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For me Linkedin can be frustating. I want to connect to someone and it won’t let me because I don’t know their email address or I’m not in a group with them. But, Chirs Brogen social networking guru, has some great tips on using Linkin more effectively.
Use Linkedin Effectively, by Chris Brogen
Hope you find it useful and informative.
I subscribe to several other blogs about social media and internet marketing to feed me good ideas and keep me up to date. Both of these blogs are available as email subscriptions which makes it very easy to keep up.
Mashable is all inclusive and covers everything social media from the iPad and cell phones to YouTube and Facebook. When it arrives in my mailbox it starts with a list of links to each article so that you can scan the list and see what may be interesting to you and go straight to whatever interests you most.
TopRank is a bit more focused on SEO and getting noticed on the internet.
Here are three article links that I found informative and useful:
10 Easy Local SEO & Online Marketing Tips from TopRank
http://www.toprankblog.com/2010/05/local-search-tips/
7 Essential SEO Tips for Small Business from TopRank
http://www.toprankblog.com/2010/05/7-seo-tips-small-business/
From Mashable, this is more in depth for the business owner willing to invest more time
10 Small Business Social Marketing Tips
http://mashable.com/2009/10/28/small-business-marketing/
Although social media is growing exponentially, I have to say that REACH Magazine is still powerful marketing for many categories of business. I have been in incentive marketing for over 20 years now, and have a long track record of matching up the right businesses for the right media and with the right incentive offers. There are many coupon venues in the Dayton market, but none of them have the rank and power of REACH magazine (The Media Audit 2009) and for the right business, REACH can be a powerful lead generator or sale generator. Please feel free to give me a call to discuss your business and marketing in REACH magazine. Along the way you also get the information that I have found helpful in the realm of social marketing free of charge. In addition we now have a new viral internet marketing program for businesses trying to reach consumers in a new and interesting way with no up front investment at all. Peter DeMott 937-478-6222
This is an interesting You-tube video discussing how things are changing.
The Big Deal being introduced in Dayton this month is not just another discount offer by your business. Thousands of people are “opting in” so that they can be the first ones to see a new Big Deal from local businesses each day.
Upscale, active social networkers will spread the news about your big Deal for the day
Facebook, Twitter, Email, you name it, these prospective customers are energetic and active in the social media. They tend to be well educated and employed with extra cash for the things that interest them. Since they are active in online social networking, they tend to talk about what they are up to and because of the way The Big Deal is set up (with a minimum threshold before anyone can get the deal) they include their friends when expressing interest in Today’s Big Deal.
What does it mean that this is not just another discount offer?
In order to get the Big Deal for the day, these active consumers must go forward and purchase the deal. When they come to your business for the first time, they are walking in AS A CUSTOMER. They have already made a purchase with you and they have investigated your business by reading the page that goes out with your “deal”. They have explored your web site and discussed your business with their friends and they have put their money down and made a purchase. THIS IS NOT A FREE OFFER. Businesses that have used the Big Deal tell us that these customers come in and purchase more than the initial investment in the deal and that many are coming back to become regular customers.
Your Big DEAL is only available for 24 hours
When you participate in the BIG DEAL, you can watch how purchases are going throughout the day. The Big Deal is only available from midnight to midnight on the same day, just twenty four hours. We are working on lining up the first month of deals for Dayton. As this explodes onto the market, consider being one of the businesses that everyone is talking about. Call me, Peter DeMott, at 937-478-6222 and learn more. This powerful viral marketing opportunity does not require any initial investment. Amazingly, we can say, if it does not work you are out nothing at all. When it does work we actually pay you.
I’d love to tell you more.
Peter DeMott, 937-478-6222