Donald & Ivanka Trump, The Apprentice, and Gene Simmons!

After a great marketing stunt from Donald Trump at the Learning Annex, Announcing the  Celebrity Apprentice in front of over 20,000 people, I quickly setup Tivo (DVR) to record every episode so I can further learn from it.

I have been a fan of The Apprentice since season 2, and I have seen and followed a lot of marketing and business related shows go up and down, but The Apprentice kept coming back stronger every season.

Up until the last season, where is took place in LA instead of my beloved New York, The concept of the show was to win a contract to become an apprentice to one of the smartest, richest and most popular real estate icons (Donald Trump).

What I liked, and learned from it was all the marketing techniques that was presented in each and every episode, every episode was a new challenge to market a new product or promote a business, and every episode had a unique marketing idea.

Fast forward to this season, the idea of the show is different, the challenge is between celebrities now and the cash generated will go to charities. What a great idea integrating cause marketing into the business model.

What’s even better is having Ivanka Trump doing the promotion and being the ultimate apprentice to her father, her lovely (and now very familiar) face started to show up in the last couple seasons, but I noticed that she is heavily involved this season at the show and promoting in other media, If it was up to me, I would ask her out :-), I have read a lot of articles about her and I just admire her work whether it’s her involvement and management of global building sites, or her new “head turning” jewelry product line, and I absolutelyloutly admire her work from her early days as a model, to approving herself in her father’s empire.

Before I start writing about each episode in details I like to mention one last thing:

One of my favorite entrepreneur superstars (And rock stars) Gene Simmons is one of the celebrities that I respect a lot through his history of entrepreneurial, producing and publishing and marketing work. At the pilot episode he was named as the marketing genius. Need I say more?

More details about each episodes coverage will follow, keep updated through the RSS feeds  (Learn more about RSS feeds) and leave comments about this post (I like feedback!)

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Social Marketing: FaceBook, lesson 1

So the new marketing trend now is social marketing…

We’ll talk in details about social marketing in general, and how to use all of it’s powerful tools for free, but, at this lesson I will answer to the most asked questions I have been getting when speaking about FaceBook:

Q: Is it free?

A: Yes it is, 100%

Q: Can I make money on it?

A: Yes you can, as I am writing this, there is over 14,000 developers world wide getting rich(er) everyday with their FaceBook applications.

Q: Do I need to become a developer to make money using FaceBook?

A: Not at all, there is a lot of ways to make good revenue utilizing FaceBook. For example, you can get exposure to your blog/site or even your eBay items by adding some applications (to date: thousands of applications available, free of charge).

Q: Tell me more, what is it exactly?

A: FaceBook is a website that offers social networking services, it’s been said that it’s the next big thing after Google. To date there is 1000’s of new users every day.

Q: Social Who….?

A: Social networking, think of it as a very advanced phone to connect with your family, friends, school mates and work colleagues. Share photos and videos, join groups, join local networks, add events and invite people to it, join good causes, dating and lots more.

Q: Am I too old for it?

A: Silly! not at all, in fact most new users today are adults over 30.

Q: All this for free?

A: Again, yes 100% no catch.

Q: Why should I join?

A: Reason 1: To connect with friends and family. Reason 2: A chance to make good revenue.

Q: OK, how do I sign up?

A:

The lesson:

1. It’s very simple: Go to www.facebook.com then click on “sign up” and fill up your information.

2. FaceBook made it easy to add friends from your existing email address books, that’s the next step after signing up.

3. Upload your profile picture.

4. You’re done, you are now a member at FaceBook. Welcome.

OK, one more question: Would you be my friend? A: Absolutely, click here and then click on “add to friends”.

OK, seriously, last question: Will you have more lessons about FaceBook?

Yes.

RSS feeds, Part 2 of 4 (What are RSS feeds? In plain English)

I was planning on explaining the readers and how to use them. Instead, due to high demand requests to explain more about RSS technology in plain English, I decided to include this video explaining in “Plain English” for my beginners readers everything they might want to know about RSS. I think it’s a great video.

Enjoy it and leave comments of what you think.

Next: Part 3 and 4 will be about different kinds of readers and simple steps to setup readers, also how to use RSS for your marketing plans.

Guru Of Sales Entrepreneur Superstar comeback!

Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Projects done, and anniversaries.

So, I have been gone for a while working on a new project, it’s over and successful.

Holidays rush is over, done lots of classes teaching online trading for the holidays.

Want to say Hello, and Happy New Year (I know it’s late, but better than never).

Was ill since New Year’s day, and finally today in about one hour from writing this it matches my 30 months quit smoking anniversary, (I am not counting anymore) I got an anniversary email today from quitnet.com(Helped me decide to quit)  that it’s my 30th month smoke free today at 6:15 PM and according to the great “gadget/tool” I did not smoke over 27000 cigarettes since I quit (WOW) and that’s cold turkey. I am impressed.

So just dropping in saying hello, I missed the apprentice’s first episode but I will still write about it, brand new about me page coming up and also (By demand) a new marketplace/jobs page also coming soon.

Oh… and it will rain articles here very soon as well

See ya soon.