Archive for April, 2009

We’re With The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, Mike Michalowicw today

ARE YOU A TOILET PAPER ENTREPRENEUR ? -“How to Make It Big in Business, Even Though the Economy Sucks Wind.” That’s the theme of what will undoubtedly be, an inspiring, call to action type of seminar today, with featured speaker the American young entrepreneur MIKE MICHALOWICZ who launched and sold two multi-million dollar companies before age 30 and is the author of the bestselling business book the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. Mike’s 3rd multi-million dollar venture, Obsidian Launch now mentors and incubates startup businesses.

MICHALOWICZ, is a graduate of MIT’s “Birthing of Giants” Entrepreneurial Program; a recurring guest on CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, and has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR), in the New York Times, Smart CEO Magazine. Mike’s also a regular blogger for Young Money.com and YoungEntrepreneur.com.

The Event will also feature KINGSTON BETA’s PITCH This Segment, which is really an open mic for great business ideas. There 3 rising Jamaican young entrepreneurs will get three minutes to woo the audience on the who, what, when, where and why of their startup companies

This event for Jamaican entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs in waiting is staged by Caribbean Fortress Ltd in association with MyEliteGrocer.com and Kingston BETA (A Connectimass Event) Join us, it’s only JA$500. Bring two friends and your business cards.Look out for SiliconCaribeTV,the weekly video blog we’ll be launching for this blog soon. Also watch for Look out for the roving cameras of SocialLingua.com.

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Top 12 Caribbean Twitterers…what does that mean anyway ?

With Twittermania in full swing globally, I wanted to see just how much Twitter has taken hold in the Caribbean. So I used wefollow.com, which is a user-powered Twitter directory to track how many twitterers we had under the Caribbean tag/category.
The top 12 Twitterers list was developed by this single directory using a single determinant- how many followers/subscribers does each Twitterer have. What I found was that the top 12 people/sites/individuals/companies with the most followers in the Caribbean are:

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Mainstream media…ahh no! Online media…ohhh yeah !

The relevance of mainstream coverage seems not to be an issue for this Internet Generation. I recently attended a rehearsal meeting for an upcoming event. About 10 people gathered to run through the agenda and to meet who was doing what and when. Then one person asked…so is the media coming? The chief organizer without missing a beat listed the names of two well trafficked and respected blogs and a Caribbean social network which covers events, take pictures and brands these pictures and puts them solely online. No one seemed perturbed by this announcement and less surprised at the response by mainstream media for the request for coverage was met with the usual we’ll see how the days events go to decide whether or not to send a reporter or photographer over.

So it made me ask this question…..is seeing and being seen online, getting “coverage” online and being able to share with friends in social networks, on twitter, by email, on instant messenger and by phone a fast growing appeal, reality even, with the clamour to be covered in the mainstream print and by tv stations dwindling?

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Artists can stay on the cutting edge using MYSPACE MUSIC

Despite the current economic crisis, and the resulting chaos in the music industry, President of Myspace Music, Courtney Holt remains “cautiously optimistic” that they will remain successful in building an “innovative online business.”

In a recent interview, Holt told Billboard Mag that since he accepted the presidency at Myspace Music, they have:
- made tweaks to Myspace Music’s search engine
- added new playlist features
- improved the music player

These tweaks have contributed to:
- 40% spike in search engine traffic
- the creation of 105 million active playlists by Myspace Music users
- more than 5.3 billion average aggregate minutes spent listening to music in January alone
- new advertising partnerships with companies like, Toyota, Visa, McDonalds, Kmart and Adidas

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What’s your social media profile and what does it say about you?

How many social networks and how many social tools do you use regularly, daily even? I started to feel pretty overwhelmed the other day. You see, I run a boutique digital marketing agency and write this blog and with all the client work, keeping on point with information and trends in the Caribbean and globally…I use my blackberry to keep a record of God knows how long the list of usernames, passwords for all of the social networks, social tools that I test and also use regularly. So it made me slow down to take a look at myself and ask what exactly is my social media profile and what does it say about me if anything? So here goes.

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Free Press Release Submission Websites for the Caribbean

I’m in the middle of creating an online publicity campaign for a client and found three free Caribbean-focused press release submission websites – caribpr.com which was the first PR wire of the Caribbean which is based in New York, caribbeanpressreleases.com which is out of Barbados and then we have Jamaica-based jamaicapressrelease.com and a sweet list of 50 free press release submission websites.

Now not all press release submission websites are created equal. Most tends to simply allow you to upload the text and make your release available to the readers who come to the site. Other sites are what I call fully loaded- meaning you can submit a press release with live links back to a desired website; they allow photos,videos and audio; their site has rss feeds; is syndicated to mainstream journalists; has relationships with a network of influential bloggers;is regularly picked up by major search engines such as Google and Yahoo and more; and some are targeted to specific industries such as technology or business or travel. So it means seeking to find what matches your online publicity needs.

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Pileojobs.com – All Caribbean jobs on one site…

I discovered pileojobs.com on Twitter this week. It’s a simple solution to a real problem. There are now over 20 Caribbean job sites and really who has time to go to all of them. Pileojobs.com solves this problem…as they said one search gives you access to hundreds of jobs. They launched in beta this week.

Related sites

Caribbeanjobs.com number one job site?

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Searching for New Business Opportunities in the Caribbean?

Yeahhh we’re working ourselves out of this recession local, regional and global, and while a positive attitude, perseverance and persistence are totally necessary, we need information too. So if you’re the kind of entrepreneur or business that love to tender for contracts then tendersjamaica.com.jm and caribbeantenders.com should be useful.

Both sites enable  companies, government agencies, general institutions to post tenders for projects and consulting opportunities and of course if you’re looking for new business opportunities, you can search and find tenders across more than ten categories – ranging from construction and engineering, marketing and media, education and training, technology and communication.

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MyLife.com cool concept

MyLife.com is the fourth larget social network in terms of monthly unique visitors according to ClickZ.com. It’s new to me, so I had to share it. MyLife.cm is a people search. With a tag line tha states, Find Everyone, in One Place, the site scours 750+ million profiles – across the web’s most popular sites such as Facebook, Linkedin,Twitter, MySpace and Flickr! Then once you find who you’re looking for you can connect and manage those connections from the site. Warning though, it markets itself as America’s Number one people search…so don’t go on a rabid search for your Caribbean friends unless they are part of American centric social networks and pretty much most are.

I did a search for my name on the site and sure enough, links to Facebook and Linkedin profiles where I used my real name of course popped up. To view those profiles and connect, you do have to join mylife.com of course. Useful tool. I like.

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Seeqpod Sinks – Another one bites the dust

Earlier this year, when I ventured off to LA for the Econ Music Conference, the first business card that I received was from a gentleman by the name of Caleb Pate. Very cool dude, he was the Music/Media Strategist for a company called Seeqpod. Execs from 3Jane and other companies were more than familiar with Seeqpod – it was very new to me. So after chatting with Caleb for a while I took a look at their site…..and thought “wow, niffty!” One site that can bring all the data on the internet (videos, reviews, photos, etc) to one flash player on any artist I like! Cool!

Kasian Franks, Raf Podowski, and Shekhar Lodha founded SeeqPod back in 2005 and in less than 2 years, managed to create a unique, easy-to-use search and discovery engines that has appealed to millions.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Dancehall / Reggae Artistes Should Be On Twitter

Dancehall.Mobi special update – Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. It allows users to send and read other users’ updates that are known as ‘tweets’.

In a word, Twitter has taken the world by STORM. Numerous international artistes including P. Diddy (437,276 followers as at April 9, 2009) and Soulja Boy (240,861 followers as at April 9, 2009) are already using it with good effect to build their personal brands and connect with fans all over the world.

But what about dancehall / reggae artistes? There are a few who are already on Twitter (we’ve provided a list below), but by and large our artistes have ignored (or not caught on to) Twitter. Why should dancehall / reggae artiste be on Twitter? Here’s our top 5 list of reasons:

1. 24-7 Exposure - it’s a good way for your fans to get just a peak into your day-to-day life … you control what is put out, so no worries about it being invasive.
2. Big it up – it’s another way to promote yourself … upcoming shows, new album in the works, new video released etc. Get the word out. More

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