by TheMarketingProfessional
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that has been one of the driving and defining forces in the social networking world this past year. There is no question that the web 2.0 revolution is changing the way marketing professionals market, advertise and communicate. With this in mind here are the top two key areas for the top Tweeters of 2009 from the Teqnolog Blog
The Top 3 Individuals were:
- Chris Voss with 109,542 tweets ( @CHRISVOSS )
- Rick London with 98,682 tweets
- Richard Darell with 78,730 tweets
The Top 3 Organizations were:
- Fox News with 141,303 tweets ( @FOXNEWS )
- HuffPost Politics with 130,262 tweets
- BBC News with 60,305 tweets
Social networking is one of the most adaptable ways that marketing professionals can use and implement in their everyday marketing strategies that if you haven’t started, investigated, or integrated it into your daily operations then I urge you to get started now, you can start by following me on Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/markedwardbrown or add me as a friend on FaceBook: http://www.FaceBook.com/markedwardbrown
Leave me a comment and let’s talk about marketing, advertising and social networking.
Always to Your Success,
The Marketing Professional
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by TheMarketingProfessional
Are you using article marketing to build your online business yet? Why not? One big part of any online business must be article marketing if you want one of the best no cost methods for driving targeted traffic to your sites or blogs. I know that it can be intimidating when you first get started but once you get into a routine you can see some profitable results.
Article marketing will allow you to build your reputation in the social networking arena and allow people to get to know you through your personality that comes through in your writing style. It is a good outlet for your creativity, as articles can be based on your personal experiences, services and products.
If you are just starting out it may take a little while for you to experience the benefits of your articles, because just a few articles doen’t make that much of an impact. However, if you consistantly create quality content you will build up a following.
Articles take some time to be picked up by different syndication services. So each article you write could show up some where unexpectedly in as little as just a few months and once your article is out there it will continue to be viewed by people searching for information that you write about.
Do your due diligence and educate yourself in article marketing and copy writing styles, and do keyword research so that you can better target your target market. Utilizing copy writing methods that use trigger words will help get your readers to take action and visit your site or blog.
Although article marketing can seem like a tedious step in your marketing routine you could always outsource it however most people can tell a crappy article from one with truly valuable content.
Remain consistent and success will be yours,
The Marketing Professional
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by TheMarketingProfessional
Instead of spending big bucks to advertise in print publications and participate in other costly offline marketing venues, many businesses of all sizes are turning to free to low cost internet methods and strategies to invest their time, effort and branding for a greater outreach. Because for much less than the price of one print classified ad, a company can generate many more leads, targeted leads, with methods that are free to very low cost on the Internet, while responses from print campaigns, if any, are often not worth the return on investment (ROI) in comparison.
Some of the more popular free to low cost internet marketing methods out there today follow.
1) Free Press Release and Article Directories – Well written articles and press releases help draw targeted Internet traffic to websites. Simply insert a link in the body of the press release that invites readers to visit a website for a free report or other offer in the last paragraph, and add a similar call to action in the resource box or byline or an article. Then submit the press releases and articles to free online article directories and press release sites. Find them by entering keywords like, “free article directory,” in Google or other top search engine.
2) Hire Ghostwriters – Hiring someone to write content for your blog, website, article and press release submissions work is easy to day and inexpensive when you outsource your work to ghostwriters. Find experienced, qualified writers on freelance bid sites like Elance.com and on forums in your niche and in the Internet marketing arena, like at WarriorForum.com.
3) Establish a Presence at Free Social Networking, Bookmarking and Other Sites – There are many places online where you can register for a free account, set up a web presence there, often with the ability to upload digital media to share with others, post on a blog and more, while also networking with fellow members and / or visitors to the site, as they make comments on your content, share their info and more. Some of these sites are:
Squidoo
Hubpages
Blogger
Wordpress
MySpace
Twitter
Find many more by searching Onlywire.com for starters. And sign up there to bookmark all your content for sharing with multiple sites and to learn more.
A couple points to keep in mind with these sites are: follow the rules at each, don’t spam and don’t go over board there. For example, Hubpages only allows two links to your sites, at the time of this writing. Don’t add three, trying to fake them out with an affiliate link. And don’t spam comments all over on other Hubs just to get links. This type negative activity can get you banned, your account closed.
4) Free Classified Online Ads – Search for “free classified ads” in Google and many sites show up. Some of the more popular places to submit your ads are:
a) craigslist
b) backpage
c) kijiji
d) gumtree
e) loquo
f) classifieds.myspace
g) expo.live
h) adlandpro
i) usfreeads
j) oodle
For help writing your ads and even submitting them and keeping them up to date on each site, consider hiring help, outsourcing with a ghostwriter experienced with sales copy, and a virtual assistant who can open accounts at each place, submit your ads and follow up as they expire to renew them, revise them, etc.
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To Your Continued Success,
The Marketing Professional
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