I’m going to let you in on a very dirty secret:

There is one question that is being dodged by experts in EVERY market. Answer that question and you’ll corner the market, be worshipped forever and get more customers and sales.

If it was that easy, why aren’t other experts answering these questions?

It’s because they fear an informed audience. That’s outright silly! But, we’re not going to tell them that. While your competitors run scared, you’ll be getting more sales since you’re going to follow the steps I outline in the article below. You will educate your targeted audiences, get more website traffic, teach people how to buy from you and increase your sales.

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I have to admit I’ve been slow to jump on board with the whole social marketing trend.

After so many years spent in marketing and frequently hearing about the “next big thing”, I’ve come to the decision that all these technologies are simply communication tools for building trusting relationships with prospective customers.

No one tool is going to make you a gazillion dollars.

But used with common sense and an understanding of where your customers hang out and what your customers are most wanting, I think social marketing technology is well worth learning to use.

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A savvy and free way to increase your business sales is through blog marketing. No matter what business you’re in, you can increase your business with a focused blog marketing campaign. You may shy away from blog marketing because you feel that you might not be a good writer, or simply don’t like to write. This is understandable. But the truth is that many blog marketers nowadays don’t even write their own content. They pay someone else to do it.

In fact, you can pay someone else to write dozens of articles to keep your blog going. You can come up with ideas if you want to, but you can just as easily give your writers a broad general topic idea and have them come up with streamlined topics for blog entries. The best course of action is truly up to you, but paying writers to craft your blog entries is not expensive and may save you trouble in the long run.

Once you’ve determined how your blog will be written, the next thing you must do is focus on the keywords that your blog will include. There is a lot of information out there on keyword research and niche marketing but, in essence, what you want to do is find keywords that are searched highly and don’t have a lot of competition. Competition means that there are a lot of other pages that come up when you search under that keyword.

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One of the most common questions I’m getting these days is “how should I measure the value of all the social marketing things we’re doing like Twitter, Linked-in, Facebook, etc.?”

My answer: WHY are you doing them in the first place? If you can’t answer that, you’re wasting your time and the company’s money.

Sounds simple I know, but I’m stunned at how unclear many marketers are about their intentions/expectations/hypotheses for how social media initiatives might actually help their business. In short, if you can’t describe in two sentences or less (no semi-colons) WHAT you hope to gain through use of social media, then WHY are you doing it? Measurement isn’t the problem. If you don’t know where you’re going, any measurement approach will work.

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The growing popularity of Global Domains International (GDI) has been overwhelming and the accolades received by the organization over the years speak for themselves. Recently GDI was featured in the San Diego Union Tribune, the LA Times, Entrepreneur Magazine and most recently Inc 500 even rated GDI #37 out of the top 500 fastest growing companies in the US. I mention this not only to erase any doubt or scepticism but also because the world is ripe with opportunity now and one should be careful when considering what opportunity to take advantage of. With any online opportunity or MLM traffic will be key but once you’re getting traffic the importance of coaching, duplication and patience play a much bigger role than ever before. You can make money online.

Social Marketing can prove very fruitful for anyone from the beginner all the way to the guru. In fact the more you do it the better you will get, guaranteed! Human nature is a touchy subject and learning what to say and when to say it is key to make money online. This is a great win-win situation! Global Domains International is selling the .ws domains pretty good because .ws domain names are a pretty good alternative for .com names (as you might have noticed, all the good .com domains are already taken, but the .ws isn’t). It’s a great trial and error exercise that will teach you a lot about what you’re doing and the people you share it with. There are plenty of sites that allow you to network throughout the community but be sure that your efforts are genuine.To sign up, you must visit a website (mine is below, at the bottom of the article), sign up, and purchase a domain name (for example: www.rarecars.ws) You will receive a 7-day free trial, and at any point, you can quit if you wish. After the trial, the web hosting will cost you $10 a month. For that, you get one website, which you can use for whatever purpose you want, (in most cases, people will use theirs to sell another website to someone else). Furthermore, be helpful more than anything else. People are not as impressed by million dollar sales pitches as much as they are impressed by a quality product, a genuine helper and a truly legitimate income.

The next major realization that I’ve made is the importance of coaching. Coaching is HUGE! As a coach or sponsor your resources must be limitless. You can produce tools and resources yourself or can just point your affiliates in the right direction towards resources produced by 3rd parties. As an affiliate, an important thing to remember is that while resources are important, resourcefulness plays a much bigger role when determining success. Anyone familiar with compensation structure of GDI realizes the value of each affiliate in the downline. In order to increase the value of that affiliate, the sponsor needs teach and mentor until the affiliate is self-sustaining.

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