Why this is important:
Because the conversations are going to happen, with or without you. It is always better to be an informed participant in the dialogue, and to understand the lay of the land before you take your first steps. In the case of building your brand online, ignorance is definitely not bliss. You must be prepared to take a hard, realistic look at your brand through the rest of the world’s eyes so you can better understand how to talk with them and be a valued conversation partner.
How it fits into your plan:
This is very similar to market research, or even just keeping a pulse on your customer base. Consider this a piece of business development, and spend 15 minutes a day perusing your alerts. If people are talking about you, pick five posts a week that you find in your reporting, go out there, and respond.

Summer of 2010 will be busy one for us, we will start an initiative which we call Jordan Initiative.

What is Jordan Initiative ?

it’s series of free attend seminars, which will cover Social Media, Blogging , Search Engine Optimize , and Semantic web.

Who can attend ?

Only undergraduate university students ,or almost grade one .

How much does it cost ?

Free.

How many available seats ?

35 seats.

Why we are starting it ?

Because there are many miss understand concepts in jordan, and Someone should start the effort to clear it.

How to stay up to date ?

Follow us on twitter @aigcmiddleast

Or keep checking this blog.

P.s when you google: summer 2010 , you get all kinds & types of fashion for summer 2010, the photo above is kool .

To sum it up perfectly:

“If you are going to get involved you need to do some deep thinking about what are your objectives, the best-practice examples are leveraging social media in an integrated fashion to deepen relationships, personalise their brands and provide customer service”

One thing I’ve noticed is that entrepreneurs feel like they have to be innovative, creative, and singular in their sales and marketing. Now, of course you want your company to stand out from the crowd. Of course you need a unique selling proposition. But, you don’t have to discover on your own how to run a business.

In other words, don’t reinvent the wheel. Just find what others have done (and succeeded at) and then try it in your own business.

The great thing about being a business owner today is: the sales and marketing gurus have already tried most everything, and they’ve revealed ALL their secrets with us!

google ! search twitter ! ..there is something called blogs digg it

Following the Jordan advertise agencies post, if a member of our team called you ( YOU : one of big 100 in jordan ), promoting for partner of us, we are not an advertise agency in jordan !

We are a small mini tiny 1,2,3  guys team, trying to bring online advertising to jordan, to be as HOT as print and billboard advertising are.

Hi,

Clarify:

We are not an advertise agency , so we know just less than 5% from that sector in general, but we know online advertising VERY WELL .

We think advertise agencies in jordan are really missing an amazing online opportunities.

Let’s talk about partner we know about, they have 350% traffic increase on last 6 month ! and their online spots still having same tag price !!!!!!

Anyone from jordan advertise agencies following,,,nop !

weird  i know !

One of two things (& to be fair)  :

1.Their clients don’t care about online advertising !

2. Or these agencies still feel strange on online market !

We will not blog more than :

Samir Barhoum

Morning guys,
been while since i blogged ! anyway we got fun accident with The Jordan Times  twitter account : @jordantimes …and loyal reader is angry !

anyway it’s kool to find ppl has an opinion to share and post about:

follow this link  to read original post .

Between we loved the part which talked about us :

The company doing this for them is obviously very aggressive and active

The rest are just his own opinion ..and we DO respect differences

“If you don’t make some people angry, you aren’t doing your job”

Last thing and not replying to @jordantimes accident, we said it couple of times & i will re mention it again :

Ain’t the same ** ballpark. It ain’t the same league, it ain’t even the same ** sport.”…TOTALLY DIFFERENT GAME !

THANKS FOR TIME TO POST ABOUT IT

Early today we were attending brainstorm on how to have new approach, for one of our regional partner, sometimes it’s just God blessing people don’t know us , there were some whispering about seo companies in middle east.

Let’s just be clear :

AIGCMIDDLEAST proclaims itself to be “the leader in social media solutions.” AIGCMIDDLEAST  provides social media platforms to corporations and has a strong SEO business, creating niche website content tailored to search engines.

 YES WE DO FOR JORDAN MARKET , AND FOR MIDDLE EAST WITHIN 3-6 MONTH FROM NOW.

Depends on next week feedback, we may officially open our offices in jordan, or we keep low profile in jordan, and open our offices in gulf. Mostly ksa.

You’ll face the problem of not being first whenever you enter an existing niche. And on the internet, that’s “most of the time”

Look at the top sites in your chosen niche. If they got in early enough, chances are they enjoy the linking benefit that comes with being first. Typically, Google’s linking algorithm favors long established sites, as opposed to newcomers.  Those who are first to occupy a niche have a much easier job of getting links because they are remarkable, simply by virtue of being unique.

So what to do if you arrive late to a niche?

Invent a new niche, and be first in that.

Say you sell holiday rental accommodation in Palm Springs. Unfortunately, there are a lot of holiday rental accommodation services in Palm Springs. So to differentiate yourself, you might decide to focus on “the cheapest rental accommodation services in Palm Springs”. Or “the most upmarket rental accommodation services in Palm Springs”. Or “the best rental accommodation guide for solo travelers in Palm Springs”.

Focus on a new angle that your competitors aren’t targeting. This is called market segmentation.

This post and the memo to all aigcmiddleast staff…stay kool and calm today. we will have rough day… and weird situation…

Jordanians know how to drive you over the top, and bring the worst of you.

No one knows everything, and No one knows what is going around the world 24/7.

But :

1. If you mention something to your IT team and within 24 hours didn’t get to know about..they are dumbs.

2. If they don’t read what is going on the world at least once per week …they are dumbs.

3. If they don’t know what blog, techcrunch , twitter,plugins, 404 page means …they are dumbs.

4. If “social media” something they didn’t know…they are dumbs.

5. If online marketing means for them : collecting emails and spam it…yes they are dumbs.

6.If your IT team got a call and refer it to your design company ..yes i want to be honest with you, they are already dumbs to have design company in first place. 

7. If you can’t get into your site and modify it as you want …they are dumbs (unless they were hire after you sign a deal with design company who scamed you already.)

8. If you pay more than $20/month for your site host …they are dumbs.

9.Give them 1 hour to get what SEO means and ask them …No!!! you are surprise from their feedback ..well You hired them.

10.If your IT team said “we don’t know, but give us time” …RESPECT their honesty …then ask after giving them time ..then fire them all, if the answer still: we didn’t get it or we ..somehow, we are something.

TIP: your IT team should be two divisions :

1. One for your company computers related (internal , network, ..).

2. One for your site. (if you have S secretary, who don’t know how to print ..it’s not their responsibilty to handle that S.s issue)

We are building our list of enemies ….

Aigc middleast doesn’t really care about what others think, while we are doing what we have assign to do on same time table we agreed with our clients aka partners on.

Based on above … what the hell is going on jordan? am talking about companies which offer webhost and design (only).

I get it will cost more to build website in jordan than india, but it never should cost more that states ….

Your price should match prices from lebanon ..not more agian not more.

I  do agree that you want to ask for 25k or more, on so creative project that match web2.0 standards, or @ least some how 2009 trends, but to design dead simple site with web1.0 standards and to ask for 19k, 15k or 8k ..who are you gonna  scam ?

Business  is not one shot take it or leave it !

We have been in jordan for 2 months now, only 2 design companies match what we know …rest is scaming .

There is no seo company and social media company in jordan beside us.and if there is one we weclome competitors but from know your size.

We didn’t find small size webhost company impressed us …Big size yes yesterday we found one.

for online advertising we still knocking on doors, and see their works…yet design companies maybe effecting their ideas….

@ end Jordan it secoter (design+ webhost) still live on the idea it’s 1999.

• SEO Myth: One good link outweighs content.
• SEO Myth: Links are the most important ranking factor.
• SEO Myth: Meta tags don’t matter.
• SEO Myth: Sculpting Your PageRank.
• SEO Myth: You Need Latent Semantic Analysis Optimization.
• SEO Myth: Search engine submission doesn’t work.
• SEO Myth: Toolbar PR is tied to crawl rate.
• SEO Myth: You should use nofollow for any links you sell .
• SEO Myth: Google is the only search engine that matters .
• SEO Myth: The Power of Repetition.

and we @ aigcmiddleast will add only for guys in jordan:

• SEO Myth : .jo does  play huge rule.
• SEO Myth: link with 300 charactors is good.
• SEO Myth: 40 words on title helps.