United Breaks Guitars – Social Media Marketing causes PR Nitemare

| July 9, 2009 | 0 Comments

Ahhh, I’m back now from a great vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and just as I got done complaining about the extra 24 hours it took me to get home after a fiasco with United Airlines, this great example of the power of social media marketing shows up on You Tube.  Now, if I [...]

Social Bookmarking Spotlight: Mixx

| June 30, 2009 | 0 Comments

As we have touched on before, Social Bookmarking is a large part of Social Media Marketing, as it helps create more buzz about you and puts more links out there to lead to your site. Here at Turbo, we really try to utilize as many of these Bookmarking sites as possible to increase to amount [...]

Understanding Your Niche Market and its Relationship with Social Media Marketing

| June 18, 2009 | 0 Comments

In the past decade or so it has become more than apparent that understanding your target market, and how to reach it, is critical.  In more recent years, authors like Seth Godin have written many books about targeting the niche and working to be more specific in who you target.  In my work as an [...]

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 [...]

Flip Cam and Video Marketing

| June 8, 2009 | 0 Comments

Per our last blog post, we answered the question on whether or not a Video Marketing video needed to be done professionally or not. Here at Turbo Social Media we use the Flip Cam. The Flip Cam is the new technology in digital cameras, as it is an easy to use, cell-phone sized camera, with [...]

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 [...]

Poker Deals Winning Hand with Social Media Marketing

| June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

What do bad beats, pocket pairs and Twitter all have in common? If you guessed Poker, than you are correct. The World Series of Poker has been held in Las Vegas every summer for the last 40 years. Recently, you have been able to follow a lot of the action online, as tournaments begin and [...]

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 [...]