SOCIAL MEDIA ALERT: How to use blogging as an Internet Marketing Tool

SOCIAL MEDIA ALERT: How to use blogging as an Internet Marketing Tool: How to use blogging as an Internet Marketing Tool There are many ways that you can use blogging as an Internet marketing tool, and ...

How to use blogging as an Internet Marketing Tool

How to use blogging as an Internet Marketing Tool There are many ways that you can use blogging as an Internet marketing tool, and the reason is that because it gives visitors and readers the opportunity to react or voice their opinion, it can be used potentially as a direct online advertising method. Blogging is so simple. Nowadays, the easy way to get your place on the Internet is thorough blogging. There are no skills necessary, and often there are many products, Wordpress Plug-in that can help you get started with a blog. It’s the easiest method to have visitors to comment about your ideas. If you have a PC and an Internet connection then a blog can be used as the ideal marketing tool. The best part about blogging is that it is free; however, blogging is yet to be known and proven as a mainstream, online marketing tool. But, in this day and age social media saturates our lives, and therefore can be incorporated as a plug-in or taskbar right on a blog. This gives the blogger the opportunity to use free web-time, especially for bloggers that will use their blog as a start-up endeavor. Finally, blogging builds a form of credibility between the blogger and the reader, when a blogger explains their experiences about a product, the reader often depends on your information, and recognizes that they can come to the blog site regularly to receive the information that they’re searching. It also builds your brand, and once you become or consider yourself and expert, it eventually increases your fan base and your brand. Soon you will have a list of potential customers, whether it’s for professional consultation or affiliate marketing. So, give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

How to Sell Information Products

I am so excited today to introduce Angela Wills, if you're a faithful reader of Birdie Thompson’s Social Media Alerts Marketing Blog you will enjoy her too! She talks about how to sell information products online. Guest Publisher Angela Wills Steps to Sell Information Products Online By Angela Wills Creating your online presence is about establishing yourself as an expert in your niche. Releasing information products is a great way to offer up your knowledge and make money at the same time. Here are some of the steps you’ll want to take in creating your first information product. Step 1 – Create the Product You can create an ebook, special report, physical book, mp3, video or any combination of these products. There’s nothing to say that you can’t hire a Ghostwriter to do the writing and proof reading for you. This product can be as long or as short as you like but just make sure it’s information that people are really in need of and it delivers high value to their lives or problem. Have someone go through your finished product to proof read (or view/listen) it. Step 2 – Set up The Salespage Of course you’ll need a place to sell your new product from. Though you don’t technically need a new domain for this it’s always a good idea to have a domain specific to the product because it looks more professional and can make it easier to find. If you don’t have experience creating websites or writing content that makes sales, then this would be another great place to outsource these tasks to get it done. Step 3 – Set up an Affiliate Program Though an affiliate program isn’t an absolute necessity, it’s a great idea to set it up from the start to really leverage your new product and create more sales. There are so many strategies you can get into for finding great affiliates and I’ll have to leave that for another article. Getting a few key players helping you promote a new product can make a big impact on its release. Decide on a commission to pay your affiliates. For my first product, which sold for $19.97, I decided to offer 50% commission to my affiliates. You’ll want to offer an attractive commission to your potential affiliates so they see it’s worth their time to promote your product. Step 4 – Get a Graphic Having a graphical representation of your product really does make it look more professional. If you can’t afford to spend the money right away to get a great graphic done, don’t try to do one yourself unless you know what you are doing. It’s better to have no graphic at all then a poorly designed one. Step 5 – Start Promoting Your Product The ways to promote your information product are pretty-much endless. Here are a few ideas to get started: * Add a short ad in your email signatures. * Change your forum signatures to draw people to your new product. * Make a special offer on a forum in your niche that allows such a thing. * Make an announcement to you list that you have a new product available. * Post about your product on your blog. * Search out and contact people who are authorities in the topic your product addresses and ask them if they would be interested in becoming an affiliate. * Do teleseminars or online conferences on your topic. * Keep your affiliates motivated by providing them with resources on how to promote your products. It’s important that you get out there and start making things happen, don’t just wait for your product to start selling like hotcakes because that likely won’t happen unless you are already well known for the information you put out there. If you’re ready to get your website/salespage set up so it can start selling your information product to your target market and potential customers then join me as I teach you in my online video, webinar and email coaching program everything you need to know about creating great business websites with WordPress.

Facebook Income System

Facebook Income System

"Log Into Your Facebook Account!" Chances are, you already have a Facebook account, just like the other 500 million+ people who log into their Facebook profiles every day to check out what people are up to. In fact, nearly half of the world's Internet population are part of this social media giant, and its growth shows no sign of stopping soon, as it's grown by over 200 million users in the last year alone. So, if you really want to generate mass exposure for your online business, and compete, head-on with the most successful businesses in your marketplace, then there's no way around it - you NEED to harness the power of this mammoth source of premium traffic and laser targeted leads! Forget about expensive pay-per-click marketing, or tedious, time consuming article marketing (strategies from years ago)... Because (as you've probably already realized) that while there are hundreds of other ways that you could generate traffic to your website, there's no other way to do it at this level. We're talking about MASS SCALE advertising, where your website is literally flooded with quality traffic 24 hours a day. You could set up a single campaign, walk away for weeks and it would still continue to pump out premium traffic 24 hours a day! It's not only the fastest way to skyrocket your online income, but it's the easiest way! From the last year alone, Facebook has proven to over-deliver on quality advertising options, and once you master this traffic beast, you will finally be able to push your website to a whole new level. Imagine having your website seen by millions of people throughout the Facebook community. Imagine being able to create highly customized, TAILOR MADE advertisements that are triggered to appear only to the most targeted, active customer possible. You'll never pay for useless clicks or visits again!

Build A Email List-Now!

Build a Email List – Now!

So many Internet businesses  fail this absolutely ESSENTIAL step of having an email list. You have the opportunity to jump out ahead of every online business not reading this article right now by simply setting up your mailing list if you donʼt already have one.

So, donʼt have a list. Set one up. Now!!! Why?

Your email list will be one of the most important assets you have in growing your  traffic and in monetizing it and making a bunch of money.

I have made many thousands of dollars from my email list. In fact, probably over half my yearly income from my Internet business is generated from my email mailing list.  NONE of it would have happened if I didnʼt have an email list.

So, how?

Find a solution for managing your email list and sign up. Of course, the big confusion there is going to be where to put your list. Youʼre probably going to try to find some script to install to your server to manage your list. Youʼre might even try some open source freebie.

Iʼm here to save you a lot of hassle. And just trust me on this one.

Use Aweber.com. The best move I ever made for my business was to start using Aweber.

I STRONGLY recommend them.

Sign up for Aweber. They are a third-party, commercial email service. Yes, that means it is going to cost you a little money. Admittedly, it might seem like a lot of money right now because you may not be making any money yet. But, Aweber is the right solution. The thing about Aweber is that email deliverability is astronomical. Plus, setting up with them early in your career is going to save you a LOT of hassle later.

I used to manage my email list in-house (meaning on my own server). Eventually, I began to find that a lot of the emails that I sent were not even arriving to my subscribersbecause of various deliverability issues and spam black lists (even though I wasnʼt spamming). I grew a brain and decided to go with a commercial service. Aweber, however, makes you re-confirm every subscriber when you import. I lost over half my mailing list because I had to move it! Iʼm not kidding.

So, take my word for it. Set your list up in a quality place from the get-go. And Aweber is my recommendation to you.

GregWalsh Final Assignment2012

GregWalsh Final Assignment2012

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The Greg Walsh Project: Testing Audio Podcast About Social Media Two Major Problems

I just want to share a few facts regarding social media.

Today, social media is the most common and useful way to market and brand a product or services. In fact, there are so many platforms for businesses to communicate with their customers, particularly Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. But for this project, I will also create and demonstrate how this audio podcast can be used as a part of your business social media. The reason why social media is so important is because just about everyone is on it and utilizing it in some form or another.

However, there are some problems that businesses may experience while using social media.

For example, everyone knows that social media is a great for customers, and the fans that support, and “Like” your business.  But on the other hand, it is also a the ideal location for the fans to  find expression about a bad experience or, even worse, spread horrible negative feedback about your business.

Social media can be an exceptional tool for building a brand and character for your business; it can also be negative to a business with a good reputation.  Most businesses are usually, unprepared to handle the harmful feedback that’s related to their social media presences.

That’s why it is so important for any business to plan for and undoubtedly respond to the inevitable negative feedback that they may receive on social media. Ignoring that feedback, even though it sounds like the ideal route, is not the solution. The solution is to prepare how you will respond to those negative comments — will you offer unsatisfied customers simple condolences or something for free — and be sure to  follow through with those plans.

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Another problem is, finding who will manage your social media presences. The kind of questions you would ask yourself that’s related to this social media problem is, will one of your employees do it?  Or should you outsource it?

Because as a business owner, it’s important to know how you will manage the content and information that will certainly be feeding into your social media streams.

The World of Social Media in 2012 - All The Statistics, Facts and Figures

Hi Fellow Social Media Marketers;

Are you getting the social media results you hoped for?

Have you heard the buzz about Social Media Success Summit 2012–the web’s largest online social media marketing conference?

Before I tell you how this virtual summit will help your business gain more exposure, increase traffic, cultivate loyal fans and increase sales, let me share a story with you.

Proof social media marketing works:

In October 2009, Michael Stelzner started Social Media Examiner, a blog for marketers and small business owners. Almost overnight, his site became one of the top business blogs in the world.

He didn’t advertise, didn’t rely on the press and almost none of his traffic came from search engines.

Now, after two years, he has 600,000 unique people visit his site monthly, more than 132,000 email subscribers and 80,000 Facebook fans. His site has become one of the top 1000 in the United States.

His secret: create valuable content his audience loves and apply intelligent social media strategies.

Michael’s story is not unique. A significant 68% of business owners and marketers plan to increase their use of social media in 2012 (2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report).

What’s the connection? Your customers (and prospects) are using social media every day. Social media is a new marketing frontier because it bypasses all the costly middlemen and allows you to engage directly with your customers and prospects! You’ll never need to advertise. AND this presents an enormous opportunity for you.

So what’s this about??


Michael (and his team) have been working for months to bring the best minds in social media together in a fully online event called Social Media Success Summit 2012

A significant 3,000 marketers and business owners from around the world attended his last Social Media Success Summit. Businesses were transformed. In fact, 98% of attendees said they’d attend again and invite their friends.

This summit’s focus is to empower you to implement successful social media marketing tactics, track and measure your social media ROI, and see how successful social media campaigns were executed.

Twenty-seven of the world’s leading social media superstars will be summit instructors, including: Jeremiah Owyang (Altimeter Group), Chris Brogan (author, Google+ for Business), Mari Smith (co-author, Facebook Marketing), Brian Solis (author, Engage), Jay Baer (co-author, The Now Revolution), Jason Falls (co-author, No Bullshit Social Media), Frank Eliason (author, @YourService), Michael Stelzner (founder, Social Media Examiner, author Launch), and experts from LinkedIn, Dell, Ford, Citigroup and Citrix

Plus join Jesse Stay (author, Google+ for Dummies), Mark Schaefer (author, The Tao of Twitter), Dave Kerpen (author, Likeable Social Media), C.C. Chapman (co-author, Content Rules), Kipp Bodnar (co-author, The B2B Social Media Book) and Amy Porterfield (co-author, Facebook Marketing All-in-One for Dummies)–just to name a few.

Attendees at our last summit included well-known organizations such as General Mills, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, SAP, Tyco, 3M, LexisNexis, Disney, Mayo Clinic, Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo. But you don’t need to be a big business to benefit!

This is the world’s largest online social media event designed to empower marketers and business owners to master social media marketing. And the great news is it’s a live online conference you can attend from your home or office.

Go here now to learn more.

Here’s to your success!


Birdie Thompson

P.S. Twenty-seven of the most successful social media pros will show you how to use social media to market and grow your business. Remember, the experts teach the sessions live (and it’s all online). So you don’t need to leave your home or office! Go here to see how this works.

P.P.S. As a way of saying “thanks” for checking out the summit, there’s a gift just for marketers called “How to Hug Your Calculator: The 6-Step Process for Measuring Social Media” by Jay Baer, waiting for you. Go get it here (see yellow box on upper right).

Two Major Problems with Social Media

Two Major Problems with Social Media

•Negative Feedback

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•Who will manage your presence online.

there are two major problems that businesses may experience while using social media. 

Social Media Marketing Infographics: Do you think social sharing work?

Monetate Marketing Infographics Do you think social sharing and ecommerce can work together? It is rumored that Facebook will eventually have a  search engine.  So there are some possibilities that with this feature,  the once upon a time registration barrier, in order  to complete a transaction, will help consumers make product decisions and increasing time spent on site to make a purchase. Monetate Marketing Infographics Do you think social sharing and ecommerce can work together? It is rumored that Facebook will eventually have a search engine. So there are some possibilities that with this feature, the once upon a time registration barrier, in order to complete a transaction, will help consumers make product decisions and increasing time spent on site to make a purchase.

Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing Campaign

Three Simple Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing
 by: David Broadway

Email marketing has turned out to be one of the most effective and advanced forms of marketing for people who want to make money online, especially for those who get their hands on free leads. 

For this reason, there are now many companies and individuals using emailmarketing to attract and convert people into their business and/or downline. 

So if you have a network marketing business and an eager pool of MLM leads, email marketing is one of the very best ways to promote your business and keep your marketing message in front of a large number of people, automatically, using autoresponders and tracking tools to keep you informed of the results. 

You can use the free network marketing leads you have obtained and set up any number of variations on your message, cross-promoting various products, offering free downloads and using other marketing techniques to turn your best free leads into participants in your business. 

There are three tips you can use with your email marketing that you can implement to improve your results. 

The first one is that the content of your emails should be clear, concise and simple to understand, so people will know exactly what you are offering. That way, it will be much easier for the prospect to comprehend exactly what you want them to know and do. Keep your message simple and friendly and you will get a good response. 

The next tip is the importance of capturing and keeping the interest of your prospect of your email message. 

People are quite busy and receive lots of emails. If your message fails to provoke and retain interest, they will stop reading it and may stop reading your other emails also. Therefore your message should be designed in an attractive and appealing manner, so that your prospect will be intrigued to finish reading your message to the end. By the end of the email the prospect should either be totally equipped to make a decision or much better informed about your products and/or services. 

The third tip is again in regards to the fact that people are very busy in their daily routines and don't have a lot of time to read emails. 

That is why one of the best things you can do is to make sure the email marketing message you send is nice and short. If it is not brief enough, prospects will not be interested and will likely stop listening to your message. 

So when doing your email marketing, you can use these straightforward tips to help your efforts and profit from this amazing marketing technique that is helping people and companies make money online, and is very useful if they have free network marketing leads.

DO YOU WANT TO CREATE GREAT EMAIL NEWSLETTERS?

How To Create An Email Newsletter
 by: Cynthia Minnaar

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A great way to build an email list is to publish an email newsletter and you can then sell products to your subscribers. Here are a few tips on how to create an email newsletter.

1. Maintain focus. A narrowly focused newsletter performs better than a broad themed one.

This is because it is easier to get people to subscribe to it. Also it is an excellent way to sell targeted niche products. As an example, publishing an email newsletter on putting it is likely to do better than a newsletter on golf in general.

2. Make use of a good auto-responder. It is very important that your email newsletter gets through spam filters and into a person's email inbox.

This is why you need to use a quality auto-responder. Get Response and Aweber are two of the best.

3. Always be consistent. This does not mean that you have to publish every day or even every week if you don't want to.

What is important is that you set a schedule and stick to it. If you decide on a monthly newsletter then consistently get your newsletter out every month on the same date so people get used to seeing it.

4. Include useful information. Bear in mind that email newsletters are not sales letters. You can send out solo email ads for that purpose.

When people receive useful information they will be glad they subscribe to your newsletter. Also the more unique information you can include in your newsletter the more subscribers you will get and keep.

5. Use your newsletter to sell advertising. Selling top sponsor adverts, bottom sponsor adverts, classified adverts and email solo adverts is a way you can make money. Just don’t over advertise in your newsletter to the point that people can't find the quality information you provide.

6. Use it for Branding. Ensure that you get the header at the top of your newsletter. Also if you are going to include colors into your newsletter make it match the theme of your blog or website.

You will be doing a good job of branding your Internet business when people get used to seeing the same things over and over from you.

7. Publish several email newsletters. Many Internet marketers branch into multiple niches but neglect the things that were successful with when they first started.

By publishing a newsletter for every niche that you are involved in is a great way to make more money in that targeted niche. If you work at adding subscribers to every newsletter you have, you will be amazed at how much more income you can generate.

The above are a few tips on how to create an email newsletter. You will discover that an email newsletter that is published on a consistent basis, to people who choose to receive it, becomes a very valuable business asset. 

About The Author Cynthia Minnaar is a full-time internet marketer and owner of http://www.cyns-home-biz.com. For more tips she invites you to subscribe to her free email newsletter and receive free internet income training. Click here: http://www.cyns-home-biz.com/Internet-Income-Training.html

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