Social Media Marketing Tips

<div class="date"> <p> </p> </div> <div style="margin: 15px; float: right"> <div id="post-ratings-1371-loading" class="post-ratings-loading"> </div><br /> <small>by <a title="Posts by brianbentow" href="http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/author/brianbentow/"><font color="#2255AA">brianbentow</font></a><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_window = 'new'; digg_url = 'http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/why-elance-rent-a-coder-freelancer-and-other-freelancing-sites-are-terrible/'; //]]> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js"> </script></small> </div> <p> If you are even thinking about using Elance, Rent-a-Coder, Freelancer.com or any other online freelancing site, get ready for some Brain Damage! These sites are terrible for both the clients and the freelancers and here are just some reasons why: </p> <p> For Clients: </p> <ol> <li>What if I don&#39;t know exactly what I want? Too bad! These sites want a piece of the transaction so they control your freedom to work directly with the client to help define the project to meet your business goals! </li> <li>Who is actually doing the development? Because you cannot work with the freelancers directly, you may THINK you are working with a qualified freelancer but they just hand the project and a programing book off to a high school student! </li> <li>These prices are too good to be true! They are! The freelancers are forced into a competitive bidding process so early in the project that is so heavily weighted against them that they are forced to underbid poorly defined projects. In fact, these projects are typically a miserable experience for the freelancers and you are likely to get crap back! </li> <li>Why can&#39;t I find top-notch professionals? </li> </ol> <p> <a href="http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/why-elance-rent-a-coder-freelancer-and-other-freelancing-sites-are-terrible/">More here&gt;&gt;</a> </p>

<p> If you wonder whether or not you need video on your website, you do. Google is integrateing video in the search results, and there are very few well optimized videos on the video sharing sites like Youtube, and Google video. At the same time, video traffic to these sites is skyrocketing: from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-daily-traffic-to-video-sharing-sites-nearly-double-survey/"><strong>paidcontent.org</strong></a>: </p> <p> &quot;The audience for YouTube and other video sharing websites has risen sharply in the past year, with almost half of online adults logging onto such sites, reports a study from Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project. In a national phone survey of 2,054 adults, 48 percent said they have visited a video sharing site, up from last year&#39;s 33 percent. Fifteen percent reported using a site like YouTube &quot;yesterday&quot;, or the day before the respondent was contacted for the survey, compared to eight percent of users last year; this means the number of video site users has nearly doubled from the end of 2006 to the end of 2007. Of the demographic groups, daily traffic among high school graduates, women and respondents aged 30 to 49 has increased the most: </p> <p> -The number of high school graduates using video sites increased 160 percent, jumping from five to 13 percent.<br /> -Women&#39;s use increased 120 percent, from five to 11 percent.<br /> -Use for those aged 30 to 49 increased 100 percent, from seven to 14 percent.&quot; </p> <p> Now add to that the fact that there is an arbitrage because of Googles support for video in the search results: (see: </p> <p> <a class="l" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,&#39;&#39;,&#39;&#39;,&#39;res&#39;,&#39;8&#39;,&#39;&#39;)" href="http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/19/google-integrates-web-books-local-images-news-and-videos-as-universal-search/"><font size="3"><font color="#0000CC"><strong>Google Integrates</strong> Web, Books, Local, Images, News and Videos as <b>...</b></font></font></a>) </p> <p> And you will realize that there is a brave new world coming. </p> <p> As outdated as a turn of the century website would look to you now, you website likewise will be dead without video, but there is more: if given a choice to click a thimbnail to a video or a text link, see: </p> <p> <a target="_blank" href="http://google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=social+media+marketing+system&amp;btnG=Search">social media marketing system</a> </p> <p> Which one would you click, the text or the thumbnail? </p> <p> What about the fact that the video starts to deliver your message as the page is loaded, and, in the case of our site, it doubled time on the site, doubled lead generation, reduced bounce rate by over 25%: see </p> <p> <a href="http://socialmediasystems.com/">http://socialmediasystems.com/</a> </p> <p> A video never has a bad day, never shows up late for work, never over sleaps, ALWAYS GIVES A PERFECT PRESENTATION! </p> <p> Please share you experiences here for all to read: </p>

<p> If you are allowd to edit on html, you can embed Vidoes inot your pblog posts: in the case of Realtow, we can do it on our own blogs: </p> <p> See </p> <table class="blog-entry" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="icons"> </td> <td> <h3> <a href="http://www.realtown.com/Israel/blog/exit-realty-regional-2008"><font color="#1C4D90">Israel Rothman Speaks at Exit Realty Regional 2008</font></a> </h3> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="blogDate"> Jan. 8, 2009 </div> <div class="blogTags"> Tagged with: <a href="http://www.realtown.com/blogs/tags/exit-realty"><font color="#1C4D90">exit realty</font></a>, <a href="http://www.realtown.com/blogs/tags/israel-rothman-speaks"><font color="#1C4D90">israel rothman speaks</font></a>, <a href="http://www.realtown.com/blogs/tags/maryland-2008"><font color="#1C4D90">maryland 2008</font></a>, <a href="http://www.realtown.com/blogs/tags/regional-convention"><font color="#1C4D90">regional convention</font></a> </div> <p> I have also been able to do this at Active Rain: </p> <p> <a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/861773/Internet-Advertising-on-Steriods">http://activerain.com/blogsview/861773/Internet-Advertising-on-Steriods</a> </p> <p> And here by simply pasting: </p> <p> <embed src="http://www.veoh.com/veohplayer.swf?permalinkId=v77732235nNMakPq&amp;id=1822176&amp;player=videodetailsembedded&amp;videoAutoPlay=1" width="410" height="341" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" /> </p> <div class="blogPostComment"> <a href="http://www.realtown.com/Israel/blog/exit-realty-regional-2008"><font color="#1C4D90">Permanent Link</font></a> | <a href="http://www.realtown.com/Israel/blog/exit-realty-regional-2008#comments"><font color="#1C4D90">Comments (0)</font></a> | <a href="http://www.realtown.com/Israel/blog/exit-realty-regional-2008#postcomment"><font color="#1C4D90">Write a Comment</font></a> | <a href="http://www.realtown.com/Israel/blog/exit-realty-regional-2008?send=link"><font color="#1C4D90">Send Link</font></a> </div> <p> </p>

<p> You simply must see the newly released &#39;open source&#39; science fiction short flick: <strong><u>Jathia&#39;s Wager! </u></strong> This was all done as the worlds first Science fiction Collaborative film (open-source). </p> <p> Pay special attention to the ads in the film, then realize that you could create touristy, relocation, visitor films for your local, cause them to spread like a virus on Youtube and many other file sharing networks (bittorrrent..) and thus get your commercial, or that of your ADVERTISERS seen millions of times! This is what we mean when we say &#39;viral video&#39;. </p> <p> This video was release two days ago (March first) and has been seen over 1000 times; and it has been downloaded on bittorrrent.com for redistribution over 100 times (that is, over 100 people have downloaded the 100 megabyte file for redistribution from other file sharing sites!) </p> <p> Learn more and see the instantly streaming free movie here: </p> <p> <a href="http://socialmediasystems.com/services-2/viral-video-production-and-online-promotion/">http://socialmediasystems.com/services-2/viral-video-production-and-online-promotion/</a> </p> <p> </p>

<h2> <a rel="bookmark" href="http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/inetgiantcom-largest-and-oldest-coolest-free-classifieds-on-the-web/"><font color="#000000">Inetgiant.com - Largest And Oldest - Coolest Free Classifieds On The Web!</font></a> </h2> <p> I must say that as the founder and one-time owner of a free classifieds site known as &#39;Ads For Free&#39;, my hat is off to <a title="Place a free classified ad now and reach the world" href="http://www.inetgiant.com/"><font color="#2255AA">Inetgiant.com</font></a>: I was able to place <a title="SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND WEBSITE DESIGN" href="http://www.inetgiant.com/AdDetails/1888848"><font color="#2255AA">this free classified ad with video, pictures, plenty of text</font></a>, COMPLETELY FREE IN TEN MINUTES!<br /> <a href="http://inetgiant.com/PostNewAd.aspx?bnra=1"><img class="alignright" alt="Place a free classified ad now and reach the world" style="border-right: black 10px solid; border-top: black 10px solid; margin-left: 10px; border-left: black 10px solid; margin-right: 10px; border-bottom: black 10px solid" src="http://inetgiant.com/Images/inet180x120_Classified1-1.gif" /></a> </p> <p> <a title="free clasified ads" href="http://www.inetgiant.com/AdDetails/1888848"><font color="#2255AA">Inetgiant.com Free Classified Ads</font></a> is the oldest, most well known, and best free classified ad site I have seen. It is extremely quick, user friendly, HUGE - and they offer a robust set of options: seeing how many ads there are there, I would consider some of them due to the low cost: </p> <p> <a href="http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/inetgiantcom-largest-and-oldest-coolest-free-classifieds-on-the-web/">CLICK TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY »</a> </p>

<p> I do not know why we did not do this sooner. We have switched our live forums, user blogs and added live chat to our website using a third party easily and for free, very similar to the way that Realtown has been integrated into RISMedia.com.<br /> Why re-invent the wheel? Ning.com is aligned with Google, not going anywhere, and getting really cool. I was able to turn the branded chat I have as a result of the switch into a widget on our MUWordpress blog in a matter of minutes: see <a href="http://Socialmediasystems.com/blog/">Socialmediasystems.com/blog/</a> - the link is in the upper left under the header. </p> <p> The only drawback is that ning.com inserts a few Google ads on the right of the forums (their revenue model) but not the chat window - not a big deal for me because we intentionally define our own niche in a ridiculously competitive industry (online marketing services), but it could be problematic for Realtors to use the forums, however they could use the Chat as a stand-alone solution; and use their Realtown Group, or Community for forums.<br /> I think that ning.com should have an alternative paid service instead of having ads. I will attempts to get them to consider it.<br /> If any of you have questions about doing the branding for the ning.com service to match your website and logo and stuff, I just did it yesterday so I would be happy to assist you here, just ask your questions.<br /> This is the very reason why I say that traditional SEO is dead, these very elaborate third party services, ajax drag and drop features, open-social and the like will eventually completely close the technology gap, creating a much more level playing field. Very soon you will realize that Realtown communities will also be part of these developments. Comments, questions?<br /> </p>

<p> I cannot believe that people still hove the gall to sell reciprocal linking campaigs to Realtors! Do not buy this! See: </p> <p> <a href="http://www.realtown.com/groups/post/view/group/1/post/8424">The dissemination of misinformation on this site</a> </p> <p> Share your horror stories about bad advice here, save everyone else the trouble and get it off your chest! </p>

<p> <strong><a href="http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/searching-the-inauguration-pulse-via-google/" rel="bookmark">Searching The Inauguration Pulse Via Google</a></strong> </p> <p> <a title="Attribution License" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank"><img height="16" alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://socialmediasystems.com/wp-content/plugins/photo_dropper/images/cc.png" width="16" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.photodropper.com/photos/" target="_blank">photo</a> credit: <a title="mborowick" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14684562@N02/3207635903/" target="_blank">mborowick</a> </p> <p> <a title="The People" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14684562@N02/3207635903/" target="_blank"><img height="160" alt="The People" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/3207635903_d32d8a28b8_m.jpg" width="240" border="0" /></a><br /> Because of my reach as an author on the topic of Social Media Marketing, I recieved this email today:<br /> &quot;Dear Israeli,<br /> The power of social search will flex its muscles on this historic day as Barack Obama becomes President. </p> <p> <a title="article about viral current events opinion" href="http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/" target="_blank">Read the rest here then return to add your 2 cents:</a> </p> <div class="clearer"> </div> <p> </p>

<p> Too many profiles to many services, too many links, how do we manage it all: I use Roboform, Plaxo, Linkedin, Realtown, Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo...What do you suggest? </p>