How to loose in social media? Just talk about yourself!

If you like many other out there talk about yourself in social media than you miss a great opportunity to be recognized as an interesting source of information.

Imagine you are on a cocktail party! And one guy stands with a group of people and start involve in the conversation. Then you understand that this person is only talking about himself. What would you think?

Yeah, you are right!

You would think this guy has no social behavior and this guy is doing shameless self promotion. Instead of sharing something his community cares about!

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If you don’t have anything of value to add to the conversation, than you should keep your thoughts for yourself!

If you want to be accepted by a community and earn their trust, become something like an Trust Agent, like Chris Brogan has described in his homonymous book, you have to listen first and then, and only then if you have come up with some fresh angle, you can do a smart review to the conversation.

You can make or break the communities trust! Shameless self promotion is no marketing!

Social media is there to connect on a more personal basis. Be personal and share advice, promote other people, and ultimately learn from others. To gain authority shares your personal perspectives to your communities.

Just be yourself instead of only talking about yourself!

First you have to earn the communities trust, than you can carefully start promoting because people will be curious about you.

The more personality, restraint and expertise you show, the less you talk about yourself, the more authority and trust you will gain with your communities!

How do you promote and do you think self promotion woks? I am curious to read your opinion. Your comment is appreciated!

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How to show short term social media ROI to your boss?

To show a short term ROI out from social media is important to keep the activities motivated and long lasting. In the long term social media brings massive branding power as well.

How to show short term social media ROI?

You need to set up a strategy, which includes a whole set of tasks to get ROI out of social media and other online activities if you want to succeed!

 

Inbound marketing offers this kind of strategy to help you succeed with your revenue goals.

Inbound marketing positions you to execute a holistic marketing strategy and measure the results the smart way.

Inbound marketing gets you found and gets you leads!

To make your inbound marketing the right way and become able to measure your results you need to do a documentation of your doings and results.

Brain vs. Budget = Inbound Marketing

Track your month to month results (friends and followers growth) and then divide these numbers through your invested hours, your hourly working rate. You can also drill down to the price per friend and follower.

With this you get a good picture of how much it cost (time = money) to be active and to get followers and friends in each network.

To measure your profits made through social media activities you should setup different landing pages which for example lead friends from facebook to a FB related landing – lead capture page and followers from Twitter to a TW landing page – lead capture page.

Through a lead nurturing process you can track each channel separately and calculate your previous efforts invested (hours/ time = dollars) to your sales results from the said channels.

Your social media traffic has a great value. To calculate the value $$$ of the generated social media traffic which hits your landing pages, you could research the Google AdWords Keywords pricing.

You will discover that your social media landing page traffic, made through PPC, would cost you a ton of cash.With social media it does not.

This additional ROI factor, which also lowers the cost per lead through social media activities, can also be taken into account when presenting your short term social media ROI to your boss.

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The Fortune 100 Companies love social media

During the past years social media has reached more and more big companies.

Companies as Coca Cola, SAP, IBM and many more are successfully active in social media.

For those companies social media has become an important communication channel to get valuable information about trends, customer satisfaction, to learn more about the market demand and address their products and services successfully straight direct to their audience.
For those companies who still did not embrace social media ahard uphill battle has begun!
Still there are misunderstandings and zero strategies when companies try to make use of social media as a communication channel.
Mostly traditional PR thinking collides with the new art of social media marketing.
Burson-Marsteller 2011 Global Social Media Check-up


To get value out of social media activities companies need to have a strategy, resources, budget and to forget the old school PR thinking! It simply does not work anymore in social media. Moreover it can damage a brand seriously.

To be successful in social media, you need to see social media as an important part of a holistic marketing strategy where every gear fits into each other like a Swiss watch.

As social media is one important part but not the only part of your marketing you need to have a holistic inbound marketing strategy. There is some more to be done to get value out of your social media marketing activities as well.

From the initial and important part of to get found online through search engines, social media, corporate blog, guest blogging -commenting, eBooks, whitepapers and some more; To the lead capture, lead nurturing, lead conversion and measurement, the inbound marketing strategy covers it all.

Inbound marketing is the marketing strategy that focuses on getting found by customers.

With inbound marketing businesses earn their way to the customer, by publishing helpful information on a blog, in social media and forums.

Inbound marketing includes Blogging, Social Media, Lead Conversion, Lead Nurturing and Closed-Loop Analysis.

Inbound marketing can help you to:

A. Save up to 60% of your marketing budget.
B. Stand out of your competition.
C. Generate a massive amount of leads.
D. Get up to 55% higher lead conversion rates.
E. Increase your customers and sales.

As your primarily goal is to get found, you need to gain reach. You need to expand your channels like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Search engines, YouTube, Corporate Blog, Blog directories, industry related forums and some more niche social networks.

You need to become a trusted and valuable source for your audience. This helps your business a lot and open doors where walls have been before.

You need to communicate authentic and honestly with your audience and expand your network step by step organically.

As you are active in social media, you can add press releases and sales activities to your social media tasks as well.

Listen carefully! Conversation about your brand is happen in social media for sure. The questions are, do you know about it and how do you respond to it?

Monitor social media to know when your brand is mentioned. Respond in a professional manor and take negative comments as chance to showcase your point of view!

The way you respond shows the level how much you care about your audience opinion!

And also this gives you an outlook about your future chances to survive in this competitive social media world.

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A good Page Rank on Google only doesn’t bring you revenue

To have a good PR – Page Rank on Google is not enough to be successful with your business online.

A huge amount of traffic is also no guarantee for a successful online business.

You need to have the right traffic, and a huge amount of it.

http://www.lifeiscolourful.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/free-web-traffic.jpgYou invest effort and money to generate traffic, why not attract the right traffic with the right people to your business?

To attract your target audience to your business you need to show expertise, gain trust and build credibility.

People only buy from people and businesses they trust.

People mainly go online to research and not to buy!

If you are not able to showcase your expertise and build credibility with your target audience than they will not click to buy, no matter which PR o how many traffic you think you have!

You can showcase your expertise; build trust and credibility with remarkable content you publish online.

Build trust and credibility before you try to address your products and services. Social media is a great source to build trust and credibility.

Social media has also become the new SEO!

The more you are active in social media, means the more you interact with your audience, build and distribute remarkable content like blog posts, video, eBooks, Whitepapers and Articles, the more trust and credibility you will build with the people you like to attract as your future customers.

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing are actively indexing content from social media.

Those results increasingly come up on search results when people research online in search engines! If you are not active in social media than you waste a big chance to build trust, credibility and to get found online.

“On the web you are what you publish!” –David Meerman Scott

Marketing takeaway tip: Be there before the sale. Build trust and credibility. Be there and they will come!

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How to overcome the Social Media Cash Cow fairytale

It’s a widespread superstition that you only need to be there in social media and you will get a ton of customers and sales.

That’s 100% wrong!

As any other communication channel social media has to be done the right way.

How the description says, it’s a communication channel. This means two way communication and not one way dump and boring marketing slogans!

Dump and boring marketing slogans are still common use in social media, and those companies still seriously think they do social media marketing.
As any other communication channel, in which you invest time and money and you want to profit from, you need to learn the rules, the does and don’ts and show a little empathy in your communication with your audience and community.
As your goals are to attract new customers to your products, you need to make them curious about your brand. This only works when you take the effort to find out what’s making your buyer personas curious.

Social media marketing only works for companies who can seriously showcase they care about their audience, are willing to take any effort to help and to support their customers.

Businesses who don’t understand this will have no success in social media!

Moreover they will showcase that they do not care about their audience and for them social media marketing will become social media suicide!

Brain vs. Budget = Inbound Marketing


Some points you should take into account to have success with social media marketing:

Social media is like a cocktail party. You enter the room and go to a group and listen, and if you have something smart to contribute, than you should speak. So you should listen and learn about your audience first!

Don’t talk too much about yourself. I don’t know how you are, but I don’t like people they talk about them self the whole day long. Talk WITH your audience, ask questions and offer assistance.

In social media you have to give BEFORE you can take. Don’t try to sell to people who don’t know you, your company and your products. Instead of “dump idiot marketing” you should make them curious about you and your business.

Gain enough trust and credibility. As you have gain enough trust and credibility the people will come to you automatically, so you don’t have to sell by yourself anymore. You will ATTRACT your new customers on autopilot!

Show that you are human and act like one! Your audience doesn’t like jerks! And your audience is powerful. It can make or break you and your business.

For example Barack Obama had a two way communication with his audience’s offline and in social media and has become president of the United States.

The presidents of Tunisia and Egypt have ignored the community and they lost their jobs as presidents of their countries within a couple of weeks.

Be patient and persistent! To be patient is an essential part of success. Also be persistent with your daily social media giving. Give, give more, give every day and the results will exceed your wildest dreams.

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Social Media vs. Traditional Advertising

How to make the most of inbound marketing

If you’ve been following this blog, or if you have put any time into strategizing your online marketing campaign, you understand the importance of inbound marketing.

Inbound marketing is a way of making customers come to your site usually via Social Media, PR’s, articles, blogs, online ads, PCP campaigns, and others.

For now let’s focus on Social Media, perhaps the least understood yet the most cost effective and potentially the most lucrative branch of online marketing.

http://www.watblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/traditionalvssocial.JPG Over 20 million people use Twitter. It is estimated over 175 million people log onto Facebook every single day and there are over 600 million active users.

Other social mediums like Myspace and YouTube have more followers viewing their pages than the cleverest billboard on the busiest highway in the world.

In fact the only advertising scenario that can draw as much attention as these sites potentially is a Super Bowl ad, and those cost around $3 million a minute.

So obviously Social Media has a lot of potential, especially since is it is basically free minus people costs to set everything up and post regularly

But Social Media is not a billboard or Super Bowl ad. Traditional advertising differs for a couple of reasons:

1. People have no choice. If they are watching TV, they are going to see commercials.

It is acceptable because for the rest of the time they are being entertained.

That is they are getting something out of the deal, and as a trade the customer is allowing advertisers the 30 second opportunity to try to sell them their product.

Same with a Newspaper or Magazine ad. For billboards or POS ads, people are a certain place, and have no choice but to see the ad. The advertiser has a second or so to get their attention, but they have a definite audience.

When you have a Facebook page, Twitter account, or YouTube page, your customer does have a choice. And let’s be honest with ourselves for a moment and admit 99.99% of people online don’t want to see your ad – or your Social Site acting as an ad of sorts in this instance.

How to overcome this: Well, you can’t post a billboard on the internet, least not at this point, so treating it like a billboard or POS ad is out of the question.

And besides, you’re not looking for branding only at this point (what an ad usually is), you’re looking for people to actually take action now, “branding” is kind of the Silver Metal of the Social Media marketing Olympics.

What does work is interacting with people in a way they want to be “interacted” with.

Sell your product, but give them a reason to follow you outside of your core benefits.

Your benefits aren’t enough if you’re looking for new customers. Benefits are only for people who already knew they wanted your product. If you only want those people, you don’t need Social Media.

2. “Changing the channel” is simpler online. Sure you can switch the channel at home sitting on your couch.

You can ignore a sign, skip an ad in a Paper, turn off the radio, etc. However it is not as easy, and when you’re dealing with large numbers of people, simply from an anthropological perspective the easier it is to ignore you the more likely more people are going to ignore you.

How to overcome this: As mentioned you need to give people something outside of your core benefits if you want to begin a real following (as opposed to the manufactured type many companies fall for paying for that don’t work and in some cases are counter productive).

However, to ensure people don’t “change the channel” you need to keep giving them something.

This applies to B2C and B2B both. If you sell to businesses, keep them up to date on news within your industry, even if it has little to do with you, tell them where your company is going sure, but also tell them where the industry is going.

And do it in a more casual tone than a white letter, do it like you’re talking to someone at a convention and are really just waiting to grab a beer after – well maybe not that casual, but you get the idea. If you’re talking directly to consumers you may want to hire a professional to be your spokesperson.

Yes, I’m sure there are many ways your product will benefit them, but as mentioned, they don’t care.

You have to break through that. If we’re using the “just waiting until the convention is over to grab a beer” analogy from above, this time it’s more like you’re ad a barbeque already, not drunk, but having a good time.

Hope that makes sense. The main points are:

1. Don’t forget the “social” in Social Media.
2. Sell, but give them something outside of your product.
3. Keep doing it. Social Media is not a constant, and if you do not stay on top of it your followers will disappear tomorrow.

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Old school marketing vs. inbound marketing

You have established a corporate blog and you write remarkable content and you distribute it through various social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and some more.

You are also active in Foursquare and have set your place in Google places.

http://aldiazjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/old-school.jpgYou are commenting on Twitter, industry related blogs and forums and you have established great relationships to your audience and industry related bloggers.

You have also set a lead generation and lead nurturing process successfully and you generate real revenue out of your efforts, right?

I am really proud of you! But do you really think this is all you can do?

And here is the problem! You are satisfied with your results and you do not go further.

You simply stoped your efforts to look further and to go the extra mile!

In the times before internet, social media hype and inbound marketing strategy businesses used to do trade shows, cold calling, writing and sending out sales letters to their audience and doing industry related magazine ads.

We have learned that these strategies do not offer any valuable opportunity to get measured and to calculate any ROI.

You do not need to do these strategies mentioned above.

But there are further opportunities to get seen from your target audience. Maybe you should take a closer look to business directory listings, Trade Magazines, PPC and Social Media behavioral marketing.

Some sources you could take a closer look to, to reach more of your target audience and generate more leads.

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5 ways to include your social media to offline marketing

Offline marketing is the one of toughest jobs in these days because nobody has time to listen to the direct marketing executives and to read advertisements in the newspaper, but everybody spends around 4-5 hours on the social networking websites.

So, social media is one of the cheapest ways by which company can advertise its products.

Social media websites like twitter, facebook and blogs have become a platform that is easily accessible to anyone with internet access.

Offline marketing and social media cannot exist without each other!
#1 Send a survey to your customers: This is the first way to include internet advertising to offline marketing as it is very easy to send a survey to your customers; the reason is you have already an email list of your offline customers. In return, you can offer them to win a contest that may be of any useful product that they are searching for.
Besides from it, you can ask your customers for comments or feedback and it will make an impact on them.


#2 Customer’s desires: After recognizing your customer in your audience, you need to start conversation with customers about your new products. Before that conversation, you must know what your audience wants and wants must be more valuable than needs. There is a google keyword tool that is free and available to all users. It helps you a lot in making a connection with your customers.

#3 Attractive profile: Try to make that kind of social profile which attracts your customers. Consider your customer as a king and let them feel like a king. Moreover, your marketing messages must be connected with your customers.

#4 Advertising consultants and marketing websites: Advertising consultants and inbound marketing agency like marketing websites can help you to find the inbound research of your products. They can give you the data of customers who are interested in your product and who have searched for your products on their sites.

#5 Social network sites: After knowing your interested customers, you can go through their social networking accounts and find their liking and disliking lists. This information will help you to start communicating with messages to customers. Moreover, these sites increase web traffic to your company’s site.

Marketing takaway Tip: Social Media marketing is one of the powerful sources for your offline business marketing. Get your information in social media sites like the contact and lead generation pages and get significant leads for your business online.

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10 Ways to enhance your Facebook Static page

As facebook is very popular all over the word and it is a kind of social media marketing tool.

Nowadays it is getting used for web marketing as well as web advertising. But, if you want to enhance your facebook page personally, there are so many ways to do it. Ten of those ways, i am going to share with you here.

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This is the first way to enhance your facebook page.

It is also called welcome tab and you can add any type of content picture and video so that it can attract facebook users more to your facebook page.

#2 Your Blog:

A blog has been a great source of an inbound marketing, but it can bring a great attraction to your Facebook page.

Your friends get to read your ideas as well as thoughts in your blog. Moreover, through your blog you can do web marketing as well as web advertising as it is very useful. Use networked blogs to syndicate your blog with facebook page

#3 Video Updates:

The most of the people in the world prefer to watch videos, so same kind of situation is here that facbook users like to watch videos in facebook page.

 

#4 Flickr Photos:

It is wonderful way to enhance your facebook page as it helps in importing your all photos from your flicker account. Your friends get to see these photos in your facebook page.

#5 Twitter Updates:

Twitter is very popular like facebook all over the world. The important thing is everyone is on the twitter right from politician to businessman. So, you can import all your tweets from your twitter account and stay in touch with latest information and news. It enhances your facebook page so that more facebook users can like your page.

 

#6 Live Chat:

Chatroom is the best way to communicate with friends and loved ones instantly. For enhancing your page, live chat in facebook is the best option for your page.

#7 Polls and Quizzes:

Polling has become very popular as it is used in getting public likings and disliking. And in facebook page, it can attracts more friends to your page as most of the people are interested in polling. Moreover, there is another one of enhancing your page by asking question to your friends in the facebook.

#8 Facebook Page Contests:

By this way, you can have contests on your facebook page; as a result, there is possibility to attract friend’s friends as they get to win something by winning contest.

#9 Promotions:

Many businessmen use facebook as a promoting or advertising tool to attract more and more people. In the same way, we can attract more friends to our facebook page by promoting popular brands.

#10 Involver:

Through this way we can import video channels, flickr accounts, slides, PDF files and promotion gallery. This is the main benefit that we can import so many things by using this way.

Marketing takeaway tip: Facebook statik page (FBML) is a great way to market your business online through one of the biggest social media networking sites. Generate potential leads for your business online by spicing up your facebook page.

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4 Easy ways to make your brand more social

If you want to make your brand more social, you can look at marketing consulting or business consulting sites and take advice from the marketing consultants.

There are so many business blogs regarding how to make your brand more social.

You must know about inbound marketing agency to make your brand more social and how to get customers attached to your brand.

Here are some points that you have to keep into mind for it.

#1 Consistency matters for social media updates:

Everybody in these days is tech savvy, spends a lot of time on internet and gets interacted with tones of information. So majority forgets that information in minutes.

So the question is how to remember your information and then consistency comes into picture. It means spread the information on social media websites consistently.

The reason is that more people will see your information, the more will attach with you.

#2 Do things responsibly:

There are so many social networking sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg and StumbleUpon and many other.

You must be regular on these social media marketing websites and also you can share your company blog’s post regularly here.

You must do things responsibly such as, post, read, follow, solve problems, thank people, listen and learn.

You should not wait for people to come to you; in fact, you should think of how to reach them. If you have such kind of approach, your brand will become more social easily; as a result, your business leads.

#3 Share with social networking sites:

It is one of popular ways that increase web traffic in internet advertising world as social networking sites are the part of social media marketing agency.

If you want to make your brand more social, you need to share the promotional video of your brand with social networking sites.

You should post that link to every social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg and StumbleUpon and many other.

Besides from it, there are video sites like YouTube, you should also post that link to here and you should not limit your link to only YouTube. You can post that link to Dailymotion and Vimeo as well.

#4 check your performance:

The main thing is you must know about performance of your brand so that you can work on making your brand more and more social.

There are so many tools that are available in internet and you can use one of those for measuring or checking the performance of your brand in internet.

Without using these tools, you will not know how your brand’s performance from starting is.

Marketing takeaway Tip: Social Media Marketing is very important for improving your brand image online. Getting your business updates regularly in social networking sites improves the brand name and helps in getting found online by customers.

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Social Media increases the pressure for better customer service

If you are active in social media and you only talk about your self and do not listen to your target audience than you are definitely going into the wrong direction!

More and more companies discover social media as a marketing channel.

Social media marketing opportunities are limitless. But when you think the only thing you can do with social media is to blow out your marketing message, than you are missing a great part of the possibilities social media is offering to your business.

Ben Nesvig, marketing manager of Fuzed Marketing said: “Businesses that don’t actively answer support questions via Twitter and Facebook will feel the sting in 2011. Smart companies have already taken advantage of these tools, but look for small businesses to become more involved.”


Customers online in social media communities expect from a business to interact with them and to listen and to respond to them.

With social media companies can offer better service and support. Service and support are the underestimated secret weapons to be a step ahead of your competition.

When businesses interact with their target audience they can learn more about how they think and about their wishes and expectations from a company and their products.

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In deed companies who carefully listen, can build products bespoke to their customers needs and set them self apart from any competition in their whole niche!

A careful interaction builds trust, increases the reputation of a company and increases the revenue and leaves your competition far behind you.

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Recruit your employees online and save thousands of dollars

How business has gone the social media marketing way there also recruiting is changing.

Business will spend less money in the future on head hunters and advertising to attract employees!

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Studies show that about that about 60 to 70 percent of recruiting is now happening through social networks.

Ted Williams, the “homeless man with a golden voice,” is a prime example of where recruiters are hunting for talent.

Watch this video: ‘Golden Voice’ homeless man finds job, home after viral video success
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Christina Pappas, inbound marketing manager at Zmags said: “Our online footprint will determine our personal brand and potential to employers,”

Companies can save thousands of dollars each year by using online networks, in-house tools and employee referral systems to get new candidates.

Social networks lead all other recruiting channels for planned investment by employers as the economy rebounds, according to a new survey by recruitment platform Jobvite.

Recently there was a survey conducted by one of recruitment platform Jobvite and it was found that more than 80% of respondents have planned to use social media networks for recruiting this year. LinkedIn (78%), Facebook (55%) and Twitter (45%) are the most popular social recruiting platforms, while MySpace is used by 5 percent of respondents.

Some tips to get your online recruiting started:

  • Start conversation in social media.
  • Involve all your employees in your social media activities
  • Showcase your steak holder value, do videos and interviews and post them in social media.
  • Be human and authentic.
  • Start your corporate blog and encourage your fellow employees to contribute.
  • Encourage your employees to spread the word about your open positions though their social media communities.
  • Be creative.

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Easy Inbound Marketing Leads through LinkedIn

Amtower predicts that LinkedIn will increase their user base to more than 120 million in 2011.

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site.

Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

As of 1 January 2011 LinkedIn had more than 90 million registered users, spanning more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.LinkedIn is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Quantcast reports Linkedin has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.

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This offers a great opportunity for businesses to attract leads and customers the inbound marketing way to their offer.

LinkedIn is adding new features constantly, which make it more and more useful and interesting for users. LinkedIn’s Group feature, which supports the growing trend of geographic-based groups, has evolved to a tool which targets geographic and functional niches.

Further new features like company pages, paid search advertising and apps which are benficial to B2B, will attract more B2B users.

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An easy way to choose a profitable domain name

Today it was announced that Facebook has aquired the domain name FB.com from Facebook the American Farm Bureau Federation for $8.5 million!

A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9NA3eH4VZzA/StQXxZS_WlI/AAAAAAAAAY8/jH8uMhvgD9Q/s400/Facebook_Logo+19.gifI am sure you can remember the beginning of Facebook. At the the time of the beginning they had the domain name TheFacebook.com. Later it transformed to Facebook.com. They paid $200,000 in August 2005 for this one.

Most people who communicate online use for Facebook only the two charcaters FB. Facebook has make use of this trend and aquired the FB.com domain name.

Facebook is a great example how the right domain name can make a business.

For you as an entrepreneur this is a great example on how and why to choose the right domain name.

Here are some easy steps how you can choose the right domain name for your business:

 

  1. Put together a list of up to 25 possible one Key-word names.
  2. Brainstorm as many new short words out of these names. Be creative! It’s a little bit like scabble.
  3. Check these new potential domain names if they are available as TOP level domain (.com).
  4. Now when some of them are available, check if these names are availbel in social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc…..
  5. Choose the shortest one which sounds great.
  6. When you have found one register it and signup to the social media services with your new domain name to secure them.


For example inBlurbs consists of two words!

Inbound-Marketing
Inbound marketing is a marketing strategy that focuses on getting found by customers. David Meerman Scott recommends that marketers “earn their way in” (via publishing helpful information on a blog etc.) in contrast to outbound marketing where they used to have to “buy, beg, or bug their way in” (via paid advertisements, issuing press releases in the hope they get picked up by the trade press, or paying commissioned sales people, respectively).

Blurbs
A blurb is a short summary or some words of praise accompanying a creative work.

 

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Effective time frame for successful Inbound Marketing

Inbound marketing is an very effective way to lower cost per lead and to attract new customers.

How every marketing strategy it is not done by themself. You need to do it effectively every day to gain results.

At first you need to know what to do. For this you have to have an inbound marketing plan which includes, social media marketing, lead generation, lead nurtuting and closed loop analysis.

An inbound marketing action plan is the first thing you have to do.

When you have your plan – your roadmap than you can do your tasks more efficient.

The important keypoints for your inbound marketing are:

Listen
Listen to the conversation in your business realted channels.

Channels which could be important for you are: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, industry related forums, video sites, industry related blogs, industry related press releases and industry related magazines.

Daily time investment: 15+ minutes

Monitor
Set alerts in Google Alerts and SocialMention with your keywords.

Keywords to use could be your company name, your name, your products nam, your competitors names and products and your clients names if you are in B2B.

Daily time investment: 15+ minutes

Participate
Participate in social media conversation. Show your expertise and build trust.

Answer questions and ask questions about possible product improvement and satisfaction.

Daily time investment: 30+ minutes


Capture Leads

Build landing pages for your promotions. This gives you the opportunity to capture interested leads.

You can also capture leads online which come from offline promotion.

To capture leads, offer something of value to your prospect in exchange for their name, email address and phone number.

Produce valuable reports and whitepapers with information which solve problems of your target audience. This will encourage them to give their information to you.

Daily time investment: 20+ minutes

Promote
Start to promote your business in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, industry related forums, video sites, industry related blogs, industry related press releases and industry related magazines.

Daily time investment: 20+ minutes

Publish
Publish as many valuable content as you are able to. Build a corporate blog and write about topics in which you target audience is interested in.

Offer further information which leads them to your landing pages to capture tham as a lead.

Daily time investment: 1+ hour

Lead Nurturing
Nurture your leads, stay in touch with them. Offer persoanl consultation, exclusive webinars and further whitepapers or special promo discounts for your leads to stay in touch with them, build trust and get them as paying customers.

Daily time investment: 2+ hours

Build Community
Build your community. The more people you have in your community the better.

This can spread your messsage very far worldwide within seconds.

Daily time investment: 1+ hour

Measure
Measure your activities. See what is working and what is not.

Improve and repeat all of the above steps.

Daily time investment: 15+ minutes

In total you need to invest about 5 hours and 55 minutes daily for the beginning to gain substantial results from your inbound marketing.

I return your inbound marketing will reward you with this:

A. Saves you up to 60% of your marketing budgets.
B. Makes you stand out of your competition.
C. Generates you a massive amount of leads.
D. You get up to 55% higher lead conversion rates.

 

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