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Brian Ellefritz of Cisco Systems on balancing viral marketing campaigns at SES San Jose 2009

Brian Ellefritz of Cisco’s social media marketing division talks with John Mulligan of SEO-PR about how Cisco has adapted to the social and viral media marketing world, integrating its traditional approaches and existing assets with new strategies and outreach programs in order to find its place the world of user generated content. Adam Singer, columnist for TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog, provides a seasoned perspective on the viral marketing panel’s analyses and offers his own insights into what goes into making a successful viral marketing campaign online. Singer: There were some great tips about igniting things on YouTube … you invest so much in creating this original, great, interesting content, and then if you can do things like maybe throw some ad dollars behind it, especially in the b2c space where you can get that critical mass of eyeballs and get it maybe to a different demographic than just those digg power-users. Ellefritz: What we’ve done over the last year and a half is really start rethinking about how we go to market in social media and augment our traditional go to market strategies and channels (email, banners, search) with this new opportunity social media presents, and what are the new skill sets and operational models that we need to add value and be of enough interest in social media in order to get traction in that channel. What’s the message that’s already in the community? What’s the vernacular they’re talking in? In that space, what’s really been useful to us is listening tools. There’s a whole new generation of social media monitoring solutions out there that will monitor blogs and forums and twitter and tools of that nature, and bring back the content to you; and if you study that, that’s where you really find the nuggets: what are the terms, the phrases, the passions, the even moment-to-moment transitional topics that that community is interested in? Because if you optimize against that, then you find the audience is already listening for and leaning forward toward that content, and you get traction.

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Wordpress Blog Installation Video (Part 1)

Part One of a Two Part Video Showing Step by Step How to upload a Wordpress Blog to Your Own Web Hosting Account.

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Few Things to Improve your Online Marketing Existence

In the competitive world of today companies spends a lot of money on making web site for the expansion of their business around the globe but poor online marketing plans wipe out their dreams to establish a great business venture. They spend money on bad internet marketing as they are not aware of the real tactics of online marketing that is how to benefit from the search engine marketing. In rare cases, a site will benefit from hundreds or thousands of word-of-mouth recommendations.

Promoting a website is just like promoting a business online so that target visitors / every potential customer come to know about their products and services. That’s why effective online marketing is a crucial part for your marketing strategy. If you want to make progress in the internet marketing than you must set some time aside each day. Ask any marketing expert where he or she would spend their search engine optimization efforts and they will undoubtedly say “Google”. You must make some marketing plan to promote your site online by one or more of the following ideas.

1. Unpaid assistant for Online Interviews: The Online Volunteering service connects development organizations and volunteers over the Internet and provides guidance to all the needy people those who want help regarding internet marketing. Pod casts, Web casts, blogs, RSS feeds and newsletters (ezines) are all venues for online interviews or discussions. You should approach the publishers who regularly conduct interviews with guests of your caliber by searching general search engines (such as google.com) or directories as podcast.net, ezinehub.com etc.

2. Categorize 10 bloggers in your group: First of all categorize the bloggers in your groups and after that send them the information about your products and define the specialties about your products and offer them to use it as a free sample. Later they give response to you in the blog about the products. Through that blog you can get the feedback of your products and services.

3. Draft a Press Release: While giving an idea to somebody, there is way you must leave your link with your idea or article. With this you advertise your site and also tell your potential customer about your product and services. This is one of the simple and effective techniques for online advertisement through the article submission.

4. Start Surveying Your Website Visitors: With the help of survey you come to know about your customer needs that are what they want or what type of change they like. Visitors would come to know about the merits and demerits of your product. So according to the interest of the customer you can able to modify your web site or your product quality. If you survey your visitors then they must give you wonderful and amazing idea how can you change your site or product qualities. Thus this type of surveys’ helps you in online marketing and best way to improve your online marketing.

5. Put Your Product’s or Company’s Creation Story Online: You should display your product creation story in the front of the visitors through online marketing. What is the proper manufacturing process of your product and which type of raw material you used for the manufacturing of the product? What is the success story of your company- also describe about the founder of the company and, about management so that visitors can come to know about the company, its strength and popularity.

6. Join an online network: In the internet there are so many sites regarding the online network means if you join online network then your friends provide the information which you utilize to improve your business. Same business categories person come to you and share their business views with you and then you tell them about your business and site and which type of product and services you provide. You can also ask for their suggestions.

7. Analysis your few Closest Competitors’ Websites and Online Marketing Activities: Its better to go through other successful business sites and observe their internet marketing plan. You might get some idea on how you shall improve your own internet marketing for your site. For more accurate idea go through your competitors’ site then you come to know that which type of ideas of internet marketing they adopt to become successful in the world of internet marketing. Better to observe their online marketing tactic then try to adopt the positive concepts in your business. If they get more advertisement through any particular tips then it must good for you to adopt same.

8. Making blogs and forums facilities on your website: If you like to improve your site or like to become famous in world wide then you must provide some blog and forum facilities in your site. It increases your web site traffic and popularity of your business. Every visitor visits your site and they must comment your blog and like to fill the forum in their favorite categories. And take information from your site or give some suggestion for the required person on a particular issue.

9. Modify your site according to your business analysis: Your site must be according to your business standards. You should display your success story in the front of the visitor with a new look that what you achieve in a particular period and what is the vision and mission of your business. A regular visitor can note down the positive points of your success and also like to discuss with their other social group about your site and your services. So every one who is in online business wants to improve their online marketing must modify or update his site according to new changes so that your visitor can enjoy your work and get new information about your product and services.

10. Provide accurate information to the visitors: You must try to give the accurate and fair information about your company to the visitors as transparency and trust are the important factors which attracts visitors and your company’s success certainly depends upon it.

These are the internet marketing tips and techniques which any online business venture must adopt to survive and to have existence among target audience in cyberspace.

About the Author

Alex Roderick

The author is Business Head for The Web Design Company . It deals in web site design, web page design , website redesign, flash, 3D animation, logos, Banner Adds etc.

Alex Roderick
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Blog Content Syndication Tips

Have you started a brand new blog and you are wondering why nobody is visiting your blog, even though you have been dutifully posting content on a regular basis? You see, your blog is like any regular website – you need to get the word out that your blog is online before anyone will start visiting your blog.

The best advice I can give you is to do the SEO part of your blog right. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Most blog software like Wordpress is already search engine optimized. That means with minimal tweaks, your blog is already search engine friendly. What is challenging for most bloggers is that they find it hard to build inbound links.

Inbound links is a big part of SEO. These are links that are pointing to your blogs from external sites. They can come from other websites, blogs, forums, web directories, etc. But since you have no control over these blogs, you must have a strategy to somehow get others to link to you. Now there are many link building methods that you may wish to try out. One link building method that is gaining popularity quickly is Blog Content Syndication.

Blog content syndication works in a similar fashion as article marketing. The idea is to contribute to other blogs, and in exchange for the content, you will get 2 or 3 inbound links. These links can be anywhere within the content, with your target keywords.

Your target keyword phrase is very important. For instance, if you are aiming to get better rankings for “Blog Promotion”, then your anchor texts should be “Blog Promotion”, and not “Click Here”, or “Visit Website”. Anchor texts are the texts within your links.

Many new bloggers believe that once they build the blog, the visitors will come. So they keep adding new content regularly, firmly believing that fresh content will attract the attention of the search engines and flood their blogs with tons of traffic. It wouldn’t take long for them to realize that it’s not going to happen.

A new blog, like any new website, has to be promoted for it to start receiving traffic. When it comes to blog promotion, there are many ways of doing it. A blogger can try to network with other bloggers, submit some quality articles, or promote the blog on a bunch of web directories. All these methods involve link building.

The key idea here is to build as many inbound links as possible so that (1) the links will send traffic directly, and (2) the blog will start to rank well in the search engines. All the major search engines pay a lot of attention to inbound links. However, do be careful not to get your blog associated with low quality websites. That may hurt your blog instead of helping with the rankings.

Today, more and more bloggers are turning to what is know as Blog Content Syndication. The idea of posting content on other blogs is not new. You can post your links on other blogs by blog commenting, or by being a guest poster. You may even buy a blog post. A paid blog post is when you pay a blogger to include an article with links pointing to your own blog.

Blog Content Syndication works in a similar fashion as article marketing. The concept is simple enough – get your content out to as many relevant blogs as possible. That will help drive targeted traffic to your blog, and help you achieve the search engine rankings that you want.

Gen Wright
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iReporter, Adding Affiliate Links with Commission Junction

This is part of a series of videos for using the http://www.iReporter.tv blog marketing tool. This video covers adding Commission Junction affiliate links to a iReporter.tv blog; how to cut and paste HTML and adding images to a blog posts.

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MLM vs. Affiliate Marketing

The difference between MLM and affiliate marketing. You can join SiteSell’s 2 Tier program @ http://website.sitesell.com/affiliates

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