Social Marketing

Willing to engage your target audience, and spend some time interacting and socializing in exchange for high quality traffic?

Social marketing is for you!

With social marketing, you are able to take a personal approach to connecting with your target audience, and in doing so, you can gain a better feel for what your audience is genuinely interested in and what motivates them into taking action.

The downside to social marketing is that it can be time consuming, as you have to update your profile accounts, status updates and send out messages and broadcasts in order to keep your accounts fresh.

One way of automating your account updates is by subscribing to the free services at http://www.Ping.fm

Ping will automatically update multiple social profiles at once, and provides you with the opportunity to schedule future updates, so your accounts can stay active and fresh even when you aren’t around!

If you are interested in using Twitter as part of your marketing campaign, you’ll be able to automate your updates as well.  The service that I personally use is found at http://www.SocialOomph.com and it not only auto-posts updates to your Twitter feed, but it also enables you to send automatic tweets to those who follow you.

You could send a welcome message thanking the user for following you, and offering them a free product by directing them to your squeeze page, or you could simply use this automated feature to establish a relationship with those on your following list, the choice is yours!

Here are the top social media networks that you should consider including in your marketing campaigns:

http://www.Facebook.com
http://www.Ning.com
http://www.Linkedin.com
http://www.Xanga.com
http://www.Orkut.com
http://www.Fubar.com
http://www.bebo.com
http://www.Zorpia.com


Feeder Sites:
http://www.Wordpress.com
http://www.Hubpages.com
http://www.Squidoo.com