Club already know what I will say next…

If they are looking for you, then they already know your site, the job is done. They will go to the site.

You are not looking to meet people who know about the site.

You do care about NEW people who never heard of Vir Chew All. These people will be looking for other pet owners, not someone trying to sell them something.

Those people DO NOT want to get to know a business, they do want to get to know ANOTHER pet owner.

When they have gotten to know Barb Salisbury, THEN they may consider the business behind the person.

It’s time for a Chris Lang “What If…” story!

Let’s say you are standing in line at Petco. Like me, you take your dog with you when you go shopping for pet stuff or to Lowe’s, HomeDepot, etc. (mine is usually the one taking a crap in the isle BTW)

So here you and I are standing in line for the cashier. (AKA the last minute pitch isle from hell where for some reason you feel you just HAVE to buy one last thing, we don’t know why…)

Our eyes meet as we just happen to be looking over some of the plush puppies. (I myself love the turtle one and they are NOT available at Petco)

Now I chime right in as I am a WAY overly friendly kind of guy. (those who really know me understand this) I say “Hey, my dog loves those things, they last forever….”

Good stuff for any product, huh? Some random person just happens to endorse the impulse buy a random pet owner is considering, while our two dogs happily sniff each other’s butts in line. I mean how much more friendly do you get than that?

Let’s Say the Conversation Continues One Step Further:

You and I continue to chat and the dogs do things to each other I won’t describe, as we now wait, the cashier waits and the WHOLE store seems to wait in line for the manager because of some high level decision that only a Petco manager could possibly make but who is right now smoking a cigarette out back and texting his girlfriend who will never text him back.

We chat on and you ask me “So what do you do for a living” and I say “I help people learn how to use Google Friend Connect to make money.” I say help, because I give the thing away darn near for free.

You ask “Really, are you on Twitter” I say “Sure, my name is @VirChewAll, we make those Plush Puppies your basket is loaded with…”

So, my question to you is this:

Do the Plush Puppies stay in the basket? Of course they do!

We know each other.

We are both real people and have stood in line with each other at Petco. (boy, I love standing in lines)

Our dogs know what each other’s butts smell like.

WE ARE NOW SOCIAL FRIENDS! YES!!!

Would any of this have happened if I had been wearing a VirChewAll T-shirt and been in the store stocking my ends caps and checking on a corporate display? No, I definitely don’t think so and you should not either. Would you have walked up and asked me what my Twitter name was?

We became friends BEFORE you knew I had anything to do with VirChewAll. A search for VirChewAll would return your Twitter profile no matter your name. But if you added anyone as a friend on Twitter how likely would a @VirChewAll name be to pull return followers?

Barb returned via email this saying “For the sake of argument - customers will be looking for Petco, not ‘Janice-the-cashier’ “.

Customers look for you on Google, people look for people on Twitter.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Exactingly! We want “Flo the Cashier” my favorite #1 example of how social marketing should be done via a commercial entity. Janice the cashier is exactly what I would say would be the middle road, if you must be commercial. She is only second to Vince the Slap Chop / ShamWoW guy.

We could talk about Flo all day but let’s get back to Barb. What is her Twitter name going to be? I say we all vote in the comments below and you all help her decide!

I vote, well who cares what I think, what do you have to say? Are you a chew toy or a person?

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You will be able to get your name as the URL to your Facebook profile tonight at midnight EST

To match Google Friend Connect custom URLs Facebook will offer text URLs to your profile tonight at 12 midnight EST so get yours now (tonight).

Log into Facebook, go to this URL then watch the time count down. To get yours before someone else does, on the page there, as the time counts down keep pressing F5 on your keyboard, this will refresh the browser and get you in. The page may redirect on it’s own and it says it does. If it does not, then use the F5 refresh tactic if it times out and will not display.

The page will give you a time zone translation and display a count down script to your time. If you live on the west coast you won’t have to stay up so late, it will convert the time difference and you can gain access at 9:00 PM PST.

Believe me millions are going to be pounding away on this like crazy, expect network timeouts, server crashes and let’s hope Facebook’s servers can stand up to the load.

More on the Facebook blog here.

Get yours tonight or hate yourself later.

Tell your friends, tell your Dad, tell your Mom….

When you get your name, come back here and post it in the comments. I want to see how you all did and of course we can all make a few more friends this way too. - Cheers!

Good Luck!

Chris Lang

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Just a quick post today. Here is your #1 personal / brand / site promotion tactic and what social marketing is really about.

Short (for me) video on how to use Google Friend Connect comments to pull the best returns on your blog comments.

Watch the video, the result is even better than I could have hoped for and you can duplicate the results for any business you are running easily in a few hours work.

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I thought this question deserved the attention of all of my readers

One of my GFC friends sent me this link.

Chris,

I thought you’d like to read this article from TechNewsWorld:

“Facebook Knocks Down Another Single Sign-On Hurdle With OpenID Adoption”

A step towards some Facebook and Google Friend Connect communication perhaps?

Nope, it is not. This is simply oAuth / OpenID, a way of gaining access to a site with out going thru the annoying sign up process. I hate signing up to comment on a site, that is a real good way for me NOT to bother even reading your crap again. I even saw a site today that expected me to sign up just to view more than one page. Cnet and many others use this.

What decade are they living in???

Facebook Connect will never consume GFC, Facebook Connect is Microsoft’s doing. Their $260 investment in Facebook was what has kept them going this long. Did you notice the first sites that adopted Facebook Connect were NBC sites, thru the partnership of MSNBC? I personally hate the place, Facbook sucks, for me it is only a lead funnel.

You can thank Steve Ballmer for fraking up what would have been huge. Can you see his “Mine! Mine! MINE!” approach like some 2 year old to all this?

Now we have the same old Microsoft BS, the walled garden approach and mostly what I dislike about Facebook.

The only reason I will be using Facebook is because Digg is closing shouts and adopting Facebook sharing and Twitter / Tweets.

Twitter has already passed Digg in Traffic and this will only push it up even further.

This is a very good reason for you to be building a dominant Twitter account using this guys brilliant new app. I have added 3500 Twitter followers in a week with out lifting a finger. I gave Jack Humphrey a copy of this app and he raved about it on his blog.

This is good though

Now Facebook still sucks and and GFC is less usable as a marketing medium than it would have been if Facebook and Google Friend Connect had been tied in. Thanks Steve!

This can however make Google Friend Connect more powerful and profitable for us. Since Google has competition from Facebook Connect, I would say that it will just make them work harder and deliver even more Google Friend Connect apps to us more quickly. Good for everyone.

The number one sign that Facebook sucks is that they keep changing their GUI every 30 days. That is called chasing the competition and is the worst sign for any business. Now they want to look like Twitter, last month is was FriendFeed.

You may notice that some are ahead of things and chase no one. That is who you want to follow, the sites that do not imitate someone else.

All the while GFC looks like, aaahhhh, I don’t know, The Internet maybe? Because that is where it runs, on our sites on the open face of the web. What a novel idea, an open sea of websites where we can view what we want and take away the content we need.

How apt would you be to read my content, even thought the free content is leading edge, if I made you log in just to get it even for nothing?

Inquiring minds want to know so tell us by commenting below.

Have a good weekend, see you next week! - Chris Lang

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New Twitter Software adds top Twitter users for you, this is how I added over 1000 new Twitter followers in under 3 days without doing a thing

This is a follow up to yesterdays Twitter has PMS post where I talked about how I added 800 top Tweeps while I slept.

This one of a kind web app, adds top Tweeps, removes them in 3 days if the do not follow back and has already built one account of over 20,000 Twitter followers while my partner Don Draper slept.

This app is free as part of my Wickedly Evil Social Marketing Tactics members only site.

Today you get….

• My 130 page, brand new 2009 Social Bookmarking SEO manual today.
• 90 days of the Twitter Promote My Site Suite full version today.
• Four Google Friend Connect money making articles this month.
• 48 more GFC articles, 4 every month after that for $27.97 a month.
• Constantly updated articles on how to make money with social media
• Get all this today for less than the price of lunch, only $27.97 now!

Don’t bother with the free version Oliver talked about in the video above, I GIVE you the full version, 90 days of use for free when you join my members site.

If you have already joined the site I will be adding your unlock code to your account page in the members area by this afternoon.

The two guys in the video are my partners and friends. I am the only person licensed to offer this kind of deal and you can’t get it anywhere else. Many have tried to do an end run on this and get the bonus I offer here for their own products. They did not get it and no one else will either.

You can only get this from me by joining my members only site NOW!

The full story of what this one of a kind software does for you that Oliver mentioned in the video is at this link below.

If you need to see the full story how package will bury your competition with Wickedly Evil Social Marketing Tactics take a few moments. Whitehat to Google, Wickedly Evil to your competition…

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My partner just released his new version of Promote My Site Suite, (PMS) now reborn as Twitter Analytics and Twitter followers management, real slick!

I picked up 800 new Twitter followers while I slept on my first day trying out what I give away as a bonus free for 90 days, a real world $120 value as part of my members site.

Here is a quick walk through of what we will be offering, day one first release version.

Yes, this software is expensive, it’s just not expensive here!

Want it how? Instant access…

You get my $97 book on social bookmarking
The 90 day pass to PMS Twitter Management
instantly for $27 and Googling Social’s 52 week course by Chris Lang!

If you want to check out the first salesletter with social features here it is.

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You can now connect your Facebook and Digg accounts as Facebook Connect on Digg is Live

Digg and Facebook Connect just went live last night, I took a little time do get video together to help you avoid the pitfalls that come to first time users of Digg and you can learn how to better use Facebook Connect better on Digg here.

Follow the instructions in the video, but most of all don’t go submitting your own stuff on Digg in hopes of making any money. It is not going to happen. There are MANY ways to return huge value from Digg but submitting you own content is not it. Take a little time and learn how Digg works then move forward slowly.

Getting buried and flamed on Digg is no fun and getting kicked off is not either so slow down a little and learn how to do it right.

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Just finished my Google Friend Connect Knol with all my public GFC info in one place

I decided to try out the Google wiki, Knol. I added all my Google Friend Connect articles, tutorials and video in one place so it can easily be updated and shared.

It was getting a little ungainly and scattered so this is not only a chance to test out Knol, but get everything all together for you.

Love to have your opinion of it there, there are comments at the bottom of the page so let me know what you think.

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Paul Myers set this Conficker worm test up and it takes about two seconds to see if you are infected.

Many thanks to Paul Myers who is always about helping us all.

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It seems that some morally corrupt, double dealing, lowdown, jealous, pieces of Internet flotsam and jetsam have questioned how I do business.

So let me take this opportunity to clear that up. Because…..

Chris Lang has never sent one piece of spam in his life.

If you receive any email from me it is because you have opted into my email autoresponder. DOUBLE opted in in fact.

This is how I operate….

I add friends in social networks that comment under keyword searches for the terms I rank under in Google.

IF you friend me back, I send you an email thanking you for adding me.

There is a link in the sig file, I do not urge you to click it or mention my products in any way.

The link is to my squeeze page.

The only way you can get any email from me is to sign up to my AWeber autoresponder.

When you do you get a email like the one below.

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We received your request for information from the Googling Social
group. Before we begin sending you the information you
requested, we want to be certain we have your permission.

Be sure to add Chris Lang chris@keywebdata.com to your address book.

If you do not understand how to do this instructions are here:
http://googlingsocial.com/whitelist.php

Start Googling Social with Friend Connect now, click the link below…
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This is sent from AWeber, my autoresponder service.

Unless you click the link that would appear here you cannot be subscribed, this is called double opt in.

So any emails you may have received from me would carry a subscribe link link the one below.

Or you may have joined one of my commercial groups on Facebook or elsewhere.

Then you MIGHT once in a while get a sales link.

So, what does this really mean

Anyone that may have allowed you to think that I am sending email from my machine with direct salesletter links is an untrustworthy liar and you should have nothing more to do with them.

I am WAY to busy with my new members only site to send email to people thru social networks personally unless you email me first with a question. Then I will be glad to help you.

I make plenty of money with the launch or my members site, I don’t need to chase sales.

Remember I am watching YOU

Also, if anyone ever tells you that they can follow your every movement on the Internet using special algorithms they are are bold face LIAR and you should NOT ever speak to them again.

Hope you all have a nice day

If you don’t believe me click the link at the bottom of any email from me and UNSUBSCRIBE and NEVER come back to any of my sites. Get the FRAK OUT.

In fact, sell your computer on eBay right now because you are so stupid you should not be using the Internet to try to make a living.

If you are the person or persons(s) spreading malicious crap like this, come on down to Mesa, Arizona, we’ll have a few laughs. I will be more than glad to KICK your rat bastard, liar, ASS all the way back to where ever you came from.

- Chris Lang
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