Yesterday I worked with my sister to work on promoting her ebook using the online marketing strategies that are getting a lot of buzz these days – the social networks.
Preparation – information you will need

Your profile name
profile email address
small profile picture
150 word intro paragraph
set of best 5 keyword phrases
website address you are marketing

Purpose – why are you doing all this?

Ultimately, all the social attention should gain you new visitors to your main website, new email subscribers and new customers.

You achieve this by establishing a relationship with people who are already in your niche – and by building a means to communicate with them in the future.

Day One

Step One – Register Everywhere

Now you can find WoWGrrl on your favorite social networking sites! And add her as a friend! We started our social networking journey at www.profilactic.com.  It was easier to tackle the project when two of us split the list of sites that are supported, and started registering a new profile on every social bookmarking, file sharing, video sharing, Web 2.0 sites we could find.

As we went through this list of almost 200 Web 2.0 style sites, there were a few that stood out – these were ear-marked for another visit and more development.

These exceptional information sharing sites also included a way to build a friends list and create groups on your topic.

Step Two – Aggregate the Feeds

Another social networking service I found were a few rss feed aggregation sites.  After creating almost 200 new profiles across the full range of social networking sites, it seems impossible to monitor and manage everything.

List all of the sites you have registered with with services like profilactic.com, blogcatalog.com, superglu.com and pownce.com – the beta toluu.com my also be of interest.

Day Two

Step Three – Get Connected
within each community site, join groups, search on your topic to build your friends lists.

Update your profiles – before you start adding friends, be sure to upload a profile image, copy and paste a description the includes a link to your site or offer…etc.

Step Four -
Create a unique ‘Group’ on a theme relating to your topic, update the Group Profile page to include links to your offers then invite your new friends to join your group.

One Week Later

Community Building

A simple and effective way to bring people to your group – a fun contest on pictures and videos.  These simple contests give reasons for members to invite their friends to the group.

One Month Later

Community Partnerships

After your friends list and group membership has grown to a few hundred people, you can start making promotional swaps with other group owners. i.e. I’ll send out a notice about your group to my members if you’ll send out a notice about my group to your members…

Now your groups can start growing to be in the thousands!

Set up your own Free Hosted WordPress with a range of specialized WordPress Plugins pre-installed.

Aimed at a financial audience, www.forexfrat.com is a community of blogs on futures trading, stock trading and the forex markets.

I’ve been working all morning with upgrading websites and blogs that are powered by WordPress.

The new WordPress 2.5 is a big change from all previous versions.  The layout is much less cluttered in the administration area of the site

- and I’m completely thrilled
with the new automatic Plugins Upgrade option! 

My standard WordPress installation routine includes two dozen plugins, and upgrades used to be the bain of my love afair with WordPress. 

           First, I upgraded a static-page website using wordpress as a content management system rather than as a blog.  My first upgrade went from 2.2.3 up to 2.5, so I was expecting it to go smoothly after I read the upgrade directions. 

           My second upgrade was more nerve-wracking… I updated an older blog with almost three years and 205 posts… from WordPress 1.5 to wordress 2.5 – following the same directions -

And everything worked like a charm! Which is great for me, I’ve been putting off the upgrade to  www.douglampi.com - not wanting to mess up the site… However, it was time to take the plunge and see what repairs I had to do afterwords. 

Turns out that upgrading a wordpress blog that’s had no version upgrades in two years is just as easy as how to update a wordpress blog I installed last week!

I have another dozen wordpress blogs to upgrade today, I better pay attention to my ftp program and keep those files flowin’.  As I complete the upgrades across my client sites and my own blogs, I’m taking screen captures and video clips as I experiment with the changes in the new WordPress 2.5 update.

Cheerio!

Quetico Internet Marketing is your Online Traffic Specialist

Douglas Lampi provides Internet Marketing insight into more that just top Search Engine Rankings. Today, visitors should be coming to your site through many differnet sources – and your business is at risk if your main source of traffic is from Google.

An Online Traffic Specialist must have broad knowledge and actual experience publishing in all the various media formats in order to benefit from visitor sources like

video sharing sites,
podcast sharing sites,
photo sharing sites
news feeds,
blogging sites,
social bookmarking,
social networking and
special interest groups,
from joint venture partnerships,
from purchased advertising sources like PPC and interstitials,
from Blog commenting,
from article writting – as well as
from link trades and
gaining consistent top search engine rankings.

In the new world of Web 2.0 – your ideal traffic footprint should include dozens of referral sources.  Including bringing Offline sources to view your online messages.

Your Online Traffic Specialist can help you
Achieve Internet Marketing Diversification!

I’m currently participating in the Launch of a new ebook – a useful guide that will be of interest to millions of people who are active in this niche.

Launching a new product into a new niche is vastly more successful when you enlist some established heavy-weights to partner up and give your project a boost. 

After all your preparations are in order, the product is completed, days of detailed attention has gone into your sale copy, the website is tested and working, the promotional materials are ready for affiliates to run with – after all your preparations – it’s the partnerships that will make or break the success of the project.

Finding good Venture Parnters is no easy task – and many people don’t leverage this amazing power.  After focusing so intently on the product creation, many capable entrepreneurs create worthy products that just don’t make it out to benefit the people who could use the information. 

A Joint Venture Product Launch is another process in itself.  Almost as much work and planning must go into the proper launch of your product, as goes into the creation of the product itself!   Over time, it should be the goal of any website owner to continually seek out and develop online partnerships with other businesses in your niche.   Because of the enourmous audience potential, and because of the established trust that these partners have with their email lists and customers, the relationships with your potental Venture Partners is actually higher leverage than the relationships you have with your individual clients or customers.

The importance of your Venture Partners to your success cannot be under-estimated, nor can it be exaggerated.

On the same note – start positioning yourself NOW – to learn where to find a valued Joint Venture Partner.  You will start receiving requests to partner with others, and your business will re-launch to a whole new level!

Cheers

Launching our eBook with Spugnort – JUST after out Venture Partners started sending out thousands of email.

Nice. 

THANKS Spugnort.

our Spugnort Review <edited June08>.

Thinking of expanding your web presence by setting up a Web 2.0 web site?

By providing your visitors with the means to publish content about your niche by using your website, you gain the advantage of building a relationships of repeat visits with your visitors.

Give them a place to become engaged. 

One example – offer an article submission area that also lets people start their own blog for no cost.  Your visitors can post press releases and blog updates!

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After you have set a Web 2.0 Website for your business, you still have to promote it.  And of course, you should use the benefit of all the other Web 2.0 sites to market your new service!

First, there’s a List of Social Networking sites, (see profilactic.com) then there’s a List of Social Bookmarking sites, (see addme.com), and several other lists of Web 2.0 style websites for video, audio, pdfs, photographs, business listings, news releases and the list goes on.

THEN there’s a list of Social RSS Feed Aggrigator Sites to tie it all together…

Here’s a List of web-based news readers I’ll be slowly reviewing over the next while:

My Yahoo!
NewsGator
My AOL
Rojo
Bloglines
Netvibes
Google
Pageflakes
Plusmo
FeedLounge
The Free Dictionary
Bitty Browser
NewsAlloy
Live.com
Excite MIX
Yourminis.com
Attensa for Outlook
Webwag
netomat Hub
Daily Rotation
Podcast Ready
Flurry
FeedDemon
NewsFire
NewsGator Outlook Edition
RSSOwl
Shrook

Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the RSS Feeds from the Blogs of today’s top internet marketers all in one place?

Well now they are!  www.ipmal.com

ipmal.com is a Mashup of RSS and XML Feeds from top online marketing experts.  We are collecting every RSS feed produced by any of the best know marketers – and letting you pick and choose your favorites – so you can view your personal collection of RSS feeds all together on one page.

The List of Internet Marketing Guru’s we have collected so far:

	Douglas Lampi
	Jim Edwards
	Ken Evoy
	Marlon Sanders
	Matt Bacak
	Michael Campbell
	Michael Cheney
	Todd Lucier

Our List of Top Internet Marketing Sources is brand new and very small. 

WHO ARE WE MISSING?