I want to thank Ken from the PPG for posting this video on the forum.

If you are new to Social Marketing or using Social Marketing to promote your Internet home business, you might want to check this out and learn exactly how things work.

Labels: internet home business, social marketing, social media marketing

Social media marketing is a new, free and very powerful tool and it can serve you very well when you are searching for free internet marketing methods to promote your internet home business online.

Social media sites are called social for a good reason. This is a place for people from all over the world find and connect with other people with same interests and hobbies, and form groups online, build friendships, have new relationships and share their favorites interests and ideas.

It was only natural for these people to start and use these groups, friendships and new relationships to promote their online businesses. When you have online friends, you can reach a larger crowd of people, all are potential customers, and this is how the social media marketing or social networking was born.

So how easy it is to use social bookmarking for internet marketing purpose?

Step 1 - Join some of the leading and popular social media marketing sites. Websites such as Digg, Mixx, StumbleUpon and more are very popular social media sites. Social bookmarking a page in those site and some other sites can be indexed very quickly by the search engines, this is very good if you want the search engine to notice you fast and index you web pages quicker.

This tactic is very good, When you need to drive traffic to a new website and have no money to invest in advertising.

Step 2 - Complete you profile. If you want to promote your internet home business using social media sites and social networking, try to give as much details as you can. When you are online do not hide behind a screen name, if you are here for business let the people know a little about you, sign in with your real name, write a few detail about yourself and on your home business. At the end give a link back to you website and a few of your mostly recommended products.

Step 3 - After you complete your profile is time to socialize. Social networking is all about making new friends, finding people with the same interests as yours, joining groups and building relationships.

These friends are important for your business and they will help you in time to promote your home business, but you will have to help them too.

Step 4 - Now it is time to start the social networking. Social bookmarking is the word. You bookmark you website or blog, and you let people know about it. You also have to bookmark other people websites and blogs, and vote for your friend's bookmarks.

When in social media marketing you need to give to others if you want them to give back to you, this is when you get the best results.

Step 5 - Ask your friends to vote for your favorite links and offer to do the same for them. From this point the traffic to your website will only grow and you get it all for free.

If you join the top leading social media sites, you will get more traffic, as the website popularity grow you will get more votes, your bookmark get indexed faster and this is also counts as a backlink from some of those sites.

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Labels: how to use social media sites, social bookmarking, social marketing, social media marketing, social media sites, Social Networking

"Can someone explain what social marketing is and how it works?"

I see this question popping up a lot with newbies lately. They are just starting their new way with internet marketing and they are confused. They need to learn a lot of new staff and master it if they want their new business to succeed.

Social Marketing is a free tool that everyone can use to promote themselves or their new business. Social marketing is using the social media sites and social bookmarking to help you market your internet home business


Step 1 -
Join a Social Media Site. It doesn't really matter which site you join, you need to learn how to walk before you run. There are many site for example: StumbleUpon, Mixx and Digg.

Join one, and create your profile, your name, your bio, you links, if you have a website or a blog, some site have contact information like massanger, ICQ and Yahoo, then add a photo, if you use social media to market your business, a picture of yourself is the best, since you are promoting yourself.

Step 2 -
Installing tool bars and buttons.
Some of the social media site use a toolbar, some use buttons and some use both.
You will find the tool bar and buttons in the tool section of every site.

Installing a tool bar will place it on your browser, as for the button, all you have to do is drag it to you favorites (links) tool bar and drop it.

Both the tool bar and the buttons allows you to bookmark the link without leaving the website.

Now you can start working.

Step 3 -
Bookmarking. Each time you are on a site that you like (or dislike) you can bookmark it, you can use the tool on your own site too, on blogs, other friends in your community, pictures you like and videos - any link you wish to bookmark you can do it, just click on the button you created on your browser and a new page will open.

On this new page you will see the link you submitted, then you need to insert the title for this link (picture, article, website, etc e.g What Social Marketing Is And How It Works?), the description of this link (This is a post about social marketing) and Tags (keywords for the link e.g social, marketing).

You can also leave a comment on this link (I like this article, it is very informative, I learned a lot from it).

Now you are ready for your next step.

Step 4 -
Socialize. Meet friends, find friend with the same interests as yours and ad them to your list.
Browse your friends' bookmarks and vote for them too, thumb up (or vote up) if you like it and thumb down (or vote down) if you don't.

If you have friend that promoting a product or a website, you can help them by voting to their link and adding a comment.

If you wish to promote a product or your own website and business, just one thumb up is not enough, ask your friends to help you and send them an invitation to vote for your links.

This is not a one way street, you will have to return the favor, if you want your friends voting for you, you will have to vote for them.

Step 5 -
Repeat. Now that you know how social marketing works you need to do it again in more then one site.

There are sites like OnlyWire, that will help you with your bookmarks and submit to 22 sites with one click to save you time.

Last thing - Be careful it is very addictive.

Labels: internet marketing, social bookmarking, social marketing