Archive for Social Media for Business

Effective Internet Marketing You Can Do Yourself For Free!

// July 11th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Local Business Solutions, Online Promotion, Social Media for Business

A Few Types of Free Internet Advertising

imageInternet advertising, particularly the free kind, still requires a considerable investment – primarily of time.  Also it will definitely go a lot better for you if you have business graphics in place already, logos, flyers, ads, as these can be utilized in just about every type of free online marketing.

Benefits of Free Online Marketing

Obviously growing your business is the main objective.  With that in mind, these types of internet marketing all create SEO opportunities, primarily if ingrain your advertising with your keywords and, secondly, with links back to your website.  Visit this other blog of ours for more clarification on SEO Basics, and here is a link to Google’s Free Keyword Research Tool.  Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, each of these forms of online advertising allow you to step in front of an audience as the majority of these websites are trafficked routinely by a set of people, each we consider a community.

The types of free internet promotion we cover in this article are:

  • Classified Ad Running
  • Internet Phone Book Listings
  • Free Hosted Blogs
  • Social Networking Sites and
  • Free Websites on Hosted Domains

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Free Web Design Tools

// June 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Local Business Solutions, Online Promotion, Social Media for Business

This post is built to list free web design tools that allow you to build and host websites.  From a professional perspective it is often important to host on your own domain.  When I revise this article I will include the cost involved and whether the options is available.

http://www.weebly.com/ – Simple free websites

http://speaklight.com – More powerful free websites 

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Facebook Pages – The Way To Market

// June 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Social Media for Business

Check it out!  It looks as though Facebook pages have some value after all!  They can achieve rank themselves.  This matched with the vanity URL’s coming out Friday definitely add value.  Contact Taylor Ellwood at Imagine Your Reality for help on social media website strategy and service if you don’t have time to do it yourself.

Make sure to check out this article to read more on Facebook Page Strategy!

Social Business Internet Marketing Strategy

// April 24th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Social Media for Business

Presentation Notes by Charles Montgomery for I Take The Lead Members

Business Benefits of Social Media Marketing

- Another Website for Web Presence – places to come across you…

- Another Website for Search Engine Presence – When someone searches on your business name – what comes up?

- Business Hub – Links to all of your other sites

- Generate Traffic

- Connect with Current Clients

- Connect with Professional Peers

- Promote Services / Products

- Disseminate Information and Uses for your Promote Services / Products

- Promote Your Business Specials

According to Lloyd Salmons, first chairman of the Internet Advertising Bureau, “Social media isn’t just about big networks like Facebook and MySpace, it’s about brands having conversations.”

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