What's the purpose of this blog?

The purpose of this blog is to showcase blogging and viral marketing successes!

None of the companies, above, existed 15 years ago. Some of them didn't exist just five years ago, which may have you wondering what they do. How many of tomorrow's household names and brands will be created solely from online marketing?

Blogging is really just an extension of the face-to-face interaction we experience everyday. At work. At the store. In our neighborhood. It's done online with the written word rather than in person as the spoken word and allows you to reach far more people than in person.

How can you benefit by expanding your reach to hundreds, thousands or millions of listeners? What talents can you share that others are desperately seeking for entertainment, knowledge, networking and/or to solve a problem.

Please send me your submissions of great ideas, campaigns, success stories and so on. Contact us at Gmail - reasonstoblog (then) @gmail (don't forget the dot) com

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From Boston Fan To Lead Singer On Myspace

August 25, 2008 – 11:23 am

You may have heard about Boston, the band, and how they found their new lead singer after losing Brad Delp. It was all by mistake really and never could’ve happened without social media sites such as Myspace.

Tommy DeCarlo, a credit manager at Home Depot in Charlotte, North Carolina recorded a karaoke-style mp3 and uploaded it to his Myspace page as a tribute to Brad Delp. Along came the wife of Boston’s founder, Tom Scholz, who was surfing around Myspace and stumbled onto Tommy’s version of their song. Amazed, he flew Tommy and family up for an audition and resulted in a Delp tribute show and tour invite.

Having rapped the summer tour, Tommy will appear on Boston’s new album due out in early 2009 along with Stryper frontman, Michael Sweet.

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Have You Seen Fred?

August 23, 2008 – 10:40 pm

In my first example, I introduce you to Fred. He’s an Internet celebrity with over 76 million Youtube video views as of the writing of this post. I don’t know anyone who couldn’t find a way to capitalize on 76 million viewers.

I’m not asking that you watch all of his videos, or even finish just one. In fact, I’m warning you that it’s extremely annoying but when I see my older children spend an hour online with Fred after dinner I realize there is power in Fred. A quick Google search of Fred turns up financial stats from Google Finance and then Fred’s Youtube page.

This is the power of social media to capture your audience as an introduction to your company, product, personal blog or brand.

Check out this example of Fred Goes To The Dentist:

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