Facebook Have The Best Page Views In The World Of Social Networking Sites

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing For Beginners.

Having the best page views on the web is just one more reason why Facebook matter for your business!...

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There are many reasons why any online or offline business owner should apply Facebook marketing as part of there campaign for exposure, branding, authority, and more revenues.

As you already know Facebook is the number one site in the world passing even the monster Google. But, now market research studies show that not only if the most visited site in the world, it's also the social network with the most page views...

You will notice in the graph below that even the second most visited social network site is millions of views behind the big FB!

Oh, oh... I think we are going straight to some Internet marketing lessons we can learn from FB! When trying to develop a new business venture you need to apply some of this elements to make it jump right out of the crowd and get gain massive amount of targeted exposure:

1. Apply M.I.S.S. to your biz. This mean "make it simple stupid", easy to use and understand.
2. Make it interactive. What ever you sales process is make it fun to do.
3. Make sure is useful. Your product, service, or site needs to become a most have to solve a problem.
4. Add lots of value. Even if what you offer is free, needs to represent a big dollar amount in the mind of your audience.

Here is the graph that was first post on The Chris Voss Show Blog... Let me know what you think:

Are you ready to get on the wagon if you didn't jump on yet, if you already did you have a step ahead your low adapting competitors, and that is a great thing. Just make sure your do ethical web marketing and avoid any bad behaviors.

For more in detail training, check the Internet Entrepreneurs Club where you can ask and get the right answer to all your online marketing concerns!

Recommended Resources.

- The FB Formula: A Social Marketing Guide.
- The Step-By-Step Guide To Selling Online.
- FB For Affiliate Marketing.

Recommended Books.

- Facebook Marketing For Dummies.

- The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success.

What now? Is all about learning how to use each part of Facebook in your favor, ask yourself what you want to gain from your marketing, plan a promotion campaign to bring traffic or build a bigger community, then test, then tweak your promotion to increase conversions, and then test and repeat.

To your success,

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12 Web Marketing Things I Wish Would Just Go Away

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing For Beginners.

Sorry If You Are In The List Of Web Marketing Things I Would Like To Gone!...

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What about that title uh? I know that coming from an online marketer and business owner like can be a little bit odd to see me writing a blog post like this one. But, after constant interaction by unethical Internet marketing practices, and by new marketer trying to do promote their ventures with wrong methods because they don't know any better, I got fill with frustration. Because is just sad what sometimes happened in this industry.

Is time to make a change!... Don't you think?

1. Mike Filsaime MarketingDotCom Newsletter: Is just great when a marketer want you to paid for no more than 16 pages of information you can get for free on a blog. Just and case I was a customer for 3 month just to see if they improve it... Didn't happened!

2. Print Newsletters Prices: You have love it when a company sell you a subscription to a 20 or less pages' newsletter for a monthly rate of $30 or more, just because is in print. Come on, you can get a year subscription to Entrepreneur Magazine for half of the price of a month rate and get over 100 pages of full quality information.

3. Free poor quality ebooks or report: Not because is free you are going to provide me something you wrote after drinking a 24 pack with your joint venture partner. Keep the junk for yourself!...

4. Tweets to a sale page: Hey people don't mind if you send them to a landing page where they can get some quality relevant report for free. But we just hate it when you trying to sell us, instead you need to connect we us.

5. Don't ask me to send a tweet mention for you: This is social media, the age of permission and authority. You want me to (FOLLOW) mention you on Twitter, you need to interact and show if you are worth my effort. But, please stop asking...

6. Did you see my profile link: I don't even know you yet and you asking if I saw your profile link to your site. Who cares!... Let's talk, let's share, let's connect, and maybe then I will check you link!...

7. Facebook Inbox Fillers: Just we are Facebook friends, but that doesn't mean you can use the message system as your own autoresponder. I aproved your friend request to connect with you, and to get to know you, not for you to spam me every single day with crap I don't want!

8. Mike Filsaime Instant Affiliate Sites: What!!!!... You mean I have to pay you in order to get a web site that promotes your own products? Where the world is coming to, I don't paid Amazon.com and they give me better promotion tools and a custom store. Sorry Mr. Mike but you need to stop smoking whatever it is that you smoke!...

9. Other marketers opinion as testimonials: Sorry but i don't think joint venture partners opinion should be use as testimonials. Do you think this is unethical?

10. Paid marketing tools: OK, this is a biggy, because there are some marketers trying to sell you a tool which is just an App that connects and get the results from a web service that is already available to you for free.

11. Scammers that kill opportunities: When you are in the Internet marketing industry your conversion suffers, just because some idiot scam some poor entrepreneurs that were looking for a solution to their business problem.

12. Hackers that love to hijack your social accounts: Come on... Are these people two years old or something....

Please if you think I forgat something that should be listed here, please share it with us by using the comment field at the top of this post. Also read:

- 20 Bad Twitter Marketing Strategies To Avoid.

To learn how to really market online, get one-on-one business couching at the IE Club. It doesn't matter what you need help on you will marketing specialist with the right answer for you!

Recommended Resources.

- Internet Business Start Up Handbook.

Just in case, you need to know that not all the print newsletters are a waste of money, or that all marketers products are poor. I just want you to be careful with those that don't offer real value for your money. And yes, even Mr. Filsaime have some good products that I fully recommend, like his 7 Figures Secrest Report, which has some good information. Same thing goes to web tools, there are many great tools you should have as part of your arsenal like Keyword Elite for research, CPA promotions, and more.

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14 Free Internet Marketing Tips You Can Use Today

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing For Beginners.

New Social Media and Web 2.0 Innovative Tools Open Even More Free Ways To Marketing Your Online Business, You Just Need To Be Creative!

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Yes my dear net entrepreneur, free Internet marketing works if you plan well, and make your promotions unique and targeted. I know that when you are a beginner in this world of online selling, many things can stop you from using paid advertising and costly strategies, some of this reasons can be the lack of investment budget and the other is the fear risk without knowing exactly how to make it work!...

Right now I want to give you some quick and easy ways to promote your business website or blog using only free methods that can increase your social following, web authority, eventually increase your traffic, and of course boost your income...

You need to remember that the strategies I'm going to share with you right know will not work as well if you use them as a one night stand, or if you over use them. You need to find the balance of what can work for you and how much do you want to benefit from it. Yes my friends, you can use them for affiliate marketing too.

Let's Get Some FREE Marketing Exposure Today!

This strategies are easy and free to apply, but it does require a good amount of time to put it to work, just like anything online or offline. OK, too much said, here are the strategies:

Facebook Tips.

1. Find and join at least 10 groups related to your niche, market or business interest.

2. Don't just join the groups, you need to participate. Share tips, ask questions, etc..

3. Post 2 to 4 different tips or ideas related to one of your articles on your wall, then post them with a link to the article. Post each update in different times...

Twitter Tips.

4. Retweet something useful you can find from at least 20 of your new followers, this will help you boost your relationship with them.

5. Tweet a #Follow mention to your top friends and followers two times today!...

6. Tweet 5 special #Follow mentions for five of the Twitter authorities that are following you.

7. Make your last tweets be a post or article from your site and the second one a nice inspirational quote.

8. Tweet articles or blog post from other that are linking to your site or to your articles. Yes, promote the promoters!...

Blogging and Social Media Tips.

9. Finding blog post ideas can be frustrating, why not making a post about one of your Twitter or Facebook friends.

10. Interview one of your top connections and post the interview on your blog or site.

11. Post a useful video made by one of your social media connections. Then share then on Facebook and Twitter with a mention to their profile.

12. Just like tweeting your promoters, you can use social bookmarking and news sites to bookmark those articles. Start with Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, and Newsvine.


Content Distribution.

13. Don't forget to ping your blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin profiles or pages after a day of updates.

14. Write two unique articles promoting your best blog posts, then post one on EzineArticles and the other to GoArticles. Do this everyday for a different post.

Get one-on-one business couching at the IE Club. It doesn't matter what you need help on you will marketing specialist with the right answer for you!

Recommended Resources.

- Internet Business Start Up Handbook.

Please remember that not everything is written on a rock, you can adjust every marketing strategy to achieve your goals, just don't forget to test, test, test, then track, tune, and test again.

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Avoid IWantFollowers.com Or Get Your Twitter Account Suspended Plus 40 Legit Tools

By Luis Galarza - Free Internet Marketing.

So, Why Avoid Twitter Follower Generator IWantFollowers.com? Simple because it will upset your current friends, and might get your account suspended or in jail like we tweeple like to call it!...




We all love free Internet marketing tools and services, that's why I created this blog to share with you the best resources and tips you can get to start or promote an online small business. But, in the world of the free, some marketers will try to make you paid for their giveaways in unethical ways... One of those services is IWantFollowers!

If you are in any of the groups below you need to hold your horses and please keep reading:

- Are looking to increase the number of Twitter follower or friends?

- Are you looking for some kind of free social media marketing service or tool to help you?

- Have you heard of the "I Want Followers" free service?

- Are you a current user?

- Are you thinking to apply in the near future?



I Completely recommend you to stay away from this service and any other services that uses the Twitter API to send "SPAM" tweets through your account. I understand if you have to send a RT (ReTweet) mentioning the service you just sign up for at the moment of creating a new member file. But, IWantFollowers think that isn't enough marketing exposure for their tool, so they send automatic tweets to every free member about 2 times per day, making tweeps (People using the social network) upsetting their followers and friends. Because the tweet looks like you send it!

So, they make you look like you are the spammer!

If you know me for quite sometime, you might know that I don't recommend anybody to use unethical or illegal marketing methods, is just wrong! And when it comes to social media the best approach is what I call a "Social Marketing Interaction." To know what I recommend my clients to avoid when it comes to social media campaigns, please read my post titled "20 Bad Twitter Marketing Strategies To Avoid" for more information about the wrong ways to use this social network.


Here is what a Twitter that hates this type of non-permission advertising @ON_DEMAND_TECH (Alicia L. Harris) have to said about those unwanted automatic messages:

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Just in case you can read what the image said, here it is: "I just opted out of IWantFollowers.com to stop the obnoxious automatic tweets on my account. Sorry for the bother friends"

As you can see, people don't like this type of promotion... Looks like whoever is the main owner of the site don't know nothing about social media. They should pay Seth Goldin for a consultation or by his book where he explain the birth of "Permission Marketing". Don't you think?

There are other free services that don't use automated SPAM messages generators that you can use to help you find new friends or future business contacts that have same interests. Don't worry I put a list of useful sites to find new followers without the SPAM or any unethical promotion practices right at the end of this post.


Here is what @RATN_110 another user of this so call free web 2.0 application have to said:

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Test Got My Account In Twitter Jail For A Week!

I'm always testing new strategies, tools, and services to see if it work as they said they do, so I can share my findings with my readers. But, this time I made an error... Well, the thing is that I have only one Twitter account, and I didn't open a new account to be use as case study. I know, big mistake...

So, I sign up with follower generator in question, everything look OK, they send a tweet promoting the service, and I thought that was OK, almost every other application does the same thing as a tweet or re-tweet. Then, the day after I saw 2 more tweets promoting the application without my consent, so I erase both messages, and just waited while I was doing my daily posting. Then the next morning I saw 2 more of those stupids ads, then my safety bell started ringing, but I decided to wait till next day... What a big mistake was that!

The next day I try to log-in into my account, and I was send to a page that said:

"Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity"

You can see a screen shot of the page, the page that it supose to be my profile page, now is just a embarrasing suspension notice, at least for the next 7 days :-( ...



Apparently, the site was doing some administration work and tech person made the application send a bunch of automatic tweets by using the free and VIP accounts, which soon was notice by the Twitter spam police and they quickly stop the problem by suspending over 1500 member profiles. The profiles will stay there for week, and my profile was also included in the mix.

Here is what their blog had to said:

"Account suspensions? Lost followers?

Yesterday, the technical support for the affiliate system our site uses was making some changes to optimize the program for the high traffic we’ve been seeing recently. One of the technicians was editing one of the automatic process sequences, and mistakenly reset the wrong process cycle.

Our system sends autotweets to our free users once or twice a day. This false reset affected the autotweet cycle, changing it to run eight times a day. Twitter detected the abundance of updates and automatically identified it as spam – the result? Twitter distributed 7 day suspensions to each account sending the tweets. Approximately 1500 to 2000 accounts were suspended for seven days.

Those of you who received suspensions should not worry, they are only temporary. We are trying to contact the Twitter dev team to appeal the mass suspensions and we will have them lifted as soon as possible. The suspended accounts would explain the loss of followers – those who lost a drastic amount of followers will see them return within the next seven days.

All affected VIPs will be given a complementary 3 day VIP pass in light of the event. Once again, we apologize on behalf of that silly technician, and we hope to see you again in the future!

Enjoy your week, Brandon"

Just and case here is a picture with the message on their blog:



How they think that simple apology will fix anything. I'm loosing around 70 new follower per day while in "Jail", plus that's not counting the amount of unfollow's I'm already getting right now! Lucky I'm not one of the VIP or paid members, because that will make thing worst... Well, I hope everything goes to normal soon.

I want to apologize for the unwanted automated promotions that they sent through my profile. I should it check the service a little more, I hope the friend that was using it, already opted out to avoid problems.



The Good List Of Tools.

Here are some great tools you can use to manage, and find follower. (Disclaimer: We are not responsible for any claim made by any of the following services, they made the list just because may top sites give a good recommendation.):

Follow and Unfollow

• Flashtweet - Bulk follow/unfollow tool.
  
• Twittangle - Untangling the mess of too many friends.
• Refollow - Refollow helps you discover, manage, and protect your social circle.
• TwitsLikeMe - Find new friends.
• Doesfollow - Find out who follows whom.
• Twitroduce – Connect.
  
• MyCleenr - The best way to clean your contact list.
• TweeterGetter - Get new followers.
• TwitterLamp - The SMART Way To Follow People.
• TweetSum - Follow and unfollow people via drag and drop.
• TwitterForBusyPeople - Friends at a glance.
• Twitter Karma – Find out who is following and unfollowing you.
• TweepMe - Get followers.
• Twitterless - Get updates when someone stops following you.
• Twiping - Contact management software.
• Qwitter - Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you.
• TwitterRatio - Follower/friend ratio.
• FriendOrFollow - Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back?
• Twitseeker - Who you are looking for by what they are talking about.
• TweepDiff - Find out who you are missing.
• Twollo - Auto-follow.
• Twittermass - Management and optimization services.
• Twitnest - Visualization of your followers and theirs.
• Twitter100 - With Twitter100, you can see your followers at a glance (up to 100).
• Tweepler - To follow or not follow that is the question.
• Who follows whom - The quickest way to see who several users have in common.
• Buzzom - Social profile management.
• Hummingbird - The Pro Tool for Twitter Marketing at $200.
• Twubble - Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble.
• WhoshouldIfollow - Find new friends.
• Tweepi - A geekier, faster way to manage your profile.
  
• TwitterSnooze - Hit the snooze button on your “verbose” friends.
• iFollowBack - Follow back people.
• Twitterator - Follow a bunch of people in one go.
• Twtrfrnd - Discover your common shared friends.
• Mutuality - Allows you to make bulk operations with your account.
• TweetPenguin - find new followers with similar interests.
• Less Friends – Do the people you follow, follow you?
• TweetEffect - When did you lose or gain followers?
• WhoTheTweet - Fins out what someone is tweeting about.
• Twollow - Auto follow people.
• Tweepular - Manage your followers.
• TwerpScan - Checks the number of followers on your contact list, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between those.
• MyTweeple - Manage your Friends and Followers.
• MyTwitterButler - Automatically follows users based on “keywords”.
• Twitoria - How many friends are you are following?
• ExecTweets - Find and follow top business execs.
• TwitHive - Monitor and Interact with the Twitter Hive Mind.
• Foller.me – Before you follow..
• FollowLists - Create and share lists of your friends.
• FriendMePlease - The easiest way to make new friends.
• UnTweeps - Unfollow tweeps who have not posted tweets recently.
• Sherflock - Find and track your flock.

#followfriday

• #followfriday statistics – Lists the most popular tweeps on #followfriday.
• TopFollowFriday - See who endorses you and who endorses whom.
• NewFollowFriday - Get to know your followers better.
• TweeHits - FollowFriday based hitlist.

Maps and Location

• Twittearth - Live twitts all over the world.
• Twittervision - See where users tweet in realtime.
• mmmeeja - Plot Your Followers On A Map.
• TwitArea - Sharing places.
• TweetMapper - Where your tweets are.
• geoTwitterous - Shows where someone is Twittering from.
• GeoChirp - Google maps mashup.
• Happn.in – Happn.in shows you what people are twittering about in your city.
• geoTwitter - Google Maps and Twitter mashup.
• Tweetmondo - Find users near you.
• TwitterLocal - Find tweets based on location.
• Nearby Tweets – Instantly find Twitterers nearby.
• TwitterMap - Shows tweets on the map.
• TwtMaps - Get a map that shows all your friends locations.
• Tmeet.me – Where do you want to meet?
• Atlas - See tweets from around the world.
• ChirpCity - Local stuff.
• LocalTweeps - Help localize the Twittersphere.
• Stweet - Integrate with Google Maps.
• Geo.ly – Share your maps with short URLs.
• Twuzzer - Find out what’s being twittered in your neck of the woods.
• Twaller - Discover what travelers are tweeting about.
• Tweeple of India - Tweeple of India.
• MyTweetMap - Shows where someone is Twittering from.
• SadakMap - Messages on a map.
• Boarding - Find stranded passengers.

Popularity and Rank

• Toptweet – The world’s top personalities, all in one place.
• Twitrankme - Profile rank.
• DailyRT - The most popular tweets on the web.
• Twitturls - Popular links.
• TwitterScore - How does your profile score.
• Twispot - Hottest tweets in one spot.
• Chirpio - A place to rate & follow users.
• Twinfluence - Influence Analyzer.
• Tweeting too Hard – Where self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.
• Twtpets - Who has the cutest pet.
• Tweeple Rank – Ranking the top recommended people.
• Twielsen - TV ratings based on social media chatter.
• HereBeforeYou - Were you here before your friends.
• TrazzlerBuzz - Tracking popular places.
  
• Twittypop - Who is the hottest boy or girl?
• Twitemperature - How hot are you.
• Tweeght - Popular thoughts and quotes shared.
• Tweeterate - Rate the tweets you get from your friends.
• Twitrank - Is a list of the top 150 users.
• Twitalyzer - Tracking influence and measuring success.
• Twitterholic - Find out who the top users are.
• Popular Tweets – A compilation of the top 10 tweets.
• TwitterLinkr - Popular links people are tweeting.
• Twittergrader - Measure the power and authority of your profile.
• Top Twitter Friends – Who do you talk to most often.
• Tweettop - Who to follow.
• Tweetrank - Ranking.
• Twigheaded - Find out how big headed someone is.
• MrTweet - Your personal networking assistant.
• TweetoftheYear - Tweet of the Year.

Retweet

• Retweetist - Discovering trends, popular topics and popular people by tracking Retweets across the network.
  
• Retweetit - Retweet Exchange.
• ReTwitd - Retweets.
• TweetMyLink - Tweeted links.
• Retweetrank - Find any user re-tweetrank.
• Plzrt - Please retweet me.
• Please Retweet Me – Please retweet me.
• Retweetradar - Finding trends in the mountains of information ‘retweet’ed.
• ReTweetability Index – The ReTweetability Index measures and ranks users based on the infectious power of their tweets.

Spam

• Tweetblocker - Cleaning up the twitterverse.
• TwitChuck - Taking spam.

Groups

• Tweetizen - Filter tweets and create groups.
• Twitly - You can seperate the people you follow into groups.
• ConnectTweet - ConnectTweet allows the contributors to your central stream.
• GroupTweet - Group message broadcasting.
• TwitBot - Allows multiple people to publish to a single account.
• Crowdstatus - Create your own crowds.
• TweetKnot - Tying people togetherTying people together.
• Social - For events and groups.
• Twitter Groups – Groups.
• Twibes - Groups.
• ThinkClimbing - Find and connect with Climbers.
• Tweetworks - With groups and discussions, TweetWorks helps you get the most out of this social network.
  
• Tweetparty - Group messaging.

This is is just a short part of "The Ultimate List Of Twitter Tools" post, so visit the post to get a complete list of aapplications put together by The Social Media Guide Blog.

To get unlimited advice about "Ethical Twitter and Social Media Marketing" visit the IE Club. I should had listening to my friends at the Internet Entrepreneurs Club.. LOL!...

Recommended Resources.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Search Marketing Lab.

Hopefully my account will be up and running good tweets and conversations in a short time, till then you can find me on Facebook or just leave me a quick comment on this blog and I will get back to you as soon as possible, thank to all my friend and tweends for your support.

To your success,

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Social Media 2009 Trends & Top Search Keywords

By Luis Galarza - Niche Marketing.

Social Media Is A Very HOT Trend That Can Help You Monetize The Internet... Here Are Some Niche Marketing Tips And A Free List Of Top Search Keywords To Get You Started!...



When I said that you can monetize social media, I'm not talking about using new age marketing strategies to promote your Internet business or blog! What I mean was that you can make money online by becoming the next big thing or by publishing niche related content that targets a specific market or trend inside this new huge phenomenon that is call "Social Media".

With the evolution of the Internet and the birth of Web 2.0 a lot happened. First people notice how easy was to generate their own content, to find information, to find new global friends, to create their own fan base, and how easy was for a regular person to start competing in the same level of massive content websites. In short you found the social media marketing power of "YOU".

Newspapers, magazines, and TV all over the world started giving you credit for your constant contribution to the web, and this is called sociology and technology evolution!... This cool new medium have become so popular that now has its own industry, which make it a big mine of golden opportunities for those entrepreneurs that love to take strategic business action steps.



What Do People Love?

Some of the hot niches that you can find through this new medium are base on a service or network that's very popular or can become very popular, and have a big potential to generate a good stream of income for a third person, in this case that third person is you.

So, when you see a new Web 2.0 tool or community network that is trending, do a little keyword and paid search research to see if there is a chance to build a new small business venture from it.

Some of the ways to get a new 2009 start-up or to make money from a hot web 2.0 trend with content or by creating API base tools are:

- Web Applications.
- Mobile Applications.
- API Base directories.


You can also make money blogging:

- Niche blogs.
- Niche social networks.
- Web Apps review blogs.
- Mobile Apps review blogs.
- Niche news blogs.


Now to monetize any of those Internet business ideas you can:

1. Sell sponsor or advertising spots.
   
2. Use affiliate marketing strategies.
3. Promote legit MLM or Network Marketing businesses.
   
4. Put Google Adsense ads.
5. Sell your own products.
6. Promote JV partner relevant products.
7. Use them to generate traffic to your sites.
8. Use it as branding viral marketing tools.
   

OK, so what are those popular services or tools full of top search keywords that have everyone talking about, from the news, to TV, to even my grandma' :-) ... Here are the ones you need to keep your eye on this 2009:

• Twitter.
• Facebook.
• Myspace.
• FriendFeed.
• Bebo.
• iPhone Apps.
• Mobile Social Networks.
• And Google Wave (The new hot).

Top Search Keywords and Topics!

Here is the list of the best key-phrases that web surfers are using to find what they a want to know about this new medium.

NOTE: To avoid repeating some words too many times I decide to replace them with quick abbreviations. SM = Social Media, S = Social and M = Marketing.


Search Count - Keyword.

198 SM.
42 SM M.
29 SM online.
16 what is SM.
14 SM pdf.
13 SM terminology.
9 using SM to promote my business.
7 kraft food and SM.
7 SM analytics.
7 SM and communications planning.
7 SM tools for M.
6 SM spending.
5 david ligon SM.
5 government agenies that use SM.
5 media as a S institution.
5 SM and financial decisions.
5 SM tools.
5 southwest airline SM.
5 starbucks my starbucks idea SM campaign.
4 crisis communications SM.
4 government agencies who use SM.
4 how to use SM.
4 iran election SM theory blogs.
4 SM club.
4 SM for small business.
4 SM gallery.
4 SM guidelines.
4 SM icons.
4 SM M plan.
4 SM news.
4 SM policy.
4 SM rewards programs.
4 SM strategies.
4 SM tools for pr.
4 top SM sites.
4 wachovia SM.
3 corporate SM policy.
3 crisis communications tips SM.
3 fear of SM.
3 intelligence community use of SM.
3 lon safko the SM bible speaker.
3 new media S relation.
3 newspapers and SM.
3 online ommunication and SM as a tool.
3 optimizing SM.
3 SM and toolkit.
3 SM companies.
3 SM customer care.
3 SM expert kevin.
3 SM for chefs.
3 SM health care conferences.
3 SM nonprofit.
3 SM organizer.
3 SM ottawa job.
3 SM plans unme jeans.
3 SM pr.
3 SM services.
3 SM strategy and military.
3 SM vocabulary.
2 10 commandments of SM success - charles heflin.
2 center for SM - remix culture.
2 company SM policy.
2 effects of mass media to the S status.
2 facebook pages SM.
2 glencoe media center S studies.
2 how can colleages use SM.
2 M proposal online internet SM.
2 martial arts SM sites.
2 media ecology online dating S networks technology.
2 pro S effect of the media to the society.
2 professional SM networking.
2 promoting on SM.
2 sample SM M plan.
2 SM + pittsburgh.
2 SM agencies.
2 SM and the national security professional.
2 SM buttons.
2 SM campaign president 2008 statistics.
2 SM club austin.
2 SM corporate policies.
2 SM facts.
2 SM healthcare.
2 SM implementations in long term care.
2 SM jargon.
2 SM louisville ky.
2 SM manager.
2 SM M califorina firm.
2 SM M plan template sample.
2 SM M proposal.
2 SM network effects politics.
2 SM problems.
2 SM resume benefit, need.
2 SM search engine.
2 SM serach engine.
2 SM survey by age.
2 SM tips.
2 SM trusted relationships.
2 S theory affects media.
2 united way SM.
2 united way SM M plan.

You can use this list to help you brainstorm new content for your blog or to find markets for a new venture.

To get unlimited advice about "social media for your business" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Social Influence For Dummies.
- Blogging To The Bank 3.0.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.
- Search Marketing Lab.

TIP: Don't forget to research each topic before thinking is a good phrase to optimize for I recommend you to use SEO Elite for SEO research and PPC Web Spy for pay-per-click advertising.

To your success,

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Social Media Is The Marketing Power of YOU

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing.

A Beginners Guide To Social Media Marketing And The Effects Of The Power Of "YOU"!...

Picture by: Gary Koelling.

Before we get into how to use social media marketing, first of all you need to understand that of the heck is social media and why is becoming so important for any size business, online or offline to get involve in it. Web 2.0 which is the technology behind social media is more than just a fancy code word or lingo from the Internet, was the beginning to a new era of personal interaction, business transparency, and permission marketing, plus:

• Information distribution.
• Communication.
• Content interaction.
• Content creation.
• New Internet marketing strategies.
  
• Brand marketing.
• Buzz or viral marketing.
• Market authority.
• Credibility building.
• Team collaboration.
• Online reputation management.
• Journalism.
• Online content sharing.
• New laws of social ethics.
• New spam movements.
• New SEO strategies.
• New traffic generation tactics.
• Clever web innovations.
• And new money making markets and trends.
  

Please if I forgot any other benefit of social media please share it with us through the comment link above or bellow this post.



In Plain English.

This new communication medium is not other thing than the new way to create online content with easy to use publishing tools. This new Internet technology put the power of content on people "YOU", by helping you distribute, share, find new information that would it be hard or maybe impossible to discover without it.

In this new Internet you aren't just a reader anymore, you became an instant publisher...

Now social media marketing is the effective way of using web 2.0 tools to interact with potential customers and with net authorities that can help you spread the word about your company or product.

Here is a great video I found on YouTube that can help you understand this in plain English:



Hope this video gave you a clear "in plain English" explanation about how this new net evolution works.



The Power Tools.

One of the thing that make this sociology + technology era so useful and popular are the tools available to you, that can help you find, create, distribute, and share information in a very easy fashionable way. Some of those tools are:

1. Blogs services like Blogger or Wordpress.
   
2. Micro-blogging like Twitter.
   
3. Podcasting like BlogTalkRadio & Talkshoe.
   
4. Video sharing sites like YouTube and Revver.
5. Picture sharing sites like Flickr and Twitpic.
   
6. Social networks like Myspace or Facebook.
   
7. Social bookmarking like Digg or StumbleUpon.
   
8. Question and answer sites like Yahoo Answers.
   
9. Social commenting sites like Blerp.
10. Custom Social networks like Ning.
11. Content sites like Squidoo or Google Knol.
12. Content syndication technology like RSS and Atoms.
    
13. And much, much more...
    

There are tools that help you collaborate on a project, others let you share files and documents publicly or with a team. Also you can find tools that are targeted to professional and business use like Linkedin and PartnerUp.

Marketing That Works.

So, how can you make this new medium of communication work for your business? Is there a secret sauce for success? You may already heard many different marketers talking about the power of this medium, and how it can be use to make money online and send a lot of targeted web traffic to your blog or site. But...

The Fact is: "Traffic that comes from web 2.0 sites don't convert good. If you really want to make money online you need to focus on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or SEM (Search Engine Marketing), which refers to PPC or pay-per-click advertising."

Now this doesn't mean that you need to stay away from using this new medium to generate quality leads for your business or product. You can easily use it to:


- Increase branding exposure.

- Generate extra traffic of pre-qualify prospects.

- Generate branding buzz.

- Build new business contacts.

- Connect with potential joint venture partners.

- Connect with potential link partners.

- Also you can have community authorities to recommend you to there audience.



This new medium can be really effective as soon you use the right strategies, which need to be focus on a specific goal. So, before jumping in and start creating a profile on every community network you can find, you need to have the answer for each of the next 2 questions.

1. What's your goal from the use of social media? Which is, what you really want to achieve from it. Then...

2. What strategies are you going to use to get to those goals?


After you answer those to questions, the next step is to write down a strategic marketing plan for each goal, this way your efforts will be focus on action steps that eventually will taking to your final goal. For example: If you want to use social bookmarking sites to gain exposure and one way back links to your site so you can increase your search ranking then you need to plan how you are going to bookmark your content, what type of sites are you going to share, which content will be better to bookmark and how many links per day are your going to share. All this and more needs to be in your action plan. Here are some bookmarking tips you can use right now.

To get unlimited advice about "Web 2.0 and social media for small business" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Social Influence For Dummies.
- Blogging To The Bank.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

TIP: Implement the sites that you already know how to use first, then make a schedule of how many time per day, week, and month are you going to use them. Another thing I recommend beginners is to use automation tools that can make your job easier, if you don't know where to find them I will give you a complete list of tools by the end of this week.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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David King Marketing Lessons

By Luis Galarza - Online Business Tips.

What Can You Learn From My Twitter Friend David King? It is Just About Marketing? The Answer Is NO!...

Today I want to introduce you to one of my best online friends and business colleague Mr. David King from DavidBeKing.com a web site and blog dedicated to educate beginners or newbies about different important areas of business and Internet marketing.

David is a very friendly guy and as marketer he love to help others understand how to really build a strong business online or offline. His mind is set to become a successful marketer and putting his "David King" brand in the spot light... Now I don't want you to mistake him as another guru or master! He's someone that has learned everything he knows by taking training courses, applying what he learn, make mistakes, and eventually he learned what works best for his ventures.

He's a true friend, very smart, funny, and really knows the meaning of social media. Plus, he have some great tweets to share, I recommend you to follow him on Twitter on @DavidBeKing you will not regret it!

Here is a little video that he use to welcome his site visitors:



As you can see he is a really cool down to earth guy!




Where are the lessons?

One thing you should about David is that he really knows what he preach, he had tried many different strategies and picked a lot of 'Street Smart" marketing lessons from his successes and failures.

Some of the things you can learn from him and his blog are:

• Business procedures.
• Marketing strategies.
• Money management.
• Leadership.
• Social media marketing.
• Online selling.
• And much more...
  

But...

For me there is more, way more... Just by following his way he promotes his company you pick a lot of valuable lessons that can help Internet marketing beginners and advance entrepreneurs to better expose their company unique selling proposition to a targeted audience.

Here are some of the lessons David also have to share with others:

1. How to build social authority.
2. Web 2.o branding techniques.
3. The marketing power of friendship.
4. Business organization and Focus.
5. And the truth behind good Twitter marketing.
   

Yes, you can get this education just by following him, and keeping track of what he has to say!



Want Proof!

Well, here is a video where he shares some good information about focusing in the best part of your online business:



Hope you enjoy his teaching, as you can see he has a lot of knowledge about the Internet marketing industry that you can learn and apply on your venture and get positive results.

To get unlimited advice "and marketing lessons" visit the IE Club.

Recommended Resources.

- Bebiz: Niche Business Builder.

- Insider Secrets To Marketing Your Business Online.

One more thing you need to know is that Mr. King provides consulting services for new entrepreneurs and small business owners that you can use to have him get a closer look at your company or idea and give you the information you need to start on the right path or grow your current revenue, so hurry to his site at DavidBeKing.com to learn more about establishing a profitable online venture.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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20 Bad Twitter Marketing Strategies to Avoid

So, You Want To Use Twitter As A Marketing Tool. Good, You Should, But Avoid These Bad Strategies!


Almost everyone know that social media has a huge Internet marketing potential, from beginners to advanced online marketers. The web 2.0 trend is so big that has become a whole industry all by itself... And my friend Twitter is one of the top social network sites available, and is a hot trend year.

This web 2.0 tool is completely free just like most social sites out there, and for that reason they attract million of members every week, and that's why marketer and online users and the bad spammers know that they can use it to engage with a lot of people in a short period of time. Specially in Twittervers, where the interaction is a little bit faster than other community sites.


The problem...

The problem is not the service, the problem are spammers, beginners that spam because they don't know better, and also getting advice from the wrong people.


Strategies To Avoid.

Here I collected 20 of the worst marketing tactics and tips I seen marketers use on Twitter. Please if I miss any don't hesitate to share it with us by clicking the "Comment button" located at the top and bottom of this article:
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October 2008 Social Media Strategies Conference, Internet Marketing Events

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

Meet Me At The Social Media Strategies Conference This October 28-30th 2008 To Get Up To Date With The Latest Social Marketing Tactics and Web 2.0 Tricks For Businesses Of All Sizes!



As you know the best way to learn about web 2.0 and online community marketing marketing new technology improvements and promotion strategies is by going to top industry seminars or conferences, and this month you get the opportunity to be of the Social Media Strategies Conference.

This October Halloween is not the only main event you should be planning for, Internet marketing events are a great way to be ahead of the road to success. This social marketing conference is design for marketing officers, social media promotion managers, online community portals, advertising agencies, marketing managers, consultants, corporates, PR, and also to any online marketer trying to promote the followings:

• Email Newsletter.
• Free Viral eBooks.
• Information Products.
• Niche Blogs.
• Niche Content Sites.
• Membership Sites.
• Online Applications.
• Services.
• PLR or MMR Products.
• Seminars.
• Teleseminars.
• Webcasts.
• Shopping Sites.
• Squidoo Lenses.
• Hubpages.
• Google Knol Pages.
• Network Marketing Sites.
• Downline Builders.
• Etc...

What Can You Learn At The Conference?

The Internet marketing event will be showing new and improve strategies about how to use this new medium to expand your Internet business reach and to grow your company customer base.

You will get access to tested techniques using many of the web 2.0 tools and sites available right now like: Wikis, podcast, social networks, online video, blogs, RSS or Atoms, online communities, community bookmarking, micro-blogging (Twitter), and content management systems like Zimbio. You can use this technology to:

1. - Increase brand exposure and reach.

2. - Obtain vital information from customers and prospects.

3. - Market your products or services to a targeted audience.

4. - Build trust and credibility by participating on online communities.

5. - Boost your current web traffic and gain more hot prospects.

6. - Leverage consumer information for new product innovations.

7. - Build a popular and trusted online authority.

Are You Ready For This New Marketing?

You better be, web 2.0 and social media marketing is the now and tomorrow of Internet promotions and message communication and you need to learn how to leverage the power of this new "on evolution" technology if you want to create a strong web brand, authority, and long term business. Off course that if your focus in on making money online and does it you should be learning all about search marketing which include search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click advertising (PPC) like Google Adwords. But, if you really want to build a long term online business you should be leveraging online communities to create brand awareness and build a huge community of followers and viral influencer's.

I know there is a lot to learn but attending to marketing events like the Social Media Strategies Conference will help you learn just what work best or have the best web conversion rates, specially if you can save some money with the help of Mashable, which are providing a $200 discount code when you register online at www.socialmediameme.com, just enter the discount code rec2008 to get your savings.



Why Attending?

Well, you wouldn't want to miss hands-on workshops, advice from top social media experts and companies, discussion panels, interactive seminars, and more on a cutting-edge conference space, don't you?

To get unlimited advice about the evolution of new marketing visit the IE Club.


Recommended Resources.

- Bookmarking Demon.
- Atomic Blogging.
- #1 Internet Marketing Training Course.
- Search Marketing Lab.
- Web Traffic Machines.


In Conclusion: Well, I see you in the conference. Just remember to learn as much as you can about this new medium, the best way to do it is make a marketing plan base on online community campaign and then list the services, tools, or technology like social bookmarking or new sites that you want to use in your promotions and then get some time to learn how to use each of those tools the right way.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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Yahoo Buzz Sucks

By Luis Galarza - Internet Marketing Tips.

Bye, Bye To Yahoo Sucks, I Mean Yahoo Buzz! Yeah The New Social News Rating Site Have Big Problems...

If you got Yahoo Buzz working on your site the right way, you are one of the few lucky ones, or maybe you are one of the few sites invited for the closed doors beta testing. Well, the service is now open to the public, and Yahoo say that publishers can submit their stories or articles to let their users vote for it just like StumbleUpon.

At first the sign up process sounds very easy, if you already have a Yahoo account you can use it to sign-up for their "Buzz" social news bookmarking service, another thing that makes people go for it right away is that Yahoo Buzz community has a lot of very nice people, which is way better from what Digg offers, where the community is just an online social news portal full of geeks, nerds, and want a be's, that only concern is tech stuff.


The Code.

Yes, you can just copy and paste the code on your website or blog... But, they forgot to tell you that even the easy code needs customization. Now, if you really want to customize the code, so it will work automatically with your article pages, you can by following the instruction. Then, the only thing you need to do is to submit your content to Yahoo Buzz or way until someone does it for you. Yes, one simple click and done, or least that's their promise!


The Hook.

Come on, did you think Yahoo will invest money to build a powerful social bookmarking site without a hook? They know that for the service to have the viral marketing effect it needs to be a strong one, which in the case of the search giant, by just promising that your site will be on their Buzz service is enough, knowing the amount of traffic they receive everyday. But, they wanted to make it irresistible, so they come out with an even better deal. If your story or article get popular enough by getting a lot of buzzed up from users, your article can be feature on the Yahoo homepage, how crazy that can be, eh! What a hook!

Excellent social media marketing tool, because of the web traffic power that can deliver to your site is huge, maybe will not give you SEO help but the traffic that you can get from the site along is more than enough.


So, Why Yahoo Buzz Sucks?

The answer is simple, because none of those thing can work if your content can't get Buzzed! The buttons don't work, their story submission form don't work, which make all those promises a bunch of crap.

You can expect to use a web 2.0 or social media marketing tool if it doesn't work... Come on guys, let's put some smart people work on it and fix this social news site that has the potential to be way more popular than Digg and StumbleUpon.


To learn how you can be part of an online association full with social marketing experts and web business advisers by visiting the Internet Entrepreneurs Club.


In Conclusion: Don't take my advice and just don't try it, You should try it, you may get lucky or you maybe better than me at HTML and XML, and you can make the site work for you. Remember that innovative thinking needs to be part of your online business plan, and Buzz can really give you web 2.0 marketing efforts a boost.

To your success,

Luis Galarza, Internet Marketing Consultant In Massachusetts.

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