Social Marketing Today
April 30, 2008
Here are some great posts from the Sphere on social marketing and social media.
Social Blogging Using The Facebook Dashboard Widget For WordPress - If you like to keep up with what is going on with your friends on Facebook then you may like this handy little social blogging plugin. The plugin requires WordPress 2.5 and above. To quote from this social blogging plugin’s homepage: …
More Social Bookmarking Sites To Consider - When we consider social sites we automatically think of Facebook, MySpace or perhaps Bebo. Social media sites include YouTube and Flickr. There are many social bookmarking sites that can be used to deliver traffic to your sites. …
Social Media to-do list for Flickr and Facebook - Flickr Social Marketing list for Metropolitan Area Children’s Museums Facebook Social Marketing list for Metropolitan Area Children’s Museums The benefits of using social media marketing to market your business online are described …
Twitter; Social Marketing or Just Social? - In her post, Social Marketing Pitfalls & The Twitter Time Suck, Lynn Terry’s definition of “social” explains exactly how I’ve tried to conduct myself in business all along; by being personable and not so personal. Lynn wrote, …
Direct Marketing vs Social Media Marketing - Thanks to the response received (@gyutae @AlbertMaruggi @AnnBernard @briansolis @martinbowling) from a Twitter post (follow here) on the topic of social marketing vs direct marketing, this post invites your opinion. …
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Darren Rowse on Social Media Marketing
March 16, 2008
testDarren Rowse (ProBlogger.net) has become a convert to social media marketing and branding in recent months. He started by being a regular user of the social sites (which I recommend to everyone I train who is just starting out with social marketing). Then he noticed more and more people coming to his sites from his links on the social sites.
Using social media sites just like everyone else does (the way they were intended to be used by their creators) really pulls in good links and traffic. Thinking selfishly about how you can blast your links all over the place and self-promote without giving anything back to the communities you belong to will get you into trouble and get you zero results.
What I like about Darren’s latest post on the topic is that he’s teaching his readers to do it the right way. Check out his video “4 Social Media Marketing Tips for Bloggers” below.
Are Social Applications Recession Proof?
March 2, 2008
You bet they are! Take a look around the web and realize that, in a serious economic downturn, social sites are soaring while many other sites are reporting a slow down in traffic.
Monica from Vtribes.com sent me an article on the subject by Josh Bernoff at Harvard Business. It tells a tale of social applications and their obvious immunity from bad economic times. There are properties online that are hurting compared to this time last year, but social media properties are not among them.
I highly recommend this short read for insight on social media during tough economic times.
Tags: harvard business, josh bernoff, social applications, social mediaThe New Friday Traffic Report Community
February 18, 2008
Below are some videos I did showing members how to use Social Marketing Central. This is the new social community for Friday Traffic Report I started last week.
If you haven’t signed up yet, you are missing out on some great discussion and sharing with other social marketing buffs! It’s a free community with a ton of perks. You can:
Join/Create groups
Network in the forum
Upload photos and videos
Network with other members
Do link exchanges
Get others to Stumble and vote for your site
…and much more!
So please do sign up and take advantage of the power of the FTR Tribe!
How to use Social Marketing Central
Using Social Marketing Central Part 1
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Using Social Marketing Central Part 2
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Using Social Marketing Central Part 4
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