It's Time to Say Goodbye..

Dear Readers,

The end of the term is approaching and the Internet Marketing course is almost complete. I have to say that it was an amazing experience and I learned a lot of stuff useful for my personal entrepreneurial venture. My idea is not well defined yet, but it's in the digital world.

So, this is my last post as Guinea Pig. It was a pleasure to be a Guinea Pig.. The new students will take benefit of our class' blogs and feedbacks. I am sure the course will become even better.

I will possibly start a new blog and I will let you know.For now I will focus on some ideas to start the new business. Nevertheless, I'd like to thank those that followed Guinea Pig's blog and made comments, provided feedback and had fun!

For those who love figures, this blog has got (so far):

• 547 Visits
• 1,212 Page views
• 161 Unique visitors from 20 different countries
• 4:30 Average time on site
• 20 Clicks on Ads, totaling $19.11 (that I will never receive as it's <$100!) - The good news is that I was not banned from Google (as some thought/wanted hehehe)
• 14 videos
• 74 comments by 56 (intense debate) readers
  

As usual, videos to finish.

For the optmistics..



..for the pessimists..




and for all..



it's been nice.. will we ever meet again, in the digital world.

Finally got a job...

My post MBA job as Top Model.

New Nike Viral Marketing

Just left the internet marketing class and the subject today was viral marketing...

Couldn't resist to post this video, a parody of the Nike campaign with an old famous Brazilian football player.. very funny.

Why Use Social Networks?

First of all I would like to anticipate that this is a very controversial and provocative post!

I want to get your view on it....

I was wondering why people use social networks. The intent, initially, are to catch up with friends, share a piece of your life and etc. However , I think some, if not most, use the tool to really show off!! I cannot prove or support well this argument, but I have a feeling that it is true...

People show off their trips, jobs, number of friends and others. Very often it's unnecessary or strange to have your life exposed to anyone. For example, we know that one can handle 120 friendships via social networks (Laura's post)... but some really want to have 1000+ friends! As mentioned in class in the past, human being loves ranks and number of friends might be a sign of status.. to say "I am pop!" .. is it?

Recently, reading Hamish's blog, I've got to know Secret Twitter .. very interesting because it's anonymous and you can read what really goes in people's minds. Having fun and being really scared after reading some "secrets" there....

Well, if the user's goals are to show off... Twitter is THE TOOL! Because you can share whatever you're doing whenever you can.. Just to illustrate, look at the distribution of number of tweets per user per day:



So, there is one lonely soul tweeting more than 200 times a day?!?!??!? WTF!

Here is some data on Social Networks (source: eMarketer)



Finally, the unanswered question still be how much of your time would you use to tweet and why? I have no idea.