Social Media Marketing Plan

Social Media Marketing Plan
By Simon J. Maselli

Do you know how to Leverage your social media marketing plan to maximize your business exposure to the internet?

Social networking is the latest revolution in online advertising and it continually surprises me how few leverage its potential. It is relatively simple to set up and once you reach critical mass, the results from social media marketing are awesome.

Read on to find steps on setting up your social network.

1. Set up a business page on Facebook. This is relatively simple to achieve. Sign up to Facebook and set-up a personal page. You would then set up your social media marketing page by establishing either a group or a page. My personal recommendation is to set up your social media marketing plan as a page. Complete as much information in the business information tabs as possible and remember to link back to your main website.

2. Set up a profile on twitter. Go to the Twitter home page and select "New User". Twitter is currently the fastest growing community on the internet. Complete the relevant information and verify your account. The next step is to search twitter for users interested in similar ideas as your business. There are a number of options you can target your social media marketing prospects, from your contacts lists to keyword searches. Take your time and add as many new contacts as time permits.

3. Visit LinkedIn and make a new profile. Linked in often gets users searching for individuals/business for work so it is key to make sure that you completely fill out the details required for a complete profile. This will leverage your social media marketing opportunity and ensure your LinkedIn prospects know what you are about.

4. Join Digg and begin to submit the pages of your website to the Digg Community.

5. Join StumbleUpon and submit pages from your website. This is one of the largest source of traffic early in your websites development and it is important that you maximise the power this resource has to offer to leverage social media marketing.

6. Add buttons to your website that will enable you to link from your website to each of these to your Social networking profiles. there are widgets and banners available at each of the Social Network Marketing sites that you can simply cut and paste into your website to Leverage the Power of this Medium

If you follow these 6 steps to Social Media Marketing you will be well on your way to leveraging the power of this marketing strategy.

Simon Maselli is a Progressive, innovative, energetic and diversely experienced Entrepreneur, and Professional Deal Maker with more than 16 years success as a Leader/Project Manager on multi-million dollar projects with some of the top ASX listed companies in Australia.

As a Social Media Specialist and expert in the field of Personal Branding who focuses on Return On Investment by boosting your personal and business presence, Simon gets Results

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Leverage the Power of LinkedIn to Improve Your Google Ranking

Leverage the Power of LinkedIn to Improve Your Google Ranking

By Luis Olivo

LinkedIn is a network of approximately fifty million business professionals. Most people utilize the LinkedIn network to connect with other professionals and establish business connections. In some ways LinkedIn is similar to Facebook, except LinkedIn is all business and you won't get peppered with Farmville gifts or Mafia Wars loot.

Instead of games, LinkedIn features many different discussion groups with each one focused on a topic. You can join as many groups as you like, participate, connect and network... just remember to keep it professional and get people wanting to know more about you and what you have to offer.

Many professionals use LinkedIn to get connected but don't realize the power of LinkedIn to improve Google ranking. LinkedIn gets decent page ranking in Google. It is a great way to get your name ranked. So when prospects or potential partners Google your name, your information comes up. This gives you control of your name on the web and increases your credibility. You can do this by creating a public profile with full view and also select and create a customized URL with your name. It will also help to utilize your new personalized URL around the web such as in forum signatures, email or in author resource boxes at the end of some of your articles to create back links to your profile and help boost its rank, especially if you have a common name.

Improve Google ranking for your websites such as your blog. LinkedIn allows you to promote three websites. Most people use the default drop down generic categories such as "My Blog", "My Website", "My Company", etc. You can select "other" and customize the name of the link to be more descriptive and include keywords. Make sure your profile is set to full view and you now have customized anchor text pointing to your site from an authoritative website. This helps improve search engine ranking.

While LinkedIn is a great site to network with professionals, if you don't use it to connect, at least utilize the SEO, search engine optimization, value to get your name and website ranking increased with Google and Yahoo.

Luis Olivo teaches and trains home business professionals how to attract leads to themselves using social media, search, video sharing and bookmarking sites.

Visit ExtremeMLM Lead System today and learn marketing secrets that will allow you to take your business to the next level as well as recieve direct coaching and mentoring from Luis Olivo.

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