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Social Media Marketing Guide – Use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and MySpace to Grow Your Business

As I mentioned in one of my previous articles, Social Media has became extremely popular in the last few years.

Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube are growing faster than any other type of social communication.

Social Media is an enormous untapped source of leads, prospects and business partners for YOUR business and best of all it is FREE.

Therefore, in order to benefit from the social media madness, you will have to know how exactly to monetize this ultimate untapped source of potential business partners.

This is exactly what I am going to be covering today. I want to show you exactly what you need to do in order to generate results with social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace.

However, Before I get into the specific details of how you should be using each one of the mentioned above sites, I would like to point out one thing. The ultimate purpose of every single social media website is Relationship Building. This is the sole purpose you should be driven by when you join a group on Facebook or sending out a Tweet.

Relationship Building is an essential ingredient to a Successful Internet Marketing Business and the sooner you grasp this concept the better.

Let’s get started!

MySpace

Only a year ago, MySpace was the biggest and fastest growing community on the Internet with more than 240 Million registered users. Today MySpace has lost it’s popularity with the users but it hasn’t lost it with the search engines.

To this day, MySpace is one of the first sources Google turns to when in need of information. What this means is that you can use it for your benefit by creating different MySpace profiles to generate more Search Engine Traffic for your particular business/opportunity.

Don’t get me wrong here, it doesn’t mean that you must use it only for that. You still have the opportunity to socialize on MySpace quite effectively, but right now, the main benefit of MySpace in my eyes is the SEO juice that you can squeeze out of it.

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length, which are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them also known as followers.

Twitter is an amazing social network, which really qualifies for the expression “Social Media Madness”. If you don’t know what I mean, just get yourself over four thousand followers, as I did, and you will see exactly what I mean. My Twitter home page is pure madness and socializing on Twitter without a client is not an option anymore.

Nevertheless, what makes Twitter unique besides the 140 character limit is the ability to Drive Massive Viral Traffic to Your Website.

Twitter is the easiest tool to drive traffic with especially if you are running a blog or a newsletter, it has an insane Viral Power Potential to it.

If you ever heard an expression “Word of Mouth Marketing” and did not know what it mean, than Twitter explains it very well. Just imagine if your Tweet with a link back to your site goes viral. Imagine the tweet being ReTweeted about 300 times. Imagine if each of those ReTweets only generated 3-4 clicks at a time, how much traffic would you get?

That’s right-A LOT!

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.

YouTube, being the biggest video sharing network online, is a great place to do some video marketing. But Why is Video Marketing so damn important? Why is it so Crucial that you do it? Yes, that’s right! Relationship Building.

Can you think of a better way of establishing a relationship with a complete stranger? What can be more powerful when it comes down to building trust with another person on the internet than video? What can make more impact on that person than watching You move, listen to You talk and hearing Your thoughts coming out of Your mouth instead of reading them on his 15” laptop screen?

If you can think of a better way of doing it(besides live conversation with a web cam, of course) than please, be my guest and reveal it to me, because to this day, I haven’t found something better then Video Marketing.

Facebook

A Harvard University student originally founded Facebook with couple of his roommates in order to create a virtual community exclusive to the Harvard University attendees. Website membership was initially limited but later expended to other colleagues until later on Facebook became available to anyone aged 13 and over.

Right now Facebook is one of the biggest social communities with over 200 million active users. However, what makes it different from MySpace, Twitter and YouTube than? Why is it so essential for your Social Media Domination plan?

Well, personally, I can’t answer that question with a specific benefit. Facebook is just a great place to Build STRONG, BULLETPROOF, ROCK SOLID Relationships. I haven’t yet found a community where people are more open and ready to socialize with complete strangers all over the planet.

To me, Facebook is like another huge family. I truly admire and respect every single one of my Facebook friends. It is so easy to get to know people and connect with them on Facebook. It is so easy to get lost in endless chats and conversations there.

I have many of my friends, simply leading another Life there! Facebook is very easy to fall in love with and it definitely leaves other Social Networks in the dust when it comes down to building a strong long lasting relationship with a complete stranger.

Having shared these insight with you, I only wish to point out one more time that your main goal on any single social media site and in every single social community should be first to Build Relationships while driving traffic and generating leads second.

YouTube is One of the Top Internet Sites Visited – Does Your Marketing Strategy Include YouTube?

YouTube is one of the top internet sites visited, just behind Yahoo and Google. When you consider the number of people searching YouTube being several hundred million, your success for marketing your product or service is greatly increased if you can create a presence on YouTube. The most advantageous concept about this marketing is you draw people to you, who are truly interested in what you have to offer.

Social Media Marketing is the new buzzword for online internet entrepreneurs. There are many opportunities with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, EzineArticles and many other sites to reach many potential customers. At times this may seem overwhelming, but if you start with YouTube, an article site such as Ezine, you can integrate your efforts to where your presence on the Internet is found in many areas. The more presence in various sites you can create, the greater your opportunity to increase traffic to your web site. When your traffic grows to 50 or more people per day, you hit a point of critical mass which explodes your internet business.

How do you create the presence that gives you success? What marketing ideas should you promote in the videos you produce and place on YouTube? Marketing research is your key to success. You need to find out what words people are using to find the information they are seeking on the internet. These words are known as key words for campaign marketing. Using Google’s AdWords tool, you can determine what key words your video description and content should contain. The more relevant key words you have in your video’s description, the greater your chance of YouTube viewers finding your video.

Another important factor is to provide your new social marketing friends the information they need to be successful without pitching your primary businesses. As your new found friends become successful, they will grow to trust you as a leader who is interested in their success. They will want to know what you do and eventually you can invite them to join if they desire.

YouTube is one of the most important social sites on the internet to use in your strategic marketing plan. With your video, you can guide many people to your internet site. By providing pertinent information that helps them be successful, they will be drawn to you as they see you as a marketing consultant to help them be successful. Your website can then give them an opportunity to find out what further tools you have to offer to give them the success they are seeking.

Your emarketing system needs to have many avenues that draw people to you.

Article Marketing Guide – How To Make Money Online Using Article Marketing

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When you first get the idea to make some money online by promoting your product or you become an affiliate for selling other people’s products it is very nice idea but it can be very frustrating too because of the information overload. You go and search the net for what is the best and easiest way to promote your product to make some money as quickly as possible and frankly there are so many ways you can go that you can get lost and even discouraged.

I always say and it is also proven that the best way for you to start is to do article marketing because it is pretty easy and it doesn’t really cost you anything. All it takes it’s time and lot of patience. Yes patience too. You have to understand that it doesn’t take one or just a couple articles for you to drive some traffic to your site and make some sales. So many people start with article marketing and they quit because they don’t see any result after couple of days and one or two articles they wrote.

It takes time. It is a long term strategy and believe me it works. The traffic will come and so are the sales. You will never learn how to get traffic that you want if you bounce around from article marketing guide to social networking guide and so on. Pick one and stick with it. Don’t worry about making mistakes because you will make them but you will also learn from them.

If you want to save your time money and energy don’t scatter your focus and learn to master one traffic source at a time and when you master it then you move to the next. Again it takes time for you to see that what you are doing right now is working and you will also learn what is not working.

As an internet marketer you want to learn the skills and use them to drive traffic to your site the most effective way and you can get my FREE article marketing guide to learn how.