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David Kamatoy Show National Hardware Show 09 Episode 2: MonkeyHook.com, CharactersUnlimited.com

Las Vegas, NV- www.davidkamatoy.com interviews founder David Kurrasch of www.monkeyhook.com product taking retail by storm. Olaf Stanton, www.charactersunlimited.com animated Gorilla. Sponsored by www.airgorilla.com www.nomoregeysers.com www.jugglemail.com

David was great to work with just a great guy who obviously did a lot of homework to get MonkeyHook.com to market he shares this knowledge by helping other entrepreneurs do the same with their products.

The Gorilla Guy Stan was just fun. Thank you Mr. Stanton.

I really can see this format starting to work for us. I think I can get a few more videos out of the show.

Enjoy....

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Producer , Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately. Current Clients and Projects include NoMoreGeysers.com, and TheAirGorillaBlog.com.

Social Networking: From Virtual to Real Relationships

San Diego,Ca- Stephanie Herrmann and the team at Rescue put together the "Tweetup" at the National Hardware Show. Essentially it was a networking session for the people that got to know each other online using Twitter at the National Hardware Show tagged as "#NHS09" on Twitter. While attendance was small real relationships were created.

It was a unique experience to get to know people virtually from twitter messages and blogs. Rapport seemed to happen quickly and there was a genuine desire to see if we could support each other.

"It's like online dating for entrepreneurs."

 One of the more confusing things about social networking is the ability to understand how it converts to a more traditional relationship. We see a lot of people treating Twitter like a FREE ADVERTISING space which while valid needs to me tempered with personal updates, tips, insights otherwise you will be treated like SPAM.

Getting your twitter connected to a blog or at least a landing page or contact page with an email is one of the best ways to help convert to a traditional relationship. In addition if you don't want your larger conversations searched by Google, it's best to do this.

At the point that it seems like an actual conversation further than 140 characters is needed. Request and send contact informtion or a landing page with that contact information listed. Remember to create your email address as a link not as searchable text on a page. That's the quickest way to be spammed.

Tip 1: Balance your messages from pitches,tips and personal updates.
Tip 2: Use Tweetdeck to turn Twitter into a more useable application.
Tip 3: Use a landing page or an about page with contact information to exchange contact info.

"When it seems right ask to have a real conversation or meeting that warrants more than a 140 character interaction."

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Producer , Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately. Current Clients and Projects include NoMoreGeysers.com, and TheAirGorillaBlog.com.

DavidKamatoy.com will be covering the No More Geysers Story along with other Entreprneurs at the National Hardware Show in Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas, NV You get a true scope of what it takes to get a product to market when you walk into a trade show like this and you see established companies and products. Entrepreneurs from all over the world with some really fantastic products.

We'll be covering as much as we can while centering around the story of Chris Eader and the No More Geysers team. Steve Kovach and Scott Armstrong were the driving force behind taking a chance at the National Hardware Show.

While yes this is the place to be the actual scope of this show is HUGE. Imagine booths for every category of anything on the shelves of Home Depot and Lowes then multpliy that by 10.

You can see our coverage on NoMoreGeysersBlog.com

Confucius Say, "To understand Social Media you must do."

Denver,Co- On my recent trip to Denver, CO I lost my precious notebook. While I still away. it's return I got this new notebook at a huge Barnes and Noble.

This quote...

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Confucius

was exactly what I was looking for in reference to "Social Media Marketing" as it pertains to blogs, twitter, Myspace, Facebook, etc.

We hold this conference call for my associates regarding, "Social Media" and it was amazing to me how much I have learned but at the same time how difficult it is to explain how to do the things we are doing.

In fact this style of communication is really still coming into it's own. We are all still trying to figure it out but every once in a while you get a glimmer of hope...

• A web tv show that spotlights yours clients website, AirGorilla.com
• A happy customer that remembers who you are.
• Calls for gigs because of all the updates your doing. You are creating a Top of Mind Awareness.

Tip: Stop trying to intellectualize or justify the need to be on social media. Just jump into it. Learn by doing. Read blogs like this one, get a coach, follow the work of someone already successful online.

The greatest thing that you can do for yourself is just dedicate an hour or two a day to learning Social Media, email marketing and communicating.  Learn what works and what does not work by doing.

I hear and I forget.

We started the conference call with just a phone conference call. While we got some interest we still had people not doing anything out of frustration and not-understanding.

I see and I remember.

We then dropped the calls and our last two pitch sessions on DimDIm.com  and Gotomeeting.com. The participants actually got to "see" what we were doing and that helped immensely.

I do and I understand.

Finally a few of the participants on the call really got into it. Writing consistently, promoting onStumbleupon, twittering. In doing we saw new blogs and post get views upwards of 500+ on a brand new blog.


We would like to have some of our blogs hit 1,000+ views a day and we know how to get there to do it.

Conversion

Our next goal in tandem with increased traffic is to show financial results in the way of "conversion." We have had some success with this but not at the scale we would like.

I intend to keep you informed of the progress.It is absolutely working and invite any readers to share their experience and wisdom in these matters.

GOOD HUNTING...

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Producer , Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately.

So many posts so little time...

San Diego,Ca- I have been doing so much to catch up on some other blogs as welll as to keep a few juggling balls in the air. I realized that I have not spent time on the MAIN BLOG. 

This week I traveled and performed a lot which limited my time and energy blogging. That and in inspiring other clients to start us bloggin for them we have to prove our worth by blogging. lol.

Which is only more ironic because I started the Darren Rouse 31 days to blogging and I run a Social Media conference call. 

This is what I learned or was reminded of this week on blogging. 

• Promoting a post is as important as writing one. 
• Consistentcy is everything.  
• Blogging can give you credibility.
• It doesn't matter how many people are reading if they are the right people.    
• Even though this is totally true, I still want more people reading.   
• David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Producer , Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately.

Darren Rouse's 31 Days of Bloggin Starts Today... BAM

I have been focused on doing the ramp up of a blog for a re-engaged client that Ive been ignoring this blog =(.

So just in time Darren Rouses 31 days to a better blog starts today. A program that over 5,000 bloggers have signed up for. We are extremely excited and hoping that our group of bloggers embraces the 31 days. BOOM.

And were off...

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Producer , Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately.

Twitter about to launch a "Paid Service" YEAH BABY!

Twitter gearing up to launch its Paid Service

This is where I think twitter is about to knock the other social media sites on their heads. Why?

I want to control my white listing, have dialogue with the company and have ownership in my database.

Other social networks like myspace and facebook police for people doing too much business on the web. Which essentially means that if someone gets mad at a generic message that I send or if I get flagged because I addedd too many friends,  I could be deleted from the system.Forcing me to lose my contacts and start all over again.

You can't compete any more  in the arena of a Tila Tequila or a Dane Cook because they added their friends when there were less restrictions on adding. You try that now and you will be stopped.

Instead of somone from the social media site contacting us directly and stating that they have recieved complaints and they would like us to change the behaviour they usually delete the account.

This goes back to my theory of while social media is great if you dont own the database as in "Email Marketing" they can delete your account and all of your contacts will just dissapear...poof.

I think that it' s great that twitter is about to offer a paid service as as well. I think this will help create an enviroment that becomes user driven in addition to creating immediate revenue.

1. I would like to pay to be white listed. I can add and follow a lot of people.

2. I would like an ongoing dialogue with the company itself. So we can communicate best practivces in both directions.

3. I want some ownership in my database.

Google Officially Eats Feedburner As A Brand: Feedburner is Dead, Long live Feedburner.

Feedburner, an application that allows you to promote blogs was bought by Google a while ago. I was a fan of feedburner before and really not surprised that they bought the company. What I am remiss about is that they have decided to lose the brand of feedburner and allow the feeds to be absorbed by Google. So right now all our feeds are being moved over to google accounts while I wait to get some more work done.

I know that this is a better move for Google simply because it will allow them to service more people with the feeds and since as a blogger we love google because they search us. I still will miss the feedburner independant brand as the semi-secret tool of bloggers everywhere.

The Feedburner brand lives but as a subdomain of Google.

Feedburner is Dead, Long live Feedburner.

"Put down the Peanut Butter and Step Away from the Salmonella" ; FBI raids peanut butter plant suspected in outbreak

Just found this story on CNN.com about the raid on the Peanut Butter Plant that allegedly knowingly shipped tainted products that have caused 600 to fall sick and 8 reported deaths. It is amazing how this has caused such incredible damage to the "brand" of Peanut Butter. Peanut Butter sales are down and personally I am hyper aware of peanut butter products that are just sitting on the shelf.

Even though I know intellectually that it had to do with a specific company that only sold to institutions it is still affecting my personal peanut butter choices

Here is the quick news item on CNN.com and of course my inspired headline quote...

FBI raids peanut butter plant suspected in outbreak

"Put down the Peanut Butter and step away from the Salmonella" - Fictitious FBI Agent

HAS THE RECENT HEADLINES SURROUNDING PEANUT BUTTER AFFECTED YOUR BUYING AND EATING HABITS? PLEASE COMMENT

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Co-Producer (Derek Stroh, Stand), Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately.

The Death of Traditional Media: The Time to build your own database is now!

San Diego,CA- We are watching as our yellow pages and newspaper shrink in size. We are watching as friends with longstanding jobs in Radio and TV being let go on a regional level. What this means to anyone trying to build a business whether it be entrepreneurship or entertainment is simply it's time to build your own database or fan base.

Whether your spending money on traditional advertising or social media part of the goal is to collect a database.

The reality is that we already do. Every card, every email, every new friend on facebook,myspace or twitter is part of the database. While yes it would be better if they were direct contacts like an email list in jugglemail ( wink wink) even the extremes of the database world are part of your database.

When I did radio regionally the station told us that we were reaching anywhere from 5,000-10,000 people passively. Well lets be serious I didn't judge the people listening to the show I just tried to project an entertaining and informative show to gather a following, reinforcing a brand, and looking for sales.

Any one of the people on your twitter list is like someone catching your show on TV.

The larger the database the more likely your going to get a few leads. It's that simple.

WHAT DO I DO WITH THE DATABASE ONCE I HAVE ONE?

Here is the largest challenge for all of us. If you come from the traditional sales or advertising world, or your someone who is a non-inferential direct communicator. All you want to do is sell. You don't care anything about the person except that they have the capacity to buy from you. WRONG ATTITUDE.

If you've been in business for any length of time you know that people do business with people, relationships are important and a lot of reoccurring revenue comes from exsisting clients. How does that apply to email marketing and social media?

Sell Sell Sell is Annoying Annoying Annoying

You need to be able to not only sell to your clients but also educate, inform, inspire and create a virtual community around your internet marketing presence. Balanced with the fearlessness of asking for business and referrals.

Use email marketing and social media to vary the message.

• Content
• Content
• Relationship
• Sales
• Gratitude

If I got an email from a company like mine what kind of content goes around my expertise or service that would endear me to my database, my fan base.

I asked myself this same question as  I looked at this very blog today and realized that I need to write more informative and inspiring posts. The blog, radio show, juggling and video give me credibility. What I need to do is balance my message with the stuff Ive been doing for years as someone in person that always has an interesting inspiring and motivating conversation with people, artists, and  entrepreneurs.

It's easy when your in front of the microphone or in front of a crowd of people. But to find that same level of inspiration at the keyboard is different. I know we are starting to head down the right path again this week as I sent out the email. Some of the copy which is below co-written by myself and Kevin Six was given several compliments.

We have discovered a core strategy and message..

1.Creating, growing and maintaining your database should be at the core of every conversation.

2. Learning how to entertain,inspire, educate, endear and sell to the database is your life's work.

 We will continue to reinforce this message of course.

What's Next?

1. sign up for a jugglemail email marketing account and we will assist you in getting your first blast out.

2. Contact us if you need more advanced help with a general strategy for marketing and media.

3. Comment on this post....

David Kamatoy is a Juggler on several levels. Currently Professional Juggler Comedian, Blogger, Music Co-Producer (Derek Stroh, Stand), Video Director/Producer, etc. The Kamatoy Media Group is helping companies bridge the gap between social media and traditional advertising with Email Marketing using Jugglemail.com (Get a FREE TRIAL account) and more. If your interested please contact us immediately