A heads up to all social media marketing fanatics! Tomorrow there is going to be a Webinar, featuring Neil Patel, on ElasticPath’s eCommerce blog.

Here’s the details and a link to register for the event. Space is limited, so sign up right now!

The Secret of Social Media Marketing for Online Retailers
Featuring Neil Patel, CTO, Advantage Consulting Services
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

About Neil:

My Take

For those of you who have not yet heard Neil Patel speak, or if you are not familiar with him at all, here’s a little bit of information to catch you up. First, I consider Neil the poster boy of social media and social media marketing experiments. He has done more testing, more hands on experimentation and analyzed more data than any other single person that I know of. There are plenty of others who know lots of useful information about social media, but I consider Neil the guy who wrote the book on Digg, and other popular social sites. He has been banned, re-banned and locked out of some of the best social sites for being able to find loop holes, leverage other user accounts in attempts to “game” each system. I am not telling anyone to go out there and try the things Neil has, it’s just that he wouldn’t know nearly as much as he does without being able to find and expose social system weaknesses. He has also helped many sites better their spam policies and the ability to crack down on social media spam within their own systems.

Official Bio

Neil Patel is an Internet marketing consultant and the founder of ACS which was started in 2002. He has led Internet marketing strategies for small and medium sized businesses as well as top companies such as Hewlett Packard and Samsung. His experiences include search engine marketing, buzz marketing and social media marketing.

A Few Recent Videos Neil Has Done

For More Videos Featuring Neil Patel, Visit The WebProNews Video Blog!

Final Thoughts:

I am very anxious to hear Neil speak tomorrow and to participate in the ElasticPath Webinar. It’s always great to hear what Neil has to say, I’ve seen him and heard him multiple times in the past. One of my favorite things about Neil is he always comes up with unique commentary for each of his speaking gigs. So many speakers re-use or repeat a lot of their core content, not Neil. Between the Webinar and eComXpo going on I will be busy, so posting may be light. I will try to report on each of them when I can over the next few days.

Check out the Webinar and feel free to post comments about it on ElasticPath’s blog or below this post!

Note from eCopt: The Webinar Outline...

What is social media?

• Short definition by Neil.

Leveraging the Blogosphere:

• Create something worthy
• Find related bloggers
• Write them a short custom message
• If they write you great… if not leave them alone

Link Bait Creation Tips:

• Research what works and what hasn’t
• Create non-baity content
• Stay resourceful
• Sex up your content
• Have fun!

Leveraging Digg & Delicious:

• Add friends
• Participate in the community
• Submit content at 9 to 10 am PST
• Make your titles sexy
• Relate to the audience

Leveraging StumbleUpon:

• Add 200 mutual friends
• Submit stories from Digg
• Use proper tags
• Use the send to feature

Leveraging YouTube:

• Create fun videos
• Add tons of friends
• Build up subscribers
• Submit with proper tags
• Leverage YouTube’s features

Leveraging Facebook:

• Add tons of friends
• Participate in the community
• Create a viral application
• Advertise through other apps

Leveraging Wikipedia:

• Create an account
• Read their rules
• Edit 500 entries first
• Add your own entries and get away with spam