Does somebody have experience with GoBIG network?

Because of the modeling portfolio site that I plan to launch I started to look for investors and I got across gobig. One time fee would be $176 and there are investors with bucks. I just need some accessories and a studio place to lease for which I have no budget at the moment. I’m not sure if these networking sites really work are they are just waste of time. I registered anyway for free, but to list anything I need to upgrade my account. Is it worthwile? Does it pay back? Any ideas how to get investors into new startups?

My Twitter trial – the “I like social media” tool

Twitter the microblogging site got my attention recently because I digged and mixxed more and more stories about how good it is for finding new friends and as a business tool. It was not my first time on posting tweets, no, but simply I did not get what on earth is good in twitter.

I’m not the kind of man to tell the world what time I go to poop. Don’t get me wrong, there are people really updating their twitter site with such nonsenses. From this you can see that the public usues twitter as social uniform to tell the world “what are they doing”. As I said I’m not that kind of a guy and I find irritating making “friends” digital. I think life is real and people trend replacing that real with virtually real AKA Virtual Reality (VR).

Not agreed. Social Media or Social Networking is a good tool for businesses to harness, even for organizations, and of course for social interactions as well. But first of all not as a replacement of the reality and getting into the “social trance”.

So I did not send an “I go to poop” tweet as a test but “I liked your post about…” That’s the way I learnt to do it and it worked and still works. I’m not saying that you can’t add any private non-business related post – I also added recently “I eat orange” for my wife’s sake – but if you are business oriented you should focus on that part of the twitter myth that makes sense.

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Delete 10 friends to eat Burger King Whopper

For sure you’ve heard about the big action of Burger King that tried to get some more clients and sell their whoppers. But what the hack is this? At the financial crisis you can eat only if you delete some friends? Is that normal?

This is like guerilla marketing like the one that happened in hungary last year. MTV hungary to launch their service put guitars into the neck of historic statues around the country making an indignation. I don’t know what is it good for but I don’t think that’s a good marketing strategy or advertisement. There are other ways than such a low profile ad.

I hate Burger King! And I think facebook does as well.

Marketing trends for 2009 from CES

I wanted so much to write about my marketing and advertising ideas and now I heard some from Greg Douglas. So here I’m to say aspirational and boundle marketing is key factor in this year and the years to come.

How about buying an 8mbs internet service and getting 300 minutes for free for inland phone calls if you buy a phone from the ISP? Sound great, we have such. Shortly after I heard the company selling the same 8mbs service for half price and with an additional printer. I’m bad we didn’t wait a bit longer that would have been a better choice. We needed internet connection ASAP so we FULL ARTICLE +

What to do for living?

I’m really getting off writing on my blogs and waiting for good user feedback and checking the comments with zero reply rate. Why is that? I want to earn money! I also got a nice request for freelance design job by one of my commenter. I sent my samples but no respond till now. It really drives me crazy. Yesterday I still did not finish my touch-screen project, and the worse: I found dozens of more interesting topics to read (not about touch screen) so I’m gonna sink. Have someone a solution for this? FULL ARTICLE +

I am an abuser of Tip’d

I got a nice email from a Tip’d moderator:

Hello,

This is a friendly warning from your Tipd moderator that your submissions about Zemanta have no value and do not relate to business or finance. Please keep your submissions on topic.

We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that continually use the social news site to promote their own blog with off-topic content. Please note that we will block barnabasnagy.com completely from our system and terminate your account if the submission pattern continues.

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I love to blog at last!

It was a long way to go but it seems I reach my goal with barnabasnagy.net – I start to love blogging. I know it might sound strange but as I wanted to harness the internet tool to earn money I ended up in several dead ends. Thousands of hour spent for nothing searching for advertisement options but at the end had no revenue, or pretty little. So now it was enough and I started a new phase in my career doing what I really like.

The problem I face many times is how to pay bills, they are paid out somehow, anyways. FULL ARTICLE +