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How Important are Social Bookmarking sites in Content Syndication for Social Media Marketing?

| June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

Many people have heard of things like “The Digg Effect”, where a link to a blog post gets pushed to the top of Digg.com (one of the biggest social bookmarking sites out there for those of your just getting acquainted with the term) and the server crashing as a result of having hundreds of thousands [...]

Press Releases via PR Web : Are they worth the money?

| June 10, 2009 | 6 Comments

Lately we’ve been asked about Press Releases that are available through PR Web.  In this article I’m going to talk about why doing Press Releases are such a good idea and how they can benefit your blog/website’s search engine optimization.  I’ll also tell you which Press Release option I recommend, and finally, very important things [...]

Web Video for Social Media Marketing : Does it need to be “professional” or not?

| June 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

Lately we’ve had a lot of questions about whether the video that is placed on our client’s websites should be produced professionally or not.  I’ve decided to write this post to address that exact question. First off, just having video on your site is not going to make your site more money.  It is true [...]

How is Social Media Marketing for Business Different From Traditional Advertising?

| May 29, 2009 | 4 Comments

Social Media Marketing for Business is much different than the “old school” traditional media marketing with advertising.  The fact is, businesses need to share and interact with their customers and prospects in order to achieve optimal returns from their efforts.  Lets not forget the importance of good marketing principals like follow-up and drip marketing, but [...]

Blog Platform or Website: What Do I actually need?

| May 27, 2009 | 6 Comments

I’ve been working with the Internet for nearly 10 years now, having built my first website when the internet was just starting to gain momentum with sites like eBay.  So when people ask me whether they need a blog or a website, or generally what I would recommend… I guess I should clarify this so [...]

Twitter : Rapid Growth, No Revenue

| May 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

Twitter has been an extremely hot topic in the past few months, especially as their rapid growth has been taking place, an influx of celebrities, Fortune 500’s, and everyday internet users have begun to embrace it. As someone who is a frequent user (although not as much as some of the “obsessed”) I found it [...]

Social Media Marketing and Its Connection to SEO

| May 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

As you may or may not know, I have a background in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and would say that I understand how to work with the search engine algorithms to influence them in one way or another.  But less about me, and more about what this has to do with social media marketing. Lately, [...]

Business Coaches leveraging Social Media Marketing to promote programs and events!

| May 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

I love being about to share great content about how clients are using social media marketing as well as other forms of traditional marketing in order to hit their business goals.  In these two videos below, Kelly O’Neil head coach of Marketing to Millionaires, a program that teaches its clients how to market to the [...]

The most important part of Social Media Marketing…Strategy.

| May 18, 2009 | 1 Comments

As a social media marketing expert I am often asked, “what is the most important thing I can do to market using social media marketing?”  If I could give one piece of advice, it would be to have a strategy.  Now I know this is extremely vague, so I’ll get deeper into this. The strategy [...]

Is the Traffic Geyser Video Marketing Submission Service all that it claims to be?

| May 14, 2009 | 0 Comments

Today, I wanted to talk a bit more about the Traffic Geyser Video Marketing system. For those who don’t know about Traffic Geyser, it is a software subscription that you can rent on a monthly basis for $99 per month that allows you to submit videos to about 35 different video search engines, social bookmarking [...]