Posts Tagged ‘Social Media Marketing’

Using Social Media to Increase Search Engine Visibility

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Some social media sites offer great opportunities for increasing your search engine visibility. Using these sites repeatedly can drive traffic by increasing your rankings in search engine results. Though many sites are indexed, some offer a more effective platform for this purpose. Let’s take a look at the Google results for the search phrase “entrepreneurial [...]

Market Your Podcasts Through Social Media

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Marketing your podcasts through social media is critical for building followership. Podcasts themselves are a form of social media, and as such, it is a natural and easy fit to use other SM platforms to promote your message.
There are multiple options, some have a broader impact than others. Here are some of my favorite tools [...]

Friend Connect and Marketing Your Blog

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

As Google Friend Connect becomes available to more and more website owners, and more social media platforms become partners, marketing your blog becomes a completely different game.
Though Google Friend Connect is only open to certain sites right now, it will soon be available to all website (read:blog) owners. Which essentially means that those relationships you [...]

Social Media Marketing: Using Twitter as a Traffic Driver

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Social media marketing is a process that requires great ability from the user and from the platform. One that I am most fond of is Twitter. The reason that I use it often is its simplicity, which creates amazing flexibility.
Twitter is an uncomplicated platform. Users have 140 characters to describe their thoughts to their followers. [...]

Do You Know Your Customers?

Monday, November 24th, 2008

As an increasing number of businesses venture out into the realm of social media, an increasing number of platform options are begin developed for these businesses to choose from.  But with all of the options, how do you choose.  The key to this dilemma is fairly simple.  If you truly understand your target market, you [...]

Using Social Networking Sites for Interactive Focus Groups

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

As social media continues to evolve, we are seeing a shift in marketing techniques from traditional methods, to interactive techniques.  Focus groups are a perfect example of this trend.  In the past, focus groups were conducted by companies through gathering together a very targeted group of people (in person, at a physical location) to discuss [...]

Managing Your Communication Stream

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

In an age where social media has taken over the online communication stream, one of the most common complaints that I hear is that there are very few all encompassing social media platforms, that allow users to post content to multiple social media sites from one location. Currently, if you do not utilize an [...]

Using Social Media Platforms for Marketing

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

I have noticed lately that my social media accounts are full of marketing crud. Yes, crud. Now, I am not one to tell you all not to use social media to market (obviously), but shoveling out meaningless content with lots of links is not the way to do it.
It seems that some people are trying [...]

Social Media Marketing and User Generated News Sites

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Social Media Marketing is facilitated by the (sometimes overwhelmingly) vast amount of social media platforms around the world wide web. Depending  upon what kind of business you have, you will use some sites more than others.
Social news networks are extremely important to businesses, in that, they post press releases and pick up top stories from [...]