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Google Gadgets & OpenSocial – A Social Media Marketing Toolset
If you have several different social media sites, such as MySpace, Imeem, Friendster, etc., the trick is to get them to interact with one another. It is difficult sometimes to keep up with friends who may be on different sites. Or rather, it was difficult until Google Gadgets and Open Social started their own social media marketing toolset.
Open Social is one of the most exciting things to happen to Google in a long time. This will allow you to build applications that will link many different websites to one API and will also allow the system to host other social applications as well. You need to have a bit of JavaScript knowledge and HTML, but Google provides you the tutorials to do this in their Open Social guide online.
In addition to Open Social, you can also use Google Gadgets to keep your marketing linked to your social networking sites. Google Gadgets can enable you to build a social application very inexpensively. If you are looking for a way to use social media as a marketing tool, Open Social and Google Gadgets are just the thing to help you achieve success.
Google Gadgets are bits of code that you can structure to your own website and use in links and signatures all over the internet. You can post links in many different places as your signature code. If your gadgets are created for your website, they will update as your website updates. One gadget can be put on all of your social networks to continually reflect changes in your website so that you do not have to do this by hand.
And by combining Google Gadgets with Open Social, you can use Social Marketing to its ultimate success. You can actually use one gadget that can virally spread across all of your different social networks through the Open Social application. This saves you time that can be spent taking care of business.
Combining Google Gadgets with Open Social, which has just become available to the public, is the best way to connect all of your social media sites together and keep them updated and connected to your website through a gadget.
Social media attracts billions of customers yearly. Years ago, the only social networking site was MySpace and a few others. Today, there are hundreds of different sites and more developing each day. Imagine being able to spread your marketing ideas across these different websites with one click of the mouse! Thanks to this new Google Technology, you can save a lot of time and reach a lot more potential customers on social sites by using Open Social. Adding Google Gadgets can keep it running without any more effort on your part.
If you want to promote your business or website on the internet through the effective means of social media, check out Open Social at Google and learn how to operate this user friendly program. This can be a vital source of marketing for your website.
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Social Marketing Basics
What is Social Media Marketing?
Social Marketing is made up of many different aspects. The important thing to remember is that anyone wanting to earn money online should be prepared to invest the time and effort required to build a genuine business. Using social media should be just one part of your overall traffic-building strategy, not the entire nor the only strategy you incorporate.
I share 4 key components of social marketing below. Learning the basic principles of social marketing and how it works will go a long way in helping you with not only your marketing efforts, but your notoriety and reader retention.
Blogging is Crucial in Social Marketing
Your blog is naturally a social marketing tool. By using good posting strategies, linkbait, clip marks, utility posts, commenting, growing your audience, setting up social widgets, content exchanges or blog carnivals, and social media optimization you will have set a powerful base for your website. The building blocks of social marketing success are one of the critical components to making your online business not only visited more, but critical to your monetary success.
Using Social Sites Properly
Learning the common social site features will enable you to grasp how to use these communities to their highest potential. Creating a powerful profile is very important. Making friends on social sites is just one power networking strategy, along with having others submit respond to, and vote on your content. You also want to understand the rules for each social site so that you don’t get your account banned. Tagging is another critical aspect to your social marketing, and being able to measure your marketing results.
It’s a Conversation, Not a Sales Pitch
Starting conversations is a power strategy. Knowing the Golden Rules of Social Networking will enable you to get maximum views for your social networking, forum activity, and on how to find social networks in your niche. Learning Social Power Linking Strategies will enable you to drive organic traffic to your site, and will provide you with continuous streams of repeat visitors. People who are searching for information in your niche will find you because of the social marketing strategies. Social marketing does many things, it not only puts you in front of those who are in those specific social sites, but because you are creating links, regular followers will come simply because the search engines will notice all your efforts and all the organic traffic that you are creating. This in turn will help you with your search engine rankings.
A System Is Critical To Being Efficient
In order to incorporate these strategies you need a system, a guide, on how to do this effectively and a place where you can share your findings and questions with others. There are several communities where bloggers band together and where social marketing tactics of all kinds are shared and discussed in great detail.
Great free communities to get involved are MyBlogLog.com, BlogCatalog.com, and SocialAuthority.Ning.com. People interested in social marketing and better blogging tactics are working out new social marketing tactics and helping each other progress in busy communities such as these.
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How To Win Friends and Twinfluence Tweeple
Also, it’s good to think of Twitter as a party, or networking event – You can walk around, shmooze with people on topics of interest – engage in conversation, ask questions, answer questions, and more. It’s about conversation. It’s about meeting people. It’s about learning. It’s about sharing. It’s about connecting. In a nutshell – It’s a free web and sms social networking service.
It’s called “micro-blogging” because of it’s simplicity and because your blog entries/tweets are limited to 140 characters or less. From the beginning. For those of you who haven’t used Twitter (the rest read anyway)… Get an account. Pick a username consistent with the rest of your social networks. You can scan your email address books for people and/or take recommended tweeps. Upload a photo (please don’t leave the default avatar), also upload a background picture. Add a basic bio – nothing long and keep it comical and/or informative. Add your website. Set your Profile to Public (everyone can see) or Private (just people you personally approve). Find people to follow through http://search.twitter.com or http://twellow.com.
Get used to lots of things starting with a TW sound. Just tweal with it Some Twerms: Tweet – Verb or noun, depending on usage. The micro-blog post you enter.
Retweet – Repeating someone else’s Tweet – Mentioned in detail below. DM (Direct Message) – A private message.
Device – Refers to your phone (SMS/Text). Click Settings/Devices and add. Followers – Readers who follow (subscribe to) your Tweets.
Following – The Tweeple that you are following. Follow People. Listen to them. When you are ready, reach out either though a DM or a @Reply. @Replies are flagged to the recipient and viewable by the public D (direct) messages are only viewable by the intended viewer.
So, to send a message just to me, privately you would put D williger in the message box. Make Sure to read your @Replies and Direct Messages (you can see this from your ‘Home’ navigation on Twitter. People may be reaching out to you and expect and deserve your reply. Well, usually – some people have automatic DM’s, it’s not a bad thing – just makes you weed through your inbox.
Be Cool – I can’t stress this enough. You may razz your friends in person, don’t do it here – especially when starting out. Micro-blogging, SMS, email, they all lack inflection – remember this. Don’t Worry – Don’t be afraid to start talking about what you are doing or engaging in a conversation. It’s just like any other type of communication, get used to the medium and run with it.
Promote It – Add your Twitter URL everywhere – Email Signature, Facebook, Myspace, Business Cards, etc.
To follow-back or not. This is a tough question with varying answers. It’s not an easy one to address as neither is right. Personally, I follow back everyone who follows me (well except spam bots and the like). Basically reciprocals, like myself look at this as good etiquette, a way to increase follower numbers, and give you more people to learn from. Discriminators focus on following very few people, which limits the variety of people they communicate with. Discriminators argue they have tighter relationships, and reciprocals argue they learn from more people. No way is ultimately right – start slow and see what works for you. Yes, it’s really easy.
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The ReTweet – I have to touch on this. A RT, R/T, or Retweet is a way to compliment someone’s Tweet by forwarding it to your Twitter follower stream. For instance, if I posted a useful quote, or a link you could take that quote or link, type RT @williger (and paste my post here). What this does is 2 things – it gives credit for the Tweet to the original author, and it introduces people in your stream to the author. It’s considered generous to RT. I will be putting together a seperate article about this soon. This should be a solid reference to start with, and I will be adding more articles here to help.
Please feel free to @darrenwilliger me any questions along the way. I’m learning more every day, just like everybody else. Come back for my next Twitter articles about integrating other sites, making backgrounds, RT etiquette, and hash tags. I have met some amazing people so far who I really enjoy communicating with. This is why I keep encouraging everyone to Tweet it up already!
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The next step is to start sharing and connecting….