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		<title>Understanding Social Media in 4 Ways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media blogger Samir Bawani said many marketers today are still confuse how they could effectively market their products online. Simply because these marketers cannot yet differentiate what really works right now. Bawani believes thinking about the foundation is what makes social media effective. He said social media marketing is not just putting your account [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmediawatch.net%2Findex.php%2Fsocial-media-watch%2F4-fundamentals-lessons-for-social-media-marketers%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmediawatch.net%2Findex.php%2Fsocial-media-watch%2F4-fundamentals-lessons-for-social-media-marketers%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Social media blogger <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/social-media-marketing-lessons/" target="_self">Samir Bawan</a></strong><a href="http://mashable.com/2009/05/01/social-media-marketing-lessons/" target="_self">i</a> said many marketers today are still confuse how they could effectively market their products online. Simply because these marketers cannot yet differentiate what really works right now. Bawani believes thinking about the foundation is what makes social media effective. He said <strong>social media marketing </strong>is not just putting your account on <strong>Facebook</strong>, <strong>Twitter </strong>or other big and respected social media networking sites. Here’s what Mr Balwani believes the <strong>basic fundamentals of effective social media campaigns:</strong></p>
<ol style="text-align: justify;">
<li><strong>Always listen</strong> – Listening to other experts when to engage in social media is also very important. Bawani advised that <strong>internet marketers </strong>failed because they don’t actually make a good study – instead they just jump in right away because they’re too excited to market their products online. It’s just like a man marketing his TV sets when the people of the area are looking for affordable cars. Truly, social media will take time and the marketer should have patience before he can be noticed online especially that the competition is strong.</li>
<li><strong>The brand is public</strong> – Just because the brand is public you should be able to effectively market the brand. Once the brand’s message is already out in the market you will have no control about it.</li>
<li><strong>Don’t forget personality</strong> – The people around you are also important. This means you should also empower them to speak for you and sell your product lines. What’s so special about your brand should be passed on to the <strong>consumers</strong> what they can say. Bawani’s favorite brand personality is <strong>Mr. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos</strong>. His reported style and humor was instrumental in building the Zappos community.</li>
<li><strong>Creativity wins</strong> – If you are so creative in social media marketing then it would be your own strategies that can make wonders for your products. Although it’s quiet a bit difficult at first, but once you become professional internet marketer, then you will believe in yourself you can do the job. It‘s simply because some<strong> bloggers </strong>are already preparing for this one. They knew marketing online is not just Facebook, Twitter or <strong>MySpace</strong>. Creativity means making your own original gimmick how you can drive traffic and market your products.</li>
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		<title>SocialSpark &#8211; Blog Marketing Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agnes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media 101 Series]]></category>
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SocialSpark – is a fresh social network that is presently accessible for bloggers and advertisers. This is owned by IZEA who operates PayPerPost and a mixture of other admired or popular blogger linked businesses and trademark.
SocialSpark also is a blog advertising network that attaches promoter with bloggers through an online variety store or marketplace. Promoters [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmediawatch.net%2Findex.php%2Fsocial-media-watch%2Fsocialspark-blog-marketing-network%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmediawatch.net%2Findex.php%2Fsocial-media-watch%2Fsocialspark-blog-marketing-network%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p><img style="margin: 5px;" src="http://i43.tinypic.com/2q3vw9j.gif" alt="Social Spark" align="left" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://socialspark.com/" target="_self">SocialSpark</a> </strong>– is a fresh <strong>social network</strong> that is presently accessible for <strong>bloggers </strong>and <strong>advertisers</strong>. This is owned by IZEA who operates <strong>PayPerPost</strong> and a mixture of other admired or popular blogger linked businesses and trademark.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>SocialSpark</strong> also is a <strong>blog advertising network</strong> that attaches promoter with bloggers through an online variety store or marketplace. Promoters or advertisers are capable to plan blogs based on conversational subject and create cash sponsorship recommendation to the bloggers who advertise them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Bloggers</strong> can produce cash by also placing exhibit commercial or advertisements on their blog otherwise by writing sponsored article or content. The sponsorships presented through the SocialSpark bazaar let promoters to construct buzz, create traffic and make the most of social media exposure.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Blog Advertising</strong> &#8211; promoters can buy blog advertising as sponsored blog ads. Costing of blog marketing solutions include pay per day blog sponsorship.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Make Money Blogging</strong> -Bloggers can make cash or money blogging by either writing blog reviews or putting ads on blogs.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So if you own a blog too, just register or sign up now. Lots of <strong>SocialSpark opportunities </strong>are coming up or waiting for you. They are offering large cash for you. If you are promoter or advertiser, SocialSpark is the exact place for you to advertise your products. So what are you waiting for just sign up and explore the amazing SocialSpark network.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To learn more about SocialSpark you must check out their sample video for a foretaste or preview of the opportunities.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Profile in SocialSpark is very customizable and here are the few things I like about it:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li> Free of charge Blog Status Overview</li>
<li>View demographics tool</li>
<li>Everyone is permitted to leave Blog Page or Profile Remarks</li>
<li>Good-looking web page design</li>
<li>Send to a buddy or friend</li>
</ol>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The page of your website stylish web design blog is fairly good. You can click the link to check out. Socialspark carry a latest thought to the concept of marketing:</p>
<ul>
<li style="text-align: justify;">One hundred percent (100%) <strong>Audit-able In Post Disclosure</strong> &#8211; every sponsored post opportunity inside the SocialSpark bazaar gives the blogger a little snippet of <strong>policy or code or a Disclosure Badge</strong>. Disclosure Badge should be found at the end of every post with no exception</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">One hundred percent (100%) <strong>Transparency</strong> – each member in SocialSpark is made viewable to the community.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">One hundred percent (100%) <strong>Genuine Opinions </strong>– everyone is gratis or free to write or pronounce whatever you desire.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">One hundred percent (100%) <strong>Search Engine sociable or friendly</strong> &#8211; every sponsored connect in SocialSpark mechanically brings the “no-follow” characteristic so it will not effect on “search engine rankings”.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, as a blogger have you ever used SocialSpark? How about you, promoter or advertiser… would you use SocialSpark? Why?</p>
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		<title>Advantages of Twitter for Bloggers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agnes</dc:creator>
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Enhance the feature of blogs


Interact with other bloggers


Broaden readership


Grow your profile


Drive or create more traffic to your blogs

Some advantages of Twitter
1. Research Tool: One thing you will like about Twitter is the method used when you’re searching or  seeking a post.

If you require an example? Twitter it; you might obtain some noble one.
Got query [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmediawatch.net%2Findex.php%2Fpopular-social-media-stories%2Fadvantages-of-twitter-for-bloggers%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialmediawatch.net%2Findex.php%2Fpopular-social-media-stories%2Fadvantages-of-twitter-for-bloggers%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.socialmediawatch.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twitterpost11.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1113" title="Twitter" src="http://www.socialmediawatch.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/twitterpost11-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">
<ul>
<li>Enhance the feature of blogs</li>
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<ul>
<li>Interact with other bloggers</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Broaden readership</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Grow your profile</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Drive or create more traffic to your blogs</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Some advantages of Twitter</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>1. Research Tool: </strong>One thing you will like about Twitter is the method used when you’re searching or  seeking a post.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>If you require an example? <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter</a></strong> it; you might obtain some noble one.</li>
<li>Got query that stuck on your mind? Inquire it to your group or followers to perceive what they think.</li>
<li>Need to examine a theory? Perform a straw census on your groups.</li>
<li>The loveliness of Twitter is fast, used by a broad of people, because one hundred forty (140) characters maximum keeps interaction brief, manageable and prolific.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2. Strengthen and expand Your Personal Trademark</strong>:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li> Whether it is blogging, bookmarking, social networking, genuine life interactions, all of these straws when added can build your own trademark or brand.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In your emails you can find messages from people saying or comments like these:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>I used to look and read you at ProBlogger however had misplaced path until I establish you on Twitter.</li>
<li>I subscribe your RSS feed on blog but seeing your article or posts on Twitter evoke me to read and study them more.</li>
<li>I was looking into through somebody else’s Twitters and saw your photo. I established it through your Facebook account.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This kind of remark show that Twitter is more helpful and useful instrument in locating you as blogger in front of the prospective readers.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3. <strong>Advertise Content</strong>:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">First thing people normally ask me when I tell them I’m one of the user of Twitter is “how much traffic or transfer does it impel back to your blogs?’ I’ve deliberately held off writing concerning Twitter or its significance, or how it coerce or drive traffic until this time in this article because I don’t see any reason that it is the major advantage of the tool, many said it can potentially advertise content and at the same time drive traffic.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li> My best friend using an instrument or tool called <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/"><strong>Twitterfeed</strong></a> just a few weeks ago to obtain headlines and URLs from her blog’s feeds and also to advertise them in her Twitter account. From that moment she had seen at the present over 1350 guests come from Chirp or Twitter to Problogger after this come out in her Twitter feed each time she post:</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Twitter had turn into an option subscription technique for them. Good thing it really roots these readers to examine the blog or the blog itself, in their feed reader – making augment page sight or irreplaceable visitor counts.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4.<strong> Widen Spectators</strong> &#8211; <strong>Find Recent Readers: </strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Bloggers who are been about for a while in their slot has already achieved the saturation point. Now and then they feel like everybody who will hear concerning them and they can notice a plateau inside their stats. This frequently happens six to twelve (6-12) months into a blog.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">However numerals of Twitter users especially my best friend have inform me that they’ve recently discovered our friend blogs through the use of Tweets and the Tweets of other users. While my friend Google analytics pronounce that twenty-seven (27%) of the guests who have come up to ProBlogger are from Twitter are ‘new’ to my friend blogs. For her that’s about fifteen up to twenty (15-20) new readers for each day through Twitter and more than a year that could be certainly append up and those five to seven thousands (5000 – 7000) new readers may possibly have important impact upon a group of people or community.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>5. Networking</strong>:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">One more noticeable advantage of Twitter is the aptitude that it provides you to make contacts on a different rank or level with other bloggers and readers. This has opened a few absorbing opportunities to work jointly endorsing other’s content and sharing advice. In additional it has also opened up three  four (3-4) chances find new visitor bloggers for each blogs.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>6. Discover What Community truly think</strong>:</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Other surveillance that I’ve made on Twitter is that group of people have a certain rank of truthfulness and simplicity on Twitter that they sometimes disguise or conceal on their blogs. I’m not certain why this is- however maybe when face up to with saying something in one hundred forty (140) characters they have to narrow piece away a few of the disclaimers and politically correct words and say what they mean.</li>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li style="text-align: justify;">Good thing concerning with this is to give or provide you logic of what group of people are really believing or thinking on a topic. This assist you to recognize them on a new rank or level but also aid you to keep you feel on the desires and feelings of your prospective readers.</li>
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		<title>What is Flickr?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agnes</dc:creator>
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Flickr – is an online or image hosting site, net services group, and online group of people and one of the latest Web 2.0 applications. In addition of being fashionable site for the client to impart individual photographs, this service is commonly used by bloggers as photo storage. Flickr is approximately the most excellent online [...]]]></description>
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<p align="justify"><a title="Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/" target="_self">Flickr</a> – is an online or <a title="image hosting site" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_hosting_service" target="_self">image hosting site,</a> net services group, and online group of people and one of the latest Web 2.0 applications. In addition of being fashionable site for the client to impart individual photographs, this service is commonly used by bloggers as photo storage. Flickr is approximately the most excellent online photo organization and sharing application within the earth.</p>
<p align="justify">Flickr is very helpful and useful device toward community or social bloggers. For the reason that a blog post by means of image or icon starts out, a specific advantage or benefit over a blog post among no image. The picture on your blog will describe into the community who wouldn’t have visit or stopped yet on your blog post. With your good image or picture it will create your words additional memorable and unforgettable and more effective.</p>
<p align="justify">Flickr hosts apparently never-ending stream of pictures or images, you can freely apply several for social marketing. Numerous images can be able to use or employ commercially. You can also change or modify several of these images.</p>
<p align="justify">If you require photos intended for your profitable blog, just go to Flickr and look for or search only inside the Artistic Commons picture corner. Several photos are accessible for commercial use. Right away click on “browse fashionable tags”, click on the suitable keywords. If you cannot locate them, apply the Flickr “Search” box to write keywords concerning the icon you’re looking for. Download the picture and use or apply it on your blog. Don’t forget to insert a photographer tribute under the picture”Photo by”. Connect the photographer handle to their Flickr profile contact.</p>
<p align="justify">In general Flickr  are one of the amazing and useful in Social Media Marketing because aside from the PC you can use also Flickr on a Mobile Phone because it allow or enables you to utilize most of the similar features of the Flickr on your PC. Still you can share your photos, dig up your associate’s recent image, gather your favorites, and look for all images from the Flickr Community and more.</p>
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