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GoGoPin Communicator for Windows Live Messenger enhances Instant Messaging by providing a canvas to share pictures, map locations, and videos while you chat.

GoGoPin remains committed to providing new online content creation tools to enable you to bring more customers to your business. Windows Live Messenger is a free marketing tool if you invite your customers to chat with you about your products and services.

If your business needs require appointment setting or meeting face to face, let your contacts or buyers know you’re available by including your free Windows Live Address in your email signature, on your blog, on your website, or in the body of a GoGoPin Ad .

Using Internet Explorer you can visit GoGoPin Communicator to enhance your chat by viewing pictures, routing directions, and actually watching videos together through Windows Live Messenger while chatting at the same time.

Cost: Free.

Requirements: Three.

1. Windows Live Messenger

2. Internet Explorer

3. Microsoft Silverlight

Visit GoGoPin Communicator and click ‘Start’ under the Windows Live Messenger as seen above.  you will be alerted as to your current status regarding the above requirements as seen here:

If you already have the above requirements you’ll see your contacts come up right away in an activity window like this:

Choose Your Partner, Select a Video, Have Fun, IM!

When using Instant Messaging as a free marketing tool you can show off your products or properties while chatting with your prospects. There is fun to be had for personal use as well especially watching videos together while you chat!

Check out our demo video (Google Mapping in video is now provided by Bing Mapping).

GoGoPin Communicator for Windows Live Messenger

Premiere Ads Online Advertising Service will design and distribute classified ads and webflyers for you. GoGoPin Ad is a free marketing tool that Premiere Ads has put to work for their clients. Premiere Ads reminds us that: “Getting the word out about what you do or what you sell is the key to your business’s success.”

GoGoPin Ad provides free online webflyer creation, but the designing is still up to the advertiser. Thats where Premiere Ads steps in, and uses GoGoPin Ad among other tools to create and distribute your flyers regionally or nationally.

In her own words, proprietor Patricia B. wrote:

“I have made several flyers and now am able to create one in a relatively short period of time. I love the many choices for background colors and how easy it is to move around your photos and text boxes. Photo upload is very easy as well. Once you export your finished product, it is so easy to copy and post it into websites that accpet HTML.

I am enjoying using GoGoPin and really appreciate your free service! I highly recommend it to any0ne wanting to make a professional looking webflyer!”

GoGoPin Ad is at your service, free as ever., and the GoGoPin Team wishes Premier Ads the best of luck.

Have a similar story? Email your testimonial to support@gogopin.com , and we’ll share your story, too.

For me, getting Twitter was like learning to swim – something that everyone seemed to do so readily yet I waded at the shore just a little scared.  I felt like I would publish something regrettable or that I would have some accidental ‘Reply to All’ email nightmare on my hands. As it turns out I should hope for so much attention. Nothing could be more casual than Twitter in terms of broadcasting a message. In composing this post, when I typed ‘unfollow’ I had to ‘Add to Dictionary’. This won’t be necessary for long. But unfollowing (added again) is important and not rude in the least. But to what end? I’m swimming in Twitter now though I am no Michael Phelps.

Twittering requires business focus.  I finally dunked my head in and took a stab at phishing for followers, which actually worked. However at first the followers that reciprocated weren’t qualified leads at all. Rather, they were just polite reciprocators. Correcting my stroke, it didn’t take any extra work to follow the same number of accounts, but strictly accounts that appear relevant to my business: Online Content Creation.  Interestingly, even following accounts willy-nilly generated direct messages asking about my business objective. These inquiries would have been more welcome from qualified prospects!  So I did some Twitter laps and got follow-focused. It just took doing. There was no harm done in awkwardly getting in the water, but there were respectively few visits to our website originating from Twitter until learning to follow with focus.

Tips for effective freestyle and butterfly twittering:

• Follow like mad, but do it judiciously. Follow relevant prospects that stand to benefit from your value proposition.
• Reciprocate followers judiciously with business objective in mind. It does no harm to have followers of any kind.
• Always respond to personal direct messages about your business. If the question is relevant to your business, answer it. If not, simply move on. Treat inquiries with the Golden Rule, not prejudice.
• Unfollow without looking back if you realize that you’ve inadvertently followed an account that is not a good match. It’s not synchronized swimming – it’s Twitter.
• Retractions won’t be required from authentic blurb. You only owe Twitter your level best. Move on if you’ve swallowed some pool water. An accidental ‘Reply to All’ in email is much more painful.

The next post in this series, “Focused Social Networking” provides more painless free marketing tools.

Opinions about marketing by way of social networking are are all over, and yes, I have one too. The book of social networking etiquette is unbound and without a standard. Do’s and Don’ts are bounced about and as we recently implemented the ability to post directly to Facebook from GoGoPin Ad, I have been getting my feet wet with social networking toward business objectives. GoGoPin Ad’s  business objective is to provide online content creation tools to people who post items or promote their services online. Recently, Bernice Ross from Inman News wrote an article titled: “Do’s and Don’ts of Social Networking“. Ross is quite right in stating: “The younger your potential client is, the more likely he or she is to search you out on Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.” But internet adoption continues to rise across all age groups, and to reach them requires getting your feet wet with social networking (see previous post).

Personal and Professional Profiles: Who Are You?

GoGoPin’s business objective using social networking is becoming more effective with practice, and I haven’t lost any friends in the process. Navigating to the right audience is a challenge, as Jeremiah Owyang stated in his Web Strategist post entitled “The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras” According to Owyang: “Today’s social experience is disjointed because consumers have separate identities in each social network they visit.” He goes on to describe a very useful model of social networking done by Forrester Research in April of 2009 called “Future of the Social Web in Five Eras” . Forrester has come up with a diagram of how social networking is changing the ecommerce landscape over time.  As seen in the following diagrams provided by Jessica Tsai in Social Media: The Five-Year Forecast:

Forrester April 2009

Commerce online moves in time from top to bottom in the diagram above, and the Eras overlap as seen below:

Forrester April 2009

 
The conceptual eras ring true. Social networking is not only changing the way we present ourselves as consumers, but the way that we actually transact – as buyers and sellers. It is not only consumers that have separate identities in each social network but companies as well. Agents, Brokers, and businesses of all kinds have depended on referrals from personal and professional networks prior to the Industrial Revolution and earlier. How does a small business present itself in a social network of individuals? Over time the Era of Social Commerce is nigh, where brands will remain strong, but only in as much as they are part of the social networking community at large. That is done by individual marketing professionals, and it is in this capacity GoGoPin will continue with the next post in this series: “Our Space and Phasebook”.

Years ago, I had the tremendous opportunity to fill two 19 foot moving vans with enough retail display cases, platforms, etc. to fill a department store. It was all free – I was saving this premium furniture from the landfill.

I should have left it where it lay at the time, because once I put what would fit in my small shop, I couldn’t GIVE the rest away! Craigslist did not seem to do the trick when I was selling used business to business stuff. It was nice too and in good condition – not unlike the display below.

I would love to have had a site like UsedBizStuff to post these items. I paid rent and provided shelter for these empty shelves until their final resting place at my expense. UsedBizStuff serves a specific niche for business owners and entrepreneurs that desire to buy and sell used business equipment in the areas of Office Equipment & Furniture, Store Fixtures & Retail Displays, Restaurant Equipment, Business Closings and Liquidation Sales. What’s more, they will accept HTML code from GoGoPin Ad!

Rick Hayden from UsedBizStuff said:

“After researching GoGoPin, we made the necessary changes so that your tools would be compatible with our site.  We also placed a sample GoGoPin ad on our site for advertisers to see how great their ads could look!”…and: “best wishes for your success with the multiple platforms that we have seen.”

We appreciate the effort to enable GoGoPin Ad makers to become Business to Business buyers and sellers on UsedBizStuff. I hope it helps retailers resell their multiple platforms to the best offer out there. Spare the landfill – we’re all better off.

Free Online Classified Ad Maker

Press Release: GoGoPin Ad Free Classified Ad Maker – Robust and Fast!

Immediately upon the above release there was a  subsequent article in SOA (Systems Oriented Architecture) Magazine: SOA Article .

Short and Sweet – sharing the news. We have more enhancements on the way!