The Market Place Of Social Media

Are you wasting your marketing time making friends online?

Yes...

You are wasting your time if you are not telling the truth to your friends

You are wasting your time if you are using mostly hype when you first meet them

You are wasting your time if you have no desire to listen to them

Social Media Marketing requires making friends online.  That might not be for you.  But in today's world-wide market place, marketing for free to your global target market means social media marketing. 

T he most sought after answers that the marketing departments of corporate America seek, paying out billions of dollars to discover, is "What do my potential customers want?"  You can find that out for free.

Today, as in no other time in history, all those answers can be found inside social media sites for free.

Companies and entrepreneurs who understand social media marketing right now will win and those who don't will loose.

See Perry Belcher's system below (one of his slides in his webinar I attended, "How To Finally Make Money With Social Media") It consists of only a few social media sites, the main three being Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, plus his own Wordpress blog.

Social Media Marketing basically has two steps:

1. Find out what the latest issues are with your online target market
2. Speak to your target audience about those issues and make an offer

Social Media Marketing: The Market Place Called Twitter

Consider this... Twitter doubles in activity every 90 days and everyone's list is open to everyone else. I have a list of over 300 now. Not huge but I'm very glad to find those people. They think like me. Many of them are my friends.

FIND Your Target Market: Are My Friends Your Target Market? Am I?

There are thousands and thousands of us who think alike and who have many of the same issues in business and in life. Who do we give our email addresses to and why?

People on my list who face the same business issues I do are very easy to find. You don't have to hunt for us. We will find you if you speak our language. Not only that, but we will refer others to you if you are a great listener.

Listen to Your Target Market: What Are They Talking About In the Market Place?

If your target audience is not on Twitter, they soon will be. I bet many of your highly qualified prospects are already there. So what are they talking about - what's hot and what's not?

Perry Belcher takes a short cut to find out what his target market's hot topics are. For instant access to the website he uses and to sign up for my short series on "The Market Place Called Twitter" - all I need is your email:

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Anyway, if Twitter doubles in activity every 90 days, you can find new people to add to your list of highly qualified prospects every day in The Market Place Called Twitter.

But how in the world do you get their permission to email them? Spam is the last thing you want to be accused of, right?

Here's what Perry Belcher does... with great success! You're not Perry Belcher, you say? Here's what he would say to you... "Do you have more personality than a company logo? Then this strategy WILL work!" What's the strategy? It's in Part Two - see the next post above!

Viral Marketing: How To Launch Your Web Content At Social Media Sites Like Twitter

Don't waste time on Twitter.  Learn how to use 144 characters of ad copy to launch:

• your videos into going viral on the internet, attracting 100s of people to you and your business
• your ezine articles that link to your blog and ultimately to your offer(s)
• your Squidoo lenses so that people get to know you and follow the bread crumbs to your sales funnel
• your Hubpages that draw people in to find out who you are like minded and want your help with internet MLM now!

One Internet MLM Leader Discovers the Power Of Social Media Marketing Using Twitter of All Things!

I'm quite taken by the tweetergetter even though some think it's just a chain letter.  So what!  Chain letters were annoying but they went viral.  Viral marketing is what we want.  We want real people to syndicate our message because they see value in it, right? 

So if I give you my link to tweetergetter and you get your own link and we both share our links with our lists, then how can that hurt?  We both get more twitter followers and some of them will stay with us.  Why?  Because we offer value to our target market for free.  

Remember, the only reason we are able to make money online is because we have a following - a group of people who find us online and sign up for our free stuff.  Our stuff helps them and so now they are opening our emails to see what else we can do for them.

TweeterGetter just helps people find us through viral marketing and I honestly don't get why some people are upset about it but they are.  So with that warning to you, that you might annoy people who do not undestand that you are simply looking for more people to join you and benefit from what you have to offer, then I say go ahead and risk annoying those people. 

I made the decision to go ahead with TweeterGetter so here's my TweeterGetter webpage.  Sign up if you would like to see how this works.  Let's experiment a little.   

If you advertise more than you socialize, we will ban you. But if you contribute value, a little advertising will go a long, long, long way!

So, right now, head on over and set up your profile. Here's mine: http://www.betternetworker.com/members/terrijo 

       Syndication Revelation

SEO 2.0 is an interesting concept of your web content being optimized for search engines by social media, the Web 2.0 crowd.  Crowdsourcing or crowd sourcing is phenomenal.  Right this minute there's a social media buzz going on around the globe... millions of conversations.  Some of those conversations can make or break a business.  No need to do polling much or surveys etc. if all we have to do is find a forum.

Let's say we want to know if we should buy the new, latest greatest brand of makeup or shaving cream.  Well there are people talking about both right now.  How about a particular motorcycle or a particular MLM company or a particular vacuum cleaner.  Just go online and listen in on what people are saying in a forum, day or night, 24/7.

So, how do we tap into crowd sourcing so that our MLM or our affiliate program gets the buzz and people end up buying from us?  If we succeed at social media marketing, then we are also succeeding in SEO 2.0 meaning Google will also help with the buzz. 

Watch this video more than once to learn how to  GROW YOUR BUSINESS !!

Your Content Strategy - The BIG Picture...

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) is as easy as clicking a button on your website. If someone likes what you write, or if you want to add one of your articlesto your own website, click, copy and paste!

What if I wanted you to find a Squidoo lens of mine here? What would I need to do?

• Well I could just link to it...
• or I could give you a little button to click on

If you have plus-mo, just click here ------->>

That button would put my Squidoo article in your phone so that you could read it later... say while your in line at the grocery store. AMAZING!

Watch the cute little video below about RSS. It's just another FUN-damental of building your MLM business online!

This is Lee LeFever. He's really so good at just plain English!

"The Internet has become a mirror reflection of who we are as humans. This boom in social media participation has spawned the need for business to pay very close attention to this tsunami in order to decide if entering this space would be appropriate." Charles Heflin

 Charles Heflin

Here's my advice... "enter this space!" 

I will keep you posted on exactly what that means but for now here's what you really must do.  Join a forum of like-minded people.  You can find them at Squidoo, Renegade University, Facebook, Digg, Propeller, SEO 2020, or just google and interest like "Internet MLM" 

SEO 2.0 is new, new, new!  Stay tuned.  Don't get behind.  This is my intro post on SEO 2.0.  I will write A LOT about it here. Let's begin with...

Social Media Networking 

Just like all wise entrepreneurs, to build a business of our own, networking is part of the business.  Building relationships and building trust has always been the keys to success in building a business. 

Well, now, you can provide customer service for all the world to see, just by getting in on the conversation.  For example, while you are reading this there ar millions and millions of conversations going on if forums all over the Net.

Get in on them.  Is someone asking about your products?  You bet they are.  Get in on that conversation and provide valuable assistance.  That customer service assistance for someone that is not even buying from you will cause pause.  

People considering your products and your MLM as a business opportunity will be so glad to find you.  You actually won't have to look for people to convince any more.  They will find you.   

Even internet millionaire marketers are so excited to discover what just one site like Twitter can do to spread the word about you and your business. 

Here's Perry Belcher, a multi-millionaire guy who is so thrilled about what he accomplished in just 100 days on Twitter. He's just being Perry and getting tons of traffic.  You just have to be you.  I'm not getting results like his but I am definitely getting new traffic from Twitter.  The last time I posted a new blog post there, my stats here indicated several new visitors because I optimised it but 20 of them were from Twitter - 20 real people came to visit not because of technical SEO.  They came to visit because of social media optimization (SMO).

Perry Belcher is a pretty colorful guy but stay with him.  What he is saying is... "Every thing online is changing!"

Social Marketing  Part One  Perry Belcher

Social Marketing Part Two With Perry Belcher Is Inside This Sales Letter From Mike Dillard... 

www.SecretFromTerri.com (don't wait too long)

So what is the frenzy all about?  Well, even though many people knew they could switch from old facebook to new, there are 100,000's of Facebook users who didn't know.  It's really not a huge big change but the last time Facebook launched a change, college kids just about went postal on the company.  Now it might be the huge bunch of people like me that use Facebook more for marketing my work rather than for connecting with friends like the college kids do. 

But here's my point - WRITE SOMETHING NOW.  This entire blog is about Internet MLM NOW! Network marketing professionals are soon going to be coming online in droves.  It has already begun.  I'm one of them, only for the last 6 months.  I have MUCH more success with Internet marketing to find highly qualified leads than I ever did with years of talking to friends, family and strangers about my business.

Recently, I wrote an article about a big news item in my MLM company.  Mike Dillard at Marketing Merge teaches what I'm teaching here and I paid attention.  He said one of his greatest success stories is when he first learned to get out in front and write about the news happening in our industry.  It increases your likelihood of being found online and attracting prospects to you. 

Well my article received over 800 traffic hits in 8 days because I practiced this idea.  If you google "Randy Schroeder Leaves Agel" you will find me because I was among the few who wrote about it first.

Now I am doing the same thing about the Facebook frenzy and you should too.  Here's my Squidoo lens: Changes To Facebook Are Goofey.