1. Use your email signature – include links to social media sites and a call to action!
2. Actually say your web address out loud when talking to people or introducing yourself.
3. Put your web and  social media sites on your business cards.
4. Sign up and include your business on Google Maps
5. Write articles and submit them to the article directories
6. Leave comments on other blog posts and social sites
7. Use your Twitter and Facebook updates – include your website or blog url
8. Create a viral PDF with links inside of it and give it away for free
9. Post videos to Youtube and include your full website url in the description area
10. Joint Venture (JV) with others and cross promote products

Simple list but very powerful when you actually start to use them.  Just start out slow – choose 5 and do them well.  You will be amazed at the results you start to see in a very short period of time.

What are some low cost, high impact strategies that you have used to improve your ROI and profits?

Mitch Meyerson has a new book launching Tuesday, August 24th – Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars This one book is jammed packed with powerful tips and strategies from some of the world’s great on-line social media marketers.  I encourage you to check it out – you won’t be sorry you did.

Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars

I got my hands on a copy of this book last week and read it straight through in one sitting – it is that good.  I have been involved in social media marketing for several years now and all of the information in the book is easy to implement, very practical, and will produce low cost and high impact marketing solutions for any kind of business.

Each superstar gives fabulous tips and provides links to resources, some even I didn’t know about – great stuff!  This is a must have for any small business owner trying to figure out how to get ahead in these tough economic times.  Social media marketing made easy!

Some of the topics discussed in the book are:

Creating Content People Care About: The Cornerstone of Social Media, Andy Handley

Social Media Marketing Success Qualities, Joe Comm

How To Communicate With Impact Using Social Media, Craig Valentine

Twitter: Your Power PR Tool For Attracting A Tribe of Raving Fans, Deborah Cole Micek

Facebook: The Essential Rules of Building a Large and Loyal Following, Mari Smith

plus many, many more!

A veritable goldmine of online social media marketing tips and strategies you can implement today.

Success Secrets of Social Media Marketing Superstars

Stop! When you post your messages to Twitter, no matter which of the popular applications you use, did you realise that you’re giving away valuable real estate and backlinks to someone else?

If you use TweetDeck, Seesmic, Hootsuite, or virtually any other application, go check your Twitter feed now and you’ll see what I mean. Every single tweet you post on YOUR page has THEIR name on it, plus a link back to THEIR website.

So, every time you tweet, you’re advertising THEM!

And, until now, there wasn’t a darn thing you could do about it.

THE SOLUTION

Earlier today I came across the solution to the problem and when you know how, it’s an amazingly quick and simple thing to fix. All it takes is 5 minutes and then you’ll be able to:

• Brand your tweets with your own name.
• Insert a link back to your own website.
• Manage all of your twitter Marketing Efforts in ONE tool.

The solution is “Market Me Tweet.”

This is a revolutionary tool.

Just go to the page, download the software and follow the easy instructions to get started.

Another reason to give this a try – Did you know Twitter recently announced all Twitter Apps will have to migrate to something called OAUTH by June of 2010. What does this mean? Well, most Twitter Marketing Apps do not follow Twitters rules, and will stop working once the change happens.

But not MarketMeTweet!

MarketMeTweet is one of the only Marketing Apps that follows all Twitters Rules and Regulations.

Tammy Fennell, Co-Founder of MarketMeTweet, has been working closely with Twitter to make sure it is 100% Twitter compliant. So when you buy her tool, it will continue to work, and continue to improve! She recently announced that all updates for this awesome desktop app will be free!

Grab your copy here: MarketMe Tweet

To Your Marketing Success …

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If you don’t know who Jeff is…

Just trust me on this…

If you want to get more traffic, especially free traffic… then Jeff is the man you want to listen to.

His blog is jam-packed with killer traffic-getting tutorials, and the best part is…

They are free…

Watch the videos, download his Traffic-Getting Cheat Sheets and Checklists and learn the secrets to grabbing free traffic from the search engines and also the hottest social media sites like facebook and yotube.

Check out his newest video here (no email required):

Jeff Johnson’s Traffic Voodoo Secret revealed – Two for One Special!

Enjoy!

P.S.

Pay close attention to Jeff’s newest “Traffic Voodoo” video…

In it he reveals how you can get 3 months in his best-selling Underground Training Lab Coaching Club for free.

Thousands have paid up to $5,000.00 to join it, but you can get in for free.

Check out his newest video here (no email required):

Jeff Johnson’s Traffic Voodoo Secret revealed – Two for One Special!

P.P.S.

Better yet… I’m one of Jeff Johnson’s affiliates and he’s about to launch his best traffic-getting training program ever. If you join, and I think you should, I may get paid a commission. But if you do join his new Traffic Voodoo program on Monday you could also get his special “two for one” deal…

You get his Underground Training Lab Coaching Club for free when you join his new Traffic Voodoo traffic-getting training program on Monday the 29th.

So here’s my advice…

Watch this new video, grab all the great traffic-getting content on his blog for free, and get ready for Monday!

Here is Jeff’s newest video here (no email required):

Jeff Johnson’s Traffic Voodoo Secret revealed – Two for One Special!

An entrepreneur, author, speaker, and ingenious worldwide connector, Peter is recognized nationally and globally for radically new ways of thinking about social media, PR, marketing, advertising, creativity, and just about everything else, as well.

Peter is the author of Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them (Wiley and Sons 2006) and a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at conferences, trade shows, and private companies, including The U.S. Department of Defense, The Public Relations Society of America, Saatchi and Saatchi, , CTIA, CTAM, CES, PMA, Mobile Marketing Asia, Advertising Week, and the Direct Marketing Association, among many others.

To punctuate his full-throttle schedule, Peter is a marketing pundit for several national and international news channels, including Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. He is frequently quoted in major media and trade publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, and USA Today.

HARO

In 2008, Peter launched Help A Reporter (www.helpareporter.com) which connects journalists with the sources they require using a social media platform. HARO (Help A Reporter Out) is already over 36,000 members and growing, and has a growing stable of national journalists using the service on a daily basis.

This list was originally conceived on Facebook, but since Facebook caps group emails at 1,200 people, HARO is the next incarnation.

If you join the mailing list on Help A Reporter Out, each day, you’ll receive up to three emails, each with anywhere from 15-30 queries per email. They’ll all be labeled with [shankman.com] in the subject line, for easy filtering. If you see a query you can answer, go for it!  HelpAReporter.com really is that simple.

Peter built this list because a lot of his friends were reporters, and they called him all the time for sources. Rather than go through his contact lists each time, he figured he could push the requests out to people who actually have something to say.

These requests only come from reporters directly to him. He never take queries from that other service, he never SPAM, and he’s not going to do anything with your email other than send you these reporter requests when they arrive in my in-box.

It is a great way to share your knowledge and expertise while getting some potential PR out of it too.  The rules are reallysimple.  You send targeted, on-point responses to reporters that need to make deadline for stories or publiations they are working and writing for. Just ask yourself before you send a response: Is this response really on target? Is this response really going to help the journalist, or is this just a BS way for me to get my client in front of the reporter? If you have to think for more than three seconds, chances are, you shouldn’t send the response.

In the end, we could probably all stand to do this a bit more, huh?

That’s it. No other rules. Just questions and answers.  So what are you waiting for, go help a reporter out!

Marketing is important for all companies. You need to make sure that potential customers recognize your company name and trademarks in order to increase your brand awareness. This is why it is important to be seen in every type of media consistently. Repetition is the key to good marketing so you need to increase your presence across various media. You need to use media such as television advertisements, magazines and newspapers so that everyone can see your business and your key messages. This can be a tricky task if you don’t have the experience of dealing with advertisers and understanding exactly what you are getting for your money and how you can measure its effectiveness. This is why you should use a marketing consultancy as they will have all of the skills and experience required to get you where you need to be. It is a great idea to use a local marketing consultant especially if your goal is a local market as they will have knowledge of the area and it will be easy to meet. For example if your business is targeting the Bournemouth area then it would be a good idea to use a marketing consultancy in Bournemouth.

Another essential part of a marketing campaign is to have a strong presence on the Internet. When people hear about your brand through a TV advert or newspaper article, chances are they won’t investigate your company immediately. Most of the time they will look to the Internet for information which is why it is important to use SEO and pay per click advertising. These will allow you to be found for your company name in the search engines as well as for key phrases that relate to the sort of products and services your business offers.

If you are finding that you’re the one in charge of your organization’s marketing, public relations and advertising campaign as well as controlling the IT services and telecom services then you are already taking too much on. What you really need to do is find a good business consultancy that can advise you on all of these issues. Professionals such as these will be able to take a lot of the time and stress out of fixing these problems. Business consultants already have years of experience that speed up the process and simply by looking at your business they will be able to tell you the areas you need to improve and make changes in. A good business consultant will be able to advise you on your telecom and IT systems as well as arrange hospitality meetings to help get you on your way.

Finally it is important as a business owner or managing director not to forget to learn. One of the common errors made by business owners is to become lazy and just get someone else to do it. This is bad as you need to always be learning about your industry developments so your company stays at the top of the industry. It also doesn’t harm to brush up on other basic skills. If you are someone who is often holding seminars, meetings or board meetings then you might want to look at improving these skills. presentation skills training will allow you to make the best out of any situation where you need to get an idea across to a large group of people. Even if it is a small staff meeting or if you are trying to sell your company’s services to a large conference hall, good presentation skills are vital.

Apart  from sending out my daily devotional ‘Good Morning’, most of you know that I also coach small businesses and nonprofit leaders, provide graphic design services, and sell promotional products.

As the Apostle Paul would say, “This is my Tentmaking business!” I need your help though.  With Thanksgiving coming up next week and the Christmas gift giving season upon us, I wanted to share with you the opportunity to purchase your corporate and family gifts or Christmas Cards through my business and be blessed yourself in return- it would greatly bless my family too!

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Wouldn’t that be really neat? Tracking is very important to your online success. Instead of marketing blindly, you need to know where traffic is coming from especially with Google Adwords campaign.

You will lose a lot of money if you don’t manage your campaigns wisely through tracking.

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Keeping a closer eye on your keyword conversion rate will help you to realize which keywords are working and which ones are not. Marketing has a lot to do with testing. However, the only way you can test the market is to have a resource that will help you to measure your efforts so that you focus on your marketing methods especially the ones that are bringing more traffic to your website.

This will allow you to tweak your web page copy by adding the keywords that are converting. You would also be able to extract or remove the keywords that are not converting from your Google Adwords campaign. Is Affiliate Prophet a Rehashed Software or Great Conversion Tool?.

This is called performance marketing. If a keyword is not performing, then it affects your bottom line. You can use tracking software to test and pull your keywords in a narrower time increment. Armed with this key information will give you the edge over your competitors and make your ad campaigns more effective. You will be able to improve your ads or select the best keywords for your ad campaign.

Google Adwords does offer a free keyword tool that gives a lot of information that you can use to monitor your keywords and see what other competitors are paying for each keyword. However, this is not the only aspect of performance marketing. You want to know which keywords are profitable for your target market. It is better to know the exact keyword that brings a prospect to your web page.

There are many things to factor in with determining adword conversion so having software that can track your efforts is vital for generating sales and not just visitors to your website. When you are promoting a product, you need to have organized information and details that will give you enough leverage to make advertising decisions that will make you money.

Internet marketers who engage in tracking their marketing efforts do fair better than those who don’t. Affiliate Prophet software is a new tracking software that gives you the tools that you need to be profitable online.

It is a handy tool that increases conversion and sales and allows you to organize your marketing efforts. You can read more about the concept of Affiliate Prophet and how you can use it in your online business on my Affiliate Prophet blog here at How to track your conversions with Affiliate Prophet.

The truth is, doing business on the Internet is not much different from doing business in the outside world. This means that, in order to make money online, you still need the virtues that make a successful traditional entrepreneur such as hard work and patience. Indeed, succeeding online takes time, effort and, of course, determination and the will to succeed.

In order to be truly successful in making money online, it is best to stay away from so-called gurus that sell nothing but hype-filled products. More often than not, the products offered by these gurus contain wrong information that can even jeopardize your Internet business. For example, there are Internet marketers that prescribe methods that are considered as “black hat,” or those that are bordering on the illegal and unethical. Using this methods is dangerous since they can get you banned from certain sites.
Then there are other marketers who sell nothing but fluff, products that are so overladen with useless information you get drowned in jargon just reading it. These products can cause what is known as paralysis from analysis, or the state of being unable to act because of too much information.

When it comes to making money online there are just some simple, easy to follow guidelines that have been tested over time by many successful Internet marketers. The first thing you need to have, of course, is a good product, either your own or by another merchant. Next you must have a defined niche market to whom you will sell your product. Then, you must be able to present your product or service to your market in an efficient and cost-effective manner. After that, you will need an effective sales processor and an effective delivery system.

If you have all these basics covered then you don’t need anymore hype to succeed and make money online.