30 Mar 2010 02:52 pm
The first and the foremost thing in Social Media is to interact and build up a reputation. Sales will start to generate as you build stronger relationships. The most important thing is to be yourself and be orginal. There is no point in doing something because your competitors are doing the same. Now the biggest question comes up "Does social media have the ability to convert ?". The answer to the question is that social media converts as long as you are doing it in the right way and targetting the right audience. You should have heard about Roger Smith Hotel "The social media hotel". Their twitter account is RSHotel. They have really build up a strong online presence through twitter and now they are so famous that social media users are recommending them to their friends, family and relativies. This means that social media can play an effective role in viral marketing campaigns. If you need to make the maximum benefit out of Social Media then you should give importance to the following things :
1) Participate where your customers want you to participate. Be active, interactive and build a strong community and maintain the same.. Remember that your customers are your strength.
2) Plan your social networking and social media efforts so that customers are motivated and encouraged to bring others into the fold and make them engage with the existsing customers.
3) When planning new promotional campaigns, recognize other users who are more likely to listen to your point of view and act on your behalf.
4) Design your programs so that they are extremely easy for your existsing customers as well as the new prospective customers to share with their network of friends on the social platforms of their choice. Be with them throughout the journey.
5) Carry your long tail of cutsomers from one campaign to another. Provide them with additional customer value in return.
If you need further discussion about the above topic you may contact Cijo Abraham Mani,SMO Expert and Search Evangelist.
11 Mar 2010 12:49 am
I have been quite addicted to using StumbleUpon, which I search some of the related websites in my niche and what interests me. I also studied on why we need to Stumble our site? We'll, first of all StumbleUpon is a social bookmark or social media platform with the likes of Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook and so on. I also searched some topics on "Making Money With StumbleUpon". I did search it and I got good results, and I read the whole thing step-by-step.
SO the question is do you think that is easy to make money with StumbleUpon? Well of all the things like affiliate marketing and eCommerce it is very difficult to make money and it requires a lot of attention in sales conversion type marketing. But as for Stumbleupon there is certainly potential to earn using non blackhat methods.
It's pretty challenging right? There's one thing that I know that is not allowed on StumbleUpon, and that is paid shortening links like LinkBucks, LinkBee, Jacket Link Advertising and many more. Why? It's because they don't like spam attacks from other third party sites who try to take advantage of StumbleUpon and to break it's image on their faithful members.
I suggest that you create your very own landing page like Squidoo, Weebly, Yola, Blogger or WordPress, and there you can attach your own affiliate link or paid short link for the visitors to click and you make money online. Oh, I almost forgot of what my topic is all about. Why is it that we need to stumble our own website on purpose? We'll for me, it's because we want to increase my site's popularity on StumbleUpon and to increase the number of subscribers on my account.
In that way, I may be able to automatically update them and when they do receive my e-mail, they will click on the link and to complete offers or purchase a product with my affiliate or CPA link, or paid short links. We'll, if you guys think that StumbleUpon can give you loads of traffic and money, then try it for free. No risk about it, only follow the house rules!
01 Feb 2010 06:43 am
Are you ready to spread the word for your own social media? I believe that social media is one of the fast growing business in the internet right now. But why is it that you must turn on your microphone for this? Is it you're going to audition like the American Idol? Or you want to be the next America's Got Talent? We'll, you're wrong.
Social media sites are designed for people who want to share anything they want with regards to entertaining them like videos, glitters, games, music, and anything that can entertain and attract the people like me. Some of the hottest social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are now on the top of the mountain, while the rest are still developing.
If you're going to create another social media and would like to announce it, simply turn on your microphone by what? Of course, if you are launching a new product, service or website, it needs a press release. You will create your own press release by yourself and increasing the microphone's volume to submit into various top press release sites like Free-Press-Release, just like you shout your news to many people.
I believe that new social media sites are definitely needed mostly by webmasters and bloggers too, in order to increase their exposure by getting lots of backlinks and traffic to their website. I experienced it right now that when I want to shout using my microphone, people gather around on me. This is truly the same thing when I want to shout in a "quiet" way by using press release as my microphone to let people gather around and check the brand new social media of my own in the internet today. Is that simple, huh?
30 Jan 2010 08:27 am
Did you always login to your Youtube account? Can anyone please tell me if we can do some video marketing and SEO using Youtube? There are more "Youtube sensations" there like MeekaKitty, Juicy Jabber, Shane Dawson, Fred Fowler, NixiePixel and many more which are successful in their video marketing just for entertaining lots of viewers out there.
But they don't know that if they could use affiliate and CPA offers to market into Youtube by the use of video, you can earn revenue, sales and leads from there because Youtube is very popular to video marketing, and lots of professionals out there are beginning to use Youtube as a source and portal of video marketing and SEO.
I can see that money making opportunity videos are there to attract more clients, customers and visitors in order to gain more views and increasing their leads of their program, and I think it's going to be great when I want to market my own money making system and other products I will promote from Clickbank, CJ, Amazon, etc.
Youtube is a very useful portal or social media for professional video marketing purposes, rather than Veoh, DailyMotion, Megavideo, etc. I already have a plan with my friends to make our own video to promote our services and other affiliate and CPA products and offer that can make us profit. It has lots of backlinks and millions of people are always logging daily and they have a very huge traffic also. It's good for online video marketing business.
23 Jan 2010 08:29 am
If you are the one who is willing to give up everything, will you do it now? Being impatient in link building and SEO results is one good reason why you think that you want to give up for yourself. As for me, why would I give up? Is it the right time now? We'll, if I am the one being questioned through this process, I would say NO!
Why dude?
I say no because if I say yes, they would call me a sore loser. Last year, I could have almost give up because when I do SEO for my blog, less traffic and revenue has been generated. I was impatient on that time, and my investments of my time are really wasted my time. I spent 2-3 hours doing SEO for my blog, but I expected fast results.
But then again, results are expected to be slow but sure. If I do it fast, Google will not love it and will put me into their sandbox. Social media sites are also the same. If they are new in this town, a sandbox will occur once the keywords used are unique. We need to have patience on whatever sites we have right now that is something new.
Like for example, if I have a Twitter account. If my account is new and wants to gain more followers using a software, that's totally unfair and horrible for Twitter in which my account would be banned. The same thing if I have a Facebook account and gaining more friends, fans and group members using a software, a possible ban may occur and it's a complete black hat method!
Doing a legitimate SEO or SEM is very slow and can take months to see results. This is where I was challenged and I need to be patient in order to continue the flow of my traffic and revenue for a long term basis. That's right folks, patience is a virtue. We need to trust what we're doing right now. Although it's time consuming and boring that almost made me give up on SEO, it's still worth. We are doing an online business, because all of the business starts from scratch and takes investing our time and money to reach our goal for the business is practically normal.
So I think we must continue on what we are doing, just like me. I have gain little improvements already, and I'm happy for it. Don't quit dude! We are now almost reaching the top of the mountain. Believe me guys, we can do it. If we quit now, we gain nothing.
14 Jan 2010 09:28 am
The battle between search engines and social media websites to dominate the most visited sector of Internet have started long back. The battle now seems to be more strong as Facebook have been the most visited website in US during three days in December. Facebook have overtaken search engine gaint Google and achieved this visitors stastics in US. Will this be a holiday trend or will this become a global trend ?. The days are Christmas day eve, Christmas day and New Years Eve. The information has been published on Hitwise US Twitter account. This trend of facebook trafficcould attract some US advertisers to facebook. The US visits to Twitter have increased 4% in December 2009 as compared to November 2009. This is a strong indication that Social Media websites are emerging as a competitor to Search Engine.
The top searched term in 2009 was "Facebook" as per Hitwise Information. This gives Facebook a competitive edge ahead of the other social media gaints to compete against the search engines. Facebook has moved 10 position as compared to previous year to gain the position of top searched word in 2009.
The growth of Facebook has made advertisers to think on moving their ads to Facebook as well. This will certainly make facebook to gain some dollars through the ad medium. Facebook offers lot of options for advertisers. Advertisers can target their audience based on age,sex as well as location. This will facebook a slight positive edge ahead of Google. Google is still the strongest search engine but they now have a strong competitor from the social media. Facebook can grow into a much powerful social media if they uses the strategy in the correct manner.Andy Atkins-Krüger CEO of WebCertain points out facts about facebook's chances of emerging as a real powerful social media website in the Global front in one of his latest post in Search Engine Land.
11 Jan 2010 08:27 am
Have you used Twitter recently? It is one of the fast rising social networks in the history of the internet, by creating lots of followers as friends and to market your business to your followers through mass messaging. There are now lots of Twitter softwares that can add you followers daily and also publishers and authors are writing their own Twitter method to make lots of money for the affiliates. But this is true guys. Twitter is really a big potential in the market today.
One of my friends suggested told me that we will start their own “Twitter”. So what shall we do in order to start our own “Twitter”? We’ll, as far as I understand, Twitter is considered itself as a microblog, but with an attitude. Microblogs are very easy to start with, because all you have to do is to send a message so that the world will see it, base on your niche. There is a basic way to start your own microblog, and you can do it by using WordPress.
They have a basic prologue theme which is a microblog type but in a simple design. It is not attractive, but a good practice for you. In order to be professional, we need to invest some money for the following:
- Domain name
- Web hosting
- Professional Twitter clone script
- Hire programmers
- Hire data entry people for SEO and content
I think it can be estimated up to $500 of investment, but I need a plan in order to come up with this business, and to do some serious SEO for our “Twitter” like site. There are lots of “Twitter” like sites already, but I just want this to become popular real soon, and anything can happen here which every investor or entrepreneur can make a difference, by being successful on their investment, especially on microblogs.
08 Jan 2010 10:53 am
If you can imagine on creating your website without the search engines in mind. But you already do that, right? You think that you don't name pages that are keyword rich and hyphenated to recognize what that page is about in various search engines of the internet today.
Writing articles on any topic which search engines reward a webmaster or a blogger like you for placing a site at the top of the SERPS, isn't that correct?
And we know that we're not gonna choose keywords based on what sources such as KeywordDiscovery and WordTracker tools, is that right? Can we see such patterns right here? But what is Visual Enhanced Optimization?
Unlike SEO, visitor enhanced optimization (VEO), is a different kind of method which you optimize your website through podcasts, videos, Javascripts and RSS Feeds. Image links, flash and framing are not recommended for VEO.
You need to focus on creating a site that is friendly in search engines like Google, which sometimes forgot that search engines may bring good traffic, and it's still a visitor who is consuming and reading your website's content, with the help of SEO.
It may seem very obvious to a marketer or a web designer, not all of us possess that level of focus are making changes to websites. Instead of creating original contents, we were given to the impact that content can be searched everywhere in the internet.
It can do content delivery through Podcasts, PDF's, RSS Feeds, Articles, videos and blogs, are all thought up and created with a strategic place in mind. Get your Podcast on iTunes, be sure to have your video on Youtube, and make certain that Technorati knows about your blogging tactics.
All the while it's the human reader who decides if your website is worth visiting, social bookmarking, meta tagging or coming back again to see what's new on social media.
If you are satisfied the simple needs of entertaining the reader, they will praise your effort either by linking to your site, or telling their friends about your site, or even better than anyone else. If it occurs on the web, social networking is still a key factor to make your website successful soon. Always build and maintain your site with the readers in mind, because a machine can't make you wealthy, it's the readers.
07 Jan 2010 04:23 am
There's so plenty of disadvantages related with net like junk emails but this is three method of promotion the products and services to mass number of people. People used to send spam emails to people accounts by the help of social networking and bookmarking. Bookmarking is a unique concept which comes after internet; bookmarking means that when a person saves a webpage as in favorites so this means book marking or tagging of the most important and interesting page.
Bookmarking is three of the best ways to save your favorites. Social bookmarking is a different concept than the bookmarking as it means that when people saves the net pages in a personal folder and the other users can also see those and then they share those book marks and can add them in their own lists then it is typically known as social bookmarking. Technology has made so plenty of changes in the world.Now every work is computerized no doubt that technology has reduced the cost of labor.One of the most famous advantages of technology is the net.
Net plays a vital role in offering convenient services to the people to their door steps. World Wide Web offers services from getting information to buying the product. Social bookmarks are some how a interesting way to attract increasingly customers towards your website; and this will help people to find more interesting sites to visit which three may not able to see without the help of social bookmarking. The voting process on the social bookmarking web-site can help in getting more importance for the web-site as more customers votes the web-site the more traffic should be assumed.
However, there's numerous advantages of technology and net but along with that there's millions of disadvantages as because of social bookmarking, people used to book mark their own web-sites and then with the help of social bookmarking get traffic of the users as these are the ways through which a quantity of the genuine web-sites cannot get as traffic as they ought to have.
02 Jan 2010 09:34 pm
Hello guys. Happy New Year to all! I am so happy that we are now in the new decade and it is a new beginning for us. A journey which I can start thinking to start my own business as an entrepreneur. We'll, me and my friends discussed with each other about planning a partnership business of our own. But we need to choose the best in the market today.
Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are fast growing sites ever, so that's what we are planning to. But they are too competitive in the market and in the SERPS right now. But still, the important thing for me and for my friends is the unique visitors everyday. We don't care if our site is not on the top 100 pages, but traffic is the basis.
Why? We have Google Adsense of course. We can attach our Google Adsense ads in our social media site, of course it's a social networking site like Facebook and MySpace. The reason we need traffic is to increase the revenue sharing of our Google Adsense ads. We already know that social media is a fast growing business, but there are still lots of alternatives out there like forums, microblog, classified ad site or eCommerce.
So it really depends on our investment to create our own social media business. We have to be smart enough to create our own business, as well as to entertain and attract visitors as well if you want to be a successful entrepreneur someday. It's really worth to learn and to take risk of creating your business, because the more you do it, the more you learn how business is created from scratch to finish.
