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Social Media Marketing Service: The World-Wide Explosion

 

The past decade has seen the monumental explosion of Social Media Marketing Service websites onto the Internet. From Facebook, Twitter and MySpace to YouTube, Bebo and Hi5; the number of Social Media Marketing Service websites on the Internet is truly astounding and they are connecting people from every single city, country and continent on the globe. There is quite literally no limit to the reach of the Internet and this has facilitated immense social interaction. People can keep up to date with hundreds of friends, engage in conversation, share pictures, videos and music and reconnect with friends that they have long lost contact with. Where distances, obstacles and oceans once came in the way of communication and sharing, there are now literally hundreds of Social Media Marketing Service websites making connection and reconnection possible in a way like never before.

 

Social Media Marketing Service: The Statistics

 

Social media essentially refers to the myriad of Internet-based sites that facilitate and promote social interaction and networking. In order to truly appreciate the marketing power of social media, one need only consider the following statistics:

 

• 75% of the global consumers who go online visit Social Media Marketing Service websites.
• This figure has increased by a massive 24% since last year.
• Each visitor spends approximately 66% more time on Social Media Marketing Service websites than the previous year (from 3 hours per day to 6.5!)
• 22% of the all human time is spent browsing Social Media Marketing Service websites.
• In July of this year (2010), Facebook announced over 500,000,000 (million) users.
• LinkedIn currently has 60 million subscribers, which increased by 5 million in just 2 months.
• Twitter has 110 million users
• Myspace has 57 million users in the United States alone
• Yelp sees over 30 million viewers per month
• Tagged  has 100 million registered users.

 

So, what does this all mean? Social media has captivated the world’s attention and the number of users and time spent per day by each user is only increasing with each passing month. And what does this mean for business?

 

Social Media Marketing Service

 

The explosion of Social Media Marketing Service websites on the Internet and the vast number of people who subscribe to any of the hundreds out there has provided businesses of all sizes with an incredible opportunity to cash in on the exposure they can afford. Consider Facebook; one of the biggest of all the social networking sites to exist in the virtual domain. Facebook has over 500 million active viewers: subscribers who login and spend time on the site every day. The business that has visibility on Facebook is therefore being seen by tens, if not hundreds of millions of users on a daily basis. It is this potential for incredible exposure and the subsequent accumulation of leads that has made social media the new medium for modern marketing and advertising. The statistics have spoken: the business that does not make the jump into social media as a means for spreading their brand image and name will literally be left in the dust of its competitors.

 

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These are brand new websites without any history, no backlinks yet and are completely fresh from an SEO perspective. We will periodically update this report to show progress in terms of search engine ranking.

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WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALNETWORKGURU.COM (keyword “social network guru”)

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WWW.WORLDCLASSSOCIALMARKETINGAGENCY.COM (keyword “social marketing agency”)

WWW.SOCIALNETWORKBRANDMANAGEMENT.COM (keyword “social network brand management”)

WWW.AUTOMATED-SOCIAL-MEDIA.COM (keyword “automated social media”)

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WWW.SOCIALNETGURU.COM (keyword "social net guru")

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There are many myths regarding social media marketing automation. Do you want to know the realities? If yes, then read the article and know the myths as well as realities.

If you are in the ‘Business to Consumer’ (b2C) marketing segment, social media marketing automation is a vital technique that you must be initiating to perk up your sales and generate more leads. It is the application of certain software to automate the social media marketing process such as customer data distribution, customer message broadcast, social media campaign management and more. However, despite its multi-tiered benefits, there are some rigid recurring myths associated with social media marketing automation.

Sources revealed that only 10 percent of business to business companies, at present, incorporate social media marketing automation.  It is fairly logical to expect that most marketers are still planning the use of some kind of automation platform. Whatever be the reason, it is necessary for you to get updated with some of the myths related to such marketing.

Let’s have a quick look –

Myth 1: You require dedicated employees to attain the most from social media marketing.

Reality is: Prior to initiating social media marketing automation, you strongly require transforming your business. The first thing that you need to do is to put your attention on your customer’s buying process rather than the sales process. In fact, it must start from top down and must involve both sales departments & marketing. Be ready and experimental with team performance and, if necessary, re-shuffle. Employment of additional people may not be necessary. The moment your systems get in place, social media marketing automation can curtail your staffs’ precious time and gear up their productivity level. Automating a recurring task like tracking ‘events’ or ‘webinars’ instead of delivering messages manually will save a lot of your marketing members’ time, which can be productively used in other marketing efforts.

Myth 2: Social Media Marketing automation software is expensive.

Reality is: In order to enhance marketing effectiveness, a strategy must be initiated to fully distribute your message across hundreds of social media websites. Frankly speaking, the top automation social media marketing software seems more cost-effective than what is expected, especially when some related high cost factors are taken into consideration. Some of the high cost factors include-

time consuming repetitive tasks performed by the marketing team

Excessive time spent by the sales representatives in chasing bad leads

Lost opportunities as your dormant leads purchase product / service from your close competitors

Myth 3: It is tough to learn Social Media Marketing Automation

Reality is: In order to make your social media marketing automation a successful one, you need to take into account your customer’s buying mechanism. Consider what serves as a superior lead for your sales team and build up relevant content for nurturing leads. This process, no doubt, can be tricky and can invite multiple debates. However, the moment an agreement is set on how to achieve leads, the following things become much simpler than the ‘hyped’ discussions and debates on business process:

What campaigns should be followed?

How to manage the participants of an event?

What is the process of implementing social media marketing automation program?  

Myth 4: As there is email blaster, there is no need for social media marketing automation software.

Reality is: With every passing day, the email campaigning response rates are dropping rapidly. As per the ‘Epsilon Q4 2009 Email Trends & Benchmark reports’, the response rates of consumers average only 22 percent. Mind you, if you fail to understand your buyer’s preference and repeatedly send them content which are irrelevant to them, they will surely neglect your message and might flag you as spam.

Thus, the only way to increase your targeted customer’s response rate is through social media marketing automation platform. This platform will help you to better understand online behavior of your target customer and thus you will be able to send more targeted content to your buyers. This will definitely gear up response rate of your customers.

Myth 5: Social Media Marketing automation is already included in the existing CRM or ‘Customer Relationship Management’

Reality is: It has been found that many CRMs include fundamental emailing features and some even include process workflow. However, none of these platforms have that depth to understand the characteristic traits or behavior of your target buyer. Hence, delivery of automated social media marketing messages that are irrelevant to your buyer’s choice, taste and preference will only annoy him / her, instead of converting to business. Social Media Marketing automation allows you to understand the buyer’s accurate interest areas, which ensures you to send the appropriate content at appropriate time. The moment a buyer shows sincere interest in your products and services, you can use your unique selling proposition to convert them to business. You can integrate the social media  marketing automation with your existing CRM platform of your sales team and thus your sales team won’t need to change their system of lead tracking.

Myth 6: There is no harm in using my existing process for another year because it is working fine.

Reality is: As per “DemandGen Report”, social media marketing automation is turning out to be an essential investment in the year 2010 for leading B2B companies. This development can be attributed to two factors:

Mounting up of pressure for demonstrating ROI

Fall in rate of response of the buyers to untargeted mass communications

Remember, at the end of the day, the smart prospect to engage customer is through pertinent, reliable and rich content. Here, if you don’t highlight the buyers’ concern and send them the suitable information relating to purchasing decisions, there is always a chance of thing getting messed up. There is a fair chance that your competitors have already started to adopt marketing automation for their business, ahead of yours, to gauge the consumer behavior more accurately. Thus, don’t delay in taking the right decision now; otherwise it will be too late for you to regain the lost opportunities.

Hence, it can be said that social media marketing automation will definitely help a B2B marketer in understanding the needs and preferences of target customers in a better manner. This will help them to provide more customer-centric marketing process, which will in turn help the B2B organizations to get more leads and businesses.

After going through this entire article, you now know the realities regarding the various aspects of social media marketing automation. Social Media Marketing automation will help you to know your customers’ behavior in a better manner and thus enable you to catch their imagination in a more targeted way. So, make the right decision at the right time and increase your sales by opting for Social Media Marketing Automation.

Social media marketing expert Kendell Lang explains how to generate business leads through social media marketing, just WRITE ONCE and PUBLISH GLOBALLY. More information is available at www.WorldClassID.com  

Social Media has come up as a major marketing requirement for most businesses. However, are existing agencies really equipped and prepared to meet this emerging new distribution channel? A recent survey was conducted by TNS Media Intelligence about whether agencies are ready to deal with social media marketing.

Clients from New York and around the country are emphasizing more and more about the need for their agency to provide expertise regarding Social Media Marketing. However, according to a survey it has been revealed that agencies are not properly equipped in helping their clients in the social media space.

A polling survey was conducted by TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony in order to gauge the rate of success of various marketers in the social media space. In this survey, more than 60 marketers across 3 countries (U.K., France and North America) were polled. The polling survey of TNS asked these marketing professionals about the ability of their agencies in helping their clients in social media space. The result published by TNS says that “"Agencies don't get it”. 

One of the main complaints of the New York based clients about their agencies (including public relations, creative, media, design and others) is that social media (such as blogs) are treated by the agencies as typical traditional media. These agencies have miniscule hands-on experience and practical skills on social media networking, video sharing, etc. 

One of the marketing specialists of FedEx, Bryan Simkins, has told TNS that traditional Advertisement agencies can merely contribute to social media marketing. This is due to the fact that these Ad agencies are driven by their respective compensation models, which are appropriate for closed media. However, these compensation models are ineffective in case of open media and consequently the traditional Ad agencies can only nominally help their clients with social media marketing. 

Social Media has brought about a paradigm shift in the concept of marketing. With every passing day, the popularity of this media is increasing by leaps and bounds. This is the reason why analysts have felt the necessity of highlighting the lack of properly skilled social media professionals at different agencies. In fact, a report published by Forrester Research has pointed out that most of the agencies are ill equipped in helping their clients in leveraging opportunities through community connections. Thus, these Ad agencies are not properly structured in accepting the marketing challenges of tomorrow. This has become a serious concern for the agencies because more and more of their clients are asking for social media marketing campaigns, but the agencies are not properly structured to meet their needs.

It has been found that clients complain that the agencies sound good when they give presentations on social media. However, when it comes to the implementation of social media campaigns, a mismatch is taking place between marketer’s expectations and the daily management skills.

According to Suzuki’s E-business Manager, Mr. David Harris, the existing partners of marketing don’t have a clear perception on social media. Thus, they tend to make grave mistakes when they try to apply old models of advertising and marketing to social media.

The polling survey of TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony has also revealed the fact that 50% of the total sample of marketers have stressed on handling the social media efforts at executive level, through proper utilization of significant resources. Another 30 % of the surveyed marketers have regarded that the social media landscape is a “revolutionary opportunity.”

Scott Wilder of Intuit has regarded social media as a Pandora’s Box, where consumers are relying more and more on word of mouth for evaluating products as well as companies.
 
Social media can be utilized by the organizations for customer service, public relation and marketing. That’s why these organizations are finding it difficult to incorporate these new genres of communication tools in a specific division. 

TNS’s Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Jim Nail, has predicted that lack of social media skills at various renowned agencies would create opportunities for new providers. Fila USA’s E-Marketing Manager, Carolyn Holliday, has stressed on the fact that it has become a necessity for companies to keep communicating with their customers, both potential as well as existing ones, in addition to regular practice of Ad placement. This is where prudent utilization of social media comes into play. Thus, opportunities galore for new providers in filling up the existing void of social media space.

The goal for an automated social network is to give our clients the best automated social network marketing system on the planet. We give each client a unique username and password for their dedicated social network broadcast. We let our clients WRITE ONCE and then we PUBLISH GLOBALLY using our social network broadcasting service. Having a social networking broadcast system available to distribute your message across the SocialSphere once a week is a powerful new arrow in your quiver of marketing tools.

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Social Media Marketing and Social Media Optimization, as well as traditional Search Engine Marketing, are directly impacted by Keyword Selection.

What most clients do not understand about online marketing, website construction, SEO or SMO is Keywords, more specifically Keyword Selection.  If we have a chance to, we will be glad to do an analysis of a prospective client’s website and see whether the keywords for which they rank actually have any value.  If the client doesn’t know anything about Keywords, then educating them is likely to identify the pain point they didn’t know existed.  Specifically, if they see a demonstration that they may be missing out on 80% of highly valuable target traffic (potential new business) for related keywords in their target audience…the awareness of losing that business should get their attention.

Keyword Selection has become a combination of art and science, so in the following outline I will provide the fundamentals to give you a high level understanding of how sophisticated Keyword Selection has become.  Most people do not make appropriate keyword selections, so understanding this will help you guide discussions in the future.

The Keyword Selection issue with respect to impact on search engine ranking is four-fold. 

•    First is whether the keyword is considered a Root Keyword (also called a Primary Keyword) or whether it is a Keyword Stem (also called a Secondary Keyword). 
•    Second is whether the keyword is “Global” or “Localized” and this means whether the keyword is geographically concentrated on the vicinity around the clients location, i.e. dental implants Houston.
•    Third is the Keyword Value.  We want our clients to obtain search engine rank for 3 types of keywords, High-Value, Medium-Value, and Low-Value.  What you don’t want is to rank for keywords which have No-Value.
•    Fourth is Keyword Length.  Root keywords are single words, like Dentist (very broad). Secondary Keywords include both Keyword Stems and Keyword Phrases (two or more words as part of the keyword). There are “short-tail keyword phrases” (two to four words in the keyword phrase, still fairly broad) and there are “long-tail keyword phrases” (very lengthy and detailed phrases which are highly specific, very narrow).  Long-tail keywords are typically competitive niche markets rather than the hugely competitive broad keywords

So, here is the simple example for what all the above looks like:

Root (Global) Keywords = dentist, dentistry, dental,
Keyword Stems (Secondary, short-tail) = dentist office, dentistry practice, dental office
Localized Root (Global) Keywords = dentist houston, dentistry houston, dental houston
Localized Keyword Stems (Secondary, short-tail) = dentist office houston, dentistry practice houston, dental office houston
Long-tail keyword phrase = small business dentist office providing top dentistry practice in houston

Keywords in the above categories are further value gauged by some general “rule-of-thumb” benchmarks:

1.    Number of Pages Indexed
2.    Number of Monthly Searches
3.    Average Cost per Click

If you go to Google and search for “dentist” you will see that Google has indexed approximately 36,300,000 pages of content.

In comparison, if you Google “dentist office houston” you will see that Google has indexed approximately 15,100,000 pages of content, less than half of “dentist” total pages indexed.  Further down is the long-tail keyword phrase “small business dentist office providing top dentistry practice in houston” which has approximately 6,620,000 pages indexed.

The number of monthly searches done on any keyword of interest can be discovered at http://www.google.com/sktool.  If you go to that page and type in “dentist” you will see that 11,100,000 searches were done on that phrase last month.  The number of searches done last month for “dentist office” was 74,000 searches, and the “dentist office houston” phrase had ZERO searches last month.

Obviously a website ranking in the first page of Google for “dentist” is going to have much larger traffic volume, but a dentist ranking for that root keyword globally may have patient inquiries from Boston even though his practice is in Houston.  A dentist may be able to claim “First Place Ranking” for “dentist office houston” but if no one is searching by that keyword phrase it has no value.

Determining the most likely keyword phrases where you can economically afford to compete to drive the highest traffic is the real goal of Keyword Selection.

Hope that helps lay a foundation, and please understand that there is TONS more detail below all this, so the importance of having a Strategic Keyword Selection process cannot be over emphasized.

There has been an EXPLOSION in Social Media Marketing recently, and wise businesses are finding that their online traffic and turnover has benefitted greatly by increasing their online visibility using a variety of social media techniques. People communicate, socialise and network increasingly online, and it is predicted that the numbers of people interacting on online social sites will continue to grow enormously in the coming years. Hence WorldClassID has come up with some effective business promotional ideas that will minimize the time and maximize the distribution in the major social networkintg sites.

Now is the perfect time to get the social media marketing strategies up and running in order to get the optimum benifit.

The approach towards Social Media Marketing starts with a thorough understanding of  a business, its services and products. Only then it is possible to devise a social media marketing plan based on goals, competitors etc. within an appropriate timeframe and budget.

For Blogging and RSS Feeds , WorldClassID offers complete solutions on social network sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Bebo, Digg, Delicious, MySpace and hundreds of other social networking websites.

It may look simple, but marketing in forums, social networking and social bookmarking websites can be more difficult than it seems to reap the full benefits, and if it not done correctly can end up as a huge drain on resources, time and money. WorldClassID has the required experience and knowledge in order to introduce a company to the networks suitable for the respective business, as well as advise on how to add value and reap the benefits of a well-positioned product or service. A structured approach on strategy, analysis, monitoring and timely execution is all mastered by WorldClassID.

For more information call +01.760.445.3315 or visit http://www.worldclassid.com/  to get your Social Media Marketing Campaign up and running sooner rather than later!

 

About WorldClassID:

 

A social network distribution channel. WorldClassID (http://www.worldclassid.com/) utilizes a variety of peer-to-peer technologies which are even more efficient at reaching a target social network audience than any single method of channel distribution such as print, email, video, social networking, direct mail, network and online broadcasting.

WorldClassID provides a unique methodology to most widely distribute your brand message.  Whether you want more clients, are looking to sell more product or want to reinvent yourself…the WorldClassID Social Media Marketing Service is the solution.  WorldClassID is a proven alternative to traditional marketing solutions and the only personal branding solution on the market today that can validate the distribution of content through HyperDistribution.

Automated social media marketing is a proven way to distribute press releases across hundreds of social websites.  But do you know the generally accepted guidelines for broadcasting press releases into specific social networking websites? With common media, press releases are without a doubt one of the most prevalent resources in order to educate consumers about most recent changes and events at your organization. With regard to social networking websites, notably, many people are not aware of the social media marketing advantages that broadcast press releases provide by connecting to your target audience.

As automated social media marketing specialists, we have determined three main areas where most press releases are not as efficient in social media marketing.  A well constructed press release is normally centered towards true news information about your organization and many organizations fall prey to the trap of using a press release as a promotional tool more like advertising.  Second, it is also easy to convince yourself that cramming a press release full of promotional language by means of promotional program will yield the social media marketing results you are after, but your target social media audience is often fed up with being presented with promotional material and not newsworthy information.  Finally, a press release will miss the mark if it is not actually designed to provide useful information to your target audience about the subject matter.

Exactly how does someone make full use of a press release intended for social networking website marketing? The solution depends on the process you use to combine your current internet marketing techniques.  Having an automated social media marketing campaign, combined with a dynamic social internet marketing program using correctly constructed press releases will provide the best results.  Below you will find a few directories of solutions to customize press releases meant for social media advertising throughout social networking websites.

Scan your main title and incorporate keywords. Never allow yourself to become too concerned with the corporation's name on the title.  Rather, consider rebuilding all your corporate communications with much more focus on embedding relevant keywords to produce dependable documents which will be indexed by search engines and provide social media optimization for your organizations content. Work with uncomplicated although highly relevant keywords with your headline.  Keywords at all times enhance your chance of reaching high placement on search listings thus, reaching even more people. Refrain from abusing your desired keywords by over-saturating.

Don’t believe you have to stick to the typical four W's and H. Never get too sensitive around the what, when, where, why, and how.  Rather, make use of the "story telling" strategy while keeping focused upon distinct elements in the data that you'd like to send out and also enrich this to reach your main visitors. Surprisingly this method is a satisfying trend to make.

Plan. Think about social networking websites as ways to increase popular methods of racking up your own contact among potential clients. Thereby, it's best not to deluge any release with a pile of data. Have all of them scheduled to be broadcast regularly and consistently.

Work. Reform ones objectives to make certain they can be much more interesting. With this, drive yourself to exceed the actual probability of circulating facts into a larger view. Reasonably, it is recommended to indulge with your main customers. Nevertheless this is essentially the central side connected with social media marketing, to be able to thoroughly associate as well as communicate together with customers.

Positive scheme.  It is not sufficient to serve your audience with limited details. A distinct approach to supply detailed information is a proactive approach. Your viewer’s response may actually serve to come up with an evaluation of your effectiveness.  Dedicate a reasonable amount of time to connect with your followers and might as well conduct some interviews. Being fairly direct with your content will most likely ignite the interest of your followers for the reason that they won't get bored of your article, so relatively, make an emphasis on your main content.

Automated social media marketing using social media is taking the online social media marketing industry by storm! Marketing with social media is now the holy grail and social media internet marketing is now being blown up with social broadcasting. We have the best social media marketing on the planet and we use social media marketing and our proprietary social media marketing tools to achieve extraordinary search engine ranking for our clients.

WorldClass Brand Management, the company behind the WorldClassID Social Media Marketing Service, offering a truly industry changing social software service in the SocialSphere™.  Just like Software-as-a-Service or SaaS has become the standard for cloud computing, Social Media Marketing Service or SnsS is predicted to become the standard for social network management.  At a time when managing personal brand or corporate brand will become increasingly important as well as tough.  Moreover it will also resolve issues faced while managing multiple username and passwords for numerous social networking sites.

Investing in a Social Networking Strategy

Managing your online identity in the social media until now has been overwhelming and challenging, not only because there are already hundreds of social communities, but also because multiple social networks are launched on virtually a weekly basis.  We all suffer from networking social overload, the information overload of being involved in a social network, not just one network social, but numerous social networking sites.  How many online id, social identities or social user accounts do you have?  Are we being consumed with social definition and is brand management being redefined in our newly social society?  Until now you were limited to the manual, tedious and boring task of physically managing multiple social networking accounts which is very expensive from both a time and money perspective.  In order to evaluate how best to invest in your own social network marketing strategy, you have to determine whether that social marketing plan can 1) save you time, 2) save you money, or 3) make you money.  If your social marketing plan doesn’t hit at least one of those three elements, then you’re just wasting resources and you should invest elsewhere.

Social Media Marketing Issues

Social media marketing uses social media sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to engage with prospects on an ongoing basis. Social media sites encourage discussions, feedback and sharing of information between you and your prospects.

Social media marketing has really sprouted its wings within the last couple of years And its no wonder, YouTube has about 28,000,000 viewers and Facebook has over 100,000,000 users…and over 50% log in daily. That’s why social media marketing is essential to your businesses success.

You’ll see immediate benefits like prospect awareness of your “brand”, you’ll become closer to your customers and find out more about their needs, you’ll build customer loyalty by relationship marketing and social media marketing is cheap but very powerful.

There are several different types of social media marketing, from social media networks like Facebook and Twitter to social bookmarking sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon and it can easily overwhelm you if you don’t have a strategic social media marketing plan.

One important point before you jump into the social media marketing area. There’s a saying that “When a promoter moves in, the prospects move out”. What that means is that you should not use social media only to promote your business. You should visualize it as a public relation tool and a customer retention system. Nothing drives people away faster than self promotion…so be careful, only use “soft promotions” when using social media sites.

So how does social media help your business? That’s a good question and once again it all comes back to back linking to your business website. When done properly, you’re social media sites will drive prospects back to your business website and create back links. The more back links your site has, the more relevant it is seen by the search engines and therefore the higher rankings you will receive. It will be seen as an authoritative site for your industry, bringing your company more and more customers.

As you can see, social media marketing is a very powerful tool and should have a place in your business’ overall marketing strategy. But be careful, you may find yourself spending too much time “posting” and “tweeting”. You should find a web developer who can integrate many of these social media sites and link them together so when you post content to one, it will automatically post to all of your accounts instantly.

Lack of having a social network strategy can be worse than the proverbial ostrich sticking the head in the ground, and doing nothing is a recipe for potential social networking disaster.  Do you know whether someone Googled you today?  If so, do you know how many times your name was Googled?  Do you know what shows up when someone Googles your name?  Do you know how to change the results if something negative shows up on your Google name search?

When you are doing social analysis of what your social identity looks like to the outside world the use of social networking software inside the social network is a total necessity.  You have already learned, or will come to learn, the logistic challenge of trying to manually protect and defend your personal brand or business brand in the social networking arena.  Just managing the top 5 social networking sites is a daunting task, requiring the investment of time and money which you can easily estimate is thousands of dollars on a monthly basis.  So how do you keep up with all this social networking without losing your sanity?

Social Media Marketing Strategy

In case you are still trying to figure out whether having a personal brand management plan is important or not, read the following article, “10 Reasons You Have To Manage Your Personal Brand”

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If your believe your social marketing branding and online reputation, online identity and brand development require involvement in social networking websites, the question then becomes where do you focus your limited time and limited money?  If one site like Facebook makes sense, should you also participate in MySpace or Bebo?  If one social network is good, are ten social websites better and is participation in one hundred or more social networking sites the best?  If participating in every possible social network is the best, how do I physically do that?

The logic of just the time required to create and manage just one social network would make you believe that you don’t want to join every social network because the only way you think it’s possible to do that isn’t scalable.  You just don’t have enough hours in a day to manage more than just a few accounts.  You could hire someone on a full time basis, but even that strategy has limitations that make in unscalable. 

 List of Social Networking Websites

So if you have limited time and limited money to invest in a social networking strategy, where do you go?  We have compiled an ever growing list of social websites, so please go to the following links to see the entire list with URL links:

 ·         Top 10 Social Networking Websites

·         Top 10 Social Blogging Websites

·         Top 10 Social Video Sharing Websites

·         Top 10 Social Bookmarking Websites

·         Top 10 Social Photo Sharing Websites

·         Top 10 Social Professional Networking Websites

·         Top 10 Social Press Release Websites

·         Top 10 Social Article Posting Websites

·         Top 10 Social Music Sharing Websites

 The challenge is the idea that you can limit your social marketing strategy in any way. Even if you decide to limit your strategy to just the Top 10 websites in each of the 9 categories listed above (remember, there are over 350+ in total) that means you’re looking at 90 social memberships!  If you believe that having a strategic social networking plan is a valuable investment, then you should also understand that having a presence in ALL the social websites is important.  Why? Because there are potential customers, potential eyeballs who are in social networks other than the Top 10 who you’re not going to reach if you don’t show up in the other social networks.

 

 Social Media Marketing Service (SnsS) – an obvious solution

The old adage of work smarter not harder seems obvious.  The only way to work smarter and have a reasonable solution to managing hundreds of social networks is through an automated software solution.  That is the essence of what WorldClassID is and does.  It is a technology solution which takes the manual and highly complicated process out of the equation and creates a repeatable, scalable solution for dealing with hundreds of social networking sites.