Social Marketing

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Claims made at http://www.socialmediariches.info we’ll review:
“You can make cash by creating and uploading videos!
You can make cash by uploading pictures!
You can make cash by uploading music!
You can make cash by writing on blogs!”
Ya think? We’ll see…
We’re in another “golden age” of the internet. Tons of new startups popping up all over the place. [...]

I’m super-stoked about this!
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I submit my blog posts to all the social bookmarking & “story submission” services out there.  It’s another method of Web 2 organic traffic generation, and the backlinks at those places that don’t use “nofollow” don’t hurt either.
So, submitting to Digg, Reddit, etc. is all good, but for actual traffic to my site?  PlugIM is [...]

There’s been a lot of talk in the blogging and IM world recently about spamming & etchis (but then again, isn’t there always?).
That said, the comment thread on this post got me thinking about the issue.
Think about MySpace (or other social networking sites) “spam.”
You immediately have a scenario in mind of what constitues spam on [...]

One of the most important things about marketing online is making information about yourself and your products available to potential consumers in as many forms as as possible.
For example, some people may be happy visiting your homepage, while others could be MySpace junkies and prefer to check what you’re up to there, others still might [...]

I posted about video marketing and included some tips on making your piece go viral, based on the example of a fella who’s got over 1 million views to just one of his videos.
A reader wrote the following and I think my answer has a couple of gems that might help you (1) understand why [...]

If you’re into buying and selling websites (and if you’re not, I strongly suggest you head on over to TubbyNerd and let Ed Dale tell you what you’re missing out on) coupled with nifty web 2.0 goodness, it’s imperative you read - learn - absorb Mike Arrington’s “The Magic Formula.”
Then dream up your web app [...]

I’ve got a video I want you to watch.
It made it to VH1’s “Best Week Ever” show, was IFilm’s Pick of The Day, and has over 200k views on YouTube.
Besfore I send you that way, I want you to take note of a couple of very important marketing tactics used here:
1)  The video begins and [...]

Do you remember the big rush to grab Squidoo URL’s?  After Tiffany Dow came out with her excellent Squidoo report, every internet marketer on the planet got on Squidoo and tried to snap up their keywords.
And more power to ‘em!   Squidoo is where it’s at for backlinks to your own sites, as well as creating [...]