Social Media Management Company Helps Local Businesses Profit Big from the …

(1888PressRelease) September 06, 2011 – Dr. Matthew Loop, who is a leader in the development and demystification of Internet marketing techniques, has co-created a service that is winning praise from subscribers as it helps to push them to the top of Google while aggressively blanketing Facebook. Automated Social Networking (ASN) was developed in an effort to ensure that busy or less tech savvy local businesses could fully utilize the power of social media and the Internet.

“The Internet is a vast place,” says founder and CEO Loop, “and it’s very difficult for local businesses to find the time and develop the skills / materials necessary to utilize all the marketing power that social media offers. I saw how amazingly potent it would be for businesses to link with and use Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other sites and decided to offer a service that would do just that.”

Loop adds, “Automated Social Networking is exactly what its name says it is. This is a fully automated, comprehensive online marketing service that easily allows a business, no matter how small or big, to use social networking, SEO, and internet marketing to totally dominate their market.”

There are three different plans through his service and although people may subscribe for a year or two and save some money, they may also purchase services by the month.

Clients get a tremendous amount of value for their money, including monthly press releases, regular blogs, social media management, video creation / submission, podcasts, articles, SEO, Google Adwords, Facebook advertising and much more!

Automated Social Networking creates all information and marketing materials and also handles the distribution, which includes top news services, status updates on social media, premium article directories, video sharing websites, social bookmarking sites, and more.

“People don’t have sign long-term contracts with the service. They may go month by month if they like,” acknowledges Loop. “But,” he adds, “we do recommend that they commit to at least three months worth of ASN services. It takes time to generate results on the Internet and the minimum is about three months.

In that time, we can usually generate enough buzz, backlinks, substantial boosts in Google rankings, and published online content to see great results for local businesses. What we’re able to do in an automated fashion is just about impossible for someone to do on their own working a full work week.”

The power of sites such as YouTube, which is visited by over 1 million people per day; Facebook, which has 750 million members and Twitter, which includes millions of people who Tweet, should not be underestimated. Internet access, with the advent of smart phones and droids, is virtually everywhere and Automated Social Networking enables subscribers to tap in at a level never before imagined.

To find out more about Automated Social Networking, you can go to http://Automatedsocialnetworking.com . There you’ll find a complete explanation of the services, including how it works, its benefits and the various plans being offered.

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Courtesy of Lil B’s Facebook

Courtesy of Lil B’s Facebook

Two radical and eccentric hip hop acts Odd Future (OFWGKTA) and Lil B (the “BasedGod”) have split the indie music community.

They have each released albums during the second quarter of the 2011 year, respectively entitled “Goblin” and “I’m Gay (I’m Happy),” which have provoked many questions among media organizations such as The New York Times, NPR, and countless indie blogs. Are these rebellious youths adding something to the game of hip hop? Are they proving something about what hip hop has become, or how it is perceived? Are they deep musical mind-freaks, marketing geniuses, or just a comical, bizarre clown act attracting the easiest mind-washed music listeners known to man?

There are two things both of these acts desire most: spotlight and drama. There is no doubt that their music has been driven by the feedback they receive – the juicier the better. It seemed like before his most recent album, Lil B would just pick celebrities, sayings, or new styles that were blowing up on media interfaces and headline them in his songs. Both groups feed off of it like vultures, and it seems to be the basis for their success. But what does their fan base (who are mainly white, middle class teenagers) find as the main attraction: the movement or the music?

Focusing on that concept that perhaps hip hop has become a generated cultural endeavor rather than a source for musical ingenuity with meaningful lyrics, Odd Future and Lil B have been exemplified as perpetrators of this crime. They have taken this flip-of-the-switch, I-don’t-give-a-s*** movement to arguably the furthest extent hip hop has seen today. Music lovers are going to see these guys live for the stage antics and the crowd’s savage atmosphere.

One example of this flippant behavior was when Odd Future performed on BBC’s Music Showcase in early May, being asked to play their song “Sandwitches” off “Goblin” as a radio edit. Knowing the vulgarity of their music already, the gang took the performance as an extremely informal comic act, filling in with slurred phrases like “mess around with me, and I’ll scratch your cat.” The majority of the comments on the Youtube video are based around how funny the performance was and how the group is perceived as a gang of goofy friends who don’t have a care in the world. Not many comments revolved around the music itself, or the fact that the tripped, off-tempo beat and the disheveled lyrical gush made this viewer want to puke.

When it comes to Lil B, or Based God’s attempt at an image, he described the meaning of what it is to be “based” in an interview with “Complex Magazine.” “Based means being yourself,” he said in the interview. “Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, ‘You’re based.’ They’d use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, ‘Yeah, I’m based.’ I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.”

In regards to marketing a style or way of life, both groups have achieved massive success, but has this brain-wash tactic been the ultimate driving force of their notoriety? They have created a niche in the hip hop community in which the music is being dragged along because of the rising appreciation of the movement. People inevitably listen to an album keeping in mind who the artists are, what their background is, the band’s image, etc. Considering this, it’s hard to accept the seemingly contrarian dichotomy of what they say and what they do – the tie between what you hear and the beliefs you take from this music has been completely unwound.

Musically, most of their songs are poorly produced, whether they are trying to be rappers or spoken word artists, over skewed rhythms. The beats are sketchy, the lyrics lack depth, and the flow is like that of a drunk wannabe spitter in an unofficial rap-off at a college frat party (and the stream of consciousness approach is not catching on towards being a lyrical genius). Many listeners are falling in love with the nihilistic lifestyle, and they can only be considered followers of it by loosely bobbing their head out of tempo or just throwing themselves into a sweaty human heap of fury, because the music has become strictly the medium for his cultural platform. Thus, the music itself suffers.

For the sake of the future of hip hop, albums cannot continue to be released like this. If there is one thing these two acts have accomplished, however, it is the realization that the hip hop community takes its image too seriously. They were able to climb the popularity ladder because of how lenient and overly-optimistic hip hop listeners and critics have become.

However, this should demonstrate to the hip hop community that although these two acts have created such a static buzz among genre-diving music listeners that if music like this continues to be released, the line between an album featuring true musical talent and some evidence of dedication and meaning and an album that was hastily thrown together for the claim to fame would become paper thin. We would live in a music-infested society in which anyone could throw beats together, and we listeners would try to dive deep into it, but in actuality we would just be heading face-first into a shallow puddle. If that was to happen, best of luck to any musicians hoping to stand out and find their own swag.

Dylan Brewer can be reached at dbrewer@student.umass.edu.

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