The Fourth Session of Cif Talk

Cif Talk is ongoing, we had our 5th session today and have written just today about our 4th, with Matt Sicotte. Enjoy your read ;)

For the fourth Session of Cif Talk we had Matt Sicotte on the line. He wishes to build an online presence and a steady income through it.

I knew that Matt had a blog, http://umattr.info/ which really looks nice and has some great articles. He said that he's been marketing the blog for almost a year now and asked for a few ideas on it. I gave them happily. Being the Lead Web Designer at Cifnet Ltd. for about 10 months now, I certainly could offer him some tips and hints on what he should improve in the blog.

As every good businessman, Matt wants to find another idea for online revenue. I told him that when he comes up with the idea, we will be there to help and give him the right materials to build his business from.

He liked the fact that he'll get free hosting and that he will be able to easily modify the content of the website himself, on cif2.net

I really look forward to seeing what he will come up with.

The Second Session of Cif Talk - Artsy on the edges

Florin Muresan has written about the second session of Cif Talk that went down on his wall, on Facebook.

We are very happy that until now the winners were really pleased with the Prizes we give.

Read all about it:

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Yesterday morning, we had the Second Session of Cif Talk, with Janice McGrory. She is a very cool mom and a great person. She's actually one of the first persons with whom I could really have great conversations on Twitter.

Speaking to her before, I already knew something about what she might want to do further on, but I wanted to make sure I was right.

Some few months ago, I read a great piece of poetry written by her. What I liked about that piece was that it had strength and it managed to pierce one's inner self with the neatly placed words. And a few weeks ago she presented me parts of a first draft for the novel she was working on.

It is a very promising novel and her story telling is truly compelling. So I guessed she would want to use the prizes we have for her to build an online presence for her novel and to get it out there to readers all over the world. Because Cif2 will also be a place for artists, to help promote themselves without having to pay huge amounts of money.

The Cif Talk went on. She told me I wasn't adding any pressure or anything :P hehe... maybe I was, but I just had to, I really want her to write the novel, it is going to be awesome and I have much faith in her and in the fact that she will come up with a thoroughly enjoyable story.

And then the whole Prize Giving Talk, turned into a little Artsy talk about character development and places to use in a story.

You can read the whole conversation if you want, it's on my wall @facebook. (http://www.facebook.com/florin.muresan)

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The First Session of Cif Talk

Hello, hello, everyone !

I've just finished the first Session of Cif Talk and I'm really excited and happy about how it all went.

This session took place on Facebook and the winner I've talked to was Sabina Cornovac ! She's a great person. She's a PR executive and also a PR and Advertising student at Universitatea din Bucuresti.

She was very curoius regarding what sort of prizes she'll get, so I told her right away and when she heard what they were she was even more glad she had won at the Who Is Cif contest.

Sabina had a project in mind, for helping her familly with their small business, but no one could help her out. And that's where we came in. We are going to help her build an online presence for that small business. I've told her how great she will be able to promote the website because of our Builder's enhanced SEO possibilities. I told her of how she will be taught to build a great website. And I've also told her what awesome products we'll be able to provide her.

She thanked us very much and we're very glad we can help her out with our prizes.

You see? I've told you that we give awesome prizes, not just random prizes for prizes sake :P

Next Week : Cif Talk ! Winners get ready !

Starting next thursday is Cif Talk, the event where we want to talk to each one of you winners of the Who Is Cif contest, to make sure you get an awesome prize :D

We, at Cifnet LTD., aren't fans of prizes for prizes sake, so we want you to get something you'll love and benefit from.

Do you want to promote an event, your own shop, your band, your novel, or do you want to let the world know that you exist ? Do you.. oh, well I'm not starting already, let's leave it for the next week !

I'll contact you guys and we'll simply talk through tweets, wall to wall, whatever you wish ;)

I'm already putting some bee-a.. juice in the fridge for next week's talks. Congrats again and see you next week :D

Winners of the First Round !

The moment you've all been waiting for has finally come !

Here is the list with all the winners of the first round of Who Is Cif. As stands written on the header of the contest's blog, the prizes will help both your Professional and Personal life.

The prizes will consist in websites with/without blogs and with many possibilities and stuff to include, whether you are an artist, a business owner, a gamer or whatever. You will be guided through the whole process, so that your online presence will become trully well known.

That's why I, Florin Muresan, PR at Cifnet LTD., will contact you and will talk to you about your future plans, to be sure you'll get just what you need. And remember: you WON and that means it's all for free ;)

Starting Next Thursday: Cif Talk ! (more details about that event soon)

And the WINNERS are:


1) Steven Lamb (@lamby118) with " create impossible futures "

2) Matt Sicotte with " Collective International Friendships "

3) Sabina Cornovac with " CIF is me, is you, is everyone :) CIF is live, is having fun and is living la vida loca! "


These first 3 were our favorites and here is why:

Steven was surprising, because the first tagline for cif2.net was supposed to be "Creating Independent Future Networks", so he really came close to it and we liked it.

Matt managed to give another very close meaning to CIF. CIF is going to be International indeed, and a great collection or network of Friends and it intends to build friendship.

And Sabina did not really say a C I F as in suggestions for what the initials stand for, but she gave a really insightful description of who is CIF. As Yahoo stated recently, there is a new power in this world.. and that power is YOU !

Cif is going to be very user-oriented and user-friendly and it will also try to help you be as independent as possible, without having to pay designers, content management, hosting, etc. And the list does not stop here, but you will hear more about this some other time.


The other Winners who also gave great and funny suggestions were:

4) Janice McGrory with " Cookie Infamous Funster "

5) @CynthiaY29 with " Clever Ill-mannered Fox "

6) @socialapril with " Cynical Introvertite Furball "

7) Doina Pirau with " Complex Independent Female "

8) @LanaBee_x with " Cocky Ignorant Friends "

9) @irenescool with " Cool Ironmaiden Fans "

10) @RKOedYourBrain with " Cornflakes in Florida " and " Cornelius Ignacio Florentine "

11) @heerbol with " Cool Information Friends "

12) Ginger Spice for the insight in the flash-answers mini-contest.


Thank you everyone, for participating and I hope you enjoyed the First Round ! Stay Tuned for a Round Two.

And all of you winners Stay Tuned for the CifTalk ! And let's see how many things you'll get !

Working to bring you the Winners for the First Round !

We are working hard to bring you the list of winners at the Who Is Cif contest !

Also, we will be changing the blog's look a little bit, so that we provide you with a better reading experience.

See you soon, stay tuned !