I recently came across this funny post on cafe mom…Well worth sharing!

Hope you get some laughs from it.

Enjoy!

Recently the internet comedy channel Indy Mogul came up with an awesome parody video- Twitter’s movie trailer.

It has been written: Soon every aspect of social media will have its own parody Social Network trailer.

Other parody versions have already been created for YouTube and MySpace.

I found the twitter movie trailer absolutely hilarious and well worth sharing.

I hope everyone enjoys it as much as myself and those in my office did!

This feature was not meant to be an advertising platform according to Facebook, but this doesn’t mean that you can’t utilize it to grow and advance your business.  The question is how?

Here’s 5 Rock Solid Ways that your business can take advantage of the new Facebook Questions feature:

Thought Leadership

By providing helpful answers to  questions asked by others you can reveal your expertise.  Once others are aware of you and respect you they are more likely to desire to do business with you.

Working through Problems with Industry Peers

Asking and answering industry specific questions can help you gain more knowledge that can be implemented to improve your business.  There is a popular saying that a rising tide floats all boats…Though you want to win in the market place and out do your competitor it is often effective to collaborate and help one another to achieve common goals, or over come mutual problems.

Uncovering your Customer’s problems (Content Strategies)

Being aware of the questions that your customers asks is a very effective way of understanding the issues and problems that they face.  This new found intelligence can be utilized for market research purposes to assist in developing new products, refining your service offering, or even developing content strategies to help answer these questions in the form of whitepapers, videos or webinars.

Connect and Engage with New Potential Customers

If one of your customers, or potential customers  is asking a certain question chances are many other members of  your target audience will be interested in the answers as well.  These consumers will seek out these answers and some will comment or participate in the conversation.  This basically creates a list of prospects for you enabling you to friend them, start building a relationship and raise exposure of your brand.

Increased Search Exposure

Unless you were in a box for the last five years you would know how popular Facebook is.  Google knows that they are popular as well.  In fact they are one of the few websites out there with a Page rank of 10.  Just to give you a bench mark- YouTube has a PR of 9, Fox News has a PR of 8, MTV has a PR 7.  This basically means that Google views Facebook as a high authority site.  With this high authority they have very strong SEO power and have a large amount of content indexed.  If you are answering questions that consumers in your market are asking there is high likelyhood that other consumers searching for information will find it and be exposed to you.

What do you think about Facebook’s new question feature?

How else do you feel question and answers can be utilized to grow your business online?

Other interesting facts:

• More than 2 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
• More than 14 million videos uploaded each month
• More than 2 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
• More than 3 million events created each month
• More than 45 million active user groups exist on the site

According to a Facebook statement, “Reaching 300 million users is an important milestone, but we feel like we are just getting started. Along with the company’s user growth, Facebook’s financial strength continues to grow even in a really tough economic climate.”

Source: Brian Solis on 9/15/09

Brian Solis is the Principal of FutureWorks, an award-winning PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley.

Just something to make you laugh:

It’s very true that Information is power and the amount of psychographic data and usage trends facebook has at their finger tips is scary (and I’m not the only one that thinks so: Do you have a FB video).

However as far as profitability and being a viable business I think a valuation of $6.5 billion is absurd. They have raised $716+ million in funding / multiple rounds and in my opinion have too high of costs (700 employees) and not enough revenue coming in for such a valuation. http://tinyurl.com/2cg44

I have a few friends that work at FB and am connected by a 1-2 degrees to some higher up sales managers/executives and last I heard they were not happy at all.  Even though it was a while back my thought is that Microsoft’s $240M investment into Facebook for 1.6% giving them a $15 Billion dollar valuation still is a large reason why they are valued so high.  It’s no doubt that a company like Microsoft or Google can better monetize facebook then facebook themselves can, but how and to what extent remains to be seen.

If you had the money would you buy fb for even $1B?

I wouldn’t.

just my $.02s

Well I thought about it and this is how I could personally finish that statement in regards to ways somebody can reach me:

If you have any questions feel free to…

• Email Me
• IM Me
• Skype me
• Tweet  @ me
• DM me on Twitter
• Text me
• Call me
• Send me a Facebook Message
• Poke me
• Facebook Chat with Me
• Gmail Chat with me
• Message me on LinkedIn

I could get crazy and start adding in many other niche social media sites, or even snail mail.  But seriously..How do you finish that statement?

I’m interested to hear the comments on this