I’m Andy Henry,
I’ve been using the Internet for marketing purposes since 1999 and I’ve used just about every method you could hear of.
I’ve created this blog so that I can share what works and what doesn’t with anyone who’s walking a similar path and doesn’t want to have to relearn the lessons I learned the hard (and long) way.
Blogging Tips - Ways To Use Social Media For Your Blog
May 30th, 2009 by andySocial media marketing is a way to promote your business on the
internet via social networking. This has grown to encompass a
very large number of websites and methods.
The savvy internet marketer is learning how to use this powerful
marketing method to grow their business and make valuable
contacts for the future.
Of course this also means making more money if you do it right.
Let’s take a look at 4 ways to use social media marketing to make
money online.
1. Blogging is a very strong way to combine various forms of
social media marketing all in one place. If you do not have a
blog you are losing ground to your competitors who do.
2. Social bookmark your blog posts to create traffic from social
directories and as search engine bait for search engine traffic.
Be sure and use a quality blogging platform such as WordPress.
They offer a terrific plug-in that makes social bookmarking a
blog post very simple.
Social bookmarking gives you a way to get backlinks to your blog
very quickly. You should be bookmarking to social directories
such as Technorati, Digg, Stumbleupon, and Propeller.
Also go get a Twitter account and learn how to make friends and
use it to drive traffic to your blog. This is fast becoming one
of the top social sites online.
3. Video such as You Tube is becoming a favorite way for bloggers
to add some excitement to their blogs, but it is also much more
than that.
For example many affiliate marketing programs now offer videos
embedded with your affiliate i.d. that you can use to pre-sell a
visitor before sending them to your affiliate website.
Many bloggers are also easily creating videos and putting them
online on their blog. This is a very powerful form of social
media that is giving your visitor what they want. Many people are
a product of the TV generation and like to learn by watching as
opposed to reading.
4. Discussion forums are a great place to make friends and sell
products if you do it right. They can also be an excellent place
to create joint ventures and millions of dollars are sold online
now because of these.
There is much more we could say about social media including
social networking in places such as FaceBook, My Space, and many
others. The bottom line is making money online via social media
all comes down to finding a way you enjoy and then mastering how
to use it to your business and personal advantage.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
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