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		<title>Establishing Personal Online Brand Through Blogging Via Social Medias</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bebhe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some simple free internet marketing strategies you can apply to generate business leads to your blog and these are the online money making secrets. The problem that most of us have including me, before I unveiled the secret the hard way, is that you need to be focused, patient and consistent over a [...]]]></description>
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<p>There are some simple <strong>free internet marketing</strong> strategies you can apply to generate business leads to your blog and these are the online money making secrets. The problem that most of us have including me, before I unveiled the secret the hard way, is that you need to be focused, patient and consistent over a period of time. This notion that you can make easy money online is farfetched. There are some sacrifices that one has to make, which are to first build an online brand name.</p>
<p>A perfect internet marketing strategy of establishing an online brand is launching a blog. The advantage of having a blog, is that as you post and update it with relevant articles regarding your market niche, you will steadily drive targeted traffic to your blog. It is important to create accounts on social networking site like facebook, twitter and LinkedIn where you can leverage your blog posting and generate traffic.</p>
<p>As you update your social networking sites status bar with your blog posting, you will build a steady following thus eventually some of them will be turn out to be your business leads. For maximum effect use the same profile in all your accounts, thus making it an online brand.</p>
<p>In addition, ensure that your profile image is the same in all the websites you register yourself. This will ensure that as people keep seeing the same picture in all your profiles, they will immediately start recognizing and connecting you with your internet business thus in the process building your online brand and image.</p>
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<p>Social Medias are vital marketing tools when it comes to establishing a personal online brand. As your face is portrayed in your profiles you gain online presence. But also make sure you provide your target audience with relevant and valuable information that seeks to solve their problems thus they will gain confidence in you and what you have to offer them.</p>
<p>Follow the links below to learn more on building a <strong>Personal Online Brand</strong> thus making use of free internet marketing strategies on social Medias.</p>
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		<title>Keep on Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>morgan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I launched http://www.easimarketing.com, I have tried to regularly add content. Part of my mandate is to offer a blog, tip and couple of links each week. My theory is that after a year of posting content, I should have a comprehensive archive of marketing information for you.
Tips are easy, but sitting down and writing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I launched <a href="http://www.easimarketing.com"></a><a href="http://www.easimarketing.com" target="_blank">http://www.easimarketing.com</a>, I have tried to regularly add content. Part of my mandate is to offer a blog, tip and couple of links each week. My theory is that after a year of posting content, I should have a comprehensive archive of marketing information for you.</p>
<p>Tips are easy, but sitting down and writing a blog is a real commitment, but can be rewarding if you stick with it . Most people start their Blogging career on a wave of enthusiasm, posting virtually each day for a couple of weeks, until it becomes a chore, then their interest wanes and they stop posting leaving a dormant gathering of electronics dust on the information superhighway. If you are representing a company, this will not only reflect badly on you, but your company as well.</p>
<p>When you commit to a blog, you are making a commitment to your audience or more importantly, potential future audiences. You should aim to write a blog once every week offering something meaningful or topical about yourself, company or brand. And don&#8217;t be too obvious in making it into some corporate advert&#8230;people can see through that.</p>
<p>You should also be realistic and accept that there will be days when you don&#8217;t have time to update your Blog. In this case, prepare for it. You can do this by generating content ahead of time. So when you are at your &#8216;creative low&#8217; you will have something to publish.</p>
<p>Above all, don&#8217;t forget to encourage readers to contact you. Getting dialogue/feedback will get you thinking about subjects in a completly different way. It will provide you with new content and may gain you new readers.</p>
<p>So all I can say is &#8216;Keep on Blogging&#8217;, I will try to as well!</p>
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		<title>The Digital Marketing Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How loud can you yell? How outrageous can you be? These are questions marketers have been asking for nearly a century. This paradigm shifted when Doyle Dane Bernbach injected intelligence into advertising in the 1960s with their revolutionary â€œLemonâ€ print ad for Volkswagen. For them, it wasnâ€™t about how loud you can yell, it was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How loud can you yell? How outrageous can you be? These are questions marketers have been asking for nearly a century. This paradigm shifted when Doyle Dane Bernbach injected intelligence into advertising in the 1960s with their revolutionary â€œLemonâ€ print ad for Volkswagen. For them, it wasnâ€™t about how loud you can yell, it was about how interesting you are. Since the 1960s, there has been a blend of intelligent campaigns, but far outweighed by yelling matches (think Times Square).</p>
<p>With the inception of the web, the thinking that drove real-world advertising shifted to the online space. There was a mix of flashy and intelligent banner ads. But just as Doyle Dane Bernbach shifted attitudes in advertising in the 1960s, we are in a transitional stage in marketing. A new evolution in thinking is emerging in online marketing. Itâ€™s not about how flashy your banner ad can be. Itâ€™s not about how loud you can yell. Itâ€™s about how interesting and remarkable you are. Itâ€™s not about saying youâ€™re remarkable. With the influx of peer-to-peer networks, itâ€™s not about you anymore. Itâ€™s the value consumers place on your product or brand.</p>
<p><span id="more-433"></span>The new thinking speaks to the importance of consumers. Itâ€™s about being relevant and speaking to the intelligence of your audience. What does a hair growth product matter to a 14 year-old girl browsing Facebook? Itâ€™s white noise. However, what if you offered that 14 year-old girl your product. Given her connections in the social community, it might be worthwhile.</p>
<p><strong>Key Concepts:</strong></p>
<p><em>Reciprocity and participation</em><strong> â€“</strong> Have an active relationship with others in the community. If you added an extra zero and a reader calls you out on it, thank them. Intelligent user comments are trying to make your product better. Or, if youâ€™re on Digg and someone asks you to digg something for them, do it. When the time comes you can then call on them to reciprocate. Or, if youâ€™re promoting a new hair gel, go to hair enthusiast bloggers and give them the product to try. Let them make the claims for you. If youâ€™re gel really does help curl hair, itâ€™s much more powerful if a blogger says it than your marketing department.</p>
<p><em>Ethics</em> â€” Remember the Working Families for Wal-Mart? Supposedly an organization of Wal-Mart enthusiasts. There are legions of such people, but the Working Families for Wal-Mart were paid to write good things about the national grocery chain. Deceptive? Of course and Wal-Mart paid dearly. Paul Gillin discusses the firestorm of controversy from bloggers and ultimately, tarnished Wal-Marts online reputation in his book, the <em>New Influencer</em>. Honesty is a highly valued commodity in the blogosphere. A company that can recognize mistakes and promptly fix them is one with high merit in the digital world.</p>
<p><em>Timeliness</em> â€“  Twitter trends come and go. Kanye West was a trending topic for several days and then disappeared until the next kerfuffle. Will Plate, from Command N, discusses the importance of timeliness in the blogosphere. Though Twitter trending topics are hard to predict, there are annual events that are foreseeable. Think about December holidays. Itâ€™s the time for giving and charity. Why not create a giving tree on your website, where users can donate time or money for a charity?</p>
<p><strong>Talking to the Blogosphere</strong></p>
<p>As <em>The New Influencers</em> discusses in detail, blogs are an essential marketing tool. There are over 184 million bloggers worldwide. Why? Itâ€™s inexpensive, accessible, interactive and engaging. Not only can your company launch a blog, but you can tap into key influencers in the blogosphere to talk about your product. Prioritize which bloggers make the top 10 or 20 â€œmost popularâ€ list. Take example from&#8230;</p>
<p>To read more about <a href="http://sparxoo.com/2009/10/08/the-digital-marketing-guide/">digital marketing</a>, go to Sparxoo, a digital marketing, branding and business development blog.</p>
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		<title>Legitimate Work From Home Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many people blame their failures on work from home job &#8217;scams&#8217; when in fact they are to blame whether it be for not putting in the effort or just giving up after a week. Keep reading to get just a few ideas of some legitimate jobs you can work from home.
Online Home Business
People worldwide [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too many people blame their failures on work from home job &#8217;scams&#8217; when in fact they are to blame whether it be for not putting in the effort or just giving up after a week. Keep reading to get just a few ideas of some legitimate jobs you can work from home.</p>
<p>Online Home Business</p>
<p>People worldwide are taking this approach to working from home and many are actually making extremely generous incomes. There are thousands of online home businesses that you can start and/or create so you need to understand what it is you are trying to accomplish.</p>
<p>The possibilities are endless when it comes to online work. Whether it be something you want to do just to make a little extra cash or whether you want to make a full time living from it there is something out there for everyone.</p>
<p>Writing from Home</p>
<p>Freelance writing from home is a job that is quite misunderstood. Many people believe that to become a freelance writer they need to be a professional writer. This is not the case. Provided you have good spelling and grammar skills then you can work as a freelance writer from home. <span id="more-105"></span>Further, there is actually a shortage of good online freelance writers. There are blog owners who do not have the time to write their own blogs and pay people to do this. There are also website owners that primarily use articles to advertise their business and pay people to write short articles for them. Freelance article writing is a job that has the potential to earn very good money.</p>
<p>Provide a Service</p>
<p>A great way to earn a living from home is to start your own home based business providing a service to the general public such as child care, dog walking or sewing. These are just some ideas, but the possibilities are endless.</p>
<p>This is a concept becoming more popular by the day because it is a legitimate method in which to earn money and you are incomplete control of your business.</p>
<p>Blogging</p>
<p>Featured on a popular Australian current affairs program recently, blogging was talked about as a work from home job with endless earning potential. A blog is a way to write about something that is of interest of you. You make money by filling it with ads in which you earn money from clicks as well as affiliate advertising. Blogging takes a little patience, however the potential to earn a handsome income is very possible.</p>
<p>Affiliate Marketing</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing is a work from home job widely advertised on the internet. All it takes is for you to join an affiliate program, or as many as you like, advertise that business in any way you like and then collect the profits made from sales. This is a legitimate work from home job and a very popular one at that. The advantages of such a work from home job is that you do not need to carry stock or inventory or worry about shipping. All of that is taken care of for you. All you need to do is market the business and products of your choice in any way you choose.</p>
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		<title>What is Viral Marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bebhe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Viral marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of Social Media Optimization has increased over the past few years. If you take a look at sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter you will see that all of these sites seemed uncertain of at first, but now they have surpassed many expectations.
Large to small businesses have began to make use of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The importance of<strong> Social Media Optimization</strong> has increased over the past few years. If you take a look at sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter you will see that all of these sites seemed uncertain of at first, but now they have surpassed many expectations.</p>
<p>Large to small businesses have began to make use of social networking sites in order to create a buzz in the market. Using social media as a marketing tool requires a more dedication than some of the traditional methods. <strong>Viral Marketing</strong> is defined as the process of marketing materials and information via social networking.</p>
<p>This type of marketing uses pre-existing social networks to increase brand awareness by encouraging people to pass along a promotional message. It is an effective way of using word-of-mouth to achieve success.<span id="more-1445"></span></p>
<p>The first step in viral marketing begins with good content (also known as viral content). All content that is spread through social networking sites should consist of ‘real information&#8217; that catches the attention of users. Users are more likely to become more excited about things that benefit them in some type of way. If a message does not provide what they need, it is recommended that a company rethink their entire viral campaign.</p>
<p>Common on the viral marketing world is a concept known as blogging. For example, a company may post an article on a site such as articlesbase.com. Once the blog has been posted, the article is then tagged in a social network, and then begins to distribute elsewhere. Each time it is tagged more people see it, and then someone else tags it and it reaches more viewers. It is similar to applying the snowball effect to marketing.</p>
<p><strong>Viral Marketing Tips</strong><br />
• Do not feel the need to only create expensive advertisements<br />
• Make it easy for users to share your content<br />
• Make use of different types of social media sites<br />
• Sell your idea in a creative way</p>
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