“Claim Your Name” is the name of a social networking experiment being run by Bill Austin for some of the Job Seekers of the Scottsdale Job Network.

We have found that almost all employers use some aspects of social networking, although most of them do not recognize it as such. Recruiters, hiring managers and staffing professionals use online search engines and social networking sites to locate potential candidates (sourcing) and to research job candidates and their backgrounds.

Claim Your Name is actually a social network for job seekers to enable them to take charge of their online identity and make it much easier for recruiters and employers to find them online.

Imagine if you were out of work and were a job seeker and imagine that your name just happened to be

Britney Spears

or

Lindsey Lohan

or

Michael Moore

…

Without a strong social network, you are pretty much out of luck.

No one would ever find you online.

This online program called “Claim Your Name” lets you take charge of your name online and tell your story to recruiters, hiring managers and the rest of the world.

If you need help  to take charge of your online reputation, whether for a job search or for your company or personal online reputation management, you can call Bill Austin at 1-480-998-0246 for short consulting assignments or major reputation management engagements.

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Top 3 Social Media Strategies for twitter.com from @wbaustin

Bill Austin was recently interviewed by Travis Campbell of MarketingProfessor.com on the topic of “Top 3 Social Media Tips & Strategies.”  The video interview is featured below.

To summarize, the top three tips are:

1. Get Involved
2. Engage
3. Personalize

Some quotes from this social media and twitter tips video:

“If you want to engage with people in order to grow your business or grow your social relationships and grow your social capital, you have to engage with them.

“Put your picture up there, fill out your bio.”

“It’s called social media for a reason.  And that’s because it’s supposed to be social.  So if you’re just on there to count numbers or connect with everybody in sight and you don’t really know them, you’re not going to get much value out of it.”

“You already know the people who are going to make your business successful and make you successful.” … “they know your next customer.”

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Is that what you really want?

Many of our clients get solicited by companies who claim to be able to rank them better in the search engines than they are currently ranked.  We are sure that you get those same solicitations. As you wade through those piles of spam solicitations, here is the most important thing to keep in mind.

Ranking well for something is not the same thing as ranking well for something that will sell your products or services.

If you want to improve your search engine rankings, the first thing to find out is what the search terms for your products, services and industry are that people actually search for in volume.

Keyword research tools are readily available to determine what terms are being used within your industry and surrounding your product or service.  Do the work to develop a comprehensive list of keywords and key phrases for your industry, product and service, rank them in order by relative number of searches and use that list for all other marketing that you do, both online and offline as well as for your public relations campaigns.

As your marketing campaigns proceed make a second list of the terms that are leading to sales of your products and services.  Use that list to hone your marketing campaigns to acheive the better results for the search terms that make you the most money.

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By Bill Austin

Bill Austin presenting Social Media at the third Arizona Real Estate Blogger Network Meetup. This video is approximately 50 minutes long and will give you a general overview of what Social Media is and how to apply it to your Real Estate Business.

Bill Austin on Social Media from phoenixrealestatelive on Vimeo.

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Phoenix AZ Real Estate

Real Estate Technology  Conference

Social Media Conference

January 27, 2009!

SEVRAR / BlueRoof360.com

Hi everyone…

I wanted to let you know about the SEVRAR / BlueRoof360.com Technology Conference on the 27th of January 2009!

We’re holding it at the Mesa Convention Center Mesa Arizona in Building B and we have some FANTASTIC people lined up to speak!

Jack Peckham – Founder and CEO of the Real Estate Cyberspace Society (www.RECyber.com)
Greg Tracy – REALTOR and Founder of www.BlueRoof360.com
Joeann Fossland- GRI Technology Instructor and Business and Life Coach – www.Joeann.com
Chip Lambert- LinkedIn Master Instructor from www.IntegratedAlliances.com
Bill Austin- Social Media Guru & the 3rd most linked person in Phoenix on LinkedIn www.azhttp.com
Jay Thompson- Blogger Extraordinary – www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com
Chris McKeever- NAR Center for REALTOR Technology – http://www.realtor.org/technology
Jeff Raskin – Microsoft Expert – http://technologyforrealestate.net/
Kathy Lunak- AAR Transaction Management – http://www.aaronline.com/TM/

In addition, ARMLS will be doing training all day long on the following topics

Custom Views and Q & A
Business Cards, Flyers and Q & A
Personal Preferences and Q & A
Wireless flexmls and Q & A

If that was not enough you will get the opportunity for one on one time with experts in:

Blogging
Twitter
LinkedIn & Other Social Media
Search Engine Optimization
Tablet Computers
Technology Tools
Transaction Management

Also be sure to stop by and see our very own Arizona rep Candace Robinson at the Diverse Solutions booth. Diverse Solutions will be offering some training in conjunction with ARMLS. For those seeking an outstanding SEARCH MLS page to diversify your online presence and make a better search experience for your consumers be sure to stop by and see the great offer that DS has for you!

SEVRAR Members and Non-Members planning on attending the Keynote Address should Sign up with this form so you can order lunch (the address is over the lunch hour 12:00-1:00).

As always, SEVRAR Members who don’t feel they need lunch can sign up at www.SEVRAR.com

Our Keynote Address by Jack Peckham is over the Lunch Break so please DON’T FORGET TO ORDER A LUNCH when registering!

Thanks to our sponsors for keeping this event FREE to EVERYONE!

www.BlueRoof360.com
www.SendOutCards.Com
www.REALTOR.org
www.ORHP.com
www.magnustitle.com
www.DiverseSolutions.com
www.Zillow.com
www.HWA.com
www.VisitMyLuxuryHome.com
www.mycomputerworks.com
www.ARMLS.com
www.Superlative.com
www.DynamicPageSolutions.com
American Title Agency

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Thank you for asking.

The Future is at Stake.

My name is Bill Austin and this is my response to the most frequently asked question I hear.  I am quite well connected on various social media and social networking sites and more people connect to me every day.  New LinkedIn and Twitter connections often ask me “How Can I Help?”

As more and more people from twitter.com ask how they can help, I find it very difficult to fit a response into 140 characters.  This post has been created to make the response easier to manage within that character limit.

When I first started networking I would respond to each person with a non specific answer indicating that I was fine and would let them know if I needed any help. Later I began to reply with a specific answer that let people know precisely what I need and what I am passionate about.  Over the years, about one out of 10 people actually did any of the things that I list in the response.  To that 10 percent, I say “a fond and hearty Thank You.”  To the other 9 people I say, “Please read on and see how easy it is to help save the future.”

Thank you for connecting.

My primary goals these days involve survival through the current slump and positioning for explosive growth as the mental state of the nation begins to recover.  My passion in work is helping people grow their business.  My passion in life is helping grow the next generation of brilliant people who will continue to move the world forward.  Our company does a lot of volunteer work in the areas of Education, Health, Human Services, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and when my core team is too busy with lower order needs, we can’t help as much in those areas.

I am mostly working right now on building awareness of what my team can do to help people grow their businesses.  Once the business gets back to where it was before our real estate and mortgage clients vanished, I can get back to doing more of the charitable and philanthropic work that makes our communities better.

What we need primarily is more people having knowledge about what we do and more links to various articles on our website that communicate that information.

Here are some of our articles about Internet Marketing.  If you find any of these interesting, we would appreciate a blog post or link to those you find compelling and of value to your contacts and clients.

Does your Website Need Professional Help

Internet Marketing and all of its most important elements can be completely summed up in ten letters.

Small Business Internet Marketing Services

EBay Affiliate Success

Business Blogging

Bill Austin
(480) 998-0246

Some of the organizations we support and participate in include:

Community Information & Referral
Write to Congress and ask them to support national funding of 211 call centers.
Find your local 211 call center and offer to help.

The Maricopa County Fair Association

Scottsdale Job Network

American Legion Post 911

Metropolitan Youth Symphony

Starshine Academy

Arizona Technology Council

Arizona Foreclosure Prevention Task Force

The American Diabetes Association’s Rip’s BAD Ride

Arizona-American Indian Science and Engineering Fair

Central Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CARSEF)

Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Arizona Science Olympiad

Arizona Technology Council Workforce Development Committee

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Improving Google Search Engine Ranking

Google search engine ranking can be improved by SEO experts. Google search engine specialists can help improve search engine ranking on Google.com.  By providing creative, clearly written, informative, relevant and useful content on a regular basis and by ensuring that content is interesting to your site visitors and easy for them to share with others (see “5 C’s Of Internet Marketing“) your site will be much easier to find on Google.  The Google search engine loves good content and it loves to see that content updated regularly.

Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership (AZhttp) is a well established SEO company with high ranking clients across a wide range of industries. They provide professional search engine optimization services including specific techniques for improving website ranking on the Google Search Engine. The Google Search Engine (google.com) is one of the most important search engines for generating large volumes of highly targeted traffic to web sites. SEO for the Google Search Engine has become increasingly complicated in recent times and our Search Engine Experts are constantly studying these changes to ensure that client websites are ranked well in Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines.

We look forward to working with you to ensure a successful Google Search Engine Ranking Improvement campaign to improve your Google search engine ranking and to aggressively promote your products and brands. Please browse through AZhttp for more information on our Google Search Engine Ranking Improvement services.

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Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership (AZhttp) is a well established SEO company with high ranking clients across a wide range of industries. They provide professional search engine optimization services and expert site placement consultants for optimization of sites as well as expert SEO campaign management. Their SEO experts have extensive technical experience as well as project management experience.

We look forward to working with you to ensure a successful SEO campaign to improve your online sales and Internet marketing efforts and to aggressively promote your products and brands. Please browse through the AZhttp, Inc. site for more information on our SEO Expert services.

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Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership (AZhttp), an integrated marketing solutions company, is your best source for a website promotion company, for web promotion and website promotion services, search engine promotion, online Internet promotion and marketing

AZhttp is a well established integrated marketing services and web site marketing promotion company with high ranking clients across a wide range of industries providing professional web site search engine promotion services. Our web site promotion experts are continually studying changes in search engines to ensure that client websites are promoted well.

Contact us for Web Promotion quotes.

We look forward to working with you to ensure a successful web site promotion campaign to improve your web site search engine ranking and to aggressively promote your website, products, and brands. Please browse through the entire web page promotion website for more information on our web site promotion services.

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Arizona Search Engine Optimization

Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership (AZHTTP) is a well established integrated marketing services and Arizona Search Engine Optimization company with high ranking clients across a wide range of industries. We provide expert and professional systems engineering, search engine optimization and Internet marketing services as well as on-site placement consultants for optimization of sites as well as SEO campaign management. Our SEO experts have extensive technical experience as well as project management, system design, and systems integration experience. Some people say that SEO is not rocket science, but several AZhttp staff members have related experience just in case.

There are many things which should be taken into consideration in your SEO optimization and planning efforts. Consulting with Arizona Search Engine Optimization consultant might be the best search engine investment you will ever make.

Internet Marketing Services and SEO Overview

• Define Objectives
• Define Goals
• Identify the Current State of Site or Sites
• Identify the Target Audience for each Site
• Identify and Select Strategies
• Research
• Site design recommendations
• Search engine placement campaigns
• SEO Monitoring and Reporting

We look forward to working with you to ensure a successful SEO campaign to improve your online sales and Internet marketing efforts and to aggressively promote your products and brands. Please visit our SEO specialty site for additional information about our SEO services.

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