One type of Internet marketing that you must be taking advantage
of is social media. The truth is your Internet business will not
survive unless you are involved in various forms of social media.
The only exception to that would be is if you do paid advertising
such as Google Adwords or Yahoo Marketing.

Perhaps you do not understand the various ways you can utilize
these many types of social media to brand yourself and expand
your business. Here are 7 types of Internet social media you
should be doing everyday.

1. Blogging

Your competition has a blog and so should you. Blogs can serve
many purposes. A couple of key points are host your own blog and
consistently add fresh content. Never let your blog go stale.

2. Social Networking

My Space and Facebook are 2 of the largest. Building
relationships online are a big part of having a successful
Internet business. Social networking allows you to hang out with
people that have similar interests to you.

3. Micro Blogging

Twitter.com is a combination of social networking and blogging.
Building a large list of followers is a great way to meet people
and increase traffic to your blog and websites. Plus it is fun to
Tweet!

4. Social Bookmarking

Directories such as Digg and Technorati serve as search engine
bait for your blog posts and for new traffic from people who read
your blog articles. Bookmarking a blog post is very easy to do
and the rewards can pay off for years to come.

5. Discussion Forums

This really was one of the first forms of social media and still
is a great way to learn about the niche of your business and to
drive traffic to it. Hanging out in discussion forums can be
addictive so be careful to use them the right way and not waste
time. There is an art to forum marketing and you must learn to do
it correctly, but the benefits are many.

6. Email Marketing

There has always been money in having a list. The trick is to
build relationships with your list and then sell to it after you
have done that. For that reason we include it in social media.
Today you can add video, audio, graphics, and other things to
make your email more interactive.

7. Video Marketing

When Google bought YouTube everyone was put on notice that video
marketing was going to be important. Today internet marketers can
drive traffic and build credibility by adding videos to their
blog and website.

This is 7 forms of social media you must be using everyday to
build your Internet business. The most successful Internet
marketers already are!

Andy Henry

Tags: blog, blogging, media, social

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