Social Marketing, A New Online Trend for Powerful Promotional Campaigns

Social marketing nowadays is the best campaign to do if a webmaster targets quality traffic to his site. Results in doing this type of marketing campaign is quite impressive since traffic going to your site have a higher conversion rate of having more clients for business. Actually, visitors do have relevant interest with the nature of your business and have been in the same group or network in social sites where you are also a member.

Though the marketing campaign is tedious and requires a lot of time and effort to build your social network with the same relevance of your online business to meet that goal or target. It needs a lot of planning, time table and a list of sites to establish your pool of network and online credibility.

The first question is: Where do I start?

Social marketing covers a wide range of websites with different classifications of being "social" online. If we are to categorize these sites, then it provides us the following terms and websites per category:

Social Sites

As of June, 2009 the top social sites are the following:

Ning - currently has more than 1 million social networks created and increasing. A site where you can create your own private social network, add friends, share relevant topics that interests your entire network and many more. This site is the leader amongst the leaders in the wide web world.

Bebo - this site has a total website population of 168 million and that is in the US alone. The site has innovative things such as explore the hottest bands but most important feature is that it is a one-stop-shop for Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Delicious, Twitter and Emails. What else can you say?!

Facebook (US) - one of the fastest growing social site in the web today with so many features. Last March, it has generated 55.9 million of web traffic for this News Corp owned social networking site and has surpassed MySpace who went down in traffic statistics in that period.

Other social sites that were in the forefront and still in the limelight are LinkedIn, Friendster (Asia), Hi5 (Europe), Vois (Europe) to name a few.

Social Bookmarking Sites

Del.icio.us - is the top bookmarking site since it was bought by Yahoo and widely used in the web. Other top leading social bookmarking sites are Digg, Reddit, Technorati, StumbleUpon, Diigo, and Mixx and these are not in the top order.

Forums

Most forums do have a top listings of their own depending on what type of communities or business niche you are interested in. There are even local and international forums that may interest you. Forum sites are commonly the best way to increase your personal or business network. But these sites do have small networks and postings are strictly monitored by Forum Administrators. A sample forum is DigitalPoint.

Other Social Networking Sites

• Business to Business Networls [B2B Networks [Alibaba]
• Video [Youtube]
• Music [Imeem]
• Groups [Google Groups, Windows Live, Yahoo Groups]
• Affiliate [Clickbank]

From these sites, there are free and paid memberships. But the famous ones are normally free. Paid memberships are mostly businesses that have existed physically and makes online promotion as one of their marketing tool.

If you are a rookie or a novice in social marketing and lack funds to invest for online promotion, then the best option is to always go for free memberships and go for sites with high Google page ranking that accepts website links included in your ad postings. The only difference between paid and free promotion is the time element of achieving your goal or targets. But if you know the techniques of searching for the right resource of websites offering free link posting that has a webpage equal to the Google PR of the paid website then you are in the right track and the best thing here is that you can maximize these free resources without spending that much.

The key investment needed here is LOTS of TIME and DILIGENCE to achieve your marketing target.

The best way to do this is to use those keywords from the META tags in your homepage to find them. In the web world, there are no boundaries and resources are limitless. Being an online marketing consultant for more than 5 years, I guess I am in the right position just to motivate you. The website population in the year 2000 has tremendously increased comparing it now (2009 statistics).

Basically, when you start your social marketing campaigns, the important factor to focus on is that the web community has no difference with what you do in reality. Your site represents you in the virtual world. So, proper HUMAN attitude must always be practiced with all your interactions (email etiquette, following rules & agreements in every site) to get positive reviews and gain online credibility. The common alibi of spammers and scam practitioners is that they cannot be caught or it is impossible to meet their victims online in the real world. That way of thinking, my friend, is their big mistake. With lots of new technologies and high-tech programs in the market can bring you to jail in less than a day and be misery the rest of your virtual and real life. :-)

In summary before you go to your next blog or site, social marketing is like a "word by mouth" technique compared to reality. Proper attitude, patience and time investment will provide you good result and online credibility. In the end, your own customer base network has grown without you realizing it. That's when the blessings come in your real world!

Communities or Forums - Why Use Them for Marketing

Quality Traffic from Communities

Quality traffic can be achieved through 4 major reasons why people use communities, discussion groups or bulletin boards:

1) You can get good sound advice from friends, buddies, relatives, etc.

Benefits from Expanding your Community Networks

• Members can make a review of your website.
• Opportunity to ask expert opinions regarding a service, product or website.
• Purchasing in any business opportunity or affiliate programs is beneficial but you or your website must be related to what the webmaster may be interested in.

2) Visitors can discover new web tools, products, ideas or even important tips.

3) Increase network growth by converting those visitors to potential clients or possibly even setup joint ventures with their companies

BUT

Our primary task that is our highest priority is:

4) Promote your website or products without spamming the boards. Creating a network in a natural way and introduce your business in accordance to the rules and regulations of every forum or community you have accounts registered.

Site Promotion

Site promotion using forums or online communities means making relevant postings that contains a link to your site, so that readers will be persuaded to visit. But we have to build the trust from the majority of members by posting quality information first that is related to your business but sharing your expertise to solve or answer their problems or questions.

Why will they do this? They will do this for one reason. Because your site is providing the answers they want.

And in addition, by providing these answers and specializing in a particular area you will soon be recognized as the authority on the subject - with additional benefits which I will demonstrate.

So posting at forums is also a form of "self promotion" wherein you are a representative of your online business. Given that readers will visit your site if you are providing the answers they want the next step is self-evident.

We need to find out what questions they are asking...

Organic Marketing - The Hidden Basic Secrets

Online marketing firms around the world have different strategies and processes to drive traffic to your site. Most of them uses automated processes, software or bots and there are harmful effects with this type of practice that most of their clients finds out the damage or effect that has been done in the end. Other techniques is done through the process of SEO or Search Engine Optimization and this is a good start for new sites.

But take note that if you are a new webmaster, make a research on the different approach using a White Hat vs Black Hat SEO.

Organic traffic is defined as website visitors that came from source links either from search engines or from direct referral traffic from a posted article, etc. These are the primary resource of gaining higher traffic conversion rate and these visitors can be converted to regular clients for your business. Doing this task requires you to be a researcher, link builder, keyword analyst and even be a spy, since you tend to check out your competitor's website that has the same theme as yours. 

Seems to be easier said than done. You are right. Doing all of these repetitive tasks that are being done for a great value of time and effort is not that quite easy. It takes months or even years to do the same repetitive task such as site registrations, profile creation and searching proper webpages or categories to post your ad content.

But there is a right approach to getting that right "organic traffic" for your website. Stated below are some of our few marketing techniques that has been proven effective throughout the years to drive "Organic Traffic" for your site. These steps are the most important tasks to reach the goal of making your site 's keywords and content to dominate major search engines especially Google, Yahoo, MSN and Alexa:

Directory Submission/Classified Ad Posting

We have a database of all directories and list of classified ad sites that are not banned from any of the search engines and has a high traffic source and good page ranking in Google. It has been the practice of our company to do such task manually to ensure that your site link is submitted to the proper category listing. Our competitors uses automated submission software. This is not advisable. This malpractice will blacklist your site to be indexed in search engines. Manual human submission is still the best practice in doing this redundant task. We ensure that a complete detail of your website are properly submitted.

Forum/Community Profiles and Posting

It is also relevant to join forums, groups and online communities that has the same theme with the nature of your site. It is a form of networking and replying to posts with helpful information may gain a good credibility standing and trust in you as a poster. The key point to remember here are the regulations of each forum site. Or else you are blocked instantly. From all link building processes that we do, this is the most difficult process. That is why constant research is what we do before we post replies or just anything on these sites.
 

Note: A required number of posted ads or replies are made daily that are required to get to the top of the SE (Search Engine). We only post your website ad on general topics area that is permitted by Forum Administrators.

Blog

We design a marketing blog and non-formal content but rich with helpful information. Topics that relates to what your site offers must be posted even once a month. The more posts and various topics that readers finds in a blog, the higher chance for them to follow your future postings. These blogs includes your site link and we fully administer these blogs. We provide the clients login details and they have full administration rights. They have the option to change the login passwords if clients wanted to make it as a corporate blog.

Blogs are processed in Feedburner to create RSS links and administer other tools such as optimizing it and submit RSS links to ping sites such as Pingomatic and other blog directories.

Social Sites

Setup a social profile to top Social sites such as Multiply, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Imeem, and Orkut with photos and invite friends and join groups with the same interest of the client's nature of business. Please refer to our Social Promotion Service or read further about social marketing campaigns.

Social Bookmarking

We have database of top social bookmarking sites such as Furl, Technorati, Digg, etc. We do comply with the maximum number of bookmark links (client's KW used in gathering sites). We setup accounts to these sites and status reports are emailed to our client with all the account details.

Note: All submissions, postings and other marketing tasks or processes is in accordance with Google and other major search engine's terms and conditions.

Organic Marketing Activities 

Successful Organic Marketing was based in the extensive research accumulated by Crinixia Data Conversion Services.

The common question of our clients is that how long would it take for this type of service before they see results. The first milestone of new projects handled by our firm takes 2-3 months and that depends from the targets of each website that needs Organic Marketing.

Contact Customer Support for more details of and we will be more than glad to assist you. Don't worry, our consultations are FREE.

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