Brian McCullough - Organizational Internet and Marketing Consultant

I need someone to answer this question for me because the linkedin website is bugging the crap out of me. Every time I login I feel like I am being unproductive trying to figure out how to get around and how this website is going to benefit me. It seems like the only way I am going to be productive on Linkedin is if I allow them to use my contacts to solicit myself and them. I can’t stop thinking, “why in the Hell would I subject my contacts to a website that I am not satisfied with, not to mention it is so confusing”, thats unfair. Plus I do not want to abuse the privilege of having my contacts emails, I take that very serious.

My good friend Ryan puts it best he said, “Brian the reason you are so bothered by this is because your profile is at a 60% thats a D” Well I graduated college a fews years ago, but I guess I still have the school mentality, good point Ryan.

So I guess I am asking the question “Why do you Linkedin?” because If I am not convinced that this website is useful soon, then I am going to have to peace out. Today Is 01/21/2008 I will give linkedin till 02/20/2008 to prove that it is a productive business savvy website. As for me I will go back into linkedin and try filling in as much info as possible, however, out of respect to my contacts I will NOT upload all my them, but I will weed through a find people that MIGHT find this service helpful.

My Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/bpmccullough

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Ok guys its been a few months since I first wrote about personal SEO and now it is time to reveal my result. The results you are about to see have been up for several weeks, however, I am just now getting around to recording them today. What I did to impove personal SEO and SEM for Brian McCullough “bpmccullough”

1. Setup & Posted a few blogs ( This is one of them ; ) )
2. Created accounts on several networking web
   1. http://my.mashable.com/bpmccullough (One of my Favs.)
   2. MY BAD!!! My accounts will not be as affective because I did NOT fill in all the info in my accounts. I plan on filling in all the info and using the services, however, some just make it too hard to conveniently use them. A good example is twitter.com I can update my twitter account (twitter.com/mccullough) through their website, the normal way, on my phone via SMS, through Google Talk and one of the most unique ways is, via my URL field in Firefox, those are just a few ways that I twitter. A poor example of user convenience is Vox, I hate posting this about Vox because I really like their website and business model but, why would I use their service if I already have a blog? Few other blogging website have answered that question by allowing you to syndicate your primary blog on their blog section allowing you to utilize their services. Vox does do this, however, they only let you syndicate Live Journal and TypePad. WHY? I mean just allow me to use my RSS feed, come on guys. Again this is why I like Mashable because they let you include a small part of every network I us, all in one place and although I wish for more interaction at least I am reminded that I have an account with like 20 networks and need to fill the accounts with information about me.
   4. A Few of My Accounts (Time to work on filling em-up)

   5. COMMUNITY

      Myspace

      Bebo

      Hi5

      Imeem

      MEDIA SHARING

      YouTube

      Flickr

      Veoh

      BLOGS

      Vox

      MUSIC

      Uber

      EVENTS & REVIEWS

      yelp

      NEWS

      Newsvine

      DIGG

      MISCELLANEOUS

      Twitter

   6. All of them have custom URLs i.e. myspace.com/bpmccullough
3. Personal Website bpmccullough.com
   1. I have been working on interloopmedia.com and have not had the chance to complete bpmccullough.com, none the less I have a landing page up with tags and all.
      1. About BrianMcCullough
      2. Resume
      3. Company’s
      4. Video Page ?
      5. Contact
      6. Other (fun pages ect.)
   2. Many people have used Uber for a personal website or Wordpress Software.

My Results Besides the multiple keywords that my name and/or blog come up on my “name” itself indexes on the 3rd page of Google, whereas before you would have never found my name on Google. Results For Brian McCullough

1. “Brian McCullough” comes up on the 3rd page of Google (in Quotes)
2. No Quotes SAME! 3rd page of Google (This surprised me)
3. McCullough - No where to be found on Google (Went to page 33!!)
4. bpmccullough - I own the 1st page (There is one bad post, from my SEO experimental college days)

Next

1. Focusing on Yahoo Search
2. Many more personal Blogs
3. Join Nthebook.com
   
   1. They will be paying for my ad words
      1. Google
      2. Yahoo
   2. The site is organized but a work in progress when it comes to naturally coming up on the search engines.
   3. The site makes up for it by putting part of your monthly fees towards ad words (10 bucks a month)
   4. Nonetheless much more to the point then it’s competitor LinkedIn
4. Starting a few new blogs of interest
   1. tulsafoodblog.com/blog
      
   2. Blogs For Friends
      1. christiansesma.com/blog
      2. tinytinyblog.com/blog

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I have personally setup over 40 Myspace accounts for individuals that want to grow their business, promote a product, film or album. I have seen many business fail at utilizing Myspace and many succeeds. I have also helped other media companies setup MySpace accounts for their clients and they think it will be clever to use a friend adding bot to invite friends to their Myspace and fail miserably. There are a few keys to making your Myspace a success that I will share with you today that will help put your MySpace over the edge.

1. Fill up you account
   1. Fill out all the information on you account, don’t be shy, this will help people find you easier.
   2. Make sure all your information stays up-to-date, again this will put your profile at the top of many Myspace searches.
   3. Most importantly USE YOUR MYSPACE BLOG!!!!!!
   4. Upload videos (Important too) Don’t forget the 100 other video websites out there.
2. Interact
   1. Myspace has other services for a reason, so use them, and do not forget to make comments when possible. (Many of their services are listed below)
   2. Few things to remember when you comment
      1. Leave your signature i.e. your name and website address
      2. Comment often
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3. Broadcast
   1. Ask you closer friends on Myspace to announce your Myspace via their bulletins
   2. Join other social networks to promote you Myspace and website
      1. Facebook (Great for networking, Create a Facebook Group)
      2. Twitter (announce ever update and get the Firefox URL poster) SEE twitter.com/mccullough
      3. Vox (Posts get pick up in Google news)
      4. Wordpress (Blog, great for SEO)
      5. Mashable (To stay up-to-date with social network news)
4. Non-Traditional PR
   1. Internet Press Release (Contact Interloop Media)
   2. Start a blogger campaign, meaning invite popular bloggers to blog about your MySpace experiences (Contact Interloop Media)
5. Inclusion
   1. Include a link to your Myspace on you current marketing materials
      1. E-Newletter
      2. Website
      3. Flyers

I hope this gives you insight on creating a Myspace profile, other then what I listed above I have a few legal trade secrets of my own for making Myspace profiles super popular not to mention good looking. I will be publishing more on social networks as the concept is huge on the Internet today.

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I can still recall the first time I had ever heard of Facebook. I was on a college break in Palm Springs hanging out with a friend from University of San Diego. We where talking about MySpace and she said “…but are you on Facebook?” I was like uh. She went ahead and gave me the tour, I went to sign up and unfortunately my school was not open for registration, many were not. So I put my name and school in the Facebook database and months later was invited.

Back then Facebook was a social network grouping people and schools within a clean interface (unlike MySpace’s GUI) with a ever growing list of new helpful settings, functions, and applications. Unlike it’s competitor, Myspace, Facebook had very little downtime, much less spam and always seemed to have its users in mind. These things and more have set Facebook up to become the multi billion dollar website or as Mark Zuckerberg calls it “Social utility” that it is today.

Today there are tons of social network communities to choose from, trust me I know, I joined about 15 of them over the weekend. I was very impressed that every site had their differences, this made my social network excursion interesting. The biggest downfall, for me, was that once I was signed up I did not know how to start “socially networking”. Many sites wanted me to start by uploading all my email addresses into their database. I do realize that uploading contacts is important for growth, however; only bother me with it once or twice, and not till I do it, after a while this became annoying.

A few of the sites listed their steps of interaction for me, overall they where:

1 Add friends, mainly by uploading your contacts
2. Update you profile information
3. Interact

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1. Upload Free Leads
2. Fill In Free Targeted Information
3. Help Grow Content to Attract Advertisers

For me I would say that two factors determined which sites where my favorite; first was the look and feel and second was the usefulness. I put a * next to all of networks that satisfied my initial experience.

Sites that I have joined in the past or over the weekend - *favs

Lets see how many I use…