When I first started using twitter I was a big supporter of the Tweetmeme button. I actually used it far before I changed to the Twitter Retweet button.

But after about 1.5 years Twitter made a huge change to their own Retweet button that made me switch.

For example, right now I’m on @Lisa Petrilli Blog and I’m about to Retweet her latest article named,

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Yep, I’ve got World Cup fever and yeah, it’s probably because my team is defending their title. I caught onto something the referee said watching Thursdays Match against Namibia.

Watch the video and find four very simple keys to successful online marketing.

Your Turn.

Have you ever found inspiration in normal day-to-day stuff? Tell me in the comments below where you found like inspiration.

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I’ve always been a big supporter of putting everything you have into what you do in life. This can be blogging, working or other activities you do in your life.

The same can be said for the Blog Engage RSS Services. Sure your paying for the automatic syndication of your content or clients content but you have to remember this is still a social network and your only going to get out what your willing to put into it.

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When you first see this post, I’m sure your first question will be who the heck is David Wood? Well he’s not related to Tiger and sports are definitely not his business. This gentleman is the owner of the website Work With David Wood. He may not be a hot shot in the sports or show business world, but he is an expert in the field of network marketing. This young man has made it his life’s work to learn all he can about the marketing industry and he wants to teach all his tricks to you.

David Wood is the top producer within the largest attraction marketing system in the world. Most people who end up reading this will probably be interested in network marketing and want to learn from an expert in hopes of gaining some success. By following David and his site, this is not only a possibility, but very likely.

Whether you’re new to MLM marketing or have been working in this industry for some time, there are always new things to learn from David and his site. Work With David Wood can be very helpful as he provides tips, guides and other helpful topics related to network marketing specifically Multi-Level Marketing. His site is filled with opportunities and they all come down to helping you live the life you’ve always dreamed of.

David’s site is very simple and easy to maneuver and you don’t have to have a lot of fancy plug-ins or special players to make full use of the site. It’s the simplicity of the website that creates a helpful atmosphere as it is easier to browse the site and find exactly what you need. The articles posted on the website, be they guides or tips and tricks about network marketing, always incorporates the life and experiences of David Wood and what he’s gone through to get to where he is.

Reading the articles on David’s site is both informative and enjoyable. The site also offers opportunities to create your own “passive wealth machine” while working directly with David Wood. There’s a form to fill out that will tell David that you’re ready to take that next step and join in the MLM marketing industry. There’s even a way to work with David and make money through Facebook. Don’t miss the opportunity to become a millionaire. Visit Work With David Wood today and uncover your pathway to becoming a millionaire or a billionaire.

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It’s important to make the most out of our marketing efforts. No matter what method were using we want to measure some sort of ROI.

Yesterday I was viewing some blogs using our members Commentluv links. When I was doing this I thought to myself this would be a great way to reach new bloggers outside of the Blog Engage community. I could follow my members CommentLuv links and engage with these new bloggers.

So I went to our members blogs and started opening tons of Commentluv links. From here I tweeted the bloggers articles and also followed them on twitter. I continued to do this until I found about 25 bloggers I wanted to follow.

Traditionally (from what I’ve noticed) when people follow you they tend to send you a direct message and introduce their self. This normally includes a link to a Facebook group or even a blog they might own.

I didn’t want to be one of these people so what I did is introduced myself and opened the doors for communication by saying, “Hey thanks for the follow back it’s a pleasure meeting you, I’m Brian please feel free to reach out and say hello anytime”

At the end of the day my goal here isn’t to sell them on my product but encourage relationship building with me. I wanted them to feel comfortable with who I am and what I was representing.

I must say I have had great success. In total I followed about 25 new bloggers using the twitter and CommentLuv Retweet Method and out of that amount I got two new Blog Engage members.

More importantly I found new bloggers that have similar interests as I do and I’ve built some really great relationships. I know I can’t tell the future but I’m sure even a few more of these people will join us over the next few days.

Step by Step Process:

Step 1. Follow a bunch of Commentluv links to other bloggers websites
Step 2. Retweet their latest blog article
Step 3. Follow them on Twitter
Step 4. Once they follow back introduce yourself and open the doors for communication

I hope this helps you build more relationships and helps you grow your blog readers. Let me know if you have any suggestions on my marketing methods especially if you know of ways to improve the results!

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Forum marketing offers valuable SEO benefits. At the same time, it should be mentioned that forum marketing entails more than just getting links or promotions. Rather, it revolves around enhancing your image and credibility within a specific user community. While it may bring in additional visitors in the short-terms, the practice of dropping links across a forum will result in your being perceived as a spammer within the community and that your presence was there solely for the link. Nevertheless, it does not mean that providing a link in your post is taboo. Instead, this is an allowance must be used with plenty of discretion, if you want to make the most of it.

Here are some handy hints while forum marketing:

Not short-term

Forum marketing is not short-term in nature. It’s not about just visiting a couple of forums and posting only when a new product is being launched. Forum marketing instead is about building long-term relationships and fostering trust over a period of time. It follows that visiting some of the leading forums on a regular basis to check for new posts that you can add value to or contribute information about, is recommended. Your sales won’t rise dramatically in the short-term, but you’re setting up a veritable position for yourself as a reputed resource within your specific industry or community.

Pay attention to details

Irrespective of the forum’s environment – causal or formal- remember never to undermine it when making an official post related to your business. Maintain a professional tone in your forum interactions always. Information such as user name, photographs etc, should be in keeping with the business essence. Include all necessary details about yourself in your official profile. You may give the sales-pitch a skip here, but remember to incorporate details on aspects related to the forum content. Also, before submitting a post, ensure that you have reviewed each post thoroughly and done a spelling and grammar check, before publishing it.

Forums differ

It’s likely that there may be many forums within your specific industry. It doesn’t imply that you have to seriously track everyone. Just be a sprinkling of them may really matter. A good way to decide would be to look in the numbers.  The crème forums generally have a minimum of thousand members and a relatively good volume of fresh posts, which indicate the vibrancy of the community.

To conclude, forum marketing is a very important medium for engaging with your niche audiences and also building up a reputation within the industry. Judicious use and an unbiased approach towards information and opinion sharing on a regular basis, will help you make the most of it.

The Google +1 button could potentially turn SEO on its head, it isn’t just another button to be put on your website along with Facebook, Twitter, Linked and others: it’s going to be essential. Google’s +1 of course is very much like the Facebook like button but the big difference is that you get to see what people have liked or rather +1’ed before you have clicked a link in Google search.

People with a Google Public Profile can +1 pages and see how many people overall and which of their contacts have +1’ed sites, presumably numbers of +1s will be visible to everyone in the near future though.

The Google +1 is for Google organic search and for the paid for Google Adwords search results. The +1 button is currently available to people logging in to their Google accounts only on search results where you can +1 results before even clicking through to them, more likely though people will +1 once they have read a page. Also it is important to remember that the +1s are for individual pages rather than the site as a whole, so having the button on all of your site’s pages is vital.

With Google Adwords it may be even more important to get some +1s showing by your result as otherwise your click through rate may dip and your ads slump down a few positions from which it could be hard to get back from.

Anyone with a website with good positions on Google already needs to take action immediately with +1 to get the jump on their competitors and make sure they keep their position: as with organic results how often your result is clicked on when showing for particular keywords does have some bearing on your position in results for that keyword.

Whether the number of +1s your pages have got will ever directly influence your position in search results in the same way as Pagerank remains to be seen but for now the indirect effect of you either increasing your click through rate or losing clicks to competitors is vital.

That is assuming of course that people will pay attention to the number of +1s a page has, it may well take some time until people get used to it and understand what it means. Presumably some types of pages will be more likely to get +1s than others; insurance broker’s websites may get few +1s compared to Justin Beiber Fansites. It will also be interesting to see whether people will pay more attention to how many +1s there are or if they will go for those pages that have been +1’ed by friends.

Looking at which of your site’s pages have the most +1s will be interesting, especially for those sites with a few writers: whose articles are most popular and what kind of content is going down well? In future perhaps we will see +1 data shown in Google Analytics.

From an SEO point of view building up +1s will be important to boost positions quickly and could therefore be an affordable SEO option and help out smaller businesses compete with big budgets of larger competitors.

Many business owners understand that they should be “on” social media sites like Facebook, but that is where their acumen ends.  Many small businesses just create their page as a shell and then sit back and welcome what little traffic they may get naturally. 

These companies have completely passive Facebook pages, assuming that the small amount of traffic and ”likes” they naturally accumulate will all count as “profit.”  But an ill-tended Facebook page will actually reflect badly on the company that created it, causing the company’s brand value to go down in the long run.

Facebook won’t work for you unless you work for it.  Only active, intelligent users will be able to leverage Facebook as a tool for improving their business.

I work for a Dentist’s office in a small town in Indiana, and we thought we were doing well to have 30-something fans until we started talking to some people with more Facebook proficiency.  When we started our Facebook-rejuvenating project we realized how severely we were underestimating our page’s potential.

After checking out this guide, we got motivated to give one person the task of updating our page three times a week.  Whenever something eventful was happening around our office or someone found a particularly cool picture or video, we posted it on our page.  At first this didn’t buy us much, as the 30-something fans that we had were not even particularly engaged with our page.  But as we improved our content and sent more of our clients to our Facebook page, our “likes” began steadily increasing and engagement soon followed.  Around that time we also increased our visibility by mailing out postcards.

We took this small spark and tried to kindle it into a flame.  Facebook provides a number of different metrics, called Facebook Insights.  We checked out this guide to insights, and began monitoring our traffic.

The Facebook Insights dashboard shows a lot of different metrics you can look at, like the total number of daily active users, the demographics of your fans, the people that refer to you externally, and the daily page activity of your fans that mentions you.  In particular we paid attention to the likes/comments for all of our content and our monthly fan growth.  By watching how our content was received, we were able to tailor our content to what our fans wanted to see.  Our fans didn’t seem to respond much to our discussion prompts (probably, admittedly, due to the quality of the prompts themselves), but did tend to chime in on any cute dental health infographics we found. 

Sure, some users were following us somewhat ironically, “trolling” us, but their comments were good-natured enough, and overall engagement continued to increase.  We watched our monthly fan growth ratchet up, and our total number of fans grew slowly past 100 and then bloomed from there to the ~400 we have now.  Now that we have a decent following, we also started to see some people unsubscribe.  Our attrition rate so far seems very slow and steady, with no real pattern for why people are leaving.  But I imagine that if our popularity continues to increase, we will have to become more sensitive to our attrition rate.

It really didn’t take as much effort or know-how as you might think to transform our pathetic Facebook page into a good tool for connecting with our clients.  Insights make it fairly easy and straightforward to see what is going on with your page’s traffic, and from there it’s a simple matter of finding out what kind of content people want and trying to deliver it to them a few times a week.