How I Got 2198 Facebook Friends With NO Profile
This is the first of a 5-part series about social media marketing using Facebook by guest blogger, Alexander Alaric .
One of the reasons people use Facebook for networking, especially for business, is because it is a protected environment.
Unfortunately, many new users get caught by the Facebook spam Nazis and get their accounts shut down. These guys mean well but unfortunately sometimes the “baby gets thrown out with the bathwater”.
Even seasoned Facebook users have had their accounts disabled and banned. Robert Scobleizer (a long-time and experienced Facebook user) wrote about how his account got shut down here. He later got it reinstated but why make yourself go through the hassle.
So, let’s start out with some of the Facebook basics and avoid having your account shut down. Because after the effort it takes to build up 500, 1000, or more friends you want to protect your account and the time that you’ve put in. Read more
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SMARTS Coaching Program Opens Today
Many of you are really excited about using social marketing in your businesses after seeing the excellent video that I posted here. The associated Strategy Guide is jam-packed with good tips on how to use social networks to strategically drive traffic to your sites. Read more
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Reconsidering the Value of Social Marketing
I was sick of responding to the seemingly endless ‘friend requests’, mostly from internet marketers whose idea of friendship was to spam the heck out of my account with sales messages. I wasn’t particularly keen to waste my time reading the ‘let’s get together, baby’ messages or viewing scantily clad women. Duh.
Overall, I just wasn’t seeing the value of these social networking sites — but to be fair, I wasn’t really actively participating to make them work to my advantage, either.
The video I watched this morning has me reconsidering the value of using social media sites as a marketing tool, however.
The 50 minute video “Social Marketing - There Are No Secrets” video by Don Crowther is the latest one in StomperNet’s “Going Natural” series, which are some of the best quality production videos I’ve seen in the Internet marketing arena — not to mention entertaining and informative.
Don got my attention right from the start of the video by saying, “Forget SEO!“, a statement about search engine optimization that echoes the opinion I’ve always held and shared with my readers.
He also explains how you can still get ‘first mover advantage‘ if you start using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace and social bookmarking sites such as Digg and StumbleUpon now — and estimates that the window of opportunity on this marketing channel will start to close within the next 12 to 18 months.
The video shows how the Stompernet boys managed to claim the first 8 PAGES on Google (yes, pages, not listings) through social media marketing.
OK, that opened my eyes to the possibilities of using Web 2.0 (a.k.a. social networking, social marketing, social media) sites to build traffic and sales for your online business.
Don also shows results from research studies that demonstrates how traffic from social networking sites is actually more valuable than traffic we might get from ppc and other marketing techniques. Nice…
I think it’s a worthwhile view and have posted the video below for you to view. Access to the other StomperNet videos is available through the playlist on video player. The Stompernet boys are also giving away a free 33-page social marketing strategy guide called “SMARTS”.
Watch it… you might find yourself reconsidering or adopting the social media marketing strategy it you do. 
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YOU are Person of the Year for 2006
Congratulations! TIME Magazine named “YOU” Person of the Year for 2006. Why? According to the December 2006 issue of the magazine, “In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.”
Jeremy Palmer (PPC Classroom) and I also identified user-generated content as one of the most significant growth areas in 2006 during our GotoWebinar “Affiliate Marketing in 2007: The Outlook” call last week.
Also significant was the growth in API’s for affiliate marketers such as Amazon.com Webservices, the eBay Developer Program and Commission Junction’s free Web Services for Publishers and Advertisers.
Are you using the tools, contributing more to the webscape and branding yourself as a source of great information within your market? If you feel like you could do more in that regard and you missed the call, not to worry. Although the call won’t be posted, we’ll have much more information to help you build your affiliate marketing business in the next few months. That’s a Hint.
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Can You Really Get Free Traffic from YouTube?
The November 2006 issue of Affiliate Classroom magazine is all about viral marketing.
More specifically, they dive into viral VIDEO marketing.
To find out whether you can really get traffic from YouTube and other video services, read this month’s issue - which is free as always and available for you to download immediately.
Click here for Affiliate Classroom’s November 2006 edition.
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Network Position on MySpace Advertising
Steven Sauve sent out a message on October 31st, outlining MaxBounty’s position with respect to advertising on MySpace by affiliate marketers.
Here is a portion of that message…
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ReturnonAffiliate.com
Shawn Collin’s reported on “Return on Affiliate” in his Affiliate Summit Real Deal newsletter this morning, so I checked it out.
Return on Affiliate is a community specifically for affiliate marketers. Accounts are free and include:
- A personalized “Profile” page to which you can upload your photo.
- The ability to link to your friends’ profiles.
- An on-line journal.
- Private and instant messaging.
- Your own blog.
- The ability to add your own personal bookmarks.
- Message boards and the ability to create your own message board.
- A personal ‘tribute’ section.
- Quick search for those who share similar interests.
When Shawn sent his newsletter out this morning there were 100 members. As of this afternoon there are almost 300 members.
Here’s my profile. You’ll see I have almost ‘no friends’. Sniff. Wanna be my friend?
Visit ReturnonAffiliate.com .
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