Social Network Marketing May 28, 2008

Social Network Marketing
By Stephanie Haile

Using these outstanding and unique sites can seem a bit overwhelming at first, but taking the few minutes to learn each will help and taking on only one at a time will also benefit the learning experience greatly. All of the types of Social Network Marketing are similar in some ways. Taking these similarities into play, let’s look at some tips other than navigation that I can help with.

Choosing about five keywords to get you started with your blog sites, web sites, and other places that you can use keywords, will increase the chances of landing on page one of the search engines. Then, as you add keywords to your list, it will be easier to use them and remember them properly. Same principle as the memory test where you start with yellow, red, blue, and green…then add purple. So now you remember yellow, red, blue, green, and purple. Then, add one more keyword each few days or so to your list for the Social Network Marketing places you go.

Visiting blog sites you enjoy, on topics you already know about, will create an at home feeling for you, very comfortable. My favorite teacher once told me to “write what I know” Same principle here. If you don’t know about surfing lingo, don’t try to comment too much on a surfer site “Dude”.

You have a lifetime’s experience with making friends, again, do what you know, make friends on the blog sites. Picture this, you wouldn’t bust into a social party and dance about singing loudly about your fantastic business opportunity, terrific product, or incredible service. Make friends first. Find people with like interests, so you have a fun time chatting. Put yourself in the comment receivers seat, would you want that comment on your blog, social network page, or in your email box?

Most importantly, you cannot break a blog or social network. If it’s totally messed up, you can always delete everything and start over if you want, or just delete the things that you aren’t happy with and repost them. Social Network Marketing is just that, social. Let’s be friendly and really get to know a bit about each other before we start pitching business opportunities. People are cool! Let’s talk sometime.

Stephanie Haile enjoys teaching new people to the Internet how to navigate and become comfortable with their computers. She is a business owner, wife, mom, pet lover, and beach enthusiast who writes, reads, and helps others create a residual income for financial stability. Google Stephanie Haile and get in touch or give her a call and find out about how her business can help you! 321-745-6202

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Social Bookmarking And Web 2.0 Elements May 26, 2008

Social Bookmarking And Web 2.0 Elements
By Andy Bolton

Every system needs to evolve to survive and the way the web works is no exception the new elements on the block are those strange square symbols you see at the bottom of web pages or scattered about here and there on news stories. These are the web 2.0 elements from the rise of social bookmarking comes a new way of getting traffic to your website.

A lot of people are now having their own space on the web either from MySpace or something similar from these pages in cyberspace they can add pages to that area for personal or general distribution that the individual finds useful providing it has got a social bookmark corresponding to that site.

For example if you go onto sky news site and you see a particular news story that is of interest to you and you would like to keep a copy of it located in your cyberspace you would click on the Squidoo if you belong to that or the yahoo space or MySpace symbol and log in and then you’re done it can be a personal part of your space or shared part of your space.

Many internet marketers are just starting to realize the power of these social bookmarking sites and the way they can be used to get your website spidered or indexed very quickly. The way to do this is for example you create your web page and at the bottom of the page you add the social bookmarking scripts.

These java scripts can be found on a number of sites just search for social bookmarking scripts then copy and paste the required script or elements you want into your web page and there you go. After completion of adding these scripts you will see a number of these little square box elements appear on your web page. Make sure you use the yahoo element then click on this and add the content of your site to the yahoo web page by using your yahoo id then adding it to your personal or shared space by repeating this for all the different elements and social bookmarking sites and your web page starts to attract the big spiders to come and index your page.

The problem with all this is social bookmarking sites eventually will get bogged down with people just trying to sell you something all the time and that starts to generate social bookmarking spam. So the idea is to use this system sensible don’t go trying to get involved with everybody on MySpace try to find your own niche only and then target your market.

Most internet marketers are sensible and realise that your reputation is on the line and if you act very irresponsibly you will lose your customers and customer’s confidence. By acting in a defined responsible and accountable manner then your business will grow online into something worth developing.

Social bookmarking is very new and there is time to set out your market stall online to the MySpace / YouTube generation and make your business be a part of the good side of social bookmarking and web 2.0 elements or we are faced with waiting for the next major change in web structure and elements to occur for marketing opportunities.

© 2007 Andy Bolton 39 Liverpool,
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Free e-course: Kickstart Your Social Networking Plan May 25, 2008

Social networking (Facebook, Biznik, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) for business is all the rage right now, and while “trendy” things are usually frowned upon, you need to be where your target market is, trendy or not. Social networking will not only increase awareness of your product or service, it could lead to sales and to those priceless business connections we all need.

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5 Reasons Friends In Your Social Media Networks Do Matter May 23, 2008

5 Reasons Friends In Your Social Media Networks Do Matter

By Wendy Moyer

To those of us who use social networks frequently, or are familiar with the way the social web works, this post will seem self-evident.

However, in conversations with a couple clients and individuals lately who are unfamiliar with social media marketing, this question has consistently cropped up.

The main problem people have is reconciling making friends with possible ROI.

What you need to know is that by adding friends or accepting friend requests, you are taking one more step to building your authority and visibility in your industry, which WILL lead to ROI (in the form of traffic, sales conversions or whatever your goal) as people recognize you as a leader in your field and choose you over possible competitors for services and products they need.

Here are 5 general, point-by-point reasons friends matter on social networks:

1. Relationship building.

The whole reason social networking is successful is because its very foundation is built on creating and maintaining relationships with people.

How To Be REALLY Popular In Twitter May 23, 2008

How To Be REALLY Popular In Twitter

By Gregor Spowart

All of a Twitter

This month has seen yet another technology take off in a big way.

Twitter is a really simple tool that lets you post simple status updates (of 160 characters) throughout the day, much as you do in Facebook, and share them with people on Twitter. But where Facebook only allows you to share updates with your chosen friends, anyone can see your Twitter updates. Treat it as a micro-blog and you’re pretty much on the right lines.

The same issues with blogging apply to Twitter, You want to have a big following and to do that you have to write great content. If you’re already an established authority on a subject then it’s far easier to get a big following, but the great thing about Twitter is that it has a much smaller membership than the blogging world, so the possibility of becoming an authority figure is much easier.

So where do you start?