Maria A. Andros, also known as “The Video Marketing Queen”, and creator of “The Social Media Traffic Blueprint”, is recognized as one of today’s leading experts in the Video Marketing, Personal Branding, and Business arena.
Advisor to the stars, and to some of the top entrepreneurs in the personal development, entertainment and business world, Maria creates programs that empower you to dominate your industry with a competitive edge, leveraging the viral component of video and social media.
As Founder and C.E.O. of Video Marketing Queen Inc., Maria is passionate about teaching entrepreneurs and businesses around the world to increase profits, to attract new clients, and to create a celebrity like following online.
Maria earned her crown, from personal success with YouTube (over half a million plus video views), Twitter (over 50,000 followers), to being voted #3 in all of Business on Twitter for the Shorty Awards back in 2009 out of millions of users.
She was also recently featured as one of the “Top 30 Female Internet Entrepreneurs Online”. Maria is currently in high demand as an consultant, and advisor to her private and celebrity clients who are visionairies in their respected fields.
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According to Mashable:
Facebook appears to have made a third acquisition — this one smaller than its two previous buys. What’s more, Facebook has shut down the company’s service immediately.
Octazen is a Malaysian company comprising two employees. It provides scripts to import a user’s contacts into a website upon sign up, reports Gigaom.
Why would Facebook acquire the makers of an address book importer? It appears to be a talent buy, with Facebook employing the team and shutting down their service (aka acq-hire-sition). Liz Gannes quotes Facebook’s Larry Yu explaining:
This is part of our ongoing effort to add experienced, accomplished technical talent to help drive the company forward in its efforts to be the central way for people to connect and share information.
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1. Don’t plan it, just do it
Pete Cashmore was passionate about the social media and the social networking tools. It was a personal interest that he spent a lot of time on and he just decided to go for it and start writing about it.
“I felt like social networking wasn’t being covered to the degree it could be. I didn’t necessarily know there was an audience for it. I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.”
2. Be focused and work hard
It took more than a year before Mashable started making money but Pete Cashmore was very focused and was constantly working on the site with 20-hour work days being a norm.
“I blogged seven posts a day, and about a year in, I started getting ads on the blog. When I got a deal for $3,000 a month to put ads on the blog, it was massive for me”
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