Monday, October 10, 2011

Adding a Voice in social networking for your company

Do you want to have your business HEARD in your social networks? ShoutOmatic not only adds a voice, but also emotion, tonality and authenticity that is not normally there. A great way to engage with your fans/likes/followers and friends is by adding your Voice. Companies can really take advantage of our platform and not only be heard but be seen with their own Shout landing page (see below). http://shoutomatic.com/

Let me know if I can help any of you set up your business on ShoutOmatic.com to add another dimension to your social media arsenal.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

ShoutOmatic on Fios1

I was interviewed by Fios 1 News. They did a great piece on ShoutOmatic. Let me know what you think.

http://www.fios1news.com/longisland/node/7827

Friday, August 19, 2011

SponsoredShouts through the ShoutOmatic platform

With the "Holy Grail" of advertising being "word of mouth", what better way to exploit social media than using the SponsoredShout program from ShoutOmatic. ShoutOmatic offers a full roster of celebrities to help spread the word about your brand or business. With the viral affect of each Shout being spread through Twitter and then posted to your company's Facebook page there is no better way to get out the "word of mouth" about your products or services than a SponsoredShout from a celebrity that fits the audience you are looking to talk to. Also, each Shout now generates its own QR Code so these Shouts can be heard literally anywhere from billboards to newspaper ads.

Now you can literally get the "word of mouth" from a celebrity using their voice and Shouting to their followers and fans. This is a lot more engaging and adds emotion, tonality and authenticity to the message and also allows for a two way communication. Gone are the days of Brands simply telling people what they want to say. Now it is a two way street. Brands are talking to their consumers to get their feedback, input and "word of mouth".

Using ShoutOmatic allows the brands to engage with their customers. Create contests, create excitement, knowledge and opinion.

Check out this SponsoredShout from Kevin Boss (NFL player for the Oakland Raiders) on behalf of the brand 110% Play Harder: http://shoutomatic.com/kevin-boss



To find a celebrity that fits your need check out this roster. This list grows daily.
http://shoutomatic.com/sponsored-shouts/find-talent/

For further help please contact me at mlevy@shoutomatic.com and we will get your business "heard".

Today's Economy

Sorry for the rant, but....

Did we think we would be heading in the same direction we were in just 2+ years ago. It is amazing how much of a mess that has been created in our economy and the world economy. I personally blame "Politicians" for the cause of the mess we are in. If our politicians were in business they would have declared bankruptcy many times over. How do they get to keep doing this? Don't we all wish we could do like our politicians where we have nothing but problems and severe debt and then take a month off? Now that is a gig I want. How do they get away with it? Why don't we have a say as to what they can and can't do?

If I were running for public office this is what I would do:

1) Stop wasting campaign donations: 50% of the money raised for my political campaign would be put back into the government to pay off some of the debt. Do we really need to see the same commercials over and over again telling us how bad one's opponent is? What a waste of time and money. Take that money and do something worth while with it.

I bet if any candidate pledges to do this with the money they raise others will follow. Even if it were just for this year, it would show that they are for the people and not for themselves. It would prove that they really "get it" instead of lip service saying "we need to create jobs" blah blah blah. Put your money where your mouth is and prove that you really care to do the job the public is hiring you to do. This would get more publicity than any negative commercial would get you.

2) Tariffs: I would demand a tariff to be charged for any goods coming from countries that under pay their own people. It is time the US starts to take care of itself. I know we live in a global economy and all, but do the Chinese care about us or even their own people for that matter? It is time to level the playing field. If the Chinese are okay with making $1 a day, then let them. But don't let them sell their cheaper products that come from this practice to our nation. Charge a hefty tariff to even the playing field. Let us start making our own products again. Get our people back to work and creating our own goods and services for fair wages. Yes, it will bring our cost of some goods up, but it will be helping ourselves and not some other country.

We are deep enough in debt to do something about it. Something drastic and something that will benefit our next generation and generations to come. Let us stop passing the buck and leaving this mess to our kids and their kids.

Does anyone think we can keep going down this path or should we be doing something about it?

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Introducing ShoutOmatic

One of my favorite things to do is go out and introduce ShoutOmatic to prospective users. It is fun, exciting and I love the interest I get. By the time I am done we are always thinking of how that specific person, team, brand, business can use ShoutOmatic. The ideas are luckily endless.

Here is where I was today:







Here is one of the latest technology developments that ShoutOmatic has implemented with each Shout. Every single Shout that you do creates its own QR Code so the Shout can be posted anywhere, literally anywhere. If you can think of place this can't be posted please let me know.

I am looking forward to meeting more and more people to introduce ShoutOmatic to. Social media at it's coolest.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

ShoutOmatic Brings Voice and Sound to Social Media

ShoutOmatic Brings Voice and Sound to Social Media

Digital Audio Voice Ad - SponsoredShout

They say that “suggestions” and “recommendations” of products or services from within your inner-circle of “friends” in social media is the new holy grail for advertising. We typically trust the opinion of our friends. Statistics show that over 90% of us respond favorably to the recommendation of what is said to us by someone we friend and follow. That is a stark contrast to the statistics that say that less than .5 % of one percent of us actually click on a “display ad” within our social networking experience.

The new ShoutOmatic “SponsoredShouts” platform is now available to Brands to address and exploit this new Holy Grail of “word of mouth” advertising.

Three ways for Brands to use the power of ShoutOmatic:

For Brands that already have their existing roster of Celebrity endorsers for current campaigns and projects, we SUGGEST the use of ShoutOmatic to be used by the Celebrities when posting your “endorsement messages” to their Twitter and Facebook streams. If you have built into your contracts that the Celebrity must do a certain amount of Tweets and Facebook status updates, we suggest the use of ShoutOmatic to accomplish that so their Fans and Followers can hear the celebrities actual Voice adding authenticity, sincerity and tonality that is not possible with 140 characters of text
While ShoutOmatic is a FREE platform for the use of recording and broadcasting audible voice tweets and Facebook status updates, we can also, at your desire, offer you special “branded” landing pages for each of the Celebrities’ Shouts for a nominal fee; with choices of skinned background design and display banners.
TIP: If you are going to have a Celebrity to do a Voice Endorsement Shout that gets posted to the celebrities Twitter and social networks, you need to add text to the title to state that it is a paid endorsement. This is easily accomplished by simply putting (ad) at the end or beginning of the text.
We have a growing roster of talent that is available to you for what we call “SponsoredShouts” (Voice Endorsement Shouts) where you would select one or more Celebrities to do ala carte campaigns or full ongoing projects. You have access to our continuouisly growing roster of celebrities found here: http://shoutomatic.com/sponsored-shouts/find-talent/
Plus! You also have available to bid on Voice Endorsement Shouts from the full roster of The Disney Music Group which includes all artists on the Hollywood Records Label.
Please email if we can be of any help or assistance, or to request quotes for a celebrity: brands@shoutomatic.com


Thursday, June 16, 2011

PersonalShout from a celebrity

One of the coolest things about ShoutOmatic, aside from being able to add my voice to my social networks so my friends can hear me every now and then, is to be able to purchase a PersonalShout from a Celebrity that I have followed and seen my whole life. I have ALWAYS been a big fan of Danny Bonaduce. He is funny, entertaining and yes, most importantly he has red hair just like me. I guess only red heads would understand what it is like to have red hair when you are a kid. Carrot top, your hair is on fire and on and on and on, I heard them my whole childhood. I was always able to look at Danny Bonaduce as a role model of sorts. He was famous and on TV and HAD red hair (and freckles of course).

Now I am in my 40's and I had the opportunity to ask Danny Bonaduce to say something directly to me and I am able to keep this forever. It is Danny talking to me. Check it out:




There is no other place besides ShoutOmatic.com where you can get such a personal message from a Celebrity. We are working on building a larger roster of Celebrities, but we have a nice cross section of Celebs right now.

http://shoutomatic.com/shoutmarket/fan-shouts/

So buy a PersonalShout for yourself or buy one as a gift.

American Idol fans can buy one from Bo Bice.
Twilight fans can buy an InstantShout from Chaske Spencer.
Hip Hop fans can buy one from Iyaz or Mann.
Rap fans can buy one from DMC or Flavor Flav
Crazy fans can buy one from Andy Dick or Turtle Calls (both are very funny)
Football fans can buy one from James Ihedigbo (#44 NY Jets)
How about one from Jackie Mason?
The list goes on and on and keeps growing, so check back in every now and then if you don't see anyone you want a Shout from.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Intro to ShoutOmatic

ShoutOmatic is the brainchild of Norm Levy, Jim Robert, Michael Levy and Bob Schuon.

ShoutOmatic is a privately-held start-up. If interested in learning more, or possibly investing please contact me at mlevy@shoutomatic.com

As this young Team mastered the aggregating of digital photos, music, videos and text with their acclaimed “LifeGoRound” platform (LifeGoRound was presented and demonstrated by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook at a Walter Mossberg Tech Conference), that streams the content to Digital Photo Frames, they had an “Aha” moment as they discovered and uncovered a method to allow your actual Voice to be “heard” in all social, web and blog spaces.

Think of each Shout as an “audible status update”. Rather than typing a 140 character text message, ShoutOmatic allows you to record and broadcast audible Shouts so your actual voice can be heard within your Twitter and Facebook feeds, as well as across all social networks and web spaces. Using ShoutOmatic adds authenticity, emotion and tonality that is not possible with 140 characters of text alone.

Please listen to Norm Levy explain ShoutOmatic with his voice:


TechCrunch Disrupt: Tales from Startup Alley: ShoutOmatic

The Technoverse Blog: Drawing the links between telecom, social media, and public policy. Tales from Startup Alley: Shoutomatic If tweets are the short form of a blog post, then what’s the audio equivalent of a podcast? I found the answer at Shoutomatic’s booth talking to its co-founder and COO Michael Levy. The idea is simple: why not give give the people the power to quickly record short audio messages or shouts, and tweet out the embedded link or post it onto a FaceBook wall? There are other, more cumbersome ways to do this kind of thing in the Web world. Shoutomatic, though, is its owns ecosystem and social network—profiles, real-time shout stream, follow-follower model, etc. Please read the FULL STORY: http://technoverseblog.com/2011/05/tales-from-startup-alley-shoutomatic/

My first attempt to blog, with my Voice via ShoutOmatic