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When it comes to social media marketing than every time the questions appear: How long does it take until I see any results, how can I measure them and how can I estimate the value in cash?
Well, about the question ‘how long does it take’ I can say: This depends on you, your background and your skills in internet/ social media and inbound marketing and the time you invest in your social media activities.
Think about your actual skills and learn (internet/ social media and inbound marketing).
This is what you need to know to get the job done!
As a next step you can review your actual internet/ social media and inbound marketing activities and the results, means lead conversion and sales.
Make a goal sheet! Describe the marketing actives you need to implement and the one you need to adjust. Set a time management to get your things done! Describe each point in deep and each step you need to get this job done!
Here is a smal roadmap which you can use to get into internet/ social media and inbound marketing within 30 days!
1. Implement a blog and offer remarkable (daily) content about your industry, without sales pitches or your own products mentioned included. Offer additional VIP information and direct interested people to a ‘lead capture page’.
2. Connect your blog RSS Feed to LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to distribute your content to you targeted audience.
3. Get involved in LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Invite people related to your industry. Include an offer for additional VIP information and direct interested people to a ‘lead capture page’.
4. Inform those leads with further valuable information, but don’t push or pitch them. Yes, you can include offers and calls to action, but do not overuse it!
5. VERY IMPORTANT: Be patient! ‘Rome was not build in one day!’
And with these easy steps above you can start to generate leads from social media ‘Immediately’, measure them very easy, and track the conversion of each lead and the value of each new client.
No nonsense, no black magic. Simple steps which you can follow as well. No excuses. Take action now!
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Businesses out there invest a huge amount of money to learn how a consumer thinks! They do this to get a better inside scoop on what he or she is interested to spend money in and which kind of product or service is demanded in the market actually.
A rejected product or service can cost your business a lot of cash, damage your image and push your business back behind a competitor!
A good way to test drive the opinion of consumers about a product or service, are blog reviews including a survey which target the exact audience.
Interested consumers get involved by commenting on the article and taking the survey.
Listen carefully, you get the honest opinion you have ever dreamed of.
Your Advantages:
This gives you and your business the chance to ensure if you are on track or if you need to improve your product, services or even your whole business model.
The potential of valuable information which you are able to gain is huge and can give you a powerful advantage to other competitors in your field.
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Facebook is not just for ‘friends’ anymore. The free social networking site becomes a low cost marketing tool for small businesses.
A growing number of mom and pop businesses uses a relatively new program on Facebook, which allows them to get his name to be visible, even for people who are not on the side and to stay in close touch with your customers. The company, which may, in fact, like any other act also on Facebook, posting status updates and see what do his supporters. 
Facebook does not break the number of small businesses but says the company has 1.4 million “pages” with an average of 100 fans per page. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, said that 10 million people are fans of these pages.
1. Reach your audience
Facebook is not just for college students. The members are generally older and more mature than others, and there are richer and better-trained staff users.
2. Search for business contacts
With over 100 million active users and should become about 500 million in 2011, and not just your friends on Facebook, just like your prospects, customers, JV partners … and of course, its competitors.
3. Great impact
Facebook members are open for the connection. You can start a dialogue, with great success, even the famous people who were previously not accessible otherwise.
4. Build relationships
By participating in conversations with your actual and potential customers, it is better that the marketing and commercial services can be customized to accommodate your needs are.
5. Increase transparency and develop your personal brand
Publication of relevant information and opinion leads to an increase of visibility and credibility as an expert in your field. The boundaries between business and personal have become blurred. You can show as much or as little of yourself as you want, you can be your own brand.
6. Get a TOP position on Google
Create a page for your business and exchange information with your fans. Pages (for business) and Profiles (staff) can be better indexed for optimal positioning within a search engine. Facebook has a Page Rank of # 5 according to Alexa
7. No marketing costs
In addition to the paid ads, Facebook is totally free, and regular activity will end up with more traffic, leads and paying customers.
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To be found in real time searches can help you to get additional FREE organic traffic.
To get additional traffic you need to actively participate in social media and to keep people talking about you and your business.
1. Use Good Selected Keywords
To use related keywords within your posts is an essential point. Also to include your keywords within your WordPress All in One SEO pack.
2. Start To Talk About Timely Events
Research for timely events in your industry and write a post about it. Distribute your post through your networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn (Start a discussion). The chances are good that you are able to start a discussion. Keep the discussion alive by commenting on replies.
3. You Need To Have A Lot Of Followers
Of course, the more people are within your network the more you are able to spread the word. But stay focused stay targeted on your industry, because the probability is higher that you reach the people who are interested in your messages!
4. Promote Your Conversation
Do it by ping your information to Twitter and Facebook with up to 140 including a link to your post/ info and by starting a discussion on LinkedIn. Simply include your grabbing headline and a snippet of your content and let the party start!
5. Include Calls To Engagement In Your Post
Ask your friends within your networks for their opinion. Be controversial, be provocative to initialize feedback!
Let’s go and start today!
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Google and Microsoft have made deals with Twitter. Microsoft has also made a deal with Facebook to include Twitter and Facebook updates into Bing search results. Google will be adding tweets to search results as well. There are also rumours that Google will make a similar deal with Facebook.
This makes it crucial and important for you and your business to consider a massive action in these booth networks to be found in ‘real time’ search results from Facebook and Twitter.
Let’s think a little bit about this news…
There are further important social networks, like MySpace or LinkedIn (with about 50 million businesses included), out there which also could be a target of such a deal.
The big players like Google and Bing start with the other big players in social networking and than they maybe go deeper to include the smaller networks also.
Can you imagine the power of this opportunity for you and your business?
In which or in how many of these networks are you active actually?
No excuses take action now and get actively involved in so many networks as you can!
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