This is the way #SMTB Insiders Do It!
In Episode 6 of the Social Media Traffic Blueprint Insider Podcast, I gave Posterous a wrap. During the Social Media Traffic Blueprint launch March/April 2009, I created a Posterous blog to help the community promote their video comp entries Social Media Traffic Blueprint Insiders.
I was probably like you are now. Wondering if Social Media Traffic Blueprint and Maria Andros were as good as they seemed. I got excited about the competition.
I made a QIK video using my phone as my first video entry and shortly after that I made a second video entry.
Anyway to cut a long story short. I didn’t win the comp, I did do the course, and Maria recruited me to be a member of the Community Support team for the #SMTB program that ran from April to June 2009.
What an awesome experience that has been. The value that I got from the #SMTB community inspired me to create this site #SMTB Insider to give my fellow students and myself a platform to tell our stories and promote our products and offerings.
A New #SMTB Community
With the reopening of the doors on Social Media Traffic Blueprint and a new video comp I see a new #SMTB Community growing. I find myself inspired by the entries, the way the contestants are sharing so fully of themselves, and by the excitement and anticipation they must be feeling. I want to support this growing community. So I create a playlist of all the competition entries that I find, and I post them here on this site SMTB Contest Entries and Winners. The I wrote a post on the Posterous blog called…
10 Ways to get an unfair advantage in the Maria Andros #SMTB Video Comp
The post gives contestants, some actions they can take to promote their videos in the current Why I want Maria Andros to Personally Coach Me Contest. Most important of these 10 tips is the Friendfeed group that I have created to assist contestants promote their videos to Maria, it’s called Maria Andros Vid Comp group. It’s only for contestants in Maria’s current competition.
I know Maria likes the Friendfeed group format. Why, because she had me embed an SMTB Youtube Friendfeed Group in our “members only” area [Note: this group is only for #SMTB Students]. A Friendfeed Group like the Maria Andros Vid Comp group, allows Maria to easily find and view videos in one place with out searching all over Youtube. It also improves your videos position in search results and increases the visibility of your video.
Hint: commenting on your video in the Friendfeed group automatically posts your video to twitter (provided the Friendfeed user commenting has default setting). Now of course I can’t guarantee that having your video in this group will get you on Maria’s short list, but it’s got to help right?
Add Your Video To The Maria Andros Vid Comp Group on Friendfeed.
Adding your video to the Maria Andros Vid Comp group on Friendfeed is easy. So the feed is kept to your videos only it is a closed group, so I manually add your videos. To do that I need your permission and some basic details, however I have created a simple process.
- Go to http://bit.ly/MariaVidComp
- That will take you to a simple Google Docs from where you tell me your name, Youtube Channel, Twitter and Friendfeed names if you have them and your email address if you want to share it.
- I add your video and tweet or email you when it’s done
- Promote your video in the Friendfeed group, encourage people to comment etc
It is as simple and painless as I can make it without making the group public which could lead to anyone adding any type on video or link. Why is he doing all that you might ask? Well some of the contestants may have entered the competition using my affiliate link Social Media Traffic Blueprint so I really want to look after anyone that has come through my link. However the vast majority of you will have been introduced to Social Media Traffic Blueprint via someone else’s link. So again you might ask why is he helping people if he doesn’t make anything out of it?
Contribute to a Community and Together You Grow
Here is why. I believe that to adopt long term change to make the changes that I want in my life and the changes that you want in yours the most important factor is to stay connected to a strong community of practice, (if you want more on this see my last video Communites of Practice and the #SMTB Community) I have found that by contributing to the tribe that has formed around Social Media Traffic Blueprint great things have happened for me and my business. So I hope that whether you win Maria’s competition or not, purchase Social Media Traffic Blueprint or not, that you will contribute to the community of people who are doing Social Media the right way and that you will know the rewards that come from that.
So if you have yet entered the comp click on my affiliate link Social Media Traffic Blueprint or if that makes you uncomfortable go to www.socialmediatrafficblueprint.com, sign up for Maria’s Early Bird Notification List, and you will get all the details about how to enter the comp. If you have entered the comp head over to http://bit.ly/MariaVidComp and let’s get your video into the Maria Andros Vid Comp group and right in front of Maria.
Best of luck to everyone. Deano
