Social Media Marketing Disadvantages

I know you are wondering what could be the disadvantages to social marketing? This can be summed up really in one word. TIME

It takes a lot of time to not only write posts, and keep your site or your blog updated and fresh but to post your articles, to the social sites and then make sure you are being a good friend and voting, commenting and making new friends.

This has been one of my biggest problems. I am really terrible at repetitive tasks. I don’t personally believe that outsourcing your tagging is ethical. I may have to change and really look at it but I think the whole point is to be on the sites and to see what people are doing and talking about and to be a friend. I also don’t believe in having multiple user names just to vote my own stuff up. I think that is a big problem with why people are getting really down on internet marketing…and marketers specifically.

Ethics…..

In the B&M world (brick and mortar) you must be ethical in your business practices to keep doing business. You can’t represent yourself as someone you are not, and you must make sure that your advertising is above reproach. However online many of these things are just thrown right out the window.

I think that is another of the disadvantages of social marketing.

We have been working on several projects lately, that will hopefully put our social marketing into a more time friendly endeavor. One that will allow us to utilize our time more efficiently and keep our standards higher and be ethical in the mix.

Camilla is so “friggin brilliant” she has been working with a system that is totally amazing. You can spend a day putting together a site, and then put it all on autopilot for up to a year. All of your posts are posted to the socials, your products are updated, and added automatically, and…. the best part is you can do this with several niches and they seem to be ranking really well.

We will soon have more information out on this as soon as we get a little more testing done.

Some things that will save you time are ;

using Friend Feed

using Twitter with Twhirl

Plurk seems to be working pretty well too

If you know of time saving apps or sites add them to the comments.

An Internet Marketing Strategy…That is Working Big Time!

When we started Ka-Boom we didn’t know for sure what was going to happen. We just knew that we had stumbled onto a really great way to market. It was working so well for us that we wanted to share it. Ka-Boom-Marketing is a whole “Internet Marketing Strategy”. It is not just doing tagging, members get technical advice, writing help, and so much more. Our live chat is always busy, we have members from 7 countries and all types of marketing businesses.

We asked some of our friends to join us…and they did for about 3 or 4 days then it was to much work…or they jumped onto a new deal out there, or whatever. This was a totally free way for them to learn and earn.

As we got better and had refined this system a little more, and were getting even better results we decided that the only way for it to work for others would be…and investment of some kind.

We still work and research everyday and are improving what we are doing by leaps and bounds.

Our forum is full of people in this group that have had results that even astound us. Including the latest a guy that has been working on a site for a long time…was going to give up and then joined Ka-Boom as a last ditch effort.

In the few weeks he has been using the Ka-Boom internet marketing strategy, he has really gotten amazing results. Check out what he said in our forum this morning.
“Here’s something very special that I’d like to share with you.

One of sites ( www.bestmanspeechinsight.com ), which was buried under 531 results in Google SERP only a couple of weeks back is now at #7 on the first page of Google for the KW1. And for the KW2 phrase it’s just on the second page at #12. Bot the results were recorded with 10 results per page view, which is the default preference setting.

During this magnificent journey from #532 to #7, the site halted at position #303, #176 and #92 for a few days.

Though www.bestmanspeechinsight.com was optimized for the search engines from the very first day and have some decent content it didn’t show any signs of improvement. I submitted it to the directories and bookmarked it to the bookmarking sites but with no results. I was so disappointed with it that I somewhat neglecting it. I even forgot to insert the Google Analytics code in the web site’s pages. I had some feeder sites supporting it but never used it the way I should have done.

So, what made the difference. You guys made the difference. You tagging has pulled the site from the position it was once to #7. I am happy that joined Ka Boom. This result shows that it really works. So much so, that the site even awarded a PR2. Initially, I didn’t notice that, it’s only came to my knowledge after Camilla mentioned it to me.

And I already had a sale from it yesterday.

My groom speech blog is already at #1 - #3 and with this best man speech site doing well, I am inching towards my goal to establish my authority on all the wedding speech niches.
I want to thank Camilla, Sarah and every member of Ka Boom for this achievement. “

Ameet
This is what makes everything worthwhile for me. Seeing someone succeed after nearly quitting. I had to share what he had to say in our forum, because I know there are many of you out there in the same boat as Ameet was. He put in the work, and I am not going to kid you it is work to do our internet marketing system but it is worth it as you will read, and it is a complete system that so far has not failed even once.

We are not going to keep the doors open indefinately. This is a lot of work for us. We spend at least an hour or two on the phone with every new person helping them with all parts of their internet marketing system. This is not a big money maker for us…but it is an example of what people can do together. This is what Social Networking, and Social Marketing are all about. A group effort for the good of everyone using the latest research, tools and techniques to achieve amazing and free results in the Search Engines.

If you are looking for a big sales pitch, or all the hype…go to one of the guru’s. We all work very hard to be #1 and we expect anyone that joins to do the same.

Do you have an Internet Marketing Strategy?

Black Cows & Purple Goats

What the heck do Black Cows and Purple Goats have to do with marketing?

Nothing and Everything!

Unless you are referring to the good & plenty (pun and tie in to black and purple) poor headline writers out there. This is an example of what people don’t understand when they are posting on the social sites. Headlines are important. They can make or break your post on places like Reddit, Propeller, and Digg. If you don’t have something that will grab peoples attention then you might just as well not post. Especially if you are going to post the same old tired information.

We have been preaching this for months now to our fantastical group on Ka-Boom-Marketing. If you only have (experts say) 7 seconds to grab someones attention then you better make the words count. Don’t waste it with really spammy or typical headlines. I almost never read someones post let alone go to their page (which if you have not figured it out yet) is the real point to posting on the socials… ok small rant there.

People don’t seem to understand (that is why we are here to impart our great wisdom) that it is about creating traffic. Traffic that will go to your blog, your website, or your sales page and buy or participate. It is not just to get votes. I am saying it again it is not just about votes!!! However the votes and the comments will help you get noticed by the Search Engines and will possibly land you on the front page which is premo territory.

So to recap here our good & plenty story on Social Marketing; You need to create “friggin brilliant” headlines, followed by some tantalizing copy that will get you votes from your friends, but more importantly will get people interested enough to go to your site and see what the heck you are talking about.

Next goal make what you are talking about interesting and valuable enough to make it worth their while to visit your site.