Monthly Archive for August, 2009

Online social networking and social marketing has been around for a while now, but only recently has experienced an explosion in participation on a global level, in just about market imaginable.

The Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine

With so many people participating it’s getting harder and harder to run an online business without paying attention to what’s happening in the social networking and social marketing sphere.  Businesses that fail to get a grasp of this movement will lose their market share.

It’s not a question of IF , but one of WHEN you’ll get involved in social media. There is so much information in the marketplace and to date there has been no one place to get an all encompassing, clear step by step instructions on the  nature of social media and how it’s so very different than the traditional internet marketing that we are all used to.

Being involved in grass roots social networking and social media marketing initiatives for the past 2 years, Global Cashflow Systems and our team of specialists have put together an A – Z process for understanding social media, how your business fits in the big picture, and how to develop a strategic plan of action based on your market, while ensuring a return on investment or influence.

This is how we do it:

1. Social Media Mindset: First we help you understand how and why social networking and social media marketing is radically different from traditional forms of internet marketing because of the social media mindset…

2. Your Blog, or Your Central Hub of Operations: Once you have an understanding of  social media and the mindset and you will be  guided through the setting up of your “central hub” which will function as the core of all your social marketing and the center of  your search engine rankings and the new SEO.

3. Market Research: Next you will learn how to position yourself ont the cutting edge of your market, learn it and explore it so that you “know” your market from a social perspective.

4. Targeted Social Media Networks: It is only after you understand your market, that can you find the social media networks that will build your business.

5. Social Networking – Tribal Marketing: Once you know which social network sites will help you build your business, you’ll be given an A-Z process for learning how to engage your communities.

6. Social Media Optimization: Now that you know your communities and how to engage them, it’s time for social media optimization, or tying everything together with your sales/marketing funnel and your central hub.

7. Content Syndication Strategy: Now that your blog and social media networks are optimized for social marketing, you be taught exact step by step skills for developing and delivering a content in a way that is designed to sell your products and services to your community.

8. Personal Branding & Community Building: Now that you have developed your initial content strategy, it’s time to begin to engage your community and target market with the content you have developed through personal branding and community building. You’ll learn how to build large followings of people that will spread your links, content and your message to the far reaches of the social media and social networking world.

This simple strategy is  designed to attract your targeted market, deliver valuable and relevant content, to build trust and have them seamlessly CHOOSE to enter into your online marketing funnel (lead capture page, autoresponder, sales page or offers) and one of the HUGE things that shows up as a BONUS is that by doing it THIS WAY you will literally FORCE the search engines AND the social networking communities themselves to send you ever increasing snowball of targeted people WITHOUT you doing anything other than two critical (but simple) things:

1. Posting VALUE BASED Relevant information you KNOW your target market is looking for because of your market and keyword research.

2. Syndicating that content or “spreading” it to an expanding web of social media and social networking communities that will help to spread your content and message virally.

As you build your presence on the web you’ll also learn how to tie all of that into a constantly growing web of influence while getting higher and higher search engine results while developing a powerful community that grows exponentionly over time.

See yourself how integrated social media marketing will not only increase your web presence but will ensure your continued success on the internet. We cover all the bases from beginner level to expert level in a simple step by step fashion.

Click Here To Join us today and put this powerful social marketing initiative into play in your business for generating influence, search engine exposure, free traffic, free leads and more sales and profits…

This Social Marketing article will give you some more insight into the power of social marketing with blogs and social networking.