Frankly when someone asked me about viral marketing many years ago, I was under the impression that viral marketing was about marketing the latest in anti-viral medication!
You can imagine my embarrassment when I realized what they were talking about! But no one will make the same mistake nowadays as viral marketing is one of the best ways to sell your products and raise awareness of anything under the sun that you want to.Read the rest of this entry »
The What is this – you need to drive traffic to it! Let’s make sure you don’t have a fancy looking billboard sitting on an empty dirt “cyber highway”.
Be Careful of the Cons Out There…You would have no doubt come across all the websites that stated ‘Website Traffic Guaranteed’ or ‘the best strategy to increase traffic to your website’!
But have you thought about what is actually guaranteed and what you would benefit from that? Have you thought what guaranteed website traffic means?
Or what is it that you can expect from such guarantees? Well, I shall tell you what that means. Read the rest of this entry »
Social networking sites are making it more difficult for marketers to use stealth tactics to market to (and spam) its members. Personally I think that is great as the truly good marketers will rise like cream to to the top! Deceiving customers and annoy the masses is not a good business practice!
In 2009, with over 350 million active users (click here for source), Facebook really took off, replacing MySpace as the marketer’s adult web 2.0 playground of choice.
Some of the ‘oops’ I’m in your face marketing mistakes:
You had people complaining that their friends were only talking about business opportunities – and some complaining that they didn’t care to know the personal aspects of their friends lives because they were there to conduct business.
Facebook fan pages to the rescue!
Many marketers decided to clean their friends’ list and open fan pages instead – reserving their official Facebook profile for close friends and family only. Facebook has a lot to ensure their income continues to soar with this influx of non-college students. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter rose from the lowly ranks of new microblogging social networking sites swiftly. Some say an entire Presidential campaign was won partially off the viral nature of this site – but regardless of whether or not you believe that, there’s no denying it can be a very powerful method of reaching a large audience. Read the rest of this entry »
Maria Gudelis here, if you’re trying to build good business relationships with people, the best way for the relationship to sizzle would be to cozy up to your customers.
One of the smartest, most casual ways to cozy up to them is to use Twitter.Using Twitter for businesses has been around a while, but how to make it really work on the job is a secret only a few people have come to realize and apply.Read the rest of this entry »
If there is anyone qualified to speak on social media for business, it would be Maria Gudelis.She is a renowned expert in the field of real estate, marketing, finance, and investing.She started out as a self-made entrepreneur at the tender age of 10 and made her first investments in stocks and real estate within the next decade of her life.Read the rest of this entry »
OK – Got Website…Now What?
Twitter rose from the lowly ranks of new microblogging social networking sites swiftly. Some say an entire Presidential campaign was won partially off the viral nature of this site – but regardless of whether or not you believe that, there’s no denying it can be a very powerful method of reaching a large audience. 
