Getting involved in Social Media
If you’re looking to market your website, you’ve probably heard a lot about Social Media and Social Marketing lately. For those that haven’t, we’re talking about using popular social media websites to promote your business.
For example, Facebook and MySpace are social networking websites. People come together to keep in touch with friends and people that share similar interests to them.
HubPages and Squidoo are two content sharing websites. Here, you can post articles and and users can comment and rate your articles.
Digg and Del.icio.us are social bookmarking websites. People put links to websites they think are worthy and their popularity increases as other people vote on them.
If you haven’t heard of some of these websites before, I’d recommend checking them out. BUT NOT AS A MARKETER. I can not stress how important it is not to become a marketer on these websites. If you’ve been following anything I wrote on marketing over the past 6 months, you’ll know that conventional marketing is dead.
Building relationships is where the future lies and the websites above let you do that. For now, it’s best to just get a feel for it and explore. It’ll be worth your time soon, I promise.
To see some examples of my pages, check out:
What makes a great business website?
The best way to become a millionaire in five years or less
Website optimization is more than just search engines
The 5 biggest secrets your web designer doesn’t know about the Internet
Also, make some time to watch this video created by StomperNet about what Social Marketing can do for your business. It includes lots of free hints and tips so have a pen ready.
Going Natural 2.0: Social Marketing
