{"id":1685,"date":"2008-07-22T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T10:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2025-06-07T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:01:03","slug":"facebook-social-networking-sites-make-the-cash-register-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/facebook\/facebook-social-networking-sites-make-the-cash-register-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, social networking sites make the cash register ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This is for the doubting Thomases who aren’t convinced that social networking can be profitable.<\/p>\n

I promoted last week’s teleseminar series “How to Use LinkedIn to Promote Anything–Ethically & Powerfully”<\/a>\u00a0by creating an event <\/a>on my Facebook page.\u00a0 My assistant then invited my 1,028 friends.\u00a0 At $77, I wasn’t sure how many Facebook friends would attend, but it was definitely worth it.<\/p>\n

Fifty-four people RSVP’d to tell me that they were attending, or had already signed up.\u00a0 That’s $4,158 in registration fees just from Facebook!\u00a0 Something else started to happen.\u00a0 I started to build the buzz about these teleseminars.\u00a0 Warren Whitlock<\/a>, one of my Facebook friends, wrote on my wall:<\/p>\n

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Kim Beasley, The Blog Queen<\/a>, who Warren referred to, has more than 400 followers on Twitter, and I have no idea how many of those people signed up after reading her tweet.<\/p>\n

If I still haven’t convinced you, you can listen to social media success stories galore at\u00a0The Social Media Summit\u00a0Sept. 10-12 in Chicago, sponsored by Ragan Communications.\u00a0 I attended Ragan’s “Unconference” on social media last year in Chicago.\u00a0 I made great contacts, came back with hundreds of tips to share with you, and learned about how to incorporate social media into my own marketing campaigns.<\/p>\n

At this year’s summit, you’ll learn about Web 2.0 strategies such as podcasts, message boards, video and wikis.\u00a0 The conference includes one track for internal communications and a separate track for external and marketing communications. Curious about what Web 3.0 might look like? You’ll get a sneek preview.<\/p>\n

I hope to see you there.\u00a0 This conference is so important that I worked out a special arrangement with Ragan.\u00a0 Publicity Hounds save $100 on the $1,195 registration, plus an additional $100 if you take advantage of the early-bird registration, which has been extended to this Friday.\u00a0 To get $200 off and pay only $995, you must use this link.<\/p>\n

Let me know if you’re going to the conference.\u00a0 Maybe we can have coffee between sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is for the doubting Thomases who aren’t convinced that social networking can be profitable. I promoted last week’s teleseminar series “How to Use LinkedIn to Promote Anything–Ethically & Powerfully”\u00a0by creating an event on my Facebook page.\u00a0 My assistant then invited my 1,028 friends.\u00a0 At $77, I wasn’t sure how many Facebook friends would attend,\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":643,"footnotes":""},"categories":[643],"tags":[427],"class_list":{"0":"post-1685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-facebook","7":"tag-marketing","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41510,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/41510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}