October 21st, 2008 by admin
Of course, your strategies may vary with the policy of each site. Some will allow you to do some limited promotion of your products and businesses and others won’t. Some will allow you to bring in external content to help build your profile and others won’t. Each have their own unique way to keep in touch with people, some through profiles only, and others through mobile status updates like Twitter. So, it can be a little daunting to give one technical way to use all social networking sites. However, the strategy is still the same for most:
Set up a profile with your website links, and develop an online, authentic, personality. Invite friends you already know to link to you, Look at their friends list and see if you have mutual friends you can invite to link in to you.
Join in the networking and keep your profile fresh with updates and new content like videos, pictures, and blog postings, Stay present and check in daily to answer inquires, add some status information, and see if you can make new friends.
Check out other people online to see what they’re doing to build their presence and copy it, Join groups and use a signature line to link back to your website, Network with other people online, staying conscious of who the major players are to connect with them if you can.
Explore any applications or other features within the site for marketing and contact building, Always try to have a way to funnel your contacts back to a blog or website for those social networks that limit your marketing capability. Read the rest of this entry »
October 3rd, 2008 by admin
If you haven’t begun using social media applications as part of your Internet marketing campaign, you’re missing out on a golden opportunity. Social media has become one of the most effective ways to submit articles and get traffic to a web site.
What is Social Media? Social media is a term given to the Internet tools people use to submit articles and share electronic information. Some of the forms social media can take on include blogs, forums, bookmarking sites, and news sites. Most social media sites actively encourage users to submit articles, photos, links, and other content. They want to get traffic to their site and don’t mind if you get traffic to your web site in return.
How to Get Traffic It is possible to get traffic–a lot of traffic–through social media marketing. However, you need to make sure you do everything just right if you want to make the most of your marketing efforts. You can’t submit articles to just anyone and hope for the best. You need to choose the right social media outlet. Read the rest of this entry »
September 26th, 2008 by admin
You know how important traffic is to the life of your website? Of course you do. So how about I share with you some of the best ways to get traffic coming into your site using those “social marketing” sites that everyone’s talking about?
WHAT IS SOCIAL MARKETING?
People call it social marketing, web 2.0 or new age marketing but the fact of the matter is this - you need to be using the social marketing websites to your advantage because there’s tons of free traffic to be had from them.
The big names like MySpace, Facebook and the rest are not only dominating news stories now and people’s minds they are starting to play a really big part in driving traffic to marketers pages online. The problem though is this … Read the rest of this entry »
September 3rd, 2008 by admin
So you want to get free advertising, traffic and back links from the multitude of social networks out there but you don’t know which to use and what to do. Hopefully today you’ll learn a few useful tips to boost your profile and maximize the buzz of social networks.
Where To Start?
Digg is hard to use unless you’ve been around a while. It’s top users really flex their collective muscle when it comes to dominating the front page. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t add your articles - Not at all - Adding your articles to Digg, making tons off friends and testing the water is well worth it. Chances are you WON’T make the front page, but if you do……traffic jackpot.
Propeller is fast to use, which means you can get in and out with much fuss, so I highly recommend adding your link there.
Stumble Upon is nowhere near as good as it was and you have to stumble a ton of site to get and credibility. You should add your profile and your blog/site, but don’t expect the promise you may hear.
Reddit is pretty good and low effort so definitely give it a try. Read the rest of this entry »
Of course, your strategies may vary with the policy of each site. Some will allow you to do some limited promotion of your products and businesses and others won’t. Some will allow you to bring in external content to help build your profile and others won’t. Each have their own unique way to keep in touch with people, some through profiles only, and others through mobile status updates like Twitter. So, it can be a little daunting to give one technical way to use all social networking sites. However, the strategy is still the same for most:
