Category Archives: Social Media Marketing

Identifying Quality Traffic

It’s one thing to get traffic to your web site and it’s a whole new ball game generating quality traffic. You’ve heard the pitch a thousand times “We can get you 6000 new visitors to your site a month!” Hmmmm… really? Are they the visitors that are specifically searching for your products/service or JUST visitors. When [...]
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Blending In-Person Networking with Online Social Media

Ok, so you have networked with somebody at an event exchanged business cards, now what? For me, being a people-person, it is easy to connect and get a conversation started at a networking event, but in today’s internet world my next steps are usually online. Typically, I follow a specific format to connect with new business that [...]
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Yahoo’s Tools for “Anyone Creating Content”

Yahoo! offers a whole slew of free tools for “anyone creating content” (their words, not mine) on the web. Although some of the tools are only related to their companies (like del.icio.us for bookmarking), overall they provide quick functionality to make your blog or web site a little user-friendlish. Y!Q (beta) Y!Q allows you to place [...]
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25+ Tips to Perfect your Social Media Marketing Campaigns

Social Media Marketing takes time and patience, but when done correctly has tremendous rewards. The following are some ideas and exercises to help you get started in the right direction…
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New Keyword Research Technique: Keyword Supply and Demand

In economics, supply and demand describe market relations between prospective sellers and buyers of a good. (wikipedia.org) In search engine optimization, we can use the supply and demand model to describe the relationship between the people searching for specific keywords (the demand) and the people creating content to meet that demand (the supply). The following is a [...]
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Social Media in Emergencies

Living in the middle of San Diego and trying to find out the latest news on the fires and evacuations has lead to some interesting discoveries into the power of the Social Web. Blog Streams and RSS for Emergency Situations Hats off to the San Diego Union Tribune. They have outdone themselves in the way they have [...]
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Nobody Builds Sites from Scratch Anymore…

If you do, or if you hire someone that does, you may reconsider after reading this post. Is building it from scratch working smarter? I’ve struggled with this for years. Deep down I tell myself that if I don’t build a site or web app from the ground up, then I’m probably going to regret it [...]
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Ongoing Social Media Marketing Tasks

Once you have all the preparation completed for Social Media Marketing, you should know what keywords will generate quality traffic, what types of content may become viral, how to position your company as an industry expert, how to advertise without advertising, and more. However, Social Media Marketing doesn’t stop there. It takes practice, patience, quality [...]
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If You are Looking for Multiple Revenue Streams, Affiliate Programs may be your Solution

Affiliate solutions can be a great way to promote your business. Many shopping cart applications now include an affiliate program framework. There are also a number of online web solutions that cater specifically to building full-blown affiliate programs and solutions. With your business you can take advantage of both angles: Getting additional sales of your product [...]
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Content Creation Guidelines for the CEO

      Make it comprehensive Spend time doing the research Accumulate resources, information and statistics on your subject. This creates value and makes you look like an expert When it’s useful or “viral”, there’s a good chance people will [...]
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