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Viral Tweets , Viral Marketing Product Is an Easy Way to Gain New Clients

People look around for good marketing tools to help spread the word about what they do and the Twitter service is gaining a lot of momentum ground as one of the most popular ways to market your online business.

For those looking to gain more clients, Twitter is an awesome way to do so. The best part is that it really isn’t all that hard and doesn’t take a ton of time or money to do so.

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Maybe you just want to reach more people, or perhaps you are in a situation where you want to make sure that the people around you understand what it is you do in order to help them decide if they can use your product or services. In any case, have a look at the growing popularity of Twitter.

A combination of a chat or instant messaging service and a blog, Twitter is a great way to gain a broader audience. Simply by being yourself and showing other what it is you do via tweets (messages) or from word of mouth from current customers, you stand the chance of gaining more clients.

The thing about Twitter is that the abbreviated length can do you a great service. You have the chance to convey the information that you need to get across without being too wordy or having potential clients get distracted while looking at your website. Because of this short and to the point way of communicating you have the ability to pique your potential client’s interest so that they will click your link to learn more. Sending them back to your website to learn more about you, the service you provide or the product you sell is what you’re after here.

You also have the ability to send potential clients to specific areas of your website in order to find the information they need. This will save them time and that’s always a plus. They want specific information and if you can give it to them with a few words and a link to the direct page on your site with this information, they will love you for it. For instance, if you’re a service provider, the next time someone asks you what your rates are, you can send them directly to your rates page to find the answers they need immediately.

After you’ve been on Twitter for awhile you will start to see the word of mouth concept flying around everywhere. If one of your current customers is a member of Twitter and you’ve just returned an awesome project to them, especially if they happen to be chatting on Twitter when they get the email, they will more than likely sing your praises to their followers. Twitter has quickly become a place where many business owners go to ask for recommendations of service providers for certain tasks they need completed. You’ll even find some businesses recruiting writers, web designers, blog installers and more when they need something done. Twitter has a viral nature and quickly your name and what you do can be passed on to many people.

If you contribute to conversations and let people know you are out there, you will find that your tweets as well as your website URL will be passed around and shared. Make sure that you take advantage of this positive way to get your name out there. Many people use Twitter, and you’ll find that this familiarity is one thing that can help you distinguish yourself from the herd.

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How To Use Social Networking To Boost Site Exposure Part:ONE

In the beginning, there were search engines. Some, like Google, chose the minimalist approach of delivering only search results to their users (though that has changed dramatically in recent years). Others like MSN and Yahoo! took a completely different path.

They chose to provide their users with a menu of options, including chat features, maps, weather, and a plethora of other tools. For online marketers and site operators, they’re considered one of the most effective resources for free exposure and traffic.

During the past few years, a new phenomenon has emerged: social networking. Websites such as MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn connect people into broader bands of like-minded networks. In so doing, they threaten to usurp the role of the search engines.

Today, we’re going to briefly explore how the social networking trend gained momentum so quickly. I’ll explain how savvy marketers are using the social media sites as one of their newest marketing strategies. Finally, I’ll describe a few tools that will allow you to leverage these sites for increased exposure to your own.

Rise Of Social Networking

Despite what a lot of marketers believe, online social networking has actually existed for over a decade. Arguably, it began when Classmates.com launched in 1995. Over the next few years, they were followed by Six Degrees Of Separation, Circle Of Friends, and Friendster. MySpace transformed the field when it launched in 2003. The following year, Facebook was founded.

The power behind these social networking sites – and the potential they hold for online marketers – lies in their ability to aggregate targeted sects of the public. Not only can these diverse audiences be segmented based upon demographics, shared interests, and other aspects, but they represent connected communities.

It didn’t take long for marketers to notice the potential.

Basics Of Social Networking Marketing

Marketing on social media sites requires a subtle, rather than aggressively promotional, approach. Remember, we’re not talking about spending thousands of dollars on media banner buys that canvas MySpace. You can do that on any online property. The true value of social networking sites lies in the communities in which you immerse yourself and the potential reach they represent.

It’s a matter of establishing yourself as an authority in your field, adding value to the community, and directing those who are in your network to your websites.

For example, let’s assume that you manage a website that sells parts and accessories for Ford Mustangs. You’ll have no trouble finding a social networking community that is filled with Mustang enthusiasts. If you brashly promote your site and products, you’ll lose the community’s attention and likely gain their derision. However, if you answer questions for others, provide short tutorials, and even informative videos, you’ll be considered a valued resource.

Your profile on the social media properties should include links to your site (in this case, your Ford Mustang site). As your perceived value within the social networking community rises, more people will read your profile and visit your site.

In other words, social networking is about creating relationships with those in your market. That means you’ll need to stay active and connected within the community.

Tools Of The Trade

As the options and features for each social media site have expanded, a number of tools have been designed that can help you harness them. An in-depth look at each of these tools is beyond the scope of today’s post, of course. But, I’ll introduce you to a few of the applications that have been developed for Facebook:

Facebook Beacon: This tool will automatically link to your website from other Facebook members’ profile pages when they buy something from you.

FeedBurner: FeedBurner has been around for years. This is a tool created specifically for Facebook users. By installing it onto your profile, it will update every time you post to your website’s blog.

QOOP: You can use this application to transfer the pictures on your Facebook profile to posters, t-shirts, coffee mugs, and other items that promote your business or site.

Getting Started With Social Networking

It’s worth emphasizing that marketing on social media sites should be one part of a larger strategy. It should blend in with your search engine optimization strategies; it should support your video marketing, which we discussed recently; and it should help build your affiliate base (if you’re taking that route).

To get started, choose a platform that offers exposure to your targeted audience. Depending upon your product or website, you might be better served by focusing upon MySpace rather than Facebook. Next, set aside the time (or pay someone else) to create a significant amount of content or useful tools directed at the community you’re targeting. Then, get involved in the community by becoming a valued resource in your field.

Marketing on social media sites is about prying open different points of access to your audience. If you follow the tips I’ve just given you, you’ll enjoy additional exposure for your site, a boost in opt-ins, and increased sales.

Do Internet Marketing Product Review’s Help with Marketing?

The Internet is a great place for anyone to get information on just about anything.  Students use the Internet to get information that they need to do their schoolwork.  Hobbyists go online to find patterns and compare notes with others who share in their craft.  And smart shoppers go online to research products before buying.

Product reviews are highly sought after online.  Whether a shopper is looking for information to use in buying offline or wants to make a purchase online, a product review can tell her what she needs to know.  Sites that exclusively feature product reviews get lots and lots of traffic.  But can product reviews benefit an online marketer?

Reviews of online marketing  Products

Having other people review your product can be scary.  What if they don’t like it?  Won’t that doom you to a future of no sales ever again?  That’s highly unlikely, and if they do like it, you could experience a huge boost in sales.

There is certainly no shortage of negative product reviews online.  But by being proactive, we can have some measure of control over how our products are portrayed.  For instance, if we contact popular bloggers in our field and ask them to review a product for us, they will probably start out with a good impression of us and our products.

There’s always a chance that the reviewer will be unimpressed once she uses the product.  But that good impression we made will usually lead to at least a neutral review.  And we can use any constructive criticism received to improve our products, making them better for the next review.

Reviewing Products on Your Site

If you run a blog or informational website, product reviews make for great content.  They tend to attract lots of traffic, and that traffic can lead to profits.

In order to get the most out of product reviews, it’s important to have a niche and stick with it.  This will ensure that the traffic that comes to your site is targeted.  Once they’re there, you could make money by presenting affiliate products that are likely to be of interest to them.

If you can become an affiliate for the product you’re reviewing, that’s great.  But be sure to give an honest opinion even if you do stand to gain from a sale.  This will help you gain the trust of your audience, and trust is essential in getting sales, even if they are through affiliate links.

Whether someone else is reviewing your product or vice versa, product reviews are great for marketing.  They provide useful information to the reader, bring targeted traffic to the website, and give the product and business exposure.  It’s a winning situation for everyone involved.

Marie yanmi of Mommy Community is hosting another great event especially for moms interested in learning what other great sites that moms author.  Her site turned 5 years this year and she wants to celebrate its length of time by cruising the internet looking for the hottest and neatest mom blogs on the internet.

The blog trip is five days long in which there will be give aways and special prices along with the added benefit of getting links to your site for participating in the blog trip.  The mom blogs will range from anything to shopping, eating, marketing, family living, internet marketing etc…… So whatever you think you might be interested in blog wise, I am sure you will be able to find it.

If you are wanting to participate you can go straight to the page to find out more information and while your there check out all the great mom graphics that marie has made to make your blog trip, sort of like a blog carnival more appealing and fun in the long run. I already have the first graphic posted above.

This great mom blog trip is going to be filled tons of fun and great way to get things started and back into gear if you are a mommy blogger while the kids are back in school.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this and whether or not you plan to participate by just leaving a comment below. See you on the blog trip.

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Just imagine. Every time someone visits your website, there
browser notifies them of your RSS feed. No, it’s not as
interruptive and no where near as annoying as popup
subscription boxes but still a good chance to get people to
subscribe to something you have to offer. In a nutshell,
that’s how auto discovery works. There ’s usually a small
flag somewhere in the browser telling people your feed is
available for them and if the visitor is interested in
subscribing, they will simply click subscribe – much like
bookmarking a page.

Now you know how it works, why is it so important? For one,
many feed readers and browsers already support auto
discovery RSS feeds. But perhaps what’s more important,
Microsoft is incorporating this starting with Internet
Explorer 7. Internet Explorer still commands a good chunk
of browser share out there, especially those who are new to
the Internet or non technical Internet users. If your RSS
feeds are not auto discovery enabled, it’s a good chance
you’ll lose out on a bunch of subscribers.

As it is today, browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari can
auto discover feeds. Many use this to subscribe because it’s
just so much easier. While this group may not be that large
but why should you not take advantage? If just making your
feeds auto discovery friendly you get an extra subscriber,
even if it’s only one it would be worth it because it costs
nothing but maybe 2 minutes of your time.

So how do you find out if your feeds are auto discovery
friendly? The good news is, if you’re using a blog to
manage your content, many have this feature built in. But
it doesn’t hurt to just check it anyway. If you don’t use a
blog, chances are, your feed is not auto discovery enabled.
For step-by-step instructions how to check if your page has
auto discovery, visit

http://www.techbasedmarketing.com/auto-discovery-step-by-step.html

Before I go, here are two little tips that would help your
RSS distribution and subscription using auto discovery.
1. Put the auto discovery tag in other web pages too. Just
because it’s not a blog doesn’t mean you can’t have an RSS
feed on it. Take advantage of that, put your feed in your
main website’s template. Now you have two opportunities to
get in touch with people. When you update your website and
when you update your blog.
2. If you use a service like FeedBurner to track your
subscriptions, remember to update the feed URL in your blog
or website template. This way, you’re capturing all your
feed traffic statistics.

What’s next? Go make your RSS feeds auto discovery friendly
right now. Because RSS is not always visible to us, don’t
run the risk of forgetting this.

Lynette Chandler helps entreprenuers leverage readily
available technology for their marketing. Watch a 3 Minute
Video Tutorial How Auto Discovery Works
http://www.techbasedmarketing.com/videos/autodiscovery.html

What is a blog? Is a question that still many ask today that are new to the internet and want to start their own online web log or create a blog specifically for making money online.

Blogging is basically an online content management system that manages all of the content for you in a systematic order. This makes it easier for those that are brand new to web design and internet marketing to begin the same day of installation, to be able to start adding fresh content to their site.

To have a blog you first need to have some blog hosting which comes from the hosting service you use. Once you purchase your domain name. I recommend that when you do buy hosting, that the hosting company provide cpanel for you with Fantastico installed, so the process of installing is much easier. You can however, choose not to host your own blog and just start a regular blog through wordpress.org but you will be limited in the amount of design process and the control over your site that you want.

Once installed a blog can bring you some great added benefit, as compared to a regular website. Since the search engines pick up on content management systems a lot quicker than they would a regular site. It is also much easier to add and change things around within your site with out even using an html editor. Basically using the great wordpress plugin’s is all you need to have things working wonderfully.

Listing your blog in blog directories such as blog catalog, bloglog and technorati will increase traffic to your site a whole lot quicker since online readers will be able to put in a search for information and find your information. I do recommend this be placed as a priority once your blog is up and ready to go.

Blogging has taken on so many dimensions since it first was released as blog software years ago. Now it is a must for anyone wanting to get your site indexed a lighting speed. Bloggers are now able to build just about anything they want on their site add audio, flash, site maps , social networking plugin and the list goes on and on…..

So when you do decide to create your own site, I hope you take the opportunity first to create your own blog.

Where Should You Host Your Blog?

Should you host your blog yourself or pay someone to host it? It doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie or a veteran this question always comes up when creating a new blog. Usually someone new to blogging would gravitate to hosting a blog themselves or get a free blog and as time goes by with experience they begin to ponder maybe paid blog hosting isn’t so bad after all. So what is better?

To answer this question, let’s first look at how a blog is created. Just like creating web pages, first, you need a software or script that will take your entries, format it and publish it to the web. The second component of a blog, is the web space, where the software should publish to, a home for the blog pages.

Knowing this information, let’s review the different ways to host a blog:

Full blog host.
This is where the blogging system or software is provided for you and your blog is also published to a web space provided by the host. Blogger, SquareSpace and Typepad fall into this category. It’s very much like creating a website with a site builder.

Hosted blog software but published elsewhere
This is where the blog software is provided for you but the blog pages are published to another website or web host altogether. By doing this, the software acts as a publishing system like FrontPage except it creates nicely formatted blogs. Blogger is probably the most well known for this. Yes Blogger can do both. Publish to their host or to yours. As a comparison, this is like using FrontPage to publish your website.

Blog software and blog are hosted on your web server
This is where you would install the blog script (software) on your web server – it can be any web hosting account. And when you publish, the blog itself resides on your web server also. To draw a parallel, this technique is like buying web hosting and then installing a content management system on it to help you build web pages.

If you’re new to building web pages or have built sites using site builders then you might want to go with a fully hosted blog. These hosts do all the nitty gritty for you and there’s very little technical stuff you need to know. If you can point and click, you can build a blog with a full blog host.

Having said that, just because you’re seasoned at building web pages doesn’t mean full blog hosts won’t work for you. In fact, if you have many blogs this becomes very appealing since you won’t have to worry about upgrading the blog script, people exploiting the script, making plug-ins work or what happens when your web host decides to disable part of your blog functions because there is a security hole. All you do is concentrate on blogging. After a while, blogging becomes more important than maintaining your blog and that’s the way it should be.

Next up, hosted software but blog is published to your website.
This seems to be the best of both worlds. At time of writing, Blogger is one of the best ways to do this but because of its popularity often, you find the system too slow to publish or completely down just when you have a hot idea to share. The idea is good but you’ll also be depending on someone else’s availability to publish your blog. It’s much like using a friend’s computer to build your web pages and you know how that can go.

Finally, you have the option to use scripts. This is also a very popular method. The flexibility it allows is very liberating because you can mold the blog anyway you want. You can even get a programmer to create custom plug-ins or customize the whole blogging system the way you want it. In short, you can do pretty much anything you want.

The down side, you need at the very basic, some knowledge of HTML or publishing web pages. Also the burden of upgrading, troubleshooting and maintaining the script is on you. If you have one or two blogs it’s not so bad but once you start having more, it can be quite tedious. You also have to consider all the other responsibilities of maintaining the script as mentioned earlier.

Armed with this information, you should be able to figure out which one is for you. If you’re still undecided, think of how you would do it if you’re creating a regular website. Chances are your choice method for publishing a website is also the best method for you to create a blog.

About the author
Lynette Chandler helps entrepreneurs start blogging and make the most of their blogs. Get a free video how to set up your blog at http://www.internetstrategys.com/techbasedmarketing

Exactly what is pinging?

Pinging which in some ways is similar to rss are simple syndication is basically a way to communicate to other blogs and directories that your blog has just been recently updated. It lets directories know that there is new content on the site and that maybe they should head on over there and re-index the site on the most current information.

Rss feeds send information in the format of the full blog post or just a small title and to what the post is about through email or through feed readers, usually to subscribers only. Pings are small increments of information sent from web server to the next letting them know new blog is available.

Some ways to set up pinging is looking into your wordpress settings and manually setting this up your self. Or you could simply set it up at pingomatic.com.  Technorati is also another great spot to get your pings taken and noticed by a large audience looking for your content.

http://www.technorati.com/ping

Blogging is great sociable way to have fun online while at the same time being  able to teach and share your experiences with other.

The platform that was created as a content management system has grown and expanded so much, that now many plugins enable your wordpress blog to be taken to whole new level.

Blogs allow for the ability to use the site for so much than a basic online journal. From everything from data feeds and scripts and rss posted in many directories.

The possibilities are endless and that is why for your blog to be on that level as the higher ranking ones. You need to check out these awesome wordpress plugins.

All in one seo pack allows you to enter data for your title tags, keywords, and description of post for each individual one.

Google Site maps allows your wordpress blog to be able to focus on pings throughout MSN, YAHOO, GOOGLE ETC.

Related Post plugin will let your readers search around your blog more for more consistent material.

W-p Affiliate plugin allows you to post your affiliate links and mask them so no one can steal affiliate commissions.

Sticky post allows your post to stay up as long as you need it to no matter what.

RSS footer plugin- Makes it super easy to add a line of content at bottom of feeds  with a link back to site.

W-p link directory plugin is one that I just recently found out about, and it helps to set up a directory of listings of links for the site of your choice. Great for seo too.

Permalink Redirect plugin- Makes sure there is 301 permanent redirect if the requested url is not listed and keeps the browser on your site.

Stay Tuned for part two…. of some fun plugins I will list soon for your blog.